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Southern Jewish History
Journal of the Southern Jewish Historical Society

 Mark K. Bauman, Editor
Rachel Heimovics Braun, Managing Editor
Sandra Berman, Primary Sources Section Editor
Stephen J. Whitfield, Book Review Editor
Phyllis Leffler, Exhibit Review Editor
 

Southern Jewish History Volume 12 Issued

The Southern Jewish Historical Society announces the October 2009 publication of Volume 12 of its annual peer-reviewed journal, SOUTHERN JEWISH HISTORY. Orders are now being accepted.

Contents for Volume 12: 

“Quick to the Party: The Americanization of Hanukkah and Southern Jewry” by Dianne Ashton

“Two Generations of the Abraham and Fanny Block Family: Internal Migration, Economics, Family, and the Jewish Frontier” by Mary L. Kwas

“Commerce and Community: A Business History of Jacksonville Jewry” by Stephen J. Whitfield

Notes: “A Second Eyewitness to Jim Conley’s Actions: The Leo Frank Case Revisited” by Stephen Goldfarb

Primary Sources: “Grassroots Reactions to Kishinev Pogrom in Fort Worth and Atlanta” by Hollace Ava Weiner and Sandra Berman

Exhibit Reviews

“Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges,” Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, reviewed by Philip Kasinitz

“Forgotten Gateway: Coming to America through Galveston Island, 1846–1924,” Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, Austin, Texas, reviewed by Bryan Edward Stone

“Voices of Lombard Street: A Century of Change in East Baltimore,” Jewish Museum of Maryland, Baltimore, reviewed by Marni Davis

 

Southern Jewish History is now accepting articles for consideration.

The editor of Southern Jewish History is seeking scholarly articles for consideration for future publication. For submission guidelines or to discuss a potential article relating to the southern Jewish experience, email Mark K. Bauman at markkbauman@aol.com .

Southern Jewish History is seeking book reviewers and books to review.

Contact journal@jewishsouth.org for book review information.

Support the Southern Jewish History Journal

If you or your organization help support the journal with a gift of $250, $500, or $1,000, your name or the name of your organization will appear as a sponsor, patron, or benefactor in the next journal, and you will receive all benefits of membership.

 

 

Southern Jewish History Volume 11 (2008) Still Available

Contents for Volume 11 (2008)

“In the Shadow of Hitler: Birmingham’s Temple Emanu-El and Nazism” by Dan J. Puckett

“Harry Golden, New Yorker: I ♥ NC” by Leonard Rogoff

“Charleston Jewry, Black Civil Rights, and Rabbi Burton Padoll” by Allen Krause

Personality Profile, “A Sephardic Physician in Williamsburg, Virginia” by Alan L. Breitler and Susan Pryor

Primary Sources: Tales of Two Weddings:

“Henrietta Shebeiner marries Aaron Davis, June 7, 1870, Eufaula, Alabama” by Daniel R. Weinfeld

“Rosa Benjamin marries Jacob Katz, July 7, 1886, Micanopy, Florida” by Rachel Heimovics Braun and Marcia Jo Zerivitz

Book Review

Hollace Ava Weiner, Jewish ‘Junior League’: The Rise and Demise of the Fort Worth Council of Jewish Women, reviewed by Ieva Zake

Southern Jewish History Volume 10 (2007) Still Available

Contents for Volume 10 (2007)

SJHS Memories

“Ruminations about the SJHS” by Bernard Wax

“The Pioneer Period of the SJHS (1976-1983)” by Saul J. Rubin

“The Distance Traveled: Reminiscences of Twenty-five Years in SJHS” by Janice Rothschild Blumberg

“Making History: An Interview with Saul Viener” by Eric L. Goldstein

“Reflections on the Past and Future of the Southern Jewish Historical Society” by Eli N. Evans

“Framing Florida Jewry” by Stephen J. Whitfield

“A Shtetl in the Sun: Orthodoxy in Southern Florida” by Edward S. Shapiro

“‘The Law of Life is the Law of Service’: Rabbi Ira Sanders and the Quest for Racial and Social Justice in Arkansas, 1926-1963” by James L. Moses

The Unusual and Bizarre: “Barney and Clyde: A Tale of Murder and Madness” by Jean Roseman

