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 i'm r#H nor r#ce.vad him as aaT taI.s-5s 1azeh hospitality lietat- ad. z.n# ven fohn afe4a0ofens s. who vas 1ne 3f ~he twenty great citizens 5ffra -6wn. wrote 10 the Clasis of Amsterdam asking fhat the Hebrew immigrants ..4odless= =eascals who arc q no benefit 10 the community, 5nt leok at everything for their own profit, may be sent away from here Stny- 1asant stormea and threatened and the condition of the refugees became pitiable
 In answer to q petition in ls55 sign ea by protesting Jews, who had ar rived in New Amsterdam from Brazil. the directors of the Dutch West India company instructed the governor that he Jews have permission 10 sail to and trade in New Netherland and to live and remqin there. provided inc poor among them shall not become q burden 10 the company or 10 the cor- munity. but be supported by their own nation.'
 This is roaarled IS the first great charter of civil and political rights made 10 Jews in modern times Bas about q year later they were restrain- od from building a synagogue, and anothel edfct excluded them from public zervice and retail trade
 Nnvf Ia Now zzz=,.l-=s fqfs# -asfae=- rezv tsh= settlement fa the United State. pas at Newport P L. where immf= erants from New Amsterdam settled n lf55. 4ttracfea bv the ItRerel pria. o.0fes adopted 6y Roger Wfl1ta as tl7a basis= of the commonwealth, the cefainal settlers in Rhode Island were followed bV many others. and about T century later there WAS strong h. aHx from Spain. Peffaeal and fAe West Indies. In 17f3#a sTaasoeHe was dedicated there being then ahogt iXt7-fve families in fhe New Ene- lead coleny amone them Aaron =Lo- rez. 2 rich shin oWoer and Jacob Rod CT cues Rivora. who introduced the manufacture of spermaceti into Ameri- The ra9alHtion dispersed the Hebrew colony. Newport gradually losing is commercial prestige as q result. The Tn0ro family baqHeafhed snm sufficient to n=aintain the old cometerV= and synaeoene. the latter qood Illustration of the old colonial architecture. and after long years if $ again nsed for worship
 The Hebrew settlers of Pnnnsrl- rania were of German stock, the old. est communities being Lancaster an4 aston The Pennsvlvania nioneers were Joseph Simon, Myer Hart and taron Levy Tn the records of Phila- delnhia two carly settlers are mon toned, Jonas Aaron d7o3) and Arnold Pambereer 072Gl It was in Phila, 7o1rbia hat the first Jewish Sunday 9cbool was established in 1898, in which Rebecca Gratz. whom Waeh ne ion Irvine suggested as model for Rebecca@ in 1vanhoe was the lead ing spirit
 ffefreuq oanae to Ceereia with 0ele- thorpe and six of them were eranted full rights by him as original settlers in 177333 Abraham de T.von in.r94uced orano culture In the revolHtion the Hebrews of Savannat wero stanch p2- tri9ts. as were the Hebrews of Charleston. Tn Maryland. where the lew doctor Jecoh fu1- brcz0. was '~:ea n fe79 far Nlosahooov it was ,aanv years heesee fuH relieiens liber- q v-ae oranted. an1 f WIS aot enti1 f@a+ that two Hebrew offiea-hoIAers -t,a ol-ete1 witho.t hoino ohlieed n 99lsro their faith in the Christian rss Gaion.
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