Washington's Letter to the Jews of Newport

With Paul Berger.

George Washington’s 1790 letter to the Jews of Newport, RI—one of the most important documents regarding religious liberty in America—has been locked away in storage for almost a decade.

Learn how the letter was separated from the Newport congregation, how it fell into the hands of a Jewish philanthropist and about the struggle for the letter between the philanthropist’s heirs and the Library of Congress.