Jews in America: From New Amsterdam to the Yiddish Stage by Stephen D. Corrsin, Amanda Seigel, and Kenneth Benson (review)MalbinAmerican Jewish Historical SocietySusan L.American Jewish Historical SocietyAmerican Jewish History
1830s Massive increases in Ashkenazi German Jews & Eastern Europe emigrating to America settled largely in New Orleans, Richmond, Savannah, Baltimore, and the Northeast (particularly in Boston, New York City and Philadelphia). They far surpassed the mostly Sephardic Jewish community in Charleston. 17...
In New York, Samson Simpson and Jacob Franks acted as purchasing agents for the British armed forces on the mainland. During the 1754–63 French and Indian War, Simpson purchased and leased out to the Royal Navy four gunbearing privateers; Hayman Levy, two; Jacob Franks and Judah Hays, one...
You must face them in this country. The Jew should be satisfied here. I was here forty-seven years ago; your doors were thrown open to them and you were then free. But now that the Jew has got you absolutely by the throat this is your reward.” New York Speech, October 30 1937...
By September, twenty-three of these refugees had established the first community of Jews in New Amsterdam (now, of course, New York City). These “Sephardim” (Jews of Spanish-Portuguese extraction) had followed a tortured path. In December 1496, following Ferdinand and Isabella’s Spanish ...
Behaviours: Jews and the Passion in Sermons and Devotional LiteratureJews and the PassionThe New Testament laid the foundation for later interpretations of the role played by Jews in the Passion and their responsibility and guilt for the events that resulted in the crucifixion and resurrection of ...
There were Jews in New Amsterdam as early as 1652; others came from Brazil in 1654. As these were not received in a friendly manner by the governor, Peter Stuyvesant, some of them betook themselves to the Colony of Rhode Island, where they were reinforced in the course of time by ...
Leon de Winter is one of the best-known Dutch authors living in Amsterdam, whose parents survived the Holocaust in hiding. De Winter, 69, just said that European Jews will disappear by 2050. “I think Jewish life in Europe will be a thing of the past by 2050,” says de Winter. “The...
prosperous. The other early settlements of Jews in Mexico, Peru, and the West Indies do not require more than a passing mention. Of much greater importance were those effected chiefly by Sephardim in North America. There were Jews in New Amsterdam as early as 1652; others came from Brazil ...
Theresultwas theinventionof newterms for Judaism,as areligion,andforJews,as belongingtothatJewishreligion.In France,thenewimposed organiza-tion(decreedon March17,1808)wasnamedConsistoireisraélite;the Jews wereturnedintoisraélites,atermthatlinkedthemto the Bible(apparentlyseparatingthemfromthelinkage to ...