Auction 90 Fine Judaica Including: Printed Books, Manuscripts,  Graphic & Ceremonial Arts
Jul 21, 2020 (your local time)
USA
 Brooklyn Navy Yard: Building 77 Suite 1108 Brooklyn NY, 11205
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LOT 69:

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).
Message from the President of the United States… In Regard to the Persecution and ...

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(AMERICAN JUDAICA).
Message from the President of the United States… In Regard to the Persecution and Oppression of the Israelites in Roumania. 42nd Congress, 2nd Session.




pp. 14. Disbound. 4to.
(Washington, DC): 1872
President Ulysses Grant presents here correspondence between the State Department and the Hon. Benjamin Franklin Peixotto, Consul of the United States to Bucharest. “In 1870, at the time of the Rumanian Jewish persecutions, Peixotto was appointed by President Grant as consul-general to Rumania. The intimacy and friendship which soon arose between Prince Charles of Rumania and himself assisted him greatly. His reports to the United States government resulted in that government addressing letters to its ministers at the various European courts inviting cooperation in the humane endeavor to stop Jewish persecution in Rumania. Peixotto's reports were also the cause of a great meeting at the Mansion House in London which called forth Lord Shaftesbury's message of sympathy. Peixotto was instrumental, too, in founding the Society of Zion in Rumania, an organization with similar aims to the B'nai B'rith; and it was his influence as a United States official, his intimacy with the European philanthropists, and the force of his own personal magnetism, that finally caused the calling of the conference of Brussels to which he was a delegate, and which culminated in the action taken by the Berlin Congress of 1878, when Rumania acquired the status of a sovereign kingdom only upon the express condition that the civil and political rights of the Jews should be recognized.” (JE).
President Ulysses Grant presents here correspondence between the State Department and the Hon. Benjamin Franklin Peixotto, Consul of the United States to Bucharest. “In 1870, at the time of the Rumanian Jewish persecutions, Peixotto was appointed by President Grant as consul-general to Rumania. The intimacy and friendship which soon arose between Prince Charles of Rumania and himself assisted him greatly. His reports to the United States government resulted in that government addressing letters to its ministers at the various European courts inviting cooperation in the humane endeavor to stop Jewish persecution in Rumania. Peixotto's reports were also the cause of a great meeting at the Mansion House in London which called forth Lord Shaftesbury's message of sympathy. Peixotto was instrumental, too, in founding the Society of Zion in Rumania, an organization with similar aims to the B'nai B'rith; and it was his influence as a United States official, his intimacy with the European philanthropists, and the force of his own personal magnetism, that finally caused the calling of the conference of Brussels to which he was a delegate, and which culminated in the action taken by the Berlin Congress of 1878, when Rumania acquired the status of a sovereign kingdom only upon the express condition that the civil and political rights of the Jews should be recognized.” (JE).