In 1842, Judah P. Benjamin stood inside a New Orleans courtroom and declared that “slavery is against the law of nature.” It was part of his winning argument as to why an insurance company ...

Judah Benjamin, seen here in 1855, served in Jefferson Davis' Cabinet during the Civil War and was the Confederacy's most prominent Jew. A synagogue in California included his name on a window ...

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 ...

On November 21, 1861, former Senator Judah P. Benjamin took on the position that would define his place American history, Secretary of War in the Confederate States of America, a position that ...

Bookshelf ‘Judah Benjamin’ Review: The Ultimate Outsider Arguably the most important American Jew of the 19th century, he deserves our attention, but not our admiration.

Benjamin biographer Eli N. Evans author of Judah P. Benjamin, the Jewish Confederate went as far as to claim Benjamin sometimes served as a surrogate or acting president of the Confederacy.

Judah Benjamin, seen in a photo circa 1860, served as attorney general, secretary of war and secretary of state for the Confederacy. (MPI/Getty Images) ...

The complex world of Benjamin and other Jewish Americans during the Civil War is chronicled in Dara Horn’s vibrant and compelling third novel, “All Other Nights,” which examines the tenuous ...

Judah P. Benjamin, a senator from Louisiana before the Civil War, ... By 1861 Benjamin had sent at least 100 letters to his main financier, a New York banker named Peter Hargous, ...

Benjamin’s role as a leader of a white supremacist rebellion was the main problem with that approach, Rabin said, but it wasn’t the only one for specifically Jewish memorials.