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)