Judah Touro, Merchant and Philanthropist (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Judah Touro, Merchant and Philanthropist It is a strange circumstance that no paper devoted to Judah Touro has thus far 'been presented at any of our meetings, nor has any sketch of his distinguished career, worthy of the name, been thus far published, certainly not any emanating from a Jewish pen. The result is that little definite infor mation concerning Touro is conveniently accessible, and, in consequence, we find the four enormous tomes of Fortier's History of New Orleans, just published, absolutely ignoring the very name of one who would probably by common consent be singled out as the most prominent American Jew of the first half of the nineteenth century. One familiar with the relations between the investigations of local historical socie ties and more general historical writings, can readily account for the general historian's neglect of an individual's career, ignored even by his own near ones. It is, accordingly, to such specialized investigations as our own, that the general his torian is likely to turn before including or excluding an indi vidual in his general histories, particularly if the man in question did not figure prominently in the political or mili tary history of his time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.