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INDEX
People
Abravanel,
Don Isaac
Berg, Gertude (Molly Goldberg)
Berg, Moe
Berle, Milton
Berlin, Irving
Bernstein, Leonard
Brandeis, Louis D.
Cardozo, Benjamin
Einstein, Albert
Elion, Gertrude
Frankel,Jacob
Gershwin, George
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader
Gompers, Samuel
Goode, Alexander
Goodman, Benny
Gratz, Rebecca
Greenberg, Hank
Hillman, Sidney
Hoffman, Jeffrey
Houdini, Harry
Jefferson, Thomas
Karpeles ,
Leopold
Lamarr, Hedy
Lazarus, Emma
Lehman, Herbert H.
Levy, Asser
Levy, Uriah P.
Magnes, Judah L.
Meir, Golda
Miller, Arthur
Myerson, Bess
Noah, Mordecai.
Ochs, Adolph
Pulitzer, Joseph
Resnik, Judith
Rose, Ernestine
Rosenthal, Robert
Ross, Barney
Salk, Jonas
Salomon, Haym
Santangel, Luis de
Sarnoff, David
Schick, Bela
Seixas, Gershom M.
Singer, Isaac B.
Stern, Isaac
Straus, Isidor & Ida
Strauss, Levi
Streisand, Barbra
Szold, Henrietta
Torres, Dara
Torres, Luis de
Touro, Judah
Wacks, Mel
Wald, Lillian
Washington, George
Wiesel, Elie
Wise, Isaac Mayer
Zacuto, Abraham
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by Paul Vincze (1973), Haym Salomon, Patriot. |
Haym
Salomon (1740-1785)
In the early
1770s, at the time of the partition of Poland, Haym Salomon left
his family and arrived in New York on the eve of the Revolution.
His command of German made him welcome to the Hessian forces,
which he served as a supplier of goods. When the British suspected
him of spying, Salomon was arrested and confined to prison for
a time.
Salomon's
command of several languages enabled him to serve as a broker
to the French officials in Philadelphia. In the diary of Robert
Morris, Superintendent of Finance for the new American government,
Salomon's name appears frequently in the period 1781-84. Morris
wrote: "This broker has been useful to the public interests ..."
Salomon prospered and was able to be financially helpful to a
number of public figures, such as Alexander Hamilton and James
Madison. In 1782, Madison acknowledged the "kindness of our little
friend in Front Street, whose assistance will preserve me from
extremities but I never resort to it without great mortification
as he obstinately rejects all recompense."
When Haym
Salomon died prematurely in January 1785, he held $353,000, largely
in depreciated certificates of indebtedness and continental currency
... all virtually worthless. The Pennsylvania Packet wrote "He
was remarkable for his skill and integrity in his profession and
for his generous and humane deportment."
Jewish
Affairs
Haym Salomon was actively involved in Jewish community affairs.
He was a member of Mikveh Israel Congregation in Philadelphia,
and made the largest single contribution to the erection of its
first building in 1782. The following year, Salomon joined with
other prominent Jews in an address to the Pennsylvania Council
of Censors urging them to remove the religious test oath required
for office-holding under the State Constitution. And in 1784,
he answered a personal slander in the press by proclaiming boldly:
"I am a Jew; it is my own nation ... I do not despair ... that
we shall obtain every other privilege that we aspire to enjoy
along with our fellow-citizens."
(Extracted from a paper by Dr. Samuel Rezneck,
Professor Emeritus of History, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
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