Southern Jewish History, Volume 14

Members receive one copy of Volume 14 as a benefit of membership.  Members may purchase additional copies at the member’s price of $15. The price for non-members is $20 and for institutions, $40 To order, send a check to:

Southern Jewish History
c/o Rachel Heimovics Braun, Managing Editor
954 Stonewood Lane
Maitland, FL 32751
 

 

Table of Contents

"Contextualizing the Franco-Jewish Experience in the South" by Lee Shai Weissbach 

"A Tale of Two Cities: Race, Riots, and Religion in New Bern and Wilmington, North Carolina, 1898" by  Leonard Rogoff

"Paula Ackerman: Pioneer in the Pulpit" by Ellen M. Umansky

"A Southern Senator and Israel: Senator J. William Fulbright’s Accusations of Undue Influence over American Foreign Policy
in the Middle East" by Arlene Lazarowitz    

 PRIMARY SOURCES:

"The Bible and Bombings: Southern Rabbis Respond During the Civil Rights Movement" by Scott M. Langston    

BOOK REVIEWS:


Rebecca T. Albert, Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball, reviewed by Jeffrey S. Gurock    

Anny Bloch-Raymond, Des berges du Rhin aux rives de Mississippi: Histoire et récits de migrants juifs, reviewed by Helen Y. Herman    

Karen L. Cox, Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture, reviewed by Stephen J. Whitfield  

Jonathan Sarna and Adam Mendelsohn, editors, Jews and the Civil War: A Reader, reviewed by Anton Hieke     

EXHIBIT REVIEWS:


National Museum of American Jewish History: Core Exhibition, Philadelphia, reviewed by J. Kime Lawson   

Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina, traveling exhibition, reviewed by Patrick Lee Lucas   

WEBSITE REVIEW:


The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives website, reviewed by Julian H. Preisler