An open letter addressed to Sir Moses Montefiore, Bart ... : on the day of his arrival in the holy city of Jerusalem ... Sunday, 22 Tamooz, 5635,A.M.-July 25, 1875 / by the Rev. Meyer Auerbach ... and the Rev. Samuel Salant. (Translated from the original Hebrew.) Together with A narrative of the forty days' sojourn in the Holy Land, devoted to an investigation of the state of schools, colleges and charitable institutions, given to the well-wishers of Zion, by Sir Moses Montefiore, Bart.,... on his return from his seventh pilgrimage to the Land of Promise. 9 Ellul, 5635 - September 9, 1875.

  • Auerbach, Meir ben Isaac, 1815-1878.
Date:
1877
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Credit: An open letter addressed to Sir Moses Montefiore, Bart ... : on the day of his arrival in the holy city of Jerusalem ... Sunday, 22 Tamooz, 5635,A.M.-July 25, 1875 / by the Rev. Meyer Auerbach ... and the Rev. Samuel Salant. (Translated from the original Hebrew.) Together with A narrative of the forty days' sojourn in the Holy Land, devoted to an investigation of the state of schools, colleges and charitable institutions, given to the well-wishers of Zion, by Sir Moses Montefiore, Bart.,... on his return from his seventh pilgrimage to the Land of Promise. 9 Ellul, 5635 - September 9, 1875. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    multiplied in the land of which the Lord aware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth (Deut. xi.), they, the Reporters, according to their view, changed into a curse; and apprehended more anxiety on that subject than the poor in the Holy Land them- selves evince. Every one of the latter lives by his own faith, fully believing that there is no one in the world who can take away from his neighbour any of those blessings which were originally assigned unto him by God. There is also in the above statement of the Reporters, a contradiction to the charge made by them in Paragraph IX., where they say Very many of the immigrants are refugees from military service. It being a well known fact that only those who are in full enjoyment of health and strength are selected to serve in the army—whilst? here the Reporters say as a rule the immigrants are not physi- cally able to engage in manual labour. XII.— The condition of the people, and their occupations, have called for careful investigation. About ten per cent, of the householders are en- gaged in business or handicraft, chiefly in selling articles of food and clothing. A few work at tailoring, shoemaking, carpentering, weaving, working in metals, shop-keeping, &c, and among the Portuguese only, as labourers and porters. We wonder who gave them the number of people en- gaged in business and trade ? The truth is, that the greater part of the inhabitants of Jerusalem are engaged in some