CSPAN3 Abraham Lincoln And The Jewish Community July 10, 2016
Would have passed, the exhibit on your way in tonight, marks an that markscument in an episode when president Abraham Lincoln directly interceded for american jews. Generale document is ulysses grants december 1862 general order to expel jews from the department of tennessee. Grant blamed jews for smuggling and demanded their immediate removal. Jewish citizens of paducah, kentucky appealed to president lincoln, expressing their outrage, and lincoln countermanded grants order. Histories cannot be written without the primary sources that tell us authentically what happened at a particular time. ...