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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.
It is unclear when the earliest Jewish settlers arrived in Natchez, but it was most likely during the colonial period in the early 18th century. [2] In 1722, the French of the French colonial empire instated the Black Code, which barred Jewish residents from the French North American colonies. [2]
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.
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.
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.
Studies in American Jewish History: Studies and Addresses. Cincinnati: The Hebrew Union College Press, 1969. 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 ...
The Jewish Colonisation Association [1] [2] [3] (JCA or ICA; Yiddish: ייִק"אַ), was an organisation created on September 11, 1891, by Baron Maurice de Hirsch.Its aim was to facilitate the mass emigration of Jews from Russia and other Eastern European countries, by settling them in agricultural settlements on lands purchased by the committee in North America (Canada and the United States ...
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 ...