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Haven of Liberty: New York Jews in the New World, 1654-1865 by Howard B. Rock

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By Howard B. Rock

Haven of Liberty chronicles the coming of the 1st Jews to manhattan in 1654 and highlights the function of republicanism in shaping their id and associations. Rock follows the Jews of NewYork in the course of the Dutch and British colonial eras, the yankee Revolution and early republic, and the antebellum years, finishing with a path-breaking account in their outlook and behaviour in the course of the Civil battle. Overcoming major boundaries, those brave women and men laid the rules for one of many world’s most well known Jewish cities.

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Jews in the liquor trade were thus positioned both to help their fellow Jews (since they had access to more capital) and to strengthen the Jewish entrepreneurial presence in mainstream business circles. For some, success in the alcohol business gave them the means to respond to social anti-Semitism. A few years after a hotelier denied the banker Joseph Seligman a room at the exclusive Union Hotel in Saratoga, New York, and an owner of another elite resort on Coney Island announced that he would exclude Jews from his hotel as well—anti-Semitic incidents that unnerved acculturated Jews all over the country—the distiller Charles Fleischmann purchased sixty acres of land in Griffin’s Corners, several counties to the south of Saratoga.

40 The presence of a few Jewish whiskeymen in a city could have a profound effect on the occupational choices of other local Jews. Isaac Wolfe Bernheim entered the whiskey trade in this fashion, by finding opportunity with Bloom and Loeb. 41 The surest line to a job, in any field, was through family ties. Once established, an entrepreneur often hired a relative to work alongside him in the business. These employees might later open their own concerns, not only with their former boss’s blessing but with his assistance as well.

Wise took great pride in Dreyfus’s status as the “king of the Anaheim winemakers,” extolling Dreyfus’s contributions to the industry in general and to the nation’s Jewish population in particular. The successful promotion of domestically produced wines, kosher or otherwise, “is mostly due to the firm of B. , of our country,” Wise proclaimed in 1882. This industry was “one of our greatest interests,” he wrote, although he was not likely to be enthusiastic about a California kosher wine industry facilitating increased observation of Jewish law.

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