Was Ulysses S. Grant the most friendly United States President towards the Jews? General Order No.11 1862 notwithstanding. I am curious where this philosemitism came from in the decades after his infamous expulsion order.He was not a fervent protestant following the stories of the Old Testament, since others have remarked upon his agnosticism. Nor was it likely he grew up among Jews in his frontier settlement home. Was it solely an effort to atone for his actions as a Union General that saw him so passionately defend the rights of Jews within the Russian Empire?
>>18576865nah it was Wilson>appoints the first Jewish USSC Justice>actively endorses Zionism and the Balfour Declaration
>>18576865Has he forgot Russia back the Union over the Confederacy?
>>18576865>He was not a fervent protestant following the stories of the Old Testament, since others have remarked upon his agnosticismGrant was not as openly religious as his wife (which was normal for most men), but both of them did definitely believe in the superiority of Protestant Christianity over all other systems of belief.
>>18576865Russia was just seen as a barbaric land of hooliganism and despotism in general, pretty much everyone in Europe (Balkans not counting, that shit is Greater Anatolia, especially then) thought the pogroms were savage behaviour.
>>18576865Every president of the twentieth and twenty first centuries has been favorable to them to a borderline (and in a few cases beyond borderline) treasonous degree. Grant, who forcibly deported them from several states isn’t going to get some good goy “righteous among nations” medal anytime soon compared to them.
>>18576865>up among Jews in his frontier settlement home. Was it solely an effort to atone for his actions as a Union GeneralI genuinely think so
>>18576865Like >>18576905 said, it wasn't any particular philosemitism so much as it was contempt for the savagery and despotism of the Tsarist yoke, as well as a general egalitarianism that Grant developed as he came into the Radical Republican fold.
>>18577393Unionist/Yankees made aggressive maneuvers into border conflict.Link: https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/rethinking-fort-sumter/
>>18576870Queen of the Confederacy once ambassador for Russia, 1857/1859
