Posted on 11/21/2006 5:23:06 AM PST by SJackson
This is a joke, right? This is America's biggest anti-Jew moment. Grant was tired of Northern money flowing south to buy cotton and returning as weapons and supplies bought from abroad (I'm not sure what her exact name was nor how she got all of these supplies.)
This story is part of a regular history series in a weekly newspaper targeted at religious Jews. If this appeared in the NY Times or on Sixty Minutes, I'd be suspicious too.
Well, with such "progressive" lights as Barak Obama, admitting that the Emancipation Proclamation was purely a military document, maybe southerners will begin to get a slightly more fair historical treatment. Those of us with Confederate ancestors can only hope. One of the oldest houses of worship in Greensboro, NC, where I am, is a synagogue.
And an unbiased one, if your website is any indication. Were that Mr. Regenstein were so balanced.
Ping. Interesting stuff
;-)
I don't know of any who were sent to prison. Some were forced to stay overnight at flophouse hotels.
This was probably the lamest pogrom EVER.
Attempts to make the Slaver Regime look good are bound to fail. Attempts to dispagage those who fought to save the Union are also bound to fail. Though they are always good for a few laughs at such folly.
You are correct, had this war taken place in another country summary executions would have been the order of the day rather than expulsions.
However, there are those who will do or say anything to dispagage the heroes who saved the Union and glorify the Traitors who tried to destroy it rather than address the Evil of Slavery.
LOL! Don't worry. The new gang will be around shortly. So, you will probably get your brawl!
In fact he contended he wasn't aware of signing the order, that it was likely in a stack of papers he routinely signed. Given the fact that there's no indication of animosity toward Jews anywhere in Grant's long public life, that's probably true.
We note that almost every liberal Jewish person we encounter equates the Confederate flag with anti-semitism. When you try to explain the historical truth of the matter they do not even listen. As for Judah P. Benjamin, he fled to the U.K. and became a very successful barrister.
In this atmosphere, scapegoating reared its head. Populists such as Tom Watson in Georgia switched from themes of economic reforms similar to those championed by Northern and Western Populists to viciousness toward the former slaves. Strict segregation laws became the norm after 1890, and blacks were effectively disenfranchised in the same period. Free lance vigilantes and, after 1920, the revived Ku Klux Klan engaged in a reign of terror against blacks, with several thousand lynchings between 1880 and 1930 (although some lynchings took places in such un-Southern locales as Wilmington, Delaware and Duluth, Minnesota). In some upland areas of the South (and the Midwest and West), there was ethnic cleansing of blacks from small towns where they had settled after the Civil War. The movie, Rosewood, documents one of the most extreme examples of expelling African-Americans in Florida during the 1920s.
Anti-Semitism also reared its ugly head in the South via the same Populist movement that imposed segregation and maltreatment of black Southerners. Tom Watson, Theodore Bilbo, and others recycled the anti-Semitic arguments of Nordic supremacists. The Klan of the 1920s and the 1960s repeated much of the same rhetoric against Jews as would have been found in Nazi propaganda. The lynching of Leo Frank in Georgia is evidence of the anti-Semitic animosity in the South in the Populist era.
Contrary to the opinions of many Northerners, as well as the romanticism of many Southerners, racism and anti-Semitism were far stronger and widespread in the post-Reconstruction South than had been the case in the antebellum era.
Perhaps Grant issued the order as Sherman was apparently a vicious anti-Semite, equating Jews with Newspapermen and prostitutes.
Its ironic that Jews had such a good relationship with anti-bellum southerners and after the war they became the objects of attack by the KKK along with blacks and Catholics.
The real provocation might be exactly what was said -- the security risk (or perceived risk) of the traders and the activities along very sensitive lines of transport.
Fascinating family history from the author.
Also, what's this stuff about Jews running the blockade? Anyone have more data?
No kidding! I was just being facetious.
That's a great story. Thanks. I really like the rabbi!
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