U.S. Ambassador John L. Loeb Jr. (Ret.) Contributes to New Memoir Chronicling Eight...

U.S. Ambassador John L. Loeb Jr. (Ret.) Contributes to New Memoir Chronicling
Eight Generations of American Jewish Life

NEW YORK, March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- An American Experience, Adeline Moses Loeb
and Her Early American Jewish Ancestors, with a foreword by Ambassador John L.
Loeb Jr., is composed of lively stories told by Loeb family descendants. The
story of this American Jewish financial dynasty is buttressed by superb
genealogical detective work dating back to the late 1600s, making this book an
engaging glimpse into a portion of our national history that is rarely
explored.

Introduced by author and Southern historian Eli N. Evans, the book is
comprised of three parts. Part I recounts Adeline's early life in the South
and later life in New York married to Carl M. Loeb, founder of the legendary
Wall Street firm of Loeb, Rhoades. Part II covers the history and enthusiastic
public response to national exhibits of early American Jewish life. Part III
is a genealogical narrative of eight generations of the Moses family,
sprinkled with full-color early American portraits and reader-friendly family
trees.

Ambassador John L. Loeb Jr., a grandson of Adeline Moses Loeb and Carl Loeb
and a contributor to An American Experience: Adeline Moses Loeb and Her Early
American Jewish Ancestors, has played a large role in bringing public
awareness to American Jewish history, supporting and initiating projects and
organizations related to Jewish heritage. In the late 1970s, he and the Loeb
family funded and helped to organize "The Jewish Community in Early New York
1654-1800," an exhibit featured at the Fraunces Tavern Museum(R) in New York
City. The exhibit was reassembled and expanded for an exhibit in 1980 at the
DAR Museum in Washington, DC where an overflow crowd of 3,000 came for its
opening and to hear the speech of President Ford. More recently, Ambassador
Loeb initiated and helped fund a similar exhibit at the Museum of the City of
New York in 2005, called "Tolerance and Identity: Jews in Early New York,
1654-1825." In 1998 he funded a project featured on the American Jewish
Historical Society Web site (www.ajhs.org) called "The Ambassador John L. Loeb
Jr. Database of Early American Jewish Portraits." This database also appears
on the Web site, www.Loebjewishportraits.com. It now holds more than 200
portraits of American Jews painted before 1865, along with their biographical
information. A total of 400 images and biographies are expected to be added by
the end of this year.

Most currently, Ambassador Loeb looks forward to the late summer opening of
the Ambassador John L. Loeb Jr. Visitors Center at Touro Synagogue, the oldest
synagogue in the nation, located in Newport, Rhode Island. The center is
expected to draw visitors and tourists from all over the world, and will
fulfill a mission of telling the history of religious freedom in this country.
A central exhibit will focus on President George Washington and a letter he
wrote in 1790 to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, sent at the beginning of
his campaign for the enactment of the First Amendment. In the letter, our
first president promised that the government would give "to bigotry no
sanction, to persecution no assistance," and that "everyone shall sit in
safety under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him
afraid."

SOURCE Lawlor Media Group

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