Daughters of Israel, daughters of the south : southern Jewish women and identity in the antebellum and Civil War South / Jennifer A. Stollman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stollman, Jennifer A.

Series:

Out of series Daughters of Israel, daughters of the South

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Southern States--History.

Jews.

Southern States--Ethnic relations.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Daughters of Israel, Daughters of the South examines southern Jewish womanhood during the Antebellum and Civil War eras. In an overwhelmingly Protestant South, Jewish women created and maintained unique American Jewish identities through their efforts in education, writing, religious observance, paid and unpaid labor, and relationships with Christian whites and enslaved African-Americans. This book examines how southern Jewish women fought proselytization through their religious convictions, challenged anti-Semitism using public and private writing, maintained a distinctive southern Judaism, promoted their own status and legitimacy as southerners, and worked diligently as Confederate ambassadors.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Partially Hidden, Muffled, and Caricatured

Chapter One. "In the Eye of the Storm"

Chapter Two. A Race Between Education and Catastroph e

Chapter Three. "The Pen is Mightier tha n the Sword"

Chapter Four. "Relationships in Bondage"

Chapter Five. "An Ardent Attachment to my Birth"

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-61811-207-4

OCLC:

849946355