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Jonas Phillips: An Early Patriot
By MORRIS SCHAPPES
of his last son, Aaron, was
witnessed by his family
physician, the famous Dr.
Benjamin Rush
(1745-1813), who wrote it
up.
Editor, Jewish Currents
Perhaps the first copy of
the Declaration of Inde-
pendence sent to Europe
was the one enclosed July
28, 1776 when Jonas Phillips
wrote a Yiddish letter to his
friend Gumpel Samson in
Amsterdam to arrange to
transmit some money to his
widowed mother in the Hes-
sian town of Busbeck in
Rhenish Prussia.
Unfortunately the British
intercepted Phillips' letter
and filed it, Declaration and
all, in the London Public
Record Office, where today
it is one of 21 extant copies.
Jonas Phillips, born Jo-
han son of Aaron Feibush in
Busbeck, anglicized hiss
name in London before corn-
ing to Charleston, S.C. in
Nov., 1756. Moving up the
coast, he was in Albany as a
Freeman in 1759, selling
supplies to soldiers going
north in the French and In-
dian War.
In 1762, the 26-year-
old Ashkenaz married
the 16-year-uld Sephard,
Rebecca Machado near
Philadelphia. She bore
him 21 children, 12 of them
by 1778, when Phillips en-
rolled in the Philadelphia
militia at 42, as was re-
quired of all citizens 16 to
60.
Nine of the children died
in infancy.
Jonas was a founder,
president and pillar of the
Philadelphia Sephardic-led
congregation Mikveh Israel,
and Rebecca (1746-1831)
was active among the
women of the congregation,
raising funds for ritual dec-
orations.
After his marriage he set-
tled in New York, serving as
shohet of Congregation
Shearith Israel 1765-1770,
supplementing his 35
pounds a year salary by sell-
ing dry-goods and sundries.
In 1770, he was one of the
few signers of the Non-Im-
`No M.E. Peace
Without Soviets'
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Dr. Nahuni Goldmann,
president of the World Jew-
ish Congress, said Oct. 5
that there could be no peace
in the Middle East without
Soviet participation in the
process.
"I am sure they (the Rus-
sians) want peace but they
will not allow a Pax Ameri-
cana and without Soviet
participation in the negotia-
tions, war might be re-
sumed in a year or even a
half a year," the world Jew-
ish leader said.
Dr. Goldmann said he
was disengaging himself
from public Jewish func-
tions because "they begin to
bore me." Nevertheless, he
expressed his views on a va-
riety of subjects.
With regard to the new
Israeli-Egyptian interim
accord in Sinai, he said, "I
am against the Kissinger
step-by-step policy, but
time won is still time
gained."
JONAS PHILLIPS
portation Agreements that
constituted an early colonial
form of resistance to British
oppression.
Naturalized April 25,
1771, he moved to Philadel-
phia in 1773, remaining un-
til he died.
In 1792, the circumcision
Concerned with the sepa-
ration of church and state,
and aware of discrimination
against Jews in the Pennsyl-
vania Constitution, he wrote
Sept. 7, 1787 to the Consti-
tutional Convention meet-
ing in Philadelphia, remind-
ing the delegates, "it is well
known . . . that the Jews
. . . have been foremost in
aiding and assisting the
states with their lives and
fortunes, they have sup-
ported the cause, have
bravely fought and bled for
liberty which they cannot
enjoy."
The Convention, however,
had already agreed on Art.
6, banning any religious
test.
GENEVA — Gen. Chaim
Herzog, the Israeli Ambas-
sador to the UN, is presi-
dent of ORT Israel and vice
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