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September 25, 2019

Joachim Gans, One of North America’s First Jews—and Perhaps Its First Scientist

The metallurgist of Roanoke.

In August, a plaque was unveiled on the edge of a highway in North Carolina commemorating Joachim Gans, a Prague-born metallurgist who was the first practicing Jew known to have settled in what would later become part of the U.S. Andrew Lawler writes:

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