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vania, religious toleration
was of prime importance, and
Jews were attracted here for
that reason.
They began settling in the
city in the 1730s and by the
time of the Revolution, they
numbered about 200.
"Jews were very much ac-
cepted and worked side by
side with non-Jews," says Ms.
Cohen. "There was very little
anti-Semitism in the early
days. The Jews who lived here
were very much integrated
into the life of the city."
We walk southwest a few
blocks, and soon we're on
Fifth Street near Market. At
55 North Fifth is the Na-
tional Museum of American
Jewish History, the only
museum in the U.S. devoted
exclusively to American
Jewish history. Directly ad-
joining it is Mikveh Israel
sanctuary, the fourth home of
this historic congregation.
The synagogue was opened in
1976 in honor of the nation's
bicentennial and is now home
to the city's only Sephardic
congregation. Several of the
ritual objects in the sanctuary
date back to colonial times,
and Ms. Cohen encourages us
to visit it later on our own.
Meanwhile, our walking
tour continues, as we cross
the street and head for the
Liberty Bell Pavilion in In-
dependence Mall, where we
join the tourists who are
waiting to see one of the na-
tion's most treasured land-
marks.
As a National Park guide
briefly explains its history,
children get close and peer at
the crack, and cameras click
as tourists — many of them
foreign — take photos of the
nation's most famous bell.
Our group has a special in-
terest in the bell. Ms. Cohen
explains that it was shipping
magnate Nathan Levy and
his partner, David Frank,
who owned the Myrtilla, the
ship which carried the Liber-
ty Bell to America in August
1752.
Our next stop, Carpenter's
Hall, was built in 1770 as a
meeting hall for the
Carpenters' Guild Society.
The first Continental Con-
gress also met here, and it
was a place where many ideas
were explored especially in
pre-Revolutionary times.
Colonial Jews played a part
in the activity. When mer-
chants gathered here in 1774
to discuss and then pass the
non-importation resolutions
against British goods,
Mathias Bush, president of
Mikveh Israel, was the first to
sign. Other Jewish signers
were Barnard and Michael
Gratz and Moses Mordecai.
Walking two blocks west,
we approach Independence
Hall, one of the nation's most
historic sites. Here the
delegates met to draft the
Declaration of Independence,
when Philadelphia was the
capital of the colonies; in
1776, a special kosher table
was set up for Jewish
delegates.
Next we walk west to 418
Spruce to see Society Hill
Synagogue. Like other sites
in the Society Hill area, it has
a history.
Originally it had been the
Spruce Street Baptist
Church, designed in 1829 by
Thomas Hugh Walker, the
same architect who designed
the U.S. Capitol in Washing-
ton, D.C.
Then, in 1911, it became a
synagogue for a Romanian
congregation, and there are
still Yiddish letters above the
door which, translated, read
The harmony
between Jews and
non-Jews in the
1700s is one
theme that is
emphasized during
our tour.
the Great Romanian
Synagogue.
Still later, in 1967, it
became the Society Hill
Synagogue, home to the pre-
sent Conservative congrega-
tion. "It's been in continuous
use as a religious building for
over 150 years," says Ms.
Cohen.
At 831 Spruce, site of Penn-
sylvania Hospital — first in
the nation — we see Mikveh
Israel Cemetery. Even though
it's not open to visitors, we
can look through the gate and
see the weathered, leaning
tombstones.
We also can see the
memorial to Haym Salomon,
the financier who helped
maintain the credit of the
Revolutionary government
and is one of the notable
Mikveh Israel members
buried here.
Others include Rebecca
Gratz, who founded one of the
nation's earliest Sunday
schools and worked tirelessly
on behalf of the poor and
Aaron Levy, a fur trader who
founded the town of Aarons-
burg in western Pennsyl-
vania. Also buried here are 21
Jewish soldiers who fought in
the Revolutionary War.
So this modest burial
ground, which led to the foun-
ding of Mikveh Israel, is
another reminder that in this
city so rich in history, co-
lonial Jews were an impor-
tant presence.
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