This document provides an overview of Jewish history and culture in America from colonial times through the antebellum period and Civil War era. It highlights important people, events, and developments including the founding of synagogues in Newport and Columbia, early depictions of Jews in literature, the first Jewish members of Congress, debates around slavery, and the beginnings of Reform Judaism under Isaac Wise. The document ends by noting the start of the Civil War in 1861 and marks the end of an era in American Jewish history.
Living to be a Hundred - Voices From Lives Well Lived - TeaserLeadstart Publishing
IF THERE IS ONE BOOK WHICH SPANS GENERATIONS WITH THE COMMON THREAD OF COLLECTIVE WISDOM, IT IS THIS ONE. Nineteen centenarians from different countries and a cross-section of society, share their memoirs, intertwined with the history of their century, as they experienced it. They were ordinary people who lived extraordinary lives. In these pages, they share their values, beliefs, habits, attitudes and lessons learnt from living to be a hundred. Most important of all, they tell us how to harmonize science and soul. They were around from the rustic horse and buggy age to the sequencing of the human genome. They witnessed the Big Bands performing, the railroads being constructed, and Gandhiji's non-violent movement against the British. They have had personal experiences of the Great Depression, the World Wars, the Japanese invasion of China, Indias freedom struggle, and apartheid. They have lost children to war and poverty. So what inspired them and kept them Spirited? What did they learn from history? How did they find the strength and the will to keep going in times of despair? Is there hope in the 21st century for all of us to achieve more fulfilling lives? In their diverse narratives, they offer us a common and realistic hope for health, longevity and a saner world-based on our own humanity.
Living to be a Hundred - Voices From Lives Well Lived - TeaserLeadstart Publishing
IF THERE IS ONE BOOK WHICH SPANS GENERATIONS WITH THE COMMON THREAD OF COLLECTIVE WISDOM, IT IS THIS ONE. Nineteen centenarians from different countries and a cross-section of society, share their memoirs, intertwined with the history of their century, as they experienced it. They were ordinary people who lived extraordinary lives. In these pages, they share their values, beliefs, habits, attitudes and lessons learnt from living to be a hundred. Most important of all, they tell us how to harmonize science and soul. They were around from the rustic horse and buggy age to the sequencing of the human genome. They witnessed the Big Bands performing, the railroads being constructed, and Gandhiji's non-violent movement against the British. They have had personal experiences of the Great Depression, the World Wars, the Japanese invasion of China, Indias freedom struggle, and apartheid. They have lost children to war and poverty. So what inspired them and kept them Spirited? What did they learn from history? How did they find the strength and the will to keep going in times of despair? Is there hope in the 21st century for all of us to achieve more fulfilling lives? In their diverse narratives, they offer us a common and realistic hope for health, longevity and a saner world-based on our own humanity.
Obituary of John AdamsOctober 30, 1735-July 4, 1826 John .docxvannagoforth
Obituary of John Adams
October 30, 1735-July 4, 1826
John Adams, 91 years of age, died on Tuesday, July 4, 1826, from heart failure at his home in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States.
John Adams was born on October 30, 1735, in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts Bay, British America to the late John Adams Sr and Susanna Boylston. Adams was the first child of three children brother to the late Elihu Adams and Peter Adams. John Adam senior was a descendant of Henry Adam, English emigrants to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638. His farmer was a farmer, town councilman, and the deacon of the congressional church. His mother, Susanna Boylston Adams, was a descendant of a prominent loyal family of Boylston of Brookline in colonial Massachusetts.
At the age of 16, John Adams earned a scholarship to study law at Harvard University. As an enthusiast scholar, John keenly studied the work of prominent scholars such as Plato, Cicero, Thucydides, and Tacitus. Despite his father's desire for John to enter Ministry, John studied law in the office of James Putnam, a prominent city lawyer. John earned his master's degree in 1758 and became admitted to the bar at the age of 23. After completing his studies at Harvard University, John began the habit of writing about events and impressions of statemen like James Otis Jr (1761).
John Adams married the late Abigail Smith on October 25, 1764. Together they had six children, namely Abigail (1765), John Quincy (1767), Susanna (1768), Charles (1770), Thomas Boylston (1772), and Elizabeth (1777). Political interest regularly separated Adams from his family. Drawing inspiration from Otis, Adams chanted his cause of the American colonies. In 1965, John Adams identified himself with patriot cause from official opposition of the 1965 Stamp Act. Adams expository “Canon and Feudal,” a response to the act by British Parliament, was published in Boston Gazette. John alluded that, “Stamp Act taxed people without consent and subjected them to be tried by a jury of peers.” Following heated debates after two months, John denounced Stamp Act publicly in a speech delivered to the council and governor of Massachusetts. Aware of the political quagmire, John refused to be drawn to mob actions and public demonstration by Samuel Adams.
