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The Jew Who Helped Found America: The Life of Haym Salomon the Patriotic Broker

Posted 19 Jun 2010
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This is a book about a man to whom all Americans should be extremely indebted. Yet, for many reasons, very few Americans know of his existence, let alone those many sacrifices he made to obtain our freedoms. This book is about a man who I consider to be one of our founding fathers, Haym Salomon. Without the contributions that this man made, it is extremely doubtful that we would have won the revolutionary contest with Great Britain. Quite possibly one of the “glaring” reasons that his is not a household name is that Haym Salomon was a Jew at the very time it was extremely unpopular to be a Jew. The approximate population of America in 1780 was 3 million people of which less that 1/10 of 1% were Jewish. That… More >> The Jew Who Helped Found America: The Life of Haym Salomon the Patriotic Broker