Louis Kossuth and the Jewish Emancipation of 1848

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Louis Kossuth and the Jewish Emancipation

http://www.ohiou.edu/~Chastain/ip/jewemanc.htm

Louis Kossuth was a good friend of John and Jesse Fremont. Jesse
Benton accompanied Kossuth on his speaking tours of American. Louis
was titled the ‘Angel of Freedom’ due to his call for the true
emanncipation of humnity. In 1948, Kossuth granted complete civil
rights to the Jews of Hungary. This act may have inspired John
Fremont to emmancipate the slaves of Missouri where many Forty-
Eighters called home.

This emmancipation, born of the love of freedom, is a family
tradition that led to the foundation of the State of Israel. It is
time to step back and take a good look at who we are. It is time for
all Americans to step forth and call for peace in Lebanon until we
can discover who our real enemies are, what our real enemy, is.

“Ignorance of thy ignorance is thy fiercest foe.”…

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