Newspaper issue of the *Connecticut Courier*, published in Bridgeport, Connecticut on October 5, 1825. This issue features Mordecai Manuel Noah's proposal for a Jewish homeland called "Ararat" in Upstate New York, with Noah serving as Judge of Israel. The front page contains five columns, four of which are dedicated to Noah's article.
Subject: Jewish Settlements
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A hand-colored map of Surinam (Dutch Guiana), circa 1769, depicting Jewish-owned plantations, two synagogues (including the German Synagogue), the Jewish market, and other relevant locations. Surinam, a territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, is situated in northeastern South America, bordered by Guyana, Brazil, and French Guiana, and the Atlantic Ocean to the north. This map shows a second synagogue, the German Synagogue, which is not present on pre-1718 maps of the area. The map was exhibited in the inaugural year-long exhibition at the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia from November 2010 to November 2011. Historical note: In 1627, Abraham van Pere, a Flushing merchant possibly of Portuguese Jewish refugee descent, founded a settlement in the Berbice River, Surinam, under a license from the Dutch West India Company. He sent settlers upriver, and later supplied goods to Dutch settlements in Essequibo.
Map of Erie County, New York, by David H. Burr, published January 5, 1829, by the Surveyor General pursuant to an Act of the Legislature. Engraved by Rawdon, Clark & Co., Albany & Rawdon, Wright & Co., New York. The map notably depicts Arrarat, a planned Jewish settlement proposed by M.M. Noah.
This item is a $100 First Mortgage, Four Percent Bond (Number 1497) issued by the Jewish Agricultural and Colonial Association. It was issued to Jacob H. Schiff on April 14, 1913, with interest payable from December 31, 1917, and the final principal due on December 31, 1924. Payments were designated to be made through the Utah Colonization Fund, Inc., The National Copper Bank, or Walker Brothers Bank, all located in Salt Lake City, Utah. The certificate features ornate green borders and decorative Gothic-style lettering for the association's name. An engraved vignette depicting a cultivated agricultural landscape, likely representing the Clarion colony, is centrally placed. The document includes detachable coupons for future interest payments and bears the signatures of Benjamin Brown (President), B. Horowitz (Secretary) of the Jewish Agricultural and Colonial Association, and David Spitz (Secretary of Utah Colonization Fund, Inc. Trustee). 3.
Copper engraving depicting the Jodensavanne (Jewish Savanna) in Suriname. Plate XXXIX from John Gabriel Stedman's *Voyage à Surinam, et dans l'intérieur de la Guyane* (Buisson, Paris, 1799). The engraving, measuring 18.5 cm by 13.5 cm on a sheet of handmade paper (approx. 26 x 19 cm), is one of the earliest printed depictions of a Jewish colony in the New World. It shows the landscape and possibly some buildings of the Jodensavanne settlement.