Israel Mapping Plans for Bonn Economic Pact
The First Citizen Asser Levy
IN 16541, ''PEG-LEGH PETER STUYVESANT
WAS THE GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK, THEN
KNOWN AS NEW AMSTERDAM.
GOVERNOR, A FRENCH
VESSEL HAS JUST LANDED
WITH 2.3 JEWS ABOARD!
BUT„ .
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WHAT? WE'VE TROUBLE
ENOUGH WITH THE SWEDES THE DUTCH
WEST INDIA CO./
AND THE ENGLISH!
WHAT WILL
SEND'EM BACK!
THEY SAY!„--".
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(Direct JTA
Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
PEG-LEG- SOFTENED ENOUGH TO
RECEIVE A COMMITTEE, HEADED BY
ASSER LEVY.
WE ARE
HOLLANDERS, COME
FROM BRAZIL IN
SEARCH OF RELIGIOUS
FREEDOM!
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BUT THEY DID NOT COUNT ON THE
COURAGE OF ASSER LEVY.
YOU ARE EXEMPT•'
IS IT TRUE THAT
YOU WILL NOT LET BUT EACH JEW
MUST DAY 65
US SERVE IN THE
DEFENSE OF
STUIVERS!
THE FORT ?
BUT WE ARE DUTCH CITIZENS!
WE FOUGHT FOR HOLLAND!
WE DEMAND THE RIGHT TO
BEAR ARMS! HERE 15
OUR PETITION!
GET
OUT
OF HERE/
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STUYVESANT AND LEVY EACH WROTE TO THE
DUTCH WEST INDIA CO. BACK CAME THE
REPLY:
"LET THE
JEWISH CITIZENS
SERVE." Humply
WHAT NEXT?
HE SOON FOUND OUT. r;LAUGHTER
I WANT THE RIGHT TO AS YOU WISH,
BUT ONLY
SLAUGHTER CATTLE FOR
MEAT ACCORDING TO
CITIZENS MAY
JEWISH LAW, AND THE
TRADE!
RIGHT TO TRADE
IN FORT ORANGE!
TRUE! BUT I AM AN
HONEST AND LOYAL
CITIZEN OF
AMSTERDAM.
JERUSALEM — Asher Ben Na- 1
than, Israel's ambassador to West
Germany, arrived here Tuesday for
participation in government dis-
cussions about the details of an
economic agreement to be made
with the Bonn government.
Among the items to be discussed
are the size of West German eco- 1
nomic aid and whether German as-1
sistance is to be linked to Israel's
development budget or to be tied!
with specific projects. Bonn is un-
derstood to have requested that
the latter course be followed.
The economic talks with West
Germany, to be held soon, will
translate into practice the promise
of economic aid to Israel made by
the Bonn government last spring
when it announced its readiness
to establish diplomatic relations
with Israel. Germany had moved
very slowly on implementing that
promise but finally agreed to start
the talks since Chancellor Ludwig
Erhard's government has been as-
sured of continuance by last fall's
election.
Earlier, in Berlin, Ben Nathan
was honored by a reception ten-
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SHALL I WRITE ANOTHER
LETTER TO THE DUTCH WEST
INDIA COMPANY, GOVERNOR?
50 LEVY— AND ALL THE JEWS— BECAME
CITIZENS IN THE DUTCH COLONY.
HOW GO THINGS, VERY WELL, PRAISED
BE GOD. WE WILL
FRIEND ASSER?
HAVE OUR FIRST
SYNAGOGUE. 500N.
I HAVE GIVEN
THE LAND FOR
A Levy
Bur
1-11U5 DID
THE FIRST
AMERICAN
JEWISH
CITIZENS
WIN THEIR
RIGHTS,
THANKS TO
A BRAVE
PIONEER
NAMED
A55ER LEVY!
This cartoon is reproduced from "A Picture Parade of Jewish History" by Morris Epstein,
published by Shengold Publishers, New York by special arrangement with the author and publishers.
In September 1654, the French
vessel St. Charles sailed slowly
Into New Amsterdam carrying
23 "healthy but poor" men, women,
and children. They were to become
the first Jewish community to set-
tle in what is now the United
States.
The 23 had set out from Recife,
Brazil, in January 1954, when the
town was captured from the Dutch
by the Portugese, who ordered all
Dutch subjects to leave. A vessel
carrying the 23 was attacked by
pirates who looted the ship. Res-
cued by the St. Charles, the refu-
gees were set ashore penniless in
New Amsterdam.
