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How Jews in the Jim Crow South Labored to be White

How Jews in the Jim Crow South Labored to be White

FromTel Aviv Review


How Jews in the Jim Crow South Labored to be White

FromTel Aviv Review

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Length:
19 minutes
Released:
Apr 13, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Dr. Caroline Light of the Program in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Harvard University talks with host Gilad Halpern about her recent book, That Pride of Race and Character: The Roots of Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South. It analyses the circumstances that led to the establishment of a sizable Jewish charity network in the American South in the post-Reconstruction period. This episode originally aired April 18, 2015.
Released:
Apr 13, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

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