Statesman and President. In a letter to Mordecai Manuel Noah of Philadelphia, he wrote: “I wish your nation may be admitted to all the privileges of citizens in every country of the world.” Regarding the re-establishment of a Jewish state, he wrote in the same year: “I really wish the Jews again in Judea an independent nation.” (Spanish-Portuguese descended) Noah (b. 1785, Philadelphia; d. 1851, NYC) was an American playwright, diplomat and journalist.
New York, Philadelphia and then Charleston.
– after Eli Birnbaum