Southern Stars of David

 

I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? 
The Merchant of Venice (Act 3, Scene 1) / William Shakespeare

Abbeville author Dave Benner recently told the story of one of the South’s forgotten Jewish patriots, Judah P. Benjamin, the able statesman who first served Louisiana as its senator and then the Confederacy as its attorney general, secretary of war, and finally his greatest role as its secretary of state.   Deeper within the files of Southern patriots, however, are the names of many thousands of other forgotten Jews, both great and small, who have served the South in numerous capacities over the past five centuries, as well as those who fought and died to first free America from British rule and then to defend the Confederacy against Northern aggression.  The story of these sons and daughters of Abraham is one that also deserves to be told, as it is an important part of the South’s heritage and history.

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