The career of Judah P. Benjamin (1811-1884), the Jewish son of the South who lent his legal brilliance to the Confederacy as its secretary of state and chief adviser to its president, Jefferson ...

On November 21, 1861, former Senator Judah P. Benjamin took on the position that would define his place American history, Secretary of War in the Confederate States of America, a position that ...

In this 1866 lithograph of Jefferson Davis and the first Confederate Cabinet, Judah P. Benjamin, second from left, is seated closest to the Confederate president.

DOUBLE lives are decried, but Judah P. Benjamin lived his in sequence. A lawyer of consummate ability, born in the West Indies under the British flag, he became Attorney General, head of the War ...

What we found: Only two Jews on the list of more than 1,700 congresspeople — David Levy Yulee, who eventually converted to Episcopalianism, and Judah P. Benjamin — were enslavers.

In 1842, Judah P. Benjamin stood inside a New Orleans courtroom and declared that “slavery is against the law of nature.” It was part of his winning argument as to why an insurance company ...

You know you’ve wondered about it. There’s just something about the reunion between Judah Ben-Hur and his boyhood pal Messala that makes you think they once did more than romp through the ...

Natalie Benjamin had the last rites of the Catholic Church administered to her Jewish husband before his death in Paris on May 6, 1884, and funeral services were held in a church prior to Judah ...

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Ben Judah, POLITICO’s contributing writer in the United Kingdom, was on the road for the UK’s general election campaign. From Crawley, West Sussex, to Edinburgh, Scotland, over Bradford, Chippenham ...