Southern Jewish Historical Society 42nd Annual Conference
Borders and Borderlands of Southern Jewish History
The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
Cincinnati, Ohio, November 3–5, 2017
Gary P. Zola, Shari Rabin & Dana Herman, Conference Program Chairs
Friday, November 3:
9 am – Conference registration at AJA
10 am – Bus tour of Jewish Cincinnati, led by Gary P. Zola, departs from AJA
12 pm – Stop at HUC-JIR for lunch and tour of campus
2–4 pm – Complete the tour of Jewish Cincinnati
4:15–5:30 pm – Questioning Region
Chair: Michael R. Cohen
Cynthia Gensheimer and Anton Hieke, “A Migratory Perspective on the 19th-Century South”
David M. Katzman, “Regional Approaches to American Jewish Studies: The View from Small-Town Midwestern Merchant Communities”
Mara Cohen Ioannides, “Where Should the Jewish South Begin?”
6–9 pm – Shabbat dinner at AJA
Keynote: Dr. Hasia Diner, on philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, presented by Beeber Family Speaker Series of the Helen M. Stern Memorial Fund
9 pm – Return to hotel
Saturday, November 4
8:30–9:30 am – Shabbat services at HUC-JIR
9:45–11 am – On Middle Ground: Jewish Life in the Border City of Baltimore
Moderator and Respondent: Leonard Rogoff
Eric Goldstein, “Baltimore: Golden Door to the South?”
Deborah Weiner, “Insiders and Outsiders in a Border City: Baltimore Jews between the World Wars”
11:15 am–12:30 pm – Jewish Organizations and the Trans-Local South
Chair: Gary P. Zola
Jason Lustig, “Collecting at the ‘Jerusalem on the Ohio’: Jacob Rader Marcus’s Archival Vision of America’s Jews”
Marlene Trestman, “The Religious Education of the Children of New Orleans’s Jewish Orphans Home, 1856–1946”
Judah Bernstein, “American Zionism on the Jewish Frontier, 1898–1948”
12:30–1:45 pm – Shabbat Luncheon
Speaker: Leonard Rogoff, on suffragist Gertrude Weil
2–3:15 pm – Borderland Identities
Respondent and Chair: Shari Rabin
Sarah Imhoff, “Playing Cowboys and Indians: Masculinity and the Jewish South”
Mark Allan Goldberg, “On the Borders of American Jewishness: Jewish Latina/os and Historical Storytelling”
3:30–4:45 pm – Building the South
Chair: Ellen Umansky
Mark K. Bauman, “Jews and the Economy during the Colonial Period in Georgia and South Carolina: A New Paradigm”
Karen Kingsley, “Building a New South: The Architectural Designs of Samuel and William Wiener”
Miyuki Kita, “Bringing ‘Tikkun Olam’ Across the Border: Mississippi Freedom Summer through the Eyes of a Queen’s College Student”
5–6 pm – Meet the Authors session
6 pm – Dinner on your own
7:30–9 pm – The Helen M. Stern Cultural Encounter: Rabbi Ken Kanter, musical program “Is It True What They Sing about Dixie?”
Sunday, November 5
8 am – SJHS Membership Meeting
9–10:15 am: Making Southern Communities
Respondent and Chair: Dan J. Puckett
Josh Furman, “Suburban Pioneers: Houston’s Jewish Family Moves to Meyerland”
Gabriel Weinstein, “Zion on ‘The Hill’: A Social History of the Los Alamos Jewish Community, 1943–1957”
10:30–11:45 am – Creating Archives/Cultivating Southern Jewish Identities:
The Jewish Kentucky Oral History Collection
Chair: Kevin Proffitt
Beth L. Goldstein, “Introducing the JHFE Jewish Kentucky Oral History Collection”
Janice W. Fernheimer, “Sharecropping Tobacco in Kentucky: A Narrative of ‘JewGrass’ Identity”
Leslie Davis, “Hillel’s Progressive Image-Building During the Student Protest Era of the 1960s and 1970s”
12 pm – SJHS Conference ends and AJA Synagogue Archives Conference begins