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Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History. By Deborah R. Weiner. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. viii + 234.
Representations of Appalachia make it difficult to imagine Appalachia as anything other than a culturally and ethnically homogeneous place where, it has often been claimed, time stood still. Even when one is able to think beyond the tired, old depictions of dirt-poor mountaineers, moonshiners, feudists like the Hatfields and McCoys, Protestant fundamentalists and snake-handlers, or the singers of old-time British ballads to the region's famously embattled coal miners, commonplace images, nonetheless, are of white "Anglo-Saxons." Appalachia's once large African American population is frequently overlooked. So too are Jewish labor organizers like Harry Simms who was murdered in "Bloody Harlan" Kentucky in 1932 for trying to organize a communist-led labor union there. Also overlooked are the many Jewish retailers who marketed consumer goods in places like Harlan... |
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