Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1905-11-30
SETTLEMENT OF JEWS
IN THE UNITED STATES

erica in a manner that did ample hon.
or to the event. The cozy synagogue
was literally packed, the full member
ship of the congregation taking in
Jewish residents of Bloomsbury. Ber-
wick, as we'll as Of Danvil!e being
present on the occasion along with a
large number OF our townspeople who
are members of the Christian churches
The regular Sabbath evening ser
vices were conducted by Rabbi Joseph
Zeisler, aided by the Temple choir a.
far as the alteration.
Rev. NJ. L. Shindel, D. D., pastor
of the Pine Street Lutheran church,
offered fervent and very appropriate
prayer, which was preceded and fol-
lowed with singing by the Keystone
Double Male Quartette.
Rabbi Zeisler gave historical out
line of the Jewish emigration to the
United States and the present activity
Of the Jews. 1t was a most excellent
address The Rabbi is a ready and
forceful speaker and presented an ar
ray of interesting facts new to many
people.
The Jew. he said, is no interloper
or late conner, as many suppose. At
least five persons WHO were Jews &C
companied Columbus on his voyage of
discovery.
1t was a coincidence, he said, that
during the year in which Columbus
set sail for the new world the decree
was issued banishing the Jews from
the kingdom of Spain. The Jews, 300,
900. in number, were thus obliged to
turn their faces toward strange lands.
Very eloquently the Rabbi followed
the fortunes of those of his lace who
emigrated to the American colonies.
Those who emigrated to New Amster
dam in 1866 were made up principally
of Spanish and Portuguese Jews. To
these tolerance and freedom was deni-
ed even i'll the new world and the
speaker with great feeling recounted
their trials and prosecutions.
In Rhode Island under Roger Will
liams and in Pennsylvania under the
Penns, they were accorded tho full
| degree of citizenship. In Rhode Is
land they brought over with them the
| degrees of Freemasonry. They came
| to Pennsylvania about 1865. These
were German Jews. They did not set
tie in Philadelphia, but in the smaller
towns thI Oughout the State.
This brought the narrative up to the
| hrst settlement of the Jews in Dan
Vile, which occurred in 1S40. the first
to arrive being Louis Long and Jacob
Loeb, prominent men. These were
shortly followed by others, among
whom were Simon Ellenbogen, Henry
l.. Gross, Moses Bernheimer, Moses
| Bloch, and many others whose names
are familiar to the Jewish people.
Mrs. James Scarlet rendered solo.
Then followed the address of the even
ing by James Scarlet, Esq.
Mr.. Scarlet's address ranked with
the best and most eloquent efforts of
his life. The vast array of facts pre-
sented, each fortified by history, burst
upon many people with all the force
| and effect of revelation. Following
| - - of tba odHrocc.
come to pay tribute to the living
and dead of the most marvellous peo-
pls the world has known. OF all the
stories of the sous of men, there is
none so wild none SO wonderful, none
so replete with suffering and honor, so
aboundinR in special providences, so
overfowing with romance as the his
tory of the Jew.
Egyptian, and Assyrlan. Roman and
| Scandinavian. Turk and Russian. Priest
and King, Crusader and Inquisitor
have conquered, exiled. robbed. tortur-
ed, massacred and burned for thou
sands of years to exterminate the race !;
yet all has been in vain. From every
CLINE, the Jew turns his face toward
| Jerusalem with that sublime faith of
Judaism. that in His own good time
Jehovah, the God of Israel, will gather
his wandering children home to sing
again the songs Of Zion and worship
in the temple at Jerusalem.
What learning, what art, what sci
ence which now pours it's f1oodtide of
blessings upon mankind has not been
augmented by the Jew? Who could
write the history of Philosophy with
out the names of Philio, Maimonides.
Spinoza and Moses Menndelsohn.
Who could measure the stars in their
courses, weigh the sun and map out
the heavens without the aid of the
discoveries OF Gamaliel, Mar Samuel,
John of Savilla. Judas Ben Hakohen,
,, Ben Samuel; Ben Israel Ben Gibbon,
Sir William Herschel, Sir John Her
sohel, Goldschmidt, Beer and Lowey?
Emblazoned upon the scroll of fame
in the law, Germany points with pride
to the name of Cans, Lssker, Gold
scmidt France to Cremieux and Luz
atti in Sicily, Austria to CHASER;
England to Sir George Jessel, her
great master of the Rolls, to Benjamin
Simon, Goldsmith, and Lewis and the
United States in every state of the
Union he is found pre.eminent at the
bench and bar.
Can the triumphs of England in
craftsmanship be written without the
name of Beaconsfeld, or of Germany
without the name OF Lasker, Mannheim
or and Gabriel Resser or of France
without the name of her great Minist-
er OF Justice Cremiux and Achilefould
four times minister OF finance under
Louis Napoleon and a Commander of
the Legion OF Honor.