Download or read book A Descriptive Overview of a Distinguished Collection of American Judaica written by Yosef Goldman and published by . This book was released on 2008* with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica written by Arnold Kaplan and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, Monticello was seized by the Confederacy and sold but afterwards was reclaimed by Jefferson Levy after a lengthy court battle. On repossession, Monticello was in a state of terrible disrepair. Jefferson Levy then undertook to restore the historic home at great personal expense. The Kaplan Collection has numerous documents relating to the Levy family and the fate of Monticello. The Kaplan Collection holds what may very well be the largest collection of early American Jewish photographs. These include photographs made by Jewish-owned photograph businesses, by Jewish photographers, or of American Jews themselves. Among the noteworthy photographs are Civil War-era photos, for example, of the devastation in Richmond, cartes de visite, portrait (or studio) photos, and dozens of stereographs, the nineteenth-century version of 3-D glasses. The collection extensively covers the career of Solomon Nunes Carvalho, a portrait painter and daguerreotypist who was one of the first commercial Jewish photographers in the United States and perhaps in the world. His career and adventures included accompanying Colonel John C. Fremont on a government-sponsored expedition across the Rocky Mountains to chart the potential for a transcontinental railroad. Carvalho also became famous for his oil painting of President Lincoln. While that painting is not in the Kaplan Collection, there are two oils by Carvalho as well as an exceptionally rare lithograph depicting the interior of the Beth Elohim Synagogue of Charleston, South Carolina, which had been destroyed by fire in April 1838. The lithograph was used to raise funds for rebuilding that house of worship. Though mainly focused on original manuscripts and unique fine and folk works of art, the Kaplan Collection also contains approximately three hundred and fifty volumes of rare printed books, serials, and pamphlets. Among them are a remarkable variety of landmark first edition imprints of Judaica Americana, such as Judah Monis's Hebrew grammar Dickdook Leshon Gnebreet [Ivrit, i.e., Hebrew]. Printed in Boston by Jonas Green in1735 with Hebrew font imported from London, this grammar is regarded as the first Hebrew textbook in colonial America. The Kaplan Collection also holds the second such grammar, authored by Samuel Sewall and printed in Boston in 1763, which is the only other Hebrew grammar published in North America before the nineteenth century. The grammars of Monis, a convert to Christianity, and Sewall, a Christian Hebraist, bear witness to the early Protestant American interest in the language of the Old Testament. In fact, students were required to study Hebrew as part of the early standard curriculum at Harvard, where both men taught. Also found in the Kaplan rare print collection is the Essai historique sur la colonie de Surinam (Paramaribo [Suriname], 1788) by David Nassy, which contains the first history of the Jewish settlement of that Dutch colony. Nassy, a physician who came to Philadelphia during the yellow fever epidemic of 1793, was able to treat the city's inhabitants successfully, defying the bloodletting methods of Benjamin Rush. The printed record of how he did it, based on his experiences treating the disease in tropical Suriname, is also in the collection: Observations on the Cause, Nature, and Treatment of the Epidemic Disorder, Prevalent in Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Parker & Co. for M. Carey, 1793). Also noteworthy is the first children's book by a Jewish author (Isaac Gomez), which is accompanied by a printed approbation from former President John Adams pasted inside its cover; the first Jewish almanac ( lu'ah), printed by Moses Lopez (the Kaplan copy once belonged to Rebecca Gratz and contains her handwritten notes); and what is, according to Jonathan Sarna, probably the first bar mitsvah sermon printed in the United States. The collection of rare early American newspapers includes reprintings of the famous letters of congratulations sent by the Jewish congregations of the new republic to George Washington on the occasion of his inauguration as the first president of the United States. Found here is perhaps the most important exchange in American Jewish letters, that between Moses Seixas, representing the Jews of Newport, and Washington, in which he famously echoes Seixas' phrase "to bigotry no sanction." The phrase heralded a new epoch for Jews as citizens of a republic entitled to the same rights and privileges as all other (male) citizens. Remarkably, the Kaplan Collection holds copies, some in mint condition, of the contemporary newspaper reprintings of the letters from all six cities (Newport, New York, Philadelphia, Richmond, Charleston, and Savannah). The Kaplan Collection also has the first printing of Benjamin Nones's "I am a Jew, I am a Republican, but I am poor" speech. In what is perhaps the most famous speech in the history of early American Jewish oratory, Nones, the French-born Revolutionary War patriot and veteran who fought under the command of the Polish General Pulaski against the British, inverts