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The foremost scholarship on Jews and the Civil War, little known even to specialists in the field

Table of Contents

Preface IntroductionAdam Mendelsohn Overview Eli N. Evans 1 Jews and New Christians in the Atlantic Slave Trade Seymour Drescher 2 Jews and Negro Slavery in the Old South, 1789-1865Bertram W. Korn 3 Revolution and ReformJayme A. Sokolow 4 The Abolitionists and the JewsLouis Ruchames 5 Isaac Mayer Wise and the Civil WarSefton D. Temkin 6 Baltimore Rabbis during the Civil War Isaac M. Fein 7 Divided Loyalties in 1861Stanley L. Falk 8 Jewish Confederates Robert N. Rosen 9 From Peddler to Regimental Commander in Two YearJacob Rader Marcus 10 Eugenia Levy PhillipsDavid T. Morgan 11 Shifting VeilsDianne Ashton 12 "Shoddy" Antisemitism and the Civil WarGary L. Bunker and John J. Appel 13 Jewish Chaplains during the Civil War Bertram W. Korn 14 That Obnoxious OrderJohn Simon 15 Civil War ExodusStephen V. Ash 16 The Post-Civil War Economy in the SouthThomas D. Clark 17 Candidate Grant and the Jews Joakim IsaacsFor Further ReadingIndex About the Editors

About the Author

Jonathan D. Sarna (Editor)
Jonathan D. Sarna is the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University and Chief Historian of the National Museum of American Jewish History. He has written, edited or co-edited more than twenty-five books, including American Judaism: A History, winner of the “Jewish Book of the Year” award from the Jewish Book Council.
Adam D. Mendelsohn (Editor)
Adam D. Mendelsohn is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire and co-editor of Jews and the Civil War: A Reader and Transnational Traditions: New Perspectives on American Jewish History.

Reviews

"In gathering together these widely scattered essays, Sarna and Mendelsohn reveal that we know much more than we ever thought we did about Jews and this great conflict. Just as the Civil War divided Americans, it divided Jews. Civil War buffs, historians, and anyone interested in the cataclysm which rent the nation will embrace this marvelous collection depicting how one group of Americans experienced that terrible time." Pamela S. Nadell, Inaugural Patrick Clendenen Professor of History, American University