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	Haym Solomon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Haym Solomon (or Salomon) (1740 - 1785) was a prime financier of the American side during the American Revolutionary War against England.
		Solomon was a brilliant financier and one of George Washington's personal friends.
		Hyam Solomon, an eminent broker of this city, was a native of Poland, and of the Hebrew nation.
	haym-solomon.area51.ipupdater.com (651 words)

	Jewish Legends: The Jewish Star of the Revolutionary War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Haym (not "Hyam") Solomon (1740-1785) was a wealthy merchant, banker, and dealer of securities who used his fortune to fund the American Revolution.
		Solomon's descendants in the 1980'S tried to recoup this loan, which in 1776 was believed to be around $800,000.
		Although Solomon was a friend of Washington's, he was never his "assistant." Nowhere is it writen that Haym saved the troops at Valley Forge.
	www.jewishlegends.com /displayExp.php?rumor=13 (681 words)

	American Revolution - Haym Salomon, Son of Liberty
		In the early 1770s, at the time of the partition of Poland, Haym Salomon left his family and arrived in New York on the eve of the Revolution.
		When Haym Salomon died prematurely in January 1785, he held $353,000, largely in depreciated certificates of indebtedness and continental currency...
		Haym Salomon was actively involved in Jewish community affairs.
	www.americanrevolution.com /HaymSalomon.htm (336 words)

	Haym Solomon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Jew, he was born in Leszno (Lissa), Poland, the son of a rabbi.
		In World War II the United States liberty ship SS Haym Solomon was named in his honor.
		Haym Solomon: Patriot Banker of the American Revolution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Haym_Solomon (1031 words)

	JPFO Members Forum - A Jew Hungry for Freedom
		Haym M. Salomon appears never to have realized that because his father was a broker, he held an inventory of financial instruments, the values of which fluctuated constantly, much as do the prices of common stocks every day on the New York Stock Exchange.
		Haym Salomon's actual achievements - helping Robert Morris to keep the fledgling U.S. government from self-inflicted financial chaos - have been obscured by the myth that he gave his huge fortune to advance the Revolution.
		Haym Salomon's ferocious dedication to theRevolution - to the establishment of Freedom in American - is a shining example of self-sacrifice in a noble cause.
	jpfo.net /jp_haym.htm (5021 words)

	Haym Solomon Summary
		Haym Salomon was born in 1740 to a family of Portuguese Jews.
		It was alleged by the government, for instance, that papers concerning the Salomon estate claims were destroyed when government buildings in the District of Columbia were burned by the British in the War of 1812.
		Salomon's fourth child, Haym Jr., met with President John Tyler in the early 1840s and reportedly left a sheaf of documents with him for his perusal.
	www.bookrags.com /Haym_Solomon (2501 words)

	HAYM SALOMON: THE REST OF THE STORY
		IN the pantheon of American Jewish heroes, Haym Salomon (1740-1785) has attained legendary status.
		His life was brief and tumultuous, but his impact on the American imagination was great.
		A successful financier in the early 1780s, he died in 1785 leaving a wife and four young children with debts larger than his estate.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /jewish/salomon.asp (719 words)

	to post: Jewish Persecution Chapter 18 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Solomon was to die bankrupted by his total support of the American cause.
		The story about Solomon "dying bankrupt" is questionable and highly unlikely, as we shall see that among other things he was a Rothschild agent.
		In 1783 Haym Solomon and other prominent Jews appealed to the Pennsylvania Council of Censors urging them to remove the religious test oath required for office-holding under the State Constitution.
	www.sweetliberty.org /perspective/jewishpersecution18.htm (6199 words)

	The Story of Mikveh Israel Cemetery
		Solomon was known as "The Good Jew." In addition to his commitment to American Independence, Salomon devoted himself to Jewish affairs.
		Haym Salomon died in 1785 at the age of 45.
		Aaron Levy (1742-1815}, a close friend and financial supporter of Haym Salomon, was a pioneer and fur trader.
	www.ushistory.org /mikvehisrael/index.htm (2609 words)

