Collectively, these gatherings of history comprise a Jewish heritage, a folklore that roots Jews in North Carolina. Stories present oral history in original voices portraits offer profiles of significant personalities or organizations and texts present primary documents from newspapers, memoirs, and public or synagogue records. To bring that history to life, interpolated into the narrative are exemplary stories, portraits, and texts. At its core is a narrative history spanning North Carolina’s past and present, from Roanoke Island in 1585 to the Research Triangle in 2009. Down Home, in both format and contents, reflects the diversity of its subject. The stories recounted here are many and speak with different and sometimes contradictory voices. Down Home gathers North Carolina Jews into a community. Some extraordinary archives and oral histories have been collected, but they have not yet been assembled into a whole. Biographies, dissertations, and local histories have focused on individuals and communities. Relative to Virginia and South Carolina, North Carolina is often thought to have no or little Jewish history. INTRODUCTION “I thought my stories were going to die with me,” said Lena Gordon Goldman, a ninety-eight-year-old resident of a Greensboro retirement home. F265.J5R64 2010 975.6′004924-dc22ĪNNA LOU D OCTOR CASSELL, a matriarch of her family and communityĬONTENTS Introduction 1 1 THE COLONY: Poor Man’s Country, 1585–1776 7 2 REVOLUTION AND REPUBLIC: Wandering Jews, 1776–1835 17 3 SOUTHERN PATRIOTS: From Germany to North Carolina, 1835–1880 46 4 NEW SOUTHERNERS: From Shtetl to Mill Town, 1880–1920 100 5 CREATING COMMUNITY: Citizens and Neighbors, 1920–1968 192 6 SUNBELT JEWS: Natives and Newcomers, 1968–2009 299 Notes 377 Interviews 399 Acknowledgments 401 Index 405 Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina. Jews-North Carolina-Social life and customs. Includes bibliographical references and index. Down home : Jewish life in North Carolina / Leonard Rogoff. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rogoff, Leonard. The University of North Carolina Press has been a member of the Green Press Initiative since 2003. The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. © 2010 The Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina All rights reserved Designed by Richard Hendel Set in Caecilia, The Serif, and Scala Sans by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. $OWN Published in association with The Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina by The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill
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