Join Laura Arnold Leibman, Professor in American Jewish Studies at Princeton University!
The Revolutionary War divided Jews politically, but scholars have tended only to focus on what Jewish men thought or did. In this talk, Leibman uses schoolgirl samplers to reveal how Jewish girls crafted religious and political messages about the war. Many Jews sheltered in Pennsylvania, and consequently the region's sampler traditions influenced Jews’ wartime image making. After the war, as Jews returned to their old cities, they carried the Pennsylvania traditions with them.
