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Jews were among the supporters of each side of the American Civil War. Some 150,000 Jews lived in the United States at the time of the American Civil War, about 0.5 percent of the population. [11] One academic estimate was that at least 8,000 Jewish soldiers fought for the Union and Confederate during the Civil War. [12]
Since it was instituted there have been 3,473 recipients; at least 17 American Jews have received the Medal of Honor [n 1] for their actions starting in the American Civil War through the Vietnam War. The first recipient of the medal was Benjamin B. Levy of the 1st New York Volunteer infantry for his service at the Battle of Glendale on June 30 ...
The Jewish Confederates is a 2001 history book authored by Robert N. Rosen about Jewish citizens of the Confederate States of America who served in the Confederate States Army (CSA) during the American Civil War of 1861–1865.
Germans were by far the largest foreign ethnic group to fight for the Union: Approximately 216,000 Union soldiers were born in Germany, making up roughly half of all foreign-born recruits; another 250,000 troops were second or third generation Germans drawn largely from New York, Wisconsin, and Ohio.
There were 4,770,000 American Jews at the time, accounting for 3.6% of the US population, meaning they were proportionally represented. [ 19 ] 22 Jewish-Americans obtained the ranks of general or admiral during the war, including Major General Maurice Rose , and 49,315 earned citations for valor in combat.
This is a list of notable Jewish Americans in the U.S. military. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans. Colonel Aaron Bank, founder of the Green Berets › archives › la-xpm-2004-apr-02-me-bank2-story.html; Mel Brooks, U.S. Army combat engineer during World War II who participated in the Battle of the Bulge. [1]
Jewish American sympathies likewise broke along ethnic lines, with recently arrived Yiddish speaking Jews leaning towards support of Zionism, and the established German-American Jewish community largely opposed to it. In 1914–1916, there were few Jewish voices in favor of American entry into the war.
The Spanish Civil War (4th (revised and updated) ed.). New York: Modern Library. ISBN 9780804152167. Jewish Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives. (2008). Internationalism & the Spanish Civil War, Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives. (2008). Baxell, Richard (September 6, 2012).