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Mordecai : an early American family / Emily Bingham.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks CS71.M8345 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bingham, Emily.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mordecai family.
- Jews--Genealogy.
- Jews.
- Jews--United States--Genealogy.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Genealogy.
- Family histories.
- Physical Description:
- x, 346 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Hill and Wang, 2003.
- Summary:
- Following Washington's victory at Yorktown, Jacob and Judy Mordecai settled in North Carolina. Here began a three generational effort to match ambitions to accomplishments. Against the national backdrop of the Great Awakenings, Nat Turner's revolt, the free-love experiments of the 1840s, and the devastation of the Civil War, we witness the efforts of each generation's members to define themselves as Jews, patriots, southerners, and most fundamentally, middle-class Americans. As with the nation's, their successes are often partial and painfully realized, cause for forging and rending the ties that bind child to parent, sister to brother, husband to wife. And through it all, the Mordecais wrote--letters, diaries, newspaper articles, books. Out of these rich archives, Bingham re-creates one family's first century in the United States and gives this nation's early history a uniquely personal face.
- Contents:
- The Mordecais' America
- Mordecai Family Tree
- This Little Faithful Band of Love and Duty
- Roots
- Their Own Vine and Fig Tree
- Cast Down at the Feet of Fortune
- Keeping School
- A Serious Deportment
- Small Slights and Contempt
- Reason Combined with Virtue and Nourished by Education
- Mordecai a Handsome Name?
- Love and Marriage
- Religious Scruples Aside
- The Children of Disappointment
- Two Weddings
- Religion, Family, Fortune
- South and North
- Received Like a Prophet in Israel
- Reconciliation
- Wilmington
- So Much to Admire and to Love
- A Pew at St. James
- Not Exactly As She Most Wished
- Our Religious Exercises
- Christian Friendship
- The Valley of the Shadow of Death
- Devouring Flames
- Duplicity
- The Power of the Grave
- A New Heaven and a New Earth
- Souls
- Escape from Constraint
- A House on Tenth Street
- Toward the Kingdom of God on Earth
- Crucifixions
- Dark Days
- War.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0809027569
- 9780809027569
- OCLC:
- 50410241
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