Format:
1 online resource (396 pages)
ISBN:
9783110277753
Series Statement:
New Perspectives on Modern Jewish History Ser v.4
Content:
The peer-reviewed series seeks to provide an international platform for new approaches to the study of modern Jewish history. Covering the period from the Enlightenment to the 21st century, the series focuses on cutting-edge work in social, cultural, economic, and political history. It seeks to explore new avenues in the understanding of modern Jewries in their historical contexts, encouraging a multi-layered exploration of topics which transcend the analytical boundaries of ethnicity, nation, and religion. The series embraces monographs and challenging research-oriented anthologies dedicated to a deeper understanding of essential themes in the main fields of Jewish studies, such as Jewish thought, migration, biography, Israel and the Middle East, Holocaust studies, the history of memory, and identity.
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Figures (Maps, Charts, Images) -- Introduction -- I Coming to the Reconstruction South -- A Sketch of Reconstruction -- The Jewish Communities of Georgia and the Carolinas, 1860-1880 -- The Chain Migration of Jewish Immigrants -- The Economic Background of Migration -- II Jews and southern society: Integrated Outsiders -- Jews in the Southern Race-Based Society -- Public Reconstruction Philo-Semitism -- Covert Reconstruction Anti-Semitism -- The First Marker of a Southern Jewish Identity: Accepting the Southern Racial Fabric -- The Second Marker of Southern Jewish Identity: Jews and the Confederacy -- The Third Marker of Southern Jewish Identity: Considering Residence and Jewish Trans-Regional Identity -- The German Identity of Jewish Southerners -- III Judaism and Jewish Identity in Georgia and the Carolinas, 1860-1880 -- Reconstruction: Formative Years -- A Sketch of German and American Reform -- The ad hoc Advent of Reform Judaism in Georgia and the Carolinas -- Cemeteries and the Formation of Congregations -- Synagogues in Reconstruction Georgia and the Carolinas -- The Historic Congregations KKBE in Charleston and Mickve Israel in Savannah -- Atlanta's The Temple and Wilmington's Temple of Israel -- Jewish Small-Town and Micro-Communities, 1860-1880 -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110277692
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783110277692
Language:
English
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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=955846
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