The Lonely Days Were Sundays: Reflections of a Jewish Southerner

Table of contents

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• Title Page ii
• Contents ix
• Foreword xiii
• Preface xix
• Part I - Jews in the South 1
• 1 - Southern Jewish History: Alive and Unfolding 3
• 2 - In Search of Judah P. Benjamin 17
• 3 - Miss North Carolina is Jewish 35
• 4 - Zionism in the Bible Belt 47
• 5 - Harry Golden (1902-1981) 51
• 6 - Strangers in a Strange Land: The Jewish Communities of Savannah, Mississippi, and Atlanta 55
• 7 - The Jewish South in Novels 68
• Part II - Southern Politics and History 75
• 8 - Southern Liberals and the Court 77
• 9 - The Transformation of Southern Politics 80
• 10 - In the Shadow of Southern History 88

• Title Page ii
• Contents ix
• Foreword xiii
• Preface xix
• Part I - Jews in the South 1
• 1 - Southern Jewish History: Alive and Unfolding 3
• 2 - In Search of Judah P. Benjamin 17
• 3 - Miss North Carolina is Jewish 35
• 4 - Zionism in the Bible Belt 47
• 5 - Harry Golden (1902-1981) 51
• 6 - Strangers in a Strange Land: The Jewish Communities of Savannah, Mississippi, and Atlanta 55
• 7 - The Jewish South in Novels 68
• Part II - Southern Politics and History 75
• 8 - Southern Liberals and the Court 77
• 9 - The Transformation of Southern Politics 80
• 10 - In the Shadow of Southern History 88
• 11 - The City, the South, and the Caribbean 94
• 12 - A Step Toward Equal Justice 100
• 13 - Southern Jews, Baptists, and Jimmy Carter 110
• 14 - The Natural Superiority of Southern Politicians 117
• Part III - The Past and the Future 125
• 15 - Presidential Politics and the Democratic National Conventions: 1964-1976 127
• 16 - A New Generation Takes Over 152
• 17 - Lincoln and Kennedy Bound by Fate and History 157
• 18 - Reflections in a Mirror 161
• Part IV - Israel, the Holocaust, and Jewish History 169
• 19 - The Jewish Secretary of State in Israel: A Diary of the Kissinger Shuttle 171
• 20 - Abba Eban at Columbia 226
• 21 - The Electronic Village 238
• 22 - A Question of Remembering: Three Reviews 258
• 23 - American Jewish History for Children 270
• Part V - Southern Images and Culture 275
• 24 - The Changing Image of the South in Movies (1979-1992) 277
• 25 294
• 26 - All the Candidate's Clothes 306
• 27 - The Emperor's Fall Clothes 311
• 28 - Jericho: Shout of Silence 317
• Part VI - Home 323
• 29 - Sports: The Bond Between Fathers and Sons 325
• 30 - The Call from Home 331
• Acknowledgments 353