General Works

 

American Jewish History, vol. 93, no. 2, June 2007: Special Issue: A Sense of Place, eds. Deborah Dash Moore and Dale Rosengarten.

Bauman, Mark K. The Southerner As American: Jewish Style. Cincinnati: American Jewish Archives, 1996 [On the question of Southern Jewish distinctiveness].

Bauman, Mark K. "A Century of Southern Jewish Historiography", American Jewish Archives Journal LIX.1-2 (1997): 3-78.

Bauman, Mark K. Dixie Diaspora: An Anthology of Southern Jewish History. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2006.

Dinnerstein, Leonard. Jews in the South. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1973 [an anthology of important early articles on Southern Jewish history].

Evans, Eli N. The Lonely Days Were Sundays: Reflections of a Jewish Southerner. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993.

-----. The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South. Revised 2nd ed. New York: Free Press, 1997 [Evans’ classic history, brought up to date with several new chapters].

Grunberger, William, ed. From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America. George Braziller, 2005.

Hagedorn, Leah Elizabeth. "Jews and the American South, 1858-1905." Ph. D. dissertation, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999.

Peck, Abraham J. "That Other 'Peculiar Institution': Jews and Judaism in the Nineteenth-Century South." Modern Judaism 7 (Feb.1987): 99-114.

Proctor, Samuel and Louis Schmier, eds. Jews of the South: Selected Essays from the Southern Jewish Historical Society. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1984.

Kaganoff, Nathan M. and Melvin I. Urofsky, eds. "Turn to the South": Essays on Southern Jewry. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979.

Sarna, Jonathan. American Judaism: A History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.

Sorin, Gerald. Tradition Transformed: The Jewish Experience in America. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Weissbach, Lee Shai. Jewish Life in Small-Town America: A History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005.

Whitfield, Stephen J. Voices of Jacob, Hands of Esau: Jews in American Life and Thought. Hamden, Conn: Archon Books, 1984 [Part IV deals with "The Jew as Southerner"].

Whitfield, Stephen J., Review Essay, "In the High Cotton," Southern Jewish History, Vol. 4, (2001), 123-144.

 

Antisemitism and Jewish-Christian Relations

 

Dinnerstein, Leonard. The Leo Frank Case. New York: Columbia University Press, 1968.

-----. Uneasy at Home: Antisemitism and the American Jewish Experience. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987 [includes several chapters on the Southern Jewish experience].

Golden, Harry. "Jew and Gentile in the New South: Segregation at Sundown." Commentary 20 (Nov. 1955): 403-412.

MacLean, Nancy. "The Leo Frank Case Reconsidered: Gender and Sexual Politics in the Making of Reactionary Populism." Journal of American History 78 (1991): 917-948.

Oney, Steve. And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank. New York: Pantheon Books, 2003.

Powell, Lawrence N. Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, The Holocaust and David Duke’s Louisiana. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

Schmier, Louis. "No Jew Can Murder: Memories of Tom Watson and the Lichtenstein Murder Case of 1901." Georgia Historical Quarterly 70 (Fall 1986): 433-455.

Shapiro, Edward S. "Anti-Semitism Mississippi Style." In Anti-Semitism in American History, edited by David A. Gerber, 129-151. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1986 [On the antisemitism of Mississippi Senator Theodore G. Bilbo and Congressman John E. Rankin].

 

Biography

 

Armbrester, Margaret. Samuel Ullman and "Youth": The Life, The Legacy. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1993 [on an Alabama civic leader and social reformer of the late nineteenth century].

Bingham, Emily. Mordecai: An Early American Family. New York: Hill and Wang, 2003 [on a prominent North Carolina family of the antebellum period].

Kraut, Allen M. Goldberger's War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader. New York: Hill and Wang, 2003.

Leidholdt, Alexander S. Editor for Justice: The Life of Louis I. Jaffé. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002 [Jaffé was an editor and anti-lynching advocate in Norfolk, VA].

Monaco, Chris. Moses Levy of Florida: Jewish Utopian and Antebellum Reformer. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2005.

Urofsky, Melvin I. The Levy Family and Monticello, 1834-1923: Saving Thomas Jefferson's House. Charlottesville: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2001.

 

Black-Jewish Relations and Jewish Racial Identity

 

Bauman, Mark K., and Berkley Kalin, eds. The Quiet Voices: Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights, 1880 to 1990s. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997.

