Maintaining Orthodoxy in the New World
A Series of Four Lectures Given at the Young Israel of Avenue J
By
Dr. Yitzchok Levine
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, NJ 07030
Please note that these lectures are based on a number of articles about American Jewish history that can be accessed at http://personal.stevens.edu/~llevine/pub.html .
Lecture 1 (Wed. 2/13/08): From Columbus to 1700 - Inquisition in Spain and Portugal; Jews Who Came with Columbus; Jews in Central and South America; Inquisition in Mexico; Recife, Brazil; Jewish Communities in the Caribbean; First Jew in North America; Jews arrive in New Amsterdam; Early New York Jewish Communal Life (Asser Levy, Jacob Barsimson); Shearith Israel
Lecture 2 (Fri. 2/22/08 - recorded on 2/24): 1700 to 1800 - Colonial Jewish Communities; Savannah, Dr. Samuel Nunes, Escape from the Inquisition; Newport, Aaron Lopez; Israel Baer Kursheedt; Rebecca (Machado) and Jonas Phillips; Rebecca Samuels; Jews in the Revolutionary War; Hayyim Solomon
Lecture 3 (Wed. 2/27/08):
1800 to 1880:1800
to 1880: Jacob Mordecai; Naphtali and Josephine Phillips; Warder Cresson; Isaac
Leeser; Rabbi Avraham Rice; Battle with Reform; Jews and the Civil War; Grant's
Expulsion Order; Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Schneersohn
Lecture 4 (Fri. 3/7/08 - recorded on 3/9): 1880 to 1940: Russian and East European Immigration;
Rabbi Dr. Henry P. Schneeberger; Rabbi Dr. Bernard Drachman; Rabbi Dr.
Schepschel Schaffer; JTS, Harry Fischel, Yeshiva Etz Chaim; Rabbi Jacob Joseph;
the RJJ School; TA, RIETS and Yeshiva College; Baltimore Hebrew Parochial
School, Rabbi David Miller