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[Pres. Chester Arthur] : CONDITION OF ISRAELITES IN RUSSIA. A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN RESPONSE TO A RESOLUTION OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, TRANSMITTING A COMMUNICATION FROM THE FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE RESPECTING THE CONDITION OF ISRAELITES IN RUSSIA

.Washington D.C., GPO,, 1883

8vo; 1st edition thus. Original paper wrappers, 12mo, 72 pages. Singerman 3105. An extensive collection of correspondance and dicussions regarding the status and persecution of the Jews of Russia and the attempts by American Government Officials to intervene in specific cases of persecution of the Jews. President Arthur's support for the Jews of Russia, was even related to the founding of the Red Cross. As Denis Brian notes in "The Elected and the Chosen: Why American Presidents Have Supported Jews and Israel" (Jerusalem, 2012) "on May 2, 1882, President Arthur sent this special message to Congress: 'In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives...calling for correspondence respecting the condition of Israeites in Russia' [ie. this publication]....Soon after, Arthur had a new secreteary of state, Frederick Frelinghuysen, who stepped up the diplomatic pressure on Russia. He wrote to the American representative there, 'The prejudice of race and creed have in our days given way to the claims of our common humanity. The people of the United States have heard with great respect the suffering of the Jewish Russians....It can scarecely be doubted that much has been done which a humane person must condemn....' Mean while, in America, a group of vounteers led by Cara Barton met in the Washington, DC, home of Adolphus Solomon, a Jewish American printer and philantropist with special concern for Russian Jews....In Solomon's home the group drew up the constitution for a new organization called the American Red Cross. They elected Barton president, and Solomon vice president, a position he held for seven years. When in 1884 President Arthur was asked to appoint the first American delegates to the International Congress of the Red Cross in Geneva, he chose Barton and Solomon....Adolpus Solomon also helped to create the American Jewish Historical Society" (pp. 133-134). Primary source material connecting President Chester Arthur and Jews is especially scarce. OCLC lists 7 copies worldwide. Removed from later binding, Light Wear Very Good Condition. Important. (KH-8-38)

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