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Johnson, first president of Columbia.
of the seventeenth century. Most no- Several 5,1 the men mentioned above
at tian Hebraists abounded. Cotton Ma- table in these lists of names are: John served as president of Harvard.
• .11 ' h i mself,
I sonal nature concerning individuals law
'xceedingly friendly to the ther, himself one of the number (born Cotton, Richard Mather, John Eliot,
The order of studies in "The Lawes
I and incidents of early Jewish resi• all times
16621, gives the names of tnin- Thomas Weide, h en ry
Punster,
required
Hence in America, Peter Wiernik's Jews had in mind a reconciliation of isters, who, having graduated and be- Charles Chauncy, Samuel Whiting, of Harvard College" of 1655
New
Testament,
and
the
that
"In the first yeare after admis-
e
Old an
gun their work in England, later Michael Wigglesworth, Thomas Thu:
y of the Jews in America," th
all
• History
published in 1912, presents a credita- es t u tdi sh m ant of an intimate connec- served as ministers in New England. cher, Judge Sewall, Increase Mather sion for foure dayes of the week
,
students shall be exercised in the
ble though popular and journalistic t ion ha w 5en the "Jewish people of To these, he adds the names of
and
Cotton
Mather.
Later
came
Ezra
G od 55 and t he English Puritan theoc- ministers, Ilebraists and graduates of
itits
of the Greek and Hebrew
ti
compendium of m any of these
Stiles, president of Yale, also Samuel studies
• ! .
Harvard college, in the hitter half
racy.
up to the time of its own pu 5 lc
Within the last year, 1925, Dr. Louis .--;'
this,
as
has
been
said,
happened
Inquiry at Historic Sources Illuminates Influence of Judaism on I. Newman, has published a volumin- Al,
I
ous
work, "Jewish Influence on Chris- first
in El
ngland a of
generation
after
the
Founders of the Republic.
settlement
the Pur tan
colo-
tiun Reform Movements," whose con- mists in New England. lint it is worth
By DR. MORRIS M. FEUERLICFIT
eluding
chapter,
"Hebraic
Aspects
of
American Puritanism," presents an recalling, not only demist the same
t hough influences of which the events under
,
(Copyright, 1926, Jewish Telegraphic Agency.)
Cromwell were only the dramatic
and in
appropriaPpinteresting
only momentary peep into the region finale, had been operating long before
e.
r
(Editor's Note:—It was President Calvin Coolidge, descendant
-
in
England, but also bmause it visu-
of Judaism's actual or potential
Amer , alizes the intensely Hebraic religious
of one of the oldest New England families, who, in his memorable
lationship to the beginning of
pertinent
The
most
address at the dedication of the Jewish Community Center in 'Wash-
!can democra cy. though far from ex; and political background from who -h
ington, D. C., in 1925, vividly brought to the attention of the Ameri-
iject is that thuritans and Pilgrims
of 33 years
exten
extensive,
e P
li
s sub
can public the sentence coined by the historian, Lecky: The He-
, before had emerged, and which, under
haustive work on
us on "Th e
th.
Stra
braic mortar cemented the foundations of American democracy."
scar
S
if
the
late
O
Origin of Republican Form of Govern-1ot her circumstances, they had already
The correct presentation of -this historic fact, significant as it is in
United States of Amer- I transplanted upon the soil of the new
it was the newer Puri-
the history of these United States, the greatest ulemoi•racy that ever
mint in the
o llowed ; world. Indeed,
Of the Cromwellian
he history of the Jewish religion and Jewish liters-
published in 105, f
immigrants
"
first
•
t
existm ,
by two later editions, the last in 1901; , period that gave the earlier colonists
lure, intrigued the best minds, Jewish as well as non-Jewish scholars
now out of of 1620 an added impetus and strength
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and statesmen. This problem assumed timely significance and in-
I and all unfortunately
in the latter's efforts to establish a
r
print.
ever American Jew on the occasion of the celebration
ter
.
this year of the one hundred and fiftieth adbiversary of the signing
The case of Judaism's influence, !theocratic form of government end Ohl
through its Bible at least, on the Testament mode of life in New F.ng- ■ 1
of the Declaration of Independence. Dr. Morris M. Feuerlicht of
Indianapolis, Ind., in a paper he read at the recent session of the
founding of the American Republic, , land. This was the purpose of both
Central Conference of American Rabbis, gave an exhaustive and
and as made out by Mr. Straus, is the Pilgrims at Plymouth and the Pur-
scholarly, but none the less popular, presentation of the influence of
successfully established, according to itans of :Massachusetts Bay. While
I t M Emile de Laveleye, emi- ' the former haul come primarily to se-
Judaism on the founders of the republic.)
um
rent Belgian publicist
and professor
! cure
it • of Liege.
General
„ freedom of worship in their own
, th latter had come, ostensibly
best, to pu i n t o ut the at the U n i vers
am,
at
only
c
I'
e
"‘
The Sesqui-Centennial of American
as a commercial
company, but in re-
also,
like
Lecky,
Fiske
and'
need of a more intensive and extensive historians
,
Independence this year provides a fit-
tely, has thus others have been equally frank in alitv to found a theocratic common-
ting though somewhat belated oppor- study than, unf ortuna
wealth,
in
the
words
of Fiske, "like
such
influence.
The
now
1
far been given it, of a highly impor- conceding
s, I of the children of Israel in the
tunity for studying the relationship, tent and fascinating phase of Jewish frequetffly quoted passage of L e y ythat
- between that important event
if any,
and secular history. Up to this time "The Hebraic
of Mortar
Am•rican
Cemented
Democracy,F,.
th
good old days before their forward
in world history and Judaism. Did the available material and sources is Foundations
a typical expression of the common- hearts conceived the desire for a king."
