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1 online resource (446 pages) |
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Preface; Introduction: Before Korn: A Century of Jewish Historical Writing about the American Civil War; Overview: The War between Jewish Brothers in America; PART I: Jews and Slavery; 1 Jews and New Christians in the Atlantic Slave Trade; 2 Jews and Negro Slavery in the Old South, 1789-1865; PART II: Jews and Abolition; 3 Revolution and Reform: The Antebellum Jewish Abolitionists; 4 The Abolitionists and the Jews: Some Further Thoughts; PART III: Rabbis and the March to War; 5 Isaac Mayer Wise and the Civil War; 6 Baltimore Rabbis during the Civil War |
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PART IV: Jewish Soldiers during the Civil War7 Divided Loyalties in 1861: The Decision of Major Alfred Mordecai; 8 Jewish Confederates; 9 From Peddler to Regimental Commander in Two Years: The Civil War Career of Major Louis A. Gratz; PART V: The Home Front; 10 Eugenia Levy Phillips: The Civil War Experiences of a Southern Jewish Woman; 11 Shifting Veils: Religion, Politics, and Womanhood in the Civil War Writings of American Jewish Women; PART VI: Jews as a Class; 12 "Shoddy" Antisemitism and the Civil War; 13 Jewish Chaplains during the Civil War; 14 That Obnoxious Order |
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15 Civil War Exodus: The Jews and Grant's General Order No. 11PART VII: Aftermath; 16 The Post-Civil War Economy in the South; 17 Candidate Grant and the Jews; For Further Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; About the Editors |
| Summary |
At least 8,000 Jewish soldiers fought for the Union and Confederacy during the Civil War. A few served together in Jewish companies while most fought alongside Christian comrades. Yet even as they stood "shoulder-to-shoulder" on the front lines, they encountered unique challenges. In Jews and the Civil War, Jonathan D. Sarna and Adam Mendelsohn assemble for the first time the foremost scholarship on Jews and the Civil War, little known even to specialists in the field. These accessible and far-ranging essays from top scholars are grouped into seven thematic sections--Jews and Slavery, Jews and |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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Print version record |
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Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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African Americans -- United States -- History -- Relations with Jews -- 19th century
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Jews -- History.
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African Americans -- Relations with Jews.
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Ethnic relations.
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Jews.
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Military participation -- Jewish.
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Slavery.
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Social aspects.
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United States -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century
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United States -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 18th century
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Jewish.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Jews.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects
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United States.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mendelsohn, Adam
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| ISBN |
9780814786796 |
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0814786790 |
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0814771130 |
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9780814771136 |
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