Jews in the Antebellum South
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996
From: Barry Uhrman
Subject: Jews in the antebellum South
I am doing an Honors research project on Jews in the antebellum South. If anyone has any information about archives, people, books, or other reference materials, please e-mail me.
Thank You,
Barry Uhrman
Uhrman.2@osu.edu
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996
From: Brent Tarter
Subject: Southern Jewish Communities - 2 responses
A good account of the history of the Jewish community in Richmond, Virginia, both before and after the Civil War, is Myron Berman, _Richmond's Jewry, 1769-1976; Shabbat in Shockoe_ (Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1979). It contains information about links between Richmond's Jews and Jews elsewhere in Virginia, citations to a respectable number of primary and secondary sources then in print, and useful primary source citations, too.
Brent Tarter
The Library of Virginia
btarter@leo.vsla.edu
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Alma Carpenter writes:
For information on Jews in the antebellum South, I suggest you contact:
Mr. Macy Hart, Director
The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience
P.O.Box 16528
Jackson, MS 39236-0528
Alma Carpenter
Natchez, MS
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996
From: David Herr
Subject: Jewish Southerners - 4 responses
The book "THE GATES OF HEAVEN: Congregation Sha'arai Shomayin, The First 150 Years, Mobile, Alabama, 1844 - 1994" by Robert J.Zietz is the most recent work on the Jewish community in Mobile. The author is very knowledgable of his subject.
Ned Harkins
Mobile Municipal Archives
maf00527@maf.mobile.al.us
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The largest source of archival material on Southern Jewry is:
American Jewish Archives
3101 Clifton Ave.
Cincinnati, OH 45220-2488
Kevin Proffitt, archivist.
Lynn Berkowitz lynnberk@ix.netcom.com
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Robert Ellis writes:
The Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina has a home page. The address is http://www.scsn.net/~efolley/jhssc/jhssc_home.html
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Emily Bingham writes:
I am currently working on a dissertation about three generations of a southern Jewish family, the Mordecais. Their extensive papers are concentrated in Virginia and North Carolina archives. Very little secondary work has been done on antebellum southern jewry, though you should take a look at any and all of Jacob Marcus' work on early american jews, and you should definitely check Bertram Korn's books, and the best scholar of American Jews in the early period currently working is Jonathan D. Sarna. To my knowledge, the largest repositories of archival sources are at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati and the American Jewish Archives at Brandeis in Waltham, Mass. If you are interested in a particular community (state or city), I could help you further -- an excellent example is Myron Berman's _Richmond's Jewry_. Feel free to write me directly. Emily Bingham (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) emilyb@iglou.com
p.s. Even less work has been done on women and Judaism in this period in the U.S.
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