Judaism, as an historical religion, as
these earlier 0
rs of th
1 But while the leaders
have been only sparsely utilized.
a theological and ethical system pro- Graetz, world historian of modern ly-accepted verdict.
colonists, especially Governor William
fessing to be world-wide in its scope Jewry and expositor of the various
rt-
learn the spirit and con- Bradford and Elder M illiam
In order to lea
and application, exert any infl uence
were Ilebraists of a sort and
of Judaism as they have tent of Judaism's influence on the , tear, were
upon the founding and the founders currents
lovers of the Old Testament, it was
flowed into the diverse byes and phi-
of the American Republic; and if so, losophies of modern civilized peoples, founding and founders of the Ameri- Is
has only a few rather dubious words can
is necessary
to revert
I the Puritans who came later than
to Republic,
that brief it period
of English
his-
to what extent?
If there was indeed any such in- to say alsnit the progress a the Jew tort' when Puritanism reached the
height
of its the
power,
during, and
the Pro-
riot that
gave
form and permanency
Pro-
about
l 1620
during
the
Cromwellian
pe-
fluence, the facts were obviously sig- in America, and none at all
nificant in the philosophy of general role
were for the most part men•of supe-
of Judaism
in the
dramatic , un-
fobling
of the new
Republic.
tectorate,
1653-1659.
This was
a full
.
ration
after
the
Puritan
and
NI-
1
to
New
England
Puritanism. They
as well as in that of Jewish history,
The American Jewish Historical So- ior education and intellect, English- -=-7 ,
and should long since have afforded
f N e period
w England.
Ilut
d t of either Oxford
that
the trainee
d grauaes
grim was
Co l ones o during
it
this
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our American Jewish scholarship a ciety, organized in 1592, has published same religious influences operating or Cambridge, in a period when Chris- TIIIIIIIII IIIII
particularly inviting field for early in'. some 30 volumes of admirably and in-
vestigation. With a full consciousness valuable source . materials generally 3, ' , contemporaneously in New England
of his own only too patent limitations, but dealing in large. if not in major found their chief and, in a political'
the writer cnnot retend that this
part, with a Wide variety of frag- I and military sense at least, supreme
paper will prove to p have met the in- mentary items of a Pore "r less per- expression in the mother country.
vitation even superficially. It can
Officially, England had seen no Jews !
within its borders since their banish-1
--- - -
• mynt by Edward I., in 1290. It seemed I
to know none other than the type pre-1
, stuffed in Shakespeare's "Merchant of
' Venice," and Marlowe's "Jew of Mal-
ta." Puritanism, the erstwhile and es-
pecial victim of persecution by Crown
, and Established Church, was now in
the ascendant under the leadership of ,
who goes into the market to buy a motor
I Oliver Cromwell. The Puritans were !
a Bibliolatrous people; they loved and
read their Bibles not only as the !
basis of their religious philosophy but
so
also as the final arbiter and guide of
their political action. Not man, but
God alone, could be a king. A theoc-
"often that they
racy was their ideal of government.
best, he reflects, there can
In the execution of their political pro-
gram, as well as in defense of their
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general position in the Premises, they
insistently appealed to the Old Testa-
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ment for proof and argument. The
New Testament was completely ig-
nored. The hardy soldiers of Crom-
well's army, as they read their 13ibles
i the nightly vigils of the battle-
vice versa.
eld, and fighting as they believed they
SEASON'S GREETINGS TO ALL
were an unholy alliance of a faithless
king and a persecuting nobility and
priesthood, could find in the New Tes-
tament story no models or figures com-
parable to the warriors and heroes of
the Old Testament. Thus was aroused
a vivid and widespread interest in the
people of the Old Testament and their I
curious persistence.
The Puritans were eager to see and
know more about this strange pmple
who already in that 'ancient day had
had experiences in similar to their
own. Their interest was fed by pai-
never participated
fished letters, addresses and pamphlets
, of Manasseh ben Israel in Holland,
0,
H.
MORTON
'
who•
sensing
the
situation
across
the
I
F. W. MORTON
in this verbal
channel, pleaded for the re-admissionl
CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
of the Jews into' England. The lit-1
I erary and exegetical study of the Old I
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Testament grew ever more intensive; I
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the study of Hebrew expanded, and I
extraordinary number of Christian l
flourished.
ex-
chnist s • were
re .born Messianic
and re.empha.
wok i. II pertations
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•-•• TT son e 1 01 sizeil. Groups of visionaries, under'
EETI NGS
1 1 a variety of names, like Covenanters,
Fifp Monarchy Men, Levellers, i
lennarians or Ultra-Republicans were
,busy making propaganda for their mil-
lenial creeds with precisely the same
, arguments—and even greater clamor
—as are being used by the Pastor
Russellites and International Bible
association of our own cur-
/'' Students'
rent period. Fanciful explanations of
, the Lost Ten Tribes, and the ingath-
ering of the scattered remnants of
E
surviving Israel from all corners of
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a necessary preliminary to
, the earth so
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'he advent of the Messiah, were, of ,
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So tense and general was the Je-
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cnttare as They Make Them
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t his Psn°d
°f means
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history—by
devoid of Christ
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proposal was seriously made by some
of Cromwell's officers that the Coun-
cil of State tie composed of 70 mem-
bers to accord with the number of the
But
ancient Jewish Sanhedrin. In the Short
Barebones
parliament
was
a
mem-
or
ber, General Thomas Harrison, an
FOR
Anabaptist, whose party advocated the
reward, and this they
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