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Tag: Hebrew Newspapers
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Was Lincoln Jewish?
Stuart Schoffman
in
Jewish Review of Books
· 12 Feb 2019
The text explores the claim that Abraham Lincoln may have had Jewish ancestry based on a story reported in the Hebrew newspaper Ha-Magid in the 1860s.