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- Title:
- Manuscript; Greensboro, North Carolina, United States; 1865 May 7
- Subject:
- Manuscripts (documents); Jewish soldiers; War
- Description:
- Manuscript field order issued by Major General Jacob Dolson Cox Commanding the 23rd Army Corps written and signed by Cox’s Assistant Adjutant General, Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Cox and issued to Division Commanders under his command; Greensboro, NC
- Date:
- 1865-05-07
- Language:
- English
- Rights:
- http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?
- Collection:
- Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
- Call Number:
- Arc.MS.56
- Title:
- Ketubah book : K.K. Beth El Emeth.
- Subject:
- Ketubahs; Marriage certificates; Manuscripts, Hebrew -- 19th century
- Description:
- Bound compilation of manuscript marriage contracts for 62 couples married by George Jacobs between November 5, 1873, and November 13, 1881. Jacobs served as the rabbi of Congregation Beth El Emeth from 1869 to his death in 1884. His term followed that of Isaac Leeser, who founded the synagoge in 1857 and served as its rabbi until his death in 1868. Most weddings took place in Philadelphia, with two each in Doylestown and Lancaster, Pennsylvania; one each in Harrisburg, Manayunk, Abingdon, and Huntingdon, Pennsylvania; and one each in Richmond and Lynchburg, Virginia. Every ketubah is written in the hand of Jacobs, with the abridged ketubah text in a single block paragraph, justified by stretching characters, and his Hebrew name Gershon bar Mosheh S_imh_ah inscribed at the foot of each leaf. Ketubahs are signed by the groom and 2 witnesses. Congregational president Morris Rosenbach signed as witness on several occasions. Couples' English names, wedding date, and wedding location when not in Philadelphia recorded in English at the head of each leaf. The contracts were entered into the volume from left to right on the rectos, with versos left blank. Volume bound in blind-stamped leather, with gilt title on left cover; covers detached and spine damaged.
- Personal Name:
- Rosenbach, Morris
- Corporate Name:
- Congregation Beth El Emeth (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Contributor:
- Jacobs, George, 1834-1884
- Date:
- 19th century
- Language:
- Aramaic; Hebrew; English
- Rights:
- http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?
- Collection:
- Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
- Call Number:
- MS 56, Codex 003.1
- Title:
- Manuscript; Alvarez, Juan; Pizarro, Hernando; Torres, Gonzalo de; Lima, Peru; 1555 September 14
- Subject:
- Contracts; Jewish land owners; Real property; Land titles
- Description:
- Rental contract relating to a dwelling in Lima between the converso physician Juan Alvarez and Hernando Pizarro.
- Personal Name:
- Alvarez, Juan; Pizarro, Hernando; Torres, Gonzalo de
- Date:
- 1555-09-14
- Language:
- Spanish
- Rights:
- http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?
- Collection:
- Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
- Call Number:
- Arc.MS.56
- Title:
- Manuscript; Goldstein, Isaac; 1863
- Description:
- Manuscript acrostic poem in Hebrew in honor of Abraham Lincoln in which each line begins with a different letter of Lincoln's name. Written by Isaac Goldstein c. 1863, perhaps on the occasion of the Emancipation Proclamation. The poem later appeared in the June 24, 1865 issue of the Jewish Messenger.
- Personal Name:
- Goldstein, Isaac
- Date:
- 1863
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Rights:
- http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?
- Collection:
- Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
- Call Number:
- Arc.MS.56
- Title:
- Tobias I. Tobias letter books, 1815-1830. Volume 2.
