The historical background of the Jews in the US

The history of Jews in America goes all the way back to the discovery of the continent by Christopher Columbus who was a Spanish navigator and discoverer.
On the second day of August 1492 AD, following the fall of Andalusia, the Christians expelled more than three hundred thousand Jews from the land, and in the next day which means on August Columbus set out his sea journey and sailed from the port of Palo (Palos) to the West of the Atlantic Ocean. In this journey, he was accompanied by a number of Jews.
The presence of the Jews on the side of Columbus was no accident, but the Jewish leaders in Spain have long been notified of his the plans and the intention of Columbus and it was supported and approved by him.
Columbus has also noted in his remarks about the voyage, had a dialogue with the Jewish leaders for several times and had gained their support.
According to the research and studies done by the Henry Ford Research Institute, even the Jewish capitalists had taken charge of supplying and proving the funding for the journey.
At that time, when the Jews were under a lot of pressure from the Catholics, three powerful and prominent Jews pretended that they converted to Christianity and found considerable influence at the court of Spain. These three Jews were:
1. Luis do Santagel who was considered one of the biggest traders of Valencia, and was at the same time in charge of collecting taxes from farmers. He paid the required tax to the government in advance, and then received much more than the money paid as tax to his own benefit.
2. Gabriel Sanches who was a relative of the person individual mentioned and was the Minister of Economy and Treasury in Spain.
3. Juan Cabrero who was the commander of the royal guard of the King of Spain and the head of the royal office.
The three Jews who were mentioned and had intimate relationships among them, played an important and decisive role in mobilizing the support of Isabel, the Queen of Spain, to help Columbus.
In addition to the large number of Jews as workers who joined the ship on this journey with Columbus, five prominent Jews who accompanied him were:
1. Lewis de Torez, a translator who was in command of several languages.
2. Marco, the surgeon.
3. Bernal, doctor.
4. Alonzea de Lacole.
5. Gabriel Sanchez, the supplier of the main travel costs.
This man, Lewis de Torez, is the first person who discovered tobacco and promoted its use among the people.
The Jews who supported Columbus in financial assistance, such as Lewis de Santagel and Gabriel Sanchez, after it was known that the journey was successful, gained a lot of benefits, but Columbus himself was a victim of a conspiracy which was performed against him. This plot was designed and schemed by Bernal, the Jewish doctor who had accompanied Columbus in this voyage. The result of this intrigue and conspiracy was that Columbus had to remain the rest of his life in prison and went through many sufferings and a miserable life until he died in poverty.
From this time, the Jews viewed this new part of the world as a country that had a lot of potential and looked profitable with greed. Therefore, they immigrated to South America in large groups and stepped on the Brazilian soil.
But when the war raged between the Dutch and native Brazilians, the Jews were forced to leave Brazil with the intention of "New Amsterdam" in North America which was later called "New York".
Peter Stuyvesant, the Dutch governor of New Amsterdam, was highly displeased with the concentration of Jews in his area of governance and warned them that they must leave the city immediately, but the Jews took reciprocal measures, so that the commercial managers put a lot of pressure on the governor and declared that "the Jews in New Amsterdam have granted a lot of wealth and due to the enormous investments that have been carried out by them and the stock they had bought, their presence is inevitable."
Thus, the governor took back his word, but in order to continue his crackdown on the Jews and he prevented them from holding public offices and their licensing and retail shops banned. According to the long-standing relationships with their fellow Jews in Europe, they had turned to foreign trade and the import and export of goods were brought under their monopoly.
Henry Ford, in his book, which is called “The International Jew” having mentioned the above points continues to say:
This is just one of the thousands of cases that show how the Jews can adapt with any adverse social and economic conditions. They blocked the sphere of economic activity in a field of view, a gained an easily flexible and convenient channel for financial gain and the accumulation of wealth which was another success in their business. For example, when they were warned against trading in the field of new textile and clothing, they go about selling old clothing as soon as possible. As in the cases when one of the states banned the Jews from dealing and selling any modern materials, they immediately began to trade in antiquities.
However, the warnings of the New York governor prompted the Jews to take over the business in the America's largest port that is New York and turn it into their main base for their world trade. Although during the American War of Independence against Britain, during the period 1776- 1783, most of the Jews fled from New York to the state of Philadelphia, most of them after the war, at the earliest opportunity, and gradually returned to New York. Over the past two centuries, they have been immersed in this city and have monopolized the channels that already dominate the politics and the economy of New York circles of power and influence in the world.
