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• Maryland’s Jews, Military Service, and the American Revolutionary Era: The Case of Elias Pollock, Owen Lourie
• “Did You Ever Hear of Judah Benjamin?” Fictional Representations of the Jewish Confederate, Michael Hoberman
• Max Moses Heller: Jewish Mayor in the Sunbelt South, Andrew Harrison Baker

Primary Sources

• “A Good Place to Emigrate to Now”: Recruiting Eastern European Jews for the Galveston Movement in 1907, Joshua J. Furman

Memoirs

• From the Memoirs Section Editors, Lance J. Sussman and Karen S. Franklin
• Contextualizing Rabbi Davidow’s Memoir: A Historical Introduction To Jewish Life in the Mississippi Delta,1943–1961, Lance J. Sussman and Paul Finkelman
• Growing Up Jewish in the Mississippi Delta, 1943–1961:A Rabbi’s Memoir, Fred Davidow

Book Reviews

• Review Essay: Memoirs and Archives: Celebrating the Jews of Atlanta, Jacob Morrow-Spitzer
• Howard Ball, Taking the Fight South: Chronicle of a Jew’s Battle for Civil Rights in Mississippi, reviewed by Fred V. Davidow
• Andrew Feiler, A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools that Changed America, reviewed by Deborah Dash Moore
• Marilyn Grace Miller, Port of No Return: Enemy Alien Internment in World War II New Orleans, reviewed by Shael Herman
• T. K. Thorne, Behind the Magic Curtain: Secrets, Spies, and Unsung White Allies of Birmingham’s Civil Rights Days, reviewed by Raymond Arsenault
• James Traub, Judah Benjamin: Counselor to the Confederacy, reviewed by Michael Hoberman

Exhibit Reviews

• The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, reviewed by Irwin Lachoff
• History with Chutzpah: Remarkable Stories of the Southern Jewish Adventure, 1733–Present, reviewed by Leah Lefkowitz
• A Source of Light, reviewed by Ashley Walters

Website Review

• Jewish Merchant Project, reviewed by Diane Vecchio

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• Southern Jews, Woman Suffrage, Leonard Rogoff
• New Jewish Women: Shaping the Future of a “New South” in the Palmetto State, Diane C. Vecchio
• Two Commemorations: Richmond Jews and the Lost Cause during the Civil Rights Era, David Weinfeld
• Moshe Cahana, Ethical Zionism, and the Application of Jewish Nationalism to Civil Rights Struggles in the American South, Timothy R. Riggio Quevillon

Primary Sources

• Resources for Southern Jewish Research: A Family History Perspective, Karen S. Franklin and Anton Hieke

Book Reviews

• Mark K. Bauman, A New Vision of Southern Jewish History: Studies in Institution Building, Leadership, Interaction, and Mobility, reviewed by Gary Phillip Zola
• S. Perry Brickman, Extracted: Unmasking Rampant Antisemitism in America’s Higher Education, reviewed by Carl L. Zielonka
• David E. Lowe, Touched with Fire: Morris B. Abram and the Battle Against Racial and Religious Discrimination, reviewed by Jonathan B. Krasner
• Walker Robins, Between Dixie and Zion: Southern Baptists and Palestine before Israel, reviewed by Yaakov Ariel
• Marcia Jo Zerivitz, Jews of Florida: Centuries of Stories, reviewed by Kenneth D. Wald     

Exhibit Reviews

• Modern Visions, Modern Art: The Cone Sisters in North Carolina and Modern Visions, Mountain Views: The Cones of Flat Top Manor, reviewed by Leonard Rogoff

Website Review

• Mapping Jewish Charleston: From the Colonial Era to the Present Day, reviewed by Curt Jackson

Film Review

• Shared Legacies: The African American-Jewish Civil Rights Alliance, reviewed by Aaron Levi

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• The Atlanta Federal Penitentiary and Area Jews: A Social Service Case Study, Mark K. Bauman and Leah Burnham
• Insiders or Outsiders: Charlottesville’s Jews, White Supremacy, and Antisemitism, Phyllis K. Leffler

Primary Sources

• The Galveston Diaspora: A Statistical View of Jewish Immigration Through Texas, 1907–1913, Bryan Edward Stone

