Selected Bibliography of the Southern Jewish Experience
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* Heart of a Wife: The Diary of a Southern Jewish Woman
Apte, Helen Jacobus
Edited by Marcus D. Rosenbaum.
Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1998.
The Business of Jews in Louisiana, 1840-1870
Ashkenazi, Elliott
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1988.
The Civil War Diary of Clara Solomon: Growing Up in New Orleans, 1861-1862.
Elliot Ashkenazi, editor.
Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1995.
The Quiet Voices: Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights, 1880 to 1990s.
Bauman, Mark K., and Berkley Kalin, eds.
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997.
A Separate Circle: Jewish Life in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Wendy Bessman
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001.
* The Peddler's Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi.
Cohen, Edward.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1999.
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The Leo Frank Case
Dinnerstein, Leonard
New York: Columbia University Press, 1968.
"A Neglected Aspect of Southern Jewish History."
American Jewish Historical Quarterly 61 (Summer 1971).
"A Note on Southern Attitudes Toward Jews."
Jewish Social Studies 32 (January 1970).
* Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate.
Evans, Eli N.
New York: Free Press, 1988.
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* The Lonely Days Were Sundays: Reflections of a Jewish Southerner.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993
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* The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South.
Revised 2nd ed.
New York: Free Press, 1997
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* Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South.
Marcie Cohen Ferris
Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2005.
Beginnings on Market Street: Nashville & Her Jewry, 1861-1901.
Fedora Frank
Nashville, 1976.
"A Sense of Place: Jews, Blacks, and White Gentiles in the American South."
Goldfield, David.
Southern Cultures 3 (Spring 1997).
"Ambivalent Relations: Acceptance and Anti-Semitism in Confederate Thomasville."
Greenberg, Mark I.
American Jewish Archives 45 (Spring/Summer 1993).
"Becoming Southern: The Jews of Savannah, Georgia, 1830-70."
American Jewish History 86 (March 1998).
"Savannah's Jewish Women and the Shaping of Ethnic and Gender Identity, 1830-1900."
Georgia Historical Quarterly 82 (Winter 1998).
The Temple Bombing.
Greene, Melissa Fay.
Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 1996.
Strangers Within the Gate City: The Jews of Atlanta, 1845-1915.
Hertzberg, Steven.
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1978.
"Whitecapping: Anti-Semitism in the Populist Era"
Holmes, William F.
American Jewish Historical Quarterly (March 1974).
Jews in the South
Edited by Leonard Dinnerstein and Mary Dale Palsson.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1973.
(See in particular Bertram W. Korn, "Jews and Negro Slavery in the Old South, 1789-1865")
Jews of the South: Selected Essays from the Southern Jewish Historical Society
Edited by Samuel Proctor and Louis Schmier
Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1984
* Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History
Edited by Marcie Cohen Ferris & Mark I. Greenberg
Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2006.
* Saving Monticello: The Levy Family's Epic Quest to Rescue the House that Jefferson Built.
Leepson, Marc.
New York: Free Press, 2001
* A Biblical People in the Bible Belt: The Jewish Community of Memphis, Tennessee, 1840s-1960s.
Lewis, Selma S.
Macon: Mercer University Press, 1998
Rabbi Max Heller: Reformer, Zionist, Southerner, 1860-1929.
Malone, Bobbie.
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997.
Time's Tapestry: Four Generations of a New Orleans Family.
Marks, Leta Weiss.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997.
* Terror in the Night: The Klan's Campaign Against the Jews.
Nelson, Jack
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993
* Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana.
Powell, Laurence N.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000
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"Nativism, Bigotry and Anti-Semitism in the South"
Rabinowitz, Howard N.
American Jewish History 77 (March 1988)
"Is the Jew White? The Racial Place of the Southern Jew"
Rogoff, Leonard
American Jewish History 85 (September 1997)
* Homelands: Southern Jewish Identity in Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Rogoff, Leonard
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2001
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* The Jewish Confederates
Rosen, Robert N.
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000
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* The Jew Store: A Family Memoir
Suberman, Stella.
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1998
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* Jews in Early Mississippi, 2nd ed.
Turitz, Leo E. and Evelyn Turitz
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1,95
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"Turn to the South": Essays on Southern Jewry.
Edited by Nathan M. Kaganoff and Melvin I. Urofsky
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979
* Jewish Stars in Texas: Rabbis and Their Work
Weiner, Hollace Ava
College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999
* The Levy Family and Monticello, 1834-1923: Saving Thomas Jefferson's House.
Urofsky, Melvin I.
Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2001
* Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights
Webb, Clive
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001
"The Braided Identity of Southern Jewry"
Whitfield, Stephen J.
American Jewish History 78 (March 1988)
"Commercial Passions: the Southern Jew as Businessman."
American Jewish History 71 (March 1982)
"Jews and Other Southerners" In his Voices of Jacob, Hands of Esau: Jews in American Life and Thought
Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1984
* Available for sale in the Peddler's Cart online store .
