A Tribe Apart: Jews of the American South

The Jewish Press ^ | Jason Maoz

[AnAmericanMother]

Total BS, all out of a fit of pique because somebody's grades and SSAT scores weren't good enough to get in. I could name names, but I won't, the evildoers know who they are.

[paul_fromatlanta]

>>I remember the incident you two are talking about and it was a bunch of BS. The new media exploited it for all it was worth.<<

That wouldn't stun me considering what the AJC did to the Olympic committee.

[Baraonda]

"mezzocristi"

HalfChrist?

I surmise you mean mazzacristi, ie ammazza Cristi.

Anyway, I had never heard the expression until now.

[yarddog]

One Southern Jew can whip ten Yankee Jews.

[HostileTerritory]

Appalachian boys who went but refused to fight for the Union, were hunted down and murdered in front of their families, which is why many to this day refuse to vote "democrat".

This doesn't quite compute to me... the Appalachians were known for their sympathy for the Union, and many did fight for the Union. That's why they've voted consistently Republican since the Civil War while the rest of the South has only recently come around. If the northern soldiers had committed atrocities against Appalachians, the only rational response would have been for them to not vote Republican.

[Clemenza]

Forgive the mispelling. I have heard it on a couple of occassions.

[Alia]

You got it right; I should have double-checked my post.

[myheroesareDeadandRegistered]

I was making an observation from what I've seen or heard. I've lived in Texas and Alabama. For instance, I lived in one small Texas town that had a fairly large Jewish community. Two of my best friends from school there were Jewish kids. We were just buddies. We played ball, built forts and sometimes argued. I hated one Jewish kid there, but that was because he was an -s-hole, not because of his family's faith. I have seen bigotry toward black folks, but never toward Jews in my life in the South.

[Chunga]

Let's be frank - there is plenty of anti-Jewish sentiment in the South.

Let's be frank - there's less anti-Jewish sentiment in the South than there is anywhere else in the country.

You think you have a unique perspective. You don't. My elementary school (a public school in Dekalb County) was at least 70% Jewish and my high school was at least 50% Jewish. I spent the night at these peoples' houses, put on the yarmulke and went to countless Bar Mitzvahs and Bat Mitzvahs with my family (and my father was an ordained Southern Baptist minister), went to dinner with them, went swimming at the Atlanta Jewish Community Center, played music in rock bands with these kids (the "manager" for one of these groups is now the president of Turner Network Television) and there was NEVER, I repeat NEVER, anything resembling a feeling of animosity or resentment or prejudice between any of the Gentile kids and the Jewish kids (or the Gentile parents and the Jewish parents) that I ever knew.

I have been involved in religious/cultural events at Congregation Beth Jacob and received special commendation for my participation , and I count this as my highest personal honor. This is due to my upbringing, which is both Southern and Southern Baptist. The churches my father led in Atlanta were comprised of people who did not look down upon Jews, but who looked up to them and their families and their traditions as pillars of American society.

This high regard for Jews has been the norm among every Southern Baptist congregation I have ever visited.

The only anti-Semites I know today are all Midwestern liberals.

[paul_fromatlanta]

>> You think you have a unique perspective. You don't<<

I think each of us has a perspective that is both unique but filled with common themes.

[dennisw]

bttt

[onyx]

Anecdotal evidence: Vicksburg has a very small Jewish population, yet the mayor is Jewish and it sure looks like he's headed for his second term.

[paul_fromatlanta]

>>Let's be frank - there is plenty of anti-Jewish sentiment in the South.

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Let's be frank - there's less anti-Jewish sentiment in the South than there is anywhere else in the country.<<

I'd also mention that our two statements are not in conflict.

[nopardons]

The reason that Southern Jews didn't bring bagels and pastrami to the South, is because that Pastrami is a Romanian dish ( NOT particularly "Jewish" at all, though now associated with Jews, since Jews ran the delis in N.Y.C.) and bagels and bialies are Polish/Russian. Most of the Jews who settled in the South were German and Sepharidic.

And while some of you talk about no anti-Semitism in the South, historically, there has been quiet anti-Semistism, in that Jews weren't allowed to join country clubs and people with Jewish sounding names were forbidden to stay at most hotels. No it wasn't overt, but if someone had a Jewish sounding name, they were told that there were no vacancies, when they wanted to stay. I assume that this has changed; however, I know for a fact that what I am saying was once true.

[Recall]

I can see it now:

Now all y'all just hush up and lissen...the South is gonna rise again, jest as soon as we learn this here Hebrew.


ROFL

[Zionist Conspirator]

Hey, as one who reads Biblical Hebrew, I can assure you that it is very much a redneck language. I mean, how many languages out there require the use of double negatives?

[Recall]

So you're sayin' it won't be that hard since we already got the double negative thing down? Can we drawl in Hebrew?

[ArrogantBustard]

Judah P Bejnamin bump:

[Oberon]

Back to the top and ping for later. Sometime I should tell you about my Jewish brother. I am of the goyim, though my name is Aaron...

[Zionist Conspirator]

So you're sayin' it won't be that hard since we already got the double negative thing down? Can we drawl in Hebrew?

Shouldn't be. You just need to be a typical red state "religious fanatic."

Also, Hebrew not only has the second person plural form (in both the nominative and objective cases), but also uses the "old Mr. Rabbit, he's a good fisherman" construction in such phrases as HaShem, Hu' Ha'Eloqim ("The L-rd, He is G-d").