The quiet voices : Southern rabbis and Black civil rights, 1880s to 1990s / edited by Mark K. Bauman and Berkley Kalin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kalin, Berkley, 1936-

Bauman, Mark K., 1946-

Series:

Judaic studies series (Unnumbered)

Judaic studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights workers--Southern States--Biography.

Civil rights workers.

Judaism and social problems.

Civil rights--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Civil rights.

African Americans--Relations with Jews.

African Americans.

African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States.

Rabbis--Political activity--Southern States.

Rabbis.

Southern States--Ethnic relations.

Southern States.

Southern States--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (457 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [1997]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These wide-ranging essays reveal the various roles played by southern rabbis in the struggle for black civil rights since ReconstructionThe study of black-Jewish relations has become a hotbed of controversy, especially with regard to the role played by Jewish leaders during the Civil Rights movement. Did these leaders play a pivotal role, or did many of them, especially in the South, succumb to societal pressure and strive to be accepted rather than risk being persecuted? If some of these leaders did choose a quieter path, were their reasons valid? And were their methods

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction / Mark K. Bauman; Part I: Genesis; Rabbi Max Heller, Zionism, and the "Negro Question": New Orleans, 1891-1911 / Bobbie S. Malone; Morris Newfield, Alabama, and Blacks, 1895-1940 / Mark Cowett; A Plea for Tolerance: Fineshriber in Memphis / Berkley Kalin; Part II: The Heyday; "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 PreussThe 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; Part III: Memoirs; Jacob M. Rothschild: His Legacy Twenty Years After / Janice Rothschild Blumberg

The Year They Closed the Schools: The Norfolk Story / Malcolm SternA Personal Memoir / Myron Berman; Part IV: Afterword; "Then and Now": Southern Rabbis and Civil Rights / Micah D. Greenstein and Howard Greenstein; Notes; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-422) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8173-8683-1

0-585-09814-X

OCLC:

44964173