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Was Honest Abe Lincoln, Jewish?
Rabbi Jeff Kahn
Temple Har Shalom, Warren, N.J.:
On the twelfth of February, 1809, nearly 200 years ago, a young, poor illiterate woman from Virginia, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, gave birth to a son, in a log cabin, built along the banks of the south fork of Nolin Creek, near what is now Hodgenville, Kentucky.
That baby, whom she named Abraham, grew to become one of our greatest, and most tragic, national leaders.
Lincoln was a man of great spiritual conviction. Yet, and I find this fact fascinatingly instructive, Abraham Lincoln was the only American president not to have declared himself a member of any particular religious faith.
That fact has given rise to a great deal of interesting speculation. In fact, there are those who believe that Honest Abe was Jewish. After all, his name was Abraham. His great-grandfather was named Mordechai. Lincoln was the only President not to have a formal religious affiliation. He was neither raised in a church nor did he ever belong to a church.
And there’s more… the town of Lincoln, in eastern England, whence his ancestors came, has an interesting Jewish history.
A Jewish community was established there in 1159. During Crusader riots, the Sheriff of Lincoln saved the Jews by giving them official protection. St. Hugh, the great Bishop of Lincoln, taught love of Jews to his parishioners. His death was marked by an official period of mourning among Lincoln’s Jews. Rabbi Joseph of Lincoln was a scholar mentioned in the Talmud; Aaron of Lincoln was a financier whose operations extended all over the country.
In 1255, Lincoln’s Jews were accused of ritual murder. Ninety-one Lincoln Jews were sent to London for trial and 18 were executed. Notwithstanding, the Lincoln Jewish community flourished until 1290, when they were forcibly expelled by edict.
Most Jewish historians assume that all the Jews of Lincoln left in 1290. But could it be possible that some remained, practicing their Judaism in secret…passing the family secret from generation to generation? The more we learn of the secret life of Spanish Jewry following the Expulsion of 1492, the more we must at least consider the possibility of the same thing occurring elsewhere.
When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, whole Jewish communities sat shivah. Rabbis all over the country eulogized the fallen President. Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, the man who created Reform Judaism in this country, began his eulogy with the words… “Brethren, the lamented Abraham Lincoln believed himself to be bone from our bone and flesh from our flesh. He supposed himself to be a descendant of Hebrew parentage He said so in my presence.”
Lincoln was often questioned about his religious beliefs. Time and again, he told of a special passage from Scripture that summed up his theology. It was the twentieth chapter of the Book of Exodus he recommended that every American study, learn and follow. In English it is usually referred to as the Ten Commandments.
Rabbi Jeff Kahn
Temple Har Shalom, Warren, N.J.:
PS from Marlene: Abraham Lincoln was Jewish. I typed an extensive research paper from a Professor in Rutgers who studied this topic extensively and found, beyond any reasonable doubt, that Abe Lincoln was Jewish. She has absolute proof from checking out his ancestry and going back to his home town where she did years of work on this topic. Her research was complete and absolute. Her name is Professor Elizabeth Hirschman, Rutgers University.
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1.
A Jewish community was established there in 1159. During Crusader riots, the Sheriff of Lincoln saved the Jews by giving them official protection. St. Hugh, the great Bishop of Lincoln, taught love of Jews to his parishioners. His death was marked by an official period of mourning among Lincoln’s Jews. Rabbi Joseph of Lincoln was a scholar mentioned in the Talmud; Aaron of Lincoln was a financier whose operations extended all over the country.
I smell something fishy. I am not a Talmudic scholar so I cannot state with any certainty whther there is such a “Rabbi Joseph of Lincoln” (although I doubt it) in the Talmud. I can state with certainty that no one from a community established in 1159 or anyone from England is mentioned in the Talmud.
Comment by i_am_me — November 22, 2008 @ 8:50 pm
2.
Professor Hirschman is a geneaologist, and her colleague Professor Yates is a geneticist. They have collaborated to produce quite a number of (astounding) papers and books.
There are more Jewish genes in the world than we could ever imagine…
Comment by keelie — November 22, 2008 @ 9:02 pm
3.
This began circulating anonymously at least 2 years ago.
Catching up on urban legends, Ted?
Comment by Shy Guy — November 23, 2008 @ 12:39 am
4.
Keelie knows and Shy has a lot to learn.
www.melungeons.com/articles/mar2005.htm
www.melungeons.com/articles/march2003a.htm
Comment by yamit82 — November 23, 2008 @ 3:33 am
5.
An authoritative source on the origin of Jewish surnames is Joseph Jacobs’article in the old Jewish Encyclopedia.
