A Story of Jewish Experience in Mississippi /
Waldoff, Leon
A Story of Jewish Experience in Mississippi / Leon Waldoff. - 1 online resource (218 p.) - North American Jewish Studies .
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: From Russia to Mississippi -- Chapter 2: A Merchant, After All -- Chapter 3: Fear in Low Profile: An Incident in the 1930s -- Chapter 4: Our Home -- Chapter 5: Surviving the Depression, Finding Acceptance, Anticipating War -- Chapter 6: Breaking the Silence about Segregation -- Chapter 7: Fear in High Profile: Terrorism in the 1960s -- Afterword -- Endnotes -- Acknowledgments
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Through the story of his Russian-Jewish parents' arrival and in the Mississippi region, the author reveals the experience of the Jewish community in Hattiesburg from the 1920s through the 1960s, as it goes through times of prosperity but also faces the dangers of anti-Semitism. The story starts with the author's father arriving in 1924 to become a peddler and then a merchant, joined by his mother in 1925, and follows the author himself as he searches into the history of his parents and the Jewish community, as well as a variety of its members: a young Jewish man who is tried and convicted of murder; Arthur Brodey, a Reform rabbi who gains wider acceptance for the congregation; Charles Mantinband, a rabbi whose civil rights activities won national recognition but stirred fears of Klan violence in his congregation; and Waldoff's brother-in-law "B" Botnick of the Anti-Defamation League, whose work made him a target of assassin Byron de la Beckwith.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781618118882 9781618118905
10.1515/9781618118905 doi
2018048878
Jews--History--Mississippi--Hattiesburg--20th century.
Jews, Russian--History--Mississippi--Hattiesburg--20th century.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
F350.J5 / W35 2019
A Story of Jewish Experience in Mississippi / Leon Waldoff. - 1 online resource (218 p.) - North American Jewish Studies .
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: From Russia to Mississippi -- Chapter 2: A Merchant, After All -- Chapter 3: Fear in Low Profile: An Incident in the 1930s -- Chapter 4: Our Home -- Chapter 5: Surviving the Depression, Finding Acceptance, Anticipating War -- Chapter 6: Breaking the Silence about Segregation -- Chapter 7: Fear in High Profile: Terrorism in the 1960s -- Afterword -- Endnotes -- Acknowledgments
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Through the story of his Russian-Jewish parents' arrival and in the Mississippi region, the author reveals the experience of the Jewish community in Hattiesburg from the 1920s through the 1960s, as it goes through times of prosperity but also faces the dangers of anti-Semitism. The story starts with the author's father arriving in 1924 to become a peddler and then a merchant, joined by his mother in 1925, and follows the author himself as he searches into the history of his parents and the Jewish community, as well as a variety of its members: a young Jewish man who is tried and convicted of murder; Arthur Brodey, a Reform rabbi who gains wider acceptance for the congregation; Charles Mantinband, a rabbi whose civil rights activities won national recognition but stirred fears of Klan violence in his congregation; and Waldoff's brother-in-law "B" Botnick of the Anti-Defamation League, whose work made him a target of assassin Byron de la Beckwith.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781618118882 9781618118905
10.1515/9781618118905 doi
2018048878
Jews--History--Mississippi--Hattiesburg--20th century.
Jews, Russian--History--Mississippi--Hattiesburg--20th century.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
F350.J5 / W35 2019