{"product_id":"that-pride-of-race-and-character-the-roots-of-jewish-benevolence-in-the-jim-crow-south-hardback-9781479854530","title":"That Pride of Race and Character; The Roots of Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South (Hardback) 9781479854530","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThat Pride of Race and Character\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Roots of Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCaroline E. Light (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781479854530\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 4 July 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.567 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This book sings. It is that rare beautiful volume that cuts to the heart of the mattera groundbreaking, eloquent and meticulously researched book about Southern Jewish culture. Light takes us inside the heart of this regional Jewish community. Through careful and creative archival inquiry she illuminates the subtle labors of benevolencethe care of 'our own' widows and orphansas the site where Southern Jews performed Southern gentility and whiteness as a means to achieve their own cultural citizenship. This book transforms our understanding of how American Jews do race. It changes the ways we think about Jewish life in the South. It is an astonishing accomplishment.\" - Laura Levitt,Temple University \"A deeply researched and beautifully written account of a neglected chapter of American Jewish historyand of national belonging. By telling the story of Jews in the Jim Crow South, Caroline E. Light vitally illuminates the ongoing production and negotiation of racial and religious difference not just in the South, but in the U.S. more broadly.\" - Ann Pellegrini,author of Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race \"Lights study strikes out in new and interesting directions, including the use of previously untapped sources for the study of southern Jews, such as case files from orphan homes and immigrant relief associations. Coupled with oral history interviews, these sources give rare insight into family and gender relations, the economic struggles of Jewish immigrants, and the social anxieties driving Jewish elites to impose a strict cultural discipline on aid recipients.\" (The Journal of American History) \"Through its well-organized chapters and thorough research,That Pride of Race and Characteryields an important and thought-provoking examination of the exceptional ways in which two southern Jewish communities \u0026amp; took care of their own.\" (The North Carolina Historical Review) \"Light has identified a significant topic that touches upon important matters such as the intersection of race and gender in the Jim Crow South, the changing nature of child welfare work in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America, and the influence of regionalism in American Jewish history.That Pride of Race and Characterconstitutes a very interesting and useful investigation of this topic\" (The American Jewish Archives Journal) \"Using historical records and social-worker case files of charitable organizations and 'social uplift' societies, Light compellingly details the nuanced and varied ways that southern Jewsin all their cultural and regional diversitynavigated local strictures and mores in order both to maintain their Jewishness and to create a home in the South.\" (American Studies)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It\u003cbr\u003e has ever been the boast of the Jewish people, that they support their own poor,\"\u003cbr\u003e declared Kentucky attorney Benjamin Franklin Jonas in 1856. \"Their reasons are\u003cbr\u003e partly founded in religious necessity, and partly in that pride of race and\u003cbr\u003e character which has supported them through so many ages of trial and\u003cbr\u003e vicissitude.\" In That Pride of Race and\u003cbr\u003e Character, Caroline E. Light examines the American Jewish tradition of\u003cbr\u003e benevolence and charity and explores its southern roots.\u003cbr\u003e Light provides a critical analysis of\u003cbr\u003e benevolence as it was inflected by regional ideals of race and gender, showing\u003cbr\u003e how a southern Jewish benevolent empire emerged in response to the combined\u003cbr\u003e pressures of post-Civil War devastation and the simultaneous influx of eastern\u003cbr\u003e European immigration. In an effort to combat the voices of anti-Semitism and\u003cbr\u003e nativism, established Jewish leaders developed a sophisticated and cutting-edge\u003cbr\u003e network of charities in the South to ensure that Jews took care of those\u003cbr\u003e considered \"their own\" while also proving themselves to be exemplary white\u003cbr\u003e citizens. Drawing from confidential case files and institutional records from\u003cbr\u003e various southern Jewish charities, the book relates how southern Jewish leaders\u003cbr\u003e and their immigrant clients negotiated the complexities of \"fitting in\" in a\u003cbr\u003e place and time of significant socio-political turbulence. Ultimately, the\u003cbr\u003e southern Jewish call to benevolence bore the particular imprint of the region's\u003cbr\u003e racial mores and left behind a rich legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591125397784,"sku":"9781479854530","price":36.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/that-pride-of-race-and-character-the-roots-of-jewish-benevolence-in-the-jim-crow-south-hardback-9781479854530","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}