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Raphael Hayyim Isaac Carregal, colonial era rabbi who published the first Jewish sermons in America [21] Melvin Jules Bukiet, novelist [22] Michael Chabon, novelist and short story writer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay [23] Arthur A. Cohen, novelist [24] Joshua Cohen, novelist, author of Witz ...
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
John de Sequeyra (c. 1712 – c. 1795) was a Portuguese-born American physician and writer.Born in Lisbon into a Portuguese Jewish family, he moved to the British colony of Virginia in 1745 and earned a living practising medicine.
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.
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 ...
Bernard Malamud was born on April 26, 1914, in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Bertha (née Fidelman) and Max Malamud, Russian Jewish immigrants who owned and operated a succession of grocery stores in the Williamsburg, Borough Park and Flatbush sections of the borough, culminating in the 1924 opening of a German-style delicatessen (specializing in "cheap canned goods, bread, vegetables, some ...
John Sanford or John B. Sanford, born Julian Lawrence Shapiro (May 31, 1904 – March 6, 2003), [1] was an American screenwriter and prose writer who wrote 24 books. The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature describes him as, "Perhaps the most outstanding neglected novelist."
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 ...