THE JEWISH SOUTH
An American History
The Jewish South tells the story of Jews in the American South, from the colonial period through the civil rights era. Rabin sheds new light on the complicated decisions that southern Jews made – as individuals, families, and communities – to fit into a society built on Native land and enslaved labor and to maintain forms of Jewish difference, often through religious innovation and adaptation.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Shari Rabin is associate professor of Jewish studies and religion and Chair of Jewish Studies at Oberlin College. She is also the author of Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America, winner of a National Jewish Book Award. She received her PhD from Yale University in Jewish Studies. She currently serves as vice president (and president-elect) of the Southern Jewish Historical Society.