Author: Marcie Cohen Ferris
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584655893
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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A lively look at southern Jewish history and culture.

Author: Clive Webb
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082034009X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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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
ISBN: 0807876348
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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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: Andrea Greenbaum
Publisher: Brandeis American Jewish Histo
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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A lavishly illustrated and lively introduction to a unique American Jewish community.

Author: Gideon Shimoni
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584653295
Category : Apartheid
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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The first thorough account of South African Jewish religious, political, and educational institutions in relation to the apartheid regime.

Author: Jonathan D. Sarna
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814771130
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446

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"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: Sue Eisenfeld
Publisher: Mad Creek Books
ISBN: 9780814255810
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"A Jewish Yankee journeys through the American South to explore the lesser-known Jewish culture, music, food, and history of the region; she engages with the civil rights movement and legacy of the Civil War and reckons with a changed perspective on her place in American history."

Author: Deborah R. Weiner
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252054946
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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The stories of vibrant eastern European Jewish communities in the Appalachian coalfields Coalfield Jews explores the intersection of two simultaneous historic events: central Appalachia’s transformative coal boom (1880s-1920), and the mass migration of eastern European Jews to America. Traveling to southern West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and southwestern Virginia to investigate the coal boom’s opportunities, some Jewish immigrants found success as retailers and established numerous small but flourishing Jewish communities. Deborah R. Weiner’s Coalfield Jews provides the first extended study of Jews in Appalachia, exploring where they settled, how they made their place within a surprisingly receptive dominant culture, how they competed with coal company stores, interacted with their non-Jewish neighbors, and maintained a strong Jewish identity deep in the heart of the Appalachian mountains. To tell this story, Weiner draws on a wide range of primary sources in social, cultural, religious, labor, economic, and regional history. She also includes moving personal statements, from oral histories as well as archival sources, to create a holistic portrayal of Jewish life that will challenge commonly held views of Appalachia as well as the American Jewish experience.

Author: Debra L. Schultz
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 081479775X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275

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Compelling first-hand stories of Jewish women fighting racism in the American south while coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust.

Author: Samuel Proctor
Publisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865541023
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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