Podcast appearances and mentions of Judah P Benjamin

The Jewish community of Charlotte, North Carolina has been embarrassed by their city's monument honoring Judah Benjamin, the Confederacy's Jewish Secretary of State, ever since they were cajoled into paying for it back in 1948… and the 2020 racial justice protests finally accelerated their decades-long attempt to get rid of it. But Benjamin-- a brilliant lawyer, one of the first Jewish senators, a Supreme Court nominee, the “Brains of the Confederacy,” Caribbean-born, openly Jewish, and not-openly gay-- made people uncomfortable during his own lifetime. Even back then, he was impossible to get rid of.  Benjamin's meteoric career, and his outlandish escape from a victorious Union that wanted his head (he survived multiple shipwrecks and was helped along by a talking parrot), present a strange study in the evils of the past and the awkward role Jews played in it, especially when we look at other unlikely Jewish Civil War figures and the expectations non-Jewish leaders like Lincoln and Davis had of them. How did Jews position themselves as Americans, then and now-- and at what cost? James Traub's new biography of Judah Benjamin is Judah Benjamin: Counselor to the Confederacy. Previous Benjamin biographies include Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate by Eli Evans, which provides the account shared in this episode of Benjamin's astonishing escape. Jonathan Sarna's works on the Civil War include Lincoln and the Jews, which features Sarna's research on Isachar Zacharie, and When General Grant Expelled the Jews. Asher Knight is the senior rabbi of Temple Beth El in Charlotte, North Carolina. Eric Wisnia is the rabbi emeritus of Congregation Beth Chaim in Princeton Junction, New Jersey. A fictionalized account of Judah Benjamin's life and the lives of other Civil War Jews can be found in Dara Horn's novel All Other Nights.  Dara Horn's new book, People Love Dead Jews, is published by WW Norton and is available wherever books are sold. It's also available as an audio book from Recorded Books. We hope you'll check it out.  Adventures with Dead Jews is brought to you by Tablet Studios and Soul Shop. It's created and written by Dara Horn, and produced and edited by Josh Kross and Robert Scaramuccia. The managing producer is Sara Fredman Aeder, and the executive producers are Liel Leibovitz, Stephanie Butnick, Gabi Weinberg and Dan Luxenberg. We hope you'll rate and review it wherever you get your podcasts, so that more people can join us on our adventures. 

About this episode:  While actual combat was, indeed, nightmarish, being at home - helpless, constantly wondering about loved ones, fending for one's selves - proved to be equally harrowing.  That particularly was the case in the American South - the Confederacy - which served as the primary stage for the four-year-long conflict.  And so we return to those eleven seceded states whose political leaders sought independence but, instead, sowed the seeds and reaped the whirlwind for Southern turmoil and destruction. ----more----   Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: Judah P. Benjamin George Washington Rains Sidney Lanier Blind Tom Bethune Benjamin Butler Alexander H. Stephens   Get The Guide: Want to learn more about the Civil War? A great place to start is Fred's guide, The Civil War: A History of the War between the States from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing.   Producer: Dan Irving  

American Jews served in the ranks of both the Union and Confederacy during the Civil War. Several major events stand out as milestones in American Jewish History during that time period. The first was the appointment of the first Jewish chaplain in the United States armed forces, through the lobbying efforts of Rev. Arnold Fischel, with Jacob Frankel receiving the first commission. Next came the infamous General Order No. 11, when General Ulysses S. Grant ordered and expulsion of "Jews as a class" from his military jurisdiction, due to their alleged involvement with illegal trade. Finally we have the story of Judah P. Benjamin. With Sephardic origins, he rose to prominence as a lawyer in New Orleans, then senator, and finally holding several cabinet positions for the Confederacy. Subscribe To Our Podcast on:   PodBean: https://jsoundbites.podbean.com/   Follow us on Twitter or Instagram at @Jsoundbites You can email Yehuda at yehuda@yehudageberer.com

Date: Sept. 19, 1966 Speaker: Sy I. Neiman Topic: Judah P. Benjamin Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting

Date: May 12, 1961 Speaker: Dr. Robt. D. Meade Topic: Judah P. Benjamin, Confederate Statesman Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting

# AnthroAlert## Episode 14: Community ArchaeologyOriginally aired 26 August 2017 on bullsradio.orgIn this episode, we engage further into the discussion around heritage and historical archeology.Our guest, Dr. Diane Wallman, will speak about ongoing archaeological research at the Judah P. Benjamin Confederate Memorial at Gamble Plantation Historic State Park, in Ellenton, Florida.imageDr. Diane Wallman is an Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of South Florida in Tampa. She is a historical archaeologist who works on sites associated with Atlantic Slavery. As a zooarchaeologist, her research focuses on issues of human-environment dynamics during the colonial period in the Caribbean, Southeastern United States, and West Africa.imageWe will discuss ongoing archaeological research at the Judah P. Benjamin Confederate Memorial at Gamble Plantation Historic State Park. Gamble Plantation is an important site for Florida and Tampa Bay history and heritage. Major Robert Gamble Jr. was one of several planters who established sugar plantations along the Manatee River in the mid-19th century. Gamble arrived in 1844 with a small group of enslaved individuals and purchased land to the north of the river for sugar cane production. Using slave labor, Gamble erected a tabby mansion that still stands on the parcel today, along with a large tabby cistern and several outbuildings. During the Civil War, Captain Archibald McNeill, a famous Confederate officer, temporarily occupied the premises. Confederate Secretary of State, Judah P. Benjamin, escaping Federal troops, took brief refuge on the property in May of 1865. After the war, George Patten bought the property, and his son constructed a Victorian-style house on the property in 1895. The house was relocated in the 1970s where it remains on park property today.Ongoing archaeology research at the site, via archaeological field school, aims to expand on the understanding of the nuanced history at the site, including a diachronic and spatial examination of landscape transformation and material culture. During the field schools, the excavations are open to the public, and we invite community members to participate in the dig. The significance of the project encompasses more than just the history of the mansion, Robert Gamble, and the confederate occupants. Archaeological research focuses on a multidimensional exploration of the varied histories and occupations at the site, including the enslaved peoples who lived and labored on the plantation.## Podcast linkhttps://anthroalert.tumblr.com/post/168715318729/anthroalert-episode-14-community-archaeology## Video linkhttps://youtu.be/h1vnE8jeZ28## Album art photo credit:Oliver Thompsonhttps://flic.kr/p/9zVPYBCC License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/DSC_0182_pp by Walterhttps://flic.kr/p/oHMPPWCC License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/## Intro music credit:Urbana-Metronica (wooh-yeah mix) by spinningmerkabahttp://ccmixter.org/files/jlbrock44/33345CC License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Guest preacher Rev. Wallace Adams-Riley discusses the intersection of race, the history of America’s South, and the implications for our lives today, sharing from his own story, his family’s story, and from his work on the History & Reconciliation Initiative at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Richmond.