Museum Weighs Fate of Monument to Jewish Confederate Leader Judah Philip Benjamin

Museum Weighs Fate of Monument to Jewish Confederate Leader Judah Philip Benjamin

NEW YORK (VINnews) — A granite monument honoring Judah Philip Benjamin, the highest-ranking Jewish official in the Confederate government during the American Civil War, has spent the past several years in storage at a museum in New Orleans as curators debate how or whether it should be displayed. The approximately 1,600-pound (725-kilogram) monument, which once […]