Homelands

Blends oral history, documentary studies, and quantitative research to present a colorful local history with much to say about multicultural identity in the South Homelands is a case study of a unique ethnic group in North America—small-town southern Jews. Both Jews and southerners, Leonard Rogoff points out, have long struggled with questions of identity and whether to retain their differences or try to assimilate into the national culture. Rogoff shows how, as immigrant Jews became small-town