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Title : Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate
ISBN : 0029099110
Release Date : 1989-09-11
Number of Pages : 514
Author : Eli Evans
ISBN : 0029099110
Release Date : 1989-09-11
Number of Pages : 514
Author : Eli Evans
Judah P Benjamin Wikipedia Judah Philip Benjamin QC was a lawyer and politician who was a United States Senator from Louisiana a Cabinet officer of the Confederate States and after his escape to the United Kingdom at the end of the American Civil War an English barrister Benjamin was the first Jew to be elected to the United States Senate who had not renounced that faith and was the first Jew to hold a Cabinet position in North America He was successively the Attorney General Secretary of War and Secretary of Sta Judah P Benjamin The Jewish Confederate Eli Evans Judah P Benjamin The Jewish Confederate Paperback – September 11 1989 by Eli Evans Author 46 out of 5 stars 24 customer reviews See all 4 formats and editions Hide other formats and editions Judah P Benjamin Confederacys SecondInCommand My Judah P Benjamin Confederacy’s SecondInCommand The Jewish secondincommand of the Southern Confederacy during the Civil War was once a United States senator By Clay Travis The mysterious prince of the Confederacy Judah P On November 21 1861 former Senator Judah P Benjamin took on the position that would define his place American history Secretary of War in the Confederate States of America a position that determined not only the course of the Civil War the rebel Southern states and the Northern Union states but the rise of antiSemitism in America JUDAH BENJAMIN THE BIG JEW OF THE CONFEDERACY Judah P Benjamin was known as the brains of the Confederacy its court Jew the statesman of the Lost Cause and even the Confederate Kissinger As successively Attorney General Secretary of War and Secretary of State in the Confederate Cabinet he was President Jefferson Davis closest and most trusted adviser Judah Benjamin Jewish Virtual Library One of the most misunderstood figures in American Jewish history is Judah P Benjamin whom some historians have called “the brains of the Confederacy” even as others tried to blame him for the South’s defeat Born in the West Indies in 1811 to observant Jewish parents Benjamin was raised in Charleston South Carolina
