Letter from Uriah H. Judah to Isaac Leeser;December 10, 1847 · Isaac Leeser Digital Repository · Legacy Projects from Judaica DH at Penn Libraries

Title

Letter from Uriah H. Judah to Isaac Leeser;December 10, 1847

Author

Uriah H. Judah

Contributor

Isaac Leeser

Location(s)

New York City

Philadelphia

Format

Letter. 3 page(s).

Type

Letter

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https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3j679p1v/manifest.json

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Physical Characteristics

Unlined Paper

Manuscript

Is Part Of

The Dropsie College Isaac Leeser Collection at the Penn Libraries

content

No 143 Maiden Lane.
New York, Decr. 10. 1847.
Revd. Isaac Leeser,
Sir,
I yesterday recd. the enclosed letter from Mr. M. Reed, a gentleman of high standing in this community. In reply thereto, I have stated that my time is so engrossed with business matters as to necessarily deter me from answering his interrog-atories as fully and as explicitly as I could desire–but that I had submitted his letter to the consider==ation of one of the most able and learned of my persuasion, who would doubtless allow it to appear in the Occident, with his views in reference to the points embraced.
Respectfully,
Uriah H. Judah

New York. Dec. 9. 1847.
To Uriah H. Judah Esq.
Sir,
The following questions appear to me to involve a subject of most deep and peculiar interest, not only to ourselves in-dividually, but to the whole religious community. These questions are addressed to you under the im-pression that your acknowledged respectability of character and liberality of views will prompt you to answer them.
1st. Is it not peculiarly the spirit and priv-ilege and work of Judaism to spread among idolatrous nations, the knowledge of the true God, and the records of His communion with Abraham Isaac and Jacob and all the ancient prophets?
2nd. Does the Christian enterprise of universal Bible distribution commend itself to the Jewish community? Or
3d. Are there such features in either the nature or the invariably accompanying circumstances of the Christian religious enterprises, as necessarily shut out the Jew from all participation, and leave no conceivable ground of benevolent union between Jew and Christian, except the broad

platform of common secular benevolence?
Yours, very respectfully,
M. Reed.

Identifier

LSDCBx1FF4_21

Date

1847-12-10