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 ...

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.

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 ...

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) ...

Curiously, the two figures at either end of the ideological spectrum, Ernestine Rose and Judah Benjamin, were the least attached to a broader Jewish community, even though both suffered because of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Judah Benjamin, the Jewish secretary of the state for the Confederacy, survived a series of shipwrecks and fled to London, the same city where Ernestine Rose, the abolitionist, atheist daughter of ...

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.

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.