Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Introduction Before Korn: A Century of Jewish Historical Writing about the American Civil War
Overview The War between Jewish Brothers in America
Part I. Jews and Slavery
1. Jews and New Christians in the Atlantic Slave Trade
2. Jews and Negro Slavery in the Old South, 1789-1865
Part II. Jews and Abolition
3. Revolution and Reform The Antebellum Jewish Abolitionists
4. The Abolitionists and the Jews Some Further Thoughts
Part III. Rabbis and the March to War
5. Isaac Mayer Wise and the Civil War
6. Baltimore Rabbis during the Civil War
Part IV. Jewish Soldiers during the Civil War
7. Divided Loyalties in 1861 The Decision of Major Alfred Mordecai
8. Jewish Confederates
9. From Peddler to Regimental Commander in Two Years The Civil War Career of Major Louis A. Gratz
Part V. The Home Front
10. Eugenia Levy Phillips The Civil War Experiences of a Southern Jewish Woman
11. Shifting Veils Religion, Politics, and Womanhood in the Civil War Writings of American Jewish Women
Part VI. Jews as a Class
12. "Shoddy" Antisemitism and the Civil War
13. Jewish Chaplains during the Civil War
14. That Obnoxious Order
15. Civil War Exodus The Jews and Grant's General Order No. 11
Part VII. Aftermath
16. The Post-Civil War Economy in the South
17. Candidate Grant and the Jews
For Further Reading
Index
About the Editors