* Heart of a Wife: The Diary of a Southern Jewish Woman
Apte, Helen Jacobus
Edited by Marcus D. Rosenbaum.
Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1998.
The Business of Jews in Louisiana, 1840-1870
Ashkenazi, Elliott
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1988.
The Civil War Diary of Clara Solomon: Growing Up in New Orleans, 1861-1862.
Elliot Ashkenazi, editor.
Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1995.
The Quiet Voices: Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights, 1880 to 1990s.
Bauman, Mark K., and Berkley Kalin, eds.
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997.
A Separate Circle: Jewish Life in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Wendy Bessman
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001.
* The Peddler's Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi.
Cohen, Edward.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1999.
Order Online Now
The Leo Frank Case
Dinnerstein, Leonard
New York: Columbia University Press, 1968.
"A Neglected Aspect of Southern Jewish History."
American Jewish Historical Quarterly 61 (Summer 1971).
"A Note on Southern Attitudes Toward Jews."
Jewish Social Studies 32 (January 1970).
* Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate.
Evans, Eli N.
New York: Free Press, 1988.
Order Online Now
* The Lonely Days Were Sundays: Reflections of a Jewish Southerner.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993
Order Online Now
* The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South.
Revised 2nd ed.
New York: Free Press, 1997
Order Online Now
* Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South.
Marcie Cohen Ferris
Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2005.
Beginnings on Market Street: Nashville & Her Jewry, 1861-1901.
Fedora Frank
Nashville, 1976.
"A Sense of Place: Jews, Blacks, and White Gentiles in the American South."
Goldfield, David.
Southern Cultures 3 (Spring 1997).
"Ambivalent Relations: Acceptance and Anti-Semitism in Confederate Thomasville."
Greenberg, Mark I.
American Jewish Archives 45 (Spring/Summer 1993).
"Becoming Southern: The Jews of Savannah, Georgia, 1830-70."
American Jewish History 86 (March 1998).
"Savannah's Jewish Women and the Shaping of Ethnic and Gender Identity, 1830-1900."
Georgia Historical Quarterly 82 (Winter 1998).
The Temple Bombing.
Greene, Melissa Fay.
Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 1996.
Strangers Within the Gate City: The Jews of Atlanta, 1845-1915.
Hertzberg, Steven.
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1978.
"Whitecapping: Anti-Semitism in the Populist Era"
Holmes, William F.
American Jewish Historical Quarterly (March 1974).
Jews in the South
Edited by Leonard Dinnerstein and Mary Dale Palsson.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1973.
(See in particular Bertram W. Korn, "Jews and Negro Slavery in the Old South, 1789-1865")
Jews of the South: Selected Essays from the Southern Jewish Historical Society
Edited by Samuel Proctor and Louis Schmier
Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1984
* Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History
Edited by Marcie Cohen Ferris & Mark I. Greenberg
Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2006.
* Saving Monticello: The Levy Family's Epic Quest to Rescue the House that Jefferson Built.
Leepson, Marc.
New York: Free Press, 2001
* A Biblical People in the Bible Belt: The Jewish Community of Memphis, Tennessee, 1840s-1960s.
Lewis, Selma S.
Macon: Mercer University Press, 1998
Rabbi Max Heller: Reformer, Zionist, Southerner, 1860-1929.
Malone, Bobbie.
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997.
Time's Tapestry: Four Generations of a New Orleans Family.
Marks, Leta Weiss.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997.
* Terror in the Night: The Klan's Campaign Against the Jews.
Nelson, Jack
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993
* Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana.
Powell, Laurence N.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000
Order Online Now
"Nativism, Bigotry and Anti-Semitism in the South"
Rabinowitz, Howard N.
American Jewish History 77 (March 1988)
"Is the Jew White? The Racial Place of the Southern Jew"
Rogoff, Leonard
American Jewish History 85 (September 1997)
* Homelands: Southern Jewish Identity in Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Rogoff, Leonard
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2001
Order Online Now
* The Jewish Confederates
Rosen, Robert N.
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000
Order Online Now
* The Jew Store: A Family Memoir
Suberman, Stella.
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1998
Order Online Now
* Jews in Early Mississippi, 2nd ed.
Turitz, Leo E. and Evelyn Turitz
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1,95
Order Online Now
"Turn to the South": Essays on Southern Jewry.
Edited by Nathan M. Kaganoff and Melvin I. Urofsky
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979
* Jewish Stars in Texas: Rabbis and Their Work
Weiner, Hollace Ava
College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999
* The Levy Family and Monticello, 1834-1923: Saving Thomas Jefferson's House.
Urofsky, Melvin I.
Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2001
* Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights
Webb, Clive
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001
"The Braided Identity of Southern Jewry"
Whitfield, Stephen J.
American Jewish History 78 (March 1988)
"Commercial Passions: the Southern Jew as Businessman."
American Jewish History 71 (March 1982)
"Jews and Other Southerners" In his Voices of Jacob, Hands of Esau: Jews in American Life and Thought
Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1984
* Available for sale in the Peddler's Cart online store .