	Kulanu: Revolutionary Jews and the Bunker Hill bridge
		Haym Salomon was a Polish immigrant who settled in New York about 1773.
		Relying only on his honest reputation and his good word, he was able to raise money by selling bills of exchange from France and Spain, so the troops could be paid and desertions avoided.
		When he died, Haym Solomon was destitute, having exhausted his private resources for his new country.
	www.kulanu.org /usa/revolutionary.html (1080 words)

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		He loved his new homeland and he became devoted to the cause of American independence, serving as one of the chief financiers of the new nation.
		Haym Solomon negotiated the war subsidies the fledgling United States received France and Holland.
		America is renewing the spirit of Haym Solomon today.
	www.os.dhhs.gov /news/speech/2001/011113.html (2002 words)

	The American Revolution: Haym Salomon
		Salomon (sometimes written as Solomon and Solomons in period documents) was a Polish-born Jewish immigrant to America who played an important role in financing the Revolution.
		When the war began, Salomon was operating as a financial broker in New York City.
		Laurens R. Schwartz, Jews and the American Revolution: Haym Salomon and Others (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Co., 1987).
	www.nps.gov /revwar/about_the_revolution/haym_salomom.html (479 words)

	LP: FYI: Revolutionary War Series BeginsTonite
		Haym Saloman was born in Poland in 1740.
		Haym was able to raise the money needed to save the new nation from disastrous bankruptcy" (David Lewis, Israel and the USA: Restoring the Lost Pages of American History (Springfield, NO: Menorah Press, 1993, 41-42).
		Haym Salomon was buried in Mikveh Israel Cemetery in Philadelphia in a grave which is now unmarked.
	www.libertypost.org /cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=144484 (2418 words)

	Mikveh Israel - The Cemeteries
		Robert Morris, Superintendent of the Office of Finance appointed Haym Salomon as official broker.
		A granite memorial is set inside the gate of the cemetery.
		Haym Solomon Lodge 663 of Brith Sholom contributed it and financed extensive repairs to the cemetery.
	www.mikvehisrael.org /TheCemeteries (2566 words)

	JEN Summer 2004- Jonathan Sarna Article
		An earlier version of these remarks appeared in Moving Beyond Haym Solomon: The Teaching of American Jewish History to 20th Century Jews (Philadelphia: Feinstein Center for American Jewish History and the American Jewish Committee, 1996).
		Bezalel of Prague (1525-1609) is part of Jewish history; the golem attributed to him (in a book published in 1909) is part of Jewish memory.
		Haym Salomon (1740-1785) is part of Jewish history; his reputed funding of the American Revolution is part of Jewish memory.
	www.caje.org /learn/a_sarna.htm (1628 words)

	RootsWeb: AMERICAN-REVOLUTION-L [A-REV] Haym Solomon served as spy for Geo. Washington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Subject: [A-REV] Haym Solomon served as spy for Geo.
		Haym Solomon, who raised large amounts of desperately needed cash to bolster
		Solomon had already served the revolution in a significant way.
	archiver.rootsweb.com /th/read/AMERICAN-REVOLUTION/2001-09/1001897173 (225 words)

	Newsletter - Page 1
		Matthew Delget (L), Program officer at the New York Foundation for Art, Margaret Mathew Bereson, Haym Salomon Foundation, Jacqueline Rome, PSGDC Program staff and Mabel Jernigan, artist, chat at the opening.
		Artists, their families, Haym Solomon representatives, and PSGDC staff attended a festive opening on July 12 in historic Borough Hall in downtown Brooklyn.
		The Haym Salomon Foundation offers grants each year to Senior Citizen centers to enhance art programs.
	www.psgdc.org /newsletter-fall2001-2.htm (171 words)