Book Reviews

• Michael R. Cohen, Cotton Capitalists: American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the Reconstruction Era, reviewed by Edward S. Shapiro
• Arlo Haskell, The Jews of Key West: Smugglers, Cigar Makers, and Revolutionaries, 1823–1969, reviewed by Raymond Arsenault
• Shari Rabin, Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America, reviewed by Lee Shai Weissbach

Exhibit Reviews

• The Legacy of the Hebrew Orphans’ Home: Educating the Jewish South Since 1876, reviewed by Caroline Light
• Kehillah: A History of Jewish Life in Greater Orlando, reviewed by Mark I. Pinsky

Website Review

• The Texas Slavery Project, reviewed by Joshua Furman

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• In the Board We Trust: Jewish Communal Arbitration Cases in Antebellum Charleston, South Carolina, Barry L. Stiefel
• Nameless Graves: The Touro Infirmary Cemetery in New Orleans, 1888–1908, Florence M. Jumonville
• “NCJW Joins the War on Poverty”: The National Council of Jewish Women and the Quest for Opportunity in 1960s Atlanta, Emily Alice Katz
• Personality Profile: Esther Kahn Taylor: Hadassah Lady Turned Birth Control Advocate, Ellen G. Rafshoon

Primary Sources

• Both Sides of the Same Coin: Two Atlantans in Israel’s War of Independence, Jeremy Katz

Book Reviews

• Hasia Diner, Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way, reviewed by Anton Hieke
• Debbie Z. Harwell, Wednesdays in Mississippi: Proper Ladies Working for Radical Change, Freedom Summer 1964, reviewed by Miyuki Kita
• Tom Rice, White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan, reviewed by Matthew H. Bernstein
• Marlene Trestman, Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin, reviewed by Melvin I. Urofsky

Website Review

• The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, reviewed by Anna Tucker

Exhibit Reviews

• Seeking Justice: The Leo Frank Case Revisited, reviewed by Ellen G. Rafshoon
• Congregation Mickve Israel Museum, reviewed by Lynn Levine

Film Review

• Carvalho’s Journey, reviewed by Michael Hoberman

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• Marx Cohen and Clear Springs Plantation, Seth R. Clare
• Rabbi Maurice Mayer: German Revolutionary, Charleston Reformer, and Anti-Abolitionist, Anton Hieke
• A Certain Ambivalence: Florida’s Jews and the Civil War, Daniel R. Weinfeld
• An Interview with Bernard Wax, Adam Mendelsohn
• Postscript: Reminiscences and Observations, Bernard Wax

Primary Sources

• In Southern States: Historical Texts from the Arbeter Ring’s Southern District (English Translation from Yiddish), Josh Parshall
• Two Civil Rights Testimonies, Edward K. Kaplan

Book Reviews

• Anton Hieke, Jewish Identity in the Reconstruction South: Ambivalence and Adaptation, reviewed by Lee Shai Weissbach
• Dan J. Puckett, In the Shadow of Hitler: Alabama’s Jews, the Second World War, and the Holocaust, reviewed by Kirsten Fermaglich

Website Review

• Gershwind-Bennett Isaac Leeser Digital Repository, website reviewed by Adam Mendelsohn

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• Teaching Southern Jewish History: A Dialogue, Scott M. Langston and Bryan Edward Stone
• Samuel and Saul Isaac: International Jewish Arms Dealers, Blockade Runners, and Civil War Profiteers, Adam Mendelsohn
• Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson, Operation Texas, and Jewish Immigration, Claudia Wilson Anderson
• Between the Borscht Belt and the Bible Belt: Crafting Southern Jewishness Through Chutzpah and Humor, Jarrod Tanny

Primary Sources

• Zionism on the West Texas Plains, Stuart Rockoff

Book Reviews

• Rich Cohen, The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King, reviewed by Stephen J. Whitfield
• Marni Davis, Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition, reviewed by Thomas R. Pegram
• Robert H. Gillette, The Virginia Plan: William B. Thalhimer and a Rescue from Nazi Germany, reviewed by Michael Murphy
• Kathryn J. McGarr, The Whole Damn Deal: Robert Strauss and the Art of Politics, reviewed by Hollace Ava Weiner
• Arthur Remillard, Southern Civil Religions: Imagining the Good Society in the Post-Reconstruction South, reviewed by Mitchell Snay

