Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Guide to the United States for the Jewish Immigrant: A Nearly Literal Translation of the Second Yiddish Edition
Columbus, an Italian, with four Jews in his ship's company, discovered this western world. Another Italian gave it the name of America. The Spaniards explored it, and planted their ?ags on it. The English followed, colonizing the land. The Dutch founded New York City. France settled eastern Canada. In the colonial days, also, Germans and Welsh made settlements in Pennsylvania. Swedes built homes along the Delaware. Scotch and Huguenots went to the Carolinas to form their plantations.
The English gradually acquired power over all of these peoples within the territory that is now called the United States. In course of time they abused their power. They loaded the struggling colonists with un just taxes, and Oppressed them in countless ways. In the end, the colonists rose in revolt, and fought to gether for their liberty. Their victorious army was composed of soldiers of many different races; Jewish blood was shed on every battlefield; Haym Solomon, a Jew, gave his whole princely fortune to the cause of liberty. And when England called home her defeated battalions in 1781, our ancestors, united in victory, formed the union of a new nation.
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