Reviewed by Dale Rosengarten | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 27.4

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*Dixie Diaspora: An Anthology of Southern Jewish History.* Edited by Mark K. Bauman. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. vi + 480 pp. Tables, notes, and bibliography. $65.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper).
Despite a quarter century of extensive research on southern Jewish life, the subject has remained "an exotic aside" (p. 1) even to scholars of American Jewry. Dixie Diaspora, a marvelous collection of essays that combines erudition with keen sensitivity to place and culture, aims to integrate the subfield into mainstream American Jewish history.	1
The study of southern Jews has gained momentum only in the last generation. Two watersheds were the publication of Eli Evans's The Provincials in 1973 and the reorganization of the Southern Jewish Historical Society in 1976. The "discovery" that Jews have lived in the South in every historical epoch, from the colonial settlements of Charleston and New Orleans, has encouraged feelings of belonging that come with long residence in one place.	2
But there has always been a vulnerable underbelly to the oft-told tale of acceptance and achievement of southern Jews. Jewish integration into southern society has been largely determined by white skin privilege. In a region rife with inequality between whites and blacks, Jews were naturally inclined to "eat Rome's fare" and accept the racial status quo.	. . .

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