On November 21, 1861, Judah P. Benjamin became the Confederate Secretary of War. As the History Channel’s website explains, “A Jew who was born in the West Indies in 1811, Judah Benjamin was an exception to the rule in the Protestant South.” The JTA Archive blog points out Benjamin’s nickname as “the Confederate Kissinger.”
The American Jewish Historical Society here…
Out of the Archives: 1913 letter
written on White Sulphur Springs stationery
by Kevin Schlottmann, Levy Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History
Before email and before the telephone, people wrote letters. And, as any archivist will tell you, some people wrote lots and lots of them, as they fulfilled a desire for economical daily communication when apart from friends and loved ones. Hotels were…
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November 10–second day of the conference. Summary Session led by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Program Director, Core Exhibition, Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, and University Professor, New York University
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett began the “From Access to Integration” summary session by saying that this conference was a worthy, fitting and appropriate way to celebrate the Center’s ten-year anniversary. Later, she added that we could…