![]() 4, 1861, on the occasion of the national “day of Humiliation, Fasting, and Prayer throughout the Union” proclaimed by President James Buchanan in response to the secession crisis. He had firstĭelivered the address on Jan. “The Bible View of Slavery”: this was the title of the pamphlet that had brought Rabbi Morris J. When he stepped into politics, quoting ancient texts to answer modern questions. Like so many men of God – both then and now – he stepped out of obscurity Now his name was in newspapers, and his sermon in bookshops from Boston to New Orleans. Not long before, he had been almost unknown beyond the walls of his own synagogue, B’nai Jeshurun The great national debate over slavery brought fame very suddenly to a certain owlish, bespectacled clergyman. Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded. ![]()
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