Certain Melungeons (read:Jews) cast their lot in with the red nations, whether Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw or Chickamaugan, while others went the white way, explaining their ethnicity as Black Dutch, Black Irish and the like. A perfect example of the currents and counter-currents at play during this period, the driving force always being the search for a Jewish promised land, is the case of the Mt. Tabor Indian community of Yowani Indians that formed in the 1820s and ‘30s in East Texas. Known today as the Thompson-Choctaw Indian Descendants Association, a non-recognized tribe, it included Cherokees, Choctaws and Chickasaws, as well as declared whites. Some of the names on the tribe’s rolls are Adair, Bean, Bell, Candy, Goss (i.e., Gist), Martin, Thompson, Jones, Cooper, Alexander, Holloway, McCoy, Jackson (“sons of Jacob”), Cox, McNair (“candle” in Hebrew), Vann, Waitie and Taylor—a virtual compendium of crypto-Jewish surnames. (See The Texas Band of Choctaw Indians. The story of white-Indian relations in North America has normally been told as one giant unfolding systematic theft. Angie Debo, Vine Deloria and A. Alvarez are some of its better-known chroniclers. Guilt, anger, deception and misunderstanding dominate among its themes. According to both the apologists and the revolutionists, European colonists took the red man’s lives, land, livelihood, language and culture; they are even trying today to rob the Indian of his spirituality and identity. But the Sephardic Jewish colonists consistently went against this pattern. Where their English, French and Spanish counterparts did little more than take, the Jews and Moors gave. They gave large families of children, leadership abilities, trading relationships, writing and computational skills, building and construction know-how, legal advice, spinning wheels, looms, forges, smithies, ferries, cows, horses, peach orchards, beautiful arts and crafts. In the instances of Will Thomas, the Carolina colonel who safeguarded the Eastern Cherokees’ existence, and Euchella v. Welsh, an early Supreme Court case (1824), they even attempted to give land and preserve a type of sovereignty.
Comment by yamit82 — November 23, 2008 @ 3:34 am
6.
Dr. Beth Hirschman (who is from Kingsport) assembles the primary records in her forthcoming book Melungeons: The Last Lost Tribe in America, where she focuses in particular on Freemasonry and Melungeons’ Primitive and Old Regular Baptist religious practices. Jack Goins showed at Fourth Union that the earliest documented use of the word “Melungeon” appears in church minutes from Big Stony Gap—a significant clue. Hirschman suspects that all of the following phenomena can be traced to the Jewish element in Melungeon culture:
*
cousin marriage (to continue secret home worship),
*
“raising seed” to a brother by marrying the widow, Hebrew, Arabic, Berber and other Mediterranean first names (such as Elzina),
*
strict naming patterns preserved generation after generation, secret names and nicknames (often a Christian name like Brook corresponding to a Hebrew one, Baruch),
*
high incidence of familial Mediterranean fever and other diseases,
*
stark blue or green eyes often combined with dark complexion, expertise in metal working,
*
foot washing and immersion similar to the ritual mickve,
Was Honest Abe Lincoln, Jewish?
Rabbi Jeff Kahn
Temple Har Shalom, Warren, N.J.:
On the twelfth of February, 1809, nearly 200 years ago, a young, poor illiterate woman from Virginia, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, gave birth to a son, in a log cabin, built along the banks of the south fork of Nolin Creek, near what is now Hodgenville, Kentucky.
That baby, whom she named Abraham, grew to become one of our greatest, and most tragic, national leaders.
Lincoln was a man of great spiritual conviction. Yet, and I find this fact fascinatingly instructive, Abraham Lincoln was the only American president not to have declared himself a member of any particular religious faith.
That fact has given rise to a great deal of interesting speculation. In fact, there are those who believe that Honest Abe was Jewish. After all, his name was Abraham. His great-grandfather was named Mordechai. Lincoln was the only President not to have a formal religious affiliation. He was neither raised in a church nor did he ever belong to a church.
And there’s more… the town of Lincoln, in eastern England, whence his ancestors came, has an interesting Jewish history.
A Jewish community was established there in 1159. During Crusader riots, the Sheriff of Lincoln saved the Jews by giving them official protection. St. Hugh, the great Bishop of Lincoln, taught love of Jews to his parishioners. His death was marked by an official period of mourning among Lincoln’s Jews. Rabbi Joseph of Lincoln was a scholar mentioned in the Talmud; Aaron of Lincoln was a financier whose operations extended all over the country.
In 1255, Lincoln’s Jews were accused of ritual murder. Ninety-one Lincoln Jews were sent to London for trial and 18 were executed. Notwithstanding, the Lincoln Jewish community flourished until 1290, when they were forcibly expelled by edict.
Most Jewish historians assume that all the Jews of Lincoln left in 1290. But could it be possible that some remained, practicing their Judaism in secret…passing the family secret from generation to generation? The more we learn of the secret life of Spanish Jewry following the Expulsion of 1492, the more we must at least consider the possibility of the same thing occurring elsewhere.
When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, whole Jewish communities sat shivah. Rabbis all over the country eulogized the fallen President. Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, the man who created Reform Judaism in this country, began his eulogy with the words… “Brethren, the lamented Abraham Lincoln believed himself to be bone from our bone and flesh from our flesh. He supposed himself to be a descendant of Hebrew parentage He said so in my presence.”
Lincoln was often questioned about his religious beliefs. Time and again, he told of a special passage from Scripture that summed up his theology. It was the twentieth chapter of the Book of Exodus he recommended that every American study, learn and follow. In English it is usually referred to as the Ten Commandments.
