Arab and Jewish Women in Kentucky: Stories of Accommodation and Audacity (Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History Series)
""An important, compelling work. Moosnick's analysis of the interbraided relationships and experiences of Arabs and Jews in a southern setting is a captivating and powerful story." -- Marcie Cohen Ferris, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, author of Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South" --""Moosnick weaves together a refreshing blend of life stories and follows a captivating group of Arab and Jewish women through a narrative negotiation between tradition, assimilation, and Kentucky's cultural landscape." -- Douglas A. Boyd, author of Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community" --""An important, compelling work. Moosnick's analysis of the interbraided relationships and experiences of Arabs and Jews in a southern setting is a captivating and powerful story." --Marcie Cohen Ferris, author of Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South" --""Nora Rose Moosnick's book, Arab and Jewish Women in Kentucky: Stories of Accommodation and Audacit,grabs readers' attention before they open the book. One does not immediately associate the words "Arab" or "Jew" with "Kentucky," nor does the combination elicit expectations of affinity. Yet this is precisely what moosnick seeks to redress in this compelling look at the lives of ten Kentuckians whose lives, she argues, are triply overlooked." --Laura Stemp-Morlock, Ph.D. student, University of Waterloo, The Journal of Southern Religion" --""These compelling narratives challenge misconceptions and overcome the invisibility of Arabs and Jews in out of the way places in America." -- Digital Journal" --