Amy, Jordan, Lilly, Je, Kariana, Juliette and I visited the Breman Museum on Friday April 14: here is our recap.
Everyone is encouraged to visit when you are able; plan to spend a couple of hours. Emory dental school dean was anti-semitic and failed Jewish students. 65% of students who failed were Jewish (went on to be successful elsewhere). They did not know they were part of a pattern. Wagner. 1961. Asking applicants if caucasian, African American or Jewish. Who prompted the resarch? Ask Gary Hauk, historian, college historian. Ethan A's family immigrated from Poland to Atlanta. Engineering Co. Had holocaust artifacts from their home they donated. Theater named after grandmother. Grandmother survived Holocaust. Survived by being saved by her non-Jewish nanny. Hid under her bed with her sister for two years. Photos, silverware, other artifacts. Paula Arbiser. Wrote a book about her experiences. Small Holocaust survivor community in Atlanta. watched dental school apology 10,000 in 19?? 20,000 in 1980? 120,000 Jewish Atlantans today 40 synagogues in metro Atlanta Rich's 18C: sephardic Jews came to Savannah one of them was a doctor Atlanta was called Marthasville. Frontier town. RR tracks about to be built. 1845 first Jews came to Atlanta. 2 Jewish merchants from Decatur Jacob Haas and Henry Levi 1845 set up shot, had been peddlars
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"Colonial Roots of Southern Jewish Cuisine"
"Jews negotiated between adopting the ways of their Gentile neighbors and maintaining their Judaism, and the distinctive world of the low country separated their experience from that of other Jewish southerners." p. 32 Jewish women in Savannah- the classic southern stereotype//pride vs. warm Jewish mother stereotype Please welcome our guest to class, Judy Tager. I met her at my talk on Suberman's book last week, and she wanted to see what was happening in our class. Judy is from New York and moved south to Durham, North Carolina with her husband, a native of Durham. They owned a family store similar to the one in Suberman's book (decades later of course!). Her father-in-law knew Eli Evans, as they both grew up in Durham and their families both owned stores.
Please ask Judy your questions. Not on the Main Street: could not afford the rent on the main street. Parallel to the main street. Afroculinaria: "Jewish Stuff"
https://afroculinaria.com/?s=passover Ted Talk How does Twitty explain culinary justice? Twitty argues that white and black southerners should see one another as "cousins" with a shared culture (albeit with vastly differential experiences) and that they made and make the culture together. Talk about what happens when we add "Jews" and other groups -- as Twitty does when he talks about groups, like "Mississippi Chinese," and more -- to "black and white." Would you like to eat some of Twitty's Kosher Soul recipes? Which ones? What do you think the experience would be like? What do you think about the fact that he says, once people eat the food, they fully understand the Kosher/Soul mission? Do you have your own stories of food and culture? Last semester a first year student did a slideshow about growing up first generation in North Carolina. When he brought his mom's home-cooked Chinese food to lunch in elementary school, his friends made fun of him and thought it was weird and smelly. He felt ashamed and switched to "American" lunches from then on. How important is food to cultural understanding? How does food shape us? Based on what you read to prepare for class or by scrolling down the archived titles, choose a blog post you find interesting. Tell the class why you chose it: what is interesting or valuable about it. Eric Goldstein's The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity: Jews caught in the middle of black and white.
The price of acceptance and assimilation. how has the film aged? is it still relevant today? is the film historically accurate? why do you think the film received so much attention? do certain demographics view the film differently? (example with Steph's grandma) example of joint discrimination when Miss Daisy & Hoke get pulled over in Alabama How does the prejudice towards blacks parallel the prejudice against Jews? And how does Miss Daisy's ignorance towards seeing this parallel represent Southern society at the time? Racial tensions explored when a warm friendship evolves between an elderly Jewish woman and her black chauffeur. Brown v Board of Education, 1954: desegregation
Journalistic interviews with direct quotations; investigative journalism. Different viewpoints. Personal storytelling mixed with historical accounts. Personal and historical mingle. Personal experience as evidence of factual storytelling. Coming-of-age tropes. Memoir. Outsider/insider role alternates/mingles. Chronological. Leaves out POV of women, African Americans. (What was it like as an African American going to UNC in the fall of 1955?) Baby boomer representation of the 1950s: saturation/overrepresentation. ch 11: Mister Jew "My father stressed leadership by example, that Jews had to be twice as good to achieve half as much." (141) "The problem started with the fact that Georgia Tech and Emory brought hundreds of Jewish boys to Atlanta, where there were too few college-age Jewish girls' thus the college boys began dating high school girls, which forced the high school Jewish boys to drop down into junior high..." (157) ch 12: Intermarriage Southern Style "...It was the society girl's form of protest to go out with Jewish boys; I mean, we couldn't date Negroes, right?" (161) "At some point in their freshman year, the fundamentalist girls used to like to date a Jewish guy, because he was sure to ask a lot of questions she couldn't handle. She was usually at the point where she wanted to rebel anyway, and he was her liberator. And since there was a premium on converting a Hebrew, she could rationalize is as a missionary opportunity." (162) ch 13: Big Wheel on Campus "We Southerners were still attached to the world of high school and parental approval; they were cut loose and flying on a four year lark, and could lose themselves in the sure knowledge that no one would know and care." (171) student project artifacts: recipes, memoirs, songs that have changed over time (lyrics and music and audio) ch 7: Kosher Grits
"The sounds were crucial. We wanted it to sound less Jewish-an organ, no Hebrew, rewritten music to sound like hymns, and an orderly service. And the sights-stained glass windows, no skull caps or prayer shawls, families sitting together." "They are respected, are called 'doctor,' and many of them stay for long periods of time." ch 8: Zionism in the South "His deepest worry at the time was the implication that loyalty to Israel might call into question his loyalty to America." ch 9: "Miz Evans" and Mister Mayor "They cared about fighting anti-semitism but I felt the best way to do that was by working for Israel." (113). "The clashes were not always between the generations. Sometimes jealousy and prestige motivated the debates among the middle-aged men who ran small loan companies or were accountants, those for whom the synagogue was the only power arena, the only activity outside the home to acquire whatever recognition life held in store for them." (116) ch. 10: "Jesus Loves Me" "Converting a Jew is a special blessing for them." pg 121 chapter 3: "To Be an American" pp 37-47
Growing up Southerners, they would absorb the regional defiance and unrestrained pride, the memories of rising to sing "Dixie" in grammar school assembly and, in history class, the surging poignance on reading Lee's farewell to his troops (41) chapter 4: "Tobias: Nine Generations in Charleston" He didn't understand the question because it was a question of a new arrival, conditioned to think of Jewish blood as inferior in the noble line of first families of Charleston, a Jewish relative as a skeleton in their closet. pg 52 chapter 5: "The Jewish Confederates Face Reconstruction" "Other accounts, claiming Wolf is incomplete, have placed the number as high as ten thousand. There were so many that General Lee could not afford an exception to allow high holy days furloughs to 'soldiers of the Jewish persuasion in the Confederate States army" (60) How did antisemitism affect Jews serving in the confederacy? Did being in the confederacy stray Jewish men from their faith? chapter 6: "The Lonely Days Were Sundays" "The word 'America,' an idea more than a place" (74) personal history of his family American Dream stories of Ellis Island, process of immigration |
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