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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
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FriOery, April 16, 1954
Faith And Freedom-American Passover
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Dr. David and Tamar de Sola Pool are authors
of a book which will be published by Columbia
university Press in connection with the 300 .
years of Jewish settlement in this country. The
title of the book is “The Past Is Everlasting,
Portrait of a Synagogue, 1654-1954.”
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In Jewish homes this Passover
the immemorial words of the Hag-
gadah will be repeated: “He
brought us forth from bondage to
freedom, from subjection to re
demption, from sorrow to joy,
from mourning to festivity, and
from darkness to great light.”
This coming year will be one of
remembrance. Three hundred
years ago, our forefathers founded
on this continent a community
destined to become within three
centuries the largest single Jewish
settlement in all the long history
of the Children of Israel.
Early in the year 1654, Jewish
history repeated itself It happened
in Brazil. Jews from Spain and
Portugal had been among the first
explorers, colonizers, and settlers
of that great country. The in
ordinate distance that separated
them from the Iberian Peninsula
gave them a sense of security
from the dangers of the Inquisition.
The coming of Dutch rule added
to their sense of well-being and
the coming of Jews from Holland
brought to the Brazilian Jewish
community leadership, scholar-
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the end of Dutch dominion. Jews
who could, returned to hospitable
little Holland.
Of those who left Brazil, be
tween January and April 1654, one
storm-tossed group reached the
harbor of Nieuw Amsterdam, early
in September of that year. They
were the Founding Fathers of Con
gregation Shearith Israel in the
City of New York, and of the
American Jewish Community.
As we gather on the Passover
in freedom and thanksgiving it
would not be amiss to recall the
momentous journey of those Jew
God.”
These founders of the Jewish
community of North America
brought with them a deep faith.
The freedom we er.joy, they se
cured. They did not find freedom
when they came. They helped
forge with dignity and strength
the American heritage of liberty.
The story of that achievement
must fill us with gratitude for the
past and courage for the future.
It is a story that can be read un
interruptedly in the record of an
individual congregation, which
after three hundred years stands
as a symbol of faith and freedom
in the United States.
After the holocaust which came
to historic Jewish communities in
Europe in our times, few alas are
the Jewish congregations which
can count their age in centuries.
Shearith Israel in the City of New
York which might well have been
regarded as a scion of a youthful
handful that came in 1654. Each
has brought devotion and strength
to a loved land. .Each has served
to make America grow and to ful
fill the dreams of the past and the
hopes for the future. This Passover
of 1954 should be deeply enriched
by the union of our ancient Bibli
cal memories with the celebration
of our three hundred year old
American past.
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closing took place from a pursuer
no less fearsome than Pharoah
with his chariots. On Passover,
1954, we may read from an oft-
quoted Hebrew chronicler, David
Franco-Mendes, how one of the
ships that left Brazil was captured
by Spanish pirates on the high-
seas. |...
“But God caused a savior to • ?
arise unto them, the captain of ail!
French ship, arrayed for battle, J j
and he rescued them from the • •
hands of the outlaw's who had done !!
them violence and oppressed them, ] J
and he conducted them until they • •
reached New Holland. And none .!
of them w’as missing, praised be
tion has darkened its path. No
ostracism has weakened its loyal
ty. Its freedom grew with the
freedom of all.
Twelve generations of American
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