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John Custis IV, a Williamsburg resident, sent a letter to Peter Collinson, in 1741, inquiring about this thing called a "tomato". Tomatoes made their way to Colonial America by way of the West Indies Slave Trade – it was a staple food of the slaves who learned to discern the poisonous varieties from the edible varieties. [6]
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 ...
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.
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
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 ...
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."
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 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 ...