Author: Joseph L. Blau

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-27

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9780666472175

Excerpt from The Jews of the United States, 1790-1840, Vol. 3 of 3: A Documentary History It is only fair to say that the eyes of this Society were fixed more on the Jews of Europe than on those of America. It was those European Jews who were already partly convinced of the superiority of the Christian religion who were to be brought to the United States, settled in a segregated colony, and there permitted to work out their economic salvation together with their eternal salvation. There is no suggestion in the literature of the American Society for Meliorating the Condition of the Jews that its leaders intended to devote any attention to their fellow Americans of the Jewish faith. Perhaps, it was their hope that the presence of a group of con verted Jews in this country would lead to the effortless winning of the Jews of America to Christianity. Perhaps the reason was that in the freer cultural climate of the United States they foresaw no difficulty in getting Christian literature into Jewish hands and minds, and therefore saw no need for making special provisions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.