tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post1934419550760343310..comments2024-01-21T02:58:08.208-05:00Comments on On the Main Line: A 19th century apostate rabbi; also some miscellaneous Swedish missionary magazine pictures.Mississippi Fred MacDowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734864605700159687noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-15225384086430636692010-09-06T18:54:35.076-04:002010-09-06T18:54:35.076-04:00JXG, yes: its Edut LeYisrael or your Ashkenazi Heb...JXG, yes: its Edut LeYisrael or your Ashkenazi Hebrew transliteration of it. I didn't post a photo. It was a Hebrew unicode font. I typed the title in Hebrew.Jorge Quiñóneznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-61604812754727605742010-08-30T02:35:37.652-04:002010-08-30T02:35:37.652-04:00Based on Jorge's post, I would guess that the ...Based on Jorge's post, I would guess that the periodical in the photo is Edus L'Yisroel. It certainly seems to me that the second word begins with a Lamed.JXGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-47040060934253720522010-08-28T02:07:49.883-04:002010-08-28T02:07:49.883-04:00From my article on McCaul entitled "The Doyen...From my article on McCaul entitled "The Doyen of 19th Century British Jewish Missions" (Mishkan 43 (2005), pp. 75-43)<br /><br />"McCaul was such a Hebrew-phile [19] that he was teaching Hebrew to his children before the age of five, perhaps following the tradition of how Hasidim also taught Hebrew to their sons (not daughters) at an early age. Later in life he even wrote a Hebrew primer for children. [20] Finn states that at the age of three, she was being tutored in Hebrew by a rabbi… named Avrohom. [21]"<br /><br />Footnote [21] is "Elizabeth Anne McCaul Finn, Reminiscences of Mrs. Finn (London: Marshall, Morgan & Scot, 1929), pp. 10-11.<br /><br />I pretty sure your "Rabbi Abraham Jacob Schwartzenberg" is Elizabeth Finn's "Avrohom" she remembered from her childhood. Finn was McCaul's daughter.<br /><br />This is why I like this subject: the links you make in history alway surprise you.Jorge Quiñóneznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-23761574205303865122010-08-27T23:31:41.867-04:002010-08-27T23:31:41.867-04:00To the blog writer:
I checked a reference I had fo...To the blog writer:<br />I checked a reference I had found several years ago for an article I wrote on Alexander McCaul (I can email it to you if you want if you haven't read it). For the reference, see:<br /><br />http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/single-items/miscellaneous/miscellaneous.html<br /><br />I thought your reference to Schwartzenberg was related to another rabbi related to McCaul (do a search for "G.F. Schwartz, a Jew who converted to Christianity, 1845" in the link above). Maybe I'm wrong. Can you look into this?<br /><br />The material above was a collection of stuff that the Bodleian Library in Oxford had bought in an auction. It was primary sources related to the London Jews Society and McCaul.Jorge Quiñóneznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-19074544225884210452010-08-27T23:18:00.737-04:002010-08-27T23:18:00.737-04:00Thanks for all of your hard work. I really appreci...Thanks for all of your hard work. I really appreciate your blog and the new discoveries you share with others. I can relate to that.<br /><br />I have linked your blog (several times) to my rather outdated html site which when I get some spare time I intend to update with RSS and the trimmings.<br /><br />I have a decade-long interest in the Hebrew writings of Jewish believers in Jesus, "apostates," or however you want to refer to them on multiple levels. Psychologically, I can't fathom the isolation they must have felt in leaving their communities behind for change due in belief system. The closest I can think of was 20 years ago, I knew a family in San Diego who was helping out some Saudi university students who had become "born-again Christians." Their well-to-do Saudi parents had disowned them entirely to fend for themselves.<br /><br />Anyways, the interesting tidbits are probably only a morsel on what's out there in the Scandinavian language Jewish missionary journals (I know there also exist Danish and Norwegian Jewish missionary publications to complement the Swedish periodical you reference).<br /><br />A couple of things to share:<br />You still haven't reviewed the the only Hebrew regular language periodical of the 19th century put out by Jewish converts: namely: עדות לישראל by the really strange, but historically fascinating, Christian Theophilus Lucky, the Christian pen-name for the Galacian* Jewish convert, Hayim Yedidiah Pollak. It is an earlier example of an American Hebrew periodical that was published in NY in the late 19th century. (*Not to be confused with that region of Spain, I say this because I'm a non-Jewish Latino.)<br /><br />Related to this: I recently posted a boatload of Hebrew commentaries on books of the NT by Biesenthal, the giant of 19th century Jewish converts. Do a search on archive.org (Google Books wanna-be competition) for "biesenthal" and you'll see what I'm talking about.<br /><br />To end: my apologies, I don't include links for fear that I get censored and because you can also look up the information I mention with a simple search (probably within the first 10 or 20 search hits).<br /><br />I hope you continue to keep on blogging and I look forward to the next Jewish missionary entry! Kudos to your discoveries.Jorge Quiñóneznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-77296466905960745942010-08-27T09:46:49.674-04:002010-08-27T09:46:49.674-04:00I don't think it was about missionising Jews i...I don't think it was about missionising Jews in Sweden, rather Swedish missionaries went to Eastern Europe, as other Swedish missionaries went to Africa or Polynesia.Phillip Mindenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16801818752833289089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-44395618899888487432010-08-27T09:40:44.126-04:002010-08-27T09:40:44.126-04:00Interesting that there would be a missionary journ...Interesting that there would be a missionary journal, in Swedish, in this era. There couldn't have been more than a few thousand Jews in Sweden at the turn of the century.Jordanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09089247980062665630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-61570364311714023342010-08-27T03:18:03.345-04:002010-08-27T03:18:03.345-04:00Nice post. The kappores pictures might be taken fr...Nice post. The kappores pictures might be taken from popular postcards.Phillip Mindenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16801818752833289089noreply@blogger.com