Moreh [Hebrew]. The Guide, a Monthly Magazine, Devoted to the Diffusion of Knowledge in Jewish Literature. Edited by Raphael D’C. Lewin.

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Michael De Cordova, July

Kingston, Jamaica

1865

Vol. 1, No. 1.

Unrecorded by Rosenbach and Singerman.

In his introductory address, the editor stresses the need for a periodical devoted to the the propagation of Jewish literature in a country where “our co-religionists here [in Jamaica] occupy no secondary position. Mercantile and civic honors are accorded them, they have filled the highest offices in the government and are ever to be found foremost in public institutions and good works.” Born in the West Indies, Raphael De Cordova Lewin (1844-86) studied for the rabbinate in London and after arriving in the United States served congregations in Shreveport, Louisiana; Savannah, Georgia; and Brooklyn, New York. No copy in WorldCat although the Catalogue of the Leeser Library (1883) p. 48 records three numbers of this monthly magazine. Yet Korn notes there was a fourth and final number issued in October, 1865 (see B. W. Korn, The Haham DeCordova of Jamaica in: American Jewish Archives (Nov. 1966) pp. 143-44).