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LAUNDRY
American Jew in Civil War Was
Scapegoat for Both North, South
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BY ALFRED H. PAUL
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(Copyright, 1961. Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.)
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and blamed as Jews whenever
the balance of war turned
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the Confederacy.
The American Jew during the against
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At one time, during the war,
Civil War period—as the Jew
in all periods of history and in anti-Semitism became so pro-
nounced, that a Jewish army
all lands—could not for- officer fighting for the Confed-
•■•■■■•• nearly
get that he was something else
.
erac\.. Col. Adolphus H. Adler,
besides an American.
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challenged
the editor of the
The Jew was not allowed to
Richmond
Examiner
to a duel
forget his Jewishness—although
he was certainly proud of it..A for maligning Jews as a race.
When a converted German
country in turmoil found, in the
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Jew,
a
scapegoat.
Anti-Semitism
Jew
in Frankfurt, Baron Er-
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fighting lines during the entire to the Confederacy, he was at-
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One of the South's most weekly, the Cincinnati Gazette
prominent statesmen was Judah and other leading periodicals in
nals
P. B e n j a in i n, apologist
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ailed to
on
er Jew h
slavery, friend of Co
ate hankers who were a '1g t
President Jefferso
is
sue- North.
cessively Attor
eneral, Sec-
The Rothschild family
retary of W
ld Secretary of
Frankfurt
was • riding mo y
State for
Confederacy.
to the
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prominent South-
ish
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erner
s David
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who
presented
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of the wealt
men in the
Senate to •
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ex-Jew, August
Confede
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who used all his
oth in the 'oath and in the
ealth to aid the North.
firth, Benjamin and Yulee
et such newspapers as the
re under constant
the Chicago Tribune and the New
itic attack thro
War
e North, York Herald spoke of all Jew-
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secessionists; in the South, they preparing to sell out the North
--z...r----tnr ■ -u-----vons---- were attacked simply as Jews to the Confederacy.
Anti-Semitic preachers spoke
to large crowds in the North.
condemning Jews. Hate - litera-
ture was widely disseminated,
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and even the most respected
newspapers had a hand in al-
most universal Jew - baiting.
Newspapers, as a rule, identi-
fied persons with Jewish names,
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arrested on charges of smug-
gling or other such crimes, as
Jews. They did not identify
Jews on the casualty lists as
Jews.
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The New York Tribune and
Detroit Commercial Adver-
tiser, among other journals,
declared that "all Jews are
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gold speculators." The Boston
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Mortgage Loan Correspondents for Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Transcript attacked "the chil-
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dren of Israel" because a pa-
triotic Southerner, a wealthy
Charleston Jew named Mor-
decai, contributed $10,000 to
the Confederacy.
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A newspaper in Indiana
stated that "our fellow citizens
of the Hebrew persuasion are,
with a few honorable excep-
tions, all afflicted with the
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Copperhead mania."
And so it went, throughout
the war, both North and South.
Overlooked were- the Jewish
soldiers who flocked to the
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colors of their respective sides
—and the Jewish dead and
wounded who suffered along
with other fellow Americans.
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The anti-Semitism of that
period furnishes a black chap-
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ter in the history of our coun-
try. __But that movement is
worth recalling as an illustra-
tion of the fact that, even in
this country, times of stress
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the front.
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