Also spoken of admiringly by John Turturro's quisling character Rabbi Bengelsdorf in "The Plot Against America."
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Wonder what observing Pesach is like when you literally have slaves.
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He got a shout out in The Plot Against America.
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I have a book about him that I've never read, but that my father recommended, and I assure you that the book only exists for the same reason my father read it, ie that Benjamin was a Jew prominent in 19th century American politics and we didn't have so many of those.
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I mean, only in the sense that he was an accomplished and impressive guy who rose from unlikely circumstances. Jewishly, the book reviewer wasn't so impressed: https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/carter-cooper/judah-p-benjamin-the-jewish-confederate-by-eli-n-evans/ …pic.twitter.com/he8mSiQg7t
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He gets a whitewash (!) of sorts in the 2009 novel "All Other Nights." Not exactly sure why.
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