American Judaism (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Jonathan D. Sarna
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1654-2004
- Setting: The United States
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Colonies or colonization, Religion, Immigration or emigration, Judaism, Women’s rights, Rabbis
- Locales: United States
In early September, 1654, twenty-three Jewish refugees, expelled from Recife, Brazil, by the Portuguese, arrived at the port of New Amsterdam. They were not the first Jews to reach North America but the first to settle there. Despite fierce opposition from Peter Stuyvesant, governor of the colony of New Netherland, the Dutch West India Company granted them the right to live, travel, and trade in the colony, provided they took care of their own poor and prevented them from becoming a burden to the company or community.
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