Daughters of Israel, Daughters of the South
Subtitle: Southern Jewish Women and Identity in the Antebellum and Civil War South
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781618112064
Subjects: Jewish women; Jews, intellectual life; Jews, united states, history; Jews, social conditions
Description: 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 own status and legitimacy as southerners, and more.