The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton by Andrew Porwancher

Facilitated by Merle Hoch

The untold story of the founding father’s likely Jewish birth and upbringing―and its revolutionary consequences for understanding him and the nation he fought to create.

"Invoking the allegorical figure Lady Justice, Hamilton declared that she protected Jews the same as she did all others:  'Be the injured party ... Jew, or Gentile, or Christian, or Pagan, Foreign or Native, she clothes him with her mantle, in who presence all differences of faiths or births, of passions or of prejudices -- all are called to acknowledge and revere her supremacy'.""Hamilton's appreciation for both Judaism and Jews also has implications for understanding church-state relations.""If Alexander Hamilton left his clue about his cryptic past, then it is the intent of the pages that follow to explore what larger truths it may suggest."

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