From the Jewish community of 1769 to that of 1917 is a far cry--the one resident of colonial times to the lawyers, doctors, bankers, artists, merchant princes and artisans of today. Success to a phenomenal degree has been theirs. What they accomplished has been by virtue of their own brain and good right arm. To penal and eleemosynary institutions they were practically strangers. They have, it is true, figured in the criminal courts--as the brightest of lawyers ; their escutcheons are often crossed with the bar sinister of a rope--it is not pendant from a tree, but a peddler's pack. Of all the successful Jews In Richmond today there is not one of whom it can be truthfully said that he owes aught of it to "pull." Theirs has been the conquest of "push." The remarkable part is all this has been achieved by stress of energy alone. They came to this country with only their good names, their indomitable wills, with the single purpose of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," and the right to practice their ancient faith as their consciences dictated. -- Pg. [11]

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XLVIII. THE HEBREW CEMETERY. A meeting of the Congregation Beth Shalome, held February 18, 1816, adopted the following: "Resolved, That Messrs. Benjamin Wolfe, Manuel Judah, and Samuel Myers be appointed a committee to investigate the records of the Common Hall, concerning the appropriation of some ground that was laid off for burying-grounds, for the different religious societies some time back, and that they use their endeavors to obtain said ground for this congregation." And at a subsequent meeting held June 9, 1816, Benjamin Wolfe, chairman of the committee, laid before the meeting the following ordinance of the Common Hall, appropriating a lot of ground to the congregation for a burying-ground, with a plat of the same: "An Ordinance Concerning the Hebrew Society of Richmond: "Be it ordained by the president and the Common Council of the City of Richmond, in Common Hall assembled, and it is hereby ordained by the authority of the same, That one acre of land belonging to the City of Richmond, lying upon Shockoe Hill, as laid off and designated in a plot of the said land made by Richard Young, surveyor of the City of Richmond, and the same is hereby vested in the congregation called in Hebrew the Kaal Kadosh Beth Shalome, in English, the Congregation of the House of Peace, to be by them held and exclusively used as a burying-ground, subject to their rites and laws, for that purpose and for that alone." On motion it was resolved that the congregation do accept the lot, and that the ordinance and survey be recorded; that a vote of thanks be given Benjamin Wolfe, a member of the Common Hall, for his unremitted exertions in procuring for the congregation the lot of ground from the Common Hall for a buryingground; that four...