Dollinger, Marc. Quest for Inclusion: Jews and Liberalism in Modern America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000 [A national study that compares the Jewish approach to African Americans in the North and South after 1945].

Franklin, V.P., Nancy L. Grant, Harold M. Kletnick, and Genna Rae McNeil, eds. African Americans and Jews in the Twentieth Century: Studies in Convergence and Conflict. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1998.

Goldfield, David. "A Sense of Place: Jews, Blacks, and White Gentiles in the American South." Southern Cultures 3 (Spring 1997): 58-79.

Goldstein, Eric L. The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race and American Identity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006 [a national study that compares the Jewish approach to African Americans in the North and South in the early twentieth century].

Greenberg, Cheryl Lynn. Troubling the waters: Black-Jewish relations in the American century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.

Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Whiteness of a different color : European immigrants and the alchemy of race. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Light, Caroline Elizabeth. "Uplifting 'the Unfortunate of our Race': Southern Jewish Benevolence and the Struggle Towards Whiteness." Ph. D dissertation, University of Kentucky, 2000.

Melnick, Jeffrey. Black-Jewish Relations on Trial: Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2000.

Mohl, Raymond A. with Matilda "Bobbi" Graff and Shirley M. Zoloth. South of the South: Jewish Activists and the Civil Rights Movement in Miami, 1945-1960. Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 2004.

Rockoff, Stuart. "Jewish Racial Identity in Pittsburgh and Atlanta." Ph. D dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 2000.

Rogoff, Leonard. "Is the Jew White?: The Racial Place of the Southern Jew." American Jewish History 85,3 (September, 1997): 195-230.

Webb, Clive. Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2001.

 

Business History

 

Ashkenazi, Elliot. The Business of Jews in Louisiana, 1840-1875. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1988.

[Decter, Avi Y, ed.] Enterprising Emporiums: The Jewish Department Stores of Downtown Baltimore. Baltimore: Jewish Museum of Maryland, 2001.

Schmier, Louis. “Helloo! Peddler Man! Helloo!” In Ethnic Minorities in Gulf Coast Society, ed. Jerrell Schopner, 75-88. Pensacola: Historic Pensacola Preservation Board, 1979.

 

Civil War

 

Ashkenazi, Elliot. The Civil War Diary of Clara Solomon: Growing Up in New Orleans. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1995.

Evans, Eli N. Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate. New York: Free Press, 1988.

Korn, Bertram Wallace. American Jewry and the Civil War. New York: Atheneum, 1970.

Rosen, Robert N. The Jewish Confederates. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2000.

 

Community Studies

 

Breibart, Solomon. Explorations in Charleston's Jewish History. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2005.

Decter, Avi Y. and Karen Falk, eds. We Call This Place Home: Jewish Life in Maryland's Small Towns. Baltimore: Jewish Museum of Maryland, 2003.

Frey, Valerie and Kaye Kole. The Jewish Community of Savannah. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2002.

Frey, Valerie, Kaye Kole and Luciana Spracher. Voices of Savannah: Selections from the Oral History Collection of the Savannah Jewish Archives. Savannah, GA: Savannah Jewish Archives, 2004.

Goldstein, Eric L. Traders and Transports: The Jews of Colonial Maryland. Baltimore: Jewish Historical Society of Maryland, 1993.

Greenberg, Mark I. "Creating Ethnic, Class, and Southern Identity in 19th Century America: the Jews of Savannah 1830-1880." Ph. D. dissertation, University of Florida, 1997.

Hagy, James W. This Happy Land: The Jews of Colonial and Antebellum Charleston. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2003.

Hertzberg, Steven. Strangers Within the Gate City: The Jews of Atlanta, 1845-1915. Philadelphia, PA: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1978.

Lachoff, Irwin and Catherine C. Kahn. The Jewish Community of New Orleans. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2005.

Moore, Deborah Dash. To the Golden Cities: Pursuing the American Jewish Dream in Miami and L.A.. New York: Free Press, 1994.

Rogoff, Leonard. Homelands: Southern Jewish Identity in Durham and Chapel Hill, NC. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2001.

Rosengarten, Theodore and Dale Rosengarten, eds. A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2002 [an exhibition companion volume focusing on Jewish life in South Carolina].

Weiner, Deborah R. Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006.