Review Essay: “More than Plantations and Pastrami: Southern Jewish History Comes of Age” by Kirsten Fermaglich

Review Essay: “Measuring Julius Rosenwald’s Legacy” by Stuart Rockoff

Book Reviews

Andrea Greenbaum, ed., Jews of South Florida, reviewed by Mark I. Greenberg

Eliza R. L. McGraw, Two Covenants: Representations of Southern Jewishness, reviewed by Bryan Edward Stone

Mary Stanton, The Hand of Esau: Montgomery’s Jewish Community and the Bus Boycott, reviewed by Dan J. Puckett

Deborah R. Weiner, Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History, reviewed by Dana M. Greene

Hollace Ava Weiner and Kenneth D. Roseman, eds., Lone Stars of David: The Jews of Texas, reviewed by Bobbie Malone

Southern Jewish History Volume 9 (2006) Still Available

Contents for Volume 9 (2006)

“Sophie Weil Browne: From Rabbi's Wife to Clubwoman” by Janice Rothschild Blumberg

“Rabbi Dr. David Marx and the Unity Club: Organized Jewish-Christian Dialogue, Liberalism, and Religious Diversity in Early Twentieth-Century Atlanta” by George R. Wilkes

“Uptown and Traditional” by Jessica Elfenbein

“Israel Fine: Baltimore Businessman and Hebrew Poet” by Peggy Kronsberg Pearlstein

“At One with the Majority” by Mary Stanton

Necrology: Saul Viener (1921-2006) by Bernard Wax

Book Reviews

Marcie Cohen Ferris, Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South, reviewed by Hasia R. Diner

Valerie Frey, Kaye Kole, and Luciana Spracher, Voices of Savannah: Selections from the Oral History Collection of the Savannah Jewish Archives, reviewed by Mark I. Greenberg

Laurie Gunst, Off-White: A Memoir, reviewed by Cheryl Greenberg

C. S. Monaco, Moses Levy of Florida: Jewish Utopian and Antebellum Reformer, reviewed by Saul S. Friedman

Southern Jewish History Volume 8 (2005) Still Available

Contents for Volume 8 (2005)

“Entering the Mainstream of Modern Jewish History: Peddlers and the American Jewish South” by Hasia Diner

“Samuel Fleishman: Tragedy in Reconstruction-Era Florida” by Daniel R. Weinfeld

“Anti-Jewish Violence in the New South” by Patrick Q. Mason

“The ‘Typical Home Kid Overachievers’: Instilling a Success Ethic in the Jewish Children’s Home of New Orleans” by Wendy Besmann

“Macey Kronsberg: Institution Builder of Conservative Judaism in Charleston, S.C., and the Southeast” by Peggy Kronsberg Pearlstein.

Necrology: Samuel Proctor (1919-2005) by Chris Monaco

Book Reviews

David J. Ginzl, Stein Mart: An American Story of Roots, Family and Building a Greater Dream, reviewed by Hollace A. Weiner

Jeffrey Gurock, Orthodoxy in Charleston: Brith Sholom Beth Israel and American Jewish History, reviewed by Deborah R. Weiner

Clara Silverstein, White Girl: A Story of School Desegregation, reviewed by Adam Mendelsohn

Lee Shai Weissbach, Jewish Life in Small Town America: a History, reviewed by Leonard Rogoff

Southern Jewish History Volume 7 (2004) Still Available

Contents for Volume 7 (2004)

“In Distinguished Company: A Profile of Solomon Breibart” by Harlan Greene and Dale Rosengarten

“'What Was on Your Mind Was on Your Tongue': A Profile of Leonard Dinnerstein” by Clive Webb

“'A Sense of Connection to Others': A Profile of Stephen Whitfield” by Deborah R. Weiner

“Edgar Goldberg and the Texas Jewish Herald: Changing Coverage and Blended Identity” by Bryan Edward Stone

“A Prussian-born Jewish Woman on the Florida Frontier: Excerpts from the Memoir of Bertha Zadek Dzialynski” by Canter Brown, Jr.

