From the partners’ collections: The Great Council of the Jews in Hungaria 1650
Artist: unknown
Date: 1683
Medium: woodcut
Persistent URL: http://museums.cjh.org/Display.php?irn=16888
Repository: Yeshiva University Museum
Accession number: 2008.112
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by David P. Rosenberg, Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History
Many things come to the minds of Americans when they think of Abraham Lincoln: the story of the apple tree and the nickname “honest Abe,” the address at Gettysburg, the Emancipation Proclamation. One thing that may not immediately come to mind is the fight for religious freedom that Lincoln fought amidst…