How a Jewish man saved America

The Jerusalem Connection, Int’l. ^ | Nov/Dec 2006 | Dr. Richard Booker

[Salem]

An interesting piece of American history not many are familiar with. It is this type of sacrifice by early Americans that laid the foundation for this nation.

It is another reason why I support Israel against her enemies.

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[ConservativeMind]

Wow. A sad, yet wonderful story.

$800,000 in that day was a monstrous sum.

If there were a way to repay him more directly, I would endorse it.

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[Salem]

Ewww, a double ping. I feel special!  

[Uriah_lost]

Has there ever been a movement to see him memorialized in a more grand and lasting manner? It would make a statement on a number of fronts.

[SunkenCiv]

Perhaps pingworthy, but of interest regardless.

[Salem]

Actually, the first time I ever heard of him was through Pastor Jon Courson and the Middle East series he did almost two years ago now. One of the less high profile members of the group we know as the Founding Fathers, who is certainly due more attention than he is given. Having the United States Postal issue a stamp isn't too shabby, though!

As it is, it seems to me Salomon and his efforts would be fodder for Jew-hating conspiracy theorists who spend their days trying to prove a global Jewish banking cabal seeking to dominate the world through the US, since its creation.

Personally I think his motives were just as noble and high minded as the story portrays, like the rest of the Colonial leadership the revisionist Left likewise spends their bitter, sorry days trying to impugn and discredit.  

[the invisib1e hand]

He died, sick and penniless, at the age of 45 on January 6, 1785, leaving behind a young widow, Rachel, and four children all under the age of seven.... After several months she made further inquiries and was informed that all of the papers relating to her inheritance had been lost.

I'm a little sick and tired of this sort of thing happening to real heroes.

[Salem]

"...this sort of thing happening to real heroes."

Of course you have read how the signatories of the Declaration of Independance fared as well:

What happened to the Signers of the Declaration of Independence?

There was a heavy price by a few to establish this nation.

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[Cicero]

Fascinating. And completely new to me.

[muawiyah]

One of our relatives (who left no direct descendants), General Smallwood, managed to get his home occupied, burned, looted, pillaged, or otherwise destroyed in TWO wars, both the Revolution and the War of 1812.

There's an old tree in the back that's been nipped many times by tornados. It was there in his day and at the founding of the Republic. Maryland keeps the place as General Smallwood state park ~ well worth the visit.

[Jo Nuvark]

Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those
who curse Israel will be cursed. Genesis 12:3

[Valin]

Thank you both. I learn something...always a good thing.

Haym Salomon bought and sold financial papers to raise money for Robert Morris, who was the Superintendent of Finance for the Continental Congress. He believed that America would be a safe haven for the Jews. But this son of a rabbi also believed that one day in the future Jerusalem would rise from the dust, the Jews would return to their ancient homeland, and Israel and Jerusalem would once again be the home of the wandering Jew. Salomon determined to do all that he could to finance the Revolution so that America could survive until that future time when his people would once again fill the streets of Jerusalem.


Coincidence? You tell me.

[dennisw]

I had a shop teacher named Lester Smallwood. I remember my shop teachers. The others fade away

[.30Carbine]

Thank you so much for posting this fascinating story from American history!

Dave, I thought you might like to ping homeschooling folk, or know a keeper of such a list.

[the invisib1e hand]

There was a heavy price by a few to establish this nation.

As there still is every day to keep it going.

[gobucks]

Salomon died in 1785, of tuberculosis, caught while in a British prison.

This, along with many additional details of this Polish Jew's life from here.

This link will help I think for the sake of the Homeschooling idea, and I would suggest that included in this story would be a story regarding the creation of the Great Seal of the United States.

It is not well known that located above the symbol for America, the eagle on the Seal (as seen on the back of a US 1$ bill), is the Seal of Solomon (and Salomon really does sound a LOT like Soloman, no?).

I don'thave the proof, for all the homework I have done didn't reveal which artist was credited w/ arranging the required 13 stars in that configuration, but perhaps it is no coincidence that the Star of David on our Seal forshadowed indeed what happened so many years later in Jerusalem.

Mr. H. S. would be pleased to know that, maybe, he was honored in a rather permanent way.

I'm thinking, also, that had there been tracks available, this fundraiser for the Revolution would have been a golfer.