Judah Benjamin #5- Did Judah Benjamin face anti-Semitism?
Join Sparks of History with noted author, journalist and lecturer James Traub
Senior Fellow, Center on International Cooperation, NYU
Author of:
City on a Hill: Testing the American Dream at City College
The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the era of American World Power
John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit
What was Liberalism?: The Past, Present, and Promise of a Noble Idea.
Mr. Traub discusses his award winning book,
Judah Benjamin, Counselor to the Confederacy, Yale University Press. Jewish Lives Series
'This is, by far, the best and most readable short biography of Benjamin that exists'
- Jonathan Sarna, author of American Judaism: A History
Episode #5 Did Judah Benjamin face anti-Semitism?
• New Orleans featured many racial elements
• As such there was a great black/white divide
• Benjamin fit into the “white category”
• Higher he climbed, more he faced anti-Semitism
• In the Senate & later as leader in Confederacy
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