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Book

Fear no pharaoh : American Jews, the Civil War, and the fight to end slavery

Call Number

  • 973.7 K9227 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025.

Physical Description

401 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

"The story of how American Jews engaged with questions of slavery and politics in the Civil War era"--

Contents

  • Part I: "When Israel was in Egypt land..."
  • "Emancipation of all kinds"
  • Of Hebrew bondage
  • "First truth and then peace"
  • Kansas meshugas
  • "Israelites with Egyptian principles"
  • On native grounds
  • Part II: "We are still in bondage"
  • Battle of the rabbis
  • "No more pharaohs..."
  • "A storm, vast and terrible"
  • "You are Jews"
  • "This otherwise blessed land"
  • "Into the light".

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