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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Judah Benjamin
    sub title: counselor to the Confederacy
  name:
    name part: Traub, James
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ctu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 185 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  note: James Traub.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: n-usu--
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Benjamin, J. P. (Judah Philip)
      name part: 1811-1884
  subject:
    topic: Lawyers
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Jewish lawyers
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Legislators
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Jewish legislators
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Statesmen
    geographic: Confederate States of America
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    geographic: Confederate States of America
    topic: Politics and government
  classification: E467.1.B4 T73 2021
  classification: 970.980
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Jewish lives
  identifier: 0300229267
  identifier: 9780300229264
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210501
    record change date: 20220105155910.0
    record identifier: in00004365728