Jewish Family Papers ; Or, Letters Of A Missionary. P R E F A C E . I A FEW words on the origin of the following translation will testify to the value of the work which is here presented in a new dress to the English-reading public. The Translator was yet studying at the Breslau Theological Se ninary when the book was first . brought ur derh is notice by a fellow-student, one of its most enthusiastic admirers. A large number of copies were at once procured and read with avidity by our comrades. It is inipossible to describe the applause the book called forth never had we read so glowing and so powerful a viiidication of pure Juda sm. We were rejoiced that flie couritry which had produced an Eiserimenger, a Wagenseil, Schudt, Pfefferkoni, et hoc genus onzne, should have yielded in our day too so triumphant a Defender of the Faith. Our venerable Director, the Very Rev. Dr. Frankel to whom be peace was as enthusiastic as any of his yonns disciples in its pmise. I t was then that the undersigned conceived the idea of rendering the book accessible to his English brethren. The work oftranslatio was comn er ceacnl d carried on in leisure intervals for the nest few years. In January, 1874, in conjunction with fr. A. Herzberg, then of London, brother of the author, a prospectus was ssuedin England, proposing the publication of the work by subscnpt on. The project was heartily l ldorsed by the Very Rev. the Chief 1 adbl and the Rev. Dr. Herrman Adler, the latter of whom kindly made valuable suggestions as to omissions and alterations proper in a version to come before average English readers. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.