PORTRAITS ETCHED IN STONE : EARLY JEWISH SETTLERS 1682-1841

Sola Pool, David De

Published by Columbia University Press, New York, 1953

xii, [1], 543 pages. Includes by foreword, preface, biographies,glossary, bibliography, index, & 4 appendices:( 1. the site of the ground granted in 1656, 2.alphabetical register, 3.chronological register & 4.other burials in the cemetery ) With b/w illustrations. "This book is a history, an exceptional history because it tells both of a cemetery and of a living people. It is the chronicle-rich, varied, intense, and warmly personal-of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews who settled in New York City in 1654, and of the Jewish immigrants who came from Central and northern Europe. It describes how they founded and kept flourishing the oldest Jewishcommunity in North America which eventually became the greatest in the world." ." This ancient burial ground of Congregation Shearith Israel is known variously as the New Bowery Cemetery, the Oliver Street Cemetery, or the Chatham Square Cemetery-designations which sufficiently indicate its location. Its long and checkered history begins in 1682 when it succeeded the ground reluctantly granted in 1656 to his Jewish citizens b y the irascible governor of New Amsterdam, Peter Stuyvesant. Seller Inventory # 009888

Bibliographic Details

Title: PORTRAITS ETCHED IN STONE : EARLY JEWISH ...
Publisher: Columbia University Press, New York
Publication Date: 1953
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Fair