b'12(AMERICAN-JUDAICA) A Form of Prayer for the General Fast to be Read in Synagogue on the 11th August in Commemoration of the Hurricane in the Year 1831. - A Form of Prayer for Tuesday 11th August 1835 After the Morning Amidah. Manuscript on paper. Two leaves. English interspersed with Hebrew in square characters. Text states that the Morning Service is to follow that of the Fast of Gedaliah, and includes relevant page numbers from both prayer-books utilized (Levi and Justin). Each leaf laid down and matted as one. Browned. Folio. (Barbados), 1835. $2000 - $3000 Jews were among the earliest European settlers to Barbados, an island in the West Indies, and Congregation Nidhei Israel was established there in 1654.On August 11th, 1831, an intense hurricane slammed into Barbados, leveling the capital of Bridgetown and killing some 1,500 residents. The synagogue was destroyed in this Category Four storm and on the anniversary of the hurricane that hit the island, this manuscript represents the special prayers of commemoration recited by the surviving Jews of Barbados.See M. Arbell, The Jewish Nation of the Caribbean (2002) pp. 215-217.13(AMERICAN-JUDAICA) (Warder Cresson). Babylon the Great Is Falling! The Morning Star, or Light from on High. Written in Defence of the Rights of the Poor and Oppressed.FIRST EDITION.pp. 67, (1), 3. Foxed. Unbound. 8vo. Philadelphia, Garden and Thompson, 1830. $1000 - $1500WARDER CRESSONS FIRST LITERARY PRODUCTION. CressontakesAmerican society to task for its glitz and gluttony while the orphan and widow remain unprovided for. Speaking of the winter of 1829 he writes: You may look for and nd the frozen and starved dead in the alleys and hovels of citieswhile in Philadelphia and many other large citiesballs and parties were advertisedsideboards were glittering with hundreds of Dollars worth of costly and superuous plate; while horses and carriages were rattling through the streets, with priests and professors in them; often telling you to Love your neighbor as yourselves, and as often telling Actions speak louder than words. His message is that Gods judgment is coming soon. O! United States of America, wilt thou suffer now, in these, the days of thy infancy? asks Cresson. Warning that the great sin of slavery is worse than any in any other nation in history, because here it is coupled with hypocrisy, inasmuch as her light and knowledge of true liberty has been greater. Cressons message is, of course, that national penitence is badly needed.Born into an old Quaker Philadelphia family, Warder Cresson (1798-1860) traveled through a series of religious awakenings, before becoming deeply interested in Judaism, subsequent to which he formed a strong relationship with Philadelphias Rev. Isaac Leeser. He was also inuenced by the writings of Mordecai Manuel Noah, who campaigned for the return of the Jews to their ancestral homeland in Palestine. In 1844 Cresson was appointed United States Consul at Jerusalem, the rst to hold such ofce. Upon arrival to take up his diplomatic mission, he was much affected by Jerusalems surroundings and converted to Judaism four years later.6'