Letter from Unknown Author to Unknown Addressee. Philadelphia, PA; Feb 1868 · Sabato Morais Digital Repository · Legacy Projects from Judaica DH at Penn Libraries

Title: Letter from Unknown Author to Unknown Addressee. Philadelphia, PA; Feb 1868
Date Created: 5 February 1868
Location(s): United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; United States -- Pennsylvania
Format: 2 pages on 1 sheet
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?
Language(s): English; Hebrew
Source: Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies; Sabato Morais Collection, Box 1, Folder 27
Has Format: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p33n21071/manifest.json
Link to Colenda: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p33n21071
Provenance: Transfer of Custody from the Hebrew Education Society, 10 March 1913.
Is Format Of: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/judaicadh/morais/main/TEI/SMBx1FF27_13.xml
content: [Hebrew]

The bearer of this certificate (Mrs. Jaretzky) has for some time shown great anxiety to be admitted into our holy faith. We delayed to comply with her wish, in order to ascertain if she was prompted only by sincerity. Having obtained proofs to that effect, we at length resolved to let her undergo the necessary ablution, together with her young son and daughter. The following are the names which they assumed. The mother was called ..., the son .... and the daughter ....
Philadelphia 13th Shebat 5628
February 5th 1868
Identifier: p33n21071
identifier: SMBx1FF27_13