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December 9, 2016       Share:    

Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=38471

Was Abraham Lincoln a Zionist?

(Israel Hayom) Dror Eydar interviews Prof. Jonathan Sarna - Prof. Jonathan Sarna of Brandeis University, who recently published Lincoln and the Jews: A History, noted, "When Lincoln was born there were maybe 3,000 Jews in America, and at his death there were 150,000 Jews. There were many who wanted to keep Jews out, to stop Jews from expanding. Lincoln thought the opposite; he brought Jews from a status of outsiders to insiders. Lincoln in his language changes America. Everyone spoke of Christian America; Lincoln invents the amazing phrase 'one nation under God,' which includes Jews within the American nation." Lincoln "had this interesting conversation with a Christian Zionist named [Henry Wentworth] Monk, in which he said that he would love to help the Jewish people get a leg up and return to Zion. When he saw Jews, he thought about the Bible."

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