Daughters of Israel, Daughters of the South - by Jennifer Stollman (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>In "Daughters of Israel, Daughters of the South," Jennifer Stollman examines southern Jewish womanhood during the Antebellum and Civil War eras. This study finds that in the Protestant South southern Jewish women created and maintained unique American Jewish identities through their efforts in education, writing, religious observance, paid and unpaid labor, and relationships with whites and African-American slaves. This book explores how these women creatively fought proselytization, challenged antisemitism, maintained a distinctive southern Judaism, promoted their own status and legitimacy as southerners, and worked diligently as Confederate ambassadors.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>". . . Stollman's impressive command of the existing primary sources and secondary literature. . . offer[s] an intriguing addition to the historiography of the (upper-class) Jewish American experience before 1865. Stollman clearly shows that Judaism remained a part of her subjects' private--and sometimes public--lives in the antebellum South."--Anders Bo Rasmussen, University of Southern Denmark "American Studies, Vol. 53, no. 2"<br><br>"Stollman has written what may be the first monograph exclusively focused on Jewish women in the antebellum South. Arguing that Jewish women in this region encountered particular pressures, including a powerful undercurrent of anti-Semitism that she contends other historians have underplayed, Stollman focuses on their efforts to defend and advance their identities as Jews and as Southerners. The author challenges what she describes as the regnant declension narrative that emphasizes religious and cultural assimilation among Southern Jewish women. . . . two chapters in particular present fresh perspectives: one on the relationship between Jewish women and slaves, and another on their voluntarism during the Civil War."--A. Mendelsohn, College of Charleston "CHOICE (November 2013)"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Jennifer A. Stollman (PhD Michigan State University) is the Academic Director of the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation housed at the University of Mississippi. She teaches courses on the Atlantic World, 19th century American history, US intellectual history, and gender and women's history. Her research interests and publications center on the construction and deployment of individual and collective identities.
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