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Jedict lite2/3/2024 ![]() How far back in your career did you become interested in Grant’s General Orders No. So even though Lincoln promptly rescinded the order, it had lingering effects. Lincoln said that he did not ‘like to hear a class or nationality condemned on account of a few sinners.” The Order was issued during the period when Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation…Some Jews explicitly feared that Jews might replace Blacks as the nation’s most despised minority, that freedom for Blacks would spell trouble for Jews. Why did Lincoln react so promptly to the request by American Jews that he rescind the Order? Practically, probably fewer than 100 Jews. How many Jews in the Department of Tennessee were affected by and responded to the Order? That edict was later described as “the most sweeping anti-Jewish regulation in all American history.” and from the Mississippi River to the Tennessee River (which did not include St. 11 to evict Jews from the large war zone (then) under his command, known as the “Department of Tennessee.” It actually stretched from northern Mississippi to Cairo, Ill. 17, 1862, General Grant (then a rising general in the Union Army but not yet its supreme commander), issued and signed General Orders No. If the decree, which Lincoln quickly rescinded before it could do substantial harm, is all we remember about Grant, it is unfortunate. 11, for which for many years has caused Jews to discount Ulysses S. The most obvious reason for the timing is that 2012 is the 150th anniversary of Grant’s issuance of General Orders No. What drew you to write this book at this time? home for a telephone interview last week. The Jewish Light caught up with Sarna at his Newton, Mass. Interestingly, Sarna is a key player in Jonathan Gruber’s documentary “Jewish Soldiers in Blue and Gray,” which aired in April on 196 public television stations nationwide. Grant National Historic Site, a unit of the National Park Service, also known as White Haven. He will be discussing his book, which contains newly discovered findings about Grant’s issuance of General Orders No. Sarna feels that it “is time to set the record straight” on Grant’s relationship with Jews after the anti-Jewish edict he issued. Louis County landmark and tourist attraction, Grant’s Farm. Louis community, since he resided here and married Julia Dent, a St. Grant’s relationship with American Jewry is especially interesting to the St. Sarna describes Grant’s action as “the most notorious anti-Jewish order by a governmental official in American history.” But at the same time, Sarna, a professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University and Chief Historian of the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, asserts that later in his career, Grant not only apologized for this action, but “redeemed” himself by his positive actions towards American Jews, including during his two terms as President of the United States. Grant’s political and personal life, and his relationship with the Jewish people. President Abraham Lincoln quickly rescinded the order, but the aftermath greatly impacted Ulysses S. Grant in 1862 ordered the expulsion of all Jewish people in the territory under his command in an effort to stop a black market trading operation. Sarna details the notoriously anti-Jewish “General Orders No. In his latest book, “When General Grant Expelled the Jews,” (Schocken, $27.95) historian Jonathan D.
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