02:00pm - 04:00pm  Images of the Past: Jews and the American Civil War

Speakers: Bruce Form and Mira Katz Form Bruce (shown above as Capt. Asch) and Mira Form (see below) are Civil War historians, re-enactors and living historians.   Their many years of researching Jewish Civil War veterans and the Jewish community during the Civil War led them to discover two Philadelphians: Myer J. Asch, Captain of the 1st New Jersey Cavalry and Miss Rebecca Moss, Secretary of the Ladies Hebrew Association for the Relief of Sick and Wounded Soldiers. Bruce Form's article, "Captain Myer Asch, 1st New Jersey Cavalry and the Quest for His Grave," appeared in the Summer 2022 issue of Dorot; ...