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In Their Eyes: Images of the
Jew in the Early National
Period
Hannah Adams,
History of the Jews
(1812)
Charles Dibden,
“The Jew and the
Doctor” (1799), played
in Philadelphia
Hidden Identities:Lorenzo Da Ponte 1749-1838
Born Jewish in Italy, he was forcibly converted as a child. The librettist of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, The marriage of Figaro, and Cosi fan Tutte, Da Ponte emigrated to America in 1805 and became a professor of Italian at Columbia.
Alexander Hamilton 1755-1804
The 'progress of the Jews ... from their earliest history to the present time has been and is entirely out of the ordinary course of human affairs. Is it not then a fair conclusion that the cause also is an extraordinary one - in other words, that it is the effect of some great providential plan?' In a renowned legal case, Hamilton challenged the opposing counsel: 'Why distrust the evidence of
the Jews? Discredit them and you destroy the Christian religion....'
Sephardic Jewish Pirate? Jean Lafitte 1776-1823
Lafitte, The Corsair, established a pirate kingdom in swamps of New
Orleans, and led more than 1,000 men during the War of 1812.
Simon Magruder Levy, 1802,Cadet 1st Class West Point
Sampson Simson1800 Columbia College
US Army Officers 1805College Hall, 1800 NYC
American Jews Enter Higher Education
David Stone NC Governor1808-1810
Home of Jacob HenryBeaufort, NC
Beginning of speech he made inNorth Carolina House of Commons
Charles F. BriggsBriggs’ Character Of Mr.
Isaacs, Ugly’ Jewish, Skinflint Swindler
Modeled After Shylock
1839
George Lippard
Portrays a malevolent hump-backed Jewish character, Gabriel
Van Gelt, who forges, swindles, blackmails, and
commits murder for money.
Bestselling book in US prior to Uncle Tom’s Cabin,published 1845
“But ah! what once has been shall be no more!
The groaning earth in travail and in pain
Brings forth its races, but does not restore,
And the dead nations never rise again.”
HWL 1854
“The Old Jewish Cemetery at Newport”
About Jews:
“The ugliest, most evil-minded
people…[who resemble]
maggots when they
overpopulate a
decaying cheese.” 1860
Maryland Jew Bill 1826
"The legislature of this state
adjourned on Saturday last. The
'Jew bill', as it is called--or a bill to
alter the constitution so as to
relieve persons from political
disqualifications on account of
their religious opinions, has again
passed both branches of the
legislature--in the house of
delegates by a vote of 26 to 25;
only 51 out of 80 members being
present. Before it is effective it
must be passed by the next
succeeding legislature..."
Thomas Kennedy, Legislator
David Levy Yulee
US Senator from Florida 1845-51Elected to the Senate again in 1855, Yulee served until January 21, 1861, when he withdrew from the Senate after Florida seceded. He joined the Congress of the Confederacy. In 1865 after the war, Yulee was imprisoned in Fort Pulaski for nine months due to his participation in the
Confederate government.
Member of U.S. House of RepresentativesPennsylvania's 1st district
(November 10, 1808-March 14, 1860) Philadelphia politician, prominent Know Nothing, and anti-
Catholic social activist of the 1840s and 1850s. Served three terms in Congress (U.S. House of
Representatives, 1845–51), representing the Pennsylvania 1st District. Considered to have been
first Jewish Congressman
Lewis Charles LevinPolitics
Rachel Mordechai and Maria Edgeworth
Harrington (1817) is the personal narrative of a recovering anti-Semite, a young man whose phobia of Jews is instilled in early childhood and who must unlearn his irrational prejudice when he falls in love with the daughter of a Spanish Jew. In this novel, Edgeworth attempts to challenge prejudice and to show how literary representations affect public policy, while
at the same time interrogating contemporary understandings of freedom in English society.
La Juive (1835), A Painful Call ForTolerance By J.Halevy
Caruso as Eleazar c. 1920
French Jewish Composer,Founder of the Grand Opera tradition
First performed in New York in 1838, itbecame a staple of the Opera House of
New Orleans in the 1840’s and subsequentlyone of the most popular operas in the US.
Joseph FreyApostate
Solomon Henry Jackson, Hebrew Printerpublished the first American Jewish
newspaper,The Jew, 1820, in response to Joseph Frey’s
missionary work to convert the American Jews to Christianity.
Mordecai Manuel Noah 1785 - 1851
American playwright, diplomat, journalist, and utopian. Born into family of Portuguese Sephardic ancestry. Appointed by President Madison to American
Consulates in Riga 1811 and Tunis 1813. Later Noah was a well known Jacksonian politician.
Early American Jewish Songwriters
John Payne 1823 Home Sweet Home Henry Russell The Old Armchair
“There’s No Place Like Home”
Solomon Nunes Carvalho, 1771-1817: Jews in the Visual Arts
Painting of Interior of Beth Elohim Synagogue 1838
Issac M. Wise: Organizer of Reform Judaism
Letter from Leeser to WiseNot dated
At a service after Lincoln’s assassination
Wise said:“He is a sin-offering for
our iniquities.”
ANTE BELLUM JEWS IN BUSINESS
Joseph Seligman (1819–1880) prominent American banker and businessman. With his brothers,
he started a bank, J. & W. Seligman & Co., with branches in
New York, San Francisco, New Orleans, London, Paris and
Frankfurt.Underwrote Standard Oil Co.
Emanuel and Mayer Lehman.Originally from Germany, the
Lehman family arrived in America1844, settling in Alabama. In the late
1850’s, their business shiftedto New York City and they became
top cotton brokers.
David Einhorn 1809-1879Rabbi of Keneseth Israel Synagogue, PA, 1866
In sermon "War with Amalek!" based on Exodus 17, Einhorn said, "We are told that this crime [slavery] rests upon a
historical right! … Slavery is an institution sanctioned by the
Bible, hence war against it is war against, and not for, God! It has ever
been a strategy of the advocate of a bad cause to take refuge from the spirit of
the Bible to its letter… ."