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Dixie Diaspora: An Anthology of Southern Jewish History. Edited by Mark K. Bauman. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006.480 pp.
Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History. Edited by Marcie Cohen Ferris and Mark I. Greenberg. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, 2006. xiv + 339 pp.
The study of the history of southern Jews seems to have reached a critical mass recently, after a slow start. In 1976, Richmond hosted a conference on southern Jewish history that resulted in the refounding of the Southern Jewish Historical Society. The Society began to publish its journal Southern Jewish History in 1998. There are now museums and collections dedicated to southern Jewry in Charleston, Atlanta, Jackson, Boca Raton, Miami, Gainesville, Baltimore, and Tulsa; as well as the massive Mississippi enterprise called the Goldring-Woldenberg Institute of Jewish Life, with headquarters in Jackson and museums in Natchez and Utica; and there are probably many more. The McKissick Museum's stunning show A Portion of the People (2002), with its beautiful and scholarly companion volume edited by Theodore and Dale Rosengarten, is one of the most recent developments in this scholarship. (1)
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