A Time for Planting
Subtitle: The First Migration, 1654-1820 (The Jewish People in America)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: May 1, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780801851209
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; American history: c 1800 to c 1900; History of specific racial & ethnic groups; Jewish studies; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Jewish - General; Religion - Judaism; History: American; USA; Judaism - General; United States - General; History / United States / General
First sentence: EARLY in the autumn of 1654, early enough to observe the religious new year in their new home, twenty-three Jews aboard the bark Sainte Catherine sailed through the lovely, spacious bay that led to Manhattan Island and made landfall there at the town of New Amsterdam.