Letter on His Conversion
A few days after receiving your precious letter of 5 November 1854, I began collating [the pages of my book], which took me until New Year’s eve to finish. But what a chasm in between! I began the work as a Jew and finished as a Christian [ . . . ]! As my first child lay dying from his circumcision, I made the initial decision to convert to…
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