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Johnson, first president of Columbia.
Several of the men mentioned above
law of the land. Cromwell himself, at Dan II ebraists abounded. Cotton Me-
served as president of Harvard.
sonal nature concerning individuals al! times exceedingly friendly to the I her, himself one of the number (born
nier ot studies in "The Lawes
•
order
I and incidents of early Jewish resi- Jews, had in mind a reconciliation of 16621, gives the names of d 7 7 m in-
be-
of Harvard College" .if 1655 required
and
dence in America, Peter Wiernik's
the Ohl and New Testament, and the inters, who, having in
graduate
that "In the first yeare after admis-
England, Inter
"history of the Jews in America,"
k
rni
establishment of an intimate coer:-
gun their wor
sion for foure dayes of the week all
NeW England.
e of s erved as minis ters in
students shall 1w exerciscul in the
of 110
bl e th ugh Po ular and journalistic lion lietWcsir the "Jewish peopl
T o these, he adds the names
and Cotton :Mather. Later came Ezra studies of the Greek and Hebrew
compendium is many of these items . God" and the English Puritan the°, ministers( Ilebraists and graduates of
Stiles, president of Tide, also Samuel
up to the time of its own publication. ': rac y .
Harvard college, in the latter half
All this, as has been said, happened
Within the last year, 1925, Or. Louis
Inquiry at Historic Sources Illuminates Influence of Judaism 011 I. .Newnian, has published a volumin- in England a generation a time the
" settlement of the rui . it . h , t, ele.
Founders of the Republic.
saw work, "Jewish Influence on Chris- „ est
tian Reform Movements," whose con- nista in New England. (tut it is worth
By DR. MORRIS M. FEUERLICHT
eluding
chapter,
"Hebraic
Aspects an
of recalling, not only because the same
American
Puritanism,"
presents
influences of which the events under
(Copyright, 1926, Jewish Telegraphic Agency.)
appropriate and interesting, though Cronimill were only the dranuitic
only momentary peep into the region finale, had been operating long. before
.
(Editor's Note:—It was President Calvin Coolidge, descendant
of Judaism's actual or potuitia
in England, but also braitust
England
families,
who,
in
his
memorable
of one of the oldest New' England
s hip to the beginning of Anier- alines the intensely Hebraic religious
background from wii ■ - h
t
the
dedication
of
the
Jewish
Community
Center
in
Wash-
an
democracy.
The
most
pertinera
b
•
irigton, D. C., in 1925, vividly brought to the attention of the . men-
and extensive, though far from es- the Puritans and Pilgrims of 3.1 sears 77.
can public the sentence coined by the historian, Lucky: "The He-
hausti ve work on this subject is that e before had emerged, and which, under
braic mortar cemented the foundations of American democracy."
ti( the late
Oscar S. Form
Straus
on "Th ' other circumstances, they had already
lipublican
of Govern-
1‘)
The correct presentation of this historic fact, significant as it is in
Origin of he United States of Amer- I transplanted upon the soil of the new
the history of these United States, the greatest democracy that ever
Was the newer Puri-
meat in t
ed in 1885, followed I world.
Indeed, it of the Cromwellian
n immigrants
existed nd in th • history of the Jewish religion and Jewish litera-
ica " first publish
, period that gave the earla•r colonists
intrigued the best Minas, Jewish as well as non-Jewish scholars
' by two later editions, the last in
ture,
and all unfortunately now out of , of 1020 an added impetus and strengt h
and statesmen. This problem assumed timely significance and In

of the seventeenth cent ury. Most no-
table in these lists of MUM'S are: John
Cotton, Richard NI a ther, John Eliot,
Thomas Weide, Ilenry Dunster,
Charles Chimney, Samuel Whiting,
Michael 'it igglesworth, Thomas Tha•
cher, Judge Sewall, Increase Mather

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terest to every American Jew on the occasion of the celebration
this year of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the signing
of the Declaration of Independence. Dr. Morris M. Feuerlicht of
Indianapolis, Ind., in a paper he read at the recent session of the
Central Conference of American Rabbis, gave an exhaustive and
of
scholarly, but none the less popular, presentation of the influence
Judaism on the founders of the republic.)

