Acknowledgments
Foreword by Ronald H. Bayor
Introduction
Part I. Community and Institution Building
Chapter 1. Variations on the Mortara Case in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
Chapter 2. Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces Facing the People of Many Communities: Atlanta Jews from the Leo Frank Case to the Great Depression
Chapter 3. The Emergence of Jewish Social Service Agencies in Atlanta
Chapter 4. The Transformation of Jewish Social Services in Atlanta, 1928–1948
Chapter 5. Southern Jewish Women and Their Social Service Organizations
Part II. Lay Leadership
Chapter 6. Factionalism and Ethnic Politics in Atlanta: German Jews from the Civil War through the Progressive Era
Chapter 7. Victor H. Kriegshaber: Community Builder
Chapter 8. Role Theory and History: The Illustration of Ethnic Brokerage in the Atlanta Jewish Community in an Era of Transition and Conflict
Chapter 9. The Youthful Musings of a Jewish Community Activist: Josephine Joel Heyman
Part III. Rabbinical Leadership
Chapter 10. Demographics, Anti-Rabbanism, and Freedom of Choice: The Origins and Principles of Reform at Baltimore’s Har Sinai Verein
Chapter 11. The Rabbi as Ethnic Broker: The Case of David Marx. Cowritten with Arnold Shankman
Chapter 12. Harry H. Epstein and the Adaptation of Second-Generation Eastern European Jews in Atlanta
Part IV. International Leadership
Chapter 13. Beyond the Parochial Image of Southern Jewry: Studies in National and International Leadership and Interactive Mechanisms
Chapter 14. The Blaustein–Ben-Gurion Agreement: A Milestone in Israel-Diaspora Relations
Part V. Historiography and Synthesis
Chapter 15. The Southerner as American: Jewish Style
Chapter 16. The Flowering of Interest in Southern Jewish History and Its Integration into Mainstream History
Chapter 17. A Multithematic Approach to Southern Jewish History
Chapter 18. A Century of Southern Jewish Historiography
Notes
Additional Readings
Mark K. Bauman’s Publications on American Jewish History
Index
