Mordecai Noah Mr. Noah and Mt. Ararat
IN 1815, AMERICAN SEAMAN WERE IMPRISONED
IN ALGERIA. MEANWHILE. IN THE Us'. ...
YOU SENT FOR
MR. NOAH, AS CONSUL
ME, PRESIDENT TO TUNIS, YOU MUST
MADISoN?
MADISON
FREE OUR MEN AND
RESPECT FOR THE
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UNITED STATES!
MORDECAI NOAH THUS EMBARKED ON
AN AMAZING CAREER. EARLIER,AS
A YOUNG BOY...
YOUR GREAFGPANDF,ATHER
CAW HERE IN 1733, AND I WILL,
I FOUGHT IN THE AMERICAN GRAND-
REVOLUTION. ALWAYS FATHER!
REMEMBER WHO YOU
ARE, MORDECAI!
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AFRICA BY PRESIDENT MADISON. ONE PAY,
A U.S. WARSHIP ARRIVED...
NOAH SOON ANSWERED THAT OUESTION!
GENTLEMEN, I HAVE CHOSEN A
HOMELAND FOR OUR OPPRESSED
BRETHREN! GRAND ISLAND —
NEAR BUFFALO, N.Y.!
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IN 1812, NOAH MOVED TO CHARLESTON,
SOUTH CAROLINA...
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Friday, November 3, 1967-13
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
"WE DEAL RIGHT THE FIRST TIME"
JERRY STEIN
OLDSMOBILE
THE EASY TO GET TO DEALER
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JERRY STEIN
PRESIDENT
HIS BRILLIANT SPEECHES MADE HIM
WELL KNOWN._
YCU HAVE FREED
OUR SAILORS...BUT
.THERE ARE
OTHER REASONS.
MAJOR NOAH! PLAY
WRIGHT! SHERIFF!
JOURNALIST! WHAT
ELSE WILL WU DO,
SIR.
ALLEN CHARNES
VICE-PRESIDENT
15205 E. JEFFERSON
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JUST E. OF ALTER RD.
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JERRY STEIN OLDSMOBILE
JUST RETURNED FROM ISRAEL WITH
NEW VISTAS FOR ALIYAH TO ISRAEL
WE WILL CALL IT MT. ARARAT!
I MYSELF WILL BE GOVERNOR
AND A *JUDGE. IN ISRAEL' S
Shmuel Werzberger, Director of the Israel Aliyah Center will meet with
people interested in -ofessional opportunities in fields of engineering,
medicine, education,. social work or who are interested in Aliyah for
any purpose,
To advise them of the new benefits that will soon be available to
newcomers in the areas of housing, rentals, tuitions, employment, tax
and customs easements, etc.
AT THE LABOR ZIONIST INSTITUTE
NO ONE BIER WENT TO 'ARARAT..
AMERICA ITSELF PROVED A
LAND OF FREEDOM FOR ALL
BUT WE STILL REMEMBER...
19161 Schaefer Rd.
Wednesday and Thursday, November 8th and 9th
Please call 341-0669 for appointment.
For further information, contact ISRAEL ALIYAH CENTER area office,
13947 Cedar Rd., Cleveland, Ohio 44118 — Tel. 216-321-0757.
AN AMERICAN DREAMER AND
PIONEER-MORDECAI/AANUEL NOAH!
Tlis cartoon and story are 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.
Morris Epstein's essay on Mor-
decai Noah follows:
He was a dreamer of dreams with
an enormous appetite for action.
Strange as that may sound, it never-
theless sums up the life and career
of a fascinating figure in American
Jewish history.
Ambitious and energetic, Mor-
decai Noah hoped to establish a
refuge for the persecuted among
his people. Of this hope nothing
remains today but an inscribed
stone in the Historical Museum of
Buffalo, New York.
Born in Philadelphia in 1785,
he was raised by his grandfather,
who apprenticed him to a trade.
But Mordecai had a nose for news,
and he became a reporter at 15
and an editor at 25. He later led
a many-sided life: he was editor
of several New York newspapers,
author of half a dozen successful
plays, politician, and social leader.
He was also a major in the New
York State Militia, officer of a
synagogue, president of Jewish
charities, sheriff of New York
County, judge of the New York
Court of General Sessions, and
surveyor of the Port of New York.
He was proudest of his appoint-
ment as United States consul to
Tunis. His assignment was to ran-
som Americans taken prisoner by
pirates and to work out treaties.
When he was recalled, it was said
that he had spent too much ransom
money, but there were other rum-
ors, ugly ones, with anti-Jewish
overtones.
Noah never returned to govern-
ment service. But he was not a
man to sit still. On his travels he
had seen oppressed Jews in Africa
and Europe. In 1825 he had a
vision of rescuing his people from
world-wide oppression. Since Pales-
tine was not available, he would
build a city named Ararat on Grand
Island, in the Niagara River op-
posite Buffalo.
He persuaded a Christian friend
to buy the land and appointed him-
self the first Governor and Judge
over Israel. On dedication day, clad
in crimson, he led a long procession
to the river's edge. But there were
not enough boats to cross to the
island. So the cornerstone was
brought into a church and the cere-
monies took place there .
Noah issued a proclamation in-
viting Jews from all the countries
of the globe to settle in his new
city. He also invited the American
Indians, whom he believed to be
the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.
But no one paid attention to his
proclamation. The refuge of his
dreams remained a wilderness and
the cornerstone was later given
to the Buffalo Historical Society.
Noah died in New York in 1851.
His dream was not fulfilled, but it
bore the seeds of the Zionist move-
ment, which was to blossom fifty
years later and then flower into
the reborn State of Israel.
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