Correspondence with Moses Montefiore

“The Sorrows of a Woman”: A Jewish Widow Faces Eviction

To Sir Moses Montefiore, from Oro, the widow of Hayim Arieh, 1866

[Oh] one who gives light to the earth and to them that dwell thereon, who is full of good deeds, the father of orphans, the champion of widows, the poor and needy, Moses, the faithful shepherd, the doer of good deeds, the…