Over a half of a century, the Jewish immigrants arriving in New York, with their children and communities affected by the new land, were turned into people who were quite distinct from their forefathers, but they had also many religious and ethnic traditions of their ancestors. This has made the Jewish minorities and the Jewish immigrants always different from the other US citizens.
One of the Jewish American writers, writes about the lack of integration of the Jews in the American society:
The isolation and solitude of the Jews was to prevent being melted into the American society, while the melting of non-Jews in the new society, was replaced by their isolation and mainly the integration of the Jews means nothing but their destruction.
He adds:
The non-Jewish ethnicities who immigrated to America brought with them sparse leaves behind a social storm to a strange land. The tree from which these leaves had separated remained solid and firm in the original country but it was quite different in the case of the Jews. When they immigrated to the United States, they were not branches and leaves of a tree; rather, they are separated and they are the root of the tree itself which is moving around the globe.
That is why the non-Jewish immigrants, whenever they wish, they can return to their homes, while for the Jews, such action is not possible. Therefore, when you immigrate to a country like America, you have no choice but to stay there forever. They have destroyed all the bridges on the back of his head.
Most of the early Jewish immigrants to the United States of America were poor and impoverished people. According to the studies done in this regard, about 7% of the immigrants, at the time of arrival in America, had about fifty dollars with them, and 38% other had less than fifty dollars and 55% others simply did not have the money. According to this research study, the average assets of a Jewish immigrant to America are about fifteen dollars and fifty cents. While the other immigrants, on average, had some assets (for the non-Jews) about $ 22.
The Jews who had just arrived turned to business from the scratch. During the period of the colonial rule, the scope of their activities was very broad. Some of them began to import wheat and tobacco and were engaged in the slave trade and the others, among them, began to work in the money exchange business and real estate.
Since many of the former refugees were reputable merchants and storeowners who were wealthy, then, the newly arrived immigrants, upon their arrival, were enjoying their support and help. From the second half of the nineteenth century, many of them were engaged in textile and apparel trade, wholesale and retail and other mass and other forms of the industry, the shoes, jewelry, liquor, tobacco, and grain trade. Gradually, the scope of the business activities of the Jewish clans had developed to such an extent that since 1880 they widely began their business in the export and import.
At the time of George Washington, the first president of the United States of America (1789- 1797 AD), the country hosted only four thousand Jews that were seen as mostly wealthy businesspersons. In the most critical moments of the War of Independence, these Jews supported the Americans by granting them huge loans and other forms of assistance. But after fifty years, following the mass immigration of the Jews from Europe and especially from Germany to America, their number was more than three million and three hundred thousand.
The main cause of the Jewish immigration to America was the new land that was a safe and comfortable environment for the life and the development of economic activity that they aspired.
If prior to this immigration, the Jews in European countries were due to the influence and control of the church considered as second-class citizens, and lived under persecution, now, in a new lands of America, they saw that the government has pursued a secular style and the accounts of the politics is separated from religion and religious fervor are abolished and a wide arena for more activity and power and influence has been provided.
The tribes that for centuries, with their weakness and cowardice, lived in the neighborhood of "ghetto", now in this new land, had found a position and an ideal opportunity to meet and express their expansionism and hegemonic purposes.
According to their ethnic background and their history, they had always turned to money and wealth, as a powerful lever for achieving the purposes of their long-looked life and, more than all the nations on earth, they had learned to do business practices and begin their accumulation of wealth, gold and silver in any ways that they could learn.
British colonialism over eastern Massachusetts, did not give the Jews the permission to get the American nationality, but since 1740, while the number of Jews did not exceed 2500 people and only had one rabbi among them, this affair was permitted.
In those years, Great Britain did not pay much attention to the Jews and Americans fought with the British. Until the wars of 1775 lasted for six years and the Great Britain was defeated, and America achieved the political unity of thirteen states and the primitive core of the United States of America was formed.
In these years of passion, turmoil, and inflammation, the Jews, regardless of any conflict, continued with the consolidation of their interests and strengthened their own positions and in the beginning of the nineteenth century, they prepared the area for the regular immigration of the mass of their co-religionists to the United States of America.
The small table, below, shows how the number of Jews in America, followed by increasing immigration, during a century, from 1825 to 1924 had increased two hundred times more than the previous population.

