Article: Homelands: Southern Jewish Identity in Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

By Leonard Rogoff. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2001. x + 398 pp.

Homelands is everything that excellent local history should be--an appealing narrative of community building that includes colorful anecdotes, a wide array of characters and personalities, and links to larger historical trends and issues. In Leonard Rogoff's hands, the study grew from a centennially-inspired commemorative history of the Durham-Chapel Hill Jewish community into an interpretive social history in which disparately garnered strands from requisite sources--newspaper accounts, synagogue records, family reminiscences, and oral histories--are deftly woven into a seamless whole. ...

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