American Jewry and the Civil War,9780827607385

American Jewry and the Civil War

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ISBN13: 9780827607385
ISBN10: 0827607385
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-10-01
Publisher(s): Jewish Pubn Society
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Summary

Long considered a noteworthy title on the Jewish role in early american history this book focuses on the Jewish communityr as a whole during the tumultuous years of the war, and on its effort to raise the concept of human rights and equality above restrictions based on race or religion.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Introduction xiii
Allan Nevins
Author's Preface to the 1961 Edition xvii
Author's Preface to the First Edition xxxi
American Jewry in 1860
1(17)
The Rabbis and the Slavery Question
18(20)
The Rabbis Take Sides
38(28)
A Question of Equality: The Chaplaincy Controversy
66(50)
On the Home Front
116(27)
Exodus 1862
143(42)
American Judaeophobia
185(40)
Union Version
188(21)
Confederate Version
209(16)
Lincoln and the Jews
225(33)
Epilogue
258(4)
Appendix A. List of Printed Sermons, Speeches and Prayers Dealing with the Civil War 262(3)
Appendix B. Jonas-Lincoln Correspondence 265(7)
Appendix C. Zacharie-Lincoln Correspondence 272(11)
Appendix D. The Jewish Record's Description of Jewish Participation in the New York Lincoln Memorial Exercises 283(6)
Abbreviations 289(1)
Notes 290(51)
Bibliography 341(8)
Acknowledgments 349(2)
Afterword 351(4)
Index 355

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