Book Reviews

Emily Bingham, Mordecai: An Early American Family, reviewed by Jennifer A. Stollman

Alan M. Kraut, Goldberger's War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader, reviewed by Jane Rothstein

Raymond A. Mohl with Matilda “Bobbi” Graff and Shirley M. Zoloth, South of the South: Jewish Activists and the Civil Rights Movement in Miami, 1945-1950, reviewed by Deborah Dash Moore

Steve Oney, And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank, reviewed by Marni Davis

Southern Jewish History Volume 6 (2003) Still Available

Contents for Volume 6 (2003)

“Christian Science, Jewish Science, and Alfred Geiger Moses,” by Ellen M. Umansky

“Synagogue Music for Birmingham, Alabama: Arthur Foote's Azi-Zimrat Yoh,” by John H. Baron

“Two Far South: Rabbinical Responses to Apartheid and Segregation in South Africa and the American South,” by Adam Mendelsohn

“The Ku Klux Klan and the Jewish Community of Dallas, 1921-1923” by Rosalind Benjet

“Articles relating to Southern Jewish History Published in American Jewish History, American Jewish Archives Journal, Their Predecessors, and Southern Jewish History by Mark K. Bauman

Southern Jewish History Volume 5 (2002) Still Available

Contents for Volume 5 (2002)

“Rabbi Alphabet Browne: The Atlanta Years,” by Janice Rothschild Blumberg

“Rabbi Bernard Illowy: Counter Reformer,” by Irwin Lachoff

“James K. Gutheim as Southern Reform Rabbi, Community Leader, and Symbol,” by Scott M. Langston

“A Sugar Utopia on the Florida Frontier: Moses Elias Levy's Pilgrimage Plantation,” by Chris Monaco

Letter to the Editor, “Revisiting Annie T. Wise,” by Arlene G. Rotter

Index to Volumes 1 through 5

Southern Jewish History Volume 4 (2001) Still Available

Contents for Volume 4 (2001)

“Removal Approval: The Industrial Removal Office Experience in Fort Worth, Texas” by Hollace Ava Weiner

“Climbing the Crystal Stair: Annie T. Wise's Success as an Immigrant in Atlanta's Public School System (1872-1925)”, by Arlene G. Rotter

“David Mendes Cohen, Beleaguered Marine,” by Robert Marcus and Jim Quinlan

“A Polish Jew on the Florida Frontier and in Occupied Tennessee: Excerpts from the Memoirs of Max White”, by Richard E. Sapon-White

Review Essay: “In the High Cotton” by Stephen J. Whitfield

Southern Jewish History Volume 3 (2000) Still Available

Contents for Volume 3 (2000)

“A Shtetl Grew in Bessemer: Temple Beth-El and Jewish Life in Small-Town Alabama,” by Terry Barr

“Lynchburg's Swabian Jewish Entrepreneurs in War and Peace,” by Richard A. Hawkins

“Interaction and Identity: Jews and Christians in Nineteenth Century New Orleans,” by Scott Langston

Southern Jewish History Volume 2 (1999) Very Limited Supply, Available only to Libraries

Contents for Volume 2 (1999)

“The Jews of Keystone: Life in a Multicultural Boomtown,” by Deborah R. Weiner

“Lives of Quiet Affirmation: The Jewish Women of Early Anniston, Alabama,” by Sherry Blanton

“Jewish Merchants and Black Customers in the Age of Jim Crow,” by Clive Webb

“Mercy on Rude Streams: Jewish Emigrants from Alsace-Lorraine to the Lower Mississippi Region and the Concept of Fidelity,” by Anny Bloch

“Kosher Country: Success and Survival on Nashville's Music Row,” by Stacy Harris

“From the Recipe File of Luba Cohen: A Study of Southern Jewish Foodways and Cultural Identity,” by Marcie Cohen Ferris

Southern Jewish History Volume 1 (1998) Limited Supply

Contents for Volume 1 (1998)

“Why Study Southern Jewish History,” by Gary P. Zola

“Ride ‘em Jewboy: Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewish Mystique,” by Bryan Stone

“Synagogue and Jewish Church: A Congregational History of North Carolina,” by Leonard Rogoff

“Amelia Greenwald and Regina Kaplan: Jewish Nursing Pioneers,” by Susan Mayer

“Harry Reyner: Individualism and Community in Newport News, Virginia,” by Gertrude L. Samet

“Ruth and Rosalie: Two Tales of Jewish New Orleans,” by Bobbie Malone

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