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Essay on The History Of The Jews Of New Haven
New Haven was founded in 1637-38 by Puritans led by Theophilus Eaton and John Davenport. It was one of the first planned communities in America and was the chief town of a colony that later included Milford, Guilford, Stamford, Branford, and Southold (on Long Island). Its government was theocratic; religion was a test for citizenship, and life was regulated by strict rules. The blue laws legislation regulated public and private conduct, especially laws relating to Sabbath observance. The term was originally applied to the 17th-century laws of the theocratic New Haven colony, and appears to originate in A General History of Connecticut (London, 1781), by the Loyalist Anglican clergyman Samuel A. Peters, who had lived in Hebron, Conn. New Haven and other Puritan colonies of New England had rigid laws prohibiting Sabbath breaking, breaches in family discipline, drunkenness, and excesses in dress.
Although such legislation had its origins in European Sabbatarian and sumptuary laws , the term "blue laws" is usually applied only to American legislation. With the dissolution of the Puritan theocracies after the American Revolution, blue laws declined; many of them lay forgotten in state statute books only to be revived much later. The growth of the prohibition movement in the 19th cent. and early 20th cent. brought with it other laws regulating private conduct. In 1665 the colony was reluctantly united with Connecticut; it was joint capital with Hartford from 1701 to 1875.
There is even a small but articulate Jewish organization which constantly Condemns other Jewish groups for their loyalty to Israel. The American Council on Judaism is the name of the organization. Its chief spokesman appears to be Alfred M. Lilienthal (1953) who has written two books to alert the public against the danger of Zionist claims. Democrats draw their strongest support from middle-class Jews......
