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The provincials; a personal history of Jews in the South

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Evans, Eli N.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, Atheneum, [1973]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Evans, Eli N. Jews > Southern States. Southern States > Ethnic relations. Juifs > États-Unis (Sud) États-Unis (Sud) > Relations interethniques. Ethnic relations Jews Southern States USA Jews > Southern States > History. Jews > United States > History. Juden. Autobiography autobiographies (literary works) Autobiographies Autobiographies.

Table of Contents:

I. Tobacco town Jews. An inconsequential town
Growing up in the family store
II. The immigrants. To be an American
Tobias : nine generations in Charleston
The Jewish Confederates face reconstruction
The lonely days were Sundays
III. The struggle against conformity. Kosher grits
Zionism in the South
"Miz Evans" and Mister Mayor
"Jesus loves me"
Mister Speaker
IV. Coming of age. Mister Jew
Intermarriage Southern style
Big wheel on campus
V. Discrimination. Anti-Semitism in the South
New Orleans : the velvet rut
The burned-out cross of the Klan
The Jewish mayor of Atlanta
VI. Jews and Blacks. The maids and Black Jesus
Israelites and the ex-slaves
Southern Jews in crisis
The changing provincials.