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Leo Merzbacher, first Rabbi, 1845-56, and to his successors, Dr. Gustav Gottheil, 1873-1903. The present Rabbi is the Rev. Joseph Silverman. Back from the Avenue, on the west side, between Forty-third and Forty-fourth Streets, there once stood the Coloured Orphan Asylum. It was a square four-story building, occupying almost the entire block, and there was a garden in front extending to the road.
By way of supplementing the Article, it may be well to refer to a MS., No. 4238 of the Merzbacher Library formerly at Munich. An extract of this MS. is given in Winter and Wünsche's Jüdische Literatur, vol III, p. 459. It was not the capital in Benjamin's time. The difficulty still remains that it does not take twenty-three days, but about four days, to reach Ceylon from Quilon.
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