Adams moved to Boston in April 1768 to enhance his political career. In 1770, Adams presented British soldiers in a lawsuit for killing five civilians (Boston Massacre). Moved by the defense for people right, Adam argued that in a fair trial, every person deserves attorney representation. During the trial, Adams blamed the rowdy mob. The jury found two of the eight soldiers guilty and convicted them for manslaughter, while six were acquitted. His defense prowess enhanced his reputation as a generous, courageous, and fair man. In 1774, Adams was elected to the Massachusetts Assembly and was among the five representatives of the colony in Continental Congress ...
Covers important cultural developments in the United States up until the mid-nineteenth century. Discusses the cultural contributions of Daniel Boone, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Transcendentalists, Joseph Smith and the Mormons, and abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison.
We The People, session v, First AmendmentJim Powers
This begins our look at the Bill of Rights. We see how these freedoms of expression come to be protected from state as well as federal repression. The Supreme Court used the Fourteenth Amendment to selectively incorporate these guarantees in a series of twentieth century decisions.
The United States Presidents and The Illuminati / The Masonic Power StructureOrthodoxoOnline
I have always seen list's of famous Masons. To just look at the name means very little. When you date and place those names in the proper time line and placement of power you begin to see the deception and vastness of this power elite. What will shock you even more is to learn who the powers are behind the Freemasons. Notice the death's of non Masonic presidents or those who lost favor, and the shuffling of the vice presidents to get them in the position of takeover before the presidents were killed or removed. Note also the number of presidential running mates who lost the race for presidency were Masons also. A win win situation regardless of the outcome of the election. The Mason's have controlled this country from the beginning. Another interesting fact to consider is that of the 37 Presidents of the United States before Jimmy Carter, at least 18 or 21 (depending on which source you believe) were close relatives. That comes to somewhere between 48.6 percent and 56.7 percent-far to much to be coincidence, as any conspiritologist (or mathematician) would tell you. Of the 224 ancestors in the family tree of 21 Presidents, we find 13 Roosevelt's, 16 Coolidge's, and 14 Tyler's. Another source manages to relate 60 percent of the Presidents and link most of them to the super-rich Astor family. This data does not include genealogies of the five most recent President. Psychologist G. William Domhoff claims that a large part of America's Ruling elite, just like that of Europe, are related by marriage. (Everything is Under Control. Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-Ups by Robert Anton Wilson pg 39-40)
Looking at women's history, when you are Black, needs an extra layer of research so that you can contextualize when someone lived and the social forces that influenced their lives.
4. In Their Eyes: Images of the
Jew in the Early National
Period
Hannah Adams,
Charles Dibden, History of the Jews
“The Jew and the (1812)
Doctor” (1799), played
in Philadelphia
5. Hidden Identities:
Lorenzo Da Ponte 1749-1838
Born Jewish in Italy, he was forcibly converted as a child. The librettist of
Mozart’s Don Giovanni, The marriage of Figaro, and Cosi fan Tutte, Da Ponte
emigrated to America in 1805 and became a professor of Italian at Columbia.
6. Alexander Hamilton 1755-1804
The 'progress of the Jews ... from their earliest history to the present time has been and is entirely
out of the ordinary course of human affairs. Is it not then a fair conclusion that the cause also is
an extraordinary one - in other words, that it is the effect of some great providential plan?' In a
renowned legal case, Hamilton challenged the opposing counsel: 'Why distrust the evidence of
the Jews? Discredit them and you destroy the Christian religion....'
7. Sephardic Jewish Pirate?
Jean Lafitte 1776-1823
Lafitte, The Corsair, established a
pirate kingdom in swamps of New
Orleans, and led more than 1,000 men
during the War of 1812.
8. American Jews Enter Higher Education
Sampson Simson
1800 Columbia College
College Hall, 1800 NYC
US Army Officers 1805
Simon Magruder Levy, 1802,
Cadet 1st Class West Point
9. David Stone NC Governor
1808-1810
Beginning of speech he made in
North Carolina House of Commons
Home of Jacob Henry
Beaufort, NC
10. ANTE-BELLUM AMERICA
1815 -1860
First American Stained Glass Jewish Star Window, Baltimore 1844
11. In The Shadow of Shylock: Jews in Ante-Bellum American Literature
12. Briggs’ Character Of Mr.
Charles F. Briggs Isaacs, Ugly’ Jewish, Skinflint
Swindler
Modeled After Shylock
1839
13. George Lippard
Portrays a malevolent hump-
backed Jewish character, Gabriel
Van Gelt, who
forges, swindles, blackmails, and
commits murder for money.
