Name: The Jewish South: New Histories
Start: 2025-09-08T17:30:00-04:00
Location: The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History

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 discuss the process of writing this book and share some of the most intriguing finds from her research.
Sylvia and Irving Margolis Lecture on the Jewish Experience in the American South