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Abraham Lincoln’s Triumph, and Death, through the Eyes of an American Hebrew Journalist
“But a man came from behind the curtains and . . . and killed this tsaddik.”
In the middle of the 19th century, before modern Zionism or Eliezer Ben-Yehuda’s quixotic effort to revive the language of the Bible, Russian Jews began publishing Hebrew newspapers. One such publication, Ha-Magid, employed Henry Vidaver, the rabbi of a St. Louis, Missouri synagogue, as its American correspondent. In honor of Lincoln’s birthday, David Geffen recounts some of Vidaver’s dispatches from the fateful year of 1865:
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Abraham Lincoln’s Triumph, and Death, through the Eyes of an American Hebrew Journalist
“But a man came from behind the curtains and . . . and killed this tsaddik.”