chapter 3: "To Be an American" pp 37-47
Growing up Southerners, they would absorb the regional defiance and unrestrained pride, the memories of rising to sing "Dixie" in grammar school assembly and, in history class, the surging poignance on reading Lee's farewell to his troops (41) chapter 4: "Tobias: Nine Generations in Charleston" He didn't understand the question because it was a question of a new arrival, conditioned to think of Jewish blood as inferior in the noble line of first families of Charleston, a Jewish relative as a skeleton in their closet. pg 52 chapter 5: "The Jewish Confederates Face Reconstruction" "Other accounts, claiming Wolf is incomplete, have placed the number as high as ten thousand. There were so many that General Lee could not afford an exception to allow high holy days furloughs to 'soldiers of the Jewish persuasion in the Confederate States army" (60) How did antisemitism affect Jews serving in the confederacy? Did being in the confederacy stray Jewish men from their faith? chapter 6: "The Lonely Days Were Sundays" "The word 'America,' an idea more than a place" (74) personal history of his family American Dream stories of Ellis Island, process of immigration
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