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July 03, 1998 - Image 68

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1998-07-03

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Judah Benjamin, a senator from
Peter Levy has done extensive
Louisiana
before the war, became the
research on the role of Jews in the
Confederate
secretary of
Civil War, and his findings
war, while an entire unit of
suggest that, in fact, the
Tony Horowitz
Jews fought for the South
Civil War had critical
says his great-
as "Levy's Battery." For
lessons to teach its genera-
grandfather
these men, many of whom
tion both about what it
studied the Civil
had escaped political
means to be Jewish and
War voraciously
oppression in their native
what it means to be
because it made
lands, the war was not so
American.
him feel more
much about slavery as
Some Jewish soldiers saw
American.
about the political right of
participation in the war "as
the states to determine
a continuation of the
their own course, Peter Levy said.
adventure they were on. Some saw it
Whether they fought for the
as a patriotic duty, and some saw it
North or South, the Jews of that era
as a Jewish mission," Levy said.
sent an important message, accord-
"They felt it was their mission as
ing to Stuart Zelman, a 36-year-old
Jews to fight for the liberation of
building
maintenance and construc-
men in bondage. They saw a man
tion professional in Caldwell, N.J.,
who was a slave in a land not his
who has been re-enacting for over a
own, and it touched that chord in
decade.
them."
"The message that it sent was that
Of course, there were Jews in the
Jewish Americans were willing to
Confederate camp too, fighting at
preserve, with arms if necessary,
least in part to keep the slaves in
those ideals deliberately denied them
bondage.

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