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An American Hebrew's Heroic Life
 Unlike the mass of war literature of the period, the following sketch in place of
treating of the generals in command is simply a chronicle of passages in the war record of
the "rank and file." A humble sergeant, who among the many generous
high-spirited young men volunteered in "61" to fight for the perpetuation of the
Union, and who through a self-negation equal to Sidney [Carton]'s heroic act, suffered captivity
and death in the prison pen at Andersonville.
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History of Jewish Palestine
 As in the geographical reference to Palestine, we have been
compelled to be content with mere traces, the same will be the case in our
historical account of this country. There are nowhere to be met with regular
documents in respect to its history, states, and towns; the past seems to have
been entirely forgotten; so that the whole country cared, so to say, only for
the present, and took no cognizance of what had preceded or was to follow. It is
true that some few Arabic historians have written something concerning
Palestine, such as Abulfeda and Serif ibn Idrus; but their works have almost
entirely disappeared, as was to be supposed would be the case under
a government which had not and suffered not a free press.
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Passover Seder at Carnifex Ferry, Virginia, 1862
 While lying there, our camp duties were not of an arduous character,
and being apprised of the approaching Feast of Passover, twenty of my comrades and
co-religionists belonging to the Regiment, united in a request to our commanding officer
for relief from duty, in order that we might keep the holydays, which he readily acceded
to. The first point was gained, and, as the Paymaster had lately visited the Regiment, he
had left us plenty of greenbacks. Our next business was to find some suitable person to
proceed to Cincinnati, Ohio, to buy us מצות [Matzos] Our sutler
being a co-religionist and going home to that city, readily
undertook to send them. Read more
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Funeral Address for Abraham
Lincoln by Isaac M. Wise, 1865
 Abraham
Lincoln fulfilled a great mission; he led the
country through this glorious struggle to glorious
victory, and bequeathed to us the ideas which, when
fully developed and realized, not only will bring
upon us the great blessing, “And I will make of thee
a great nation,” but will also fulfill that sacred
and most glorious promise, “And in thee all families
of the earth shall be blessed.”
Brethren, the lamented Abraham Lincoln believed himself to be bone
from our bone and flesh from our flesh. He supposed himself to be a
descendant of Hebrew parentage. He said so in my presence. And, indeed, he
preserved numerous features of the Hebrew race, both in countenance and
character. Read more
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Israel Baer Kursheedt
(1766-1852)
 Mr. Kursheedt was
born at Singhafen, on the Rhine, on the 4th day of
Passover, 5526 (6th of April, 1766). He early lost
his father, whereupon his mother removed to the
village named Kursheidt, near Königswinter, from
which circumstance, as was formerly often done by
Germans who had no family name, he took, as a
surname, the title of Kursheedt, in addition to that
of Israel Bear, as he was originally called. His
friends, discovering in him mental powers of no
common order, sent him to the rabbinical college mentioned
above, and he was, perhaps, the last survivor of
that glorious band who
enjoyed
the instruction of the truly wise and pious Nathan
Adler.
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