(JUDAICA) Benjamin Dias Fernandes A Series of Letters on the

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(JUDAICA.) Benjamin Dias Fernandes. A Series of Letters on the Evidences of Christianity (as They First Appeared in the Occident). viii, 258 pages. 12mo, publisher's cloth, minor wear; early owners' inscriptions and bookplate on front endpapers. Philadelphia, 5619 [1859?]

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Second edition. An introduction by Isaac Leeser explains the long genesis of this book. The author was an 18th-century Jewish emigrant from Jamaica to England. Some of his unpublished letters were featured in the first Jewish magazine in America, Solomon Henry Jackson's "The Jew; being a Defence of Judaism against all Adversaries," in 1823, under the title "Dea's Letters." Leeser got his hands on a fuller manuscript of the letters and published them in this volume. Singerman 1322 (1854 first edition).