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 explores the lives of Antebellum and Civil War era Southern Jewish women and reveals an interesting study about race, gender, region, and religion. Examining their public and private writings, Jennifer Stollman persuasively argues that within a fervently Protestant and racial South, these women created unique Southern and Jewish identities through their efforts in education, religious observance, paid and unpaid labor, and relationships with whites and African-American slaves. This book explores how these women creatively fought proselytization, challenged anti-Semitism, maintained a distinctive southern Judaism, promoted their own status and legitimacy as southerners, and worked diligently as Confederate ambassadors.