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How a Swiss Expulsion Order Sparked a National Jewish Protest in 1857
In 1856, an American merchant named A. H. Gootman received an order to leave La Chaux-de-Fonds, a town in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel where he had done business for 5 years. The authorities gave one reason: Gootman was Jewish. His expulsion notice pulled a forgotten problem back into view. Washington had ratified a […]




