American Jewry and the Civil War

Long considered a noteworthy title on the Jewish role in early american history this book focuses on the Jewish communityr as a whole during the tumultuous years of the war, and on its effort to raise the concept of human rights and equality above restrictions based on race or religion.

Foreword

ix

Introduction

xiii

Allan Nevins

Author's Preface to the 1961 Edition

xvii

Author's Preface to the First Edition

xxxi

American Jewry in 1860

1

(17)

The Rabbis and the Slavery Question

18

(20)

The Rabbis Take Sides

38

(28)

A Question of Equality: The Chaplaincy Controversy

66

(50)

On the Home Front

116

(27)

Exodus 1862

143

(42)

American Judaeophobia

185

(40)

Union Version

188

(21)

Confederate Version

209

(16)

Lincoln and the Jews

225

(33)

Epilogue

258

(4)

Appendix A. List of Printed Sermons, Speeches and Prayers Dealing with the Civil War

262

(3)

Appendix B. Jonas-Lincoln Correspondence

265

(7)

Appendix C. Zacharie-Lincoln Correspondence

272

(11)

Appendix D. The Jewish Record's Description of Jewish Participation in the New York Lincoln Memorial Exercises

283

(6)

Abbreviations

289

(1)

Notes

290

(51)

Bibliography

341

(8)

Acknowledgments

349

(2)

Afterword

351

(4)

Index

355

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American Jewry and the Civil War

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