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Title The quiet voices : southern rabbis and Black civil rights, 1880s to 1990s / edited by Mark K. Bauman and Berkley Kalin
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (x, 444 pages) : illustrations
Series Judaic studies series
Judaic studies series (Unnumbered)
Contents Rabbi Max Heller, Zionism, and the "negro question" : New Orleans, 1891-1911 / Bobbie S. Malone -- Morris Newfeld, Alabama, and Blacks, 1895-1940 / Mark Cowett -- A plea for tolerance : Fineshriber in Memphis / Berkley Kalin -- "Hamans" and "Torquemadas" : Southern and Northern Jewish responses to the civil rights movement, 1945-1965 / Marc Dollinger -- Civil and social rights efforts of Arkansas Jewry / Carolyn Gray LeMaster -- Rabbi Sidney Wolf : harmonizing in Texas / Hollace Ava Weiner -- Rabbi David Jacobson and the integration of San Antonio / Karl Preuss -- The prophetic voice : Rabbi James A. Wax / Patricia M. LaPointe -- Rabbi Grafman and Birmingham's civil rights era / Terry Barr -- Divided together : Jews and African Americans in Durham, North Carolina / Leonard Rogoff -- Big struggle in a small town : Charles Mantinband of Hattiesburg, Mississippi / Clive Webb -- What price Amos? Perry Nussbaum's career in Jackson, Mississippi / Gary Phillip Zola -- Jacob M. Rothschild : his legacy twenty years after / Janice Rothschild Blumberg -- The year they closed the schools : the Norfolk story / Malcolm Stern -- A personal memoir / Myron Berman -- "Then and now" : Southern rabbis and civil rights / Micah D. Greenstein and Howard Greenstein
Summary These wide-ranging essays reveal the various roles played by southern rabbis in the struggle for black civil rights since ReconstructionThe study of black-Jewish relations has become a hotbed of controversy, especially with regard to the role played by Jewish leaders during the Civil Rights movement. Did these leaders play a pivotal role, or did many of them, especially in the South, succumb to societal pressure and strive to be accepted rather than risk being persecuted? If some of these leaders did choose a quieter path, were their reasons valid? And were their methods
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-422) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Rabbis -- Political activity -- Southern States
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States
African Americans -- Relations with Jews.
Civil rights -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Judaism and social problems.
Civil rights workers -- Southern States -- Biography
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
African Americans -- Civil rights
African Americans -- Relations with Jews
Civil rights -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
Civil rights workers
Ethnic relations
Judaism and social problems
Rabbis -- Political activity
Race relations
SUBJECT Southern States -- Race relations
Southern States -- Ethnic relations
Subject Southern States
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Bauman, Mark K., 1946-
Kalin, Berkley, 1936-
LC no. 97019187
ISBN 058509814X
9780585098142