New-York tribune., 1896-02-01

Netherlands. Perhaps IN the Lutheran archives.
too the documents Of the "Augsburg' Church.
much o. value be found. Whatever these
may be, IT will take accomplished scholar 10
read them. Few are known to-day who can make
headway with this ancient Dutch. and It's strange
legal forms o. composition
In all probability there were prosperous Jews IN
New-Amsterdam before 1880 Governor Peter Stuy-
vesant is known TO have done his best 70 drive
these people away little later. showing crcum-
stantally that they already firmly intIenchei
here But he failed utterly ia this attempt for the
good reason that many OF the stockholders in the
Great West India Company at home IN Holland
were prosperous Jews, and their influence saved
their co-relgiOnists here.
DOCUMENTS IN HOLLAND TO BE STUDIED.
Facts like these related, told by inference.
In the documents here that have been studied and
many other papers await examination. At this
end alone the task Is herculean But the papers
spread upon the minutes Of the church here are IN
most cases only the letters received from Holland.
outside Of course OF the actual proceei.ngs of
the New Amsterdam ChuIcA. L''tg i,toi & ~ ','c W
answers t. secn letters sent 10 II ,Hthl Nau 'o
found here. All Of these the American Jewlsh HIS
toTc Soeeiy plop,2Sse7 p,S r, 10 iEe b, n ~ Of
ioch continents. who Hil De enabled T. speni
Portugal viii likewise have to b exam.ncl.
much more difficult thnei Tor Ola Por'1suese IS m
obscure tongue. Brazil. BarhAio's ana a score %,
points in South America aia NE We. lAt4,5 I.l
have to bo VISITED i2r do,Iinem,s & rn are & % o
this subject. Eariy settlements were made BY the
Dutch in all these regions, and 'hcre is eve.y
reason for believing that Jews accompanied them.
and that they were rcn ami powerful jews, 81 a
S Sphariic W. the poets. r5nonors and scholars
that filed Portugal in the Middle ACES, ana were s
prominent figures in that coun'ry's cause INC
society has already made tne groundwork Tor
these researches soon 10 be taken up in me papers
II has read az its annual meetings, the last OF
which was IN Washington last January, ana all OF
these paPes have 6een pFnta n bt rApn mp sle1 o n
ear,hed is that at the time of the Rcvolutio2 'as
Tsaiel by n an essav he reaD the onc
jewish congregation OF New York-shcarith Israel
and T6rIes party headed by the rabbi was in
favor Of closing up me synas9eme ana & Joining c le
ton declared IT none OF the synagogue anaiT.
that they should keep along quietly ana not not IT, in-
sodlery Of Britain. 1t was hot discussion but
better coqnsss % nna pre@aa any yho Of S1 @
ing the Colonial troops. and 1t vas not untn ihir-
teen years after. or in 1883. that the institution
EARLY SITES DISCOVERED
The sites OF the first Jewish synagogue In
America and OF tho private house in which the
Jews held services years before have bt n been
discovered
The annual meeting Of he society held in
Philadelphia yesterday and the day before There
are now nearly two hundred members, the roll
showing many active and promineht 1nrist.ahs; -;
budapest; NJ Anatole Leroy -Beaulieu OF Paris ex-
}1dge chaes Of r d3aSn De of YORK ana Feaer'
The officers ana council are President Oscar
s Straus: v.ce-presidents Dr. Charles Gross
Of Harvard: ex- Attorney General simon W. Rosen-
Gals and Paul Leicester Ford; corresponding
sccretary, DR.. cyrus Adler. of Johns Hopk!ns re.
cordng secretary. DR.. Herbert l'r!endenWald, Of
Johns Hopkins treasurer. Professor H. j. H. Gott,
Scu of Columbia CoeEe council. the officers and
Menles Cohen secretary - the His,orical Society
~ Narvlar1: DR. B Felsenthll, OF Ia, University
Of Chcaco, Professor Morris JastrCw jr Uni,
phijato'Dhia; " Taylor Phillips clerk Of Shearith
israel Congregation, New-York; simon Wofi of
iI,shir .-.nn: Dr J. II. Hollanier, OF Johns Hop
l,ine and Max J. Kohler. OF New-York.