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ARHIVAIZ PROSLIH BROJEVA:
Workshop: Holocaust Research and Historiography in Nazi Occupied Yugoslavia During the Civil War, like so many of their fellow citizens, Jews were forced to take sides. While most of the nation's 150,000 Jews lived in the North and supported the Union, a sizable minority numbering about 25,000 lived in the South and held strong allegiance to the Confederacy. American Jewry divided over the issue of slavery. Those in the North generally opposed it, while in the South Jews sided with their fellow white citizens. When civil War came in 1861, approximately 7,000 Jews fought for the Union and 3,000 for the Confederacy. Judah Benjamin became Secretary of State for the Confederacy, the first Jew in a presidential cabinet. Anti-Jewish sentiments rose sharply during the war, culminating in General Ulysses S. Grant's infamous Order No. 11, expelling all Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky. Jews nationwide organized to ask President Lincoln to intervene. Lincoln ordered immediate withdrawal of Grant’s Order #11.
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