On This Day In 1776, A Jewish Merchant Sent The Declaration To Europe
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It was Sunday, July 28, 1776. Jewish merchant Jonas Phillips folded one of the first printed copies of the Declaration of Independence into a Yiddish letter bound for his cousin and business associate in Amsterdam. “The enclosed is a declaration of the whole country. How it will end, the blessed God knows,” Phillips wrote in […]
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