All Other Nights: A Novel tells the story of Jacob Rapport, a young Jew from Manhattan who runs away from home and joins the Union Army to escape his parents’ choice of fiancée. A New Yorker primed to climb the ranks of his father’s business might not seem the most likely candidate for a successful [...]
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By Dara Horn
The old American South ranks high on the historical list of institutionally bigoted societies – which is why most people are surprised to learn that the Confederacy’s Secretary of State, whose face was even featured on the Confederate two-dollar bill, was a Jewish man named Judah Benjamin. But what is even more astonishing [...]
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