LEADER 02824nam 22004813u 450 001 9910461796403321 005 20210111134257.0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000231000 035 $a(EBL)990662 035 $a(OCoLC)809768599 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC990662 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000231000 100 $a20131216d2007|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 200 10$aHomelands$b[electronic resource] $eSouthern Jewish Identity in Durham-Chapel Hill and North Carolina 210 $aTuscaloosa $cUniversity of Alabama Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (410 p.) 225 1 $aJudaic Studies Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8173-1055-X 327 $aContents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: More or Less Southern; 2. The North Carolina Background, 1585 to 1870's; 3. A German Jewish Colony, 1870's to 1880's; 4. Russian Tobacco Workers: A Proletarian Interlude, 1880's; 5. East European Immigration: From Old World to New South, 1886 to 1900; 6. Creating an American Jewish Community, 1900 to 1917; 7. Becoming Southern Jews, 1917 to 1929; 8. Crisis and Community, 1930 to 1941; 9. War, Holocaust, and Zion, 1940's to 1950's; 10. Breaking the Boundaries, 1950's to 1960's; 11. Sunbelt Jews, 1960's to 1990's; 12. Conclusion: Exiles at Home 327 $aNotes Glossary; Bibliography; Index 330 $aHomelands blends oral history, documentary studies, and quantitative research to present a colorful local history with much to say about multicultural identity in the South. Homelands is a case study of a unique ethnic group in North America--small-town southern Jews. Both Jews and southerners, Leonard Rogoff points out, have long struggled with questions of identity and whether to retain their differences or try to assimilate into the national culture. Rogoff shows how, as immigrant Jews became small-town southerners,they constantly renegotiated their identities and reinvent 410 0$aJudaic Studies Series 606 $aDurham Metropolitan Area (N.C.) -- Ethnic relations 606 $aJews -- North carolina -- Durham Metropolitan Area -- History 606 $aJews -- North carolina -- Durham Metropolitan Area -- Identity 608 $aElectronic books. 615 4$aDurham Metropolitan Area (N.C.) -- Ethnic relations. 615 4$aJews -- North carolina -- Durham Metropolitan Area -- History. 615 4$aJews -- North carolina -- Durham Metropolitan Area -- Identity. 676 $a305.89240756 676 $a305.89240756 676 $a975.6 676 $a975.6/563004924 700 $aRogoff$b Leonard$0931193 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461796403321 996 $aHomelands$92094824 997 $aUNINA