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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 with the 120th anniversary of ulysses s. Grants general orders number 11 expelling jews as a class f...

publicizing god. and they have not a perfect relationship, but there really a good team because grant lois just attack head-on throw which results in casualties with the army of virginia. for me it is a little more calculating. but you can argue back and forth and works out terrible mistakes at pearl harbor. but we always see there's antithetical. historians want to make much of the delay between them. but there's a problem, why does it grant ever fire the guy? the only grant estimated its holder to the surrender at appomattox to get their in the actual surrender ceremony, but he's q...

thomas mallen has a story to tell in, "watergate: a novel." sunday at 9, madeleine albright. booktv this weekend on c-span2. >> you're watching booktv. jonathan sarna recounts general ulysses s. grant's 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 say that the subject of my lecture not only concerns a historic event, but actually i once put my o...

>> grant's 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. grant's 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 of smuggling. now, ulysses s. grant was deeply concerned about smuggling between the north and the...