The Jews in America Trilogy (118 page)

Nathan, Maud,
see
Nathan, Mrs. Frederick

Nathan, Mendes Seixas,
11

Nathan, Mrs. Mendes Seixas (Sarah Seixas),
11

Nathan, Rebecca,
see
Cardozo, Mrs. Albert

Nathan, Robert,
306

Nathan, Robert Weeks,
310
,
311
,
313
,
314–15

Nathan, Mrs. Robert Weeks (Annette Florance),
311
,
313–14

Nathan, Rosalie,
see
Florance, Mrs. Ted; Hendricks, Mrs. Henry S.

Nathan, Sarah Seixas,
276

Nathan, Washington,
276–80
passim,
284–91
passim

Nathan, Mrs. Washington (Nina Mapleson Arnott),
290

Newbold (family),
162

New Orleans: Ashkenazim,
132
,
135
,
138
,
229

Sephardim,
101
,
132–33
,
134–35
,
138
,
187
,
229

Touro bequest,
143

Newport: Jewish cemetery,
130
,
145

Jewish club,
125–26
,
139

Sephardim,
101–02
,
120
,
125–26
,
127
,
161
,
264
,
337

slave trade,
102–07
passim

Touro bequest,
143

Touro Synagogue,
101
,
139

New York (English colony): Ashkenazim,
163

Dutch in,
100–01

Sephardim,
170

New York (New Amsterdam)

Sephardim,
68–70

anti-Semitism,
61–70
passim

arrival of,
2
,
23–24
,
49
,
53–59

New York City,
233–35

Barnard College,
12
,
317–18

Bronx, Sephardim in,
2

clubs closed to Jews,
5

Dutch Church,
101

Emanu-El,
306–07
,
347

Harmonie Club,
344
n

Lower East Side,
2
,
307
,
338

Montefiore Hospital,
20

Saint Mark's in-the-Bowery,
351

Sephardic cemeteries,
347
,
348

Chatham Square Cemetery,
20
,
60
,
71
,
347

Sephardic synagogues,
9
,
60
,
72
,
336

Sephardim,
337–38

Shearith Israel,
9
,
13
,
92
,
97–98
,
273
,
307–08
,
340
,
344
,
345–47

de Lucena, Abraham Haim,
71–72

founding,
59

Gerstein, Louis C.,
344

Mendes, Henry Pereira,
18
,
20

Pool, David de Sola,
20
,
340
,
352

Seixas, Gershom Mendes,
11
,
190

and Touro Synagogue (Newport),
101

Trinity Church,
71
,
92

Union Club,
266
,
271
,
296

Union League Club,
271

Upper East Side,
307

New York Guild for the Jewish Blind,
20

New-York Historical Society: Hendricks Collection,
16–17

Nones, Benjamin,
152

Norden, De Leon,
230

Norfolk, Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan Howard, Duke of,
176

Nunes (family),
73

Nunes, Ricke (Rachel),
56
,
59

Pacheco, Don Juan,
41

Padilla, Dona María de,
42

Payne-Gallwey, Mrs. Stephen (Phila De Lancey),
166

Peckham, Walton,
281

Peixotto (family),
8
,
21
,
188–89
,
190
,
348
;
see also
Mendes-Peixotto (family)

