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The Jews in America Trilogy

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by Birmingham, Stephen;


  reconversion to Judaism, 52

  see also Marranos

  Córdoba: Moors, 28, 38

  Sephardim, 27, 38, 43

  Coronel (family), 47

  Cotton, John, 146

  Crane, Capt. William, 215–16, 218, 219

  Crawford, William H., 206

  Cresquea, Judah, 45

  Curaçao: Sephardic cemetery, 51

  Da Costa (family), 322; see also Mendes–da Costa (family)

  Da Costa, Benjamin, 196

  Da Costa, Moses, 196

  d’Acosta, Joseph, 69

  Dale, Clara, 285–86, 289

  Dandrada, Salvador, 69

  d’Angers, Pierre Jean David, 236

  da Silva (family), 8, 11, 185–86, 188

  Da Silva, Duarte, 185

  da Silva, Miguel Pacheco, see Seixas, Abraham Mendes

  Da Silva Solis (Da Silva y Solis: family), see Solis (family)

  Daughters of the American Revolution, 158

  Davis, Jefferson, 271, 275

  de Fonseca (family), 8, 321, 322

  de Fonseca, Cardinal, 321

  de Fonseca, Dona Isabel, 186

  de Fonseca–Brnndon (family), 320–22

  de Fonseca–Brandon, James, 320–21

  De Lamar, Alice A., 323, 324

  De Lamar, Raphael, 323

  de la Motthe, Jacques, 53–59 passim, 61, 63

  De Lancey (family), 4, 165

  De Lancey, Charlotte, see Dundas, Lady David

  De Lancey, Oliver, 164–65, 166

  De Lancey, Mrs. Oliver (Phila Franks), 164–65, 166

  De Lancey, Oliver, Jr., 167, 168

  De Lancey, Phila, see Payne-Gallwey, Mrs. Stephen

  De Lancey, Stephen, 166

  De Lancey, Mrs. Stephen (Cornelia Barclay), 166

  De Lancey, Susannah, see Draper, Lady William

  De Lancey, Sir William Howe, 166

  de Leon (family), 73

  de Leon, Jacob, 196, 197

  de Lucena (family), 71, 102, 347–48

  de Lucena, Abraham, 7, 11, 68, 69, 71, 73, 351

  de Lucena, Abraham Haim, 71–72

  de Lucena, Rebecca, 73

  Denmark: slave trade, 104, 106

  Depew, Chauncey, 317

  de Peyster (family), 101

  De Piza (Dias), Abraham Israel, 56, 57, 58

  de Rham, Henry C., 261

  de Sola (family), 8, 18–19

  de Sola, Aaron, 19

  de Sola, Don Bartolomé, 19

  de Sola, Baruch ben Isaac Ibn Daud, 18–19

  de Sola, David Aaron, 18

  de Sola, Eliza, see Mendes, Mrs. Abraham Pereira

  de Sola, Isaac, 19

  de Sola, Michael Ibn Daud, 19

  de Torres, Luis, 46

  de Torres, Rebecca, see Gomez, Mrs. Daniel

  de Vera, Don Lope, 84

  Deza, Diego, 84–85

  Digby, Edward Kenelm Digby, Baron, 176

  Disraeli, Benjamin, 271

  Draper, Lady William (Susannah De Lancey), 166

  Dreyfous (family), 7

  Dundas, Lady David (Charlotte De Lancey), 166

  Dunphy, Thomas, 283

  Dutch West India Company, 51, 61, 63–65, 69, 70

  Dutch West Indies: Sephardim, 21, 51

  Edgeworth, Maria, 264, 269–70

  Edict of Nantes, 91

  Edman, Irwin, 304

  Einglish, William, 109–15 passim

  Ellery, Lt. Frank, 225–26

  Ellis, George, 286, 287

  Ely, Nathan, 251

  England, 50–51

  Sephardim, 15, 19, 330

  anti-Semitism, 101

  in colonies, 65

  expulsion, 76

  slave trade, 104, 106

  see also New York (English colony)

