History of New York Jewry
Is Story of Kinsmen in U.S.
1 German Jews still kept up their Side, was also founded before
on the world Jewish scene.
leadership of New York Jewish the Civil War, in 2859.
It's a world in itself, this Jew.
life because of their wealth and
ish New York, yet bound with
The
last
phase
of
New
York
influence, in contrast with the
a hundred ties to the rest of
poverty and insufficient Ameri- Jewish history, the East-Euro- world Jewry. It is the cultural
pean
one,
is
so
recent
that
canization of the Russian. Pol-
center for American Jewry, and
By P. NIBUR
slowly and in a fashion more ish, Galician and Romanian many people still alive have to
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a large extent also for the
themselves experienced its en-
akin to that of other Jewish Jews.
Jewries of Latin America and
The City of New York, with communities in Western lands.
In 1654. when the first ship- tire course. During this era other countries. From here Jew-
New York Jewry received a
a population of more than The Jewish population was then load of Jewish immigrant re-
mighty blood transfusion from ish cultural antennae are spread
8,000,000, is this year celebrat- small in comparison with the fugees landed in • New Amster-
out to the four corners of the
ing its 300th birthday. The non-Jewish population (t o d a y dam. Peter Stuyvesant. the anti- Russia, Poland, Galicia and earth.
small town under Dutch rule, Jews constitute nearly 30 per- Semitic governor of the Putch. Romania and became the
which was then called New cent of New York's population) colony. did not intend to let greatest, wealthiest and most DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-83
Friday, September 11, 1953
Amsterdam, (it acquired the and its growth was very slow. them remain in the colony as influential Jewish community
name of New York eleven years
Jews then kept more or less Permanent residents. Put the
later when the British occupied to their traditional, European directors of the Dutch West In-
New Year's Most Cordial Greetings
the town) exactly 300 years ago ways. The Spanish-Portuguese dies Con-man:v. a. private corpor.
received the right of local self- Jews, the "sefardim", descend- ation which was the real ruler
government.
ants of the earliest settlers, held of this American colony. intp,-
A year later, in 1654, there on to Orthodox ritual. The Ger- vened. and the Jews were al-
arrived in New Amsterdam the man Jews who followed the Se- lowed to remain.
first shipload of Jews, 23 in fardim and who a century ago
Nevertheless Jews were not al-
number. They came from Bra- were more numerous in New lowed to erect a synagog-ue.
zil, fleeing from the Portuguese York City than. the Russian- being permitted to Dray only in
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who had seized their colony Polish Jews also adhered to private homes. Only a genera-
from the Dutch and had begun their European Jewish ways, tion later under British rule.
JOHN
H.
CARMODY
to install the inquisition.
even when they made certain when New Amsterdam became
A month. earlier this group reforms in Jewish religious New York. did the Jews receive
had been preceded -in -New Am- practice.
permission to erect their first
sterdam by the arrival of Jacob
The history of New York synagogue, the Snanish -Portil-
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Bar-Simeon, who had come Jewry, like the history of other Igues.e Shearith Israel, which
directly from Holland and who older American cities on the At- functions to this day.
At the beginning of the eio•t-
was the first Jew to land in lantic seaboard and like the his-
North America.
tory of British Jewry, can be di- eenth century New York Jews
Next year, 1954, New York vided into three periods: the received citizenship rights from
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Jewry will together with the period of the hegemony of the the British colonial legislature.
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Jewries of many other Atherican Spanish-Portuguese Jews, which
While Jews received the pri-
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communities celebrate the 300th lasted around 170 years from vilege. that right was withheld
Two Blocks West of Schaefer
anniversary of Jewish settle- the establishment of the Jewish from Catholics.
ment and Jewish life in the colony in New Amsterdam until
During the American colonial
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around 1825, when the German period New York Jews were
No city in the world has Jews became more numerous mostly engaged in foreign trade.
grown so fast during the past than the Sefardim; the era of The richest Jew of those days.
300 years as New York. And if the German "Yahudim", and Louis Gomez, was the owner of
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the city made giant strides, its finally the period of the last a number of ships that carried
Jewish population, particu- half-century when the Jews of wheat to Portugal. Amsterdam,
from
larly during the last 70 years East-European descent ca-me to Hamburg and Dublin.
When the American Revolu-
when the great East European the forefront by sheer force of
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tion started and the 13 colo-
immigration to the United numbers.
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nies declared their inclenen-
States began, grew even fast-
Though
t
h
e
East
-
European
er.
Jewish population in New York dence of England, New York
Before the arrival of the great had become larger than the Jews were divided in their sen-
East-European, Yiddish - speak- German-Jewish population, at timents, some siding with the
ing immigration, Jewish life in the beginning of the 1890's and revolutionaries, others with
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New York had been developing perhaps somewhat earlier, the t h e loyalists. Immediately
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after the revolution the small
New York Jewish community
began to rise in wealth and
influence. Jews were among
the founders in 1782 of the
New . York Stock Exchange,
became wealthy realtors, en-
tered the fur business, estab-
lished factories of various
sorts.
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For more than a century and
a half Shearith Israel was the
424 Bellevue Ave.
only synagogue in New York
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City. It was strictly Orthodox
and exercised a rigorous control
over the private religious life
of its members. In '1757, for in-
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stance, its trustees announced
that Jews who do not attend
services, who keep their places
of business open on the sabbath,
who eat non-kosher food or
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will be refused Jewish burial.
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In 1825, the hegemony of the
Sefardim over New York Jewish
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life came to an end. In that
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year the German Jews, who had
become a majority of the New
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York Jewish population, estab
lished their Bnai Jeshurun
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Synagogue which used the Ash-
kenazic, rather than the Sefar-
dic, ritual.
This synagogue, which also
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ership of Rabbi Israel Goldstein
and is one of the leading Con-
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country, was in the beginning
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orthodox.
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During the years of the
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American Civil War, 1861-65,
New York Jewry had grown to
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soldiers from New York City
were in the Northern armies.
During this war the banking
firm of Seligman was for a time
the financial agent of the Fed-
eral Government. On the ques-
tion of maintaining Negro slav-
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ery American Jews were then
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divided in their opinion, just as
It heir opinion had been divided
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during the Revolutionary War
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Reform Judaism in New York
tarted among the German
ews. Even before the Civil War
t here were established the Ger-
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man Reform synagogues, Beth-
1 and Emanu-El. Today Temple
E manu-El, built at a cost of
7,000,000, is the richest syna-
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