Jenkins, Charles Edward. A Speech Delivered at the Public Vestry of St. Mary, Whitechapel… on the Subject of the Persecution of the Jews at Damascus.

(ANGLO-JUDAICA).

Valentine

London

1840

Few Hebrew words.

Not in Roth.

A Philo-Semite Expresses Outrage at the Damascus Blood Libel of 1840. Based on the Biblical dietary laws (Kashruth), The learned gentlemen shows, the Jews’ abhorrence of consuming blood, thus rendering nonsensical the calumny levelled against them. The meeting at the Vestry concluded with a resolution signed by the Chairman and transmitted to Lord Palmerston the Foreign Minister in London, pressing Palmerston to continue to intercede on behalf of the persecuted Jews of Damascus. This meeting was one of several throughout England at the time in which similar resolutions were adopted by sympathetic Christians. See A. M. Hyamson, The Damascus Affair in: TJHSE, Vol. XVI (1952), pp. 56-6.