Good Soldier Shweik
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- Joined
- Oct 17, 2018
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- on a volcano
I found this book
When Grant Expelled the Jews by Jonathan Sarna
This is mostly about what Grant did after 1862 and order #11. The problem is, there is very little that can be educed about what happened. Several commanders flat out disobeyed it. Lincoln squashed it as soon as he heard of it. So writing a book about the order would be no more than 30 pages. The number of jews inconvenienced by it didn't reach 200.
Most of this book is what Grant did vis a vis jews during his administration. he was the best friend of Jewish civil rights until Nixon. The author says part of that might be atonement. I think it was just the way Grant thought.
My view of the order was the target was not so much the jewish traders, as it was directed at Jessie grant. And I think Rawlings should have lost the directive to publish it.
Jessie was there trying to get into the cotton trade. Sam loathed all the cotton traders. Jessie couldn't get a licence to trade, so he found Cincinnati merchant who did. Sam must have been furios.
After the war Grant appointed lots of jews everywhere. He made changes in US policy regarding how minorities were dealt with. It used to be none of our business. Primarily because the US was in a very fragile glass house. Grant made sure everyone knew the US had changed its tune.
After Grant, things for jews got substantially worse. But they were still better than they before him. In the election of 1868 jews mostly voted democratic because of orders #11. After seeing what grant was able to do, they switched
When Grant Expelled the Jews by Jonathan Sarna
This is mostly about what Grant did after 1862 and order #11. The problem is, there is very little that can be educed about what happened. Several commanders flat out disobeyed it. Lincoln squashed it as soon as he heard of it. So writing a book about the order would be no more than 30 pages. The number of jews inconvenienced by it didn't reach 200.
Most of this book is what Grant did vis a vis jews during his administration. he was the best friend of Jewish civil rights until Nixon. The author says part of that might be atonement. I think it was just the way Grant thought.
My view of the order was the target was not so much the jewish traders, as it was directed at Jessie grant. And I think Rawlings should have lost the directive to publish it.
Jessie was there trying to get into the cotton trade. Sam loathed all the cotton traders. Jessie couldn't get a licence to trade, so he found Cincinnati merchant who did. Sam must have been furios.
After the war Grant appointed lots of jews everywhere. He made changes in US policy regarding how minorities were dealt with. It used to be none of our business. Primarily because the US was in a very fragile glass house. Grant made sure everyone knew the US had changed its tune.
After Grant, things for jews got substantially worse. But they were still better than they before him. In the election of 1868 jews mostly voted democratic because of orders #11. After seeing what grant was able to do, they switched
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