<p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(156, 0, 0);">(ANGLO-JUDAICA).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">An Apology for the Naturalization of the Jews… By a True Believer. Containing, </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">I. An Account of the Charters, Privileges and Immunities granted to the Jews, by the Kings of England, five hundred Years ago. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">II. The most popular Objections to their Naturalization, fairly stated and fully answered. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">III. The naturalization of the Jews an advantage to the Kingdom in general, and to Commerce in particular. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">IV. The probable happy Consequences of it to the Christian Religion. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">V. The Privileges enjoyed by the Jews in Foreign Countries, superior to those proposed to be granted them by Parliament. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">VI. The nature, Purport and Design of the present bill, explained and justified by the Facts.</span> </p>
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<p><span style="font-style: italic;">pp. (2), 30. Ex-library. Lightly foxed. Modern boards. 8vo.Roth, Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, p. 223, no. 108.</span></p>
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<p>London, Printed for M. Cooper 1753. </p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(156, 0, 0);">IN THE DEFENSE OF THE JEW BILL OF 1753. </span> </p>
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<p> In the year 1609 the naturalization of any foreigner settled in England was made contingent upon receiving the Sacrament. Although this act was deliberately directed against Catholics, it incidentally would later affect Jews following the Re-Admission of 1653. This disability was lifted by the Whig Government of Henry Pelham in the Act of 1753 to permit persons professing the Jewish religion to be naturalized by Parliament. The Bill was, at best, of limited advantage to the Jews since only the wealthy would have been able to set in motion the machinery necessary to obtain naturalization. Although the measure was accepted unanimously by the House of Lords, it became a pawn in the upcoming general election campaign that resulted in its eventual repeal by the House of Commons. Taking full advantage of the prejudices and fears that the grant of naturalization to Jews had aroused, the Tory opposition fueled the unpopularity of the Act with a pamphlet and broadsheet campaign that warned of an England overrun with Jews. The Whig government was forced by public opinion to give way and the pro-Jewish legislation was duly repealed in the same year that it was enacted. </p>
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<p> Our anonymous pamphleteer advocates the naturalization of the Jews, arguing that it would be an advantage to the Kingdom in general, and to commerce in particular, and that the privileges enjoyed by Jews resident in foreign countries are superior to those granted them by England. </p>
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<p> See J. Picciotto, Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History (1956), pp. 73-86; A. M. Hyamson, The Sephardim of England (1951), pp. 127-8; A. M. Hyamson, “The Jew Bill of 1753” in: TJHSE, Vol. VI (1908-1910), pp. 156-188.</p>
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<b>BRESLAUER, LEO (JEHUDA)<br />(Rabbi in Fürth, Bavaria and Washington Heights, New York. 1894-1983).</b>
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<span> Significant personal, communal and scholarly archive. Contained in five book-boxes (unsorted). Large collection of correspondence, manuscripts and related papers; along with personal publications (including drafts), periodicals and other ephemeral printed matter. Contains numerous manuscript notebooks - many extensive - with sermons, memos, notes on scholarly matters, civil affairs, records of interactions with congregants and communal officials, etc. Includes (in German, English and Hebrew): * Religious and communal history of Fürth, with much original documentation (1767-1960). * Detailed records of deaths of synagogue members in Fürth and in New York. * Detailed records of marriages of synagogue members in Fürth and in New York. * Unpublished, completed scholarly manuscripts on Halachah and history. * Many manuscripts with notes on rabbinic topics including Halachah, Talmud, Bible, Aggadah. Also with hundreds of index cards on these topics. * Doctoral dissertation comparing Jewish ‘Kawwana’ (intention and concentration of thought) with the Islamic Nijja and Aristotle’s Prohairesis. * Holocaust-era papers: Including correspondence with congregants serving in the military during World War II; seeking to assist European Jews entry to the United States; German reparation matters. * Correspondence with Agudath Israel leadership (Jacob Rosenheim, Harry Goodman, Mike Tress). * Papers (manuscript and printed) seeking to respond to and combat political Zionism in both America and Israel. Also correspondence with Neturei Karta. * Many copies of Breslauer’s publications: ‘Maurosho’ and ‘Am HaTorah.’ Many other printed pamphlets, newspaper cutting and offprints. * Personal and life-cycle documentation including health, immigration and related papers. * Miscellaneous correspondence, notes for speeches, photographs. Further listing available upon request.</span>
