The Jewish Confederates (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781570033636)

Details Jewish participation on the Civil War battlefield and throughout the Southern home front

In The Jewish Confederates, Robert N. Rosen introduces readers to the community of Southern Jews of the 1860s, revealing the remarkable breadth of Southern Jewry's participation in the war and their commitment to the Confederacy. Intrigued by the apparent irony of their story, Rosen weaves a complex chronicle that outlines how Southern Jews--many of them recently arrived immigrants from Bavaria, Prussia, Hungary, and Russia who had fled European revolutions and anti-Semitic governments--attempted to navigate the fraught landscape of the American Civil War.

This chronicle relates the experiences of officers, enlisted men, businessmen, politicians, nurses, rabbis, and doctors. Rosen recounts the careers of important Jewish Confederates; namely, Judah P. Benjamin, a member of Jefferson Davis's cabinet; Col. Abraham C. Myers, quartermaster general of the Confederacy; Maj. Adolph Proskauer of the 125th Alabama; Maj. Alexander Hart of the Louisiana 5th; and Phoebe Levy Pember, the matron of Richmond's Chimborazo Hospital. He narrates the adventures and careers of Jewish officers and profiles the many Jewish soldiers who fought in infantry, cavalry, and artillery units in every major campaign.

Author: Robert N. Rosen
ISBN-10: 1570033633
ISBN-13: 9781570033636
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Language: English
Published: 10/31/2000
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.91lbs
Size: 10.16h x 7.30w x 1.43d
Award: Independent Publisher Book Awards - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 09/15/2000 pg. 94
Publishers Weekly 09/25/2000 pg. 97
Booklist 10/15/2000 pg. 415
New York Times 01/28/2001 pg. 15
Choice 04/01/2001 pg. 1521
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2001 pg. 98 - Recommended/Special Interest
Publishers Weekly 09/22/2000