We are happy to have no Jewish problem here, in the sense in which the term is understood in the backward countries of the Old World. We need not waste a part of our best energies in repelling attacks from an anti-Semitic press or a Judophobe party, and our usefulness to ourselves as well as to our neighbors is thereby enhanced. Members of strange and hostile races and nationalities get along together in this country much better than anywhere else in the past or the present time, and their native children emerge from the “melting pot” united by a patriotism and a desire for improved conditions and improved relations which characterizes the American. The secularity of the Government and the diversity of religious beliefs preclude the spread of the denominational bigotry which is the real cause of the persecution of the Jews in other countries; while the liberty and equality which are vouchsafed to every citizen must themselves be lost before the unfavorable conditions which prevail elsewhere can confront us here. The Jew can become an American and at the same time preserve his religious distinctiveness, which he can lose only by his own negligence or disloyalty. Let us hope that those who now earnestly work to strengthen and build up Judaism in America will be successful, and that the fate or Divine Providence which has preserved us for thousands of years brought us here to participate under new circumstances in the advancement to a higher civilization in which the injustices of the older one may never reappear. INDEX. A Aaron, Jonas, 76 Aboab, 51 Aboab da Fonseca, Isaac, 38, 39, 40 Aboab, Raphael, 45 Abraham, Noah, 93 Abraham, Pinhas, 61 ♦Abramowitz, Rev. Herman, 384 Abrams family of New Hampshire, 109 Abrams, John, 110 Abrams, William, 110 Abravanel, Don Isaac, 12, 17 Adams, Charles Francis, 225 Adams, Dr., 117 Adee, A. A., 313, 314 Adler, Sergt. Abraham, 163 Adler, Cyrus, 200 (Note), 292, 340, 344, 356, 369, 370, 371, 375 Adler, Dankmar, 151 Adler, Elkan N., 22, 24 Adler, Dr. Felix, 177 Adler, Jacob P., 421 Adler, Rev. Liebman, 151, 155, 208 Adler, Dr. Samuel, 176–77 Adler, Sarah, 421 Adrian. See Hadrian Agricultural Colonies, 266 ff. (in Canada), 386 (in Argentine), 390 Aguilar, Rabbi Jacob d’, 38, 40 Aguilar, Raphael d’, 38 Alabama, 370, 425 Alamo Monument, 160 Alaska Commercial Co., 157 Albany, N. Y., 175, 253, 426 Album, Rabbi Zebi Simon, 281 Albuquerque, Alphonso d’, 18 Albuquerque, Francisco d’, 18 Alcoran, 23 Aleinikoff, Nicholas, 287 Aleppo, 30 Alexander II., Emperor of Russia, 254 Algeciras, Spain, Conference of, 362 Algiers, Noah as American Consul there, 129 Alliance, N. J., 269 Alperstein, Rabbi Abr. Eliezer, 282, 406 Ambrosius, Moses, 63