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HaDavar Online: (1756 words) |
 | Biesenthal found some seventy or eighty Hebrew Christians living there, and subsequently gave it as his opinion that they might be "numbered by hundreds." There was a small Jewish community of about 500, who, since 1849, had enjoyed the rights of citizenship. |
| Biesenthal doubtless obtained more satisfaction from his literary than from his missionary labours; although, in this case, one was the complement of the other. |
| Biesenthal retired from active service in 1881, and died at Berlin on June 25th, 1886, at the advanced age of 82 years. |
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