Jewish identity in the reconstruction South : ambivalence and adaptation / Anton Hieke, Cornelia Wilhelm

Author: Hieke, Anton
Published: Berlin : De Gruyter, [2013]
Copyright Date: ©2013
Physical Description: x, 384 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Additional Creators: Wilhelm, Cornelia, 1964-

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New perspectives on modern Jewish history ; v. 4.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 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.

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9783110277692
3110277697

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [384]-369) and index.

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