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A discussion on Jewish soldiers in the Union Army during the Civil War with Prof. Adam Mendelsohn.
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Jewish history sound bites podcast and Dav Safir of Jenny Miller Fame and other things as well um is that we kind of because of the trip we had this idea about redoing his F and so a couple things first of all I mentioned on that podcast that he is a the re of I don't that's not true but misspoke is but he is the re of theit probably perhaps but there's there's a probably perhaps but there's there's a lot anyways regardless and he was the predecessor of theer in pressberg and he's buried there in brought us lava so we had this ideas Farm haven't been redone and so again I got more into the story on that podcast you can listen so you know we put out on Appeal on the podcast listeners have emailed with uh you know pledges and my WhatsApp status and I've been speaking to people so right now we have about $35,000 of pledges and the money is all going to M I've spoken to hopefully too we're not sure exactly Africa and I'll be discussing his brand new book titled Jewish soldiers in the Civil War the Union Army uh which was published by NYU press and someone in conjunction with the Chappelle manuscript Foundation the Chappelle roster we'll talk about that as well and uh Jews during the E of War so thank you Professor mendleson for joining me thank you so much for the invitation so let's start off tell the listeners a little bit about yourself and your background so as you as you as you described already I am professor at the University of Cape Town I I direct the um the what we claim to be at least the
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