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Under this title the Rev. Herman Felsenheld of this
city, proposes to issue a weekly German paper, for the same object for
which the Occident is intended, the diffusion of knowledge on the Jewish
religion. It is a fact sufficiently well known, that an English paper or
periodical, no matter how well suited to many Israelites in America,
must fail of being of use to the far larger number of our
co-religionists, as they are emigrants from Germany, and do not
understand the English. They ought, however, to be also instructed in
matters of so vital importance to them as religion and duty; hence we
regard every effort to effect this purpose as one towards which we
cannot feel indifferent. Mr. Felsenheld appears to us to unite in
himself the proper qualifications to aid in this field of labour. He is
a graduate of a rabbinical school, we think of Würtzburg, and he writes
a very easy and correct German, a circumstance of no little importance
in a public writer. He is extensively acquainted in Germany, and is of
that class of men, quite rare in our days, who are equally distant from
vile innovations and obstinate stability for whatever is
sanctified through nothing but age. We trust, therefore, that his
proposal will meet with due encouragement, and that he may soon be able
to lay his labours before the public.
The “Jedidiah” will be published weekly at three
dollars per annum. Orders for the same may be addressed to the editor of
the Occident, as well as to Mr. Felsenheld direct. |
