Rabbi B. C. Carillon. Refutation of “An Affectionate Address, to the Jews of Jamaica, on the great subject of Christianity, by Thomas Pennock, Minister of the Jamaica Wesleyan Methodist Association”.

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Jordon & Osborn for R.J. De Cordova

(Spanish-Town), Jamaica

1847

FIRST EDITION. Opening blank inscribed to Rev. B. Rittenberg by Aaron Henriques, Kingston, Jamaica, 1873.

Rosenbach 600.

Includes letters that Rabbi Carillon published in the Jamaic Despatch Chronicle and Gazette. The Rev. Benjamin Cohen Carillon was elected minister of the congregation at Montego Bay, Jamaica, in 1845. His reformist innovations soon aroused opposition amongst the Portuguese Jews of the island. Reports Isaac Leeser in the Occident (Vol. IV no. 2) “It was to be hoped (though in this we were deceived) that the reverend gentleman would have learned sufficient wisdom from experience, that it will not do to place himself above public opinion. We fear that Mr. C.’s course will lead to bad feelings between himself and the Israelites under his charge; and if he will heed our advice, we would counsel him to confine himself to his duties, and not to assume the part of a reformer, in opposition to the laws of good order and ancient usages.” Indeed by the end of 1847 Carillon’s position in Montego Bay had been taken over by the Rev. A.P. Mendes.