COMPILE, BY ELIZAIETN APPLEBAUM

Monticello's Jewish Connection

his week's presiden-
tial inaugural festiv-
ities began when
President-elect Bill
ton and Vice President-
elect Al Gore took a tour
of Monticello, Thomas
Jefferson's
stately Vir-
ginia man-
sion.
Yet Presi-
dent Bill and
his pal Al
probably never
would have
had the oppor-
tunity to visit
the third pres-
ident's house
had it not
been for the
efforts of a Jew, Uriah
Phillips Levy (1792-1862).
Born in Philadelphia,
Mr. Levy ran away to sea
when he was 10 and spent
almost the rest of his life
as a mariner. At 20, he
joined the U.S. Navy,
where he rose through the
ranks to become com-
modore of the Mediter-
ranean fleet.
Mr. Levy also made a
fortune in New York real
estate. In 1836, during
inactive service, he ac-
`) quired Jefferson's man-
sion and its surrounding
' acreage, by then decrepit.
(Jefferson had left office

deeply in debt. After he
died in 1826, his estate at
Monticello — the house,
its furnishings and more
than 10,000 acres — was
sold.)
At great expense, Mr.
Levy restored
the house to
its former
magnificence.
He also track-
ed down and
reclaimed
some of the
original fur-
nishings. In
1839, • his
mother, Rach-
el
Phillips
Levy,
was
buried near
the walk approaching the
main house.
Mr. Levy left Monticello
to his nephew, Jefferson
Monroe Levy (1852-1924),
a U.S. congressman from
New York. J.M. Levy
maintained Monticello,
using it as a summer
home.
Uriah Levy intended for
Monticello to become an
agricultural school for
children of deceased naval
officers. Instead, the
estate was purchased by a
public organization and
dedicated as a national
monument.

World's Oldest Olives
Surface On Haifa Coast

TA — Traces of what
are believed to be the
oldest olives in the
world, and indications of
their early use for indus-
trial purposes some 7,000
years ago, have been
found in underwater
archaeological digs off the
Israeli coast, south of
Haifa.
Turbulent waters in
recent storms helped
uncover the remains of
several primitive villages,
found between 400 and
500 yards from the pre-
sent shoreline, indicating
that at the time the land
extended further west-
ward, with beach areas
eroded over the ages.
Israel Antiquities Auth-

ej

ority official Ehud Galili
said the containers in
which the olives were
found, and what appears
to have been primitive
equipment for treating or
working with the olives,
indicate that the villagers
had turned from an earli-
er hunting existence to
living by farming and
primitive agriculture, and
were evolving a "cottage
industry."
The remains were well-
preserved by sand and silt
for thousands of years,
and the olives preserved
by salt pickling, until the
sand was churned up by
the waves and exposed to
underwater divers.

Icolm X Anti-Semiti

Camp Ramah
Tikvah Program

E

very summer some-
thing special hap-
pens in Conover,

Wis.
That's because each
summer Jewish teens with
special needs increase
their sense of responsibili-
ty and accomplishment
through a program called
Tikvah at Camp Ramah in
Wisconsin.
Tikvah is an eight-week
program designed for
Jewish teens with learn-
ing disabilities. Its aim is
to help each child grow,
learn and challenge him-
self in a nurturing envi-
ronment.
The camp combines
intensive Jewish study
with a fully developed
recreational program. All
Tikvah campers partici-
pate in the regular Ramah
program whenever possi-
ble. The Tikvah camp is
staffed by specially
trained counselors, teach-
ers and group leaders.
For information, contact
Camp Ramah in Wis-
consin, 65 E. Wacker,
Suite 820, Chicago, Ill.
60601, or call (312) 606-
9316.

••••.

Booklet
Advice On
Heritage

he Union of Ameri-
can Hebrew Congre-
gations has a booklet
which offers valuable
hints on preserving a con-
gregational heritage.
The booklet covers such
topics as documenting
articles of incorporation,
the cemetery, real estate
and artifacts like Torah
scrolls, as well as collect-
ing oral histories and pre-
serving photographs.
For information, contact
the UAHC, 838 Fifth Ave.,
New York, N.Y. 10021.

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hing
toward Jews
g to
if ambivalent,
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Man Who Changed
America.
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the black and Jewish co
munities, Mr. Pa,
writes. "He observed
both peoples had
enslaved and for%
leave their ani
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ments of both g
sought to return.
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that the J,
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pride in
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trustees on a
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planned to rob.
bi
awing more atten-
o blacks, Jews
acted malevolence
rd themselves, he

Malcolm also derided
, e Jews who "bought"
tlantic City and Miami
ach, Mr. Parry
ounts. He said that,
'en there's something
owning, the Jew's

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; :zed "the avarice

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had forsworn
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average J'
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and it remained .;Very
impOrtant.'tcy:' him," Mr.
HOffa'S daughter,
bara I-Ioffa Crancer, told
the VVastlington-:4ewish'

The ptoje6t :46g4ii. in
1956, most likely-:because
of ties between the U.S.
labor movement and the
•Histadrut, the Israeli
labor federation:
Later that : year,

M r . o

J ews in high esteem,

according to biographer
Arthur Sloane. "He said
once that if he could
come back (in another
life) as anything, it ,
would be as a Jew. I
think he saw them as a
people of great determi
nation, pluck and guts,
not dissimilar from the
way he saw himself"

