September 12, 1958 • Page Image 29
…"An entire new scene will open itself, and we have the world to begin againe," wrote Mordecai Sheftall, a Savannah Jew, in 1783, as the war be tween England and the newly independent United States ended. A copy of Sheftall's letter, or- iginating in the B. H. Levy Col- lection, is found in the files of the American Jewish Archives, the research center on the Cin- cinnati campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. As Sheft...…

















































