Letter from Josephus Justus Belinfante to Isaac Leeser, May 17, 1857

Metadata

Letter from Josephus Justus Belinfante to Isaac Leeser, May 17, 1857

Description

Letter from Josephus Justus Belinfante to Isaac Leeser, written in The Hague on May 17, 1857. Belinfante expresses gratitude for receiving the Occident regularly and inquires about previously sent items. He shares news of d'Arcona's family, discusses an article in the Revue des Deux Mondes, and details his conversations with Benjamin II, a Jewish traveler. He provides information on Jewish publications in Holland, including the Jaarboekje, and offers statistics on the Jewish population in the Netherlands' American possessions. He also requests information about M. de Silva Solis and his family in Jamaica.

Subjects

Occident (newspaper) Revue des Deux Mondes Jewish communities in the Netherlands

Other Details

Type: Letter

Identifier: LSDCBx2FF4_38

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

People

Sender: Josephus Justus Belinfante

Recipient: Isaac Leeser

Dates

Gregorian: May 17, 1857

Hebrew: כ״ג בְּאִיָיר תרי״ז

Places

From: The Hague

To: Philadelphia

Language

English

Citation

Please cite this item as:

Josephus Justus Belinfante, Isaac Leeser. “Letter from Josephus Justus Belinfante to Isaac Leeser;May 17, 1857.” (May 17, 1857). The Dropsie College Isaac Leeser Collection at the Penn Libraries. Accessed at https://leeser.judaicadhpenn.org/item/lsdcbx2ff4_38 .