Exhibit Review

• That You’ll Remember Me: Jewish Voices of the Civil War, Beth Ahabah Museum and Archives, reviewed by John Kneebone

Website Review

• Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life, reviewed by Dina Pinsky

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• Jews at the Cape Fear Coast: A Portrait of Jewish Wilmington, NC, 1860–1880, Anton Hieke
• That Spirit Must be Stamped Out: The Mutilation of Joseph Needleman and North Carolina’s Effort to Prosecute Lynch Mob Participants during the 1920s, Vann Newkirk
• Kristallnacht and North Carolina: Reporting on Nazi Antisemitism in Black and White, Robert Drake
• The Hermans of New Orleans: A Family in History, Stephen J. Whitfield
• Rabbi Benjamin Schultz and the American Jewish League Against Communism: From McCarthy to Mississippi, Allen Krause

Primary Sources

• Leo Frank Revisited: New Resources on an Old Subject, Sandra Berman
• Necrology: Solomon Breibart (1914–2009), Janice Rothschild Blumberg

Book Reviews

• Matthew H. Bernstein, Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television, reviewed by Michael Rothschild
• Benjamin Ginsberg, Moses of South Carolina: A Jewish Scalawag during Reconstruction, reviewed by Robert P. Bloomberg
• Leonard Rogoff, Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina, reviewed by Michael Cohen
• Hans J. Sternberg with James E. Shelledy, We Were Merchants: The Sternberg Family and the Story of Goudchaux’s and Maison Blanche Department Stores, reviewed by Mary L. Kwas
• Bryan Edward Stone, The Chosen Folks: Jews on the Frontiers of Texas, reviewed by Stuart Rockoff
• Clive Webb, Rabble Rousers: The American Far Right in the Civil Rights Era, reviewed by Leonard Dinnerstein

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• In the Shadow of Hitler: Birmingham’s Temple Emanu-El and Nazism, Dan J. Puckett
• Harry Golden, New Yorker: I ♥ NC, Leonard Rogoff
• Charleston Jewry, Black Civil Rights, and Rabbi Burton Padoll, Allen Krause
• Personality Profile—A Sephardic Physician in Williamsburg, Virginia, Alan L. Breitler and Susan Pryor

Primary Sources: Tales of Two Weddings

• Henrietta Shebeiner marries Aaron Davis, June 7, 1870, Eufaula, Alabama, Daniel R. Weinfeld
• Rosa Benjamin marries Jacob Katz, July 7, 1886, Micanopy, Florida, Rachel Heimovics Braun and Marcia Jo Zerivitz

Book Review

• Hollace Ava Weiner, Jewish ‘Junior League’: The Rise and Demise of the Fort Worth Council of Jewish Women, reviewed by Ieva Zake

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• Sophie Weil Browne: From Rabbi’s Wife to Clubwoman, Janice Rothschild Blumberg
• Rabbi Dr. David Marx and the Unity Club: Organized Jewish-Christian Dialogue, Liberalism, and Religious Diversity in Early Twentieth-Century Atlanta, George R. Wilkes
• Uptown and Traditional, Jessica Elfenbein
• Israel Fine: Baltimore Businessman and Hebrew Poet, Peggy Kronsberg Pearlstein
• At One with the Majority, Mary Stanton

Necrology: Saul Viener (1921–2006), Bernard Wax

Review Essay: Jews, Whiteness, and Civil Rights, Ronald H. Bayor

Book Reviews

• Marcie Cohen Ferris, Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South, reviewed by Hasia R. Diner
• Valerie Frey, Kaye Kole, and Luciana Spracher, Voices of Savannah: Selections from the Oral History Collection of the Savannah Jewish Archives, reviewed by Mark I. Greenberg
• Laurie Gunst, Off-White: A Memoir, reviewed by Cheryl Greenberg
• C. S. Monaco, Moses Levy of Florida: Jewish Utopian and Antebellum Reformer, reviewed by Saul S. Friedman

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Historian Profiles

• In Distinguished Company: A Profile of Solomon Breibart, Harlan Greene and Dale Rosengarten
• “What Was on Your Mind Was on Your Tongue”: A Profile of Leonard Dinnerstein, Clive Webb
• “A Sense of Connection to Others”: A Profile of Stephen Whitfield, Deborah R. Weiner
• Edgar Goldberg and the Texas Jewish Herald: Changing Coverage and Blended Identity, Bryan Edward Stone

Notes and Documents: A Prussian-born Jewish Woman on the Florida Frontier: Excerpts from the Memoir of Bertha Zadek Dzialynski, Canter Brown, Jr.

