Table of Contents
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
List of Illustrations xix
List of Abbreviations xxv
Prologue Our Sons Will Defend This Land 1
Part 1 This Happy Land, Our Palestine
Freedom and Equality in the Old South 7
Chapter 1 The Free Air of Dixie 9
Chapter 2 Two Sephardic Senators 55
Part 2 Be Strong and of a Good Courage
The Soldiers 87
Chapter 3 Hebrew Officers and Israelite Gentlemen 89
Chapter 4 Jewish Johnny Rebs 161
Part 3 Sympathetic Soul and Busy Hands
The Jewish Confederate Home Front 217
Chapter 5 This Most Suffering Land 219
Chapter 6 Two Jewish Confederate Sisters 280
Part 4 In Our Unhappy Land
The End of an Era 305
Chapter 7 Lead Out the Pageant: Sad and Slow 307
Chapter 8 We Are Passing through Another Captivity 332
Epilogue It Seems like a Dream As We Look Back 355
Notes 379
Glossary 447
Bibliographical Note 451
Bibliography 465
Index 483