Warder Cresson was the first U.S. representative in Jerusalem and a convert to Judaism. Rabbi Soloveichik tells his fascinating story.
Warder Cresson was born in Philadelphia, Pa. in 1798. His parents, Quakers, John Elliot Cresson and Mary Warder were descended from Huguenot stock who had ...
21/01/2022 · His name was Warder Cresson, and he led an extraordinary and singular American life. Cresson's own Huguenot forebears first came to the New World from Holland ...
15/12/2019 · His name was Warder Cresson, and he led an extraordinary and singular American life. Cresson's own Huguenot forebears first came to the New ...
28/06/2021 · Warder Cresson chose. Was his choice a blessing or the curse of insanity? May 15, 1849, a Philadelphia court had to decide.
Warder Cresson was a Philadelphia Quaker in the mid-1800s. He served as the first US Consul to the Land of Israel, converted to Judaism and became the ...
19/05/2024 · A man who left father and mother, forsook his birth-place, his country and its power, and attracted himself to this holy, despised, and en-.
That Isaac Leeser influenced Warden Cresson to become a Jew, and Warden Cresson influenced Isaac Leeser to become a Zionist, seem fairly straight-forward ...
The Online Books Page. Online Books by. Warder Cresson. (Cresson, Warder, 1798-1860). An online book about this author is available, as is a Wikipedia ...
16/02/2014 · Rabbi Jacob Ettlinger and Warder Cresson. by Yirmiya Milevsky. Rabbi Jacob Ettlinger (1798 –1871) was a German rabbi and author, and one of ...