Title New Israel/New England : Jews and Puritans in early America / Michael Hoberman

Published Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 280 pages) : illustrations Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. "Jews, Turks and anti-Christians": Alien Encounters with Puritan Hebraism -- 2. "New-England is seldom wholly without them": Boston's Frazon Brothers and the Limits of Puritan Zeal -- 3. "A Jew rarely comes over to us but he brings treasures with him": The Conversion and Harvard Career ojjudah Monis -- 4. "A handsome assembly of people": Jewish Settlement and the Refinement of New England Culture -- 5. "An openness to candour": Scholarly Ecumenicism in Pre-Reuolutionary Newport -- 6. "A most valuable citizen": Moses Michael Hays and the Modernization of Boston Summary The New England Puritans fascination with the legacy of the Jewish religion has been well documented, but their interactions with actual Jews have escaped sustained historical attention. 'New Israel/New England' tells the story of the Sephardic merchants who traded and sojourned in Boston and Newport between the mid-seventeenth century and the era of the American Revolution. It also explores the complex and often contradictory meanings that the Puritans attached to Judaism and the fraught attitudes that they bore toward the Jews as a people. More often than not, Michael Hoberman shows, Puritans thought and wrote about Jews in order to resolve their own theological and cultural dilemmas. A number of prominent New Englanders, including Roger Williams, Increase Mather, Samuel Sewall, Benjamin Colman, Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, and Ezra Stiles, wrote extensively about post-biblical Jews, in some cases drawing on their own personal acquaintance with Jewish contemporaries. Among the intriguing episodes that Hoberman investigates is the recruitment and conversion of Harvard s first permanent instructor of Hebrew, the Jewish-born Judah Monis. Later chapters describe the ecumenical friendship between Newport minister Ezra Stiles and Haim Carigal, an itinerant rabbi from Palestine, as well as the life and career of Moses Michael Hays, the prominent freemason who was Boston s first permanently established Jewish businessman, a founder of its insurance industry, an early sponsor of the Bank of Massachusetts, and a personal friend of Paul Revere Analysis "Multi-User" Notes OldControl:muse9781613760109 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Puritans -- New England -- History -- 18th century Puritans -- New England -- History -- 17th century Jews -- New England -- History -- 18th century Jews -- New England -- History -- 17th century HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) Ethnic relations Jews Puritans SUBJECT New England -- Ethnic relations United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140131 Subject New England United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2011032775 ISBN 9781613760109 1613760108

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