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1 online resource (457 pages) |
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Judaic Studies Series |
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Judaic studies series.
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| Contents |
Preface; Introduction / Mark K. Bauman; Part I: Genesis; Rabbi Max Heller, Zionism, and the "Negro Question": New Orleans, 1891-1911 / Bobbie S. Malone; Morris Newfield, Alabama, and Blacks, 1895-1940 / Mark Cowett; A Plea for Tolerance: Fineshriber in Memphis / Berkley Kalin; Part II: The Heyday; "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 |
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Rabbi David Jacobson and the Integration of San Antonio / Karl PreussThe 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; Part III: Memoirs; Jacob M. Rothschild: His Legacy Twenty Years After / Janice Rothschild Blumberg |
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The Year They Closed the Schools: The Norfolk Story / Malcolm SternA Personal Memoir / Myron Berman; Part IV: Afterword; "Then and Now": Southern Rabbis and Civil Rights / Micah D. Greenstein and Howard Greenstein; Notes; Contributors; Index |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Rabbis -- Political activity -- Southern States -- Biography
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States
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African Americans -- Southern States -- Relations with Jews
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Civil rights -- Judaism -- Religious aspects
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Judaism and social problems.
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Civil rights workers.
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Human rights workers.
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Human rights workers
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African Americans -- Civil rights
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African Americans -- Relations with Jews
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Civil rights workers
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Judaism and social problems
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Rabbis -- Political activity
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Southern States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kalin, Berkley
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| ISBN |
9780817386832 |
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0817386831 |
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