Letter from Isaacs, Abraham S. to Unknown Addressee. Place of Composition Unknown; Nov 1877
- Title
- Letter from Isaacs, Abraham S. to Unknown Addressee. Place of Composition Unknown; Nov 1877
- Author
- Isaacs, Abraham S.
- Date Created
- 30 November 1877
- Format
- 4 pages on 2 sheets
- Language(s)
- English
- Source
- Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
- Sabato Morais Collection, Box 2, Folder 5
- Has Format
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3d795w46/manifest.json
- Link to Colenda
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3d795w46
- Provenance
- Transfer of Custody from the Hebrew Education Society, 10 March 1913.
- Is Format Of
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/judaicadh/morais/main/TEI/SMBx2FF5_49.xml
- content
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Established 1857.
OFFICE OF
"The Jewish Messenger,"
REV. S. M. ISAACS & SONS, Editors and Proprietors.
645 BROADWAY.
New York, Dec Nov 30 1877.
My dear sir
I am ever so much obliged to you for your two letters & Luzzatto's. One of the sources mentioned by him was unknown to me I am grateful for his at-tention. I shall write to him soon.
Some months ago in Breslau, I collected material for an elaborate lectures on Sara Copia Gellam, one of your Italian Jewish poetesses. I found, however, to be con-scientious in my work, I must have resort to Italian sources & as my knowledge of Italian was limited at the time, I save up the magnum opus. In a Trieste Jewish monthly appeared a biography of Sullam, lately,
with a little fresh information. This has been translated into French. I would suggest that the biography might well suit your daughter's powers, & I would be happy to furnish her with German material. If worked up with spirit, it might do well for Lippincott's, or I would try to secure its insertion in some of the N.Y. magazines. Of course there need be no bitterness in the article, & it would have for more influence in the general than Jewish press.
I wish that you could hear my lecture on a German writer, Sunday evening. It is delivered before a crowd to whom the name Isaacs has ever been expressive, I fear, of uncompromising Chasidismus & anti-
Teutonic sentiments. Since my father has ceased to work with his old energy—for three or four years, I find that many cruel tongues have been at work & I need all my self control to restrain myself from giving hard thrusts in return. My facility in German is perfectly invaluable to me now & if I can only manage not to write a lecture too much, but to continue my studies for three years more, with the closeness of a student, I am confident of popular support. These young preachers go up like rockets, but come down like sticks: now I want to last.
I know that you will be pleased with the new department in the Messenger "Hebraica," which I hope to enlarge with time. I have been promised support from all leaders of public opinion, & would be grateful for small favors from you, although I have thought it cruel to ask you or Dr. Jastrow, because I know that you are busy.
With best regards,
Yours Sincerely
Abraham S. Isaacs. - Identifier
- p3d795w46
- identifier
- SMBx2FF5_49
Part of Letter from Isaacs, Abraham S. to Unknown Addressee. Place of Composition Unknown; Nov 1877
Isaacs, Abraham S., “Letter from Isaacs, Abraham S. to Unknown Addressee. Place of Composition Unknown; Nov 1877”, Sabato Morais Digital Repository, accessed September 19, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/morais/item/87191