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<br />Born in Kempen-in-Posen (Prussia), Rabbi Dr. Leo (Yehudah) Breslauer studied in Frankfurt’s Torah Lehranstalt (Breuer’s Yeshiva), followed by the Rabbiner Seminar Berlin, where he was ordained by Rabbi David Zvi Hoffman. After serving as a military chaplain, Breslauer was Rabbi in Kiel where he also completed his doctorate. In 1923 he was appointed to lead Fürth’s Alt-Neuschul where he remained until its dissolution by the Nazis. Breslauer subsequently found temporary refuge in Holland, and in 1941, arrived in America. Within a year he founded, in the Washington Heights neighborhood of upper Manhattan, Congregation Kehillas Yaakov, which primarily served his former congregants from Fürth, along with other refugees stemming from adjacent towns in Bavaria such as Nüremberg. Washington Heights, new home to some 20,000 German Jews, was where Breslauer sought to maintain and model to his flock, a traditional Orthodox life imbued with High German custom and orientation, amidst the free-spirited nature of American society. This archive provides much material as to how this particular German Orthodox rabbi, with all his varied interests (rabbinic, scholarly, communal and political), sought to make the challenging adjustment from a refined position of leadership in Germany, to the very different society of America with its new, contemporary challenges. In addition to Breslauer’s own unpublished rabbinic scholarship, this archive contains important historical source material pertaining to the two communities Breslauer led over many decades. Also preserved here are files relating to Breslauer’s involvement with various Jewish political parties and other groups, especially Agudath Israel. Much may be gleaned from here in regard to the development of a community of Jews, deeply entrenched in their German roots and traditions, subsequently violently removed to the very different culture of America. The transition would naturally bring about many a range of results: A most notable example was statesman Henry Kissinger and his family, who were members of Breslauer’s synagogue. Indeed Breslauer presided over young Henry’s barmitzvah in Fürth and subsequently conducted the marriage ceremony between 25 year-old Henry and his (first) wife Anne Fleischer, in the Kissinger family apartment in Washington Heights. (See N. Ferguson, Kissinger Vol. I (2015) pp. 225-26). Amidst the abundance of materials concerning the development of Breslauer’s new community in America, we may witness the language of expression moving from German to English – while all along, Breslauer’s personal scholarship continues in Hebrew. Breslauer was a man of both varied and deep scholarship. He was also a man who held opinions which often went against the popular tide. Most strikingly so, his outspoken voice in opposition to the secularism that permeated the Zionist movement and the nascent State of Israel. We find in this archive details of Breslauer’s actions during war-time and especially post-war, where he became a most active voice against political Zionism. An important archive, containing a wide variety of primary documentation, certainly a source of much original study material.
<br />Born in Kempen-in-Posen (Prussia), Rabbi Dr. Leo (Yehudah) Breslauer studied in Frankfurt’s Torah Lehranstalt (Breuer’s Yeshiva), followed by the Rabbiner Seminar Berlin, where he was ordained by Rabbi David Zvi Hoffman. After serving as a military chaplain, Breslauer was Rabbi in Kiel where he also completed his doctorate. In 1923 he was appointed to lead Fürth’s Alt-Neuschul where he remained until its dissolution by the Nazis. Breslauer subsequently found temporary refuge in Holland, and in 1941, arrived in America. Within a year he founded, in the Washington Heights neighborhood of upper Manhattan, Congregation Kehillas Yaakov, which primarily served his former congregants from Fürth, along with other refugees stemming from adjacent towns in Bavaria such as Nüremberg. Washington Heights, new home to some 20,000 German Jews, was where Breslauer sought to maintain and model to his flock, a traditional Orthodox life imbued with High German custom and orientation, amidst the free-spirited nature of American society. This archive provides much material as to how this particular German Orthodox rabbi, with all his varied interests (rabbinic, scholarly, communal and political), sought to make the challenging adjustment from a refined position of leadership in Germany, to the very different society of America with its new, contemporary challenges. In addition to Breslauer’s own unpublished rabbinic scholarship, this archive contains important historical source material pertaining to the two communities Breslauer led over many decades. Also preserved here are files relating to Breslauer’s involvement with various Jewish political parties and other groups, especially Agudath Israel. Much may be gleaned from here in regard to the development of a community of Jews, deeply entrenched in their German roots and traditions, subsequently violently removed to the very different culture of America. The transition would naturally bring about many a range of results: A most notable example was statesman Henry Kissinger and his family, who were members of Breslauer’s synagogue. Indeed Breslauer presided over young Henry’s barmitzvah in Fürth and subsequently conducted the marriage ceremony between 25 year-old Henry and his (first) wife Anne Fleischer, in the Kissinger family apartment in Washington Heights. (See N. Ferguson, Kissinger Vol. I (2015) pp. 225-26). Amidst the abundance of materials concerning the development of Breslauer’s new community in America, we may witness the language of expression moving from German to English – while all along, Breslauer’s personal scholarship continues in Hebrew. Breslauer was a man of both varied and deep scholarship. He was also a man who held opinions which often went against the popular tide. Most strikingly so, his outspoken voice in opposition to the secularism that permeated the Zionist movement and the nascent State of Israel. We find in this archive details of Breslauer’s actions during war-time and especially post-war, where he became a most active voice against political Zionism. An important archive, containing a wide variety of primary documentation, certainly a source of much original study material.
