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Lesson 8 of 8·Jews and the Civil War

General Grant and the Jews

The most anti-Semitic act ever committed by a high-level American official was General Grant’s expulsion of all the Jews in the Tennessee territory. Why did Grant do it and how did Grant himself evolve, eventually becoming a president whose death was mourned by the American Jewish community?

Taught By

Meir Soloveichik
Meir Soloveichik is the rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel and the director of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University. His website, containing all of his media appearances, podcasts, and writing, can be found at meirsoloveichik.com.

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