And I'm supposed to be impressed by Judah Benjamin? Ethnic background is irrelevant when his edict had a part in sanctioning a Confederate oppression in East Tennessee that would have impressed the Gestapo.
No, you're supposed to be impressed by the lack of ethnic malice evinced by the Confederates who elevated him to a public trust that he could have occupied in no country of contemporary Europe save Britain.
That includes many of the Northern States, methinks, where white-shoe antisemitism burst fully into the open five or ten years after the Civil War, when Jews were suddenly excluded from the summer watering-holes of the well-to-do in upstate New York.
Be impressed by that.