Myron Berman

The Last of the Jews?

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Last of the Jews? Provides an interpretive study of Southern Jewry from the perspective of an American Jewish family over a period of nearly two centuries as a struggle for ethnic survival conflicts with a natural tendency toward assimilation. This depiction of the Mordecai family presents an intimate glance into the significant events in American History from a Southern viewpoint.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 151mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9780761812470
• ISBN-10: 0761812474
• Artikelnr.: 21966565

Autorenporträt

Myron Berman is a rabbi, historian, and attorney, a former Adjunct Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University, and a former Rabbi at Temple Bethel in Richmond, Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

chapter 1 Dedication chapter 2 Table of Contents chapter 3 List of
Abbreviations chapter 4 Foreword chapter 5 Acknowledgments chapter 6
Introduction chapter 7 The Patriarchs chapter 8 A Jewish Educator in Dixie
chapter 9 Rachel Weeps for Errant Jews chapter 10 A Jewish Scholar in the
South chapter 11 Family Ties and the Civil War chapter 12 The Lost Tribes
of Israel chapter 13 Can Judaism Survive in the South chapter 14 Appendix
chapter 15 Notes chapter 16 Glossary chapter 17 Bibliography chapter 18
Index chapter 19 Notes on the Author