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  1. History of the Jews in the United States

    The history of the Jews in the United States goes back to the 1600s and 1700s. There have been Jewish communities in the United States since colonial times, with individuals living in various cities before the American Revolution. Early Jewish communities were primarily composed of Sephardi immigrants from Brazil, Amsterdam, or England, many of them fleeing the Inquisition. Private and civically unrecognized local, regional, and sometimes international networks were noted in these groups in order to facilitate marriage and business ties. This small and private colonial community largely existed as undeclared and non-practicing Jews, a great number deciding to intermarry with non-Jews. Later on, the vastly more numerous Ashkenazi Jews that came to populate New York, New Jersey, and elsewhere in what became the United States of America altered these demographics. Until the 1830s, the Jewish community of Charleston, South Carolina, was the largest in North America. Wikipedia

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  2. brandeis.edu

    American Jewish history as we know it began in 1654. In that year, twenty-three Jews - men, women and children, refugees from Recife, Brazil which Portugal had just recaptured from Holland -sailed into the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam on a vessel probably named the Sainte Catherine. These twenty-three cannot accurately be labelled the first American Jews. Noted historian Jacob Rader Marcus's ...
  3. From the time of its discovery, America has been a haven for Europe's oppressed and persecuted. In 1492, the same year that Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World, the Spanish Inquisition reached its apogee. Spain expelled its Jews, and, five years later, Portugal followed suit. The remnants of Iberian Jewry found refuge in the cities and towns of Europe, North Africa, and the Near ...
  4. myjewishlearning.com

    Jews emigrated to North America in the earliest days of the colonial era, long before American independence and before the great waves of immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries. These early Jewish settlers represented a wide diversity of backgrounds and experiences, and the rich communities they formed together in New York, Rhode Island, Georgia, and elsewhere became the foundation for ...
  5. The first American Jewish community began in September 1654, when the ship the Sainte Catherine docked in New Amsterdam. Among the passengers were 23 Jews—a group of men, women, and children—who had started their journey in Brazil. Along th
  6. cambridge.org

    The Jews of the United States date their community to these first twenty-three souls, although a few Jewish merchants and even a metallurgist had preceded them to North America, and Jews had already made their way, or soon would, to colonial settlements beyond the Atlantic seaboard, among them Curaçao, Surinam, and Jamaica.
  7. brandeis.edu

    The availability of scholarly books in American Jewish history, the willingness of learned journals to accept articles in the field, the popularity of American Jewish history courses on college campuses across the nation, the burgeoning number of Ph.D.s, the establishment of major new chairs in American Jewish history at Columbia and Brandeis ...
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