Bestselling book in US prior to Uncle Tom’s Cabin,
published 1845
14. “The Old Jewish Cemetery at Newport”
“But ah! what once has been
shall be no more!
The groaning earth in travail and
in pain
Brings forth its races, but does
not restore,
And the dead nations never rise
again.”
HWL 1854
15. About Jews:
“The ugliest, most evil-minded
people…[who resemble]
maggots when they
overpopulate a
decaying cheese.” 1860
17. Maryland Jew Bill 1826
Thomas Kennedy, Legislator
"The legislature of this state
adjourned on Saturday last. The
'Jew bill', as it is called--or a bill to
alter the constitution so as to
relieve persons from political
disqualifications on account of
their religious opinions, has again
passed both branches of the
legislature--in the house of
delegates by a vote of 26 to 25;
only 51 out of 80 members being
present. Before it is effective it
must be passed by the next
succeeding legislature..."
18. Politics
David Levy Yulee Lewis Charles Levin
Member of U.S. House of Representatives
US Senator from Florida 1845-51
Pennsylvania's 1st district
Elected to the Senate again in 1855, Yulee served
(November 10, 1808-March 14, 1860) Philadelphia
until January 21, 1861, when he withdrew from
politician, prominent Know Nothing, and anti-
the Senate after Florida seceded. He joined the
Catholic social activist of the 1840s and 1850s. Served
Congress of the Confederacy. In 1865 after the
three terms in Congress (U.S. House of
war, Yulee was imprisoned in Fort Pulaski for
Representatives, 1845–51), representing the
nine months due to his participation in the
Pennsylvania 1st District. Considered to have been
Confederate government.
first Jewish Congressman
19. Rachel Mordechai and Maria Edgeworth
Harrington (1817) is the personal narrative of a recovering anti-Semite, a young man whose
phobia of Jews is instilled in early childhood and who must unlearn his irrational prejudice
when he falls in love with the daughter of a Spanish Jew. In this novel, Edgeworth attempts
to challenge prejudice and to show how literary representations affect public policy, while
at the same time interrogating contemporary understandings of freedom in English society.
21. La Juive (1835), A Painful Call For
Tolerance By J.Halevy
First performed in New York in 1838, it
became a staple of the Opera House of
New Orleans in the 1840’s and subsequently
one of the most popular operas in the US.
French Jewish Composer,
Founder of the Grand Opera tradition
Caruso as Eleazar c. 1920
22. Solomon Henry Jackson, Hebrew Printer
published the first American Jewish
newspaper,
The Jew, 1820, in response to Joseph Frey’s
missionary work to convert the American Jews
to Christianity.
Joseph Frey
Apostate
23. Mordecai Manuel Noah 1785 - 1851
American playwright, diplomat, journalist, and utopian. Born into family of
Portuguese Sephardic ancestry. Appointed by President Madison to American
Consulates in Riga 1811 and Tunis 1813. Later Noah was a well known Jacksonian
politician.
34. Issac M. Wise:
Organizer of Reform Judaism
At a service after
Lincoln’s assassination
Wise said:
“He is a sin-offering for
our iniquities.”
Letter from Leeser to Wise
Not dated
35. ANTE BELLUM JEWS IN BUSINESS
Emanuel and Mayer Lehman. Joseph Seligman (1819–1880)
Originally from Germany, the prominent American banker and
Lehman family arrived in America businessman. With his brothers,
1844, settling in Alabama. In the late he started a bank, J. & W.
1850’s, their business shifted Seligman & Co., with branches in
to New York City and they became New York, San Francisco, New
top cotton brokers. Orleans, London, Paris and
Frankfurt.Underwrote Standard
Oil Co.
37. David Einhorn 1809-1879
Rabbi of Keneseth Israel Synagogue, PA, 1866
In sermon "War with Amalek!" based on
Exodus 17, Einhorn said, "We are told
that this crime [slavery] rests upon a
historical right! … Slavery is an
institution sanctioned by the
Bible, hence war against it is war
against, and not for, God! It has ever
been a strategy of the advocate of a bad
cause to take refuge from the spirit of
the Bible to its letter… ."