First Jews in New Amsterdam

Today students examined a primary source document, the letter Peter Stuyvesant sent to the Dutch West India Company asking for the Jews who arrived from Recife, Brazil be expelled.  The class then acted out a play about this first boatload of Jews.  They were appalled by Stuyvesant's slanderous language about the Jews.  They are working on a cartoon (or a written piece) to retell this part of history, due next Tuesday.