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A new vision of southern Jewish history, studies in institution building, leadership, interaction, and mobility, Mark K. Bauman ; foreword by Ronald H. Bayor

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Includes bibliographical references and index

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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A new vision of southern Jewish history

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Mark K. Bauman ; foreword by Ronald H. Bayor

Jews and Judaism : history and culture

studies in institution building, leadership, interaction, and mobility

"The prevailing narrative in southern Jewish history tends to emphasize the role of immigrant Jews as merchants in small southern towns and their subsequent struggles and successes in making a place for themselves in the fabric of those communities. Bauman offers assessments that go far beyond these simplified frameworks and draws upon varieties of subject matter, time periods, locations, tools, and perspectives over three decades of writing and scholarship. A New Vision of Southern Jewish History contains Bauman's studies of Jewish urbanization, acculturation and migration, intra- and inter-group relations, economics and business, government, civic affairs, transnational diplomacy, social services, and gender--all complicating traditional notions of southern Jewish identity. Drawing on role theory as informed by sociology, psychology, demographics, and the nature and dynamics of leadership, Bauman traverses a broad swath--often urban--of the southern landscape, from Savannah, Charleston, and Baltimore through Atlanta, New Orleans, Galveston, and beyond to Europe and Israel."--Front flap of jacket

I: Community and institution building. Variations on the Mortara case in mid-nineteenth-century New Orleans -- Centripetal and centrifugal forces facing the people of many communities: Atlanta Jews from the Leo Frank case to the Great Depression -- The emergence of Jewish social service agencies in Atlanta -- The transformation of Jewish social services in Atlanta, 1928-1948 -- Southern Jewish women and their social service organizations -- II: Lay leadership. Factionalism and ethnic politics in Atlanta: German Jews from the Civil War through the Progressive era -- Victor H. Kriegshaber: community builder -- Role theory and history: the illustration of ethnic brokerage in the Atlanta Jewish community in an era of transition and conflict -- The youthful musings of a Jewish community activist: Josephine Joel Heyman -- III: Rabbinical leadership. Demographics, anti-rabbanism, and freedom of choice: the origins and principles of reform at Baltimore's Har Sinai Verein -- The rabbi as ethnic broker: the case of David Marx / cowritten with Arnold Shankman -- Harry H. Epstein and the adaptation of second-generation Eastern European Jews in Atlanta -- IV: International leadership. Beyond the parochial image of southern Jewry: studies in national and international leadership and interactive mechanisms -- The Blaustein-Ben-Gurion agreement: a milestone in Israel-Diaspora relations -- V: Historiography and synthesis. The southerner as American: Jewish style -- The flowering of interest in southern Jewish history and its integration into mainstream history -- A multithematic approach to southern Jewish history -- A century of southern Jewish historiography