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ested in whaling, in the manufacture
of candles (of which he had in oper-
ation no fewer than 13 factories at
one time), in the manufacture of
whale oil and other widely used pro-
ducts. Indeed, the extent of Rivera's
traflic in these necessities was such
that his sway extended to practically
the entire New England region, so
By HAROLD BERMAN
that it had been facetiously remarked
(Editor's Note:—At this time, when the sesquicentennial of the
by some students of the period that
the true progenitor of the oil trust
signing of the Declaration of Independence is being celebrated, the
was not John D. Rockefeller but Ja-
role of the first Jewish settlers in the early history of the country
cob Rodriquez-Rivera of Newport,
is of particular interest. The part played by the Jews in the life
and the oil thus monopolized was not
of the nation up to the time of the Declaration of Independence is
the modern petroleum but the oil ex-
dealt with in this series, the present dealing with the Hebraic Jewish
tracted from the blubber of the
settlement in Rhode Island, founded on the broad basis of religious
whale. Its ramifications were, how-
freedom and outstanding for its tolerant attitude to all sects.)
ever, inter-Colonial in their scope,
colonies being such, it stands to rea- affecting the inhabitants of most of
It is a fact, too little known to
son that the Jews, suffering from per- the New England colonies.
most people, that the Pilgrim Fa-
secution in all Christian countries at
thers, the real founders of the Amer-
that time and undergoing actual mar-
icon commonwealth and the builders
tyrdom and untold tortures in some RABBI BREUER GERMAN
of this now so mighty and free na-
of them, should seek asylum in the
ORTHODOX LEADER DIES
tion, were animated in their hazard-
colonies planted by a freedom-loving
ous task by the old Hebraic spirit
people in a land situated on the
that they had imbibed from their
BERLIN.—(.1. T. A.)—Rabbi Sol-
further side of the wide ocean, far,
daily and attentive perusal of the
veteran lead-
far removed from the flames of the omon Breuer, one of
Old Testament. The Pilgrim Fathers.
Inquisition and the ferocity of perse- ers of Jewish Orthodoxy in Germany,
in their revolt against the church
died
in
Frankfurt
at
the
age
of 76.
cuting rulers and fanatical popu-
and governmental authorities in the
Dr. Breuer was the son-in-law of
laces. And so we find Jewish set-
413 homeland, which revolt drove them tlers in practically all of the 13 Dr. Samson Raphael Hirsch, contem-
to seek asylum first in the inure hos-
American colonies; a greater number porary of Abraham Geiger, and the
pitable Holland and afterwards to
in some of them, a lesser number in outstanding champion of Orthodoxy in
cross the Atlantic in search of a new
others, but everywhere forming a Germany in its tight against the Re-
home, drew -their inspiration from
form movement it), the last century.
highly intelligent and active element,
the Books of Moses and the Prophets.
With the publication of his works,
contributing of their best to the eco-
And when, after much peril and hard-
nomic and cultural development of "Ninecen Letters on Judaism," and
ship, they finally did reach a haven of
the growing settlements. And later the "Horeb," he laid the foundation
safety, they set about to organize
on, when fate had ordained it that for modern Orthodoxy.
their new life on the old Judaic pat-
Dr. Solomon Breuer was born in
the colonies should undergo the test
tern.
of fire in the days of the Revolution, Pat=ch, Hungary. He studied at
In the writings of the time, the Pil-
Wurtzburg, Germany. He was rabbi
to prove their heroism and devotion
grims frequently refer to themselves
in Papa, Hungary, when he was called
to the country of their birth or adop-
as "Christian Israel," James I their
tion by the action of self-sacrifice to succeed his father-in-law in Frank-
persecutor, is "Pharaoh," the Atlan-
and daring that such luminous pages furt .15 years ago. He was rabbi of
tic was the "Red Sea" that they had
the Religionsbesellschaft of Frankfurt
in the annals of the period form.
crossed in order to reach the New
and was the father of Dr. Isaac
What is said above is especially Breuer, leader of the Agudath Israel.
