Product Description: Since early colonial times in America, Jewish southerners have been tempted by delectable regional foods. Because some of these foods - including pork and shellfish - have been traditionally forbidden to Jews by religious dietary laws, southern Jews face a special predicament...read more

Product Description: In this classic portrait of Jews in the South, Eli N. Evans takes readers inside the nexus of southern and Jewish histories, from the earliest immigrants to the present day. Evoking the rhythms and heartbeat of Jewish life in the Bible belt, Evans weaves together chapters of recollections from his youth and early years in North Carolina with chapters that explore the experiences of Jews in many cities and small towns across the South...read more

Product Description: An analysis of the Leo Frank case as a measure of the complexities characterizing the relationship between African Americans and Jews in America In 1915 Leo Frank, a Northern Jew, was lynched in Georgia. He had been convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan, a young white woman who worked in the Atlanta pencil factory managed by Frank...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Essays discuss abolition, the Holocaust, American politics, and the lives of southern Jews

Essays look at Jewish emigration to the United States, Jews and the New Deal, Southern attitudes towards Jews, and historical examples of anti-Semitism in the U.S

Product Description: Book by Wessolowsky, Charles