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Lincoln and the Jews : a history / Jonathan D. Sarna and Benjamin Shapell.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks E457.2 .S327 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sarna, Jonathan D., author.
- Shapell, Benjamin, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Relations with Jews.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
- Jews--United States--History--19th century.
- Jews.
- History.
- Relations with Jews.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Jews.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 272 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 29 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- "One hundred and fifty years after Abraham Lincoln's death, the full story of his extraordinary relationship with Jews is told here for the first time. [This book] provides readers both with a ... narrative of his interactions with Jews, and with the opportunity to immerse themselves in rare manuscripts and images, many from the Shapell Lincoln Collection, that show Lincoln in a way he has never been seen before"--Amazon.com.
- Contents:
- The Promised Land ... whose stones are iron and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass : 1809-1830
- And this too shall pass away
- never fear : 1830-1858
- One of my most valued friends : 1858-1860
- We have not yet appointed a Hebrew : 1861-1862
- I myself have a regard for the Jews : 1863
- About Jews : 1863-1865
- To see Jerusalem before he died : 1865.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781250059536
- 1250059534
- OCLC:
- 890310293
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