Rabbi Jeff Kahn
Temple Har Shalom, Warren, N.J.:
PS from Marlene: Abraham Lincoln was Jewish. I typed an extensive research paper from a Professor in Rutgers who studied this topic extensively and found, beyond any reasonable doubt, that Abe Lincoln was Jewish. She has absolute proof from checking out his ancestry and going back to his home town where she did years of work on this topic. Her research was complete and absolute. Her name is Professor Elizabeth Hirschman, Rutgers University.
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Posted by Ted Belman @ 7:48 pm |
11 Comments »
1.
A Jewish community was established there in 1159. During Crusader riots, the Sheriff of Lincoln saved the Jews by giving them official protection. St. Hugh, the great Bishop of Lincoln, taught love of Jews to his parishioners. His death was marked by an official period of mourning among Lincoln’s Jews. Rabbi Joseph of Lincoln was a scholar mentioned in the Talmud; Aaron of Lincoln was a financier whose operations extended all over the country.
I smell something fishy. I am not a Talmudic scholar so I cannot state with any certainty whther there is such a “Rabbi Joseph of Lincoln” (although I doubt it) in the Talmud. I can state with certainty that no one from a community established in 1159 or anyone from England is mentioned in the Talmud.
Comment by i_am_me — November 22, 2008 @ 8:50 pm
2.
Professor Hirschman is a geneaologist, and her colleague Professor Yates is a geneticist. They have collaborated to produce quite a number of (astounding) papers and books.
There are more Jewish genes in the world than we could ever imagine…
Comment by keelie — November 22, 2008 @ 9:02 pm
3.
This began circulating anonymously at least 2 years ago.
Catching up on urban legends, Ted?
Comment by Shy Guy — November 23, 2008 @ 12:39 am
4.
Keelie knows and Shy has a lot to learn.
www.melungeons.com/articles/mar2005.htm
www.melungeons.com/articles/march2003a.htm
Comment by yamit82 — November 23, 2008 @ 3:33 am
5.
An authoritative source on the origin of Jewish surnames is Joseph Jacobs’article in the old Jewish Encyclopedia.
Certain Melungeons (read:Jews) cast their lot in with the red nations, whether Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw or Chickamaugan, while others went the white way, explaining their ethnicity as Black Dutch, Black Irish and the like. A perfect example of the currents and counter-currents at play during this period, the driving force always being the search for a Jewish promised land, is the case of the Mt. Tabor Indian community of Yowani Indians that formed in the 1820s and ‘30s in East Texas. Known today as the Thompson-Choctaw Indian Descendants Association, a non-recognized tribe, it included Cherokees, Choctaws and Chickasaws, as well as declared whites. Some of the names on the tribe’s rolls are Adair, Bean, Bell, Candy, Goss (i.e., Gist), Martin, Thompson, Jones, Cooper, Alexander, Holloway, McCoy, Jackson (“sons of Jacob”), Cox, McNair (“candle” in Hebrew), Vann, Waitie and Taylor—a virtual compendium of crypto-Jewish surnames. (See The Texas Band of Choctaw Indians. The story of white-Indian relations in North America has normally been told as one giant unfolding systematic theft. Angie Debo, Vine Deloria and A. Alvarez are some of its better-known chroniclers. Guilt, anger, deception and misunderstanding dominate among its themes. According to both the apologists and the revolutionists, European colonists took the red man’s lives, land, livelihood, language and culture; they are even trying today to rob the Indian of his spirituality and identity. But the Sephardic Jewish colonists consistently went against this pattern. Where their English, French and Spanish counterparts did little more than take, the Jews and Moors gave. They gave large families of children, leadership abilities, trading relationships, writing and computational skills, building and construction know-how, legal advice, spinning wheels, looms, forges, smithies, ferries, cows, horses, peach orchards, beautiful arts and crafts. In the instances of Will Thomas, the Carolina colonel who safeguarded the Eastern Cherokees’ existence, and Euchella v. Welsh, an early Supreme Court case (1824), they even attempted to give land and preserve a type of sovereignty.
Comment by yamit82 — November 23, 2008 @ 3:34 am
6.
Dr. Beth Hirschman (who is from Kingsport) assembles the primary records in her forthcoming book Melungeons: The Last Lost Tribe in America, where she focuses in particular on Freemasonry and Melungeons’ Primitive and Old Regular Baptist religious practices. Jack Goins showed at Fourth Union that the earliest documented use of the word “Melungeon” appears in church minutes from Big Stony Gap—a significant clue. Hirschman suspects that all of the following phenomena can be traced to the Jewish element in Melungeon culture:
*
cousin marriage (to continue secret home worship),
*
“raising seed” to a brother by marrying the widow, Hebrew, Arabic, Berber and other Mediterranean first names (such as Elzina),
*
strict naming patterns preserved generation after generation, secret names and nicknames (often a Christian name like Brook corresponding to a Hebrew one, Baruch),
*
high incidence of familial Mediterranean fever and other diseases,
*
stark blue or green eyes often combined with dark complexion, expertise in metal working,
*
foot washing and immersion similar to the ritual mickve,