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Anti-Semitism in the U.S.
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The only edict of expulsion that was ever issued in the United States against the Jews, was under the General – and afterwards President (1869/5629 - 1877/5637) – Julius S. Grant, during the civil war in America in the years 1861/5621- 1865/5625.
In December 1862/5622, because of the participation of many Jews in the Southern Army, and also due to the fact that some of the Jews even took positions as Colonels in this army, Julius S. Grant (General of the army of the United northern States) signed Order No. 11 - the expulsion decree of the Jews in Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky. This was the pretext, that the Jews in the States supported joining the confederates, which was fought by army of the US Union.
This anti-Semitic edict was annulled immediately by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
An improvement in relations between Julius S. Grant and the Jewish nation, can be seen in the request he sent during his term as President to Pope Pius IX, pleading the release of the Jewish boy Edgardo Mortara (1851-1940) who was kidnapped from Bologna, Italy by authority of the Pope.
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