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A Biblical People in the Bible Belt - The Jewish Community of Memphis, Tennessee, 1840s-1960s (Hardcover, New)
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A Biblical People in the Bible Belt - The Jewish Community of Memphis, Tennessee, 1840s-1960s (Hardcover, New)
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As both a historian and a member of the community about which she
writes, Selma S. Lewis provides an accurate and lively story of
Jewish life in Memphis. She poignantly describes the origins and
development of a healthy relationship between her "biblical people"
and the people of the Bible Belt. It is largely a hopeful story, of
a Southern city that turned out to be "a favorable place for Jews
to live". For a variety of reasons Jewish Memphians suffered little
overt prejudice, and were able take care of their own needs while
attending to those of the community as a whole. As a result, from
early on they have held positions of municipal leadership, been
active supporters of the city's cultural and philanthropic
activities, and aided in the course of racial integration.
Narrating the life of Jews in Memphis from the antebellum period
through the civil rights movement of the 1960s, Lewis artfully
blends discussions of the Jewish community's proactive impact on
the city's development with their reactions to events local,
national, and international. She vividly highlights their roles in
and responses to the Civil War, late nineteenth-century
immigration, Zionism, the World Wars, the Holocaust, and the civil
rights movement. The result is an important work of Jewish,
American, and Southern religious history.
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