Civil War Passover Seder memorialized in West Virginia
'What a scene ensued in our little congregation, it is impossible for my pen to describe,' wrote one of the soldiers
'What a scene ensued in our little congregation, it is impossible for my pen to describe,' wrote one of the soldiers
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The roots of Abraham Lincoln’s Judeophilia can be traced back to his childhood in Indiana
Nils Skudra was nearly five-and-a-half years old when he told his mother about his past life. “He looked at me out of the side of his eye and said, ‘I was a soldier in the American Civil War,’” his mother, Renee, recounted. “‘I saw action at the Battle of Gettysburg, and I died on the…
In 1912 and 1914, The Washington Post described the Confederate monument at Arlington National Cemetery as “a magnificent work of art” and “one of the most beautiful [monuments] in this section of the country.” Commissioned by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) and celebrated with a cornerstone-laying ceremony and a formal dedication two years…
Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson, the three most famous Confederate heroes, have hundreds of memorials and monuments in public spaces throughout the United States dedicated in their memory. Judah Philip Benjamin, the most significant Jewish political figure in the United States during the 19th century — often called the “brains of the…
The Jews of Charlottesville, Virginia have sometimes found themselves divided — including when two brothers from a prominent local family found themselves on opposite lines of fire during the Civil War. Scions of a German immigrant family, Simon and Isaac Leterman were deeply involved in civic and commercial life in the Virginia town, which mirrored…
Abraham Jonas, the attorney, and Issachar Zacharie, the foot doctor, weren’t Lincoln’s only Jewish friends. Jonathan D. Sarna and Benjamin Shapell also illuminate the nature of the president’s close relationship with three other Jewish men. Julius Hammerslough, another clothing merchant, was probably Lincoln’s first Jewish friend. He attended the president’s 1861 inauguration and was a…
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