TINTED PAPER Phila. 1795 LETTERS OF CERTAIN JEWS TO MONSIEUR VOLTAIRE.

Rev. W. C. Fowler’s copy. Full leather, worn. Joints starting. Partially printed on blue-green tinted paper. LETTERS OF CERTAIN JEWS TO MONSIEUR VOLTAIRE, Containing an Apology for Their Own People, and for the Old Testament... Translated by the Rev. Philip Lefanu, D.D. Philadelphia: Printed by William Young, Bookseller, No. 52, Second-Street, the Corner of Chesnut-Street, 1795.

SIGNIFICANT EARLY AMERICAN JUDAICA: First American edition of this important defense of Judaism and Jewish people against Voltaire's anti-Jewish writings. This translation represents one of the earliest American publications addressing Jewish apologetics and Biblical criticism, marking a significant moment in American Jewish intellectual history.
KEYWORDS:
- Early American Judaica
- Jewish apologetics
- American Jewish history
- Voltaire criticism
- Religious controversy
- Philadelphia imprints
- Jewish-Christian relations
- Biblical defense
- 18th century American printing
- Religious tolerance
- Enlightenment debate
- William Young imprints
- American religious publishing
- Jewish intellectual history
- Anti-antisemitism literature

This is particularly notable as one of the earliest American publications addressing Jewish themes and defending Judaism, printed in Philadelphia during a formative period of American religious discourse.
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