Homelands : Southern-Jewish Identity in Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rogoff, Leonard.

Series:

Judaic Studies Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Durham Metropolitan Area (N.C.)--Ethnic relations.

Jews--North carolina--Durham Metropolitan Area--History.

Jews--North carolina--Durham Metropolitan Area--Identity.

Local Subjects:

Durham Metropolitan Area (N.C.)--Ethnic relations.

Jews--North carolina--Durham Metropolitan Area--History.

Jews--North carolina--Durham Metropolitan Area--Identity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (410 p.)

Place of Publication:

Alabama : University of Alabama Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Homelands blends oral history, documentary studies, and quantitative research to present a colorful local history with much to say about multicultural identity in the South. Homelands is a case study of a unique ethnic group in North America--small-town southern Jews. Both Jews and southerners, Leonard Rogoff points out, have long struggled with questions of identity and whether to retain their differences or try to assimilate into the nationalculture. Rogoff shows how, as immigrant Jews became small-town southerners,they constantly renegotiated their identities and reinvent

Contents:

Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: More or Less Southern; 2. The North Carolina Background, 1585 to 1870s; 3. A German Jewish Colony, 1870s to 1880s; 4. Russian Tobacco Workers: A Proletarian Interlude, 1880s; 5. East European Immigration: From Old World to New South, 1886 to 1900; 6. Creating an American Jewish Community, 1900 to 1917; 7. Becoming Southern Jews, 1917 to 1929; 8. Crisis and Community, 1930 to 1941; 9. War, Holocaust, and Zion, 1940s to 1950s; 10. Breaking the Boundaries, 1950s to 1960s; 11. Sunbelt Jews, 1960s to 1990s; 12. Conclusion: Exiles at Home

NotesGlossary; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-8173-1356-7

OCLC:

809768599