Excerpt from The New Land, Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country When your grandfather tells you a story, do you ever interrupt him to ask: But is it all true And doesn't he often answer: I don't know, or I don't know when it's really true, and when it begins to be like a story book. And so, when you read through my little book - if you do read right through it to the very last page - you may wonder whether all my history stories really happened. Yes - and no! I do know that cross old Peter Stuyvesant of New Amsterdam hated our people, but I never found any record of the Jewish boy who wanted to play with the governor's niece, pretty Katrina. The histories tell us how gallant young Franks became the friend of George Washington, but none of them mention that the Jewish soldier saved a Tory from the angry mob. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.