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The first Jew to hold public office was Joseph Rosenthal, who was Scranton's first, and for a long time its only, policeman. This was in 1860, when the population numbered but 8,500. The first Jewish congregation was organized in 1858, and was reconstituted in 1860 under the name "Anshe Ḥesed."
William Penn, an English Quaker, sought to construct a new type of community with religious toleration and a great deal of political freedom.It is believed that Penn's political philosophy is embodied in the West Jersey Concessions and Agreements of 1677, which is an earlier practical experience of government constitution prior to the establishment of Pennsylvania.
Isaac Leeser (1806-1868) – Publisher, helped found the Jewish press of America and produced the first Jewish translation of the Bible into English. J. Leonard Levy (1865-1917) – Rabbi; Gershom Mendes Seixas (1745-1816) – First native-born Jewish religious leader in the United States. Henry Samuel Morais (1860-1935) – Writer and Rabbi.
The relationship between Judaism and politics is a historically complex subject, and has evolved over time concurrently with both changes within Jewish society and religious practice, and changes in the general society of places where Jewish people live.
Eisenberg, Kahn, and Toll (2009) emphasize the creative freedom Jews found in western society, unburdening them from past traditions and opening up new opportunities for entrepreneurship, philanthropy, and civic leadership. Regardless of origin, many early Jewish settlers worked as peddlers before establishing themselves as merchants. [44]
A 2021 Pew Research Center survey found a wide split in partisanship among Jewish voters depending on which movement they aligned with. Orthodox Jews favored Republicans over Democrats by 75% to ...
Pennsylvania Politics, 1817–1832: A Game without Rules (1940) McCullough, David. The Johnstown Flood (1968) Mueller, Henry R. The Whig Party in Pennsylvania (1922) Nash, Gary B. Forging freedom: The formation of Philadelphia's black community, 1720–1840 (Harvard University Press, 1988).
In United States politics, the trends of Jews have changed political positions multiple times.Many early American German-Jewish immigrants to the United States tended to be politically conservative, but the wave of Eastern European Jews, starting in the early 1880s, were generally more liberal or left-wing, and eventually became the political majority. [1]