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The Chosen Wars

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by Steven R Weisman


  Massachusetts Bay Colony, xxvii, 39, 77

  materialism, 202, 225

  matrilineage, 194, 248

  matzo, 16, 74, 147–48, 188

  Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico, 171

  May, Max, 94

  Mayer, Maurice, 141

  “May Laws” (1882), 240

  meat, 15, 16, 69, 70, 115, 123, 126, 148, 211, 212, 244

  Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 134

  mehitzah (partition), xviii

  “melting pot,” 259

  Melville, Herman, 201

  Memminger, Christopher G., 57

  Mendelsohn, Adam, 172

  Mendelssohn, Moses, xii, 44, 88, 130, 135, 237–38

  Mendes, Abraham Pereira, 241

  Mendes, Henry Pereira, 241–42

  menorahs, 213–14

  menstruation, 187

  Merchant of Venice, The (Shakespeare), 39

  Merzbacher, Leo, xiv, 84, 133, 185–86, 191–92, 204

  “Merzbacher prayer book,” xiv, 185–86, 204

  Messiah, xviii, xxv, xxvi, 31–33, 53, 57, 60, 90, 93, 104–16, 128, 129, 137, 152, 159, 167, 170, 177, 178, 183, 189, 193, 195, 198, 226, 234, 255, 261–65

  Methodists, 45, 78, 198

  Mexico, 171

  Meyer, Michael, 93, 125, 130

  mezuzahs, xviii, xix, 187, 223–24

  Micah, 109, 250

  Michelangelo, 196

  Michelbacher, Maxmilian J., 147

  Middle Ages, 63

  Middle East, 193, 223, 250–53

  mikveh (ritual bath), xix, 16, 55, 75, 115, 187

  Mikveh Israel, 7, 9, 10, 14, 27, 121, 125, 156

  Milton, John, 35, 192

  minhag (custom or rite), xix

  Minhag America (American Custom), xiii, 99, 128, 133, 137–39, 176–77, 191, 194–97, 248

  Minhag Sepharad (Sephardic Custom), 26

  ministers, 11, 77, 100, 149, 208–9, 238

  minyan (quorum), xix, 85

  miracles, xxxii, 80, 109, 110, 130, 131, 139, 201, 205

  Mishna (compendium of laws), xx, 219–20

  missionaries, 38–39, 70, 71, 79, 121–22, 139, 244

  Mississippi, 150

  mitzvah (commandment), xix

  mitzvot (honors), 176

  Moabites, 109

  Modern Orthodox Jews, 262, 263

  mohel (circumciser), xix, 26, 189

  Moïse, Abraham, 28–29, 32, 39, 52, 54

  Moïse, Charles H., 142

  Moïse, Edwin Warren, 152

  Moïse, L. C., 29

  Moïse, Penina, 23, 53, 142–44

  monarchy, 110, 111

  moneylending, 66

  Monis, Judah, 8

  monks, 72

  Monroe, James, 36

  Montgomery, Ala., 147

  Morais, Sabato, 156, 169–70, 241, 242, 243, 246–47, 260

  Mordecai, Jacob, 43–45

  Mordecai, Mordecai M., 7

  Mormons, 193, 247

  Morocco, 34

  Mortara, Edgardo, xiv, 72, 140

  Moses, xx, xxxi, 30, 31, 32, 37, 41, 47, 89, 116, 130, 134–35, 170, 181, 186, 217, 221, 222, 226, 234, 235, 258

