NEW YORK ENQUIRER FOR THE COUNTRY, Aug. 25, 1826  

* Jewish publisher
* Nice masthead

This newspaper was published by Mordecai Manuel Noah who is credited with being the first Jew born in the United States to reach national prominence. With his last name of Noah he thought it appropriate to have an engraving of Noah's ark in the masthead. 
One of his earlier positions was a post with the State Dept. as Consul to the Kingdom of Tunis where he rescued American citizens kept as slaves by Moroccan masters. Allegedly, Noah was removed from this position because, in the words of Secretary of State James Monroe, his religion was "...an obstacle to the excercise of [his] Consular function...". His firing caused outrage among Jews and non-Jews alike.
In 1819 Noah wrote a play, "She Would Be a Soldier", establishing him as America's first important Jewish American writer. In 1820 Noah tried to found a Jewish homeland at Grand Island in the Niagara River to be called Ararat.
This newspaper by Noah lasted for only 3 years, this being the volume 1, number 14 issue.
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed, good condition.

Background: The August 25, 1826 issue (Vol. 1, No. 14) of the New York Enquirer for the Country represents an exceptionally rare artifact of early 19th-century American journalism and Jewish-American heritage. Published by Mordecai Manuel Noah—America’s first nationally prominent Jewish figure, diplomat, and playwright—this four-page country edition was short-lived, as the paper ran for only three years before merging into the Courier and Enquirer in 1829. Visually anchored by an iconic masthead woodcut depicting Noah’s Ark (a clever play on the editor's surname), the issue offers a unique window into Noah’s influential editorial voice just one year after his bold attempt to establish "Ararat," a Jewish refuge on Grand Island, and a decade following his controversial dismissal as U.S. Consul to Tunis over his religious faith. Surviving copies of such early, specialized country editions from the fledgling months of Noah's press run are exceedingly scarce, as few four-page broadsheets endured the wear of rural delivery, making this edition a prized historical surviving document of pioneering political commentary and early religious-minority leadership in the United States.