Weissbach, Lee Shai. Jewish Life in Small-Town America: A History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005 [a national study which includes information on small southern Jewish communities].

Weissbach, Lee Shai. "Kentucky's Jewish History in National Perspective: The Era of Mass Migration." Filson Club Historical Quarterly 69 (1995): 255-274.

 

Jewish Women

 

Stollman, Jennifer. "'Building Up a House of Israel in a Land of Christ': Jewish Women in the Antebellum and Civil War South." Ph. D. dissertation, Michigan State University, 2001.

Apte, Helen Jacobus. Heart of a Wife: The Diary of a Southern Jewish Woman. Edited by Marcus D. Rosenbaum. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1998 [Apte records her experiences in Miami, Tampa and Atlanta during the early twentieth century].

Greenberg, Mark. "Savannah's Jewish Women and the Shaping of Ethnic and Gender Identity, 1830-1900." Georgia Historical Quarterly 82 (Winter 1998): 751-74.

Machlovitz, Wendy. Clara Lowenberg Moses: Memoir of a Southern Jewish Woman. Jackson, MS: Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, 2000 [Moses (1865-1951) lived in Natchez, MS].

 

Material and Popular Culture

 

Ferris, Marcie Cohen. Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

McGraw, Eliza R.L. Two Covenants: Representations of Southern Jewishness. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2005 [a survey of popular and literary representations].

Weissbach, Lee Shai. The Synagogues of Kentucky: Architecture and History. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1995.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "Is It True What They Sing About Dixie?" Southern Cultures 8 (Summer 2002): 9-37 [on Jewish popular songwriters’ frequent use of southern themes].

Zola, Gary. A Place of Our Own: The Rise of Reform Jewish Camping in America. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2006.

 

Memoirs

 

Cohen, Edward. The Peddler's Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1999.

Ellenson, David. "A Separate Life." In Jewish Spiritual Journeys: 20 Essays Written to Honor the Occasion of the 70th Birthday of Eugene B. Borowitz, edited by Lawrence A. Hoffman and Arnold Jacob Wolf, 93-101. New York: Behrman House, 1997 [Includes reflections on Ellenson's boyhood in Newport News, VA].

Marks, Leta Weiss. Time's Tapestry: Four Generations of a New Orleans Family. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1997.

Rubin, Louis D., Jr. My Father's People: A Family of Southern Jews. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2002 [memoir of a Jewish family from Charleston, SC].

Silverstein, Clara. White Girl: A Story of School Desegregation. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2004 [on Silverstein’s experiences during integration in Richmond, VA, public schools].

Suberman, Stella. The Jew Store: A Family Memoir. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1998 [on growing up in a family business in small-town Tennessee].

 

Fiction

 

Goldman, Judy. The Slow Way Back. Perennial, 2000.

Hoffman, Roy. Almost Family. Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 1983.

Hoffman, Roy. Chicken Dreaming Corn. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2004.

Schulman, David. The Past is Never Past: A Gritz Goldberg Mystery. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, 2004.

 

Religious Life and Leadership

 

Bauman, Mark. Harry H. Epstein and the Rabbinate as Conduit for Change. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994 [on a Conservative rabbi from Atlanta].

Corley, Robert. Paying "Civic Rent": The Jews of Emanu-El and the Birmingham Community. Birmingham: A. H. Cather, 1982.

Cowett, Mark. Birmingham's Rabbi: Morris Newfield and Alabama, 1895-1940. University, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1986.

Greene, Melissa Fay. The Temple Bombing. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 1996 [primarily a biography of Jacob M. Rothschild, a rabbi and civil rights activist in Atlanta].

Gurock, Jeffrey S. Orthodoxy in Charleston: Brith Sholom Beth Israel and American Jewish History. Charleston, SC: College of Charleston Library, 2004.

Malone, Bobbie. Rabbi Max Heller: Reformer, Zionist, Southerner. Tuscaloosa, AL: Unversity of Alabama Press, 1997 [Heller was a rabbi in New Orleans].

Umansky, Ellen M. From Christian Science to Jewish Science: Spiritual Healing and American Jews. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004 [a national study that includes a discussion of southern Jews active in the Jewish Science movement].

Weiner, Hollace Ava. Jewish Stars in Texas: Rabbis and Their Work. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1999.

Zola, Gary. Isaac Harby of Charleston, 1788-1828: Jewish Reformer and Intellectual. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1994.