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kestenbaum· Jun 2022

<p><b><span style="color: rgb(99, 0, 0);">(AMERICAN-JUDAICA).<br />MONIS, JUDAH. </span>Gravestone rubbing. From Monis’s tombstone located in Howard Street Cemetery, Northborough, Mass.</b><br /> <span></span> <br />39 x 51 inches. (99 x 129 cm). <br />Produced c. 1960's <br /><br />Judah Monis (1683-1764), author of the first Hebrew textbook published in North America (“A Grammar of the Hebrew Tongue, ” Boston, 1735), was the first Jew to receive a college degree in America. Born in Italy to a family of former Portuguese conversos and educated at Jewish academies in Italy and Holland, Monis emigrated to New York around 1715, where he established a small store and taught Hebrew to both Christians and Jews. By 1720 he moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, home of Harvard College. </p> <p><br /></p> <p>At that time, all Harvard undergraduates were required to study Hebrew. The assumption being that no Christian gentleman could be considered truly educated unless he could read the Bible in its original language. Monis was approved by the college as instructor of the Hebrew language - Harvard’s first - but not as a Jew, since Harvard required all its faculty to be professing Christians. One month before assuming his post at Harvard, Monis converted to Christianity - a conversion that attracted widespread notoriety. Local Christian clergy expressed concern that Harvard’s requirement that all its faculty members be of the Christian faith had in turn pushed Monis to an insincere conversion. </p> <p><br /></p> <p>Monis’s life presents a particular case of how a Jew was viewed in Colonial America’s public life. He came to Cambridge, which had no Jewish institutions, to teach Hebrew to Christian students. Having chosen to leave a mature Jewish community in New York City he entered Harvard as a Christian. But the Christian community looked on him with skepticism. Both the Cambridge First Church as well as Harvard College records refer to Monis as “the converted Jew, ” “the converted rabbi;” and “the Christianized Jew.” </p> <p><br /></p> <p>Inscription. </p> <p>RESURGAM. </p> <p>Here lies buried the remains of RABBI. </p> <p>JUDAH MONIS, MA, late HEBREW.</p> <p> instructer at HARVARD College in. </p> <p>Cambridge in which office he continued 40. </p> <p>years. He was by Birth and Religion a Jew but. </p> <p>embrac'd the Christian faith & was publickly. </p> <p>baptiz'd at Cambridge, AD 1722 and. </p> <p>departed this life April 25, 1764 Aged. </p> <p>81 years 2 months and 21 days. </p> <p>A native branch of Jacob see! </p> <p>Which, once from off its olive brok. </p> <p>Regrafted, from the living tree. </p> <p>Of the reviving sap partook. </p> <p>Rom.XI.17-24. From teeming Zion's fertil womb, Isai.LXVI.8. </p> <p>As dewy drops in early morn Psal.CX.3. </p> <p>Or rising bodies from the tomb, John V.28 29. </p> <p>At once be Isr'els nation born Isai LXVI.8. </p> <p><br /></p> <p>See <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11940136/judah-monis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11940136/judah-monis</a>. </p> <p>For recent news of Monis, see: </p> <p><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/harvard-slavery-and-judaism-slaveholder-judah-moni s-hebrew-professor-founders-11651172214" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.wsj.com/articles/harvard-slavery-and-judaism-slaveholder-judah-moni s-hebrew-professor-founders-11651172214</a>. </p> <p><a href="https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/history-ideas/2022/05/harvards-jewish-slaveholder/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/history-ideas/2022/05/harvards-jewish-slaveholder/</a>.</p>

