This Week's Acquisitions

(This may count as "this week's thank-goodness-for-gift-cards acquisition.")

• Amelia Bristow, The Orphans of Lissau, and Other Interesting Narratives, Directly Connected with Jewish Customs, Domestic and Religious (T. Gardiner [1830?]).  Two volumes in one.  One of Bristow's many excurses into Jewish conversion narratives; features The Orphans of Lissau (Polish Jews), "Notes on Filial Obedience" (woohoo, Jewish kids obey their parents), The Widow and Her Son, or, Brief Annals of the Jewish Poor (poor Jews seek financial stability, with varying degrees of success), and Margaret Warburton; Or, the Double Apostasy (woman converts to Judaism).  (Amazon [secondhand])