  Etting (family), 159, 162, 177

  Etting, Emlen, 159

  Etting, Esther, see Hays, Mrs. David

  Etting, Reuben, 160

  Etting, Reuben II, 177

  Evans, Margaret, see Franks, Mrs. David

  Ewing, Samuel, 179–80

  Faro, David Israel, 56

  Federation of Polish Jews of America, 156, 157

  Ferdinand, King of Aragon, 39–44, 46, 47, 82

  Ferdinand III, King, 30–31

  Fita, Fidel, 80–81

  Florance (family), 311

  Florance, Annette, see Nathan, Mrs. Robert Weeks

  Florance, Ted, 311, 312

  Florance, Mrs. Ted (Rosalie Nathan), 312–13

  Florance, Mrs. William, 311–12

  Forrester, Billy, 286–87

  France: Edict of Nantes, 91

  Jews, 33

  Sephardim, in colonies, 65

  slave trade, 104, 106

  Franco (family), 342–13; see also Franks (family)

  Franco, Gen. Francisco, 342

  Franco, Nicolao, 42

  Frankfurter, Felix, 304

  Franklin, Benjamin, 147, 182

  Franks (family), 6, 148, 155, 161, 162, 177

  Franks, Aaron, 61

  Franks, Abigail, see Hamilton, Mrs. Andrew

  Franks, David, 161, 166, 171–73, 175, 177, 228

  Franks, Mrs. David (Margaret Evans), 166

  Franks, Col. David Salisbury, 182

  Franks, Isaac, 152, 165

  Franks, Jacob, 161

  Franks, Mrs. Jacob (Abigail Levy), 161, 163–65, 166

  Franks, Moses, 148

  Franks, Naphtali (“Heartsey”), 163, 164

  Franks, Mrs. Naphtali (Phila Franks), 167

  Franks, Phila, see De Lancey, Mrs. Oliver; Franks, Mrs. Naphtali

  Franks, Rachel, see Salomon, Mrs. Haym

  Franks, Rebecca, see Johnson, Lady Henry

  Franks, Richa, 164

  Fulton, Robert, 195

  Gansevoort, Leonard, 148

  Gaon, Dr. Solomon, 343, 344

  Garrison, Washington, 204

  Germany: Jews, 3, 25, 26, 27, 33; see also Ashkenazim

  Gerstein, Dr. Louis C., 344

  Gilder, Richard Watson, 317

  Gillespie, George J., 322–28 passim

  Gillette (family), 181

  Ginillo (family), see Santangel (family)

  Girón, Don Pedro, 41

  Goldstone, Harmon Hendricks, 351

  Goldstone, Lafayette, 8

  Goldstone, Mrs. Lafayette, 303, 304, 305, 351–53

  Gomez (family), 7, 11, 21, 72–73, 74, 99, 102, 117, 139, 148, 295, 347

  in Spain, 88–89, 90, 91

  Gomez, Alfonso, 89

  Gomez, Daniel, 92–98 passim, 102, 117–20, 128

  Gomez, Mrs. Daniel (Rebecca de Torres), 92

  Gomez, Mrs. Daniel (Esther Levy), 92

  Gomez, David, 164

  Gomez, Esther, see Gomez, Mrs. Moses

  Gomez, Eve Esther, see Hendricks, Mrs. Uriah

  Gomez, Isaac (b. 1620), 89, 90–91

  Gomez, Isaac, Jr. (18th cent.), 120

  Gomez, Isaac (18th cent.), 191

  Gomez, Joseph Edwin, Jr., 99

  Gomez, Lewis (Louis) Moses, 88, 90, 91–92

  Gomez, Mrs. Lewis (Esther Marques), 91

  Gomez, Mathias, 132

  Gomez, Mordecai, 266

  Gomez, Moses, 98, 120, 128

  Gomez, Mrs. Moses (Esther Gomez), 120

  Gomez, Violante de Santangel, 89

  González de Mendoza, Cardinal Pedro, 43

  Goodwin (family), 4

  Goodwin, Dr. Lyde, 5

  Gorme, Eydie, 24

  Gould, Jay, 292, 293–94, 295

  Granada: Alhambra, 28

  Cathedral, tomb of Ferdinand and Isabella, 39–40

  Moors, 28, 33, 43

  Sephardim, 27, 88

  Gratz (family), 162, 177, 178, 181–82

  Gratz, Benjamin III, 181

  Gratz, Helen, see Rockefeller, Mrs. Godfrey S.

