JWST 371 - Topics in Jewish Studies-The Jewish Experience in the American South (“Shalom Y’all”

Unit(s): 3-4

This course explores ethnicity in the South and focuses on the experience of Jewish southerners. Since the arrival of Sephardic Jews in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, southern Jews have blended their regional identity as Jews and as Southerners. This course explores the “braided identity” of Jews in the South—their relationships with white and black Gentile southerners, their loyalty to the South as a region, and their embrace of southern culture through foodways and religious observance.

Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Grading: GRD