{"product_id":"when-general-grant-expelled-the-jews-jewish-encounters-9780805212334","title":"When General Grant Expelled the Jews Jewish","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn December 17, 1862, just weeks before Abraham Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation, General Grant issued what remains the most notorious anti-Jewish order by a government official in American history. His attempt to eliminate black marketeers by targeting for expulsion all Jews as a class from portions of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi unleashed a firestorm of controversy that made newspaper headlines and terrified and enraged the approximately 150,000 Jews then living in the United States, who feared the importation of European anti-Semitism onto American soil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough the order was quickly rescinded by a horrified Abraham Lincoln, the scandal came back to haunt Grant when he ran for president in 1868. Never before had Jews become an issue in a presidential contest and never before had they been confronted so publicly with the question of how to balance their American and Jewish interests. Award-winning historian Jonathan D. Sarna gives us the first compl\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schocken Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527736205655,"sku":"9780805212334","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780805212334.jpg?v=1731869040","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/when-general-grant-expelled-the-jews-jewish-encounters-9780805212334","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}