Mordecai Manuel Noah

Diplomat, Organization founder

1785 – 1851

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Who was Mordecai Manuel Noah?

Mordecai Manuel Noah was an American playwright, diplomat, journalist, and utopian. He was born in a family of Portuguese Sephardic ancestry. He was the most important Jewish lay leader in New York in the pre-Civil War period, and the first Jew born in the United States to reach national prominence.

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Born
Jul 14, 1785
Philadelphia
Also known as
  • M. M. Noah
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Lived in
  • Philadelphia
Died
May 22, 1851
New York

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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