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That Pride of Race and Character : The Roots of Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South /

"It has ever been the boast of the Jewish people, that they support their own poor," declared Kentucky attorney Benjamin Franklin Jonas in 1856. "Their reasons are partly founded in religious necessity, and partly in that pride of race and character which has supported them through so...

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Autor principal: Light, Caroline E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Introduction : loving kindness and cultural citizenship in the Jewish south -- "To the Hebrews the world is indebted" : the southern roots of American Jewish benevolence -- "For the honor of the Jewish people" : gender, race, and immigration -- "Virtue, rectitude and loyalty to our faith" : Jewish orphans and the politics of southern cultural capital -- "A very delicate problem" : the plight of the southern agunah -- "None of my own people" : subsidizing Jewish motherhood in the depression-era south -- Sex, race and consumption : southern sephardim and the politics of benevolence -- Conclusion : loving kindness and its legacies. 
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