The American Synagogue
Subtitle: A Sanctuary Transformed
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 26, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780521332903
Subjects: Judaism; United States; Religion - Judaism; Religion; USA; History; Judaism - General; Religion / Judaism / General; Religion : History; Synagogues--United States--History; Synagogues
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. . . .