Volume 7 November, 1976 Number 2 V
RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HISTORICAL NOTES VOLUME 7 NOVEMBER, 1976 NUMBER 2 V FRONT COVER Scene Lower Chalkstone Avenue—circa 1903. (Unidentified). For more on the North End, see Page 300. RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HISTORICAL VOLUME 7, NUMBER 2 NOVEMBER, 1976 Copyright November, 1976 by the RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ISO SESSIONS STREET, PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND 02906 RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 130 SESSIONS STREET, PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND DAVID CHARAK ADELMAN, Founder EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION BENTON H. ROSEN President MARVIN PITTERMAN, Ph.D Vice President MRS. SEEBERT J. GOLDOWSKY Secretary MRS. LOUIS I. SWEET Treasurer HONORARY MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE RABBI ELI A. BOHNEN RABBI WILLIAM G. BRAUDE MEMBERS-AT-LARGE OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE SEEBERT J. GOLDOWSKY, M.D. BERNARD SEGAL SIDNEY GOLDSTEIN, PH.D. JEROME B. SPUNT LILLIAN POTTER GOLDSTEIN ERWIN E. STRASMICH MRS. ABRAHAM HORVITZ LOUIS I. SWEET WILLIAM L. ROBIN MELVIN L. ZURIER SEEBERT J. GOLDOWSKY, M.D., Editor MRS. ABRAHAM HORVITZ, Librarian Miss DOROTHY M. ABBOTT, Librarian Emerita Printed in the U. S. A. by the Oxford Press, Inc., Providence, Rhode Island TABLE OF CONTENTS OLD BOTTLES, RAGS, JUNK! 189 by Eleanor F. Horvitz NEWPORT'S JEWS AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 258 by Andrea Finkelstein Losben, B.A., M.A. THE EDUCATION OF AN IMMIGRANT 277 by Beryl Segal SAMUEL STARR, M.D. 1884-1950 294 by Benton H. Rosen LOOKING BACK 297 by Rabbi Arthur A. Chiel A VISIT TO PRESIDENT FORD AT THE WHITE HOUSE 302 by Rabbi Theodore Lewis A MATTER OF A DATE 305 by Rabbi Theodore Lewis BICENTENNIAL OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND JUBILEE ANNIVERSARY OF SYNAGOGUE COUNCIL 307 REMARKS BY NELSON A.
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