Daughters of Israel, Daughters of the South : : Southern Jewish Women and Identity in the Antebellum and Civil War South / / Jennifer Stollman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2013
• VerfasserIn: Stollman, Jennifer,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (260 p.)

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.

Table of 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