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The third one was having baptized his son according to Jewish law. [ 6 ] [ 3 ] According to historian Boleslao Lewin, the charges were likely based on at least partially fabricated evidence; [ 2 ] : 294 nevertheless, Alonso was tortured until he confessed, and was subsequently burnt at the stake.
Abraham Cahan, journalist, author and editor of Yiddish newspaper Jewish Daily Forward [18] [19] Hortense Calisher, novelist and president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters [20] Raphael Hayyim Isaac Carregal, colonial era rabbi who published the first Jewish sermons in America [21] Melvin Jules Bukiet, novelist [22]
Max Dimont, Finnish-American Jew and popular historian and author; Martin Duberman, U.S. historian and playwright [2] Simon Dubnow, Russian-born Latvian historian; author of the "History of the Jews"; shot by Nazis [citation needed] Ariel Durant, American historian; author of The Story of Civilization. [15]
The Colonial American Jew, 1492–1776: Volume I, II, and III. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1970; Israel Jacobson: The Founder of the Reform Movement in Judaism. Cincinnati: The Hebrew Union College Press, 1972. The American Jewish Woman, A Documentary History. Hoboken, NJ: Ktav 1981. To Count a People: American Jewish Population Data, 1585 ...
The publication of an English translation of the Siddur helped shape Jewish-American Identity. Pinto was deeply involved in the relevant political problems of colonial America. He wrote main articles that promoted independence from Britain that gave him influence in the debate about Independence. This influence resulted in Pinto signing the Non ...
The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Christ (2012) carries on the line of exploration begun in Border Lines, developing the argument that "New Testament" ideas can be found in long-standing Jewish traditions. [6] Boyarin has written extensively on Talmudic and Midrashic studies, and about the Jews as a colonized people. [7]
He published his first book, Jews, God and History in 1962 to overwhelming success. [2] The Los Angeles Times praised the book as "unquestionably the best popular history of the Jews written in the English language." [8] He and his wife Ethel visited Israel for the first time following the publication. [9]
An American in the making: The life story of an immigrant. Harper & Brothers. 1917 – via Internet Archive. marcus eli ravage. The Jew pays: a narrative of the consequences of the war to the Jews of eastern Europe, and of the manner in which Americans have attempted to meet them. A. A. Knopf. 1919. The malady of Europe. New York: Macmillan. 1923.