Mordecai Manuel Noah

Mordecai Noah Immanuel ( Mordechai Manuel Noah Mordecai Manuel Noah, or, * July 19, 1785 in Philadelphia, † March 22, 1851 in New York ) was a Jewish-American journalist, publisher, diplomat and philanthropist.

Life

Mordechai Immanuel Noah came from a respected but impoverished Portuguese Marranenfamilie who had fled from Lisbon to London and emigrated from there to America. He was active as a journalist. As editor of the City Gazette in Charleston (South Carolina), he was a supporter of the war against England. President Madison made ​​him consul in 1811 and U.S. government representatives in Riga and 1813 as consul in Tunis. Entrusted with a special mission in Algiers, Noah had the opportunity to explain that the United States certainly did not see themselves as a Christian state formation - in this Declaration and decision has since remained exist unchallenged. In 1822, Noah was High Sheriff (Chief Magistrate ) and port inspector of New York.

For the history of Zionism significant Mordechai Immanuel Noah was to come New York and settle there in 1825 by his call for world Jewry, to Ararat, one sold to him island in the Niagara River in the state until the final repossession of Palestine will be possible - a project that he had since 1818, motivated by the oppressive situation of the Jews in Russia and Africa, followed. In September 1825, the groundbreaking ceremony was held in Buffalo under the thunder of cannon and participation of the State dignitaries, representatives of the Christian clergy, the Freemasons and the Indians. Noah himself appointed himself "judge and ruler in Israel " and issued a proclamation, in which he " pending the reestablishment of the Jewish kingdom in Palestine founding of the Jewish kingdom in the land of the Great Lakes " announced the.

The planned city was not built, as a result reaped Noah lot of rejection and ridicule. Today, on the whole project only reminder of the foundation, which is presented in the historical museum in Buffalo and bears the inscription: . " Ararat A city of refuge for the Jews, Founded by Mordecai Manuel Noah, in the Month Tizri 5586, Sept. 1825. ( preceded by the Shema in Hebrew ) in the 49th year of American Independence ".

In later years, Mordecai Noah Immanuel formulated a strong appeal to the Christian world (1844 in New York appeared in book form: Discourse on the Restoration of the Jews ), to help the recovery of Palestine to the Jews.

Literature (selection )

  • Jost, modern history of the Jews, 1847, Vol II, 227-235
  • GA Kohut, A Literary Autobiography of MM Noah, 1897
  • A. B. Makower, M. M. Noah. His Life and Work, 1917
  • Dubnow, World History of the Jewish People, 1925 ff, vol 11, p 301 f
  • Selig Adler, Thomas E. Connolly, From Ararat to Suburbia: the History of the Jewish Community of Buffalo, Philadelphia 1960
  • Ben Katchor, The Jew of New York, 1998 ( implementation as Graphic Novel)
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