A History Of Atlantas Jewish Community
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Author | : Jeremy Katz, Foreword by |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1467105856 |
As Atlanta evolved from a sleepy, backwater, 19th-century frontier railroad town into a 21st-century international metropolis, Jewish men and women significantly contributed to the rich tapestry of the "Gate City of the South." The commercial infrastructure of the expanding city was greatly enhanced through numerous small businesses established by Jewish merchants, some of which became major players in various industries. Many of Atlanta's most recognizable icons--The Coca-Cola Company, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Atlanta Braves--originated, in part, thanks to support from visionary leaders in the Jewish community. While there are many success stories throughout Atlanta's Jewish history, there are also dark episodes of blatant antisemitism that traumatized the community and had national implications. The lynching of Leo M. Frank; the bombing of the city's historic synagogue, the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation; and the deliberate expulsion of Jewish students from Emory University Dental School marred Atlanta's self-proclaimed reputation as "The City Too Busy to Hate."
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Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1979 |
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Author | : Steven Hertzberg |
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Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Mark K. Bauman |
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Total Pages | : 39 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Atlanta (Ga.) |
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Author | : Eli N. Evans |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2006-03-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807876348 |
In this classic portrait of Jews in the South, Eli N. Evans takes readers inside the nexus of southern and Jewish histories, from the earliest immigrants to the present day. Evoking the rhythms and heartbeat of Jewish life in the Bible belt, Evans weaves together chapters of recollections from his youth and early years in North Carolina with chapters that explore the experiences of Jews in many cities and small towns across the South. He presents the stories of communities, individuals, and events in this quintessential American landscape that reveal the deeply intertwined strands of what he calls a unique "Southern Jewish consciousness." First published in 1973 and updated in 1997, The Provincials was the first book to take readers on a journey into the soul of the Jewish South, using autobiography, storytelling, and interpretive history to create a complete portrait of Jewish contributions to the history of the region. No other book on this subject combines elements of memoir and history in such a compelling way. This new edition includes a gallery of more than two dozen family and historical photographs as well as a new introduction by the author.
Author | : Atlanta Jewish Federation |
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Total Pages | : 81 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Atlanta (Ga.) |
ISBN | : 9780964211001 |
Author | : Sidney Q. Janus |
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Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Israel |
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Author | : Max C. Gettinger |
Publisher | : Ktav Publishing House |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Laura Arnold Leibman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2021-07-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0197530494 |
An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed her maternal ancestors were Sephardic grandees. Yet she found herself at a dead end when it came to her grandmother's maternal line. Using family heirlooms to unlock the mystery of Moses's ancestors, Once We Were Slaves overturns the reclusive heiress's assumptions about her family history to reveal that her grandmother and great-uncle, Sarah and Isaac Brandon, actually began their lives as poor Christian slaves in Barbados. Tracing the siblings' extraordinary journey throughout the Atlantic World, Leibman examines artifacts they left behind in Barbados, Suriname, London, Philadelphia, and, finally, New York, to show how Sarah and Isaac were able to transform themselves and their lives, becoming free, wealthy, Jewish, and--at times--white. While their affluence made them unusual, their story mirrors that of the largely forgotten population of mixed African and Jewish ancestry that constituted as much as ten percent of the Jewish communities in which the siblings lived, and sheds new light on the fluidity of race--as well as on the role of religion in racial shift--in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Author | : Atlanta Jewish Community Council. Tercentenary Committee |
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Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Jews |
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