The Lonely Days Were Sundays

by Evans, Eli N.

• ISBN13: 9780878056279
• ISBN10: 0878056270
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-06-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi

Summary

In 33 entertaining essays, Evans explores southern politics, history, and culture; the state of Israel; and the Civil war--delineating them through the prism of his Jewish-Southern identity and reflecting upon the paradox of the Southern Jewish experience: to be a part of things yet set apart from them. Photos.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Jews in the South
Southern Jewish History: Alive and Unfolding	p. 3
In Search of Judah P. Benjamin	p. 17
Miss North Carolina Is Jewish	p. 35
Zionism in the Bible Belt	p. 47
Harry Golden (1902-1981)	p. 51
Strangers in a Strange Land: The Jewish Communities of Savannah, Mississippi, and Atlanta	p. 55
The Jewish South in Novels	p. 68
A Lynching in Georgia	p. 68
The Jews of New Orleans	p. 72
Southern Politics and History
Southern Liberals and the Court	p. 77
The Transformation of Southern Politics	p. 80
In the Shadow of Southern History	p. 88
The City, the South, and the Caribbean	p. 94
A Step toward Equal Justice	p. 100
Southern Jews, Baptists, and Jimmy Carter	p. 110
The Natural Superiority of Southern Politicians	p. 117
The Past and the Future
Presidential Politics and the Democratic National Conventions: 1964-1976	p. 127
1964: Atlantic City and Big Brother Lyndon	p. 127
1968: Chicago, Where the Streets Swallowed Hubert Humphrey	p. 131
1972: Miami - All Night Long with George McGovern	p. 138
1976: A New Coalition	p. 141
Going through the Mill	p. 141
The End of the Line for Wallace	p. 145
New York City and the Carter-King Revival	p. 148
A New Generation Takes Over	p. 152
Lincoln and Kennedy: Bound by Fate and History	p. 157
Reflections in a Mirror	p. 161
Israel, the Holocaust, and Jewish History
The Jewish Secretary of State in Israel: A Diary of the Kissinger Shuttle	p. 171
Abba Eban at Columbia	p. 226
The Electronic Village	p. 238
A Question of Remembering: Three Reviews	p. 258
An Assimilated Woman	p. 258
New Lives in America	p. 261
One, by One, by One	p. 265
American Jewish History for Children	p. 270
Southern Images and Culture
The Changing Image of the South in Movies (1979-1992)	p. 277
Revisiting the Saturday Westerns: Back in the Saddle with Hoppy, Gene, and Roy, Oh Boy!	p. 294
All the Candidates' Clothes	p. 306
The Emperor's Fall Clothes	p. 311
Jericho: Shout of Silence	p. 317
Home
Sports: The Bond between Fathers and Sons	p. 325
The Call from Home	p. 331
Acknowledgments	p. 353
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