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A biography of Mordecai Manuel Noah, an influential American Jewish leader in the early 19th century. The book covers his life and career, including his work as a journalist, playwright, diplomat, and promoter of Jewish immigration to Palestine. It provides a fascinating glimpse into the history of American Jewry. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Excerpt from Mordecai Manuel Noah: A Biographical Sketch Thereupon the friends of the family caused the boy Mordecai, who was then but ten years of age, to be sent to his grandfather at Philadelphia. Realizing that his grandfather had a large family to support and educate, and being ambitious to provide for himself, and not be a burden upon his relatives, the boy apprenticed himself, with the consent of his grandfather, to a carver and gilder to learn that handicraft, and for the remuneration of his board and clothes he contracted to serve his master nu til he arrived at the age of twenty-one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Mordecai M. Noah, His Life and Work From the Jewish Viewpoint Born at the close of the Revolutionary War, Mordecai Noah lived through the period of American expansion and died at the time when the preliminary quarrels over the question of slavery were going on. It is interesting to note that on this latter point his sympathies were decidedly with the South. The span of his life covered a critical period of sixty-six years in the development of the new republic and Noah was one who contributed bountifully of his energy and of his talents to the welfare of the United States. Mordecai Manuel Noah was born in the city of Philadelphia, then the capital of the United States, on July 19th, 1785, several years after the war of Independence. He died in New York City, March 22, 1851. The Noah family was of Portuguese Jewish stock, and many of the descendants were in the fore in important matters of business and state. It has been asserted that his mother was descended from a disinguished family of Marannos, which left Lisbon for London in order to escape the Inquisition, and later emigrated to America. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Brings together the major writings of America's first important Jewish writer.