That pride of race and character
Subtitle: the roots of Jewish benevolence in the Jim Crow south
By: Caroline E. Light
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781479854530
Subjects: Politics and government; Social life and customs; Jews; Benevolence; Kindness; Jewish way of life; Charity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : loving kindness and cultural citizenship in the Jewish south; title: "To the Hebrews the world is indebted" : the southern roots of American Jewish benevolence; title: "For the honor of the Jewish people" : gender, race, and immigration; title: "Virtue, rectitude and loyalty to our faith" : Jewish orphans and the politics of southern cultural capital; title: "A very delicate problem" : the plight of the southern agunah; title: "None of my own people" : subsidizing Jewish motherhood in the depression-era south; title: Sex, race and consumption : southern sephardim and the politics of benevolence; title: Conclusion : loving kindness and its legacies.