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42. Powdermaker inquired "into possible differences in attitudes between the
Christian and Jewish people in the vicinity. Neither observation nor the results of the
questionnaire [administered to the sisterhood of an area synagogue] gave evidence
that there was any difference." After Freedom, xx.
43. Kuhn, Joye and West, Living Atlanta, 12.
44. Quoted in Elovitz, A Century of Jewish Life in Dixie, 84.
45. The Leo Frank case has attracted a lot of scholarly attention because "in it the
central conflicts of early twentieth-century southern history erupted," as Nancy
Maclean has argued. See her essay, "The Leo Frank Case Reconsidered: Gender and
Sexual Politics in the Making of Reactionary Populism," journal of American History
(December 1991), 917—48, quote on 918. I have quoted from Steven Hertzberg,
Strangers Within the Gate City 202-15, quotes on 205, 215. See also Leonard
Dinnerstein, The Leo Frank Case (New York, 1968).
46. Quoted in Weisbord and Stein, Bittersweet Encounter, 12.
47. Quoted in Dan T. Carter, Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South (New York,
1969X235.
48. Carter, Scottsboro, 254-59, quotes on 258—59; see also James Goodman, Stories
of Scottsboro (New York, 1994).
49. Quoted in Goldfield, The Promised Land, 216.
50. Bullard, "The Lure of the New South," 6.
51. Barry A. Kosmin, Sidney Goldstein, Joseph Waksberg, Nava Lerer, Ariella
Keysar, Jeffrey Scheckner, Highlights of the CJF 1990 National Jeivish Population Survey
(New York: Council of Jewish Federations, 1991), 21-26.
52. Hertzberg, Strangers Within the Gate City, 222.
53. Goldfield, The Promised Land, xi.
54. Evans, The Lonely Days Were Sundays, 332—33.
55. Robert D. Bullard, "Conclusion: Problems and Prospects," in In Search of the
New South, p. 164.
56. David Ellenson, "A Separate Life," paper forthcoming in Jewish Spiritual
journeys, ed. Lawarence Hoffman and Arnold Jacob Wolf (New York, 1996), 2—3, 5.
57. Abraham D. Lavender, "Shalom Y'All: Accent on Southern Jewry,"
Contemporary Jewry, 3:2 (Spring/Summer), 41.