Letter from Phineas Moses to Isaac Leeser Regarding a Reader's Salary, December 10, 1857
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Letter from Phineas Moses to Isaac Leeser Regarding a Reader's Salary, December 10, 1857
Description
Letter from Phineas Moses to Isaac Leeser, written in Cincinnati, Ohio on December 10, 1857. Moses, a trustee, comments on a statement in Leeser's *Occident* regarding the compensation of a congregational reader and teacher. He notes that the reader also serves as teacher, receiving five hundred dollars per annum and rooms in the synagogue basement, contradicting the *Occident*'s account.
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Other Details
Type: Letter
Identifier: LSDCBx2FF4_71
Collection: The Dropsie College Isaac Leeser Collection at the Penn Libraries
People
Sender: Phineas Moses
Recipient: Isaac Leeser
Dates
Gregorian: December 10, 1857
Hebrew: כ״ג בְּכִסְלֵו תרי״ח
Places
From: Cincinnati
To: Philadelphia
Language
English
Citation
Please cite this item as:
Phineas Moses, Isaac Leeser.
“Letter from Phineas Moses to Isaac Leeser;December 10, 1857.”
(December 10, 1857). The Dropsie College Isaac Leeser Collection at the Penn Libraries.
Accessed at https://leeser.judaicadhpenn.org/item/lsdcbx2ff4_71 .