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194 <strong>American</strong> <strong>Jewish</strong> <strong>Archives</strong><br />
about the major players in the Solomon family's life, but he does not<br />
provide enough interpretation of issues relating to mid-nineteenth<br />
century women or to the social milieu of <strong>Jewish</strong> New Orleans. He re-<br />
lies on the research efforts of a New Orleans genealogist to provide<br />
information about the Solomon family beyond the scope of the diary,<br />
but he would have done well to consult synagogue and other insti-<br />
tutional records and the New Orleans <strong>Jewish</strong> Ledger to situate the<br />
later generations of the Solomon family more accurately in the com-<br />
munity and to give us a sense of how the Civil War changed <strong>Jewish</strong><br />
social mobility in New Orleans society.<br />
-Bobbie Malone<br />
Bobbie Malone received her Ph.D. in <strong>American</strong> history fvom Tulane University,<br />
New Orleans, and has published Rabbi Max Heller: Reformer, Zionist, South-<br />
erner, 1860--1929. She is the director of the Ofice of School Services at the State<br />
Historical Society of Wisconsin.<br />
Note<br />
1. The Business of Jews in Louisiana, 1840-1875, (university of Alabama Press,<br />
1988).
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