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03125aam a2200493 i 4500 001 7E3A149A8FC011ECBA4AA6A62FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220217010136 008 210501t20212021ctua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9780300229264 020 $a 0300229267 035 $a (OCoLC)1249079023 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d ERASA $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d CDX $d GSU $d GYG $d TOH $d OCLCO $d SILO 050 4 $a E467.1.B4 $b T73 2021 100 1 $a Traub, James, $e author. $4 aut 245 10 $a Judah Benjamin : $b counselor to the confederacy / $c James Traub. 264 1 $a New Haven : $b Yale University Press, $c 2021. 300 $a 185 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a Jewish lives 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a Judah P. Benjamin (1811-1884) was a brilliant and successful lawyer in New Orleans, and one of the first Jewish members of the U.S. Senate. He then served in the Confederacy as secretary of war and secretary of state, becoming the confidant and alter ego of Jefferson Davis. In this new biography, author James Traub grapples with the difficult truth that Benjamin, who was considered one of the greatest legal minds in the United States, was a slave owner who deployed his oratorical skills in defense of slavery. How could a man as gifted as Benjamin, knowing that virtually all serious thinkers outside the American South regarded slavery as the most abhorrent of practices, not see that he was complicit with evil? This biography makes a serious moral argument both about Jews who assimilated to Southern society by embracing slave culture and about Benjamin himself, a man of great resourcefulness and resilience who would not, or could not, question the practice on which his own success, and that of the South, was founded. 600 10 $a Benjamin, J. P. $q (Judah Philip), $d 1811-1884. 600 17 $a Benjamin, J. P. $q (Judah Philip), $d 1811-1884. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00002282 650 0 $a Lawyers $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Jewish lawyers $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Legislators $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Jewish legislators $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Statesmen $z Confederate States of America $v Biography. 651 0 $a Confederate States of America $x Politics and government. 650 7 $a Jewish lawyers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00982819 650 7 $a Jewish legislators. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00982827 650 7 $a Lawyers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00994346 650 7 $a Legislators. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00995828 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 $a Statesmen. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01131990 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 651 7 $a United States $z Confederate States of America. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205435 650 7 $a HISTORY / United States / General. $2 bisacsh 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 830 0 $a Jewish lives. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231017024918.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7E3A149A8FC011ECBA4AA6A62FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search