Notes on the Leonard Milberg collection of early American Judaica, currently at Princeton in the impressive ‘By Dawn’s Early Light’ exhibit
‘Over here we don’t believe in persecuting anybody. Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced.’
A visitor takes in the Southern city’s surprising—and enduring—Jewish roots
How history lost Judah P. Benjamin, the most prominent American Jew of the 19th century
What Jewish rituals and Judaism share with Civil War reenactment and Southern culture
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