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Essay Five Historic Jewish Communities You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of Shari Rabin December 19, 2017
Nonfiction Play It Again, Sam: The Notable Life of Sam Massell, Atlanta’s First Minority Mayor Charles Mcnair
Essay The Mystical Experience of an Uncertain Space Gavriel Savit is an author and actor whose work in both fields has taken him on travels across the world. With the release of his debut novel, Anna and the Swallow Man, this… Gavriel Savit January 24, 2016
Nonfiction The Hands of Peace: A Holocaust Survivor’s Fight for Civil Rights in the American South Marione Ingram
Nonfiction God’ll Cut You Down: The Tangled Tale of A White Supremacist, A Black Hustler, A Murder, And How I Lost A Year In Mississippi John Safran
Essay Discovering the Pinch: Part I Steve Stern, winner of the National Jewish Book Award, is the author of several previous novels and story collections, including The Book of Mischief and The Frozen… Steve Stern July 27, 2015
Essay Dry Goods Merchant and Freedom Fighter: Samuel Fleishman of Marianna, FL Earlier this week, Sabra Waldfogel wrote about the Jews who lived in Mound Bayou. Her most recent book is Freedom’s Island, about an all-black Mississippi town menaced… Sabra Waldfogel July 9, 2015
Essay The Jews of Mound Bayou Sabra Waldfogel writes historical fiction about Southern Jews and African Americans in slavery and freedom. Her most recent book, Freedom’s Island, about an all-black… Sabra Waldfogel July 6, 2015
Nonfiction Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care About Jews, the South, and Civil Rights Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett
Nonfiction That Pride of Race and Character: The Roots of Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South Caroline E. Light
Essay Jews and Slavery: Isaac Cardozo and Lydia Weston Earlier this week, Sabra Waldfogel wrote about Raphael Moses, one of the most eminent Jews in Georgia in the nineteenth century, and Clara Solomon, a Jewish girl… Sabra Waldfogel August 1, 2014
Essay Jews and Slavery: Clara Solomon and Lucy Lewis Earlier this week, Sabra Waldfogel wrote about Raphael Moses, one of the most eminent Jews in Georgia in the nineteenth century. She has recently published Slave and… Sabra Waldfogel July 30, 2014
