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James Traub: On Judah Benjamin

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October 7, 2021
James Traub

Shmuel Rosner and James Traub discuss his book: “Judah Benjamin: Counselor to the Confederacy (Jewish Lives).”
James Traub (born 1954) is an American journalist. He is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, where he has worked since 1998. From 1994 to 1997, he was a staff writer for The New Yorker.[ He has also written for The New York Review of BooksThe Atlantic MonthlyNational Review and Foreign Affairs. He is a senior fellow at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University and also teaches at the university.

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