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Schwartz, Laurens R. Jews and the American Revolution: Haym Salomon and Others. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 1987. ISBN 978-0899502205. Wiernik, Peter. History of the Jews in America: From the Period of the Discovery of the New World to the Present Time at Google Books. New York: Jewish Press Publishing Company, 1912. LCCN 12-25267
Francis Salvador (1747 – 1 August 1776) was an English-born American plantation owner in the colony of South Carolina from the Sephardic Jewish community of London; in 1774, he was the first professing Jew to be elected to public office in the colonies when chosen for the Provincial Congress.
Samuel Nunes (1668–1744) was a Portuguese physician and among the earliest Jews to settle in North America. A few months after their February 1733 arrival from England, an epidemic began claiming the lives of the first 114 colonists of the infant American colony of Georgia. The first to die in April was the colony's only doctor.
The Wandering Jew (occasionally referred to as the Eternal Jew, an antisemitic calque from German "der Ewige Jude") is a mythical immortal man whose legend began to spread in Europe in the 13th century. [a] In the original legend, a Jew who taunted Jesus on the way to the Crucifixion was then cursed to walk the Earth until the Second Coming.
Ben-Hur is a story of a fictional hero named Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman who was falsely accused and convicted of an attempted assassination of the Roman governor of Judaea and consequently enslaved by the Romans. He becomes a successful charioteer. [4] [5] The story's revenge plot becomes a story of compassion and forgiveness. [6]
At Harvard College in Cambridge Monis received his Master of Arts in 1720, marking the first time a Jew had received a college degree in the American colonies and to receive an Honorary degree. [9] As part of his graduation, Monis wrote a Hebrew grammar, entitled A Grammar of the Hebrew Tongue , and in 1720 submitted a handwritten copy to the ...
[7] [159] Moreover, the statement in 1 Thessalonians 2:14–16 about the Jews "who both killed the Lord Jesus" and "drove out us" indicates that the death of Jesus was within the same time frame as the persecution of Paul. [167] Burial: 1 Corinthians 15:4 and Romans 6:4 state that following his death Jesus was buried. [159]
Jewish American sympathies likewise broke along ethnic lines, with recently arrived Yiddish speaking Jews leaning towards support of Zionism, and the established German-American Jewish community largely opposed to it. In 1914–1916, there were few Jewish voices in favor of American entry into the war.