Can you example the role of prayer or lost cause theology for Jewish Confederate Soldiers?
SARNA: Jews in the Confederacy viewed the south very much the way their Christian neighbors viewed it. And they viewed the cause they were fighting for in quite similar ways. During the war some southern Jews articulate their sectional grievances in prayers, prayers that northerners, have trouble reading today, prayers that spell out the wickedness of the north, and that see the southerners cause as just and defined it in Biblical terms. And, of course, after the war ends, many Jews view the defeat in, classic Biblical terms, just as Judea fell, so the south fell. Suddenly, they felt as if the Temple had been destroyed which they analogized to the Confederacy being destroyed. And, we see Jews memorializing their dead bed in the south. And, we see, Jews, creating various kinds of memorial statues, Moses, Ezekiel,… mourning her dead. This is all a way of memorializing, the lost cause, really, in a very similar way, to what, to help. This is really a way of Jews memorializing, the lost
