p. 20 | Literature for Spanish-Speaking Jews

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 25, 1911

Literature for Spanish-Speaking Jews

By Frederick C. Gilbert

Some time ago a Christian brother wrote to us, asking for literature for the Jews in the Levant. We sent him such as we had, but soon received word that not many of the Jews in the Orient could read that kind of Yiddish. Through the providence of God one of the tracts fell into the hands of a Jewish Christian who could read both the English and the Judeo-German, and soon a letter came to us, asking if we would like to have one of our Jewish tracts translated into Judeo-Spanish, as this Christian worker desired to give the contents of the tract to his people. We immediately replied that we would gladly have it put into that language; so now we have the tract, “Israel’s Deliverer,” translated into Judeo-Spanish.

If the readers of the REVIEW know of any Spanish or Portuguese Jews who do not read the Yiddish, and would like to

get some of the Judeo-Spanish tracts for their friends, we will gladly get a supply from the Orient for them, that the Oriental Jews may read the gospel in the tongue to which they are accustomed.

We thank the Lord that this tract has been put into this dialect, and we are sure it will be a means of reaching thousands of Jews. The original tract, “Israel’s Deliverer,” has had a circulation of over one hundred ten thousand copies. Let us pray that God will bless the scattering of the printed page.

F. C. GILBERT.