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The Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America

By Ella Jordan-Smith, Reference Services Librarian

The Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America

In response to widespread antisemitic accusations that Jews had not fought in the Civil War, a group of Jewish Civil War veterans met in New York in 1896 to establish the Hebrew Union Veterans. The group eventually changed their name to the Jewish War Veterans (JWV) of the…

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“Remember, Der Pass-Vort iss Chorch Vashington:” Combating American Nazi Propaganda in the “Anti-Nazi Bulletin”

By Nicole Greenhouse, Archivist at the Center for Jewish History

Currently, I am working on a project to arrange and
describe a 100 linear foot accretion to the American Jewish Congress Records
(I-77) at the American Jewish Historical Society. As I work through the
collection, I was struck by a run of the “Anti-Nazi Bulletin” that I found in a
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