Letter from M. Jastrow to Mayer Sulzberger;June 17, 1896 · Isaac Leeser Digital Repository · Legacy Projects from Judaica DH at Penn Libraries

Title

Letter from M. Jastrow to Mayer Sulzberger;June 17, 1896

Author

M. Jastrow

Contributor

Mayer Sulzberger

Date Created

17 June 1896

Location(s)

Philadelphia

Format

Letter. 1 page(s).

Type

Letter

Language(s)

English

Has Format

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3736mn7t/manifest.json

Link to Colenda

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3736mn7t

Physical Characteristics

Unlined Paper

Manuscript

Is Part Of

The Jesselson Family Collection of Isaac Leeser Material

content

MORRIS NEWBURGER, PRESIDENT.
MAYER SULZBERGER, CHAIRMAN PUBLICATION COMMITTEE.
MORRIS DANNENBAUM TREASURER.
C. S. BERNHEIMER, ASSISTANT SECRETARY
The Jewish Publication Society of
America. 1015 ARCH STREET, P. O. BOX
1164, 139 WEST UPSAL ST., GERMANTOWN,
PHILADA.
PHILADELPHIA.
June, 17, 1896.
Judge Mayer Sulzberger;
Dear Sir,
I beg leave to send you a copy of our correspondence with the
contemplated English contributors to the Bible translation,m and to direct
your attention to the explanatory letter to Dr. Adler,
(marked A) which accompanied the Instructions. The fact that this
letter was not placed before the gentlemen who signed the collective
letter of declination of April 6, (marked B) can only
be accounted for by an oversight on the part of the secretary to Dr.
Adler, for it was enclosed in the envelop with
the Instructions addressed to Dr. Adler. A second
copy, however, of his letter was in the hands of the chief Rabbi before
the collective letter of declination (marked B) was sent off as evident
from the P. S. to the letter (marked C) Whether the signers were
in-formed of this explanatory letter, I have no means of
ascertaining. It would seem that Mr. Joseph Jacobs, at
the time of his writing to you upon the matter was not aware of its existence.
You will confer a great favor on me if you will kindly undertake to convince
Mr. Jacobs, that nothing was neglected on our part
to show our English
brethern, that our making the Leeser Bible the
work-ing basis for our enterprise, was not intended to fetter the
hands of the contributors in any way.
Believe me, dear Sir,
Very Truly Yours.
M Jastrow

Identifier

LSTCAT_item146

Date

1896-06-17