{"id":55338,"date":"2017-09-02T17:05:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T15:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=55338"},"modified":"2017-08-26T07:00:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T05:00:03","slug":"02-00-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=55338","title":{"rendered":"A Virginia Jew Created These Controversial Confederate Statues"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thejewniverse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reunion68.com\/Biuletyn\/img\/jewniverse.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"20%\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/thejewniverse.com\/2017\/a-virginia-jew-created-these-controversial-confederate-statues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Virginia Jew Created These Controversial Confederate Statues<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Tamar Fox<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px; height: 15px;\" \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thejewniverse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sir_Moses_Jacob_Ezekiel_in_his_Studio.jpg\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Jews are a prominent part of today\u2019s conversation about American racism and confederate history. Many have denounced Trump\u2019s response to the events in Charlottesville, and this week, three groups of rabbis canceled the President\u2019s annual High Holiday conference call. But there\u2019s another way that Jews are mixed up in the debate about Confederate memorials\u2014some of them were crafted by an unusual Jew.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Moses Jacob Ezekiel was born in Virginia and was the first Jew to attend the Virginia Military Institute. He went on to fight for the Confederacy during the Civil War. Afterward, he moved to Rome, where he became a celebrated and eccentric artist. His neo-classical sculptures focused on Confederate heroes like Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, and paradoxically, the Constitution, and religious liberty. He lived in an abandoned bath house, and was knighted by the King of Italy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">One of Ezekiel\u2019s most prominent sculptures is called the Confederate Memorial, and it stands in Arlington National Cemetery. Unveiled in 1914, it glorifies the South, slavery, Rebel soldiers, and their sacrifices. This week, almost two dozen members of Ezekiel\u2019s extended family signed a letter asking that the monument be removed from Arlington National Cemetery. They requested it be put in a museum instead.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px; height: 15px;\" \/>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\" content-alignment&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; \">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> twoje uwagi, linki, wlasne artykuly, lub wiadomosci przeslij do: <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 710px;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Virginia Jew Created These Controversial Confederate Statues Tamar Fox Jews are a prominent part of today\u2019s conversation about American racism and confederate history. Many have denounced Trump\u2019s response to the events in Charlottesville, and this week, three groups of rabbis canceled the President\u2019s annual High Holiday conference call. But there\u2019s another way that Jews [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55338"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55400,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55338\/revisions\/55400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}