When General Grant Expelled the Jews

Jonathan Sarna discusses his riveting account of General Ulysses S. Grant’s decision, in the middle of the Civil War, to order the expulsion of all Jews from the territory under his command. He will explore the reverberations of that decision on Grant’s political career, on the nascent American Jewish community and on the American political process.











When: Mon., Apr. 15, 2013 at 11:30 am
Where: The Jewish Museum
1109 Fifth Ave.
212-423-3200
Price: $15
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Jonathan Sarna discusses his riveting account of General Ulysses S. Grant’s decision, in the middle of the Civil War, to order the expulsion of all Jews from the territory under his command. He will explore the reverberations of that decision on Grant’s political career, on the nascent American Jewish community and on the American political process.

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