The Jews of New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta : a history of life & community along the bayou Emily Ford & Barry Stiefel

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ford, Emily, 1985-

Contributor:

Stiefel, Barry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.

Jews.

Jews--Mississippi--Delta (Region)--History.

Community life--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.

Community life.

Community life--Mississippi--Delta (Region)--History.

New Orleans (La.)--History.

New Orleans (La.).

New Orleans (La.)--Ethnic relations.

Delta (Miss. : Region)--History, Local.

Delta (Miss. : Region).

Delta (Miss. : Region)--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

158 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2012.

Summary:

"The early days of Louisiana settlement brought with them a clandestine group of Jewish pioneers. Isaac Monsanto and other traders spited the rarely enforced Code Noir banning their occupancy, but it wasn?t until the Louisiana Purchase that larger numbers colonized the area. Immigrants like the Sartorius brothers and Samuel Zemurray made their way from Central and Eastern Europe to settle the bayou country along the Mississippi. They made their homes in and around New Orleans and the Mississippi River delta, establishing congregations like that of Tememe Derech and B?Nai Israel, with the mighty river serving as a mode of transportation and communication, connecting the communities on both sides of the riverbank."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Louisiana and Mississippi in the Colonial Period

Antebellum New Orleans and the Civil War

Antebellum Mississippi and Louisiana and the Civil War

Jewish New Orleans in the New South and the Twentieth Century

Bayou Towns and the Rise and Decline of Jewish Communities

Afterword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-148) and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Ethnic Studies Complementary Collection.

ISBN:

9781609496814 (pbk.)

1609496817 (pbk.)

OCLC:

811850360

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