[We received this email about a Civil War demographic not usually mentioned. Pertain to your family?]
Good Morning,
My name is Eliza
Kolander, and I am writing to you on behalf of the Shapell
Manuscript Foundation, with regards to our Roster
Project, a comprehensive
database of Jewish-American soldiers and sailors who fought in the Civil War
for both the Union and the Confederacy. Our starting point was Simon Wolf’s
1895 The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen, and over the last
decade, we’ve verified the names he included as Jewish or not, identified their
accurate military service, and added more than a thousand soldiers that Wolf
omitted.
The result of more than
25,000 hours of research, we are convinced that the Shapell Roster will be of
interest to academic scholars, descendants, and anyone interested in Jewish
American history. We hope to engage the public with primary source
material--the human side of history--while significantly modifying the
scholarship on Jews in America in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Based on your mission, I
thought that your organization might be interested in this project, which we
hope to make available to the public for the first time in 2019. Our searchable
database, which will be free to the public, will go live with a limited set of
records. As we complete additional research, more records will become
available. We are so excited, and hope institutions like yours will be, as
well.
Through my communication
with you, I hope to connect with
- descendants whose ancestors served during the American Civil War and/or
- organizations and institutions with information and sources relating to Jewish-American Civil War Soldiers.
- If you have any thoughts or questions, please do not hesitate to reach out.
Thank you,
Eliza Kolander
Shapell Roster Project
Shapell Manuscript
Foundation
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