The Civil War and Europe’s Changing View of American Judaism
This lecture will explore the manner in which European Jews viewed American Jewry in the years preceeding and during the Civil War and the effect on this attitude of General Grant's edict to expel the Jews from the Department of Tennessee in 1862. We will study the views of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch in Frankfurt who called General Grant "a thousand times worse than Haman." In addition, we will read two entries from the Hebrew Russian newspaper Ha-Maggid and their reporting of American democracy and General Grant's edict. I acknowledge Rabbi Zev Eleff, who is responsible for many of the insights and themes discussed in this lecture. I look forward to his upcoming article that expands this to discussion to the Jews of England, France and Eastern Europe.
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- A Study of Halachic and Cultural Responses to Jewish Crisis and Tragedy
- American Jewish Translations of the Torah
- Biblical Studies
- Court Jews: Jews and Judaism on Trial Throughout the Centuries
- Crime: Does It pay?
- Development of Jewish Law
- Glimpses into the religious Lives of Early Modern European Jewry
- Halakhah in the Post-Shulhan Arukh Period
- History and Theology: The Thirteen Principles of Rambam
- History of the Yeshivot in LIthuania
- How Did the Rabbis of Early Modern Times Interpret the Bible?
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- Jews and Hollywood
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- Jews in New York
- Judaism Confronts Modernity: Jewish Experiences in the Nineteenth Century
- Manhattan Stories: The Historical and Cultural Impact of Jews in Manhattan
- Medieval Biblical Commentators Respond to the Torah and Their Surroundings
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- Rabbinic Judaism
- Rabbinic Narratives
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- Survey
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