Jewish Roots in Southern Soil A New History

Name: Jewish Roots in Southern Soil A New History
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ISBN: 9781584655893

ISBN-10: 1584655895

ISBN-13: 9781584655893

Edition: 2006

Authors: Marcie Ferris, Mark I. Greenberg, Eli N. Evans

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Jews have long been a presence in the American South, first arriving in the late seventeenth century as part of exploratory voyages from Europe to the New World. Two of the nation's earliest Jewish communities were founded in Savannah in 1733 and Charleston in 1749. By 1800, more Jews lived in Charleston than in New York City. Today, Jews comprise less than one half of one percent of the southern population but provide critical sustenance and support for their communities. Nonetheless, southern Jews have perplexed scholars. For more than a century, historians have wrestled with various questions. Why study southern Jewish history? What is the southern Jewish experience? Is southern Jewish…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Publication date: 11/8/2018
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English

Eli N. Evans was born and raised in Durham, North Carolina, and is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Yale Law School. He is author of Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate and The Lonely Days Were Sundays: Reflections of a Jewish Southerner. He is president emeritus of the Charles H. Revson Foundation and lives in New York City.



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Jewish Roots in Southern Soil



One Religion, Different Worlds: Sephardic and Ashkenazic Immigrants in Eighteenth-Century Savannah



American, Jewish, Southern, Mordecai: Constructing Identities to 1865



"The Pen Is Mightier than the Sword": Southern Jewish Women Writers, Antisemitism, and the Promotion of Domestic Judaism



Entering the Mainstream of Modern Jewish History: Peddlers and the American Jewish South



Jewish Confederates



"Now Is the Time to Show Your True Colors": Southern Jews, Whiteness, and the Rise of Jim Crow



The Ascendancy of Reform Judaism in the American South during the Nineteenth Century



A Tangled Web: Black-Jewish Relations in the Twentieth-Century South



An "Intense Heritage": Southern Jewishness in Literature and Film



Dining in the Dixie Diaspora: A Meeting of Region and Religion



Jewish Antiques Roadshow: Religion and Domestic Culture in the American South



The Fall and Rise of the Jewish South



Jewish Fates, Altered States



Selected Bibliography



About the Contributors


Index