Letter from Jacob Newton Cardozo to Isaac Leeser;January 15, 1866 · Isaac Leeser Digital Repository · Legacy Projects from Judaica DH at Penn Libraries

Title: Letter from Jacob Newton Cardozo to Isaac Leeser;January 15, 1866
Author: Jacob Newton Cardozo
Contributor: Isaac Leeser
Date Created: 15 January 1866
Location(s): Saint Paul; Philadelphia
Format: Letter. 1 page(s) on 1 sheet(s).
Type: Letter
Language(s): English
Has Format: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3ng4h820/manifest.json
Link to Colenda: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3ng4h820
Physical Characteristics: Unlined Paper; Manuscript
Is Part Of: The Dropsie College Isaac Leeser Collection at the Penn Libraries
content: INTERESTING MOVEMENT AMONG JEWS.— From the south of Russia, where there are thousands of Jews dwelling in almost every town (according to a statistical note lately published, there are nearly two millions of Jews residing in the Russian Empire), we have received letters of heart-thrilling inter-est, telling us of a most wonderful move-ment going on silently among the Jews in-habiting that portion of this country. Some of them are actually longing and begging for missionaries and teachers to be sent out to explain to them the Scriptures. They are thirsting for the living waters of the Word; for they are without the necessary books and Scriptures to go on searching by themselves; for in one place about thirty Jews secretly meet together to read the New Testament—[Macedonian,

Revd Isaac Leeser
Dear Sir
I enclosed above extract, taken from one of our papers here. You may have seen it before.
Your ?
J N Cardoza
St Paul 15 Jany/66
Identifier: LSDCBx3FF1_5
Date: 1866-01-15