the scathing epithets hurled at him by his Federalist enemies to defend the dignity and constitutional rights of Jews in the United States. Not only is this printed version in the collection, but so too is the original court petition, written on vellum, and signed by Nones's creditors. In it, Nones attests that he is not bankrupt and had paid off the very debts that he references in that speech. Other newspaper accounts, pamphlets, and broadsides bear witness to painful episodes of resistance to Jewish civil rights such as occurred during the legislative debates over the Maryland Jew Bill to rectify the exclusion of Jews from serving in that state's assembly, political infighting during the Jacksonian era, and in other moments of anti-Jewish antagonism, both social and political, such as the Mortara Affair in 1858, an international uproar caused by the Vatican's defense of the secret baptism of a Jewish infant who later was taken from his parents to be raised as a Catholic. There are also numerous volumes and individual issues of important Jewish periodicals such as Leeser's Occident as well as the American Israelite, edited by Isaac Mayer Wise, the leader of the American Reform movement of Judaism, and Leeser's principal adversary in the battle over the character of Jewish religious practice in the United States. 1 Jonathan Sarna, "An Eighteenth Century Hebrew Lu'ah from Pennsylvania," American Jewish Archives Journal 57 (2005), 25-27. 2 Murray Friedman, ed., When Philadelphia Was the Capital of Jewish America (Philadelphia: Balch Institute Press, 1993). Scope and contents note originally appeared in a slightly different form in: Arthur Kiron, "Introduction," in Constellations of Atlantic Jewish History, 1555-1890: The Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica, ed. Arthur Kiron (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014).
Download or read book Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of Objects of Jewish Ceremonial Deposited in the U S National Museum by Hadji Ephraim Benguiat Classic Reprint written by Cyrus Adler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-25 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of Objects, of Jewish Ceremonial Deposited in the U. S. National Museum by Hadji Ephraim Benguiat Had]l Ephraim Benguiat, the owner of the collection here described, is the descendant of an illustrious Spanish Jewish family which traces its origin as far back as the beginning of the eleventh century. Many members of the family have distinguished themselves in Biblical and rabbinical learning, in philosophy and letters. The love for religious art has been a tradition in the family, and many of the objects of the collection are family heirlooms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of Objects of Jewish Ceremonial Deposited in the U S National Museum by Hadji Ephraim Benguiat written by Cyrus I M Adler and Casanowicz and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue showcases a remarkable collection of Jewish ceremonial objects. From Torah scrolls and menorahs to shofars and yads, each item is described in meticulous detail, providing a unique glimpse into Jewish history and culture. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Constellations of Atlantic Jewish History 1555 1890 written by Arnold Kaplan and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Mortuary of Books written by Elisabeth Gallas and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2020 JDC-Herbert Katzki Award for Writing Based on Archival Material, given by the Jewish Book Council The astonishing story of the efforts of scholars and activists to rescue Jewish cultural treasures after the Holocaust In March 1946 the American Military Government for Germany established the Offenbach Archival Depot near Frankfurt to store, identify, and restore the huge quantities of Nazi-looted books, archival material, and ritual objects that Army members had found hidden in German caches. These items bore testimony to the cultural genocide that accompanied the Nazis’ systematic acts of mass murder. The depot built a short-lived lieu de memoire—a “mortuary of books,” as the later renowned historian Lucy Dawidowicz called it—with over three million books of Jewish origin coming from nineteen different European countries awaiting restitution. A Mortuary of Books tells the miraculous story of the many Jewish organizations and individuals who, after the war, sought to recover this looted cultural property and return the millions of treasured objects to their rightful owners. Some of the most outstanding Jewish intellectuals of the twentieth century, including Dawidowicz, Hannah Arendt, Salo W. Baron, and Gershom Scholem, were involved in this herculean effort. This led to the creation of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Inc., an international body that acted as the Jewish trustee for heirless property in the American Zone and transferred hundreds of thousands of objects from the Depot to the new centers of Jewish life after the Holocaust. The commitment of these individuals to the restitution of cultural property revealed the importance of cultural objects as symbols of the enduring legacy of those who could not be saved. It also fostered Jewish culture and scholarly life in the postwar world.
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