  Gratz, Henry Howard, 181

  Gratz, Joseph, 177

  Gratz, Michael, 175, 177
/>   Gratz, Rachel, see Moses, Rachel Gratz

  Gratz, Rebecca, 176–82 passim, 229

  Gratz, Simon, 187

  Great Seal (U.S.), 147

  Greece: Sephardim, 50, 336, 337, 338; see also Sephardim, Levantine Sephardim

  Guggenheim (family), 3

  Guiana: Sephardim, 51

  Gurney, Gene and Clare, 349

  Hale, John P., 245

  Hamilton, Andrew, 176

  Hamilton, Mrs. Andrew (Abigail Franks), 166–67, 173, 176

  Hart (family), 7, 21, 126, 348

  Hart, Isaac, 126

  Hart, Jacob, 229

  Hassan, Suley, 186

  Hay, Mary Garrett, 315

  Hays (family), 21, 139, 159, 162, 177, 190

  Hays, Catherine, 140

  Hays, Caty, see Sarzedas, Mrs. Abraham

  Hays, Charity, see Solis, Mrs. Jacob da Silva

  Hays, David, 159–60, 167

  Hays, Mrs. David (Esther Etting), 159, 160, 167

  Hays, Judah, 189

  Hays, Moses, 140

  Hays, Rachel, 189

  Hays, Rebecca, 140

  Hays, Mrs. Samuel, 177

  Hebrew language, 229, 338–39

  Hellman, George, 305

  Hendricks (family), 7, 11, 16, 21, 60, 68, 73, 117, 190, 261, 262, 263, 322, 344

  Hendricks, Emily, see Nathan, Mrs. Benjamin Seixas

  Hendricks, Harmon, 7, 191–99, 260, 261

  Hendricks, Henry, 199, 251, 260

  Hendricks, Mrs. Henry (Harriet Tobias), 260

  Hendricks, Mrs. Henry S. (Rosalie Nathan), 16–18, 265

  Hendricks, Hermoine, see Tobias, Mrs. Isaac

  Hendricks, Montague, 199

  Hendricks, Roselane, see Tobias, Mrs. Henry

  Hendricks, Sally, 197–98

  Hendricks, Uriah, 7, 190–91

  Hendricks, Uriah II, 260

  Hendricks, Mrs. Uriah (Eve Esther Gomez), 190, 191

  Hendricks, Mrs. Uriah II (Fanny Lopez), 190

  Hendricks, Mrs. Uriah, II, (Fanny Tobias), 260

  Hendricks, Uriah II, 199

  Hendricks, Ziporah Levy, 6

  Henriques (family), 16; see also Hendricks (family)

  Henriques, Jacob, 69

  Henry (family), 195

  Hitler, Adolf, 341, 342, 352

  Hoffman, Matilda, 178

  Hoffman, Ogden, 178

  Holland: Brazil as colony, 51–52, 53, 62, 65, 66

  Dutch West India Company, 51, 61, 63–65, 69, 70

  Dutch West Indies, 21, 51

  New Amsterdam, see New York (New Amsterdam)

  Sephardim, 15, 19, 20, 21, 50, 51, 53, 62, 67, 69, 330

  slave trade, 104, 106

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 304

  Hopkins (family), 4

  Hopkins, Samuel, 104

  Howe, Gen. Sir William, 167

  Indians, 62, 94–95

  Jews, identification with, 95–96

  Ingersoll (family), 4, 162

  Innocent III, Pope, 33

  Inquisition, 52, 74–76; see also Spain, Inquisition

  Irving, Washington, 178, 179

  Isaacs, Solomon, 195

  Isabella, Queen, 39–46 passim, 76, 82

  Italy: Jews, 33

  Jackson, Andrew, 239

  Jacobs, Samuel, 138

  Jacobs, Mrs. Samuel (Rosette), 138

  James I, King of Aragon, 30

  Jefferson, Thomas, 147, 153, 202, 235–36, 237, 238, 350

  Jews and Judaism: anti-Semitism, 61–70 passim, 76, 101, 221–22, 227, 243, 250, 251, 252

