[Year of first publication] 1797 [Character(s)] Adonah Ben Benjamin [Work] The Algerine Captive [Creator] Royall Tyler [Country of publication] United States [Details] Adonah Ben Benjamin is a wealthy Jewish banker in Algiers, who, for a price, promises to help the narrator, who has been captured into slavery in Algiers, return to freedom in the United States, but dies before being able to complete the process. Ben Benjamin is the first contemporaneous Jew to be depicted in an American novel.[24] [Media] 
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