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In Behalf of the Israelites
In Behalf of the Israelites
Abraham Lincoln’s Jewish Controversies & He Was Like One of Us: American Jewry and the Idealization of Abraham Lincoln
In Behalf of the Israelites Abraham Lincoln’s Jewish Controversies
Sunday, January 31
Spertus, 610 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago
During his years in the White House, Abraham Lincoln was called on to mediate a number of contentious issues that worried American Jews who felt their rights as citizens under the Constitution were at stake. Dr. Gary Zola explored these issues and revealed why so many of Lincoln’s Jewish contemporaries came to believe that “Father Abraham” was American Jewry’s true friend and loyal patron.
He Was Like One of Us: American Jewry and the Idealization of Abraham Lincoln
Sunday, January 31
North Suburban Synagogue Beth El,
1175 Sheridan Road, Highland Park
Dr. Gary P. Zola explored the personal and professional characteristics that have inspired American Jews to embrace the 16th president as a man with a “Jewish soul.”
Sponsors
This is the 2010 Horwitz Family Lecture in Jewish History, generously endowed by the Horwitz Charitable Fund.
