Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery by Kreitner, Richard
Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery by Kreitner, Richard

Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery

A dramatic history of how American Jews reckoned with slavery--and fought the Civil War. Since ancient times,...
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Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery by Kreitner, Richard

Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery

$366.36
Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery by Kreitner, Richard

Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery

$366.36
Author: Richard Kreitner
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A dramatic history of how American Jews reckoned with slavery--and fought the Civil War.

Since ancient times, the Jewish people have recalled the story of Exodus and reflected on the implications of having been slaves. Did the tradition teach that Jews should speak out against slavery and oppression everywhere, or act cautiously to protect themselves in a hostile world?

In Fear No Pharaoh, the journalist and historian Richard Kreitner sets this question at the heart of the Civil War era. Using original sources, he tells the intertwined stories of six American Jews who helped to shape a tumultuous time, including Judah Benjamin, the brilliant, secretive lawyer who became Jefferson Davis's trusted confidante; Morris Raphall, a Swedish-born rabbi who defended slavery as biblically justified; and Raphall's rival rabbis--the celebrated Isaac Mayer Wise, who urged Jews to stay out of the slavery controversy to avoid attracting attention, and David Einhorn, whose fiery sermons condemning bondage led to a pro-slavery mob threatening his life. We also meet August Bondi, a veteran of Europe's 1848 revolutions, who fought with John Brown in "Bleeding Kansas" and later in the Union Army, and the Polish ?migr? Ernestine Rose, a feminist, atheist, and abolitionist who championed "emancipation of all kinds."

As he tracks these characters, Kreitner illuminates the shifting dynamics of Jewish life in America--and the debates about religion, morality, and politics that endure to this day.

Author: Richard Kreitner
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 04/01/2025
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780374608453

About the Author
Richard Kreitner is the author of Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union and Booked: A Traveler's Guide to Literary Locations Around the World. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Nation, Slate, Raritan, The Baffler, and other publications. He lives in the Hudson Valley, New York.
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