Noah, Mordecai M.

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

February 8th

Salem

1820

Newspaper clipping from the Salem Gazette, detailing Noah’s plan “praying that the State would authorize the sale of Grand Island in the Niagara River to him, for the purpose of building a city thereon and inviting a community of Jews to that place...Indeed we have often wondered why the Jews do not emigrate more frequently to the U. States, why they should suffer the intolerance of other governments, when an asylum so desirable can be found in this country.”