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A Century of Jewish Life In Dixie

Author : Mark H. Elovitz
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817350217
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book A Century of Jewish Life In Dixie written by Mark H. Elovitz and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2003-03-27 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Dixie Diaspora

Author : Mark K. Bauman
Publisher : Judaic Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Dixie Diaspora written by Mark K. Bauman and published by Judaic Studies. This book was released on 2006 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regional Jewish history at its best. This book is an anthology of essays designed to introduce readers to key issues in this growing field of scholarship and to encourage further study. Divided into five sections--"Jews and Judaism," "Small Town Life," "Business and Governance," "Interaction," and "Identity"--the essays cover a broad geographical and chronological span and address a variety of topics, including economics, politics, roles of women, ethnicity, and race. This organizational structure enhances the volume's historical treatment of regional Jewish history and lends itself to cross-disciplinary study in fields such as cultural studies, religious studies, and political science.

Wandering Dixie

Author : Sue Eisenfeld
Publisher : Mad Creek Books
ISBN 13 : 9780814277836
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (778 download)

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Download or read book Wandering Dixie written by Sue Eisenfeld and published by Mad Creek Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Jewish Confederates

Author : Robert N. Rosen
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570033636
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book The Jewish Confederates written by Robert N. Rosen and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Dreaming of Dixie

Author : Karen L. Cox
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807834718
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Dreaming of Dixie written by Karen L. Cox and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Sue Eisenfeld
Publisher : Mad Creek Books
ISBN 13 : 9780814255810
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Wandering Dixie written by Sue Eisenfeld and published by Mad Creek Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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."

A New Vision of Southern Jewish History

Author : Mark K. Bauman
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817320180
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book A New Vision of Southern Jewish History written by Mark K. Bauman and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays from a prolific career that challenge and overturn traditional narratives of southern Jewish history Mark K. Bauman, one of the foremost scholars of southern Jewish history working today, has spent much of his career, as he puts it, “rewriting southern Jewish history” in ways that its earliest historians could not have envisioned or anticipated, and doing so by specifically targeting themes and trends that might not have been readily apparent to those scholars. A New Vision of Southern Jewish History: Studies in Institution Building, Leadership, Interaction, and Mobility features essays collected from over a thirty-year career, including a never-before-published article. The prevailing narrative in southern Jewish history tends to emphasize the role of immigrant Jews as merchants in small southern towns and their subsequent struggles and successes in making a place for themselves in the fabric of those communities. Bauman offers assessments that go far beyond these simplified frameworks and draws upon varieties of subject matter, time periods, locations, tools, and perspectives over three decades of writing and scholarship. A New Vision of Southern Jewish History contains Bauman’s studies of Jewish urbanization, acculturation and migration, intra- and inter-group relations, economics and business, government, civic affairs, transnational diplomacy, social services, and gender—all complicating traditional notions of southern Jewish identity. Drawing on role theory as informed by sociology, psychology, demographics, and the nature and dynamics of leadership, Bauman traverses a broad swath—often urban—of the southern landscape, from Savannah, Charleston, and Baltimore through Atlanta, New Orleans, Galveston, and beyond the country to Europe and Israel. Bauman’s retrospective volume gives readers the opportunity to review a lifetime of work in a single publication as well as peruse newly penned introductions to his essays. The book also features an “Additional Readings” section designed to update the historiography in the essays.

Jewish Life in Small-Town America

Author : Lee Shai Weissbach
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300127650
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Life in Small-Town America written by Lee Shai Weissbach and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Lee Shai Weissbach offers the first comprehensive portrait of small-town Jewish life in America. Exploring the history of communities of 100 to 1000 Jews, the book focuses on the years from the mid-nineteenth century to World War II. Weissbach examines the dynamics of 490 communities across the United States and reveals that smaller Jewish centers were not simply miniature versions of larger communities but were instead alternative kinds of communities in many respects. The book investigates topics ranging from migration patterns to occupational choices, from Jewish education and marriage strategies to congregational organization. The story of smaller Jewish communities attests to the richness and complexity of American Jewish history and also serves to remind us of the diversity of small-town society in times past.

A Bibliography of Jewish Education in the United States

Author : Norman Drachler
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 081434349X
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Book Synopsis A Bibliography of Jewish Education in the United States by : Norman Drachler

Download or read book A Bibliography of Jewish Education in the United States written by Norman Drachler and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains entries from thousands of publications whether in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and German—books, research reports, educational and general periodicals, synagogue histories, conference proceedings, bibliographies, and encyclopedias—on all aspects of Jewish education from pre-school through secondary education

Fight Against Fear

Author : Clive Webb
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 082034009X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Fight Against Fear written by Clive Webb and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Encyclopedia of American Jewish History [2 volumes]

Author : Stephen H. Norwood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851096434
Total Pages : 881 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Jewish History [2 volumes] written by Stephen H. Norwood and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the most prominent scholars in American Jewish history, this encyclopedia illuminates the varied experiences of America's Jews and their impact on American society and culture over three and a half centuries. American Jews have profoundly shaped, and been shaped by, American culture. Yet American history texts have largely ignored the Jewish experience. The Encyclopedia of American Jewish History corrects that omission. In essays and short entries written by 125 of the world's leading scholars of American Jewish history and culture, this encyclopedia explores both religious and secular aspects of American Jewish life. It examines the European background and immigration of American Jews and their impact on the professions and academic disciplines, mass culture and the arts, literature and theater, and labor and radical movements. It explores Zionism, antisemitism, responses to the Holocaust, the branches of Judaism, and Jews' relations with other groups, including Christians, Muslims, and African Americans. The encyclopedia covers the Jewish press and education, Jewish organizations, and Jews' participation in America's wars. In two comprehensive volumes, Encyclopedia of American Jewish History makes 350 years of American Jewish experience accessible to scholars, all levels of students, and the reading public.

