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SUMMARY:American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews
DESCRIPTION:\nAmerican Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews\npresented
  by Andrew Porwancher\nWednesday\, December 3\, 2025 \n8:30pm Eastern | 5
 :30pm Pacific\nA mesmerizing statesman whose complex bond with the Jewish 
 people\nforever shaped their lives—and his legacy\n\n\n[caption id="atta
 chment_19273" align="alignright" width="199"] Click book photo to purchase
 .[/caption]\n\nA scion of the Protestant elite\, Theodore Roosevelt was an
  unlikely ally of the waves of impoverished Jewish newcomers who crowded t
 he docks at Ellis Island. Yet from his earliest years he forged ties with 
 Jews never before witnessed in a president. American Maccabee traces Roose
 velt’s deep connection with the Jewish people at every step of his dazzl
 ing ascent. But it also reveals a man of contradictions whose checkered ap
 proach to Jewish issues was no less conflicted than the nation he led.\n\n
 As a rising political figure in New York\, Roosevelt barnstormed the Lower
  East Side\, giving speeches to packed halls of Jewish immigrants. He rall
 ied for reform of the sweatshops where Jewish laborers toiled for pitiful 
 wages in perilous conditions. And Roosevelt repeatedly venerated the heroi
 sm of the Maccabee warriors\, upholding those storied rebels as a model fo
 r the American Jewish community. Yet little could have prepared him for th
 e blood-soaked persecution of Eastern European Jews that brought a deluge 
 of refugees to American shores during his presidency. Andrew Porwancher un
 covers the vexing challenges for Roosevelt as he confronted Jewish sufferi
 ng abroad and antisemitic xenophobia at home.\n\nDrawing on new archival r
 esearch to paint a richly nuanced portrait of an iconic figure\, American 
 Maccabee chronicles the complicated relationship between the leader of a y
 outhful nation and the people of an ancient faith.\n\n[caption id="attachm
 ent_19274" align="alignleft" width="193"] Click for more info.[/caption]\n
 \nAndrew Porwancher\n\n\n\nA native of Princeton\, Andrew Porwancher earne
 d degrees from Brown and Northwestern before completing his PhD in history
  at Cambridge. Currently\, he serves as a Professor of History at Arizona 
 State University (SCETL).\nHis books include The Jewish World of Alexander
  Hamilton (Princeton University Press\, 2021)\, winner of the Journal of t
 he American Revolution Book-of-the-Year Award\; and The Devil Himself (Oxf
 ord University Press\, 2016)\, which was adapted for the stage at Dublin
 ’s historic Smock Alley Theatre. Porwancher’s fifth book is American M
 accabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews (Princeton University Press\, 202
 5).\nHe previously served as the May Fellow at Harvard\, the Horne Fellow 
 at Oxford\, and the Garwood Fellow at Princeton. In 2023\, Porwancher won 
 a national prize for mentorship—the Craig L. Brians Award—from the Ame
 rican Political Science Association.\nHis writing has appeared in the Wash
 ington Post and Wall Street Journal.\n\n\n\n\n[ninja_form id=4]\n\n\n\n\n\
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