US$100

kestenbaum· Jul 2020

<b>(AMERICAN JUDAICA).<br /><<Isaac Leeser.>> Circular of the American Jewish Publication Society to the Friends of Jewish Literature.</b> <br /> <br /> <br /> <span>Single printed page, blue paper. Stamp and signature (twice) of William B. Hackenburg of Philadelphia (1837-1918, for bio, see Mayer Sulzberger, Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society, no. 28 (1922) pp. 282-4).</span> <br />Folio. Singerman 880 (three copies recorded). <br />Philadelphia: December 10th 1845 <br />This is the document Isaac Leeser sent potential members seeking to form a Jewish Publication Society in America. It asks those who receive this circular to influence their friends and the members of synagogues in which they pray, in order to form local societies which will support the AJPS. The formation of ladies’ auxiliaries is called for as well, for “no good work can be perfect while their aid is absent.” The cost of joining is $1 annually, and the circular states that it hopes this call will produce between 1200 and 1500 subscribers. The circular identifies the “want of books illustrative of our blessed religion” as a “severe” problem in both America and England, particularly the lack of appropriate books which a parent can “safely place in the hands of his children.” Leeser does not state, but all would have understood, that he was concerned over the abundance of Christian children’s literature that Jewish parents were using to fill a void. The circular states that two members of the board of managers have already printed texts for Jewish children, a story called “Caleb Asher” and a reprint of Hyman Hurwitz’s “The Hebrew Tales.” The stated plan is to print eight such titles a year. “The want of books illustrative of our blessed religion has long since been severely felt both in England and America…It is the hope that our association may grow and labour successfully in the spread of the kingdom of our Heavenly Father…in this extensive country.” <br />This is the document Isaac Leeser sent potential members seeking to form a Jewish Publication Society in America. It asks those who receive this circular to influence their friends and the members of synagogues in which they pray, in order to form local societies which will support the AJPS. The formation of ladies’ auxiliaries is called for as well, for “no good work can be perfect while their aid is absent.” The cost of joining is $1 annually, and the circular states that it hopes this call will produce between 1200 and 1500 subscribers. The circular identifies the “want of books illustrative of our blessed religion” as a “severe” problem in both America and England, particularly the lack of appropriate books which a parent can “safely place in the hands of his children.” Leeser does not state, but all would have understood, that he was concerned over the abundance of Christian children’s literature that Jewish parents were using to fill a void. The circular states that two members of the board of managers have already printed texts for Jewish children, a story called “Caleb Asher” and a reprint of Hyman Hurwitz’s “The Hebrew Tales.” The stated plan is to print eight such titles a year. “The want of books illustrative of our blessed religion has long since been severely felt both in England and America…It is the hope that our association may grow and labour successfully in the spread of the kingdom of our Heavenly Father…in this extensive country.”

US$8,500

kestenbaum· Jul 2020

<b>(AMERICAN JUDAICA).<br /><<Isaac Leeser.>> Circular of the American Jewish Publication Society to the Friends of Jewish Literature.</b> <br /> <br /> <br /> <span>Single printed page, blue paper. Stamp and signature (twice) of William B. Hackenburg of Philadelphia (1837-1918, for bio, see Mayer Sulzberger, Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society, no. 28 (1922) pp. 282-4).</span> <br />Folio. Singerman 880 (three copies recorded). <br />Philadelphia: December 10th 1845 <br />This is the document Isaac Leeser sent potential members seeking to form a Jewish Publication Society in America. It asks those who receive this circular to influence their friends and the members of synagogues in which they pray, in order to form local societies which will support the AJPS. The formation of ladies’ auxiliaries is called for as well, for “no good work can be perfect while their aid is absent.” The cost of joining is $1 annually, and the circular states that it hopes this call will produce between 1200 and 1500 subscribers. The circular identifies the “want of books illustrative of our blessed religion” as a “severe” problem in both America and England, particularly the lack of appropriate books which a parent can “safely place in the hands of his children.” Leeser does not state, but all would have understood, that he was concerned over the abundance of Christian children’s literature that Jewish parents were using to fill a void. The circular states that two members of the board of managers have already printed texts for Jewish children, a story called “Caleb Asher” and a reprint of Hyman Hurwitz’s “The Hebrew Tales.” The stated plan is to print eight such titles a year. “The want of books illustrative of our blessed religion has long since been severely felt both in England and America…It is the hope that our association may grow and labour successfully in the spread of the kingdom of our Heavenly Father…in this extensive country.” <br />This is the document Isaac Leeser sent potential members seeking to form a Jewish Publication Society in America. It asks those who receive this circular to influence their friends and the members of synagogues in which they pray, in order to form local societies which will support the AJPS. The formation of ladies’ auxiliaries is called for as well, for “no good work can be perfect while their aid is absent.” The cost of joining is $1 annually, and the circular states that it hopes this call will produce between 1200 and 1500 subscribers. The circular identifies the “want of books illustrative of our blessed religion” as a “severe” problem in both America and England, particularly the lack of appropriate books which a parent can “safely place in the hands of his children.” Leeser does not state, but all would have understood, that he was concerned over the abundance of Christian children’s literature that Jewish parents were using to fill a void. The circular states that two members of the board of managers have already printed texts for Jewish children, a story called “Caleb Asher” and a reprint of Hyman Hurwitz’s “The Hebrew Tales.” The stated plan is to print eight such titles a year. “The want of books illustrative of our blessed religion has long since been severely felt both in England and America…It is the hope that our association may grow and labour successfully in the spread of the kingdom of our Heavenly Father…in this extensive country.”