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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.
The film covers American Jew's entrepreneurial spirit from the mostly-Jewish peddlers selling goods on the back roads of the South to those who run the general stores that will one day grow into nationwide chains like Macy’s, Sears, Gimbels, Stern's and Filene's, Jews were major purveyors of commercial good in this country and, thus, major ...
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.
At this time Lancaster had enough Jewish men living in the community to support a minyan, and religious services were held at Simon's house. Simon was a successful trader and owned enormous tracts of land in the West; among others, he was a business partner of William Henry —a gunsmith, merchant, and, later, important patriot during the ...
Pinto prepared the first Jewish prayer-book published in America, which was also the first English translation of the Siddur. He saw the inability of colonial jews to read hebrew and the need for a readable Siddur. The publication of an English translation of the Siddur helped shape Jewish-American Identity.
Aaron Lopez (born Duarte Lopez; 1731 – May 28, 1782) was a Portuguese-born merchant, slave trader, and philanthropist.Born in Lisbon into a converso family, he moved to British America, settling in the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Weissbach, Lee Shai. "The Jewish Communities of the United States on the Eve of Mass Migration: Some Comments on Geography and Bibliography" American Jewish History (1988) 78#1 pp.79-108; online; with estimates of the Jewish population for scores of cities, for 1878, 1907 and 1927 on pp. 84-87.
These Jewish colonists were the largest group of Jews ever to sail on one vessel for North America in colonial times, wrote Jacob R. Marcus in his study of The Colonial American Jew. They brought with them "a sefer Torah , with two cloaks , and a circumcision box, which were given to them by Mr. Lindo, a merchant in London, for the use of the ...