	America,Christians,Israel
		Some reputable Historians are convinced that Haym Solomon actually wrote the original draft of The Constitution of The United States, as well.
		Of course you don't hear this because at that time "Jews" and "non-Christians" weren't allowed to be involved in that particular process.
		When General Washington became President, he rightfully memorialized what Haym Solomon and those Jewish bankers did on the back of the one-dollar bill.
	www.johnhamelministries.org /america_christianity_israel_article.htm (971 words)

	Jewish Financier of the American Revolution \| MetaFilter
		It might be helpful to take the time to read the "Remarks and Explanation" of the various symbols by Charles Thomson, designer of the seal, presented to the Continental Congress in 1782.
		For those actually interested in Solomon's history, outside of the Great Seal, you might want to read the Jewish Encyclopedia article.
		davy, I don't think anyone is complaining about the fact that the post says that Solomon played an important role in funding the American Revolution -- he certainly did, and it is generally considered a point of pride among American Jews.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/43945 (1043 words)

	Home Page Alf J. Mapp, Jr.
		Here are Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, John Adams, George Washington, John Marshall, Patrick Henry, Alexander Hamilton, George Mason, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, and Haym Salomon, considered as no previous author has presented them.
		Each holds the stage as his story unfolds in the insightful and engaging prose readers expect from Mapp.
		Mapp discusses-including Washington, Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Alexander Hamilton, George Mason, Charles Carroll, Haym Solomon-one may find deists, Anglicans, a Catholic, a Jew and even a Unitarian.
	www.alfjmappjr.com /default.asp (999 words)

	Vendyl Jones and the Lost Ark
		Further poking around in Vendyl’s site lead me to the story of Haym Salomon, a key figure in the American Revolution, who was Jewish, and whom I’d never heard about before.
		The bulk of that essay was a fascinating Kabbalist breakdown of the symbolism in the Great Seal of the United States, based on the possibly erroneous belief that Haym Salomon designed the seal (The US Department of State’s official Great Seal pdf booklet doesn’t mention Haym Salomon at all).
		Salomon, Haym (1740-1785), American financier and patriot, born in Lissa (now Leszno), Poland, of Portuguese-Jewish descent.
	joemaller.com /2005/05/20/vendyl-jones-and-the-lost-ark (2550 words)

	Footsteps of David: Common Roots, Uncommon Valor
		To read a history of our public schools, one would never know that Jews have been citizens, much less soldiers, of our country, from the inception of the Republic.
		While token mention is made of a Haym Solomon, or a Dr. Salk, scarce attention is paid to the important role of Jewish-Americans in the history of the United States.
		Footsteps of David acquaints the reader with dozens of stories of Jewish-American heroes, their role, service, and sacrifice in the military.
	www.authorhouse.com /BookStore/ItemDetail~bookid~9596.aspx (1288 words)

	American Memory from the Library of Congress - Browse by
		James Madison to H. Solomon, February 6, 1830.
		James Madison to Haym Salomon, January 20, 1827.
		James Madison to Haym Solomon, February 25, 1830.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/collections/madison_papers/titleJ13.html (811 words)

	Our New Home — Beth Chaim Reform Congregation
		Haym Solomon, the only Jewish burial ground in Chester County, is located around the corner from our property.
		Their site does not have a chapel or other indoor gather space.
		By arrangement with Haym Solomon our building will provide chapel and gathering space for families.
	www.bethchaim.net /our-new-home (594 words)

	Fellowship of Christian Poets - Newsletter
		Haym Salomon was a Jewish-Polish refugee freedom fighter who had fought along with Pulaski in Poland and was imprisioned and tortured by the British as an (American) Revolutianery spy.
		A devout Jew he appealed to his congregation on Yom Kippur for funds to rescue Washington's ragged army.
		Diaries of our Revolutionary War leaders testify "---when you need money, go to Haym Solomon---".
	www.christianpoets.com /news_cool/0799.htm (630 words)

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