The Quiet Voices

Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights, 1880s to 1990s

Judaic Studies Series

Edited by Mark K. Bauman and Berkley Kalin

448 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 1.40 in, 8 illustrations

Paperback
9780817354299
Published: March 2007

$44.95

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9780817386832
Published: July 2014

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Contents Preface Introduction Bauman Mark K. PART I: Genesis Rabbi Max Heller, Zionism, and the “Negro Question”: New Orleans, 1891–1911 Malone Bobbie S. Morris Newfield, Alabama, and Blacks, 1895–1940 Cowett Mark A Plea for Tolerance: Fineshriber in Memphis Kalin Berkley PART II: The Heyday “Hamans” and “Torquemadas”: Southern and Northern Jewish Responses to the Civil Rights Movement, 1945–1965 Dollinger Marc Civil and Social Rights Efforts of Arkansas Jewry LeMaster Carolyn Gray Rabbi Sidney Wolf: Harmonizing in Texas Weiner Hollace Ava Rabbi David Jacobson and the Integration of San Antonio Preuss Karl The Prophetic Voice: Rabbi James A. Wax LaPointe Patricia M. Rabbi Grafman and Birmingham's Civil Rights Era Barr Terry Divided Together: Jews and African Americans in Durham, North Carolina Rogoff Leonard Big Struggle in a Small Town: Charles Mantinband of Hattiesburg, Mississippi Webb Clive What Price Amos? Perry Nussbaum's Career in Jackson, Mississippi Zola Gary Phillip PART III: Memoirs Jacob M. Rothschild: His Legacy Twenty Years After Blumberg Janice Rothschild The Year They Closed the Schools: The Norfolk Story Stern Malcolm A Personal Memoir Berman Myron PART IV: Afterword “Then and Now”: Southern Rabbis and Civil Rights Greenstein Micah D. Greenstein Howard Notes Contributors Index