Jews, Slavery, and the Civil War
Charleston, SC May 24-26, 2011
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
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| Tuesday Night Reception Arnold Hall, Jewish Studies Building College of Charleston |
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 Jane Banov Bergen, Les Bergen, Anton Heike |
 Tuesday Night Reception |
 Tuesday Night Reception |
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 Anita Moise Rosenberg, Ann Meddin Hellman, Ira Rosenberg |
 Ann Livingston Mendel, Joseph Topek |
 John Huddlestun, Josh Shanes |
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| Wednesday Sessions Arnold Hall, Jewish Studies Building College of Charleston |
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 Welcome: David Cohen (College of Charleston) Dean, School of Languages, Cultures, and World Affairs |
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 |
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 Leonard Greenspoon |
 Leonard Rogoff |
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| 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 |
 Moderator: Faye Jensen Executive Director SC Historical Society |
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 Geoffrey Cunningham |
 Gary Zola |
 Ted Rosengarten |
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| 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) |
 Moderator: Gary Zola Executive Director of The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (AJA) |
 Rachel Grossman, Daniel Kotzin, Richard Mendelsohn |
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 Moderator: Hyman Rubin III (Columbia College) Associate Professor of History |
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 |
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 Anton Heike |
 Michael Cohen |
 Stuart Rockoff |
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| Wednesday Evening Dinner and Keynote Speaker Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (KKBE) |
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 Marty Perlmutter Director of the College of Charleston Yaschik/Arnold Program in Jewish Studies |
 Ann Meddin Hellman Pressident JHSSC |
 Jack Bass, Rabbi Stephanie Alexander ?, Terry Siskind, ? |
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 Jeff Rosenblun and Mickey Kronsberg Rosenblum |
 Paticipants in KKBE Sanctuary |
 Adam Mendelsohn Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies College of Charleston |
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 Rabbi Stephanie Alexander Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (KKBE) |
Keynote Lecture by Jonathan D. Sarna “That Obnoxious Order”: Ulysses S. Grant and the Jews Sanctuary of Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim |
 Jonathan D. Sarna Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University and Chief Historian of the new National Museum of American Jewish History |
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| Thursday Sessions Arnold Hall, Jewish Studies Building College of Charleston |
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Local Studies |
Moderator: Gary Zola Executive Director of The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (AJA) |
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 Tobias Brinkmann |
 Matthew Semler |
 Howard Rock |
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 Lee Shai Weissbach |
 Thursday participants |
 Judah P.Benjamin |
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 Moderator: Jonathan D. Sarna |
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 |
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 Andrea Mehrländer |
 Jennifer Stollman |
 Barry Stiefel |
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| 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. |
 Joseph Topek, Seth Epstein, Kent A. McConnell |
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 Moderator: Jerome Handler Senior Scholar at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities |
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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 David Markus |
 Edward Sanders |
 Sarah Casteel |
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Pictures Taken by Max B. Hellman |
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