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

Bauman, Mark K., 1946- (Added Author). Kalin, Berkley, 1936- (Added Author).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 058509814X
ISBN: 9780585098142
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 444 pages) : illustrations.
Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1997.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-422) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Rabbi Max Heller, Zionism, and the "negro question" : New Orleans, 1891-1911 / Bobbie S. Malone -- Morris Newfeld, Alabama, and Blacks, 1895-1940 / Mark Cowett -- A plea for tolerance : Fineshriber in Memphis / Berkley Kalin -- "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 Preuss -- The 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 -- Jacob M. Rothschild : his legacy twenty years after / Janice Rothschild Blumberg -- The year they closed the schools : the Norfolk story / Malcolm Stern -- A personal memoir / Myron Berman -- "Then and now" : Southern rabbis and civil rights / Micah D. Greenstein and Howard Greenstein.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.