The Origins of American Jewry

Something appropriate for Thanksgiving: an account of the migration of Jews to the Americas in the 17th century, culminating in the 23 bedraggled refugees from the Portuguese inquisition who sailed into New Amsterdam harbor to form the nucleus of the mighty New York Jewish community.

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