(Newspaper). The Salem Gazette. Vol. XXXIV, Number 12. Reporting on Mordecai Manuel Noah’s proposed Jewish Colony on Grand Island, near Buffalo, New York

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

February 8th

Salem, Massachusetts

1820

The article front and center, entitled simply "The Jews," speaks approvingly of Mr. Noah's bid to establish a community of Jewish immigrants on Grand Island in the Niagara River. The writer wonders aloud why more Jews from lands of persecution have not availed themselves of the opportunity to immigrate to the United States. He can only surmise that it is ignorance of the democracy awaiting them here that prevents them from doing so. As for the benefits such an influx would produce, the journalist writes: "The property of foreign Jews principally consists of money and merchandize, which can easily be removed to any country; and if a few of their great bankers could emigrate to this State, and circulate a few millions, they would secure a good profit and give a spur to internal commerce."