Daughters of Israel, Daughters of the South

Southern Jewish Women and Identity in the Antebellum and Civil War South

von Jennifer Stollman

264 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Amerikanische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9781618112064
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 29.04.2013
• Größe: 240 x 161 mm
• Verlag: Academic Studies Press