Title: Daughters of Israel, Daughters of the South
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.
Subjects: Jewish women, Jews, intellectual life, Jews, united states, history, Jews, social conditions, History, Intellectual life, Social conditions, Ethnic relations, Southern states, social conditions, Southern states, intellectual life