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The Southern Jewish Historical Society is pleased to present its Annual Speaker for its 2002 Annual Conference

Conference Theme: The Many Souths of Southern Jewry

Keynote Speaker

Jonathan D. Sarna, Ph.D.
American Jewish History
Contemporary Jewish Life
Judaism in the Americas

JONATHAN D. SARNA, is the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History. His field embraces all aspects of American Jewish history, from the colonial period to the twentieth century, with special emphasis on social, cultural and religious history. He also chairs the Academic Advisory and Editorial Board of the Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives and the on-line Judaic Studies network, H-Judaic.

Dr. Sarna has written, edited or co-edited fifteen books, including The American Jewish Experience: A Reader (1986, 1997); People Walk on Their Heads (1981), a volume dealing with Jewish immigrant life in New York; Jacksonian Jew (1981), a Biography of Mordecai Noah; JPS (1989), a cultural history of the Jewish Publication Society; Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience (1997), with David Dalin, and, with Ellen Smith, The Jews of Boston (1995). He is currently writing a new history of American Judaism.

 

Louis D. Rubin Jr., editor, author and racconteur, reads from his memoir, "My Father's People: A Family of Southern Jews" during the 2002 Shreveport SJHS conference.	During the 2002 conference, Ellen Smith, left, and Darcie Fohrman discussed the "Pitfalls & Possibilities" encountered when designing Jewish History exhibitions.	Robert Rosen, historian of the Confederacy, spoke  at Congregation Agudath Achim, in Louisiana following a home-cooked kosher lunch of gumbo, dirty rice, and bread pudding.
Dr. Eric L. Goldstein and Ph.D. student Marni Davis answer questions after a panel discussion on the Jew's Racial Place in Southern History.	Keynote speaker Dr. Jonathan Sarna, left, spoke to an overflow crowd at Temple B'nai Zion, discussing "Union & Disunion".