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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The New Land, by Elma Ehrlich LevingerThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.orgTitle: The New LandStories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our CountryAuthor: Elma Ehrlich LevingerRelease Date: October 8, 2007 [eBook #22915]Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NEW LAND***E-text prepared by Suzanne Lybarger, Jeannie Howse, and the ProjectGutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net)+-----------------------------------------------------------+| Transcriber's Note: || || Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has || been preserved. || || Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For || a complete list, please see the end of this document. || |+-----------------------------------------------------------+THE NEW LANDStories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our CountrybyELMA EHRLICH LEVINGER
 
"A new world, with great portals far outflung,Holding a hope more sweet than time had sung,To which the Jew, of life's high quest a part,A pilgrim came, the Torah in his heart.A land of promise, and fulfillment too;Where on a sudden olden dreams came true....Here grew we part of an ennobled state,Gave and won honor, sat among the great,And saw unfolding to our 'raptured viewThe day long prayed for by the patient Jew."_From "The Jew in America," by Felix N. Gerson_New YorkBloch Publishing Company"The Jewish Book Concern"1920Copyright, 1920, byBloch Publishing CompanyTO_Grandmother and Grandfather Levinger_THESE "STORIES THAT REALLY HAPPENED"ARE AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATEDA LETTER TO MY READERS._Dear Boys and Girls_:When your grandfather tells you a story, do you ever interrupt him toask: "But is it all true?" And doesn't he often answer: "I don'tknow," or "I don't know when it's really true, and when it begins tobe like a story book." And so, when you read through my littlebook--if you do read right through it to the very last page--you maywonder whether all my history stories really happened.Yes--and no! I do know that cross old Peter Stuyvesant of NewAmsterdam hated our people, but I never found any record of the Jewishboy who wanted to play with the governor's niece, pretty Katrina. Thehistories tell us how gallant young Franks became the friend of GeorgeWashington, but none of them mention that the Jewish soldier saved aTory from the angry mob.You understand now, don't you? So I'm going to turn the page rightaway that you may read for yourselves of the three Jews who whispered
 
together on the deck of the "Santa Maria," as Columbus and his crewcrossed the Sea of Darkness in search of a New Land.E.E.L.NOTE: The author expresses her thanks to the editors of _TheHebrew Standard_ and _The Jewish Child_ in which the stories,"In the Night Watches" and "A Place of Refuge," originallyappeared.CONTENTS.PAGEIN THE NIGHT WATCHES 9_The Three who came with Columbus._WHEN KATRINA LOST HER WAY 14_A tale of the First Jewish Settlers of New Amsterdam._A PLACE OF REFUGE 33_How the Wanderer came to Rhode Island._"DOWN WITH KING GEORGE" 39_How Isaac Franks, of the American army, first heard theDeclaration of Independence._THE LAST SERVICE 52_The story of a Rabbi who lived in New York when it wascaptured by the British in 1776._THE GENEROUS GIVER 68_The story of a Jewish money-lender of the Revolution._ACROSS THE WATERS 88_A story of the City of Refuge planned by Mordecai Noah._THREE AT GRACE 105_The story of the first Jewish settler in Alabama._THE LUCKY STONE 122_The adventures of Uriah P. Levy, the first navalofficer of his day._THE PRINCESS OF PHILADELPHIA 140_The story of Rebecca Gratz and Washington Irving._A PRESENT FOR MR. LINCOLN 160_How President Lincoln set out for Washington and how hereturned._THE LAND COLUMBUS FOUND 173_The story of the tablet placed upon the Statue ofLiberty in New York Harbor._
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