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    Cover of Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery
    Non­fic­tion
    Fear No Pharaoh: Amer­i­can Jews, the Civ­il War, and the Fight to End Slavery
    Richard Kre­it­ner
    Cover of The Civil War Diary of Emma Mordecai
    Non­fic­tion
    The Civ­il War Diary of Emma Mordecai
    Dianne Ash­ton
    Melis­sa R. Klapper
    Cover of Rebecca's Prayer for President Lincoln
    Chil­dren’s
    Rebec­ca­’s Prayer for Pres­i­dent Lincoln
    Jane Yolen; Laura Barella, illus.
    Cover of Liberty Street: A Savannah Family, Its Golden Boy, and the Civil War
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    Lib­er­ty Street: A Savan­nah Fam­i­ly, Its Gold­en Boy, and the Civ­il War
    Jason K. Friedman
    Cover of How to Become an American: A History of Immigration, Assimilation, and Loneliness
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    How to Become an Amer­i­can: A His­to­ry of Immi­gra­tion, Assim­i­la­tion, and Loneliness
    Daniel Wolff
    Interview

    ‘Our Shared His­to­ry’: A Con­ver­sa­tion Between Alyson Rich­man and Shaunna Edwards

    Shaunna Edwards, Alyson Rich­man
    August 29, 2022
    Cover of Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War: The Union Army
    Non­fic­tion
    Jew­ish Sol­diers in the Civ­il War: The Union Army
    Adam D. Mendelsohn
    Cover of The Stockwell Letters
    Fic­tion
    The Stock­well Letters
    Jacque­line Friedland
    Cover of The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
    Non­fic­tion
    The Last Kings of Shang­hai: The Rival Jew­ish Dynas­ties That Helped Cre­ate Mod­ern China
    Jonathan Kauf­man
    Essay

    Dry Goods Mer­chant and Free­dom Fight­er: Samuel Fleish­man of Mar­i­an­na, FL

    Ear­li­er this week, Sabra Wald­fo­gel wrote about the Jews who lived in Mound Bay­ou. Her most recent book is Freedom’s Island, about an all-black Mis­sis­sip­pi town men­aced…
    Sabra Wald­fo­gel
    July 9, 2015
    Essay

    The Jews of Mound Bayou

    Sabra Wald­fo­gel writes his­tor­i­cal fic­tion about South­ern Jews and African Amer­i­cans in slav­ery and free­dom. Her most recent book, Freedom’s Island, about an all-black…
    Sabra Wald­fo­gel
    July 6, 2015
    Interview

    Inter­view: Jonathan D. Sarna

    Lin­coln and the Jews: A His­to­ry by Jonathan D. Sar­na and Ben­jamin Shapell chron­i­cles the extra­or­di­nary rela­tion­ship between Pres­i­dent Abra­ham Lin­coln and…
    Elise Coop­er
    May 19, 2015
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    Non­fic­tion
    Lin­coln and the Jews: A History
    Jonathan D. Sarna and Benjamin Shapell
    Essay

    Stum­bling on Jew­ish Sup­pli­ers to the Confederacy

    Adam D. Mendel­sohn is Direc­tor of the Pearlstine/​Lipov Cen­ter for South­ern Jew­ish Cul­ture and Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Jew­ish Stud­ies at the Col­lege of Charleston. His…
    Adam D. Mendelsohn
    December 16, 2014
    Essay

    Jews and Slav­ery: Isaac Car­do­zo and Lydia Weston

    Ear­li­er this week, Sabra Wald­fo­gel wrote about Raphael Moses, one of the most emi­nent Jews in Geor­gia in the nine­teenth cen­tu­ry, and Clara Solomon, a Jew­ish girl…
    Sabra Wald­fo­gel
    August 1, 2014
    Essay

    Jews and Slav­ery: Clara Solomon and Lucy Lewis

    Ear­li­er this week, Sabra Wald­fo­gel wrote about Raphael Moses, one of the most emi­nent Jews in Geor­gia in the nine­teenth cen­tu­ry. She has recent­ly pub­lished Slave and…
    Sabra Wald­fo­gel
    July 30, 2014
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