| AUTHORS GUIDELINES | SUBMISSIONS  |   

  SJHS HOME
  UPCOMING CONFERENCE
  PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
  MEMBERSHIP
  SJHS JOURNAL
  NEWSLETTER
  BOOK PRIZE
  OFFICERS
  ARCHIVES
  CONTACT
  PAST CONFERENCES
  GRANTS
  PAST GRANT AWARDS

 

 

 

Southern Jewish History
Journal of the Southern Jewish Historical Society

 Mark K. Bauman, Editor
Rachel Heimovics Braun, Managing Editor
Dana M. Greene, Book Review Editor
 

Southern Jewish History Volume 10 Issued

The Southern Jewish Historical Society announces the November 2007 publication of Volume 10 of its annual peer-reviewed journal, SOUTHERN JEWISH HISTORY. Orders are now being accepted.

Contents for Volume 10: 

·     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

“Conferences and Presidents: SJHS History in Pictorial Memory”

“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 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.

The book review editor of Southern Jewish History is looking for reviewers and scholarly books to review. Contact Dana M. Greene at greenedm@gmail.com or dgreen@nccu.edu.

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 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 (2006) 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) Still Available

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

 

SJHS Journal Charges

Per Journal charges for members
Current Issue $15.00  per journal
Past Issues $10.00 per journal
Per Journal charges for non-members
Current Issue $20.00  per journal
Past Issues $15.00 per journal
Per Journal charges for libraries, institutions, and organizations
Volumes 1 through 10  $40.00 per journal
Shipping & handling
For orders outside the North America, add shipping & handling  $10.00  per journal
For orders to Canada and Mexico, add shipping & handling $5.00 per journal
Membership
New membership in SJHS.  Join before September 1 and receive Volume 11 as a benefit of membership

$35.00

see membership page

Student membership  

$15.00

see membership page

 

To order Southern Jewish History, please print the form below 
and mail it with your payment to:

  SJHS JOURNAL
c/o Rachel Heimovics Braun
954 Stonewood Lane, Maitland, FL 32751-3239

Checks should be made out to the Southern Jewish Historical Society

  To email a question or comment about the Journal, please use the SUBMIT option below, or contact the Journal at:

    

I am reserving copies of Southern Jewish History Journal:
Name:
Address 1:
Address 2:
City:
State: 
Zip:
Country: 
Email:
Phone:
My forthcoming check does does not include a membership fee in the Southern Jewish Historical Society
New membership in SJHS List rate here: 

I am also enclosing a gift to benefit the future publication of the SJHS Journal in the amount of  

Please indicate which journals you are reserving and the quantities:

 

Your email question or comment:

 

 

Home |  Next Conference |  Conference Archives | Archives |  
Newsletter | Grants |  Journal |  Book Prize | Join Us |  Contact Us |