Hirschel, Rev Solomon (Hirschell) [Anti-Missionary] Extract of An Exhortation Delivered by the Rev. Solomon Hirschel, At the Synagogue, Duke's Place, on Saturday, January 3, A. M. 5567. London, E Justins, Printer, 34, Brick Lane, Spitalfields 1807
Original broadside 36cm h x 22cm w. Text in Hebrew and English. Issued in response to the opening of a 'Free School' by the London Society For the Promotion of Christianity Amongst the Jews. This was first of the notices and is milder it seems to have been issued before the school actually opened and later on Rabbi Hirschell forbade under threat of excommunication parents sending their children to the school and it was one of the boosts to the establishment of the 'The Jews Free School' "During 1807 the missionaries established their first free school for children of both sexes. Apart from teaching the children reading, writing and arithmetic, they also provided them with a hot meal each lunchtime and a complete set of clothing. It was hardly suprising that the school attracted over 150 children the first three months of its establishement" H A Simons in Forty Years a Chief Rabbi Some minor repairs a little soiling
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