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The Mordecai Family and Judaism in North Carolina

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3851
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Few Jewish people were in the state when Jacob Mordecai came to Warrenton in 1792. He was a merchant, and in 1808, opened a girls' academy for all faiths. Because of the small Jewish population, only two of his thirteen children married in the faith; and several became Christians.
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