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Blessed Is the Land, by Louis Zara
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Thanks to the industry of committees celebrating the tercentenary of the arrival in New Amsterdam of the Jews, there is now no one, I suppose, who has not heard of “Ashur” Levy: how he was one of those who left Brazil after the capture of Recife by the Portuguese; how he requested of the Dutch in New Amsterdam—and finally won—the right to serve in the militia instead of paying the tax imposed on Jews for their exemption, because he had to work with his hands for his living; how he became a butcher and had a slaughterhouse, ran a tavern, and in the end, well off and generous, had the respect and confidence of the Dutch and English. It is a success story and we like it.
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