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Judah Nadich, Jewish chaplain and advisor on Jewish affairs on Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower's staff [16] Mark Polansky, NASA, USAF (Ret.), Space Shuttle commander; Arnold Resnicoff, navy chaplain, special assistant (for Values and Vision) to the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force (Equivalent military rank: brigadier general)
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]
Over 550,000 Jewish-Americans served in the armed forces during World War II, account for 3.5% of the roughly 16 million American soldiers in total, the highest number of Jewish soldiers of any participating country. [18]
Depending on religious definitions and varying population data, the United States currently has the second largest Jewish community in the world (after Israel). The American Jewish population was estimated to be approximately 5,128,000 (1.7%) [ n 2 ] of the total population in 2008 (304,060,000). [ 2 ]
Alfred Dreyfus was a Jewish captain in the French army who was court-martialed and convicted of treason on flimsy evidence in 1894 – then exonerated in 1906, after years of high-profile court ...
The National Museum of American Jewish Military History (NMAJMH) was founded September 2, 1958, in Washington, D.C., to document and preserve "the contributions of Jewish Americans to the peace and freedom of the United States...[and to educate] the public concerning the courage, heroism and sacrifices made by Jewish Americans who served in the armed forces."
On Sunday, members of Operation Benjamin, an organization devoted to ensuring the graves of U.S. Jewish soldiers buried abroad have Stars of David headstones, will gather around the gravesite of ...
Jewish traders were singled out and called "sharks" who fed upon soldiers. [20] As part of his command, Grant was responsible for issuing trade licenses in the Department of Tennessee, an administrative district of the Union Army that comprised the portions of Kentucky and Tennessee west of the Tennessee River , and Union-controlled areas of ...
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