Year	1825	1840	1860	1880	1924
The number of Jews	10/000	15/000	150/000	250/000	2/000/000

The Jewish immigrants in America chose Hebrew names for their children such as Abraham, Moses, Sarah, and founded their own neighborhoods with Hebrew names like Hebron, Shalom, and Canaan among them. In their own schools and universities, the teaching language was Hebrew. Even the first doctoral degree of the University of "Harvard" in 1642 was given for a treatise which was entitled as "Hebrew is the native language". Furthermore, the first book that was published in the United States of America was “the Travel of the Psalms in Torah” and the first published magazine had Jewish titles.
Therefore, it is not surprising that the Jews of that time, saw America as their "Promised Land" and "New Canaan" and New York City was called the new Jerusalem and they earned the profits and interests so much as their own way of life, and James I, the King of England, that tortured and abused the Jews was called the "new pharaoh", and the country from which they had fled, which was England, was regarded as Egypt and the American Indians were considered as the ten lost races of the Israel.
The strong feelings of these people about the prosperous land of America which was taken as the land of El Dorado were full of blessings and this gave them a sense of freedom, security and prosperity so much that the Jews called it paradise. In this case, Steve Wise, the Jewish American rabbi America says, "America is our Zion.”
These factors, which together caused the Jews to immigrated to new lands, in their behaviors, by prudence and caution lest they repeated deportations from the territories of former bitter experience was repeated in this new land. Therefore, they tried to be assimilated by the American society as quickly as possible and be integrated in such a society to the best of their capacity. Moreover, because most of these immigrants thought that Zionism prevents this assimilation and feared that the tendency for Zionism was considered a symbol of bilateral friendship, some of them were openly attracted to some anti-Zionist organizations like the Jewish Council.
Therefore, the majority of Jewish immigrants to the United States, despite maintaining the cultural identity of their Jewish origin, avoided advocating the idea of Zionism, until the tragic situation of the Jews in Nazi Germany and especially the establishment of the Zionist regime changed this situation in favor of them.
Nevertheless, it should be noted that during the past centuries, the political leaders of the United States, not only did not give this community any satisfaction and confidence and viewed them unpleasantly, but also because of their mysterious mood, their sinister intentions, and other insidious behaviors that they showed to pretend that they are being sincere, they were considered as dangerous people who were parasitical and selfish. Especially, for those who were aware of the situation in the United States, it was clear to many observers that the Jews were responsible for causing disturbances and domestic problems.
This tribe, in several years, always incited the workers to act against the capitalists, and the Protestants against the Catholics, and the blacks against the whites, and were even responsible for the American civil war.
Benjamin Franklin (1706- 1790), politician, physicist and of the leaders of the independence of America, in 1789, during the ratification of the constitution of the United States, said in a speech:
Gentlemen! Jews in every part of the world which step, they destroy the moral foundations and ruin the foundation of economy. They always live in seclusion and do not try to coexist with the others. The pressure brought about by them has led their nations to be have serious problems and financial crises, as in Portugal and Spain we have seen similar cases to this point. For 1700 years, Jews complain and claim that they have been expelled from the land of their fathers. But gentlemen! Even if major states today, leave the Palestinian lands to them, they are never willing to go to that country. Why? Because these parasites cannot only live together. They must live among the Christians and the Gentile nations.
If for the law of the United States, today, they are not expelled from the country, their immigration will certainly come like a flood to America, and within a hundred years, they will rule over us and what we have sacrificed our blood for and our life, and our property and our freedom will be taken from us.
Be sure that it will not take two hundred years until the day comes when the Jews sit in their palaces and relax while our children will have to work in the fields for their benefit.
Gentlemen! I warn that, if this tribe is not expelled today from their lands, soon, while we rest in our graves, our children and descendants will curse us.
Even if the Jews are allowed to live among us for ten generations, they will not accept our customs and ways.
George Washington, the leader of the War of Independence (1776- 1783) and the first US President, also writes in his book “The aphorisms, p. 125:
The Jewish risk is for us more harmful than all the enemy forces. They are a hundred times more dangerous than our enemy is. Dangerous for our freedom and for what we all fight for; But, unfortunately, the people of America do not throw them away as beasts... they are the most dangerous enemies of the good of America.
The fear and the warning for the danger of the Jews were not fictitious and baseless but, at that time, the Jews in America were really seen as a potential risk.
Thomas Jefferson, who was later was elected as the third president of the United States (1801- 1809), wrote a letter to John Adams (1797- 1801) another president of the United States and noted the influential risk of the presence of the Jews in the American economy:
I believe that these banks are for dangerous than our enemies for our independence and our freedom ... the banks are of economic aristocracy and with their authority, they have begun fight and compete with the government. Thus, I seriously insist that the privileges for issuing bank notes must be taken from the banks and be given to the nation who is the original owner.