They were met by the only Jew-
ish settler in New Amsterdam, Ja-
cob Barsimson, who had come
from Holland a month earlier.
With their arrival, the Jews'
troubles increased. Peter Stuyve-
sant, the governor general of the
colony and a supporter of the
Dutch Reformed Church, had lit-
tle use for any other religious
groups in the colony — Huguenots,
Moravians, Presbyterians, or Jews
—but it was the Jews whom he
disliked especially.
However the Dutch West India
Company, which had established
the colony, told Stuyvesant not to
disturb the colony. Encouraged,
the group sought to share the du-
ties of the community. Asser Levy
petitioned for the right to stand
guard in the town as other burgh-
ers did. Until then, Jews had
been taxed instead. Levy won and
thus became the first Jewish sol-
dier in North America.
He then petitioned for burgh-
er rights, which, when granted,
gave him his citizenship.
The colony's major industry in
those days was fur trading with
the Indians, and Levy, after oppo-
sition from business rivals, suc-
ceeded in establishing the right of
free trade throughout the colony.
Levy became one of the six li-
censed butchers in the community,
but because of his religion, was
excused from slaughtering hogs.
While the little band of Jews
was winning these rights, similar
groups were carrying on the same
fight elsewhere. In . 1655 Jews
came to Delaware, in 1656 to
Maryland, in 1658 to Newport,
and in later years to Philadelphia,
Charleston, and other towns.
After the United States was es-
tablished, Jewish immigration,
like that of other groups, came in
waves. In the 19th Century, Jews
came from Germany, Holland, and
England. Oppression of Jews in Po-
land and Russia encouraged immi-
gration from Eastern Europe. The
next large-scale move was spurred
by Hitler's cruelties.
Historically, Asser Levy helped
found the tradition of religious
liberty in the New World. He set
a pattern for future Jewish immi-
grants, all of whom gave some-
thing to America in return for its
freedoms and protections.
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TEL AVIV (JTA) — Mrs. Golda ambassador to the United States
Meir, Israel's retired foreign min- and the United Nations, later min-
ister, took stock of her many years ister of education, finally the depu-
in the leadership of Israel govern- ty prime minister. Eban announced
ment affairs, and identified two that, next month, he will pay a
events as the highlights of her 12-day visit to the United States
career. and to Europe.
In the U.S.A., Eban will lecture
One was her being among the
signatories to Israel's Declaration at the University of Pennsylvania,
of Independence, in 1948. The in Philadelphia, and will receive
other was her appointment as Is- an honorary doctorate from Tern-
rael's first ambassador to the So- ple University, also in Philadel-
viet Union. She reviewed her ca- phia. He will appear before sever-
reer at a luncheon tendered in her al functions to be conducted by
honor by a committee of Israeli Jewish organizations, and will vis-
editors here. it the United Nations headquarters
"Standing at the crossroads of in New York. On his tour, he will
my life," she told assembled edi- confer with a number of foreign
tors, "I see that I have always ministers and other statesmen in
tried to abide by certain principles. both the U.S.A. and Europe.
I see that nothing was owed to me
for my being a servant of the peo-
ple. The concept that society has
obligations to a public servant —
whether to the position or to the
title — has been entirely alien to
me. I have also noted that some
LONDON (JTA) — Malaysian
people attach too much importance
Prime Minister Tanki Abdul Rah-
to their own deeds."
Referring to her ambassador- man announced in Kuala Lampur
the expulsion of an Israeli trade
ship to Moscow, which she called
"a great privilege," Mrs. Meir official and hinted strongly it was
noted the "great impact on So- because of Arab pressure.
The official is Moshe Yegar, 35.
viet Jewry caused by her arrival
He headed the Interasia Trading
in the Soviet capital as Israel's
Co., Ltd., half owned by the Is-
first envoy. "That impact," she
said, "was not due to the fact rael government.He was the only
Israeli official allowed to live in
that my name was Golda. They
probably never heard of me be- the mainly Moslem nation. The
fore. I, as Israel's first repre- prime minister told reporters that
sentative to their country, had Yegar "was indulging in poli-
been the privileged instrument. tics and if he was to carry on, we
would be embarrassed. We do not
It could have been anyone—even
a broomstick."
want to be quarreling with the
Mrs. Meir remains a member of Arab countries."
the Knesset. Her post as foreign
minister has now been taken over THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
by Abba Eban, formerly the Israel 12--Friday, January 21, 1966
At the reception, the cream of
West Berlin's society — political,
official and cultural — was pres-
ent.
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