  Moses, Adolph, 237

  Moses, Isaac, 248

  Moses, Myer, 27

  mosques, 57

  Mott, Lucretia, 201

  Mount Adams, xxi, 209

  Mount Sinai, xxxi, xxxii, 3, 4, 32, 88, 134–35, 186, 238

  mourning, 85, 100–101

  Music Hall (Boston), 178

  mysticism, 108

  Nachmanides (Moses ben Nahman), 106

  Napoleon I, Emperor of France, 36, 64, 87, 88, 124, 132

  Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 171

  Natchez, Miss., 147

  National Catholic Welfare Council, 250

  National Council of Jewish Women, 216

  National Fast Day (1861), xiv, 159

  National Origins Act (1924), 251–52

  nation states, 64, 86

  Native American Party, 62

  Native Americans, 5, 10, 18, 24, 26, 78, 258

  natural religion, 81, 117

  natural selection, 224

  Nazism, 252

  Netherlands, xi, 2, 3–4, 7, 13, 16, 21, 30, 60, 86, 96, 107, 261

  New American Cyclopaedia, 163

  New Amsterdam, xi, xxiii, 2–4, 13, 27, 96

  “New Christians,” 1–2, 154

  “New Colossus, The” (Lazarus), 216

  New Hampshire, 11

  New Haven, Conn., 95–96

  New Israelite Sick-Benefit and Burial Society, 74

  New Orleans, 153, 171

  Newport, R. I., xii, 12, 26, 78–79, 258

  Newton, Isaac, 225

  New World, 1–8, 14, 77, 93

  New York City, xi, xii, xiii, xxiii, xxxiii, 2, 4–5, 8, 20, 26, 27, 28, 45–46, 58, 70, 73, 74, 75, 84, 92, 94, 104, 112, 122–23, 148, 159, 160–61, 181, 184–85, 198, 205, 206, 207, 217, 227, 241–45, 258

  New York Daily Tribune, 163

  New York Evening Post, 46

  New York Herald, 211

  New York Mirror, And Ladies’ Literary Gazette, 45–46

  New York Society for Ethical Culture, xv, 202, 207, 226, 232, 233, 238

  New York Times, 66, 215–16

  Niagara Falls refuge, xii, 17

  Nicholas I, Czar of Russia, 240

  Nicolls, Richard, 4–5

  Nidchei Yisroel (“The Dispersed of Israel”), 82, 167

  Noah, 161–62, 165

  Noah, Mordecai Manuel, xii, 16–19, 28, 43, 156

  North American Review, 43

  Norwalk, Conn., 9

  nullification doctrine, 59, 145

  oaths, 11, 185

  Obadiah, Book of, 14

  Obama, Barack, 253

  Occident, xiii, 67, 99, 100, 102, 120, 122, 125, 126–27, 128, 129, 131, 132, 186, 191

  Ochs, Adolph, 66, 215–16

  Ochs, Effie Wise, 216

  Ochs, Julius, 66

  Odd Fellows, 73, 83

  Odysseus, 3

  Ohabei Shalom Temple, 74–75, 167

  Olat Tamid (Prayerbook for the Israelite Reform Congregations), 138, 195, 248

  Only Oracle of Man, The (Allen), 81

  On the Origin of Species (Darwin), xiv, 224

  Oral Law (Halakha), xviii, xix, xx, 40–41, 186, 218, 252, 254–55

  “orderly dress,” 178

  Order of B’rith Abraham, 73

  original sin, 80, 192–93

  Orthodox Jewish Center, 251

  Orthodox Jewish Sabbath Alliance, 245

  Orthodox Rabbinical Court, 51

  Ottolengui, Abraham, 52, 54–56

  Ottoman Empire, 108, 261

  Our Crowd (Birmingham), 68

  oysters, 212

  paganism, 50, 233

  Paine, Thomas, 81

  Pale of Settlement, 84, 229, 240

  Palestine, xii, xxxi, 13, 18, 53, 60, 78, 105, 107–8, 113, 171, 177, 178, 189, 216, 217, 234, 237, 250–53

  palm fronds, 138

  papacy, 72, 136, 249–53

  Paradise Lost (Milton), 192

  Paradise Regained (Milton), 192

  Park East Synagogue, 245

  Parker, Theodore, 202

  Parliament, British, 5

  Passover, 10, 15, 55, 69–70, 123, 147–48, 188, 233, 262, 263

  patriarchs, 87

  patrilinealism, 253

  Peace Democrats, 158

  Peace of Westphalia (1648), 64

  Peixotto, Simha, 122

  Penn, Thomas, 7

  Pennsylvania, 7, 11, 66, 67–68, 70

  Pentateuch, xxxi, 37, 125, 130, 222

  Petersburg, Va., 71

  Petuchowski, Jakob J., 60

  Pew Research Center, 261–62

  pews, 182–85

  Pharisees, xix, 218–19, 260

  pharaoh, 205

  Philadelphia, xii, xiii, xv, 7, 9, 10, 11, 14, 26, 27, 28, 54, 58, 75, 101–2, 105, 120, 121–22, 123, 125–26, 127, 134,
158–59, 168, 169–70, 180, 186, 191–94, 204, 213–16, 230

