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MORDECAI MANUEL NOAH AND HIS TERRITORIALIST-ZIONISTIC PLANS.

Noah’s family; his youth and his early successes as journalist and as dramatist――His appointment as Consul in Tunis and his recall――His insistence that the United States is not a Christian nation――Editor and playwright, High-Sheriff and Surveyor of the Port of New York――His invitation to the Jews of the world to settle in the City of Refuge which he was to found on Grand Island――Impressive ceremonies in Buffalo which were the beginning and the end of “Ararat”――His “Discourse on the Restoration of the Jews”――Short career on the bench――Jewish

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=THE SECOND OR GERMAN PERIOD OF IMMIGRATION.=

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