Buchanan, James and Theodore S. Fay, Lewis Cass, William L. Marcy; Discriminations in Switzerland Against Citizens of the United States of the Hebrew Persuasion... House of Representatives, 1860, First Edition, 101 pp., 7 signatures string-bound; no cover wraps, as issued, now housed in custom made cloth chemise and leather-backed slipcase. The report consists of 36 documents, primarily correspondence between the American Secretary of State Lewis Cass and his ambassador in Switzerland, Theodore S. Fay. The most important inclusion is Fay's 30 page 'Israelite Note' written in May of 1859 that offers a full summary of the issues at hand, the past treaties between the two countries and a thorough report on the legal status of Jews (both American and European) in Switzerland. The entire case here is a reaction by American Jewish merchants to an 1850 treaty signed by both countries that barred non-Christian Americans from doing business in Switzerland. This state sponsored anti-Semitism was protested by the Jewish community, and historians have argued that it played a role in concreting the American Jewish identity of the time. A rare piece of American Judaica. SINGERMAN 1691.