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351 Page numbers in italics refer to a figure or a caption on the page. Abraham, Isaac, 98 Abraham, Simeon, 171 Abraham Lincoln and Diogenes (Carvalho), 296 Abrahams, Abraham (merchant), 80, 81, 284 Abrahams, Abraham (physician), 37 Abrahams, Abraham (shochet), 123, 124 Abrahams, Catherine, 98 Abrahams, Jacob, 73, 81 Abrahams, Joseph, 241 Academy of Music, 179 Ackerman, John, 117 Adams, John Quincy, 110 Adams, John Wolcott, 272–273 Address of Loyalty, 79–80 Adler, N. M., 171 Adler, Samuel: antislavery sentiments, 236, 341n60; on Civil War, 253; conversion to Judaism, requests for, 191; education, 188; Isaacs, Samuel, 236; Lincoln, Abraham, 251, 252; ordination, 330n10; photograph, 251; Reform Judaism, 188, 212, 251; Talmud, 215; Temple Emanu-El, 212–213, 225 Adolphus, Isaac, 72 Age of Reason (Paine), 139 Ahrens, Hanna, 171 Alien and Sedition Acts, 101 Ambrosius, Israel, 13 Ambrosius, Moses, 13 American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 237, 238 American Anti-Slavery Convention, 231 American Bible Society, 110 American Hebrew Agricultural and Horticultural Association, 165 American Jewish Historical Society, 254 American Revolution, 71–91; 1776, 75–76, 79; Address of Loyalty, 79–80; Boston Tea Party (1773), 75; British patriotism, 78, 80; democratic consciousness, xv; entrepreneurialism , 94; Franks family, 76; fundraising /financing for, 83–84; intermarriage, 81, 82; Jewish abandonment of New York City, xv, 78, 84–85; Jewish identification with British-American culture, 69; Jewish loyalists , 76, 78, 79–82; Jewish merchants, 73, 75, 84; Jewish military service, 82–84; legacy, 3, 91; non-importation pledge, 72–73; Philadelphia’s Jewish community, 84–85; Phillips, Jonas, 75–76; postwar period, 86– 87; privateering, 83–84; Seixas, Gershom Mendes, 71, 76–78, 84, 141; Shearith Israel, 73–76, 78, 80; Torah scroll desecrated by British soldiers, 284 American Society for Evangelizing the Jews, 110 American Society for Meliorating the Condition of the Jews, 109, 110, 202 American Tract Society, 110 Americanization, 3, 4, 210 Amsterdam, 9–10, 15, 28, 46, 271, 282 Andros, Edmund, 26 Anglican Church, 27 Anglicization of names, 27, 66 Anshe Chesed congregation: architectural style, 184; confirmation ceremony, 109, 209; day school, 192–193; Gothic-style building, 185–186; Lilienthal, Max, 162, 187; Merzbacher , Leo, 188; Norfolk Street location, 181, 184; Polish Jews, 181; Sabbath violators, 207; synagogue decorum, 190; synagogue school, 192–193; Wise, Isaac Mayer, 206 antebellum New York City, 151–210, 227–240; Americanization without loss of Jewish identity, 3; anti-Semitism, 198–202; antiabolitionists, 229, 230–231; Democratic Party, 227–228, 229; democratic spirit, 152; eastern European Jews, 155; garment industry , 152, 156–157; German immigrants, 152, 153–154, 155; German Jewish immigrants (see German Jews); integration of Jews into American mainstream, 179, 202; intermarriage , 190; Irish immigrants, 152, 153–154; Jewish antislavery advocates, 234–237, 341n60; Jewish arts and entertainment, I N D E X 352 ■ Index antebellum New York City (continued) 176–179; Jewish community divisiveness, 185; Jewish education, 191–195; Jewish fraternal orders, 98–100; Jewish immigrants, 155, 156, 158; Jewish leaders, arrival of learned, 186–187; Jewish literary societies, 160–161, 162; Jewish merchants, 157, 228– 229; Jewish mobility, 157; Jewish movement uptown, 179; Jewish Orphan Home, 172– 173; Jewish participation in reform efforts, lack of, 166–167; Jewish philanthropy, 162– 167; Jewish population, 155, 181, 190, 255, 256; Jewish poverty, 164; Jewish religious life, 188–191, 205–208; Jewish Republicans, 236; Jewish social standing, 186; Jewish southern sympathizers, 230–234, 237–238, 247, 254, 297; Jewish synagogues, average cost, 186; Jewish synagogues, grandeur of, 180, 185–188; Jewish wealth, 157, 186, 202; Jewish women, 173–175, 195–198; Jews’ Hospital (see Jews’ Hospital); newspapers, 152; nonimmigrant Jewish population, 154–156; Orthodox Judaism, 186; politics, 227–240; population growth, 151–152; secularization, 178, 205; slavery, 152–153, 229–234; social acceptance of Jews, 178; Southern ties, 152–153, 239, 338n29; speculation , 152–153; tenements, 154 anti-Semitism, 109–111; 1790s, 109; among educated men, 200–201; antebellum New York City, 198–202; Christian German Americans , 158; Civil War, 245–248; colonial New York City, 66–68; Delancey, Oliver, 67; dishonest commerce, 199; England, 27; evangelicalism, 200; Federalists, 109; General Orders No. 11, 245–246; Mortara case (Italy, 1858), 198–199; New Amsterdam, 22; New York Herald newspaper, 200, 201; Pennsylvania, 314n36; politics, 200; against proprietors of stores, 199; republican New York City, 109–111, 319n39, 319n41; Stuyvesant , Peter, 1, 14, 16–17, 22; in theater, 110, 319n41; visibility/public success, 199, 289 Apollo Saloon, 162 Ararat/Grand Island colony, 107–108 Argus (newspaper), 101 Arnold, Abram, 171 Aronson, Harris...