The Dynamics of American Jewish History

Author : Jacob Rader Marcus
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584653431
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book The Dynamics of American Jewish History written by Jacob Rader Marcus and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Gary Phillip Zola brings together an assortment of Jacob Rader Marcus's most important unpublished essays. Marcus called upon American Jewry to study its heritage, insisting on the link between individual Jews and the larger Jewish community.

Jews of the American West

Author : Moses Rischin
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814321713
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Jews of the American West written by Moses Rischin and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of nine original essays, the editors and other leading American historians bring dramatically new perspectives to bear on our understanding of the West, its Jews, and other Americans, both old and new. Whether comparing the history of the Jews of the West with the Jewish experience in the older regions of the country or bringing attention to the uniquely local aspects of the western experience, the contributors to this landmark volume perceive the West as an increasingly important and vital presence in the nation's history. The agrarians of Utah's Clarion and the cureseekers of Denver, no less than the boomers of Tucson, have been representative Americans, Jews, and westerners. Essays on the role of intermarriage, the shared encounter of immigrants and migrants, and the response to the founding of the State of Israel by western pioneer families, tell us much about the interaction of the West with our American world nation.

United States Jewry, 1776-1985

Author : Jacob Rader Marcus
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814344720
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book United States Jewry, 1776-1985 written by Jacob Rader Marcus and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In United States Jewry, 1776–1985, the dean of American Jewish historians, Jacob Rader Marcus, unfolds the history of Jewish immigration, segregation, and integration; of Jewry’s cultural exclusiveness and assimilation; of its internal division and indivisible unity; and of its role in the making of America. Characterized by Marcus’s impeccable scholarship, meticulous documentation, and readable style, this landmark four-volume set completes the history Marcus began in The Colonial American Jew, 1492–1776. The third volume covers the period from 1860 to 1920, beginning with the Jews, slavery, and the Civil War, and concluding with the rise of Reform Judaism as well as the increasing spirit of secularization that characterized emancipated, prosperous, liberal Jewry before it was confronted by a rising tide of American anti-Semitism in the 1920s.

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

Author : Samuel S. Hill
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807877166
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture written by Samuel S. Hill and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006-12-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evangelical Protestant groups have dominated religious life in the South since the early nineteenth century. Even as the conservative Protestantism typically associated with the South has risen in social and political prominence throughout the United States in recent decades, however, religious culture in the South itself has grown increasingly diverse. The region has seen a surge of immigration from other parts of the United States as well as from Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East, bringing increased visibility to Catholicism, Islam, and Asian religions in the once solidly Protestant Christian South. In this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, contributors have revised entries from the original Encyclopedia on topics ranging from religious broadcasting to snake handling and added new entries on such topics as Asian religions, Latino religion, New Age religion, Islam, Native American religion, and social activism. With the contributions of more than 60 authorities in the field--including Paul Harvey, Loyal Jones, Wayne Flynt, and Samuel F. Weber--this volume is an accessibly written, up-to-date reference to religious culture in the American South.

Religion in the Contemporary South

Author : Corrie Norman (E.)
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572333611
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Religion in the Contemporary South written by Corrie Norman (E.) and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion has always been crucial to the cultural identity of the South. Religion in the Contemporary South is the first book to fully address the emerging religious pluralism in the South today.

A Credit to Their Community

Author : Shelly Tenenbaum
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814322871
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book A Credit to Their Community written by Shelly Tenenbaum and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By supplying small entrepreneurs with necessary capital to start and expand their businesses, Jewish loan societies facilitated the rise up the economic ladder of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Jews. These collective institutions were an important feature of a cohesive ethnic economy in which Jewish factory owners hired Jewish workers, Jewish retailers bought goods from Jewish wholesalers, and Jewish shopkeepers relied on Jewish loan associations for funding. A Credit to Their Community is a sociohistorical study of Jewish credit organizations from the 1880s until the end of World War II. Upon their arrival in the United States during this critical period in American Jewish life, Eastern European Jewish immigrants established hundreds of loan societies in communities as diverse as Nashville, Tennessee; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Rock Island, Illinois; and Portland, Oregon. While there is ample discussion and documentation of the over-representation of Jewish immigrants in business, until now the question of how these immigrant entrepreneurs raised the necessary funds to start their enterprises has not been addressed. Based on primary historical documents, this book analyzes the emergence, growth, and subsequent decline of three types of Jewish loan associations in America: Hebrew free loan societies; remedial loan associations—philanthropic loan societies that charged relatively low interest fees; and credit cooperatives. The author addresses a number of issues related to the functioning of the Jewish credit organizations, including the activities of women's loan associations, debates about whether or not to open doors to non-Jewish borrowers, discussions about the merits and faults of implementing interest charges, the effects of the Great Depression on loan organizations, and the relations between free loan Societies and other Jewish organizations. While the primary focus is on Jews, the text also offers comparisons between Jewish loan societies and those of other enterprising groups such as the Japanese and Chinese. This study raises an important theoretical question in the field of ethnicity; namely, to what extent are ethnic institutions influenced by culture—cultural traits brought from countries of origin—and to what extent do they emerge as responses to the new context to which immigrants have arrived? In answering this question, Dr. Tenenbaum highlights the importance of both cultural and contextual factors for the emergence of Jewish loan associations.