Canaan," to get to America, "whither
the Shekinah had guided them true of the Rhode Island colony,
through the sea." "Hebrew mortar," founded by the broad-minded Roger
says Lecky, "cemented the founda- Williams and his associates, the char-
tions of American democracy," while ter of which colony proclaimed that
the historian John Fiske affirms that "all men of whatever nation soever
"the same ethical impulse which ani- they may be, that shall be received
mated the glowing pages of Ilebrew as inhabitants of any of the towns,
poets and prophets, and which has shall have the same privileges as
given to the history and literature of Englishmen, any law to the contrary
Israel their commanding influence in notwithstanding." At the same time,
the world," has also influenced the the founders of this colony declared
early American colonists and legisla- before the entire world that "we have
tors. "It was the great privilege of no laws for preventing any one from
Israel of old," reads the foreword to declaring by words their mind or un-
the 1658 revision of the Pilgrim derstanding concerning the ways of
Code, "and to was acknowledged by the things of God," and that "per-
them, Nehemiah 0:13, that God gave secution only tended to increas.!
them right judgment and true laws sects," instead of suppressing them,
and accordingly we can safely say as all Christian denominations and
that we have had an eye primarily governments so fondly believed and
and principally unto the aforesaid so.rruelly practiced.
platform." "Ye Judicals of Moyses,"
Var this broad-minded attitude, so
says Bradford, "are immutable and much in contrast with the narrow-
mindedness and intolerance that
perpetual."
The sentiment in the American characterized the neighboring Puri-
tan colony of Massachusetts, the
founders of Rhode Island received
Corner Pingree.
s>oao0O-0-0-00-00 not a little of scolding and reproba-
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tion, it is true. Cotton Mather, the
great Massachusetts divine, refers
sneeringly to the new colony as "the
common receptacle of the convicts of
Jerusalem and the outcasts of the
land." But this sneering did not at
all deter Roger Williams and his
noble-minded associates from pro-
ceeding with their task of establish-
ing on the American continent one
Our Motto—
little spot that shall serve as a haven
One Low Price to All.
of refuge and safety for all men, ir-
respective of the creed that they pro-
Our Liabilities—
fess or even the absence of any. This
was an attitude centuries ahead of
To Serve You,
time, an ideal not yet entirely trans-
Our Assets—
lated into life even in our present
day.
Satisfied Customers.
No sooner did the news of the
of the Rhode Island colony
Home and studio portraits founding
reach the Jews of New York, still
that are typical of the high subjected to many lurking restric-
tions and annoyances at the hands of
type of workmanship that its Dutch rulers, than an active move-
ment began among them for emigra-
Hayes offers to the pub- tion into the new colony. In 1657
quite a few of the New York Jewish
lic at al 'times.
settlers left for Rhode Isand, and
there were presently augmented by
the arrival. from Brazil, the West
Indies and other points. In 1755
(before the New York exodus), the
Jewish community of Newport, R. I.,
counted 40 families. Their number
increased with the passing of time,
and with the growth of the town as
a commercial center.
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How important Newport was con-
sidered commercially in Colonial days
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can be learned from a perusal of con-
temporary documents. the records of
the customs entries of that and other
ports, as well as by reading the pages
of subsequently-written history. "lie
was thought a bold prophet," says
the historian Eggleston. "who then
said that New York might one day
equal Newport."
Among the earliest known and
most active, Jewish settlers of New-
port were Jacob Rodriquez-Rivera
and his son-in-law, Aaron Lopez.
Rodriquez-Rivera arrived at New-
port in 1743. while lope: came in
1748. Both were exceedingly enter-
prising and active men of business,
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contributing not • little to the in-
dustrial and commercial prosperity
Detroit
of the rising settlement. It is a mat-
ter of record that of the 150 vessels
engaged in general trade at Newport
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at this period Lopez owned not fewer
5.
than 30, or 20 per cent. Jacob Rod
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of their parents in • great back-to-
where the children'of the Jewish pioneers arc trained to take up the work
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