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Thank you to the rabbi for that remarkable introduction. I have to say that the subject of my lecture not only concerns a historic event, but actually put my academic career in jeopardy. In 1982, i was a young faculty member at the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of religion in cincinnati, and i was invited to deliver a talk before the institutions board of overseers. This was an important rite of passage for a new faculty member. And i was determined to prove myself. Since 1982 coincided ...

On the one level is about the under grand railroad can be argued that its in the Civil Rights Movement in the history of the United States that predates the 1940s. One of the major things we argue is the underground railroad is a movement that brings different ethnic backgrounds together to fight for freedom in a country that is it based on inequality. The book starts with the founding and we look at how slavery developed. Whats between the between the constitution and the declaration of indepen...

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As Cincinnati's Jewish community marks 200 years of communal life in the Queen City, an exhibit opening Nov. 4 considers some of the people who helped shape the town and community.

thomas mallen has a story to tell in, "watergate: a novel." sunday at 9, madeleine albright. booktv this weekend on c-span2. >> youre watching booktv. jonathan sarna recounts general ulysses s. grants order to expel the jewish population on december 17th, 1863. the order, quickly rebuked by abraham lincoln, would trouble grant into his 1869 presidential campaign. this is a little under an hour. >> well, thank you to rabbi angel for that remarkable introduction and praising. i have to s...

>> grants order was the most notorious official act of anti-semitism in american history. it is really the only time that jews as a class had been expelled from anywhere in the united states, and around 1982 new information concerning that order had become available from the association that published ulysses s. grants papers. and so it was that i began to prepare my remarks, and on the appointed day i put on a new suit, and my talk seemed to be going well until i broached the subject ...