Melange of four early 19th-century Jewish works, bound with works of general French interest, including:

(FRENCH JUDAICA)

Discours pronocé le samedi 21 Juillet 1827, dans une séance publique du Comité des Ecoles Israelites de Nancy, par Michel Berr de Turique. Nancy, 1827. * Lettre du Sieur Isaac-Berr, Manufacturier, Membre du Conseil municipal de Nancy `a M. Grégoire, Sénateur, `a Paris. Nancy, 1806. * Société d'encouragement des arts et métiers, parmi les israélites de Metz. Séance générale 8 Janvier 1825. Metz, 1825. * Sermon prononcé le Samedi 26 Novembre, au Grand Temple Israélite de Nancy, par M. Isaac Liebermann, Rabbin du Canton de Soultz-sous-Forets, ancien él`eve de l'École Rabbinique. Nancy, 1842

These fascicles provide a picture of the quotidian life of the Jews of Alsace-Lorraine in the first years of the French Republic. In the earliest document (Nancy, 1806), written during the Napoleonic Era, Isaac-Berr remonstrates with a French senator that the price of French citizenship should not be the relinquishing of the Jewish religion. On p.10 the writer argues that even if the Jews were to en masse dishonor themselves by converting to Christianity, His Majesty the Emperor would certainly not want such feckless subjects: "de pareils hommes, qui n'auraient ni foi ni loi, ne pourraient jamais devenir de bons citoyens, dignes d'etre gouvernés par lui" (“Such men, who would have neither faith nor law, could never become good citizens, worthy of being governed by him...”)