American Jews were faced with a choice: to mourn the president’s death, or to celebrate the Jewish holiday
From Queen Elizabeth to Abraham Lincoln, the story of Purim has shaped our most contentious debates
Notes from the American Inferno: How a cultural collapse—of civility, civic education, and decorum—brought us ‘the Mussolinian con man of our own moment’
Abraham Lincoln wrote the words. Adolphus Simeon Solomons provided the paper.
America’s soul, and his own, at stake
A project at the National Archives to identify all the Jewish soldiers of the great American conflict is turning up more than expected
Without a sense of exceptionalism, a country of chosen people cannot prosper
NYC exhibit sparks memories of my father’s love of the 16th U.S. President
Spielberg’s WWII epic alludes to Abraham Lincoln and Abraham the patriarch
Maybe dysfunction is getting a bad rap
Samuel J. Seymour, who died in 1956, was five when he went to Ford’s Theater
Looking at the infamous Civil War edict
Spielberg’s Civil War biopic portrays a man leading his people to the gates of the Promised Land
Charges have dogged American Jews since the 1868 election, as Jonathan Sarna explains in ‘When General Grant Expelled the Jews’
Former president appears in forthcoming Nextbook Press book
New ‘book’ ‘says’ that the Union inspired the Nazis
An exhibition examines Washington’s Jewish life during the Civil War