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Daughters of Israel, daughters of the south : southern Jewish women and identity in the antebellum and Civil War South /
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, pai...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Academic Studies Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Out of series
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
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.