Posted on 04/29/2013 6:05:40 PM PDT by SJackson
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A rural phenom not limited to the Jewish community
A friend of mine in Los Angeles used to work in for one who hailed from a small town in MIssissippi. Called himself a Swamp Jew.
Our local Jewish center recently got a Torah. You couldn’t park near the place.
I went to a prominent private southern university in the 60s. I had a lot of jewish friends there, and I was always surpried by how many were from small towns in Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia. Until then, I had always just assumed there weren’t any Jews in the south, except for the major cities.
I grew up in a MS town which had no Jews. It only had about 3 Catholic families. During my school years, we were always served fish on Friday. No big deal because we all loved fish!
There were comparatively many Jews in South Carolina before 1700! And not just in Charleston, but in a number of small towns as well.
Interesting. My step-mother-in-law grew up in Maryville, Louisiana. They were the only Jewish family, the parents being Russian immigrants who started with a peddler’s cart and eventually built a store. None of the great-grandchildren live there, though a few reside in larger cities in Louisiana.
The Secretary of State of the Confederacy was a Jew. Judah Benjamin.
Maybe some Ultra-Orthodox Jews from the NYC metro area should move south and take up as farmers and shopkeepers. Then again, the wool clothing would be a real pain 6 months of the year.
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Isn't Miami Beach in the "South"?
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A Jewish guy called his mother in Miami to tell her he was going to El Paso, Texas.
“Are there Jews in El Paso?” she asked.
“Yeah ma, there are three thousand Jews in El Paso!”
“Nu,” she shrugged, “There’s that many in my apartment building.”
Judah Benjamin was called the heart and brains of the Confederacy. Fronthall (sp) was a great Confederate hero.
You know more about that part of the country than I do Ping.
There are a Conservative synagogue and a Chabad chapter in Myrtle Beach, although I suspect that they mainly serve the snowbirds.
I’ve told folks about this for years
Antebellum.....Sephardi Jews.....prospered and had lots of freedom
And even pursued agriculture and husbandry
But PC youth don’t want to know about it ...
Anyhow....lotsa old temples round Dixie dating from 18th century forward
I have been in and taken pics of a number
Largest Jewish population until 1830s was Charleston and New Orleans.....in North America
All public schools in Jackson Mississippi served fish on Fridays
Just to be safe
Imagine public schools giving a rats ass today
And our parochial schools were incorporated largely into public system
School books and sports and holidays etc
Emma French elementary 62-69
Hardy Jr high 69/70
Now all black ghetto.....yet another lost cause
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