(Here he is as seen in Pan Pacific Park, Los Angeles, at the corner of 3rd and Gardner)
His service to the new republic earned him his very own stamp, issued in 1975 (gotta love the title they gave him):
1/18/10
Swing by and see him yourself...
Haym Salomon (1740-1785) was a contemporary of Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) and immigrated to the soon-to-be United States in the early 1770s. His letter to the Editor was published in 1784, just one year after Mendelssohn's Jerusalem.
(Here he is as seen in Pan Pacific Park, Los Angeles, at the corner of 3rd and Gardner)
(Here he is as seen in Pan Pacific Park, Los Angeles, at the corner of 3rd and Gardner)
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He's highlighted in the 5th grade-level American Jewish History book Let Freedom Ring (p. 21) as one of the people who financially backed the Revolution.
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