Founding of a Town
AARON LEVY: Founder of Aaron3burg.
By Sidney M. Fish, PH.D., New York,
American Jewish Historical Society.
JCRS Fulfills Chance To Thank Tolstoy
DENVER (AJP)—The quiet
arrival of a Russian Greek Or-
thodox immigrant woman pa-
tient to the Jewish Consump-
tives' Relief Society here brought
a comment of "poetic justice"
from Charles Miller, manager of
the New York office of the JCRS.
The woman's entrance was spon-
sored by the daughter of the late-
Count Tolstoy.
Tolstoy's daughter, Elizabeth
Reviewed by Dr. Bertram W.
Korn, Philadelphia, Pa.
Workers in the field of Ameri-
can Jewish history have known
for some years of the eXhaus-
tive research which Dr. Sidney
M. Fish has been doing in the
background of the early Jews
of Philadelphia and of Penn-
sylvania. It takes an inordi-
nately long time to go th rough
the extensive collections in his- •
torical societies and the still •
More voluminous records of
City, County and State Courts •
and Departments. Students of
history are, however, well train- •
ed in the virtue of patience, and
the patience has finally been
rewarded in the case of Dr. Fish. •
The first of what promises to • •
be a long series of monographs
and books has finally come from •
•
his pen. This one deals with
that great American Jewish •
merchant and real estate opera- •
tor and developer, Aaron Levy
(1742-1815), who finally made
headlines all over the United
States last year when the town
which he founded and which is
called by his name — Aarons-
burg, Pa.—celebrated the 150th
anniversary both of its founding
and of the gift of land which
he made for the. establishment
of the town's first house of wor-
ship, a Lutheran church.
Dr. Fish has delved far afield,
and very deep, indeed_to turn
up every possible fact and 'epi-
sode which might cast light on
Aaron Levy's origins and his
life, work and influence. He has
made the remarkable . discovery,
for instance, of an ethical will,
written in Amsteram, in 1795, by
Aaron Levy's brother, Moses
Ha-yyirn, which casts interesting
light on the learned Jewish
background of the entire fam-
ily. From tax lists, real. estate
surveys, militia pay rolls, and
many other varying types of
documents of the period, Dr.
Fish pieces together the rest, of
the story, and . especially • the
record of Aaron Levy's vast
dealings in Pennsylvania real
estate, which actually made him
one of the Founding Fathers of
many a town and area in cen-
tral and western Pennsylvania.
Tomashevsky, who manages the
Tolstoy Foundation, Inc., of New
York, appealed to Miller for a
haven for Lidia Wasiliewna,
Swititsch, 60-year-old refugee
from Russian Communism.
"It's poetic justice," said Mil-
ler, "that • the Jewish people,
through their great sanatorium
in Denver, should repay Count
Tolstoy for his defense of Rus-
sian Jewry during the Czarist
pogroms."
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