• - a , • \ \ • THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday,-January 10, 1986 15 \ \ ESTION DO YOU DISCOUN T? PURELY\ COMMENTARY Addenda Continued from Page 13 • 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 •' Jewish history. • 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, • 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. • - 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 • . Demographics • as having "championed fashions." Ira Rosenwaike, a research •But the editorial and communal • 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. 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