COHEN, SALOMON I (JACOB). Elements of the Jewish Faith.

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

William W. Gray

Richmond, Virginia

1817

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Blanks with detailed manuscript of Judaic content.

Rosenbach 190; Singerman 271

In the Introduction to this first American edition, the author writes that the book was undertaken at the behest of the Chief Rabbi of the Aschkenazic community of London, Solomon Hirschell, the purpose of it being to protect Jewish children from the inroads of Christian missionaries. Concerning the controversy relating to this work, see JHSE Transactions, Vol. XVII, pp. 101-06. The Jews of Richmond, Virginia, were counted among the six founding communities of Colonial America.