A new vision of southern Jewish history : studies in institution building, leadership, interaction, and mobility / Mark K. Bauman ; foreword by Ronald H. Bayor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bauman, Mark K., 1946- author.

Contributor:

Bayor, Ronald H., 1944-

Series:

Jews and Judaism (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)

Jews and Judaism : history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Southern States--History.

Jews.

Jews--Georgia--Atlanta--History.

History.

Georgia--Atlanta.

Southern States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 587 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2019]

Contents:

Community and Institution Building. Variations on the Mortara Case in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New Orleans ; Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces Facing the People of Many Communities: Atlanta Jews from the Leo Frank Case to the Great Depression ; The Emergence of Jewish Social Service Agencies in Atlanta ; The Transformation of Jewish Social Services in Atlanta, 1928-1948 ; Southern Jewish Women and Their Social Service Organizations

Lay Leadership. Factionalism and Ethnic Politics in Atlanta: German Jews from the Civil War through the Progressive Era ; Victor H. Kriegshaber: Community Builder ; Role Theory and History: The Illustration of Ethnic Brokerage in the Atlanta Jewish Community in an Era of Transition and Conflict ; The Youthful Musings of a Jewish Community Activist: Josephine Joel Heyman

Rabbinical Leadership. Demographics, Anti-Rabbanism, and Freedom of Choice: The Origins and Principles of Reform at Baltimore's Har Sinai Verein ; The Rabbi as Ethnic Broker: The Case of David Marx / cowritten with Arnold Shankman

Harry H. Epstein and the Adaptation of Second-Generation Eastern European Jews in Atlanta

International Leadership. Beyond the Parochial Image of Southern Jewry: Studies in National and International Leadership and Interactive Mechanisms ; The Blaustein-Ben-Gurion Agreement: A Milestone in Israel-Diaspora Relations

Historiography and Synthesis. The Southerner as American: Jewish Style ; The Flowering of Interest in Southern Jewish History and Its Integration into Mainstream History ; A MultIthematic Approach to Southern Jewish History ; A Century of Southern Jewish Historiography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780817320188

0817320180

OCLC:

1054267277