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SUMMARY:NY Jews Origin: Sampson Simson's 1800 Columbia College Commencement
  Speech
DESCRIPTION:Jewish Federation of the Berkshires\nJewish Federation of the B
 erkshires\nhttps://jewishberkshires.org/jewish-federation-of-the-berkshire
 s/sampson-simsons-commencement-speech-june-1800-507553\n\nAnyone who has e
 ver listened to a commencement speech knows the drill. We expect graduatio
 n addresses to be long on wisdom\, punctuated by humor\, and—most import
 ant—short in duration.\n\nIn 1800\, Sampson Simson (1780-1857) delivered
  a commencement speech at Columbia College (he was its first Jewish gradua
 te\, and would go on to found Mt. Sinai Hospital) in Hebrew. His talk was
  short in duration\, but its implications were wide-ranging. It was Americ
 a's first public expression of Jewish identity\,...
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