The Provincials : A Personal History of Jews in the South

Foreword by Willie Morris ix Introduction: Coming Home xi The Beginning xix I. TOBACCO TOWN JEWS One. An Inconsequential Town 3(17) Two. Growing Up in the Family Store 20(17) II. THE IMMIGRANTS Three. To Be an American 37(11) Four. Tobias: Nine Generations in Charleston 48(11) Five. The Jewish Confederates Face Reconstruction 59(11) Six. The Lonely Days Were Sundays 70(19) III. THE STRUGGLE AGAINST CONFORMITY Seven. Kosher Grits 89(7) Eight. Zionism in the South 96(13) Nine. "Miz Evans" and Mister Mayor 109(8) Ten. "Jesus Loves Me" 117(22) IV. COMING OF AGE Eleven. Mister Jew 139(21) Twelve. Intermarriage Southern Style 160(8) Thirteen. Big Wheel on Campus 168(19) V. DISCRIMINATION Fourteen. Anti-Semitism in the South 187(11) Fifteen. New Orleans-the Velvet Rut 198(18) Sixteen. The Burned-Out Cross of the Klan 216(9) Seventeen. The Jewish Mayor of Atlanta 225(30) VI. JEWS AND BLACKS Eighteen. The Maids and Black Jesus 255(8) Nineteen. Israelites and the Ex-Slaves 263(11) Twenty. Southern Jews in Crisis 274(17) Twenty-One. Atlanta: The Great Jewish City of the Twenty-First Century 291(31) Twenty-Two. The Call from Home 322(12) Twenty-Three. The Nachamson Homecoming Reunion 334(8) Twenty-Four. Farewell, Mister Mayor 342(17) Twenty-Five. Epilogue: Looking Ahead 359(4) Appendix A. Jews Elected to Office in the South, 1800-1920 363(3) Appendix B. Jews Elected to Public Office in the South, 1945-1973 366(4) Appendix C. Shifts in Jewish Population in Southern States, 1937-2000 370(1) Acknowledgments 371(4) Index 375(18) About the Author 393