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- Title
The Bible and Bombings: Southern Rabbis Respond during the Civil Rights Movement.
- Authors
Langston, Scott M.
- Abstract
The article discusses two sermons by Jewish rabbis in the U.S. South given in response to attacks on their houses of worship during the U.S. civil rights movements of the 1950s and 1960s. According to the author, these rabbis drew on a combination of contemporary and biblical ideas in order to address current events and the violence done to their own communities. Profiles of Rabbi Jacob M. Rothschild and his community in Atlanta, Georgia and of Rabbi Perry E. Nussbaum and the Jewish community in Jackson, Mississippi are presented. It is suggested that Rothschild's use of prophetic texts helped to emphasize the national nature of the struggle while Nussbaum's reliance on the Torah focused on the congregation's response as Jews. The text of both sermons is also presented.
- Subjects
ATLANTA (Ga.); GEORGIA; JACKSON (Miss.); MISSISSIPPI; UNITED States; JEWISH sermons; AMERICAN Jewish history; AMERICAN civil rights movement; JEWS; BOMBINGS; NUSSBAUM, Perry E.; ROTHSCHILD, Jacob M.; HISTORY; CRIME victims
- Publication
Southern Jewish History, 2011, Vol 14, p155
- ISSN
1521-4206
- Publication type
Article