Inquiries about Mulder's Bible Translation and a Young Man's Conversion
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Inquiries about Mulder's Bible Translation and a Young Man's Conversion
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Letter from E. Lione to Mr. A. Hart inquiring about a Dutch translation of the Bible. The letter also includes a story about a young man of 19 who is about to undergo the ceremony of receiving the Divine Covenant of Abraham, whose parents migrated from Salonica to Jerusalem and were captured by the Greeks and sold as slaves. The letter discusses the young man's upbringing and eventual conversion to Judaism, as well as a report on a shaliach from Shushan and concerns about persecution in Damascus.
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Type: Letter
Identifier: LSDCBx3FF2_16
Collection: The Dropsie College Isaac Leeser Collection at the Penn Libraries
People
Sender: E. Lione
Recipient: Abraham Hart
Dates
Gregorian: April 11, 1867
Hebrew: ו׳ בְּנִיסָן תרכ״ז
Places
From: Philadelphia
To: Philadelphia
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