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


Leonard. Rogoff
Bok Engelsk 2007 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt
Tuscaloosa : : University of Alabama Press, , 2007.
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1 online resource (410 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: More or Less Southern; 2. The North Carolina Background, 1585 to 1870's; 3. A German Jewish Colony, 1870's to 1880's; 4. Russian Tobacco Workers: A Proletarian Interlude, 1880's; 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, 1940's to 1950's; 10. Breaking the Boundaries, 1950's to 1960's; 11. Sunbelt Jews, 1960's to 1990's; 12. Conclusion: Exiles at Home. - Notes Glossary; Bibliography; Index. - 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 national culture. Rogoff shows how, as immigrant Jews became small-town southerners,they constantly renegotiated their identities and reinvent
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