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The quiet voices : southern rabbis and Black civil rights, 1880s to 1990s / edited by Mark K. Bauman and Berkley Kalin.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Judaic studies series (Unnumbered)
- Judaic studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rabbis--Political activity--Southern States.
- Rabbis.
- African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- Ethnic relations.
- Civil rights workers.
- Rabbis--Political activity.
- Southern States.
- African Americans--Relations with Jews.
- Civil rights--Religious aspects--Judaism.
- Civil rights.
- Judaism and social problems.
- Southern States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Civil rights workers--Southern States--Biography.
- Southern States--Ethnic relations.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 444 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [1997]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- These wide-ranging essays reveal the various roles played by southern rabbis in the struggle for black civil rights since Reconstruction.
- Contents:
- Rabbi Max Heller, Zionism, and the "negro question" : New Orleans, 1891-1911 / Bobbie S. Malone
- Morris Newfeld, Alabama, and Blacks, 1895-1940 / Mark Cowett
- A plea for tolerance : Fineshriber in Memphis / Berkley Kalin
- "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
- Rabbi David Jacobson and the integration of San Antonio / Karl Preuss
- The 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
- Jacob M. Rothschild : his legacy twenty years after / Janice Rothschild Blumberg
- The year they closed the schools : the Norfolk story / Malcolm Stern
- A personal memoir / Myron Berman
- "Then and now" : Southern rabbis and civil rights / Micah D. Greenstein and Howard Greenstein.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-422) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780817386832
- 0817386831
- Publisher Number:
- 99986860721
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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