Show 0 I If J frrF I JEWSfN MiERIOA I 1 4 i f1J MEETIiG I T AMERICAN iJEW Jf < v I ISHfHISTOHIpAt S9 TYI 11ti l J > 4ddres 8 BY > 1 e Jtt OscarC I slrRus E Jii t1o I From Siu i au Portugal o This Couutzy I h 7 1 Washrngton Deal 26 The third an Q fniet tirigj f Preric n Jewlh Historical society beg J ere today at the Krlfngtohllot fl W tik aIr el sH tendance tihanViusualF HonOcaiC 1 Straus the presideiif delivered an address ad-dress ofc welcothG rule Society i r said hoien3 yed tener andheallglOWrX and yea I by years It w fread at tlieannual meetihcs reveal d new data and ihe cihannels E investlgatlaii rajidcan r i ntd the hjstory of the earl v settlement i settle-ment of the Continent Ths presidpn I spolie particularly of the iminlcratlon of the Jews to JAmericE They jAinp asfugitivesfrom Spalii In snlfe of the stringent laws which plated t until 1577 against such immigration and wern only Iemoved then byline payment ot 51000100 by the Jews jri the American I I colony > I I I have every belief7 said Mr Straus that a careful investigation willreveal a much larjar imrriigrratirin to America and the contiguous island than history thai vtaken note of 0 > hV cl singc ters of the history ofthp TewS > Mn Spain and fPortugal are th operiihgechapters of their history rJ1 this continent and closely nonneotnri with the early tseltlenwht In Xorth America I I f The secretarys report shows thai the society has howja 1 membeVshlD f 183 active 3 honorarylgSAd corr < = = oonding members Amiimbprof PP oers were read today mcludlng I th 1 l following I < Jews in Surinam by Profesor I Richard Gotthel of Coliimlila cunege New York FirstJejv 3ettlem IlL in Albany written Wy Jiurge S W Rfl sendale of NeW York and read by till secretary The Earliest Rabbis and Jewish Authors in America by II M Kayserling of Buda Pest Austria and read by the secretary The American Amer-ican Jewish Soldiers by Hon Simon Wolff of Washington The latter oaper paid a glowing tribute to th patriotism valor and American spirit of the Jewish soldier in the American wars and Mr Wolffpresented figure to show that in the war of the retoei ion there were upwards of 9000 Jewish Jew-ish soldiers enlisted Officers for the ensuing year wer > elected as follows President Oscar S Straus New York vicepresident Dr Charle < ross Cambridge Mass Simon W Rosendale Albany N Y Paul LIp esterford Brooklyn oonrespondintr secretary C Alder Washington rp ording secretary Herbert Frieden wald Philadelphia treasurer Richard Ooftheil Columbia college New York members of the council Mendenec Ckrhn Baltimore Mayor Sulzberp Philadelphia Dr B Felsthenfchal Baltimore Bal-timore M F Joel Philadelphia N 1 Taylor Phillips N Y Simon Wolff New York J N Hollander Baltimore und J Kohler New York I |