Word: gratz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gratz...
...Saint Charles, a ship since dubbed "the Jewish Mayflower," arrived in what is now New York Harbor with 23 Jews aboard. They were fleeing the Spanish Inquisition. It is their descendants-including the Nathan, Gratz, Seixas, Franks and Lopez families-that Birmingham examines. They consider themselves the nobility of American Jewry because their heritage can be traced back to medieval Spain and Portugal, where their ancestors lived as grandees-Spanish or Portuguese noblemen of the first rank...