Merchant, Inspector of Tanned Leather for the Port of Savannah
Known for
Founding member of Congregation Mickve Israel, Highest ranking Jewish Revolutionary War officer
Spouse
Frances Fannie (Freidel) Hart
Children
Sheftall, Benjamin, Elias, Moses, Perla and Esther
Parent(s)
Perla and Benjamin Sheftall
Mordecai Sheftall (December 2, 1735 – July 6, 1797)[1] was a Georgia merchant who served as a colonel in the Continental Army[2] during the American Revolutionary War and was the highest ranking Jewish officer of the Colonial forces.[1] He was born in Savannah, Province of Georgia,[3] to Benjamin and Perla Sheftall, who had arrived in 1733 to the Georgia colony on the William and Sarah from London, England, with a few dozen members of other Jewish immigrant families. The Sheftalls were founding among the members of Congregation Mickve Israel.[4]
^ abCooksey, Elizabeth B. (January 11, 2008). "Mordecai Sheftall (1735-1797)". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Georgia Humanities Council. Archived from the original on October 20, 2012. Retrieved August 8, 2012.
^Feldberg, Michael (2001). "Mordecai Sheftall and the Wages of War". Retrieved 2013-01-16.
^Marcus, Jacob Rader; Daniel, Judith M. (1994), Concise Dictionary of American Jewish Biography(PDF), p. 587, retrieved 2013-06-28
^Samuel Proctor; Louis Schmier; Malcolm H. Stern (1984). Jews of the South: Selected Essays from the Southern Jewish Historical Society. Mercer University Press. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-86554-102-3. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
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South" Norton A. Schwartz, general, Chief of Staff of the Air Force MordecaiSheftall, fought in the Revolutionary War and financier. George Stern (Civil...
leaving for South Carolina, she brought her friend and fellow patriot MordecaiSheftall food in prison after he was captured by the British. Minis returned...
by Congregation Mickve Israel. Few tombstones remain standing. The MordecaiSheftall Cemetery, founded by Levi's brother for Savannah's Jewish community...
United States Army Center of Military History Guide to the Papers of MordecaiSheftall (1735-1797), undated, 1761-1867, 1873, 1932, 1941 (bulk 1777-1778)...
sense of the word a truly honest man." He is interred in Savannah's MordecaiSheftall Cemetery alongside his mother. His father is buried in the now-demolished...
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plantation three miles to the west of Savannah, and lived next door to MordecaiSheftall on Broughton Street. He rented properties in Ewenburg. Upon her father's...
Cemetery. Her husband, whom she survived by nine years, was buried in MordecaiSheftall Cemetery. In her will, she left funds to establish the Abrahams Home...
Congregation, the Hope of Israel). The Congregations’ burial ground was the MordecaiSheftall Cemetery founded on August 2, 1773 located end of Coyle Street and...
and London: The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226619507 Sheftall, Mordecai G. (2005). Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze. NAL...
Suicide Attack (in German). Ca Ira Verlag. ISBN 978-3-924627-87-4. Sheftall, Mordecai G. (2005). Blossoms in the Wind. New York: NAL Caliber. ISBN 978-0-451-21487-4...
Named U.S. Envoy to Russia". Pittsburgh Press. October 1, 1943. p. 1. M.G. Sheftall, Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze (Penguin, 2006) Călin...
Thomas Morgan House Columbia Ward 313–315 East York Street 1885 Abraham Sheftall House Columbia Ward 321 East York Street 1818 Moved from Elbert Ward, 1966...
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