| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 133.1

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Jews and Gentiles in Early America, 1654–1800. By William Pencak. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. xiv, 321 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical note, index. $29.95.)

William Pencak has written a first-rate study of Jews in colonial and revolutionary America. Jews constituted perhaps one-twentieth of 1 percent of the total population at the end of the eighteenth century; it is estimated that their total number may have been as high as 1,300 in the 1770s and perhaps 3,000 in the 1790s. Their major colonial settlements were in Newport, Rhode Island, New York City, Philadelphia, Charleston, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia. In Philadelphia, where the largest contingent dwelled, there were perhaps fifty Jewish families at the time of the Revolution; in the 1770s, as few as sixteen Jews could be found in Savannah, the smallest of the settlements. By the late 1760s, the Rhode Island Jewish community had evaporated.

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