Lecture: “Southern Jews and the Lost Cause”
All are welcome to the Sylvia and Irving Margolis Lecture on the Jewish Experience in the American South with Professor David Weinfeld. In this talk “Southern Jews and the Lost Cause: Confederate Memory and Jewish Identity” David Weinfeld shows how Southern Jews participated in Lost Cause commemoration to better integrate into the white majority, an effort complicated by the Christian imagery that pervaded Lost Cause ideology and persistent antisemitism in Southern society. At the same time, he will examine moments when Southern Jews resisted the Lost Cause narrative in sympathy with their African American neighbors living under Jim Crow.
Sponsored by the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, UNC Department of American Studies and UNC Center for the Study of the American South
Stone Center AuditoriumUNC-Chapel Hill
