Summary
Black Hebrew scribe (writer of Torah scrolls) arraigned in New York's Essex Market court, October 1898, reported as one of ~300 black Hebrews in the city said to have come from Jerusalem.
Events involving this person
5 October 1898
(probable)
A 25-year-old black man named Samuel Muskowitz, employed by a rabbi to write Torah scrolls, was arraigned before Magistrate Meade in the Essex Market court on a disorderly-conduct charge after a crowd