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Paul Finkelman
![When Freedom Began to Ring](https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/FInkelmanSussman-slider-1024x576-c-default.jpg)
When Freedom Began to Ring
How the land of opportunity became the opportune land for Jews to thrive.
![An Israelite with Egyptian Principles](https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Finkelman-slider-1024x576-c-default.jpg)
An Israelite with Egyptian Principles
Judah Benjamin was a brilliant New Orleans lawyer who became the most important cabinet member in Jefferson Davis’s Confederate government. He was, Senator Benjamin Wade correctly declared, one of the “Israelites with Egyptian principles.”
![Jews, Genes, and the Black Death](https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Doutielt1-1024x576-c-default.jpg)
Jews, Genes, and the Black Death
This is the version of history that many of us heard in Hebrew school: Jews were saved from the plague by handwashing, kashrut, and burying their dead quickly.