Was Alexander Hamilton Jewish? Does it Matter?

For all the ink spilled on Alexander Hamilton by historians, and for all the buzz generated by the Hamilton musical, there's a hidden history to this iconic founder that never made its way to the page or the stage: Hamilton was probably Jewish. His origins have long remained concealed behind a veil of unfounded assumptions. The work of debunking those myths reveals the very real possibility of Hamilton's Jewish identity and gestures toward a new way of thinking about the American founding.