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<b>78. REBECCA GRATZ </b>(1781 - 1869) Jewish-American educator and philanthropist. Established the first Jewish Sunday School in America. Also believed to have been the model for the heroine Rebecca in Sir Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe. Important content A.L.S. <i>"R.G"</i> 4pp. 4to., [Philadelphia], Feb. 25, 1838 to her sister in Lexington, Kentucky discussing her new Sunday School which was to open on March 4, 1838 (her birthday), the first such Hebrew Sunday School ever established. She begins her letter by updating her sister on family news. On the middle of the second page she announces that "<i>...I am now my dear sister, much interested in the establishment of a Sunday School for the children of the congregation. We have taken a room and expect to open it next week. If it succeeds I shall feel that I may have been useful in my generation for I think it is the one thing useful to make the charity effective to open a stream of gratitude & love of goodness in the heart of young children is to find them access to the foundation of life - and however [illeg.] evils may press upon them - they will never be entirely overcome if they will remember to seek its replacement but this is no common a plan in all parts of our country. That you will say no ignorant person ought to be found a bad one either but we have none yet in our congregation, and do I have indeed one ladies to follow good example of other religious communities..."</i> She continues the letter with more family news: <i>"...our Mother's only surviving sister was very ill - and we went to see her, She received us with much kindness & gratitude - she is 73 yrs. old blind and poor!!...she is the last of her generation and we are the only relations she could welcome to her bed side - the Cohens are entirely estranged - nay enemys [sic] She said to Riebea[?], that tho' we had been strangers to each other no ill feeling had ever been disclosed - when she would not express the gratification our visits had given - that if we knew all, we would rather pity than blame her for not wishing to see the Cohens - it is hardly supposed that she will recover - if she does we shall not abandon her - for she is a widow who has seen better days. and were she not our kind woman, would be an object of interest & compassion - how much more do from [word missing] recollection that the same venerable parent we were taught to ask a blessing of in our infant days - gave her & our Mother birth - that they shared the same nursery - the same material [illeg.] and I will remember to have soothed her grief when her father's remains were carried from the old Mansion in Lancaster - which had been the hospitable home of two generations and a sanctuary to the poor & pious wayfarers form every [illeg.] of the wandering Israelites - pardon me dear sister from intruding this old woman on your notice, Ben will tell you how at her Marriage she was separated from us all, that her husband & our Father never would associate and that until she became a widow it was by mutual consent we never met. but adversity is a school in which we learn our hardest duties - and does not old age our second childhood - when we lay down the passions & pride & vigour of life - bring back the simplicity</i> <i>(would I could say the innocence) of childhood? If we use our experience the review of time spent - & miss spent brings indeed children again, forgiven & innocent. may she and all of us appear so in the days of our need. and may we in the time that is to come so speed it as to recommend us o the mercy of our judge..." </i>She closes inquiring about future plans: <i>"...you hint about visiting the sea shore next summer - pray will you let me be of your party? and then go on to Saratoga, and drink away all liver complaints and other symptoms of disease..." </i> The significance of Gratz's Sunday School should not be underestimated. She first proposed the idea in 1835 and developed a program modeled on Christian Sunday Schools which had successfully taught thousands of children all over the United States the fundamentals of reading and Christianity. The school opened on Gratz' fifty-seventh birthday, with sixty students enrolled. Gratz became the school's superintendent and served for more than twenty-five years, and worked tirelessly for the school, personally grading each student's homework assignments and creating materials for their use. The school became the model for Jewish education throughout the United States with similar schools soon opening in Charleston, Savannah, Baltimore and beyond. With integral address panel on final page with a blue Philadelphia Feb. 26 postmark. Light soiling along creases with partial separations which are repaired with tape at a few critical fold junctures, otherwise very good condition. <b>$8,000-10,000
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