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 A Seven Arts Syndicate Feature 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 7338 Woodward TR. 3-5656 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- New Year Greetings 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 Expert Haircutting Jewry will together with the period of the hegemony of the the British colonial legislature. Children's and Women's Speciolists Jewries of many other Atherican Spanish-Portuguese Jews, which While Jews received the pri- 14015 Eight Mile Rd,, Cor. Stansbury Ave. 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 UN. 4-8057 DAILY TO 6:00 P.M. United States. 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 New Year Rest Wishes 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 Detroit's' Mast Modern tion started and the 13 colo- immigration to the United numbers. Real Estate Office 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 14054 West McNichols UN. 4-3686 New York had been developing perhaps somewhat earlier, the t h e loyalists. Immediately F. & E. CHECK PROTECTOR SALES CO. BEN &TONY'S BARBER SHOP BEL - CREST HOMES New Year Greetings Wilde Register and Grill Co. SPECIAL SIZES MADE TO ORDER 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. Season's Greetings SAMUEL S. BANKLE 1748 Penobscot Bldg. For more than a century and a half Shearith Israel was the 424 Bellevue Ave. only synagogue in New York WO. 2-5375 .LO. 7-4890 City. It was strictly Orthodox and exercised a rigorous control over the private religious life of its members. In '1757, for in- Season's Best Greetings Greetings to AU on New Year's 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 BUILDERS commit "other terrible crimes" will be refused Jewish burial. Traverse City, Michigan 17605 JAMES COUZENS HWY. In 1825, the hegemony of the Sefardim over New York Jewish C. & C. Underwriters — Speciol Agents life came to an end. In that UN. 3-9924 811 FOX THEATRE BLDG. year the German Jews, who had become a majority of the New WO. 3-5605 York Jewish population, estab lished their Bnai Jeshurun Holiday Greetings to All Synagogue which used the Ash- kenazic, rather than the Sefar- dic, ritual. This synagogue, which also Generator - Starter - Carburetor - Ignition Service functions today under the lead- Battery Charging - Towing Service - Woshing ership of Rabbi Israel Goldstein and is one of the leading Con- UNITED MOTORS SERVICE WHOLESALE PARTS servative congregations in the Open 24 Hours Daily — Never Closed country, was in the beginning 17289 Mt. Elliott orthodox. 8251 Southfield Rd. Ti. 6-2500 During the years of the TW. 1-8800 American Civil War, 1861-65, New York Jewry had grown to such an extent that 2,000 Jewish 011111111111111111111111111111411111111 M 111111119111MIMMIMMNIMMIlifffttfiRMIMMIRMIMifiltititplittlilliti 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- M ery American Jews were then 12837 Woodrow Wilson divided in their opinion, just as It heir opinion had been divided TOwnsend 8-2033 during the Revolutionary War 2800 Honoroh VI. 3-8411 -2 0 n the matter of American in- :41111111111111fiTIMIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII10 1111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111U dependence. :5,1111111111111111111111111111111111111111011111111111111111111111 11 1 11 1111111101111111MM111111111111111111111111filltit111111111111111110 Reform Judaism in New York tarted among the German ews. Even before the Civil War t here were established the Ger- Cordial Holiday Wishes From Milton Burns 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- = 15210 Wyoming g ogue in the world. 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