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But some northern Jews were slave traders; others were abolitionists ... It is not quite accurate to call Fear No Pharaoh a group biography, itself a challenging genre. Kreitner is trying for ...
Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their ...
Now we get the Answer in four sub-Answers. Here is the English translation: “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt and the Eternal our God brought us out from there with a strong hand and an ...
More than 3.000 years ago, Ramses II. Pharaoh of Egypt, had his slaves cut a magnificent temple out of a sandstone cliff beside the Nile. Four colossal figures, designed as monuments to the ...
We may no longer be slaves to Pharaoh but we were enslaved to Romans, Christians, Muslims, and Crusaders, to Inquisitors, Fascists, Nazis, and Communists. We were still tormented by evildoers such ...
According to tradition, as related in the book of Exodus, the Israelites were made slaves in ancient Egypt. But Yahweh, the Hebrew God, instructed Moses to demand of the ruling Pharaoh that His ...
Above all, however, “Fear No Pharaoh” highlights bold-face Jewish ... slaveowners to “reduce the standard of comfort of our slaves” in order to maximize profits. After a while, the reader ...
Jews celebrate the freeing of Israelite slaves from Egypt and Moses guiding them to the Promised ... Exodus narrates how Moses approached Pharaoh on multiple occasions, ordering him to "let my people ...