  see also Spain, Sephardim, anti-Semitism

  conversions to Christianity, 8, 25, 231

  see also Conversos, Sephardim

  ghettos, 27

  Hebrew language, 229, 338–39

  identification badge and dress, 33–34, 37, 38, 81–82, 352

  Indians, identification with, 95–96

  Jewishness descendant from distaff side, 5

  Mosaic Code, 146

  Reform movement, 231, 307, 331

  slave trade, 103, 108

  taxation, 26–27

  Yiddish language, 231

  zekhut avot (ancestral merit), 10

  see also Ashkenazim ; Sephardim

  John II, King of Castile, 35

  John II, King of Portugal, 32

  Johnson, Lady Henry (Rebecca Franks), 6, 166–77 passim, 200–01

  Johnson, Sir Henry, 6, 175

  Johnston, Johnny, 264–65

  Johnston, Mrs. Johnny (Annie Lazarus), 264–65, 267

  Jones, Thomas Catesby, 218

  Joy, Levi, 205

  Juana la Loca (Joan the Mad), 85, 89

  Judah, DeWitt Clinton, 6

  Judah, Walter J., 348

  Judaism, see Jews and Judaism

  Kamen, Henry, 81

  Keenan, Annie, 283, 287

  Kelly, Mrs., 276–77, 277–78, 281

  Kelly, David, 313, 314

  Kelly, William, 276, 281, 287, 288

  Kierstede (family), 101

  King (family), 263

  Kohler, Max J., 156

  Kosciusko, Thaddeus, 154

  Kuhn (family), 3

  Kuhn, Loeb & Company, 4

  La Caballería (family), 41

  Ladino language (Judeo-Spanish), 31, 331, 338–39

  Lane, Amos, 236

  Langdon, Rev. Samuel, 147

  Lazarus (family), 4, 26, 266–67, 337, 344, 348

  Lazarus, Annie, see Johnson, Mrs. Johnny

  Lazarus, Emma, 4, 12, 265, 266, 277

  Lazarus, Frank, 266–67

  Lazarus, Jacob Hart, 265, 353

  Lazarus, Mrs. Jacob Hart (Amelia Barnard Tobias), 7, 265–69, 270

  Lazarus, Sarah, 266

  Lee, Gen. Charles, 170–71

  Lehman (family), 3

  Lehr, Harry, 270

  Levy (family), 4–5, 71, 73, 92, 126, 136, 148, 161, 162, 201, 263, 337

  Levy, Abigail, see Franks, Mrs. Jacob

  Levy, Amelia, see Von Mayhoff, Mrs. Amelia Levy

  Levy Levy, Asser, 56, 72

  Levy, Benjamin, 201

  Levy, Esther, see Gomez, Mrs. Daniel

  Levy, Fanny, see Lopez, Mrs. Abraham

  Levy, Jacob, 117

  Levy, Jefferson, 257, 263, 349–50

  Levy, L. A., Jr., 135, 136, 137

  Levy, Mrs. L. Napoleon, 263

  Levy, Moses, 70–71

  Levy, Nathan, 201

  Levy, Rachel, 350

  Levy, Samson, 161, 201

  Levy, Uriah Phillips, 200–27, 233, 235–54, 256, 257, 258, 259, 271, 348–19, 350

  Levy, Mrs. Uriah Phillips (Virginia Lopez), 246, 249, 253–58

  Lewis, Harold L., 348, 350

  Livingston (family), 4, 263

  Lockerman (family), 101

  Lodge (family), 4

  Loeb (family), 3, 4

  Loeb, Carl Morris, 329

  Loeb, Mrs. Carl Morris (Adeline Moses), 329

  Loeb, John L., 9, 329

  Loeb, Rhoades & Company, 9

  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 130

  Lopez (family), 8, 122, 126, 127, 139, 144, 148, 195, 271, 347

  Lopez, Aaron, 102, 108–30 passim, 139

  Lopez, Mrs. Aaron (Abigail or Anna), 102, 116–17, 161

  Lopez, Mrs. Aaron (Sally Rivera), 117

  Lopez, Abraham, 246

  Lopez, Mrs. Abraham (Fanny Levy), 246

  Lopez, Hannah, 117

