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A hundred and fifty years after Abraham Lincoln's loss of life, the full account of his extraordinary romance with Jews is advised here for the first time. Lincoln and the Jews: A Background provides listeners both with a captivating narrative of his relationships with Jews and the opportunity to immerse themselves in exceptional manuscripts. Lincoln's life-time coincided with the introduction of Jews on the countrywide scene in the United States. When he was created, in 1809, scarcely 3,000 Jews resided in the complete country. By the time of his assassination in 1865, large-scale immigration possessed brought that amount up to more than 150,000. Many People in america were alarmed by this development and treated Jews as second-class citizens and spiritual outsiders. Lincoln exhibited precisely the opposite trend. He befriended Jews from a young age, marketed Jewish equality, appointed numerous Jews to general population office, possessed Jewish advisers and supporters starting already from the first 1850s, as well as later during his two presidential campaigns. Through his actions and his rhetoric - updating "Christian region," for example, with "this region under God" - he embraced Jews as insiders. The volume uncovers a new and previously mysterious feature of Abraham Lincoln's life, one which broadened him, and, because of this, broadened America.
