Down Home (eBook)

Jewish Life in North Carolina

Leonard Rogoff (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2010
432 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-9599-3 (ISBN)

Infos

A sweeping chronicle of Jewish life in the Tar Heel State from colonial times to the present, this beautifully illustrated volume incorporates oral histories, original historical documents, and profiles of fascinating individuals. The first comprehensive social history of its kind, Down Home demonstrates that the story of North Carolina Jews is attuned to the national story of immigrant acculturation but has a southern twist.Keeping in mind the larger southern, American, and Jewish contexts, Leonard Rogoff considers how the North Carolina Jewish experience differs from that of Jews in other southern states. He explores how Jews very often settled in North Carolinas small towns, rather than in its large cities, and he documents the reach and vitality of Jewish North Carolinians' participation in building the New South and the Sunbelt. Many North Carolina Jews were among those at the forefront of a changing South, Rogoff argues, and their experiences challenge stereotypes of a society that was agrarian and Protestant.More than 125 historic and contemporary photographs complement Rogoffs engaging epic, providing a visual panorama of Jewish social, cultural, economic, and religious life in North Carolina. This volume is a treasure to share and to keep.Published in association with the Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina, Down Home is part of a larger documentary project of the same name that will include a film and a traveling museum exhibition, to be launched in June 2010.

Autor

Leonard Rogoff is historian for the Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina and president of the Southern Jewish Historical Society.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2010
• Zusatzinfo: 30 color and 106 b&w illus., notes, index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 200 x 200 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: down home • jewish heritage foundation • jewish immigrants in north carolina • jewish influence in north carolina • jewish life in north carolina • jewish life in the tar heel state • leonard rogoff
• ISBN-10: 0-8078-9599-7 / 0807895997
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-9599-3 / 9780807895993