Letter from Jonas Bondi to Isaac Leeser;April 06, 1865 · Isaac Leeser Digital Repository · Legacy Projects from Judaica DH at Penn Libraries

Title: Letter from Jonas Bondi to Isaac Leeser;April 06, 1865
Author: Jonas Bondi
Contributor: Isaac Leeser
Date Created: 6 April 1865
Location(s): New York City; Philadelphia
Format: Letter. 1 page(s) on 1 sheet(s).; Letter
Type: Letter
Language(s): English; Hebrew
Has Format: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3707x507/manifest.json
Link to Colenda: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3707x507
Physical Characteristics: Unlined Paper; Manuscript
Is Part Of: The Dropsie College Isaac Leeser Collection at the Penn Libraries
content: Thursday, 10th Nissan, 1865.
My friend and companion:
In view of your usual punctuality, I am somewhat concerned because of your failure to reply to me or to send me the “Occident” I beg for a few words by return mail.
Holzman is making collections from door to door, in order to publish a pamphlet which he named, “EMek Rephaim” (Valley of Ghosts), and which is directed against Wise and his cronies. He has authorization for this from such Gaonim as Raphall, who is gone and de-parted from his world, and Isaacs whom he calls the heads of the people. Wise and the others will be delighted that orthodoxy has only such representatives who have taken the lead. The thing is full of mistakes, insults, accusations, and con-fusion. Such things cause me pain, “Those that destroy you and lay you waste, come forth from yourself”. I have briefly disposed of Wise in the —. It is me whom he means by “The sages of New York”. Unfortu-nately I am not quite well and therefore must close.
Yours sincerely,
Jonah Bondi

Rev. Isaac Leeser
Philadelphia
Pens
1227. Walnut St.
Identifier: LSDCBx3FF4a_5
Date: 1865-04-06