A Plea for Assistance from Philipp Lafleur to Isaac Leeser, 1876

Metadata

A Plea for Assistance from Philipp Lafleur to Isaac Leeser, 1876

Description

A plea for financial assistance. The author, Philipp Lafleur, describes himself as destitute and asks for help from Rabbi Isaac Leeser. The letter is written in Hebrew, expressing the author's distress and poverty, and seeking aid.

Subjects

Poverty Charity Jewish life in America

Other Details

Type: Letter

Identifier: LSDCBx3FF14_28

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

People

Sender: Philipp Lafleur

Recipient: Isaac Leeser

Dates

Gregorian: January 01, 1876

Hebrew: ד׳ בְּטֵבֵת תרל״ו

Places

To: Philadelphia

Language

Yiddish

Citation

Please cite this item as:

Lafleur, Philipp, Isaac Leeser. “Letter from Philipp Lafleur to Isaac Leeser;January 01, 1876.” (January 01, 1876). The Dropsie College Isaac Leeser Collection at the Penn Libraries. Accessed at https://leeser.judaicadhpenn.org/item/lsdcbx3ff14_28 .