  Lopez, Moses, 102

  Lopez, Rebecca, see Hendricks, Mrs. Uriah

  Lopez, Rebecca Touro, 142

  Lopez, Samuel, 195

  Lopez, Sarah (Sally), see Mendes, Mrs. Abraham Pereira

  Lopez, Virginia, see Levy, Mrs. Uriah Phillips

  López de Ayala, Pedro, 37

  Lopez-Lopez, Rachel, 117

  Los Angeles: Sephardim, 338

  Lowell, Josephine Shaw, 317

  Lumbroso, Mose, 56, 58

  Lutherans: Dutch persecution, 62, 63,
64

  first American church, 72

  Lyons, Sarah, 309

  McAllister, Ward, 60, 270

  McBlair (family), 4

  McCann, John H., 293

  McClure (family), 181

  Mackay, Mrs. Clarence, 315

  Madison, James, 153–54, 194, 261

  Maduro (family), 190

  Maduro, Levy, 189

  Maduro, Mrs. Levy (Cohen Peixotto), 189

  Maduro-Peixotto (family), 189

  Maduro-Peixotto, Moses Levy, 190

  Mangam, John, 279, 280

  Marks, Albert J. “Reley,” 132–35

  Marques, Esther, see Gomez, Mrs. Lewis

  Marranos, 35, 46, 51, 56, 78–79, 87–88, 330–31; see also Conversos, Sephardim

  Marshall (family), 181

  Martinez, Don Ferrán, 37

  Martinique: Sephardim, 65

  Martya, Jan, 57–58

  Mathews, Annie, 322

  Mayhew, Rev. Jonathan, 147

  Mears, Judah, 165

  Megapolensis, Rev. John, 63

  Mellish, Kitty (Caterina Mendes–da Costa Villa-Real Mellish), 321

  Mellon (family), 270

  Mendes (family), 8, 18–19, 19–20, 121, 126, 188, 271

  Mendes, Abraham Pereira II, 9

  Mendes, Abraham Pereira I, 121–25 passim, 128

  Mendes, Mrs. Abraham Pereira (Eliza de Sola), 19

  Mendes, Mrs. Abraham Pereira (Sarah or Sally Lopez), 102, 121–25 passim, 128

  Mendes, Dona Caterina, 321

  Mendes, David, 125

  Mendes, David Franco, 52, 53

  Mendes, Don Fernando, 321–22

  Mendes, Dona Gracia (Lady Beatrice de Luna), 19–20

  Mendes, Henry Pereira, 18, 19, 20

  Mendes, Leah, 121, 123–25

  Mendes, Piza, 17–20 passim

  Mendes–da Costa, Antonio, 321

  Mendes–da Costa, Sarah, see de Fonseca–Brandon, Sarah Mendes–da Costa

  Mendola (family), 8

  Mendoza y Bobadilla, Cardinal Francisco, 78

  Mercado (De Mercado; de Mereda), Judith (Judica), 56

  Mesoncort, George, 204

  Meyer, Dr. Alfred, 316, 317

  Meyer, Mrs. Alfred (Annie Nathan), 11–12, 298, 310–11, 313, 315–19 passim, 340

  Mill, David, 109–13 passim

  Miller, Alice Duer, 318

  Miller, Kenneth Hayes, 299

  Mills, Harriet May, 315

  Minis (family), 195

  Monroe, James, 153, 219, 222–23

  Moors, 27–36 passim, 43

  Conversos, 35–36, 38, 79

  and Sephardim, 28–29, 30, 32, 34–35, 36, 44

  Morgan (family), 270

  Morocco: Sephardim, 50

  Morris (family), 163

  Morris, Robert, 149, 150, 152, 156, 157

  Mosaic Code, 146

  Moses (family), 4, 329

  Moses, Adeline, see Loeb, Mrs. Carl Morris

  Moses, Lion, 152

  Moses, Rachel Gratz, 180

  Moya, Marquesa de, 41

  Nathan (family), 7, 11–16, 21, 51, 60, 68, 73, 188, 259, 263, 273–74, 337, 344

  Nathan, Annie, see Meyer, Mrs. Alfred

  Nathan, Benjamin Seixas, 275, 276–89, 295

 

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