When white supremacists marched in Charlottesville in August 2017, they encircled the famous statue of Thomas Jefferson at the University of Virginia, shouting “Jews will not replace us.” Ironically, the statue of the American founding father was made by the patriotic Jewish sculptor Moses Ezekiel. The antisemites were also unlikely to be aware that Jefferson’s nearby historic home Monticello – a National Historic Landmark and the only presidential house in the United States designated a UNESCO World Heritage site – survived ruin twice thanks to the efforts of a Jewish family named Levy. &n...