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[PAST EVENT] The Debate Over Southern Jewish Distinctiveness
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During the 1970s a new group of American Jewish historians raised a question that continues to be debated decades later, 'What makes the southern Jewish experience distinctive'? In this lecture Dr. Mark Bauman, a key participant in that discussion, traces the views which have emerged in this discourse, asking 'Is one side right and the other wrong? Or is the solution somewhere in the middle.
A retired professor of history at Atlanta Metropolitan College, Mark K. Bauman is the author or editor of eleven books including biographies of Southern Methodist bishop Warren A. Candler (winner of the Jesse Lee Prize) and Rabbi Harry H. Epstein, two works on southern Reform rabbis and the civil rights movement, and, most recently (2023), a history of The Temple in Atlanta emphasizing social justice. His collected essays, A New Vision of Southern Jewish History (2019), won the 2023 Southern Jewish Historical Society (SJHS) award as the best book in the field published during the previous four years.
Sponsored by: Religious Studies Department
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