Carolina Israelite

Author : Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469621045
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carolina Israelite written by Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first comprehensive biography of Jewish American writer and humorist Harry Golden (1903-1981)--author of the 1958 national best-seller Only in America--illuminates a remarkable life intertwined with the rise of the civil rights movement, Jewish popular culture, and the sometimes precarious position of Jews in the South and across America during the 1950s. After recounting Golden's childhood on New York's Lower East Side, Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett points to his stint in prison as a young man, after a widely publicized conviction for investment fraud during the Great Depression, as the root of his empathy for the underdog in any story. During World War II, the cigar-smoking, bourbon-loving raconteur landed in Charlotte, North Carolina, and founded the Carolina Israelite newspaper, which was published into the 1960s. Golden's writings on race relations and equal rights attracted a huge popular readership. Golden used his celebrity to editorialize for civil rights as the momentous story unfolded. He charmed his way into friendships and lively correspondence with Carl Sandburg, Adlai Stevenson, Robert Kennedy, and Billy Graham, among other notable Americans, and he appeared on the Tonight Show as well as other national television programs. Hartnett's spirited chronicle captures Golden's message of social inclusion for a new audience today.

Author : Leonard Rogoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Author : Leonard Rogoff
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807895997
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Down Home written by Leonard Rogoff and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping chronicle of Jewish life in the Tar Heel State from colonial times to the present, this beautifully illustrated volume incorporates oral histories, original historical documents, and profiles of fascinating individuals. The first comprehensive social history of its kind, Down Home demonstrates that the story of North Carolina Jews is attuned to the national story of immigrant acculturation but has a southern twist. Keeping in mind the larger southern, American, and Jewish contexts, Leonard Rogoff considers how the North Carolina Jewish experience differs from that of Jews in other southern states. He explores how Jews very often settled in North Carolina's small towns, rather than in its large cities, and he documents the reach and vitality of Jewish North Carolinians' participation in building the New South and the Sunbelt. Many North Carolina Jews were among those at the forefront of a changing South, Rogoff argues, and their experiences challenge stereotypes of a society that was agrarian and Protestant. More than 125 historic and contemporary photographs complement Rogoff's engaging epic, providing a visual panorama of Jewish social, cultural, economic, and religious life in North Carolina. This volume is a treasure to share and to keep. Published in association with the Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina, Down Home is part of a larger documentary project of the same name that will include a film and a traveling museum exhibition, to be launched in June 2010.

Author : Lawrence N. Powell
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807853740
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Troubled Memory written by Lawrence N. Powell and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling work tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, a Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. Through Levy's t

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carolina Israelite written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harry Golden
Publisher : Cleveland : World Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Only in America written by Harry Golden and published by Cleveland : World Publishing Company. This book was released on 1958 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carolina López-Ruiz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674269950
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean written by Carolina López-Ruiz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An important new book...offers a powerful call for historians of the ancient Mediterranean to consider their implicit biases in writing ancient history and it provides an example of how more inclusive histories may be written.” —Denise Demetriou, New England Classical Journal “With a light touch and a masterful command of the literature, López-Ruiz replaces old ideas with a subtle and more accurate account of the extensive cross-cultural exchange patterns and economy driven by the Phoenician trade networks that ‘re-wired’ the Mediterranean world. A must read.” —J. G. Manning, author of The Open Sea “[A] substantial and important contribution...to the ancient history of the Mediterranean. López-Ruiz’s work does justice to the Phoenicians’ role in shaping Mediterranean culture by providing rational and factual argumentation and by setting the record straight.” —Hélène Sader, Bryn Mawr Classical Review Imagine you are a traveler sailing to the major cities around the Mediterranean in 750 BC. You would notice a remarkable similarity in the dress, alphabet, consumer goods, and gods from Gibraltar to Tyre. This was not the Greek world—it was the Phoenician. Propelled by technological advancements of a kind unseen since the Neolithic revolution, Phoenicians knit together diverse Mediterranean societies, fostering a literate and sophisticated urban elite sharing common cultural, economic, and aesthetic modes. Following the trail of the Phoenicians from the Levant to the Atlantic coast of Iberia, Carolina López-Ruiz offers the first comprehensive study of the cultural exchange that transformed the Mediterranean in the eighth and seventh centuries BC. Greeks, Etruscans, Sardinians, Iberians, and others adopted a Levantine-inflected way of life, as they aspired to emulate Near Eastern civilizations. López-Ruiz explores these many inheritances, from sphinxes and hieratic statues to ivories, metalwork, volute capitals, inscriptions, and Ashtart iconography. Meticulously documented and boldly argued, Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean revises the Hellenocentric model of the ancient world and restores from obscurity the true role of Near Eastern societies in the history of early civilizations.

Author : Barnett Abraham Elzas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jews of South Carolina written by Barnett Abraham Elzas and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jerry Gershenhorn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Louis Austin and the Carolina Times written by Jerry Gershenhorn and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Applebome
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307819876
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dixie Rising written by Peter Applebome and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a provocative exploration of the triumphant South--the region that increasingly defines American politics and values--the former Atlanta bureau chief of The New York Times illuminates the people, places, and passions of this influential section of the country--an area that has effectively decided the outcome of every presidential election in the past 30 years.