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Touro, is the item "Two Can-
tors Exchange Pulpits."
* * *
The manner in which mer-
chants helped one another is
told in the 1770 message—"The
Longest -Way Around Is the
Shortest Way Home." Dr. Mar-
cus explains that it is a letter
from Jacob Melhado, of Ja-
maica, asking Michael Gratz,
of Philadelphia, to forward an
enclosed note to the Dutch
Island of St. Eustasius. There
was no regular service between
the island and Jamaica which
are 300 miles apart and it was
quicker to send a message
from Jamaica to St. Eustasius
by way of Philadelphia, a
2,000-mile round trip.
Readers of Dr. Marcus' in-
teresting collection will be in-
trigued by items like the one
of Jer. Fish, of Jan. 28, 1778—
"Samuel Jacobs Fiddles and
Reads Plays." Or the 1779 ex-
change of gossip between
Isaac M. Seixas and Aaron
Lopez. Then there are the
letters about "Samuel Jacobs,
Jr.: Problem Child." The latter
incidents begin in Quebec and
end with the disappointing son
going to Jamaica. There are
also items about Samuel
Jacobs' daughters, one of whom
was cut off with a small sti-
pend in his will because she
married contrary to his wishes.
The Canadian Samuel Jacobs
also is represented by a letter
informing a Montreal merchant
that he had no more horse-
radish, and offering him celery
instead.
* * *
"We Are Delivered from a
Cursed, Proud Nation" — a
1783 letter — is by Sheftall
Sheftall, who wrote: "I sin-
cerely congratulate you on the
great and happy event. We are
delivered from a cursed, proud
nation, Britton."
Another item of historical
merit, dated Boston, Sept. 9,
1789, entitled "Moses Michael
Hays Introduces Paul Revere,"

reads:

"Colonel Paul Revere will
hand you this. His business to
Providence is to purchase five
or six tons of pig metal, which

he wishes to have at three or
four months credit, understand-
ing that it is the usual terms
you sell pig metal. Colonel
Revere will punctually comply
with his contract for such a
quantity, and for which I will
by this letter be his guaran-
tee." It is signed by M. M.
Hays.
Of more than passing in-
terest is the item "Haym Salo-
mon Is Certified as a Patriot
—1776"—based on a letter by
a young Albany lawyer and
Whig leader, Leonard Ganse-
voort, to Maj. Gen. Philip J.
Schuyler, in which he informed
the General "that Mr. Salomon
has hitherto sustained the
character of being warmly at-
tached to America." The letter
recommends Salomon to peddle
among soldiers.
* * *

__There are several listings of
pioneering Jews who operated
in Michigan, having come to
this area as fur traders from

Canada.

Samuel Judah (1754-1785),
of Montreal, is mentioned
twice as a merchant who made
several business trips here
during and after the Revolu-
tionary War and who dealt
with furs, in trade exchanges
with Indians in Detroit.
Chapman Abram of Detroit
and Benjamin Lyon of Michili-
mackinac are mentioned in
connection with their religious
activities in Shearith Israel
Synagogue in. Montreal.
Then there is this interesting
item about the pioneer De-
troiter:
"Ezekiel Solomons, a Jew
from Berlin, had come to Can-

ada with the British troops. He
was a member of a combine
of five army purveyors and,
after the fall of New France,
turned to fur trading, operat-
ing primarily at Mackinac. It
was there, in June, 1763, that
he was captured- by Indians
who seized the fort. Subse-
quently ransomed, Solomons
was the f - irst Jewish settler
of present day Michigan."
The name Chapman Abram
is linked with fur trading in
Detroit and he is mentioned as
having been active here in
1769. The will of Chapman
Abram (1783) is one of the
interesting documents in the
book.
Gershon Levy & Co. is men-
tioned as "fur traders operat-
ing in the Upper County, now
for the most part Michigan."
* * *
There is such a vast variety
of subjects' in these documents
that this reviewer recommends
the book for use in study
courses which could go over
the entire historical period
involved in the letters and
messages compiled by Dr.
Marcus. Every item reveals an

incident in early American
Jewish history.
Pathos mingles with humor
in many of the -documents, and
there is a score of human
interest episodes. For instance,
there is a letter revealing that
Gershom Mendes Seixas, the
first native-born American to
serve as "rabbi" of a congre-
gation in this country — at
Shearith Israel in New York —
was rejected as a suitor for
the hand of a daughter of
Aaron Lopez, wealthy Newport
shipper.
There are historical facts
about kashrut, synagogue activi-
ties, philanthropic undertak-
ings, messengers from Pales-
tine, redemption of captives,
Jewish life in Virginia and
other colonies, "anchovies and
wenches," trading with Indians,
personalities and events.
"American Jewry—Documents
—Eighteenth Century" is an
historical treasure, an informa-
tive volume packed full of
entertaining items, a work of
immense merit. It is worthy of
the choicest place in home and
public libraries.
----P.S.

