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:

2010.09.26.00005; {231A25DC-36C7-400A-8C6E-8B3DB996FACE}

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)