| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 391 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
North Carolina history & culture anthology |
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North Carolina history & culture anthology
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NC LIVE module
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| Contents |
Foreword / Willie Morris -- I. Tobacco Town Jews. 1. An Inconsequential Town. 2. Growing Up in the Family Store -- II. The Immigrants. 3. To Be an American. 4. Tobias: Nine Generations in Charleston. 5. The Jewish Confederates Face Reconstruction. 6. The Lonely Days Were Sundays -- III. The Struggle Against Conformity. 7. Kosher Grits. 8. Zionism in the South. 9. "Miz Evans" and Mister Mayor. 10. "Jesus Loves Me" -- IV. Coming of Age. 11. Mister Jew. 12. Intermarriage Southern Style. 13. Big Wheel on Campus -- V. Discrimination. 14. Anti-Semitism in the South. 15. New Orleans -- the Velvet Rut. 16. The Burned-Out Cross of the Klan. 17. The Jewish Mayor of Atlanta -- VI. Jews and Blacks. 18. The Maids and Black Jesus. 19. Israelites and the Ex-Slaves. 20. Southern Jews in Crisis. 21. The Changing Provincials (Epilogue to the 1973 Edition). 22. Atlanta 2000. 23. The Call from Home. 24. The Nachamson Homecoming Reunion. 25. Farewell, Mister Mayor. 26. Looking Ahead. App. A. Jews Elected to Office in the South, 1800-1920 -- App. B. Jews Elected to Public Office in the South, 1945-1973 -- App. C. Shifts in Jewish Population in Southern States, 1937-1995 |
| Summary |
This portrait of Jews in the South takes readers inside the nexus of southern and Jewish histories, from the earliest immigrants to the present day. This edition includes a gallery of more than two dozen family and historical photographs as well as a new introduction by the author |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Evans, Eli N
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| SUBJECT |
Evans, Eli N. fast |
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Jews -- Southern States
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HISTORY -- State & Local.
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Ethnic relations
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Jews
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| SUBJECT |
Southern States -- Ethnic relations
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| Subject |
Southern States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2004063767 |
| ISBN |
0807876348 |
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9780807876343 |
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0807829587 |
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9780807829585 |
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0807856231 |
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9780807856239 |
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