(JUDAICA) Hospital for Israelites in Philadelphia

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(JUDAICA.) Hospital for Israelites in Philadelphia. 4 pages, 8 1/2 x 5 inches, on one folding sheet; worn, repaired at fold and corners. Tipped into a modern gilt morocco folder. Philadelphia, 18 August 1864

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A prospectus and circular letter launched by the Philadelphia lodge of the Independent Order of the Benai Berith, with text in English and German. Isaac Leeser appears as vice-chairman, and Abraham Sulzberger (great-uncle of the future New York Times publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger) as secretary. The prospectus notes that 'it reflects the greatest discredit on so large a Jewish population as that of Philadelphia, to force friendless brothers to seek, in sickness and the prospect of death, the shelter of un-jewish hospitals, to eat forbidden food, to be dissected after death and sometimes even to be buried with the stranger.' Singerman 1818. One copy in OCLC, at the Library Company of Philadelphia.