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SUMMARY:NY Jews Origin: Sampson Simson's 1800 Columbia College Commencement
  Speech
DESCRIPTION:Jewish Federation of the Berkshires\nBerkshire Jewish Community
  Calendar\nhttps://jewishberkshires.org/jewish-federation-of-the-berkshire
 s-calendar/sampson-simsons-commencement-speech-june-1800\n\nAnyone who has
  ever listened to a commencement speech knows the drill. We expect graduat
 ion addresses to be long on wisdom\, punctuated by humor\, and—most impo
 rtant—short in duration.\n\nIn 1800\, Sampson Simson (1780-1857) deliver
 ed a commencement speech at Columbia College (he was its first Jewish grad
 uate\, and would go on to found Mt. Sinai Hospital) in Hebrew. His talk w
 as short in duration\, but its implications were wide-ranging. It was Amer
 ica's first public expression of Jewish iden...
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