Jewish Roots in Southern Soil
Author: Marcie Cohen Ferris
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9781584655893
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A lively look at southern Jewish history and culture.
Author: Marcie Cohen Ferris
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9781584655893
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A lively look at southern Jewish history and culture.
Author: Clive Webb
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2011-03-15
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 082034009X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the uneasily shared history of Jews and blacks in America, the struggle for civil rights in the South may be the least understood episode. Fight against Fear is the first book to focus on Jews and African Americans in that remarkable place and time. Mindful of both communities' precarious and contradictory standings in the South, Clive Webb tells a complex story of resistance and complicity, conviction and apathy. Webb begins by ranging over the experiences of southern Jews up to the eve of the civil rights movement--from antebellum slaveowners to refugees who fled Hitler's Europe only to arrive in the Jim Crow South. He then shows how the historical burden of ambivalence between Jews and blacks weighed on such issues as school desegregation, the white massive resistance movement, and business boycotts and sit-ins. As many Jews grappled as never before with the ways they had become--and yet never could become--southerners, their empathy with African Americans translated into scattered, individual actions rather than any large-scale, organized alliance between the two groups. The reasons for this are clear, Webb says, once we get past the notion that the choices of the much larger, less conservative, and urban-centered Jewish populations of the North define those of all American Jews. To understand Jews in the South we must look at their particular circumstances: their small numbers and wide distribution, denominational rifts, and well-founded anxiety over defying racial and class customs set by the region's white Protestant majority. For better or worse, we continue to define the history of Jews and blacks in America by its flash points. By setting aside emotions and shallow perceptions, Fight against Fear takes a substantial step toward giving these two communities the more open and evenhanded consideration their shared experiences demand.
Author: Eli N. Evans
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2006-03-13
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 0807876348
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this classic portrait of Jews in the South, Eli N. Evans takes readers inside the nexus of southern and Jewish histories, from the earliest immigrants to the present day. Evoking the rhythms and heartbeat of Jewish life in the Bible belt, Evans weaves together chapters of recollections from his youth and early years in North Carolina with chapters that explore the experiences of Jews in many cities and small towns across the South. He presents the stories of communities, individuals, and events in this quintessential American landscape that reveal the deeply intertwined strands of what he calls a unique "Southern Jewish consciousness." First published in 1973 and updated in 1997, The Provincials was the first book to take readers on a journey into the soul of the Jewish South, using autobiography, storytelling, and interpretive history to create a complete portrait of Jewish contributions to the history of the region. No other book on this subject combines elements of memoir and history in such a compelling way. This new edition includes a gallery of more than two dozen family and historical photographs as well as a new introduction by the author.
Author: McKissick Museum
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781570034459
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the year 1800, South Carolina was home to more Jews than any other place in North America. As old as the province of Carolina itself, the Jewish presence has been a vital but little-examined element in the growth of cities and towns, in the economy of slavery and post-slavery society, and in the creation of American Jewish religious identity. The record of a landmark exhibition that will change the way people think about Jewish history and American history, A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life presents a remarkable group of art and cultural objects and a provocative investigation of the characters and circumstances that produced them. The book and exhibition are the products of a seven-year collaboration by the Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina, the McKissick Museum of the University of South Carolina, and the College of Charleston. Edited and introduced by Theodore Rosengarten, with original essays by Deborah Dash Moore, Jenna Weissman Joselit, Jack Bass, curator Dale Rosengarten, and Eli N. Evans, A Portion of the People is an important addition to southern arts and letters. A photographic essay by Bill Aron, who has documented Jewish
Author: Debra L. Schultz
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2002-10
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 081479775X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Compelling first-hand stories of Jewish women fighting racism in the American south while coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust.
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Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781565123557
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores the Southern Jewish experience through a collection of photographs that depict the merging traditions of both cultures.
Author: Andrea Greenbaum
Publisher: Brandeis American Jewish Histo
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A lavishly illustrated and lively introduction to a unique American Jewish community.
Author: Jonathan D. Sarna
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2011-09
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 0814771130
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"An erotic scandal chronicle so popular it became a byword... Expertly tailored for contemporary readers. It combines scurrilous attacks on the social and political celebritites of the day, disguised just enough to exercise titillating speculatuion, with luscious erotic tales." —Belles Lettres This story concerns the return of to earth of the goddess of Justice, Astrea, to gather information about private and public behavior on the island of Atalantis. Manley drew on her experience as well as on an obsessive observation of her milieu to produce this fast paced narrative of political and erotic intrigue.
Author: Samuel Proctor
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780865541023
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert N. Rosen
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9781570033636
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reveals the breadth of Jewish participation in the American Civil War on the Confederate side. Rosen describes the Jewish communities in the South and explains their reasons for supporting the South. He relates the experiences of officers, enlisted men, politicians, rabbis and doctors.