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Addenda
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Amsterdam, to 1930.
Then came the transformation,
- as outlined in the demographic
facts authoritatively presented in
this volume.
It is the quantitative material
presented here that is so valuable
for a knowledge of American
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Jewish history.
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It is interestingly noted that the
first wave of Jewish immigrants
to this country was from England,
followed by Holland.
The 1830 census and city direc-
tories were screened by the author
to indicate the immigrants' ori-
gins, occupations and related, de-
mographic facts. - •
The following comments by the
author are worth noting:
A number of historians, in
their studies of Jewish com-
Moses . Montefiore
munities in individual Ameri-
can cities, have pointed out
brochure and perhaps the most how pioneer settlers "estab-
fascinating is a statement in lished a religious life for them-
which "Montefiore has given vent selves and their children, and
to his deeper feelings about at the same time became a part
America as he .spoke With pain of the mainstream of the land
• about the assassination of Ab- in which they lived." Wolf and
raham Lincoln." Quoting the Whiteman have summed up
Montefiore diaries is the text ex- the Jewish experience in
pressing Montefiore's feelings, Philadelphia in 1830 in a
presented as this appendix.
statement that also is applica-
nationwide.
In this context, the lesser ble "In
recent years commen-
known American record also tators
on contemporary
offers interesting supportive Jewish life
have placed em-
•evidence. An entry in the phasis on numbers,
overlook-
"diaries" (September, 1881) ing the fact that the creation
of
reveals the concrete Jewish pioneer synagogues, charities
_ reason for Sir Moses' high re-
schools in a new land
• gard for Americans and their and
the framework of
•"noble institutions." "How within
democracy, and the adapta-
many millions of our fellow be- tion
to a way of life which was
ings ... found a happy home completely
without precedent
there when all hope for an in the centuries
Jewish exis-
honorable maintenance in tence, were not of
only the foun-
their own. country had to be dations upon which successive
given up, 'because the land waves of Jewish immigration
which gave them birth ceased
but the patterns adopted
to -0'e them shelter and pro- built,
by
the
tection?" In the very same selves." immigrants them-
• vein, Sir Moses had given vent- • Despite their small numbers
•to his deeper feelings about the Jews in America' by 1830
•America as he spoke with pain had established a secure niche
about the assassination of Ab- - for themselves in contempor-
,. raham Lincoln:
society and in addition had
"Abraham Lincoln has bro- ary
created
institutions that would
ken the chains of the slaves immeasurably
ease the integ-
and succumbed. I wish that ration and adjustment to
God would grant me the American life of the vast num-
• strength and energy of his man bers of their coreligionists that
to break the chains of my were soon to follow.,
people, and I should have wil-
- lingly endured death like this
• - Abraham — this righteous
Tavy Stone's
man. Henceforth the Negroes
are free, and will remain so,
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Humane Fashion
• God willing. 0, that I could say
the same of Israel! In the ter-
Fashions are seldom, if ever
' ritories of the Czar, in aligned with humanism or the so-
- • Morocco, and in a thousand cial services of fellow citizens.
other countries, my brethren Tavy Stone proved that the two
are still waiting for their Ab- elements, the creative in garb and
raham Lincoln!"
the idealized in fellowship, have a
American Jewish Archives strong addiction.
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- earn appreciation for presenting • Seldom, also if ever, has a fellow
these facts in the Moshe Davis •citizen been accorded so many tri-
butes as Tavy Stone.
• noteworthy Montefiore record.
Her newspaper, the Detroit
News, editorially referred to her
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Demographics
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as having "championed fashions."
Ira Rosenwaike, a research •But the editorial and communal
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specialist at the University of tributes were not'limited to that
of fusion in a person's nota-
• Pennsylvania, in On the Edge of form
ble achievements.
Greatness: A Portrait ofAmerican
She was not an isolationist in
Jewry in the Early National
family
Period" introduces a study of the •citizenship. • Her
background
attested
to
a rich
Jews
from
1654,
the
year
of
the
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