- Description:
- Three volumes comprising outgoing correspondence from Tobias I. Tobias while he was living in London, England. The letters are addressed to family members, friends, and business associates spanning the years from 1815 to 1830. Volume 1 contains correspondence dated from 1815 to 1816. The letters were chiefly to his brother Samuel, who was living in New York and regarded merchandise, invoices, debts, vendors, and family news. Several letters were also written to Simpson Samuell, probably Tobias's lawyer, who handled bills, payments, and monetary exchanges. Volume 2 comprises letters dated from 1816 to 1817 and were written to various vendors. During this time Tobias was living in New York. He wrote many letters to John Walton, who sent Tobias consignments; N. Hart concerning purchases; and A . J. Woolf. The correspondence also concerned payments due and bills of exhchange. Volume 3 contains letters from Tobias spanning the years from May 5, 1825 to October 30, 1830. The letters regard the Tobias's business in New York. The majority of the correspondence in this volume is with David Judah, an auctioneer living in Richmond, Virginia, concerning David Judah & Company. Tobias and Edward Pollack were partners in the company. The letters concerned payments to vendors, types of merchandise sold, and Tobias's consignments to David Judah. Eventually, Judah's failure to pay his portion of the accounts as described in the correspondence led to Tobias's poverty, arrest, and final dissolution of the company in 1828. Correspondence from Tobias with Manuel Judah, Benjamin J. Hooper, and Kennedy & Duchamp of New Orleans are also included. There are also letters concerning Samuel I. Tobias who traveled to Richmond to aide Judah with the account books. The merchandise Tobias mentions throughout the letter books is blankets, boots, cloth, cordage, cotton, dolls, jewelry, razor cases, shoes, and watches from vendors in England, Nova Scotia, and the United States. The last page in the volume has a chart of prices for cotton, flannel, and wool cloths; and freight shipment costs and tariffs. The leaves at the beginning of Volume 3 are alphabetical tabs. There are 12 letters on letterpress paper and one leaf of blotter paper laid in Volume 1. There are 6 leaves of letters on letterpress paper laid in Volume 2. There are two clippings regarding freight charges laid in Volume 3. Volumes 1-3 have detached covers with some loose leaves. Volume 3 has a cracked spine.; Born in Liverpool, England to Morris I. Tobias and his wife. Tobias had two brothers Samuel Isaac and Meyer Michael. Morris I. Tobias was a watchmaker. He owned M. I. Tobias & Company. Morris trained his son Tobias as a watchmaker. Tobias created pocket watches engraved with his signature: T. I. Tobias. In 1816 Tobias sailed to the United States to sell watches from the company. Eventually, Tobias, his wife Rebecca, and their children settled in New York. He became a wholesale merchant and operated T. I. Tobias and Comapny. He imported and consigned general merchandise and dry goods. Tobias later concentrated on importing wines and liquors. He married Rebecca Levy in 1807 and couple had eight children.
- Personal Name:
- Tobias I. Tobias (Tobias Isaac)
- Corporate Name:
- T. I. Tobias & Co. (Firm); David Judah & Co. (Firm)
- Date:
- 1815-1830
- Language:
- English
- Rights:
- https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
- Collection:
- Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
- Call Number:
- MS 56, Codex 007.1 v.2
- Title:
- Daniel Rumbel receipt book, 1852-1866.
- Subject:
- Codices; Receipts (financial records); Tax stamps; Manuscripts, American -- 19th century
- Description:
- An oblong, leather-bound volume containing receipts of payment to various people and companies in Ringtown, Pennsylvania spanning the years from 1852 to 1866. Receipts of payment were made to banks, Jewish merchants, to bury lumber, rent, and working on Rumbel's farm. Some payments were made to Herman Benner, Joshua Weiner of Miners Bank, and John J. Zimmerman. A payment of judgement was made in favor of Daniel Larer. Revenue stamps are affixed to receipts from 1864 to 1866. The receipts in the volume are written parallel to the spine in the manner of a note pad. Inscription on inside front cover: Daniel Rumbel his book February 15, 1851. The receipts are written on the first twenty leaves. The remainder of the volume is blank.
- Personal Name:
- One of six children born to Henry and Salome Andrews Rumbel in East Brunswick, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The family moved to Ringtown where Henry Rumbel was a lumber merchant. Daniel Rumbel inherited and purchased tracts of his father's and ran profitable farming and timber operations. Additionally, he trained to become a shoemaker. Rumbel sold lumber to the Catawissa Railroad Company. He sold portions of his land to Jacob Laudig and the Ringtown Fair Association. Rumbel later lost his land in a sheriff's sale after backing others' business ventures. Rumbel became a shoemaker opening his own shop in Ringtown. Rumbel married Sarah Seltzer and they had three children: Emmaline, William, and Trenton.
- Contributor:
- Rumbel, Daniel, 1830-1831
- Date:
- 1852-1866
- Language:
- English
- Rights:
- http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?
- Call Number:
- MS 56, Codex 010.1
- Title:
- Manuscript; Rosengarten; Etting; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; 1855
- Description:
- Receipt book with numerous Jewish names listed with fees acquired from the manuscripts of William Sellers Iron Manufacturer
- Personal Name:
- Rosengarten; Etting
- Date:
- 1855
- Language:
- English
- Rights:
- http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?
