Last Wednesday was Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, and yesterday was Presidents’ Day, and thus I offer you this fascinating discussion with Jonathan Sarna—the foremost historian of American Jewry and the co-author of a book on Lincoln and the Jews. Sarna, in conversation with Nachi Weinstein, addresses the great president’s Jewish advisers and his defense of the Jews of Tennessee, and explains that Lincoln was active in an era when Jews were first coming into their own as a force in American politics. Indeed, Lincoln may have been the first U.S. politician to think seriously about the Jewish vote. (Audio, 67 minutes.)
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