The American Synagogue
Subtitle: A Sanctuary Transformed
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 13, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9780521534543
Subjects: Judaism; Religion - Judaism; Religion; USA; History; Judaism - General; Religion / History; Religion / Judaism / General; Religion-Judaism - General; Synagogues--United States--History
First sentence: Little more than half a year after the first Jews arrived in New Amsterdam, the Reverend Johann Megapolensis of the Reformed Dutch Church wrote to his superiors in Amsterdam, on March 18, 1655: "Last summer some Jews came here from Holland. . . .