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Item # 714591
December 23, 1825
RECORDER & TELEGRAPH, Boston, Dec. 23, 1825  

* European Jews - Jewish - Judaica  & persecution 

Page 2 has: "Emigration Of Jews To the U. States" which takes over half a column. This is followed by a smaller report: "Persecution of Jews in Rome".
Four pages, nice condition.

background: In 1825, J.D. Marc of Frankfurt served as a critical intellectual bridge between the worsening persecution of Jews in Central Europe and the burgeoning American movement to provide them refuge, though his motives were primarily missionary. Writing from the Rhine provinces, Marc served as a high-profile correspondent for the American Society for Meliorating the Condition of the Jews (ASMCJ), reporting that the legal restrictions and social hostility in cities like Frankfurt had rendered the Jewish position untenable. His letters were instrumental in convincing American organizers to lease land in New York for an experimental agricultural colony, a project that launched the same year Mordecai Manuel Noah dedicated his own Jewish "city of refuge," Ararat. While Noah sought a nationalistic Jewish restoration, Marc envisioned a community of "Hebrew-Christians" who would escape European tyranny to live as farmers in the United States. Ultimately, Marc's 1825 reports are historically significant not because his colony succeeded—it failed quickly due to a lack of interest—but because they documented the "push factors" of poverty and legal disenfranchisement that would soon trigger the massive wave of German-Jewish immigration to America.

Item from last month's catalog - #364 - released for March, 2026.