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    The Hunt for Judah P. Benjamin, the Spy Chief of the Confederacy

    Suspected of orchestrating the Lincoln assassination, the South’s most prominent Jew escaped to London to start a new life as a high-powered lawyer. The U.S. government secretly tried to bring him home to face justice.

    byJay SolomonandJane Singer
  • Detail from Solomon Nunes Carvalho, 1815–1897, Abraham Lincoln and Diogenes, 1865.
    Detail from Solomon Nunes Carvalho, 1815–1897, Abraham Lincoln and Diogenes, 1865.
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    Subversive Jews and American Culture

    Notes on the Leonard Milberg collection of early American Judaica, currently at Princeton in the impressive ‘By Dawn’s Early Light’ exhibit

    byJonathan D. Sarna
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    The Forgotten Confederate Jew

    How history lost Judah P. Benjamin, the most prominent American Jew of the 19th century

    byDaniel Brook
  • Rabbi David Einhorn.(Wikipedia)
    Rabbi David Einhorn.(Wikipedia)
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    Where Jews Stood on Slavery

    The Civil War divded more than just North and South

    byMarc Tracy
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