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Essay Why the Personal Becomes Political: Jews in American Politics Kenneth D. Wald October 19, 2020
Nonfiction Touched with Fire: Morris B. Abram and the Battle against Racial and Religious Discrimination David E. Lowe
Nonfiction Jocie: Southern Jewish American Princess, Civil Rights Activist Jocelyn Dan Wurzburg
Nonfiction The Hands of Peace: A Holocaust Survivor’s Fight for Civil Rights in the American South Marione Ingram
Nonfiction Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care About Jews, the South, and Civil Rights Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett
Nonfiction That Pride of Race and Character: The Roots of Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South Caroline E. Light
Essay Reading Freedom Summer by Dina WeinsteinBooks on the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer are classified under African American history and civil rights. But the project was rife with Jewish… Dina Weinstein June 18, 2014
Children’s Schools of Hope: How Julius Rosenwald Helped Change African American Education Norman H. Finkelstein
