![]() And his efforts are all the more striking given the pernicious antisemitism of the era. As an alumnus of Columbia, he made his alma mater more welcoming to Jewish people. As a financial visionary, he invigorated sectors of the economy that gave Jews their greatest opportunities. As a lawyer, he advocated for Jewish citizens in court. ![]() Although he didn’t identify as a Jew in America, Hamilton cultivated a relationship with the Jewish community that made him unique among the founders. This radical reassessment of Hamilton’s religious upbringing gives us a fresh perspective on both his adult years and the country he helped forge. With a detective’s persistence and a historian’s rigor, Porwancher upends that assumption and revolutionizes our understanding of an American icon. Hamilton himself wanted it that way, and most biographers have simply assumed he had a Christian boyhood. ![]() For more than two centuries, his youth in the Caribbean has remained shrouded in mystery. ![]() In The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Porwancher debunks a string of myths about the origins of this founding father to arrive at a startling conclusion: Hamilton, in all likelihood, was born and raised Jewish. ![]()
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