The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers (1899)
Sachse, Julius Friedrich, 1842-1919 · Philadelphia : Printed for the author · leaf 179
ish traders, whoadhered as strictly as they could to the requirements oftheir faith, that the Mosaic ceremonies and customs werederived and practiced by the Gennan settlers, whose reasonwas almost dethroned with religious excitement and vagaries.Some even went so far as to circumcise each other… … Synagogue at Schaffcrtown. 117 the old township of Heidelberg actually returned to theold dispensation, and with these accessions quite a Jewishcommunity was formed in Lancaster county. It was not long before a house of prayer was built bythem for the worship of the great Jehovah : it was the…
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