AJ Congress Criticizes Special Bill
Preventing Artukovic Deportation

NEW YORK, (WJA)—A pri-
vate Bill "for the relief of
Andrija Artukovic," introduced
in the U.S. Congress by Rep.
James B. Utt of California, was
the subject of an intervention
by the American Jewish Con-
gress.
The bill proposes, among
other things, that "for the pur-
pose of the Immigration and
Nationality Act, Andrija Artu-
kovic shall be held an con-
sidered to have been lawfully
admitted to the United States
for permanent residence as of
the date of the enactment of
this Act, upon payment of the
required visa fee."
Artukovic, Minister of the In-
terior in the government of the
Croat quisling Pavelic, set up
in 1941, was responsible for the
establishment of concentration
camps in which thousands of
Serbs, Jews and Gypsies were
destroyed.
He entered the U.S. illegally
in 1948, and in 1951 the Yugo-
slav government filed deporta-
tion proceedings. This petition
was enventually rejected by a
Los Angeles District Court in
1958, when it was ruled, among
other things, that the Yugoslav
government had failed to pro-
duce such evidence "by Ameri-
can standards" to hold Artu-
kovic on a charge of murder.
In a letter to Cong. Emanuel
Celler, chairman of the House
Judiciary Committee, Dr.
Joachim Prinz, president of the
American Jewish Congress, said
that Representative Utt's Bill,

which he said the Croation
nation "could not act otherwise
but to clean its national body
from such poisoned, dangerous
creatures and voracious para-
sites, Jews, Communists and
Freemasons."
In the event of public hear-
ings on the matter by the House
Judiciary Committee, Dr. Prinz
requested that the AJ Congress
be given an opportunity to pre-
sent its point of view.

British MPs Seek
More Books for Israel

LONDON (JTA) — Three
Labor Party members of Parlia-
ment, Mrs. Irene White, George

Thompson and Barnett Janner,
asked the British Government
to provide Israel with more
British books, films and other
cultural supplies.
Addressing an inquiry to the
Government on this subject,
Mrs. White pointed out that
Britain sends to Israel annual-
ly books valued at only 25,000
pounds sterling, while the
United States book export to
Israel amounts to 500,000
pounds sterling a year.
Thompson told the members
of the House of Commons that,
when he visited Israel, he
found it difficult to obtain any
British books at all in Israeli
book shops. Janner told the
House he had received nu-
merous questions from Israelis
who want to know "why they
can get cheaply-priced Russian
and American books, but not
British books."

Open Youth Center

"if enacted, would in effect
suspend the deportation of for Brussels Jewry
BRUSSELS (JTA) — A new
Artukovic ordered by the Im-
migration and Naturalization youth center for the Jewish

Service in 1953, and deem him Community of Brussels — the
lawfully admitted to the United 40th institution of the kind
States for permanent resi- opened in Europe in the last
five years—was dedicated here
dence."
"The American Jewish Con- in a building remodeled and
gress urges that the private bill equipped with monies supplied
be reported unfavorably be- by the Joint Distribution Com-
cause it believes that Artukovic, mittee and the Conference on
former Minister of the Interior Jewish Material Claims Against
in the Nazi puppet state of Germany, with the JDC addi-
Croatia, • is unworthy of such tionally furnishing technical
assistance.
special legislation."
Responsibility for mainten-
The letter quotes a speech ance and operations of the
made by Artukovic before the Center now rests with the local
Croatian Parliament in 1942, in Jewish community.

Japanese Examining Writers Because of Speech Snub

Author Arthur Koestler has field of leftist intellectual atti-
touched off a wide-spread dis- tudes as a result of the con-
cussion in Japan's press and has
troversy.
turned the spotlight on the
leftist writers of that country NoW1 4.0"4.0"1446.0100"4-
by turning down an invitation
to speak at a Japanese authors'
organization because it sup-
ported the Soviet Union in its
attacks on Boris Pasternak.
We Make and Re-Dye
Pasternak was the subject of
to
Match Your Garment
much abuse in Russia after pub-
lication of his novel "Dr.
Zhivago." which is now a best-
seller in non-Iron Curtain coun-
tries. Koestler is the author of
"Darnels at Noon," and other
novels.
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