  Philadelphia conference (1856), 134

  Philadelphia conference (1869), xv, 191–94, 204

  Philadelphia conference (1879), 213–16

  Philipson, David, 210

  Phillips, Aaron, 29, 65

  philo-Semitism, 6

  phylacteries (tefillin), xx, 6, 71, 116, 223–24

  Pierce, Franklin, 199

  piety, 64, 108, 123

  pilgrims, 3, 258–59

  Pilgrims in Their Own Land (Marty), 3

  Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth (C. C.), 26

  Pittsburgh conference (1885), 228–42, 248, 252

  Pittsburgh Platform, xv, 235–42, 248, 252

  Pius IX, Pope, 72

  piyyutim (liturgical poems), xix, 82–83, 98, 116

  plagiarism, 227

  plantations, 24, 25–26, 59, 153, 154

  Plaut, W. Gunther, 230, 236

  Plum Street Temple, xiv, xxi–xxii, 176, 187, 208

  “Poetry of the Hebrew Bible, The” (Raphall), 104

  pogroms, xii, xv, xxiii, 239–40

  polygamy, 18, 130, 164, 165, 193

  pork, 69, 209, 212, 214

  “port Jews,” 4

  Portugal, xi, xix, 1–2, 3, 11, 34, 60–61, 99, 154

  Portuguese language, 11

  Posen, 64

  “positive-historical” approach, 242–43

  Poznanski, Gustavus, 46–48, 52, 53–55, 57, 103–4, 105, 111–13, 141, 159, 260

  Poznanski, Gustavus, Jr., 141

  Prague, xi, 48, 51

  Prayerbook for the Israelite Reform Congregations (Olat Tamid), 138, 195, 248

  prayer books (siddur), xiii, xiv, xv, xx, 32, 39, 48, 57–58, 71, 85, 86, 99, 109, 128, 132–33, 137–38, 176–77, 185–86, 194–97, 204, 248–49, 251

  prayer shawl (tallit), xx, 6, 15, 71, 132, 178, 179, 185, 223–24

  Presbyterians, 45, 78

  “priestcraft,” 33, 81

  “priestly vocation,” 218, 222, 237

  priests, xiii, 33, 81, 110, 122, 130, 138, 179, 193, 195, 218, 222, 234, 237

  Principles of Geology (Lyell), xii, 203

  Principles of Mosaism, The (Geiger), 134

  “Proclamation to the Jews” (Noah), 18

  Promised Land, 3, 12, 87, 143–44, 161–62, 170, 215, 221, 251, 260–61

  prophesies, 93

  Prophets, xviii, 109, 139, 141, 152, 178, 180, 236, 249–50

  Protestants, xi, 11, 23, 34, 38, 42, 44, 59, 64, 78, 79–81, 122, 143, 149, 154, 197–98, 201–2, 205, 219, 235

  Prothero, Stephen, 139

  Prussia, 30, 47, 60

  Psalm 131, 42

  Psalm 149, 189

  Psalms, Book of, 23, 28, 42, 176, 187, 189

  Ptolemaic dynasty, 213

  Public School Society, 75

  Purim, 180

  Puritans, 77

  Quakers, xxxii, 4, 201

  Quiver, 35

  Rabbanites, 219

  Rabbinical Commission to the Frankfurt Assembly, 50

  Rabbinical Literary Association, 208

  Rabbinic Judaism, xix

  rabbis, xviii, xix, 76–77, 82, 85, 86, 89, 91, 93, 97, 99, 100, 105–10, 123–34, 139, 147, 148, 156–63, 167, 168, 172, 177, 181, 184, 188, 191–98, 201–27, 232, 236–54, 263

