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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.
Price: $99.95
Pages: 260
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Imprint: Academic Studies Press
Publication Date:
01 May 2013
Trim Size: 9.21 X 6.14 in
ISBN: 9781618112064
Format: Hardcover
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“. . . Stollman’s impressive command of the existing primary sources and secondary literature. . . offer[s] an intriguing addition to the historiography of the (upper-class) Jewish American experience before 1865. Stollman clearly shows that Judaism remained a part of her subjects’ private—and sometimes public—lives in the antebellum South.”
— Anders Bo Rasmussen, University of Southern Denmark
— Anders Bo Rasmussen, University of Southern Denmark
Jennifer A. Stollman (PhD Michigan State University) is the Academic Director of the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation housed at the University of Mississippi. She teaches courses on the Atlantic World, 19th century American history, US intellectual history, and gender and women’s history. Her research interests and publications center on the construction and deployment of individual and collective identities.