{"product_id":"that-pride-of-race-and-character-2","title":"That Pride of Race and Character","description":"\u003cp\u003e“It\u003cbr\u003e\nhas ever been the boast of the Jewish people, that they support their own poor,”\u003cbr\u003e\ndeclared Kentucky attorney Benjamin Franklin Jonas in 1856. “Their reasons are\u003cbr\u003e\npartly founded in religious necessity, and partly in that pride of race and\u003cbr\u003e\ncharacter which has supported them through so many ages of trial and\u003cbr\u003e\nvicissitude.” In That Pride of Race and\u003cbr\u003e\nCharacter, Caroline E. Light examines the American Jewish tradition of\u003cbr\u003e\nbenevolence and charity and explores its southern roots.\u003cbr\u003e\nLight provides a critical analysis of\u003cbr\u003e\nbenevolence as it was inflected by regional ideals of race and gender, showing\u003cbr\u003e\nhow a southern Jewish benevolent empire emerged in response to the combined\u003cbr\u003e\npressures of post-Civil War devastation and the simultaneous influx of eastern\u003cbr\u003e\nEuropean immigration. In an effort to combat the voices of anti-Semitism and\u003cbr\u003e\nnativism, established Jewish leaders developed a sophisticated and cutting-edge\u003cbr\u003e\nnetwork of charities in the South to ensure that Jews took care of those\u003cbr\u003e\nconsidered “their own” while also proving themselves to be exemplary white\u003cbr\u003e\ncitizens. Drawing from confidential case files and institutional records from\u003cbr\u003e\nvarious southern Jewish charities, the book relates how southern Jewish leaders\u003cbr\u003e\nand their immigrant clients negotiated the complexities of “fitting in” in a\u003cbr\u003e\nplace and time of significant socio-political turbulence. Ultimately, the\u003cbr\u003e\nsouthern Jewish call to benevolence bore the particular imprint of the region’s\u003cbr\u003e\nracial mores and left behind a rich legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Caroline E. Light","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43573420163254,"sku":"9781479859542","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781479859542.jpg?v=1712137671","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/that-pride-of-race-and-character-2","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}