Quiggle, President of John B. Gordon chapter 383 UDC, presented a program about Judah P. Benjamin. He was the first Jew to hold a Cabinet-level office in an American government. CSA President ...

BENJAMIN was a Jew. He was born a British subject. He made a brilliant reputation at the Louisiana Bar and was offered a seat in the United States Supreme Court. He became United States senator. When ...

Judah P. Benjamin was known as "the brains of the Confederacy," its "court Jew," "the statesman of the Lost Cause," and even "the Confederate Kissinger." As, successively, attorney general, secretary ...

The career of Judah P. Benjamin (1811-1884), the Jewish son of the South who lent his legal brilliance to the Confederacy as its secretary of state and chief adviser to its president, Jefferson Davis, ...

Judah Philip Benjamin (1811-1884), a fanatical southern patriot best known for his various roles as President Jefferson Davis’s second-in-command, was at once one of the most prominent and one of the ...

JUDAH P. BENJAMIN—Robert Douthat Meade—Oxford ($3.75). The man whom Abraham Lincoln called the smartest of the Confederate civil leaders is no more familiar to most U.S. readers than Felix Kirk ...

A monument to Judah P. Benjamin, the Jewish lawyer from Louisiana, who served as Secretary of State in the cabinet of the Confederate States of America, was unveiled in Sarasota today by the local ...

DOUBLE lives are decried, but Judah P. Benjamin lived his in sequence. A lawyer of consummate ability, born in the West Indies under the British flag, he became Attorney General, head of the War ...

The Jewish historical narrative in America has, for the most part, been written and shaped by the great wave of Jewish immigrants that arrived in our nation around the turn of the 20 th Century. That ...