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xvii, 430 pages : color frontispiece (coat of arms) plates, portrait, facsimiles (including music) ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
"Notes and bibliography": pages 375-409. |
| Contents |
George Washington and Jews of his day -- Thomas Jefferson and religious liberty -- Abraham Lincoln and Jewish army chaplains -- Theodore Roosevelt and the Russian Treaty of 1832 -- Was Christopher Columbus a Jew? -- The martyrdom of Francisco Maldonado de Silva -- Jews in the French colonies -- Cotton Mather's Ambition -- Ararat- A city of refuge for the Jews -- The dedication of Massachusetts' first synagogue -- Aser Levy Van Swellem -- Mr. Hays speaks out -- The ten tribes lost again -- Literary America adopt a Jew -- Jews in the first old farmers' almanac -- America's first Jewish bookdealer -- America's first Jewish club -- "The Campbells are coming" -- Esther's adventures in Quebec -- Lady Rebecca -- Medford's Jewish street -- A 'Forty-niner -- The Hilton-Seligman affair -- The gideons -- Pirates and Trinkets -- Let there be light -- Uniforms -- Clothing -- Asher Pollock, Private -- General and governer -- The warrior |
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Jews -- United States -- History.
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Jews. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Jews -- America -- History.
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America. |
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Jewish Publication Society of America.
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