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Family History Today: Jews in the American South - Live on Zoom
Shari Rabin’s The Jewish South: An American History (Princeton University Press, 2025), is the first narrative survey of southern Jewish history. Exploring dynamics of race and religion, it features a wide range of Jewish southerners whose stories complicate popular understandings of their region. In this presentation, Rabin will offer an overview of the book, with a focus on the primary sources, including archival materials, newspaper articles, governmental documents, and more, which helped her understand the lives of southern Jews from the 17th to the 20th centuries.
About the Speaker
Shari Rabin is an associate professor of Jewish studies, religion, and history and chair of Jewish studies at Oberlin College. She is the author of Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-century America (NYU Press, 2017), which won the National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies, and The Jewish South: An American History, published this year by Princeton University Press. She serves as vice president of the Southern Jewish Historical Society.
Sponsored by the Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute
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