“A Virtuous, Honest, Industrious, and Injured Foreigner”: The Case of Henry Simons
By Lauren Gilbert, Director of Public Services
“A Virtuous, Honest, Industrious, and Injured Foreigner”: The Case of Henry Simons
All publications referenced in this post can be found in the Sid Lapidus Collection of Early Modern Judaica at the Center for Jewish History.
In August of 1751, a Polish Jewish peddler named Henry Simons traveled to England carrying 554 ducats that had been entrusted…
