Epitre `a nos Coreligionaires [“Epistle to our Co-Religionists.”]

(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

(Amsterdam

1837)

French interspersed with Hebrew

French translations of three Hebrew letters received from Jerusalem, Safed and Beirut, written in the aftermath of the earthquake that destroyed Safed on the 24th of Teveth, 1837. Contains a list of the Sephardic rabbis who perished in Safed (p. 10). The pamphlet, an urgent appeal for funds for the Jews of the Holy Land, is datelined "Amsterdam, 11th Nissan 5597," and signed by the "Pekidim and Amarkalim": H. Lehren, A.A. Prins, S.B. Rubens, and M. Lehren