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Overview"Essays from a prolific career that challenge and overturn traditional narratives of southern Jewish history. Mark K. Bauman, one of the foremost scholars of southern Jewish history working today, has spent much of his career, as he puts it, """"rewriting southern Jewish history"""" in ways that its earliest historians could not have envisioned or anticipated, and doing so by specifically targeting themes and trends that might not have been readily apparent to those scholars. A New Vision of Southern Jewish History: Studies in Institution Building, Leadership, Interaction, and Mobility features essays collected from over a thirty-year career, including a never-before-published article. The prevailing narrative in southern Jewish history tends to emphasize the role of immigrant Jews as merchants in small southern towns and their subsequent struggles and successes in making a place for themselves in the fabric of those communities. Bauman offers assessments that go far beyond these simplified frameworks and draws upon varieties of subject matter, time periods, locations, tools, and perspectives over four decades of writing and scholarship. A New Vision of Southern Jewish History contains Bauman's studies of Jewish urbanization, acculturation and migration, intra- and inter-group relations, economics and business, government, civic affairs, transnational diplomacy, social services, and gender—all complicating traditional notions of southern Jewish identity. Drawing on role theory as informed by sociology, psychology, demographics, and the nature and dynamics of leadership, Bauman traverses a broad swath—often urban—of the southern landscape, from Savannah, Charleston, and Baltimore through Atlanta, New Orleans, Galveston, and beyond the country to Europe and Israel. Bauman's retrospective volume gives readers the opportunity to review a lifetime of work in a single publication as well as peruse newly penned introductions to his essays. The book also features an """"Additional Readings"""" section designed to update the historiography in the essays and provide suggestions for further reading." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mark K. Bauman , Ronald H. BayorPublisher: The University of Alabama Press Imprint: The University of Alabama Press Dimensions: Width: 16.20cm , Height: 5.00cm , Length: 22.80cm Weight: 1.063kg ISBN: 9780817320188ISBN 10: 0817320180 Pages: 616 Publication Date: 30 May 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword by Ronald H. Bayor Introduction Part I. Community and Institution Building Chapter 1. Variations on the Mortara Case in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New Orleans Chapter 2. Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces Facing the People of Many Communities: Atlanta Jews from the Leo Frank Case to the Great Depression Chapter 3. The Emergence of Jewish Social Service Agencies in Atlanta Chapter 4. The Transformation of Jewish Social Services in Atlanta, 1928–1948 Chapter 5. Southern Jewish Women and Their Social Service Organizations Part II. Lay Leadership Chapter 6. Factionalism and Ethnic Politics in Atlanta: German Jews from the Civil War through the Progressive Era Chapter 7. Victor H. Kriegshaber: Community Builder Chapter 8. Role Theory and History: The Illustration of Ethnic Brokerage in the Atlanta Jewish Community in an Era of Transition and Conflict Chapter 9. The Youthful Musings of a Jewish Community Activist: Josephine Joel Heyman Part III. Rabbinical Leadership Chapter 10. Demographics, Anti-Rabbanism, and Freedom of Choice: The Origins and Principles of Reform at Baltimore’s Har Sinai Verein Chapter 11. The Rabbi as Ethnic Broker: The Case of David Marx. Cowritten with Arnold Shankman Chapter 12. Harry H. Epstein and the Adaptation of Second-Generation Eastern European Jews in Atlanta Part IV. International Leadership Chapter 13. Beyond the Parochial Image of Southern Jewry: Studies in National and International Leadership and Interactive Mechanisms Chapter 14. The Blaustein–Ben-Gurion Agreement: A Milestone in Israel-Diaspora Relations Part V. Historiography and Synthesis Chapter 15. The Southerner as American: Jewish Style Chapter 16. The Flowering of Interest in Southern Jewish History and Its Integration into Mainstream History Chapter 17. A Multithematic Approach to Southern Jewish History Chapter 18. A Century of Southern Jewish Historiography Notes Additional Readings Mark K. Bauman’s Publications on American Jewish History IndexReviewsBauman has, unlike nearly everyone else who has written in southern Jewish history, provided a scholarly perspective that goes beyond descriptive and, for lack of a better term 'cute' stories about the oddities of Jewish life. --Hasia R. Diner, author of We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962 and The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000 Bauman has, unlike nearly everyone else who has written in southern Jewish history, provided a scholarly perspective that goes beyond descriptive and, for lack of a better term 'cute' stories about the oddities of Jewish life. - Hasia R. Diner, author of We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962 and The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000 Author InformationMark K. Bauman spent twenty-six years teaching at Atlanta Metropolitan College, where he retired in 2002 as a full professor. He is the editor of Dixie Diaspora: An Anthology of Southern Jewish History and the coeditor of The Quiet Voices: Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights, 1880s to 1990s and To Stand Aside or Stand Alone: Southern Reform Rabbis and the Civil Rights Movement. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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