Heinrich Graetz endorses the future of Judaism in America in 1854

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Here is an interesting 1854 letter from Heinrich Graetz to the Zion Collegiate Association, which was basically an American Jewish plan to establish schools to train Jewish ministers, or at least at this stage, a plan to establish such a school in connection with an American university.

As you can see, he writes that "no other land on the globe is as eminently qualified as the United States, to unfurl the grandeur, dignity, and sanctity of Judaism" because it is "the land of absolute liberty" and therefore it doesn't have to contend with prejudices and various other things, including the idea that such an institute would not be the "accommodating idol of any sect."

Printed in the American Israelite.