- Collection:
- Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
- Call Number:
- Arc.MS.56
- Title:
- Manuscript; Cohen, Frederick Elmour; Detroit, Michigan, United States; 1846 October 22
- Description:
- Manuscript letter with illustrations from the artist Frederick Elmour Cohen to Mrs. Capt. Montieth in Canandaigua, New York. In the letter Cohen writes about his brother and sister and explains his ink portrait and discusses some other of his own life portraits while critiquing the attached painting: "…I send you a miniature of Myself & Wife. They are considered very good likenesses. My wife is taken from the original herself, and is as near as I could come to a perfect miniature. My own is taken from one in my studio as large as life..."
- Personal Name:
- Cohen, Frederick Elmour
- Date:
- 1846-10-22
- Language:
- English
- Rights:
- http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?
- Collection:
- Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
- Call Number:
- Arc.MS.56
- Title:
- Manuscript; Hirsch, Abraham L.; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; ca. 1870
- Description:
- Manuscript notebook of Abraham L. Hirsch, a Philadelphia student in the 1870s. This handwritten journal contains a number of interesting capsules, covering opinions, personal definitions of honesty, friendships, riches, cruelty and pleasures, and a few pages on parsing (grammatical analysis).
- Personal Name:
- Hirsch, Abraham L.
- Date:
- ca. 1870
- Language:
- English
- Rights:
- http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?
- Collection:
- Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
- Call Number:
- Arc.MS.56
- Title:
- Tobias I. Tobias letter books, 1815-1830. Volume 1.
- Description:
- Three volumes comprising outgoing correspondence from Tobias I. Tobias while he was living in London, England. The letters are addressed to family members, friends, and business associates spanning the years from 1815 to 1830. Volume 1 contains correspondence dated from 1815 to 1816. The letters were chiefly to his brother Samuel, who was living in New York and regarded merchandise, invoices, debts, vendors, and family news. Several letters were also written to Simpson Samuell, probably Tobias's lawyer, who handled bills, payments, and monetary exchanges. Volume 2 comprises letters dated from 1816 to 1817 and were written to various vendors. During this time Tobias was living in New York. He wrote many letters to John Walton, who sent Tobias consignments; N. Hart concerning purchases; and A . J. Woolf. The correspondence also concerned payments due and bills of exhchange. Volume 3 contains letters from Tobias spanning the years from May 5, 1825 to October 30, 1830. The letters regard the Tobias's business in New York. The majority of the correspondence in this volume is with David Judah, an auctioneer living in Richmond, Virginia, concerning David Judah & Company. Tobias and Edward Pollack were partners in the company. The letters concerned payments to vendors, types of merchandise sold, and Tobias's consignments to David Judah. Eventually, Judah's failure to pay his portion of the accounts as described in the correspondence led to Tobias's poverty, arrest, and final dissolution of the company in 1828. Correspondence from Tobias with Manuel Judah, Benjamin J. Hooper, and Kennedy & Duchamp of New Orleans are also included. There are also letters concerning Samuel I. Tobias who traveled to Richmond to aide Judah with the account books. The merchandise Tobias mentions throughout the letter books is blankets, boots, cloth, cordage, cotton, dolls, jewelry, razor cases, shoes, and watches from vendors in England, Nova Scotia, and the United States. The last page in the volume has a chart of prices for cotton, flannel, and wool cloths; and freight shipment costs and tariffs. The leaves at the beginning of Volume 3 are alphabetical tabs. There are 12 letters on letterpress paper and one leaf of blotter paper laid in Volume 1. There are 6 leaves of letters on letterpress paper laid in Volume 2. There are two clippings regarding freight charges laid in Volume 3. Volumes 1-3 have detached covers with some loose leaves. Volume 3 has a cracked spine.; Born in Liverpool, England to Morris I. Tobias and his wife. Tobias had two brothers Samuel Isaac and Meyer Michael. Morris I. Tobias was a watchmaker. He owned M. I. Tobias & Company. Morris trained his son Tobias as a watchmaker. Tobias created pocket watches engraved with his signature: T. I. Tobias. In 1816 Tobias sailed to the United States to sell watches from the company. Eventually, Tobias, his wife Rebecca, and their children settled in New York. He became a wholesale merchant and operated T. I. Tobias and Comapny. He imported and consigned general merchandise and dry goods. Tobias later concentrated on importing wines and liquors. He married Rebecca Levy in 1807 and couple had eight children.
- Personal Name:
- Tobias I. Tobias (Tobias Isaac)
- Corporate Name:
- T. I. Tobias & Co. (Firm); David Judah & Co. (Firm)
- Date:
- 1815-1830
- Language:
- English
- Rights:
- https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
- Collection:
- Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
- Call Number:
- MS 56, Codex 007.1 v.1