A group of Jews fleeing Brazil and…

1658 CE

A group of Jews fleeing Brazil and denied the right to stay in New Amsterdam are in 1658 allowed to settle in Newport.

The Newport congregation, now referred to as Congregation Jeshuat Israel, is the second oldest Jewish congregation in the United States (and meets today in the oldest standing synagogue in the United States, Touro Synagogue).

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Newport Newport Rhode Island United States View →

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Massachusetts Bay Colony (sometimes called the Massachusetts Bay Company, for its founding institution) View → Providence Plantation View → New England Confederation (United Colonies of New England) View → Rhode Island (English Colony) View → England, Commonwealth of View →

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Sephardim, Ashkenazim, and Sabbateanism; 1540 to 1683 View → Colonization of the Americas, English View → Colonization of the Americas, Dutch View →

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