  see also specific rabbis

  “race pride,” 238

  racism, 156–68, 172

  Radnitz, 95

  rape, 232–33

  Raphael, Marc Lee, 178

  Raphall, Morris S., xiii, xiv, 104–5, 111–12, 117, 159–68, 183

  rebbes (chief or grand rabbis), xix, 77, 82, 85, 131–32, 243–44

  Recife, 2, 3–4

  Reconstruction, xv, 172–73

  Reconstructionism, 251

  Redeemer, 152

  redemption, xxxii, 106, 152, 192, 264

  Red Sea, 130, 131, 143

  Reform Advocate, 222

  Reformation, 42, 44, 64, 78

  Reformed Society of Israelites for Promoting True Principles of Judaism According to Its Purity and Spirit, xii, xiv, 31–34, 37, 38, 42–45, 46, 47, 52, 152

  Religion of Geology and Its Related Science, The (Hitchcock), xiii, 203

  “religious civilization,” 251

  religious revivals, 77–78

  Reminiscences (Wise), 96, 112

  Republican National Convention (1860), 171

  Republican Party, 157–58, 171, 262

  “Rerum Novarum” (“Revolutionary Change”), 249–50

  “resisters,” 245

  resurrection, 31, 33, 53, 106, 109, 112, 114, 115–16, 129, 138, 178, 185, 189, 193, 234

  Revere, Paul, 26

  Reznikoff, Charles, 58

  Rhineland, 13–14

  Rice, Abraham, xiii, 82–83, 84, 86, 123, 167, 200

  Richmond, Va., 28, 124, 153, 171

  Richmond Daily Dispatch, 160

  Riesser, Gabriel, 95

  ritual bath (mikveh), xix, 16, 55, 75, 115, 187

  ritual slaughter, 74, 120, 123

  Robertson, Wyndham, 160

  Rodef Shalom Congregation, xii, 14, 75, 123, 212

  Roman Empire, xxv, 13, 63, 87, 107, 218

  Romanticism, 59

  Rosen, Robert N., 151

  Rosenfeld, Jacob, 103

  Rosenwald, Julius, 66, 247

  Rosewater, Edward, 171

  Rosh Hashanah, xix, xx, xxvi, 93, 96, 117, 118, 119, 179, 187–88

  Rothschild, Salomon de, 152

  Rothschild family, 67, 152

  Rubinger, Naphtali, 105, 114, 116

  runaway slaves, xxvi, 164

  Ruth, 109

  Rutledge, Edward, 26

  Sabbath, xxviii, 5–6, 9, 23, 25, 26–28, 32, 40, 43, 46–51, 55, 59, 67, 69, 70, 73, 82, 83, 114, 116, 118, 122, 128, 147, 169, 180–81, 187, 198, 204, 213, 233, 243, 245, 259, 264

  Sabbath Service and Miscellaneous Prayers, Adopted by the Reformed Society of Israelites, The, 32

