Jewish Confederates

Jewish Confederates

  • Author: Rosen, Robert N.
  • Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
  • ISBN: 9781643362472
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781643362489
  • Place of publication:  South Carolina , United States
  • Year of digital publication: 2021
  • Month: August
  • DDC: 975.004/924
  • Language: English

Details Jewish participation on the Civil War battlefield and throughout the Southern home front

In The Jewish Confederates, Robert N. Rosen introduces readers to the community of Southern Jews of the 1860s, revealing the remarkable breadth of Southern Jewry's participation in the war and their commitment to the Confederacy. Intrigued by the apparent irony of their story, Rosen weaves a complex chronicle that outlines how Southern Jews—many of them recently arrived immigrants from Bavaria, Prussia, Hungary, and Russia who had fled European revolutions and anti-Semitic governments—attempted to navigate the fraught landscape of the American Civil War.

This chronicle relates the experiences of officers, enlisted men, businessmen, politicians, nurses, rabbis, and doctors. Rosen recounts the careers of important Jewish Confederates; namely, Judah P. Benjamin, a member of Jefferson Davis's cabinet; Col. Abraham C. Myers, quartermaster general of the Confederacy; Maj. Adolph Proskauer of the 125th Alabama; Maj. Alexander Hart of the Louisiana 5th; and Phoebe Levy Pember, the matron of Richmond's Chimborazo Hospital. He narrates the adventures and careers of Jewish officers and profiles the many Jewish soldiers who fought in infantry, cavalry, and artillery units in every major campaign.

  • Cover
  • THE JEWISH CONFEDERATES
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Abbreviations
  • PROLOGUE Our Sons Will Defend This Land
  • PART 1 This Happy Land, Our Palestine FREEDOM AND EQUALITY IN THE OLD SOUTH
    • Chapter 1: The Free Air of Dixie
    • Chapter 2: Two Sephardic Senators
  • PART 2 Be Strong and of a Good Courage THE SOLDIERS
    • Chapter 3: Hebrew Officers and Israelite Gentlemen
    • Chapter 4: Jewish Johnny Rebs
  • PART 3 Sympathetic Soul and Busy Hands THE JEWISH CONFEDERATE HOME FRONT
    • Chapter 5: This Most Suffering Land
    • Chapter 6: Two Jewish Confederate Sisters
  • PART 4 In Our Unhappy Land THE END OF AN ERA
    • Chapter 7: Lead Out the Pageant: Sad and Slow
    • Chapter 8: We Are Passing through Another Captivity
  • EPILOGUE It Seems Like a Dream As We Look Back
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliographical Note
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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