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This week in History - First Jews arrive in New Amsterdam

This week in History - First Jews arrive in New Amsterdam
Thursday 12, 2010

This week in history - The first Jew set foot in New York - August 1654.


In search of freedom to worship and equal opportunities, Jacob Barsimson set sail from Holland to American on July 8, 1654, to become the first Jew to set foot in New York. ThePear Treedocked in New Amsterdam on August 22 that same year, and 23 Jews from Dutch Brazil followed Barsimson’s example and went on to establish the...

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