A Century of Jewish Life In Dixie

A Century of Jewish Life In Dixie
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Publisher : University Alabama Press
Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : UVA:X000607604
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Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis A Century of Jewish Life In Dixie by : Mark H. Elovitz

The first substantial history of the Jews in the industrial south This is the first substantial history of the Jews in any inland town or city of the industrial South. The author starts with the Reconstruction Period when the community was established and he carries the story down into the 1970’s. First there were the “Germans,”' the pioneers who built the community; then came the East Euopean emigres who had to cope not only with the problem of survival but the disdain if not the hostility of the already acculturated Central European settlers who had forgotten their own humble beginnings. After World War I came the fusion of the two groups and the need to cooperate religiously and to integrate their cultural, social, and philanthropic institutions. Binding them together and speeding the rise of a total Jewish community was the ever present fear of anti-Jewish prejudice and the “peculiar” problem, a real one, of steering a course between the Christian Whites and the Christian Blacks.

A Century of Jewish Life In Dixie

A Century of Jewish Life In Dixie
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Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Total Pages : 271
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ISBN-10 : 9780817350215
ISBN-13 : 0817350217
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis A Century of Jewish Life In Dixie by : Mark H. Elovitz

The first substantial history of the Jews in the industrial south This is the first substantial history of the Jews in any inland town or city of the industrial South. The author starts with the Reconstruction Period when the community was established and he carries the story down into the 1970’s. First there were the “Germans,”' the pioneers who built the community; then came the East Euopean emigres who had to cope not only with the problem of survival but the disdain if not the hostility of the already acculturated Central European settlers who had forgotten their own humble beginnings. After World War I came the fusion of the two groups and the need to cooperate religiously and to integrate their cultural, social, and philanthropic institutions. Binding them together and speeding the rise of a total Jewish community was the ever present fear of anti-Jewish prejudice and the “peculiar” problem, a real one, of steering a course between the Christian Whites and the Christian Blacks.

Dreaming of Dixie

Dreaming of Dixie
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Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 9780807834718
ISBN-13 : 0807834718
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Dreaming of Dixie by : Karen L. Cox

From the late nineteenth century through World War II, popular culture portrayed the American South as a region ensconced in its antebellum past, draped in moonlight and magnolias, and represented by such southern icons as the mammy, the belle, the chival

Wandering Dixie

Wandering Dixie
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Publisher : Mad Creek Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0814255817
ISBN-13 : 9780814255810
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Wandering Dixie by : Sue Eisenfeld

"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."

Jewish Roots in Southern Soil

Jewish Roots in Southern Soil
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Publisher : UPNE
Total Pages : 388
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ISBN-10 : 1584655895
ISBN-13 : 9781584655893
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Jewish Roots in Southern Soil by : Marcie Cohen Ferris

A lively look at southern Jewish history and culture.

In the Shadow of Hitler

In the Shadow of Hitler
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Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Total Pages : 343
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ISBN-10 : 9780817313289
ISBN-13 : 0817313281
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis In the Shadow of Hitler by : Dan J. Puckett

Dan J. Puckett's In the Shadow of Hitler explores and documents how Alabama Jews became aware of and responded to the coming of the Second World War and the Nazi persecution of European Jews.

A Treasury of American-Jewish Folklore

A Treasury of American-Jewish Folklore
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Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Total Pages : 414
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781461731535
ISBN-13 : 1461731534
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis A Treasury of American-Jewish Folklore by : Steve Koppman

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Fight Against Fear

Fight Against Fear
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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : 9780820340098
ISBN-13 : 082034009X
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Fight Against Fear by : Clive Webb

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.

Samuel Ullman and "Youth"

Samuel Ullman and
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Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Total Pages : 180
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ISBN-10 : 0817306854
ISBN-13 : 9780817306854
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Samuel Ullman and "Youth" by : Margaret England Armbrester

A biography of the writer of Youth, a poem known and admired among the Japanese population and yet largely unknown in the United States. The poem's message of encouragement is presented as a reflection of the substance of Ullman's life and his legacy to Japanese and Americans alike.

What Went Wrong?

What Went Wrong?
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 452
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ISBN-10 : 9781416576686
ISBN-13 : 1416576681
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis What Went Wrong? by : Murray Friedman

From Selma to Crown Heights--what happened to the Black-Jewish civil rights alliance? Murray Friedman recounts for the first time the whole history of the Black-Jewish relationship in America, from colonial times to the present, and shows that this history is far more complex--and conflicted--than historians and revisionists admit.