Request for Prayer Books and Advertisement of Book Collection

Metadata

Request for Prayer Books and Advertisement of Book Collection

Description

Letter from Nathan Ottinger in New York to Isaac Leeser in Philadelphia requesting several Portuguese prayer books and copies of *Dibrei Zadikim*. Ottinger also requests Leeser to advertise his large collection of books in *The Occident*, which includes Talmud, Mishnah, holiday prayer books, German and Polish prayer books, and Torah scrolls. The letter is written in both English and Yiddish.

Subjects

Prayer books Torah scrolls Jewish book collecting

Other Details

Type: Letter

Identifier: LSDCBx2FF1_66

Collection: The Dropsie College Isaac Leeser Collection at the Penn Libraries

People

Sender: Nathan Ottinger

Recipient: Isaac Leeser

Dates

Gregorian: July 09, 1854

Hebrew: י״ג בְּתַמּוּז תרי״ד

Places

From: New York City

To: Philadelphia

Languages

English Yiddish

Citation

Please cite this item as:

Nathan Ottinger, Isaac Leeser. “Letter from Nathan Ottinger to Isaac Leeser;July 09, 1854.” (July 09, 1854). The Dropsie College Isaac Leeser Collection at the Penn Libraries. Accessed at https://leeser.judaicadhpenn.org/item/lsdcbx2ff1_66 .