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  1. Preface and Introduction

    23:46

  2. The Participation of Jews in the Discovery of the New World

    17:50

  3. Early Jewish Martyrs under Spanish Rule in the New World.

    11:06

  4. Victims of the Inquisition in Mexico and in Peru

    10:28

  5. Marranos in the Portuguese Colonies

    6:17

  6. The Short-Lived Dominion of the Dutch over Brazil

    8:33

  7. Recife: the First Jewish Community in the New World

    8:08

  8. The Jews in Surinam or Dutch Guiana

    22:32

  9. The Dutch and English West Indies

    26:08

  10. New Amsterdam and New York

    22:08

  11. New England and the Other English Colonies

    23:48

  12. The Religious Aspect of the War of Independence

    14:46

  13. The Participation of Jews in the War of the Revolution

    21:02

  14. The Decline of Newport; Washington and the Jews

    15:48

  15. Other Communities in the First Periods of Independence

    19:39

  16. The Question of Religious Liberty in Virginia and in North Carolina

    23:51

  17. The War of 1812 and the Removal of Jewish Disabilities in Maryland

    13:54

  18. Mordecai Manuel Noah and His Territorialist-Zionistic Plans

    16:07

  19. The First Communities in the Mississippi Valley

    30:37

  20. New Settlements in the Middle West and on the Pacific Coast

    18:29

  21. The Jews in the Early History of Texas. The Mexican War

    14:19

  22. The Religious Reform Movement

    31:46

  23. Conservative Judaism and Its Stand against Reform

    20:45

  24. Intervention in Damascus. The Struggle against Swiss Discrimination

    29:34

  25. The Discussion about Slavery. Lincoln and the Jews

    16:05

  26. Participation of Jews in the Civil War. Judah P. Benjamin

    17:19

  27. Distinguished Services of Jews on Both Sides of the Struggle

    20:23

  28. The Formative Period after the Civil War

    16:09

  29. New Synagogues and Temples. Immigration from Russia Prior to 1880

    16:26

  30. The Influx after the Anti-Jewish Riots in Russia in 1881

    25:43

  31. Communal and Religious Activities among the New Comers

    24:47

  32. New Communal and Intellectual Activities

    20:24

  33. The Labor Movement and New Literary Activities

    19:15

  34. Relations with Russia. The Passport Question

    27:40

  35. Legislation about Immigration. Sunday Laws and their Enforcement

    23:56

  36. End of the Century. The Spanish-American War. The Dreyfus Affair. Zionism

    13:32

  37. Synagogues and Institutions. The Encyclopedia. Roumania and the Roumanian Note

    28:33

  38. Help for the Victims of the Russian Massacres in 1903 and 1905. Other Proofs of Sympathy

    19:15

  39. The American-Jewish Committee. Educational Institutions and Federations

    23:07

  40. The Jews in the Dominion of Canada

    16:16

  41. Jews in South America, Mexico and Cuba

    15:22

  42. Men of Eminence in the Arts, Sciences and the Professions

    26:11

  43. Literature: Hebrew and English. Periodicals

    25:22

  44. Yiddish Literature, Drama and the Press

    16:44

  45. Present Conditions. The Number and the Dispersion of Jews in America. Conclusion

    12:17

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Congregations, newcomers and the struggle for civic rights organize Peter Wiernik's account of Jewish life in America. Published in 1912, it follows communities in Brazil, Surinam and the West Indies before giving greater space to the United States. The early chapters connect migration with trade, religious restrictions and the formation of synagogues, including the community at Recife and the first settlements in New Amsterdam.

Wiernik writes for a general reader and makes recent immigration essential to his account rather than leaving it to a brief conclusion. He treats communal institutions and material resources as conditions that helped later arrivals establish themselves. Individual lives also carry the history: a section on Benjamin follows his Louisiana legal career, political affiliations and role in the Confederacy. Readers interested in American Jewish history can examine how an author writing in 1912 understood the links between religious identity, settlement and public life.

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Pages
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