Homelands: Southern Jewish Identity in Durham-Chapel Hill and North Carolina

Exploring how Southern Jews forged identity, community, and belonging in the evolving landscape of the New 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 southerners, they constantly renegotiated t...