  Sabbath Visitor (Lilienthal), 122

  Sadducees, xix, 218–19, 260

  Ste. Catherine, xi, 2, 13

  St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 11

  St. Petersburg, 239

  Salomon, Haym, 8, 10, 11

  Salomon, Israel, 183–84

  Salomon, Jonas, 183

  Salvador, Francis, 25–26

  Samuel, Rebecca, 71

  San Francisco, 74, 169, 253–54

  San Francisco conference (1976), 253–54

  Sanhedrin, 87, 229

  San Salvador, 1

  Saratoga Springs, N.Y., xv, 228–29

  Sarna, Jonathan, xxix, 147–48

  Satan, 78, 197

  Savannah, 26, 28, 51–52

  Savannah River, 24

  Schechter, Solomon, xv, 247, 249

  Schiff, Jacob, 187, 247, 248

  Schindler, Solomon, 75

  Schneeberger, Henry, 241

  school prayers, 79

  Schreiber, Moses Sofer, 51

  Scott, Dred, 164

  Scott, Walter, 35, 36

  Second Coming, 78

  second days (holidays), 141, 177–78, 185, 195

  Second Great Awakening, xii, xxxiii, 21, 77, 78, 79, 81, 111, 202, 223

  Second Independent Church of Charleston, 42–43

  Second Temple, 13, 45

  Seder, 147–48, 233

  Seder Tefilah: The Order of Prayer for Divine Service, 185–86

  Seder Tefilot Yisrael (Union Prayer Book), xv, 85, 248–49

  Seesen, xii, 49, 90

  Seixas, Gershom Mendes, xii, 9–10, 11, 12, 15, 17, 27

  Seixas, Moses Mendes, 12

  Seleucid dynasty, 213

  Seligman, David, 67, 68

  Seligman, Fanny, 68

  Seligman, James, 68

  Seligman, Joseph, xiii, xv, 67–68, 228–29

  Seligman, William, 68

  Seligman family, xiii, xv, 67–68, 160–61, 228–29

  Semites, 165, 224 />
  Senate, U.S., 105, 152

  Seneca Falls Convention (1848), 79

  serfs, 240

  Seward, William Henry, 105, 131

  Shaar Hashomayim Congregation, 217

  Shabbat, see Sabbath

  “Shabbos goy,” 187

  Shakespeare, William, 36, 39

  shalom (“peace”), 82

  “Shalom Aleichem!,” 73

  shammash (sexton), xix

  Shearith Israel (“Remnant of Israel”), xi, xii, 2–3, 7, 9, 13, 14–15, 18, 27, 52, 54, 55, 56, 103, 104, 140–43, 181–82, 183, 241–42

  shellfish, xxi–xxii, 211

  Shema (belief in one God), xx, 95, 113

  “Shema” (“Hear, O Israel”), xix, 40, 187

  Shemoneh Esreh (Amidah), 138–39

  Sherith Israel (San Francisco), 74

  Sherman, William Tecumseh, 142, 149

  Shiloh, Battle of, 146

  shivah (mourning period), xx

  “shoddy,” 149

  shofars, xx, 23, 46, 53, 71, 75, 179

  shohet (kosher butcher), xx, 35, 46, 54, 67, 115–17, 189

  shul (synagogue), xx

  Shulchan Aruch (The Set Table), xi

  Shylock, 39

  siddur (prayer books), xiii, xiv, xv, xx, 32, 39, 48, 57–58, 71, 85, 86, 99, 109, 128, 132–33, 137–38, 176–77, 185–86, 194–97, 204, 248–49, 251

  Silliman, Benjamin, xii, 203

  Silliman, Benjamin, Jr., 203

  “Silliman-Hitchcock compromise,” 203

  Sinai, 253

  Sinai, 138

  Sinai Literary Association, 226

  “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (Edwards), 80

  Sinsheimer’s saloon, 73

  smallpox, 126

  “social Darwinism,” 225

  social gospel, xxxiii, 235, 249–50, 263

  socialism, 188, 205

  Society for Ethical Culture, xv, 202, 207, 226, 232, 233

  Society for the Culture and Science of Judaism, xii, 89

  Sokolow, Jayme A., 157

  Soldier’s Retreat plantation, 24

  Solomon, 221

  “Song of Hiawatha, The” (Longfellow), 258

  South Carolina, xi, xiii, xxv, 57, 78, 111, 145, 183–84

  see also Charleston, S.C.

  South Carolina College, 59

  South Carolina Court of Appeals, xiii, 57

  Southern Patriot and Commercial Advertiser, 36

  “sovereign authority,” 44

  Soviet Union, 260

  Spain, xi, xix, 1, 2, 3, 13, 22, 34, 57–58, 60, 108, 154, 176, 218–19, 261

  Spanier, Louis, xxvi, 93, 97, 103, 112, 114–20, 128

  Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue, 3

  Spanish Inquisition, xi, xvii–xviii, 1, 2, 13, 34, 154, 176, 209, 239, 261

  Spanish language, 43

  “special creationism,” 224

  speech, freedom of, 168

  Spencer, Herbert, 225

  Spinoza, Baruch, xi, xxx, 4, 41, 44, 61, 88, 196, 200–201

  “spirit of the age” argument, 58–59

  spiritualism, 201

  “spiritual progress,” 225

 

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