When General Grant Expelled the Jews
Title | When General Grant Expelled the Jews PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan D. Sarna |
Publisher | Schocken |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 2016-04-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0805212337 |
On December 17, 1862, just weeks before Abraham Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation, General Grant issued what remains the most notorious anti-Jewish order by a government official in American history. His attempt to eliminate black marketeers by targeting for expulsion all Jews "as a class" from portions of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi unleashed a firestorm of controversy that made newspaper headlines and terrified and enraged the approximately 150,000 Jews then living in the United States, who feared the importation of European anti-Semitism onto American soil. Although the order was quickly rescinded by a horrified Abraham Lincoln, the scandal came back to haunt Grant when he ran for president in 1868. Never before had Jews become an issue in a presidential contest and never before had they been confronted so publicly with the question of how to balance their "American" and "Jewish" interests. Award-winning historian Jonathan D. Sarna gives us the first complete account of this little-known episode—including Grant's subsequent apology, his groundbreaking appointment of Jews to prominent positions in his administration, and his unprecedented visit to the land of Israel. Sarna sheds new light on one of our most enigmatic presidents, on the Jews of his day, and on the ongoing debate between ethnic loyalty and national loyalty that continues to roil American political and social discourse. (With black-and-white illustrations throughout.)
General Judaica
Title | General Judaica PDF eBook |
Author | Bloch Publishing Company |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 88 |
Release | 1929 |
Genre | Jewish literature |
ISBN |
תלמוד ירושלמי
Title | תלמוד ירושלמי PDF eBook |
Author | Heinrich Walter Guggenheimer |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Talmud Yerushalmi |
ISBN | 9783110411652 |
Report of the General Director
Title | Report of the General Director PDF eBook |
Author | Jewish People's Institute of Chicago |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 920 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | Jews |
ISBN |
Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus
Title | Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus PDF eBook |
Author | Michael L. Brown |
Publisher | Baker Books |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2000-02 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 080106063X |
An honest, fair, and thorough discussion of the issues raised in Jewish Christian apologetics, covering thirty-five objections on general and historical themes.
The Book of Jewish Practice
Title | The Book of Jewish Practice PDF eBook |
Author | Louis Jacobs |
Publisher | Behrman House, Inc |
Total Pages | 166 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780874414608 |
Illustrations. explanations of why certain things are done in a particular way, contemporary applications and information on how to do things is thus made available.
Christian Conceptions of Jewish Books
Title | Christian Conceptions of Jewish Books PDF eBook |
Author | Avner Shamir |
Publisher | Museum Tusculanum Press |
Total Pages | 133 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 8763507722 |
Explores how Christians understood the meaning and significance of Jewish books at the beginning of the sixteenth century. This book tells the story of the so-called Pfefferkorn affair, the attempt to confiscate and burn all Jewish post-biblical literature in the Holy Roman Empire in the years 1509-10.