Book Reviews

• Emily Bingham, Mordecai: An Early American Family, reviewed by Jennifer A. Stollman
• Alan M. Kraut, Goldberger’s War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader, reviewed by Jane Rothstein
• Raymond A. Mohl with Matilda “Bobbi” Graff and Shirley M. Zoloth, South of the South: Jewish Activists and the Civil Rights Movement in Miami, 1945–1950, reviewed by Deborah Dash Moore
• Steve Oney, And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank, reviewed by Marni Davis

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• Rabbi Alphabet Browne: The Atlanta Years, Janice Rothschild Blumberg
• Rabbi Bernard Illowy: Counter Reformer, Irwin Lachoff
• James K. Gutheim as Southern Reform Rabbi, Community Leader, and Symbol, Scott M. Langston
• A Sugar Utopia on the Florida Frontier: Moses Elias Levy’s Pilgrimage Plantation, Chris Monaco
• Letter to the Editor: Revisiting Annie T. Wise, Arlene G. Rotter
• Index to Volumes 1 through 5

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• A Shtetl Grew in Bessemer: Temple Beth-El and Jewish Life in Small-Town Alabama, Terry Barr
• Lynchburg’s Swabian Jewish Entrepreneurs in War and Peace, Richard A. Hawkins
• Interaction and Identity: Jews and Christians in Nineteenth Century New Orleans, Scott Langston

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• Why Study Southern Jewish History?, Gary P. Zola
• “Ride ‘em, Jewboy”: Kinky Friedman and the Texas Mystique, Bryan Edward Stone
• Synagogue and Jewish Church: A Congregational History of North Carolina, Leonard Rogoff
• Amelia Greenwald and Regina Kaplan: Jewish Nursing Pioneers, Susan Mayer
• Personality Profile: Harry Reyner: Individualism and Community in Newport News, Virginia, Gertrude L. Samet
• As Told to Memoirs—Ruth and Rosalie: Two Tales of Jewish New Orleans, Bobbie Malone

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The Journal of the Southern Jewish Historical Society (1958-1963)
Three issues of a peer-edited journal were produced by the Southern Jewish Historical Society between 1958 and 1963. They are available below as full volumes.

Volume 1, Number 1 (November 1958)

• Foreword, Dr. Jacob R. Marcus
• Moses Myers and the Early Jewish Community of Norfolk, Dr. Malcolm H. Stern
• Acquisitions to SJHS Collection at Valentine Museum
• Tombstones That Tell a Story, Charleston's Historic Coming Street Cemetery, Thomas J. Tobias
• Franklin J. Moses: Chief Justice of South Carolina, Harry Simonhoff

Volume 1, Number 2 (October 1959)

• Religious Freedom and the Jew in Colonial Virginia, Louis Ginsberg
• Rebecca Gratz and Henry Clay: an American Jewess Observes a Leader’s Drive for the Presidency, Dr. Joseph R. Rosenbloom
• Rev. M. J. Michelbacher (Illustration)
• A Letter from Herman Hecht to his Son Armand Hecht
• Monticello and the Levy Family, Dr. Malcolm H. Stern
• George Jacobs, A Versatile Jew, Emilie V. Jacobs

Volume 1, Number 3 (November 1963)

• The American Civil War, Robert W. Waitt Jr.
• Not Forgotten—Henry Gintzberger—Private C.S.A., J. Ambler Johnston
• Acrostic for Rosa Cohn, W. Flegenheimer
• Some Notes on the History of the Organized Jewish Community of Norfolk, Virginia, Malcolm H. Stern
• Program for Confederate Memorial Ceremony—Hebrew Cemetery