Nile’s Weekly Register. Third Series. Vol. V, No. 5.

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

William Ogden Niles

Baltimore

1825

Printed in double columns.

On p. 69, a scathing denunciation of Mordecai Manuel Noah and his recently proposed project of “Ararat” - i.e. Grand Island on the Niagara River, near Buffalo, New York, which was to serve as an asylum for the Jews. In H. Niles’ jaundiced version of events, “Ararat” is just one more example of a Jew seeking out to cheat his fellow Jew by land speculation. Furthermore, Niles perceives Noah as suffering from delusions of grandeur, next expecting Noah to proclaim himself as the Messiah. For a more factual presentation of the entire Ararat affair, see EJ, Vol. XII cols. 1198-9.