Abigaill Franks' letters are among the earliest extant by a woman in colonial New York City. They are also the earliest known letters by a Jewish woman in Briti

I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a

Includes letters to her son, Naphtaly, of London, England, relating to family affairs (7 May 1733 to 30 Oct. 1748); and a letter from him to his father, Jacob F

American and Jewish historians have long shied away from the topic of Jews and business. Avoidance patterns grew in part from old, often negative stereotypes th