Lunch & Learn: Maryland’s Jews & Military Service
One of Maryland few Jewish Revolutionary War veterans, Elias Pollock was a successful businessman in Baltimore during the early 1800s until his son-in-law bankrupted him. Over the course of his life, Pollock took great pains to identify himself as a Jew at a time when doing so was a political act. The story of Jewish settlement in Baltimore in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is typically told through the lives of the city's most prominent residents. This talk explores Pollock's military career and the history of Jewish settlement...