Peixotto, Antonio Mendes,
189

Peixotto, Cohen,
see
Maduro, Mrs. Levy

Peixotto, Don Diego,
189

Peixotto, Joshua,
189

Perry, Comm. Matthew,
250

Pesoa, Isaac,
192–93

Peter I, King,
42

Philadelphia: Ashkenazim,
228–29

Meschianza,
167–69
,
171

Mikveh Israel,
98
,
340

Sephardim,
11
,
56
,
101
,
159
,
160–61
,
162
,
173–74
,
223
,
337

Philip I, King,
85

Philip II, King,
78

Philip III, King,
84

Philip IV, King,
89–90

Phillips (family),
21
,
101

Phillips, Lloyd Peixotto,
21

Phillips, Mrs. Lloyd Peixotto (Beatrice),
21–22

Pierce, Franklin,
248

Pietersen, Solomon,
54–55
,
58–59

Pilgrims,
61

Pinto, Beatrice,
185

Polhemius, Dominie Joannes,
63

Polynesia: Sephardim,
51

Pool, Dr. David de Sola,
20–21
,
340
,
352

Portland: Sephardim,
338

Portnoy (family),
25

Portugal: Brazil as colony,
51
,
52

Sephardim,
2
,
15
,
19
,
21
,
23–27
passim,
29
,
32
,
33
,
47
,
49–50

slave trade,
104
,
106

Potter, Lt. William,
208–12
passim

Primrose, Lady Lavinia Mary,
176

Pulaski, Casimir,
154

Pulgar, Hernando de,
41
,
87

Puritans,
64
,
146

Quakers: Dutch persecution,
62

Randolph, Edmund,
153–54

Randolph, Martha Jefferson,
237

Random, Don Francesco,
154

Rappaport (family),
25

Recife: Sephardim,
51
,
52
,
53

Revere, Paul,
193–94

Rhodes: Sephardim,
331
,
332
,
338
,
342

Ridgely, Charles Goodwin,
5

Riker, “Big Sam,”
268

Riker, “Little Sam,”
268

Rittenhouse (family),
263

Rivera (family),
126
,
139

Rivera, Jacob Rodriguez,
102
,
108–15
,
117
,
127
,
138–39

Rivera, Sally,
see
Lopez, Mrs. Aaron

Rockefeller (family),
4
,
270

Rockefeller, Mrs. Godfrey S. (Helen Gratz),
181–82

Roos, Garret Janson,
72

Roosevelt (family),
262

Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
157

Roosevelt, Theodore,
315
,
350

Rosebery, Albert Edward Harry Mayer Archibald, Earl of,
176

Rowland (family),
181

rum trade,
104–07
passim,
193

Sachs (family),
25

St. Clair, Gen. Arthur,
153

Saks (family),
25

Salmasius,
62

Salomon (family),
149
,
150

Salomon, Haym,
145–58
passim,
167
,
346

Salomon, Mrs. Haym (Rachel Franks),
149
,
150
,
155
,
167

Salomon, Haym Moses,
154–55
,
156–57

Salonica: Sephardim,
331
,
332

Sánchez (family),
41

Sánchez, Gabriel,
45
,
46

Sancho II, King,
26

Santa María, Don Pablo de (Selemohha-Levi),
35–36
,
37

Santangel (family),
88–89

Santangel, Clara de,
88

Santangel, Doñosa de,
88

Santangel, Gabriel de,
89

Santangel, Jaime Martin de,
88

Santangel, Luis de,
45
,
46
,
89

Santangel, Simon de,
88

Santangel, Violante de,
see
Gomez, Violante de Santangel

Saratoga: Sephardim,
264

Sartain, John,
178

Sarzedas, Abraham,
189
,
190

Sarzedas, Mrs. Abraham (Caty Hays),
189–90

Savannah: Sephardim,
101
,
337

Saxe (family),
25

Schiff (family),
3
,
271

Schuyler, Philip,
148

Scott, Sir Walter,
178–79

Scott, Gen. Winfield,
175

Scoville, Joseph,
198–99

Seattle: Sephardim,
338

Seixas (family),
7
,
11
,
21
,
25
,
60
,
188
,
189
,
190
,
263
,
337
,
347

Germanized versions of name,
25

in Spain,
25

Seixas, Abraham Mendes (Miguel Pacheco da Silva),
189

Seixas, Benjamin,
7

Seixas, Gerahom Mendes,
7
,
11
,
18
,
190
,
274

Seixas, Moses,
183

Seixag, Sarah,
see
Nathan, Mrs. Mendes Seixas; Nathan, Sarah Seixas

Seixas, Vic,
25

Seixas, Victor Monteflore,
25

Selemoh, Don,
39
,
40

Seligman (family),
296

Seligman, James,
263

Seligman, Mrs. James (Rosa Content),
263

Seligman, Joseph,
296

Senior, Don Abraham,
39
,
40
,
41
,
45–46
,
47

Sepharad,
24

Sephardim,
229
,
232

and Ashkenazim,
8
,
131–32
,
135
,
138
,
163
,
228–31
,
263
,
295
,
340
,
344

characteristics and traits,
8–9
,
62–63

conversions to Christianity,
8
,
231

Conversos,
35–36
,
38
,
40
,
42
,
43
,
46
,
76–79
,
84
,
86–87

reconversions to Judaism,
52

derivation of name,
24

in finance,
26
,
29–30
,
34
,
39
,
45–46
,
62
,
69–70
,
76
,
77

importance of the past,
23
,
328–29
,
344–45

Ladino language (Judeo-Spanish),
31
,
331
,
338–39

Levantine Sephardim,
2
,
48
,
50
,
331–40

magic and healing,
334–35

Marranos,
35
,
46
,
51
,
56
,
78–79
,
87–88
,
330–31

phoenix as symbol,
67

zekhut avot
(ancestral merit),
10

see also
Jews and Judaism; Portugal, Sephardim; Spain, Sephardim

Seville: Sephardim,
15
,
19
,
27
,
37
,
43
,
78
,
79

Seward, William,
97

Shackelford (family),
263

“sheeny,” origin of word,
230

Shepherd, Rezin Davis,
143

Shippen, Peggy,
167

Sixtus IV, Pope,
82

slave trade,
102–07
,
193

Solis (family),
8
,
11
,
185
,
186
,
188
,
190

Da Silva Solis (Da Silva y Solis; family),
185–86

Solis, David,
188

Solis, Mrs. David Hays (Elvira Nathan),
13
,
188

Solis, Elvira Nathan,
13–16
,
23
,
25
,
60
,
185
,
186
,
187
,
188

Solis, Fernao Jorge Da,
185

Solis, Isabel de,
186

Solis, Jacob da Silva,
186–88

Solis, Mrs. Jacob da Silva (Charity Hays),
187
,
188

Solis, Joseph,
187

Solis, Joseph Da Silva,
186

Solis, Judith,
see
Cohen, Mrs. Myer David

Solis, Solomon da Silva,
186

Solis-Cohen (family),
11
,
188

Souza, Victor,
135

Spain: Castilian language,
31

Crusades,
30
,
34
,
37

Inquisition,
15
,
19
,
25
,
42–43
,
44–45
,
49–50
,
74–88