Reviewed by Patrick Q. Mason | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 27.2

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*Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History.* Edited by Marcie Cohen Ferris and Mark I. Greenberg. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2006. xiv + 368 pp. Photos, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).
Jewish Roots in Southern Soil now stands as the best one-volume treatment of the history of Jews in the American South. The thirteen essays, foreword, and excellent introduction are well-written, engaging, and informative. The methodologically diverse approaches enliven the volume without rendering it overly eclectic. The editors Marcie Cohen Ferris and Mark I. Greenberg have collected representative, top-rate scholarship that is sophisticated enough for academics while remaining accessible for undergraduate students.	1
Southern Jews are presented as a dynamic community whose diverse origins, ethnicities, religious practices, economic circumstances, and attitudes stretch back to the early decades of European settlement in America. Greenberg illustrates how the diversity of Sephardic and Ashkenazic immigrants in eighteenth-century Savannah could lead to cultural conflict and to compromise, cooperation, and, ultimately, cohesiveness. Ferris's creative use of food as a "barometer" for acculturation (p. 227) demonstrates that the persistence of distinctive food patterns reveals how the particularities of their various Old World heritages endured among southern Jews.	. . .

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