http://www.shapell.org/exhibitions/with-firmness-in-the-right-lincoln-the-jews/introduction/ With Firmness in the Right: Lincoln and the Jews
On display now at the New-York Historical Society, New York City, NY
March 2015 - June 2015.
In 1858, when Abraham Lincoln emerged onto the national stage, Jews made up less than one-half of one percent of the American population. Many Americans of that time did not know Jews personally, yet Lincoln did.