Jews, Slavery, and the Civil War
May 24-26, 2011
Charleston, SC
Program made possible by:
The Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project, directed by the Association of Jewish Studies
The College of Charleston Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program
Judaism at War
Leonard Greenspoon (Creighton University)
“The Bible Says It’s So….But, It Ain’t Necessarily So”
Leonard Rogoff (Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina)
“Who is True Israel”? Yankees, Confederates, Jews and African-Americans
Confederates and Unionists
Geoffrey D. Cunningham (Louisiana State University)
“A bond of distrust”: Judah Benjamin and the Secession Crisis
Gary Zola (American Jewish Archives)
The “Patriotic Corn Doctor”: The Enigmatic Career of Dr. Isachar Zacharie
Theodore Rosengarten (College of Charleston)
Diplomacy’s Cruel Sword: Confederate Agents in Pursuit of Recognition
Jewish Wartime Experiences
Rachel Grossman (Florida State University) American Civil Judaism: Dissension, Inclusion, and the Chaplaincy Controversy
Daniel Kotzin (Medaille College)
Constructing an American Jewish Identity During the Civil War: The Letters of Marcus M. Spiegel
Richard Mendelsohn (University of Cape Town) Comparing Jewish Soldiering in the South African War (1899–1902) and the Civil War (1861–1865)
Reconstruction
Anton Hieke (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
Going South: The Migration of Jewish Yankees to the South after Appomattox
Michael Cohen (Tulane University)
Jewish Merchants, Northern Capital, and Southern Reconstruction
Stuart Rockoff (Institute of Southern Jewish Life)
The Mysterious Death of Marx Schoenberg: Jews & the Politics of Reconstruction in Ascension Parish, Louisiana
Keynote Lecture by Jonathan D. Sarna
“That Obnoxious Order”:
Ulysses S. Grant and the Jews
Sanctuary of Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim
Local Studies
Tobias Brinkmann (Penn State University)
Defending Emancipation: Chicago’s Jews and the Civil War
Matthew Semler (Hebrew Union College) Cincinnati Jewry during the Civil War
Howard Rock (Florida International University)
“A Watershed Moment”: The Jews of New York City and the Civil War
Lee Shai Weissbach (University of Louisville)
Kentucky Jewry during the Civil War: A Local History Perspective
Jews in the Confederacy
Andrea Mehrländer (Checkpoint Charlie Foundation)
Stigmatized as New Orleans’ “German Jew” – John Kruttschnitt (1812-1892):
German Consul and Confederate Patriot
Jennifer Stollman (Fort Lewis College)
“An Ardent Attachment to my Birth:”
Antebellum Southern Jewish Women As Confederate Ambassadors
Barry Stiefel (College of Charleston)
David Lopez, Jr. (1809-84): Builder for History
Death, Mourning, and Memory
Kent A. McConnell (Phillips Exeter Academy
“…The Spirit of Our Forefathers”: Death and Religious Life Among Jews of the Civil War Era
Joseph Topek (Stony Brook University)
Comradeship and Patriotism: The Hebrew Union Veterans Association, 1896-1917
Seth Epstein (University of Minnesota)
‘No American has ever paid finer tribute to the great Jewish race’: Tolerance, Jews, and American Nationalism in Lost Cause Ceremonies in Asheville, North Carolina, 1926-1945.
Slavery and Abolitionism
Edward Sanders (independent scholar)
The Levy’s: The Story of a Jewish Slave Owner in America, His Heirs and Former Slaves
David Markus (University of Arkansas)
The Block Family of Old Washington: Faith, Slavery, and Assimilation on the Arkansas frontier
Sarah Casteel (Carleton University)
The Port Jew in Neoslave Narratives of the Americas: Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes
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