Research Catalog

Title

Passages through the fire : Jews and the Civil War / foreword by Ken Burns ; exhibition curator Ken Yellis ; Publications staff project manager [and editor] Jeffrey Edelstein ; cartographer Adrian Kitzinger.

Publication

• New York : American Jewish Historical Society ; Yeshiva University Museum, 2013.
• ©2013

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• American Jewish Historical Society. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81114439
• Burns, Ken, 1953-
• Edelstein, Jeffrey, 1948-
• Kitzinger, Adrian,
• Yellis, Ken,
• Yeshiva University. Museum. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79129208

Description

134, [2] pages : illustrations; 20 cm

Alternative Title

Jews and the Civil War

Subjects

• Jews > United States > History > 19th century > Maps
• Jews > United States > History > 19th century > Exhibitions
• American Jewish Historical Society Exhibitions
• Yeshiva University > Museum > Exhibitions
• United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Participation, Jewish > Exhibitions
• United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Jews > Exhibitions

Note

• "Exhibition on view : American Jewish Historical Society and Yeshiva University Museum, March 10-August 11, 2013 ; Jewish Museum of Maryland, October 13, 2013-February 28, 2014" -- page [2].
• Maps of Jews in the United States in 1840 and 1860, on inside of jacket, created by Adrian Kitzinger for the exhibition.

Contents

Foreword / Ken Burns -- Preface / Jonathan Karp, Jacob Wisse -- Jews and the Civil War / Jonathan D. Sarna -- The Ardent Americans / Ken Yellis -- Passages through the Fire exhibition photographs -- An interview with Civil War Judaica collector Robert D. Marcus / Jonathan Karp -- Upheaval, innovation, and transformation : New York City Jews and the Civil War / Howard B. Rock.

LCCN

2013487094

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library