Word: sephardim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Birmingham quickly skips from Spain to the Sephardim's arrival in the New World. Despite Peter Stuyvesant, who considered them "godless rascals," they were soon slave-trading with the best people and prospering. In a familiar pattern, the book alternates scandals with successes. Benjamin Cardozo replaced Oliver Wendell Holmes on the Supreme Court. Annie Nathan Meyer founded Barnard College at age 22. The Revolution would have been fought, but almost certainly not won, without Sephardic money. Then there was Uriah Levy. He fought anti-Semitism in the U.S. Navy, kept a mezuzah outside his cabin door, and finally, when...