RICH ROSENTHAL – NOVEMBER 1, 2022 SPEAKER; A TWO PART PROGRAM

PART ONE – GENERAL GRANT’S INFAMOUS ORDER #11, THE EXPULSION OF THE JEWS

Intending to enforce the Lincoln administration’s blockade against the Confederacy to cut off the Confederacy from all trade with the North, on December 17,1862, General Grant issued General Order #11, which stated: “The Jews, as a class, violating every regulation of trade established by the Treasury Department, and also Department orders, are hereby expelled from the Department.”

PART 2 – JUDAH P. BENJAMIN: THE BRAINS OF THE CONFEDERACY, AND A JEW

As Jefferson Davis’s right-hand man, Judah P. Benjamin was the most important Jew of the 19th century – he was also the most widely hated one in the North and portions of the South. Yet, he was a United States Senator and served the Confederacy as Attorney General, Secretary of War, and Secretary of State.

BIOGRAPHY

Rich Rosenthal is the President of the North Jersey Civil War Round Table and worked closely with the pre-eminent historian and author, John T. Cunningham, one of the founders of the North Jersey American Revolution Round Table. Rich has presented numerous lectures on a wide variety of historical subjects and is making a return to the Civil War Round Table of Eastern PA. He resides in Parsippany, New Jersey with his wife, Harriet.