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Letter; Leeser, Isaac; New Orleans, Louisiana, United States; 1865 June 28

Title:
Letter; Leeser, Isaac; New Orleans, Louisiana, United States; 1865 June 28
Date:
1865-06-28
Description:
Leeser, Isaac and Illowy, Bernard. New Orleans, LA, Five page letter from Joseph Jacobsohn in New Orleans, Louisiana to Isaac Leeser in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The letter contains a detailed account as to how the German young men from the North took over his Orthodox synagogue and turned it into a Reform synagogue. The letter also relates the general decline of Judaism in New Orleans before Rabbi Bernard Illowy and how in his four year tenure, he turned it around
Format:
Letter
Identifier:
2006.12.26.03473; {A8B89A83-055D-4634-B231-D8C0BA84203A}
Language:
English
Type:
Letters
Personal Name:
Leeser, Isaac; Illowy, Bernard; Jacobsohn, Joseph
Geographic Subject:
United States -- Louisiana -- New Orleans; United States -- Louisiana
Rights:
http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?
Call Number:
Arc.MS.56
Collection:
Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)