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I was at Monticello back in the spring and the materials an tour guide mentioned a Commodore Levy buying the estate basically inspired by Jefferson’s vision of religious tolerance.


5 posted on 12/13/2009 5:41:10 PM PST by C19fan
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...tour guide mentioned a Commodore Levy buying the [Jefferson] estate basically inspired by Jefferson's vision of religious tolerance.

Yes, that's the same Commodore Levy for whom the Chapel in Norfolk is named. He was among the most prominent Jewish Americans of the early nineteenth century and his story appears in just about all histories of Jews in the United States.

12 posted on 12/14/2009 7:56:16 AM PST by justiceseeker93
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