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Title: Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South by E. Evans ISBN: 0-689-70532-8 Publisher: Simon & Schuster (P) Pub. Date: 01 February, 1976 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A great book about the Jewish South!
Comment: "The Provincials" proved to be especially meaningful to me. First, my wife gave it to me for our anniversary; I am researching the Jewish Confederacy, and I had included it on my reading list. Second, we went to Vicksburg, Miss., for our anniversary, and I began reading the book there. I have family roots in Vicksburg, where we met a number of wonderful people at the synagogue who knew my cousin, a World War II veteran who grew up in Vicksburg but now lives in Texas.
My wife and I also toured the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience in Utica, which is very close to Vicksburg.
Putting everything together, including our visit to the Jewish cemetery in Vicksburg, I feel I now understand "the Southern Jewish experience." Eli Evans tied a lot of loose ends for me and helped put a lot of things in perspective. (I plan to view "Driving Miss Daisy" again,this time with new appreciation and understanding.)
And I might add, I found this book very easy to read. Since I'm generally reading two or three books at the same time (well, you know what I mean), I had planned to spend three weeks reading "The Provincials." I finished it in a week and was sorry when it was over.
Rating: 1
Summary: One of the worst books I ever read
Comment: I was very interested in reading this book due to it's title, but as the saying goes, "never judge a book by it's "title"". I found the author to be arrogant, bregadocious and totally prejudiced against anything not of the "democratic" persuasion. In addition I dont think he stayed on the subject matter, but rather used this book to expound his biased views.
Rating: 4
Summary: An interesting look at Southern Jewish culture.
Comment: I share many of Bonita Davis's good feelings about this book. It is a great collection of stories about Jews throughout the South and throughout much of American history. I particularly enjoyed the insights into the schism between the early-arrived German Jews and the later-arrived Eastern European Jews. In any case, the book is well written, but not as easy to read as his Judah P. Benjamin biography.
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Title: The Lonely Days Were Sundays: Reflections of a Jewish Southerner by Eli N. Evans ISBN: 0878057528 Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Judah P. Benjamin by Eli Evans ISBN: 0029099110 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 11 September, 1989 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Jew Store by Stella Suberman ISBN: 1565123301 Publisher: Algonquin Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Mordecai: An Early American Family by Emily Bingham ISBN: 0809027569 Publisher: Hill and Wang Pub. Date: 16 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: American Judaism (Chicago History of American Civilization (Paperback)) by Nathan Glazer ISBN: 0226298434 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1989 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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