Daughters of Israel, daughters of the South : Southern Jewish women and identity in the antebellum and Civil War South /

An examination of southern Jewish womanhood during the antebellum and Civil War eras. It finds that in the Protestant South, southern Jewish women created and maintained unique American Jewish identities, and examines how these women fought proselytization, challenged anti-Semitism, promoted their o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Stollman, Jennifer A. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Brighton, Mass. : Academic Studies Press, 2013.
Series:	Out of series.
Subjects:	Jewish women > Southern States > History > 19th century. Jewish women > Southern States > Intellectual life. Jewish women > Southern States > Social conditions. Jewish women > Southern States > History > 20th century. Southern States > Ethnic relations.

Table of Contents:

Introduction. Partially hidden, muffled and caricatured: antebellum Southern Jewish women's history
Chapter 1. "In the eye of the storm": fighting proselytization through religious conviction
Chapter 2. A race between education and catastrophe: antebellum Southern Jewish female education
Chapter 3. "The pen is mightier than the sword": Southern Jewish female writers question anti-semitism and promote domestic Judaism
Chapter 4. "Relationships in bondage": antebellum Southern Jewish women and their relationships with enslaved African-Americans
Chapter 5. "An ardent attachment to my birth": Civil War-era Southern Jewish women as Confederate ambassadors
Conclusion.