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С переводом могу помочь, если пожелаете. Commentary by Dr. Gerhard Falk
The Jews of New York
"On January 1, 2004, when we welcome the New Year, we will be marking the 350th anniversary of the establishment of a Jewish community in our country.
It was in 1654 when twenty-three Jews arrived in New Amsterdam from Recife, in the province of Pernambuco, Brazil. That coastal area of Brazil had been in the hands of the Dutch since 1633. Some Jews therefore migrated to that part of the world because they had already lived in the Netherlands, a Protestant country, where they were welcome. You will recall that the great Spinoza was born in the Netherlands whence his ancestors had fled to escape the Inquisition active in Catholic Spain and Portugal.
When the Portuguese conquered Pernambuco in 1654, the Protestant and Jewish citizens traveled to the nearest Dutch colony in the New World, i.e. Nieuw Amsterdaam, which had been established as the capital of the New Netherlands in 1624. Although initially denied residence by the Dutch governor, Peter Stuyvesant, the Jews remained in the city when the Dutch West India Company ordered him to allow Jewish settlement. These Jews formed a congregation which they called Shearith Israel, or The Remnants of Israel.
Ten years after the first Jewish immigrants arrived, the British conquered New Amsterdam and renamed it New York after the Duke of York, later to become king of England and Scotland.
In 1730, Congregation Shearith Israel built its first synagogue on Mill St. just south of Wall Street. Until 1825, Shearith Israel was the only Jewish congregation in New York. Today that congregation continues at Central Park West and 70th Street.
In 1825 the second Jewish synagogue was erected in New York. It was called B’nai Jeshuron and it became the forerunner of all the Ashkenazi “shuls” and “temples” and “synagogues” now serving the 972,000 Jews in the city. That is right. Only 972,000. For the first time in 50 years the Jewish population of New York City has dropped to less than one million. In fact, 50 years ago New York had 2 million Jews, who constituted one fourth of the New York population. Now, when New York City has 8 million people, the Jews are only 12 percent. The reason is both migration and the falling Jewish birth rate. There are in fact 1.4 million Jews in Greater New York, meaning the suburbs.
Now Brooklyn has the greatest concentration of Jews with 456,000, followed by Manhattan, which has 243,000 Jews. In Nassau County, outside the city limits, there are now 221,000 Jews. 129,000 live in Westchester and Suffolk has 90,000 Jews.
The State of New York has 1,657,000 Jews, which makes us about 9.1% of the New York State population of 19 million."
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