print
The case of Judaism's influence, in the tatter's efforts to establish a
the Itheocratic form of government and Old
I through its Bible at least, on
1 founding of the American Republic, , Testament ionic of life in New Eng-
I and as made out by Mr. Straus, is land.
This was
the purpose
of both
the Pilgrims
at Plymouth
and the
Pur-
itans of Massachusetts Buy. While
I successfully established, according to
ayo k y „ , ma i .. the former had crone primarily to se-
the late M. Emile de L
Belgian publicist and professor cure freedom of worship in their own
University of Liege. General way the latter had come, ostensibly
The Sesqui-Centennial of American only claim, at best, to point out the , st the
, have
been
frank
in as a commercial comany, but in re-
Independence this year provides a fit- need of a more intensive and extensive ' historian's
also,
like equally
Lecky, Fiske
and
linty to found a theocratic comimin-
thus I ath ors
though somewhat belated oppor- study than, unfortunately, has
The now I wealth, in the words of Fiske "like
•
im
or-
eunceding
such
influence.
been
given
it,
of
a
highly
tunity for studying the relationship, far
that of the children of Israel 'in the
frequently
quoted
passage
of
Lecky's,
tant and fascinating phase of Jew's
ci ay s before their forward
00d
if any, between that important event
old
and secular history. Up to this time "The Hebraic Mortar Cemented the ..
y, hearts conceived the desire for a king."
in world history and Judaism, Did
Foundations
of
Amerivan
Democrac
ar and sources
:
Judaism, as an historical religion, as the available material
l
But while the leaders of these earlier
oly
n sPseY utilized. is a typical expression of the common-
theological and ethical system pro- have • b een
world historian of modern ly-accepted verdict.
fessing to be world-wide in its scope C 4
In order to learn the s nrit and
crm-
• I nists especially
Governor
on
the
Bradford
and Elder
M illiam William
Brew-
Jewry
and
expositor
of
the
various
ny in fluence
plica tion exert
and aphe
. of Judaism's . intlui ence ,
s ter, were Ilebraists of a sort anti
rs currents of Judaism as they have
fo u nding and athe founde
ot
the
Anirti-
upon t
lvers
of
the
Old
Testament,
it Was
flowed into the diverse lives and phi- tent
and
founders
founding
o
of the American Republic; and if so,
losophics of modern civilized peoples,' can t epublic, it is necessary to revert ! the Puritans who came l later than
to what extent?
has only a few rather dubious words to that brief period of English his- , 1620 and during the Cromwellian p1.-
m reached
If there was indeed any such in- to say about the progress of the Jew tory wino Puritanism
durin
s the the
Pro ! riot that gave form and permanency
ni
New England Puritasm.
They
fluence, the facts were obviously sig- in America, and none al all about the height of its pow(•r' .
a sup
nificant in the philosophy of general role of Judaism in the dramatic un- teetorate, 16'53-1659. This was a full Ito
were for the most part men (.,
English-
Os well as in that of Jewish history, folding of the new Republic.
fter
the
Puritan
and
Pil-
rise
education
and
intellect.
E
ion after
and should long since have afforded
of New England. But
The
Co
The American Jewish Historical So- I grim
Chris -
was ' during this period that the I trained,
graduates
of either
our American Jewish scholarship a
or Cambridge,
in a period
when Oxford
ciety, organized in 1892, has published I i t
•
- influences
nences operating
,
particularly inviting field for early in- some 31) volumes of admirable and in- ! sanie religions
vestigation. With a full consciousness valuable source materials generally, i contemporaneously in New England
of his own only too patent limitations, but dealing in large. if not in major founil their chief and, in a political
the writer cannot pretend that this part, with a wide variety of trek. i an d m ili tary sense at (cast, supreme
I
, , ssi
paper will prove to have nag, the in-
in the mother
other country.
i
-- expr
items of a more or less per-
vitation even superficially. It can mentary
Officially, England had seen no Jew's I
1 within its borders since their banish-,
—
1290. It seemed
mint by Edward I., in
' to know none other than the type pre-
in
Shakespeare's
"Merchant of
sented :
Venice," and Marlowe's "Jew of Mal-
ta." Paitanism, the erstwhile and es-
pedal victim of persecution by Crown
ii was
now in
and Established ( 'h un.
,
the ascendant under the leadership of
Oliver' Cromwell. The Puritans were
a Bibliolatrous people; they loved and
read their Bibles not only as the
basis of their religious philosophy but
also as the final arbiter and guide of '
their political action. Not man, but
God alone, could be a king. A theoc- ,
,
racy as their ideal of government. i
In this execution of their political pro-
as well as in defense of their
I general position in the premises, they
i insistently appealed to the Old Testa-;
went. for proof and argument. The
New ;)Testament was completely ig-
soldiers of Crom-
, nore(11 The bur
' well's army, as they read their Bibles
in the nightly vigils of the battle-
field, and fighting as they believed they
I 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
parable
the Old Testament. Thus was aroused'
I a vivid and widespread interest in the I
I people of the Old Testament and their'
curious persistence.
The Puritans were eager to see and
know more about this strange people
who already in that ancient day had Ns,
similar
k A to their N.,,
ms ar
v.
sisa
Th,i r i n e
v,
a int :. experiences
I had
interest
lishcal letters, addresses and pamphletsi
I of Manasseh ben Israel in Holland, I I
' who, sensing the situation across the
channel, pleaded for the re-admission I
CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
of the Jews into England. The lit- I
erary and exegetical study of the 01(11
Testament grew ever more intensive; I
the study of Hebrew expanded, and
— _ extraordinary number of Christian
,re
mon;
Hebraists
flourished. Messianic ex-1
--- -
pectations were re-tons and re-gmpha- ,
, wakzerwiesmikwimwmgra,,,,n‘f,.:Krt7a
A
pk
r, sized. Groups of visionaries, under ,
la variety of names, like Covenanters,
1 Fifth Monarchy Men,Levellers, , •
FA
Ilennarians or Ultra-Repuldicansi were
for their mil- !
busy making p roanda
pag
: lenibil creeds with precisely the same
FA
arguments—and
even
Kreuter
clamor
PA'
—as are being used by the P astor
Itussr•Ilites and International Bible
PA'
Students' association of our own cur-'
PA'
tent period. Fanciful explanations of
1 he Lost Ten Tribes, and the ingath-
A tring of the scattered remnants of
I,j
5 surviving Israel from all corners of
!, the earth as a necessary preliminary to
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proposal was seriously made by some
751 "1 h M
of Cromwell's officers that the Coun-
cil of State he composed of 70 mem-
bers to accord with the number of the
1 ancient Jewish Sanhedrin. In the Short
or Barebones parliament Was a mem-
bir, General Thomas Harrison, an
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Anabaptist, whose party advocated the
introduction of the Mosaic law as the

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