The Civil War Diary of Emma Mordecai
Schedule
Thu, 05 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
96 Wentworth St, Charleston, SC, United States, South Carolina 29424 | Charleston, SC
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We are honored to host Dr. Melissa R. Klapper, a professor of History and Director of Women's & Gender Studies at Rowan University, for our first lecture of the year! This lecture focuses on the topic of Emma Mordecai, a figure living in the antebellum and Civil War South. She was a complicated figure: both a staunch defender of Judaism, and an ardent Confederate nationalist and slaveowner. Her life, as vividly captured in her wartime diary, is a good example of the messiness of history and the ambiguous place of Jews in this region and time period.
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