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Israeli . DanCes'

First Jews Gain Citizenship

American folic dance enthusi-
asts can now swing their part-
ners and march them around
By CHARLES SEGAL
the hall, Israeli style, with the
An American Jewish Press Feature
aid of a new, comprehensive
• EDITOR'S NOTE: This is one of a series of special features
booklet
of dance instructions.
offered as historical material on the eve of the forthcoming ob-
Printed in English, the booklet,
servance of the 300th anniversary of the settlement of Jews in
"How to Do Israeli Folk Dances,"
the United States. Nationwide celebration of this anniversary is
now being planned by the American Jewish Tercentenary Com-
is furnished with the second
mittee and by numerous local tercentenary committees.
series of Israel Folk Dances just
released on records by the Israel
NEW AMSTERDAM, New
Netherland, April 1657 — Local the "same freedom as other in- Music Foundation of New York.
Jews this month were admitted habitants." The Governor was
to citizenship by Governor Peter reminded that Jews in Amster-
Stuyvesant and the City Council. dam enjoy the "burgher right"
Since the establishment of the and that the local Jews, like
Jewish community here in other residents of the colony,
September 1654, the Jews have seek to share both the respon-
carried on a consistent fight for sibilities and the opportunities
religious and civil rights in spite that life in the New. World holds"
of Governor Stuyvesant's open out f or all its inhabitants.
"We, therefore, reverently re-
hostility to their petitions. The
winning of the • "burgher right" quest yoUr Noble Worships to
by Jews, therefore, constitutes please not exclude nor shut us
out from the burgher. right," the
major victory.
According to the record. dated petition states. On April 20th,
Governor Stuyvesant, Nicasius
April 11, 1657: •
"Asser Levy, a Jew, appears and Pieter Tonneman decreed:
"The Burgomasters of this
in Court; requests to be ad-
City are hereby authorized and
mitted a Burgher; claims that
at the same time charged to
such ought not be refused him
as he keeps watch and ward admit the petitioners herein and
(tocht en wacht) like other their Nation to the Burghership,
Burghers; showing a Burgher in due form."
Thus, the milestone is
certificate from the City of
achieved. Since the first 23
Amsterdam that the Jew is
Jews arrived here from Recief,
Bergher there. Which being
Brazil, in September 1654,
deliberated on, it is decreed, as
they have sought to achieve
before, that it cannot be al-
the status Of full- equality in
lowed, and he shall apply to
the Director General and ' - the community. Relentlessly,
they fought against negative
Council."
For 10 days, pressure, was acceptance while Governor
Stuyvesant, equally persistent
brought to bear on Governor
StUyvesant and the Council to in his opposition to the Jews,
sought to deny their pleas. •
approve the Jewish petition for
the `burgher right." Then,. on • On setting foot upon the soil
April 20, a new Petition was pre- of New Amsterdam, the Jews
sented to the authorities, signed had to fight for the right • to
by Salvador Dandrada, Jacob live here. They had to fight for
Cohen _Henricques. Abraham de- the right to own property and
to trade and travel in the New
Lueena and Joseph d'Acosta.
The - second • petition noted Netherland domain. They had
with "great surprise" the rejec- to . fight for the right. to defend
tion of Levy's application, and their homes in common with
pointed out that on Feb. 15, 1655, other citizens.
Each time the Jews presented
the Directors of- the Dutch West
India Company in Holland had apetition, Governor Stuyvesant
written Stuyvesant that Jews in turned it down. Each time • the
New Amsterdam should be given Jews, appealed to the Dutch West
India Company in Holland,
Governor Stuyvesant was over-
ruled and the Jews emerged vic-
tors.
The cosmopolitan population
of New • Amsterdam has watched
these proceedings with rapt at-
tention. It regards the Jewish
fight for freedom vital . to its
own aspirations for equal rights
so long denied by the testy Chief
Executive of local government.
The people here are very much
conscious of the fact that the
Dutch Reformed Church, is still
the official religious institution
in the colony and that no dis-
senting faith can be practiced
publicly. This situation is unlike
that in the- other Dutch posses-
sions in the West Ihdies and
Guiana, where the people enjoy
considerably more liberty than
they do here.

DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-3 Austrian Leader Relates
Friday, February 12, 1954
'Advice' to Leave Country

Name Dr. Leo M. Davidoff
To Einstein Medical Staff

NEW YORK, (JTA)—Dr. Leo
M. Davidoff, internationally
known neuro-surgeon, has been
named professor and chairman
of the Department of Surgery
at the Albert Einstein College of
Medicine, Dr. Samuel Belkin,
president of Yeshiva University,
sponsor of the college,. an-
nounced.

VIENNA, (JTA) — Dr. Peter
Krauland, who was the Austrian
Cabinet Minister responsible for
confiscated Jewish property after
the liberation of Austria and is
now being tried on charges of
misuse of his office for personal
gain, has charged that top Aus-
trian political leaders advised
him to get out of the country
rather than, stand trial.

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