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(AMERICAN JUDAICA). - (Houston, George). Israel Vindicated; Being A Refutation of the Calumnies Propagated Respecting the Jewish Nation: in which the Objects and Views of the American Society for the Ameliorating the Condition of the Jews, are Investigated. By an Israelite.. FIRST EDITION. The Alfred G. Henriques copy. pp. viii, 110, (1), (1 blank). Ex-library. Mottled calf, upper cover starting. Recent blind-tooled tan calf. Sm. 4to. Singerman 323; Rosenbach 210. Abraham Collins, New York: 1820. In the form of an exchange of letters between one Nathan Joseph of New York to his friend Jacob Isaacs of Philadelphia, a defense of Judaism against the proselytizing activities of the American Society for Ameliorating the Condition of the Jews.      “In a country, where every man’s right to publish his sentiments is held as sacred as his right to think, it cannot be thought surprising that a part of the community, who have long been treated as the outcasts of society, should feel anxious to vindicate themselves from what they consider misrepresentation” (Preface, p. v).       The first public Jewish reaction to Christian missionary activity.