Judah Monis collection, 1725-1735

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Judah Monis collection, 1725-1735

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Judah Monis (1683-1764), a Jewish scholar and educator, was an instructor of Hebrew at Harvard College between 1722 and 1760. Monis was instrumental in importing Hebrew type to the colonies, and in 1735, with the financial support of the Harvard Corporation, he published the first Hebrew textbook in America. This collection contains seventeen documents created by Judah Monis and the Harvard Corporation concerning the financing and publication of Monis's Hebrew Grammar and his position as Instructor of Hebrew. The documents include accounting records, correspondence, petitions from Monis to the Corporation, and copies of votes and a report primarily related to the preparation and printing of the Hebrew Grammar. The collection also includes five documents pertaining to Monis's requests to the Harvard Corporation for salary increases. The documents in the Judah Monis collection offer a resource for studying the history of Hebrew education at Harvard and printing in New England in the early 18th century.

.26 cubic feet; (1 half-legal document box)

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Monis, Judah, 1683-1764

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Monis taught Hebrew at Harvard College. From the description of A grammar of the Hebrew tongue : manuscript, [not before 1735] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612819312 Judah Monis (1683-1764), a Jewish scholar and educator, was an instructor of Hebrew at Harvard College between 1722 and 1760. Monis was born on February 4, 1683, likely in Italy or the Barbary States. He immigrated to New York City in the early 1700s, and later moved to Massachusetts. Monis converte...