We Called Him Rabbi Abraham: Lincoln and American Jewry, a Documentary History

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397 Notes Acknowledgments 1. See, for example, Jacob Rader Marcus, The American Jew, 1585–1990: A History (Brooklyn : Carlson Publishing, 1995), vii. 2. Robert Green Ingersoll, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Dresden ed., vol. 2 (New York: C. P. Farrell, 1900), 420. Introduction: Abraham Lincoln and American Jewry 1. Louisville Daily Journal, April 23, 1865. 2. William C. Davis, Lincoln’s Men: How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation (New York: Free Press, 1999). 3. See Maxwell Whiteman, “Jews in the Antislavery Movement,” in The Kidnapped and the Ransomed; the Narrative of Peter and Vina Still after Forty Years of Slavery, by Kate E. R. Pickard (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1970). For bibliographic sources on Jews and the antislavery movement in America, see Jonathan D. Sarna and Adam D. Mendelsohn, eds., Jews and the Civil War: A Reader (New York: New York University Press, 2010), 413–14. 4. Mary Frances Berry, “Lincoln and Civil Rights for Blacks,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 2, no. 1 (1980), http://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jala/2629860.0002.105 ?­ rgn=main;view=fulltext (accessed November 19, 2012). 5. Carter G. Woodson, The Negro in Our History (Washington, D.C.: Associated Publishers , 1922), 381. 6. Fred C. Ainsworth and Joseph W. Kirkley, eds., The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, series III, vol. 1 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1899), 157. 7. Emanuel Hertz, ed., Abraham Lincoln: The Tribute of the Synagogue (New York: Bloch Publishing, 1927), 169. 8. Israelite, January 23, 1863, 228. 9. Robert N. Rosen, The Jewish Confederates (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000), 148–53. 10. Pierce Butler, Judah P. Benjamin (Philadelphia: G. W. Jacobs, 1907), 193. 11. Rosen, Jewish Confederates, 11–12. 12. Butler, Judah P. Benjamin, 196. 13. Rosen, Jewish Confederates, 11–12. 14. Louisville Daily Journal, April 23, 1865. 15. Genesis 3:22 (Judaic Classics version). 16. Hertz, Tribute, 45, 111, 98. 17. Ibid., 45. 18. From Rabbi Hyman G. Enelow’s prayer delivered at the dedication ceremony for the Abraham Lincoln Memorial at Hodgenville, Kentucky, on November 9, 1911. See the Israelite, November 16, 1911, 4. Notes to pages 6–12 398 19. Barry Schwartz, Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 195. 20. Ibid., 198. 21. Ainsworth and Kirkley, eds., War of the Rebellion, series III, volume 1, 157. 22. Sylvia Barack Fishman, Jewish Life and American Jewish Culture (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999), 15. 23. As quoted in Stephen J. Whitfield, In Search of American Jewish Culture (Hanover, N.H.: Brandeis University Press, 1999), 30. 1. Immigrants and the Old Northwest: Lincoln’s First Encounters with American Jewry 1. Robert P. Swierenga, “The Settlement of the Old Northwest: Ethnic Pluralism in a Featureless Plain,” Journal of the Early Republic 9, no. 1 (Spring 1989): 73. For quote, see Emanuel Hertz, Abraham Lincoln: A New Portrait, 2 vols. (New York: Horace Liveright, 1931), 1:338. 2. Swierenga, “Settlement,” 74, 83. 3. Jacob Rader Marcus, To Count a People: American Jewish Population Data, 1585‒1984 (New York: University Press of America, 1990). 4. Ibid. 5. The best sources for information on Lincoln’s Jewish associations are Isaac Markens, Abraham Lincoln and the Jews (New York: Isaac Markens, 1909), and the meticulously documented Bertram W. Korn, American Jewry and the Civil War (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1951). 6. One of Samuel Rosenwald and Augusta Hammerslough Rosenwald’s children was Julius Rosenwald (1862–1932), a man who would become a millionaire by transforming the mail-order catalog of Sears, Roebuck & Company into a national corporation. 7. According to Isaac Markens, Hammerslough claimed that he and his brothers “enjoyed very friendly relations with Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln.” See Markens, Abraham Lincoln and the Jews, 22. 8. Elizabeth Porter Todd was married to the politically controversial Ninian W. Edwards (1809‒89), whose father was Ninian Edwards (1775‒1833), the man who served as the only governor of the Illinois Territory (1809–18). The senior Edwards was also one of the first two U.S. senators from Illinois (1818–24) and was the third governor of the state of Illinois. 9. Hammerslough also claimed that his firm in Springfield provided the black plumes that ornamented the funeral cortege that carried Lincoln’s body to its final resting place in Springfield’s Oak Ridge Cemetery. See Markens, Abraham Lincoln and the Jews...