Personally annotated copy of his "Mikveh Israel" essay, which appeared in PAJHS vol. 1, 1893. Morais, Sabato. Philadelphia, PA. Dec 1893
- Title
- Personally annotated copy of his "Mikveh Israel" essay, which appeared in PAJHS vol. 1, 1893. Morais, Sabato. Philadelphia, PA. Dec 1893
- Date Created
- 28 December 1893
- Format
- 3 pages on 2 sheets
- Language(s)
- English
- Source
- Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
- Sabato Morais Collection, Box 13, Folder 5
- Has Format
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p33j39m3t/manifest.json
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- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p33j39m3t
- Provenance
- Transfer of Custody from the Hebrew Education Society, 10 March 1913.
- Is Format Of
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/judaicadh/morais/main/TEI/SMBx13FF5_3.xml
- content
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S. MORAIS,
546 N. FIFTH STREET,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Honorable Oscar S. Steans
Dear Sir
It is my unpleasant duty to confess that in the paper which I read on the Mickvé Israel con--gregation of Philadelphia I fell into two errors occurred mistakes errors, one of slight importance, another quite of consequence.
On page 18 I stated wrote "At a meeting of the Trustees held on Sunday, the seventeenth of September 1782, Mr Jonas Phillips, who occupied the chair, stated that he was informed by Mr Mordecai M. Mordecai, 'how Ezekiel Levy, contrary to our laws, had shaved on a Sabbath at Baltimore!" AS the consecration of the Synagogue had taken place on the previous Friday--September the 13th 1782, the following Sunday must have been the 15th and not the 17th.
On page 22, I wrote, that Major Mordecai had addressed a letter to the late Mr Abraham Hart inquiring "into the terms of the resolution passed in September 1813 by the Congregation, granting a special part of the Spruce Street ground to the Gratz family." I then remarked: "But no resolution of that character can be found"
Subsequent researches have succeeded in finding discovering the resolu--tion, which I erroneously led people to believe, that it did not to have not existed It is worded as follows:
"At a meeting presided over by Samuel Hays, Elul 18th 5573, September 12th 1813 On motion it was resolved that the strip of ground in which Mr and Mrs Gratz are interred, be continued to the depth of sixty feet, from the commencement of the tomb stone of Mr Gratz now erected, and reserved for the ex--clusive burial of members of that family, who may be entitled to funeral rites agreeably to our Laws."
Regretting very much my having fallen into made those errors mistakes, I hope wish that at some future time they may be corrected in the event of the a republishing of in case the proceedings of the first meeting of the American Jewish Historical Society be republished they may stand corrected. At all events, a record of my this acknowledgment of mine will be made seen hereafter in your minutes. very respectfully S Morais
December 28th 1893 - Identifier
- p33j39m3t
- identifier
- SMBx13FF5_3
Morais, Sabato and Steans, Oscar S., “Personally annotated copy of his "Mikveh Israel" essay, which appeared in PAJHS vol. 1, 1893. Morais, Sabato. Philadelphia, PA. Dec 1893”, Sabato Morais Digital Repository, accessed September 19, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/morais/item/91147