These warnings raised the concern of the Jewish capitalists and usurers, and approaching the year 1811 which was the time of the renewal of the contract of Bank of America, they decided find a solution. Hence, Nathan Rothschild, James Madison, the president of the United States of America was threatened in this way:
There are two ways for you too: either agree to re-charter, or oppose it, that in the case of the latter case, America must prepare for the arrival of a terrible and immediate war.
... With the disregard held by Madison for the threat raised by Rothschild, the Jewish capitalists and usurers with the aim of bringing the US treasury to bankruptcy exerted some financial pressure on the US government through the Bank of England and caused and provoked the war in 1812 against the United States. Thus, the Congress of America in 1816, re-chartered the Bank of America again passed the privileges of printing and issuing bank notes to the Jewish capitalists.
In this regard, it is not useless to have a look at the American civil wars.
No doubt the America Civil War (1861- 1866) was one of the most important events in the history of the United States. Nevertheless, the role of the Jewish capitalists and usurers in this war and the advantages they took have not been discussed in great detail so far.
In 1857, a grand celebration was held in London on the occasion of the marriage of Leonora, the daughter Lyon Rothschild, the head of the English branch of the family held a large number of wealthy and powerful men gathered on that occasion in the same place.
Among the invitees, there was Benjamin Disraeli, the British statesman and the famous Jew in the nineteenth century who later became the Prime Minister several times.
In this part, Disraeli said while articulating on a subject:
Now the heads of the Rothschild family who are famous and renowned throughout Europe and the world have gathered under this roof.
Then, he addressed the heads of the Rothschild family in Paris and London and said:
If you want, we will divide the United States into two parts, part of it will go James Rothschild, the president of France branch and another will be transferred to Loyola.
However, in this case, Napoleon III (Emperor of France at the time), will act according to our will and command and for Bismarck, the German emperor counselor, we have prepared persuasive plan which prevents him from interfering in our schemes.
Since then, the Rothschild family selected one of his relatives, called Judah. B. Benjamin as his representative in the United States of America,. Following the provision of this family and other Jewish usurers, the field of civil wars in America was prepared.
According to the plan made and designed for Napoleon III, they excited him to invade Mexico and for its annexation to the French Empire while the ulterior aim was keeping him engaged in the matter. On the other hand, they also incited the government of Great Britain to reoccupy the northern parts of the United States.
The purpose of the Jewish leaders from the fire of this war, on the one hand, was to provide a fresh opportunity to grant huge loans based on interest of Napoleon III, in the course of military operations for the occupation of Mexico and, on the other hand, the occupation of the northern states of America, by the Government of Great Britain was another ulterior end, so that they could expand the scope of their authority and domination in the country and prevent the Abraham Lincoln, the president of the United States from liberating the slaves which could in turn prevent the collapse of the United States.
Nevertheless, the wheels of the war did not turn around as they had desired. The fighting Forces of the Southern States, two years after the beginning of the war, found themselves in need of financial assistance. Hence, they turned to Napoleon III and went on to receive the aid and, in return, surrendered the two states "Lutheriana" and "Texas" to him. However, a new event stopped this event and that the Russian Tsar as in these events was notified of the situation and immediately warned the British government and France and dispatched the Russian battle ships to North America as the attack on the US would be assumed an attack on the territory of the Russian Empire. The Russian war ships were sent to the ports in New York and San-Francisco and were put under Lincoln's command and thus the riot ended.
These actions and the overt and covert conspiracies that a lot of the Jewish capitalists, at the time, took made them look as an unpopular and sinister race for the Americans.
However, one of the major factors that caused this hatred was the features of the Jewish communities and the conflict between the introversion adopted by the Jewish communities of America and the American way of thinking.
The US citizens realized, in dealing with the Jews, and began to feel they are a different group of people, and despite all the conflicts, constitute a single ethnicity and many unfamiliar factors distinguishes them from the people of America.
On the other hand, the Jewish domination of certain economic areas, especially the high-paying jobs and the effortless and possibly illegal professions caused the contempt of those who did hard physical jobs and had low incomes such as jobs in agriculture and labor. In this way, the Jewish elements appeared to be, in their view, a group of parasitic and useless people such as “Charlock” who were only determined to make money and collect wealth.