The Quiet Voices: Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights, 1880 to 1990s - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0817354298 ISBN 13 : 9780817354299

Editeur : The University of Alabama Press, 2007

Synopsis

These wide-ranging essays reveal the various roles played by southern rabbis in the struggle for black civil rights since Reconstruction

The study of black-Jewish relations has become a hotbed of controversy, especially with regard to the role played by Jewish leaders during the Civil Rights movement. Did these leaders play a pivotal role, or did many of them, especially in the South, succumb to societal pressure and strive to be accepted rather than risk being persecuted? If some of these leaders did choose a quieter path, were their reasons valid? And were their methods successful?

The contributors in this volume explore the motivations and subsequent behavior of rabbis in a variety of southern environments both before and during the civil rights struggle. Their research demonstrates that most southern rabbis indeed faced pressures not experienced in the North and felt the need to balance these countervailing forces to achieve their moral imperative.

Individually, each essay offers a glimpse into both the private and public difficulties these rabbis faced in their struggle to achieve good. Collectively, the essays provide an unparalleled picture of Jewish leadership during the civil rights era.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Rivers of Change, awarded the James Henry Breasted Prize by the American Historical Association, is the first comprehensive consideration of eastern North America as an independent, primary center of plant domestication and agriculture. Focusing on data derived from the expanding discipline of archaeobotany, Bruce D. Smith presents a provocative alternative theory of how prehistoric North American societies developed from hunting and gathering systems to food-producing economies. Smith has written a new preface for this paperback edition.

Revue de presse

Rivers of Change is the most Insightful, broadly cast examination of pre-maize candidates for domestication yet published. --American Antiquity

Smith has put the pieces of the puzzle together and made a compelling case for recognizing the Eastern Woodlands as an independent center of domestication. --Journal of Anthropological Research

This book stands as a major statement by a noted North American archaeologist and is recommended to anyone interested in crop origins. --Quarterly Review of Biology

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Alabama Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0817354298
• ISBN 13: 9780817354299
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 444
• Éditeur: Bauman Mark K., Kalin Berkley
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible