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classical music. Donate Online If you haven't seen it yet, make
sure to check out the Jewish Historical Society of Greater
Washington's new online exhibit, "Jewish Life in Mr. Lincoln's
City, 1861-1865." The exhibit, which launched yesterday,
provides an interesting look at Civil War Washington through the
lens of the Jewish experience in our fair city. The exhibit
features reflections by Jewish soldiers stationed in the capital
and highlights specific individuals who played major roles on
both sides of the conflict -- people like Dr. Charles Liebermann
who attended to President Lincoln the night he was shot and
Eugenia Levy Phillips who spied for the Confederacy and was
known as a "fire-eating secessionist in skirts." The site also
tracks the growth of the Jewish communities in Washington and
Alexandria throughout the war. It's no coincidence that the
exhibit launched December 17, an important -- if also notorious
-- date in American Jewish history.