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Southern Jewish History: Journal of the Southern Jewish Historical Society., Atlanta, GA : The Society, c1998-.
[Also available online if on-site]
The Southern Register. University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
The Southern Israelite., Atlanta, Ga.: Southern Newspaper Enterprises.
Dixie Diaspora: An Anthology of Southern Jewish History / Edited by Mark K. Bauman. Judaic Studies Series. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006.
Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History / Edited by Marcie Cohen Ferris and Mark I. Greenberg. Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life. Waltham, Mass.: Hanover: Brandeis University Press; Published by University Press of New England, 2006.
Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South / Marcie Cohen Ferris. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life / Edited by Theodore Rosengarten and Dale Rosengarten ; with a Preface by Eli N. Evans. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press in Association with McKissick Museum, 2002.
Shalom Y'all: Images of Jewish Life in the American South / Photographs by Bill Aron ; Text by Vicki Reikes Fox, Assisted by Bill Aron and Marcie Cohen Ferris ; Foreword by Alfred Uhry. 1st ed. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2002.
Two Covenants: Representations of Southern Jewishness / Eliza R.L. McGraw. Southern Literary Studies. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005.
To Stand aside or Stand Alone: Southern Reform Rabbis and the Civil Rights Movement / P. Allen Krause ; Edited by Mark K. Bauman with Stephen Krause. Jews and Judaism (Tuscaloosa, Ala.). 2016.
Fight against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights / Clive Webb. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2001.
Daughters of Israel, Daughters of the South: Southern Jewish Women and Identity in the Antebellum and Civil War South / Jennifer A. Stollman. 2013.
Bagels and Grits: A Jew on the Bayou / Jennifer Anne Moses. Madison, Wis.: Terrace Books, 2007.
Gertrude Weil: Jewish Progressive in the New South / Leonard Rogoff. 2017.
Heart of a Wife: The Diary of a Southern Jewish Woman / by Helen Jacobus Apte ; Edited and with Essays by Her Grandson Marcus D. Rosenbaum. Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 1998.
The Lonely Days Were Sundays: Reflections of a Jewish Southerner / by Eli N. Evans. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993.
The Man Who Lived on Main Street: Stories by and about Sol Schulman / Collected and Edited by Jan Schochet and Sharon Fahrer. Asheville, N.C.: History@Hand Pub., 2003.
My Father's People: A Family of Southern Jews / Louis D. Rubin Jr. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002.
The Peddler's Grandson: Growing up Jewish in Mississippi / Edward Cohen. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1999
The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South / by Eli N. Evans; with Photographs and a New Introduction by the Author; Foreword by Willie Morris. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
The Jew Store / Stella Suberman. 1st ed. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1998.
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A Corner of the Tapestry: A History of the Jewish Experience in Arkansas, 1820s-1990s / Carolyn Gray LeMaster ; with a Foreword by Malcolm H. Stern. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1994.
The Hand of Esau: Montgomery's Jewish Community and the 1955-56 Bus Boycott / by Mary Stanton. 1st ed. Montgomery, AL: River City Pub., 2006.
In the Shadow of Hitler: Alabama's Jews, the Second World War, and the Holocaust / Dan J. Puckett. Modern South. 2014.
1490 Listings of Marriages of Macon and Bibb County, Georgia with One or Both Spouses of Jewish Birth, 1823-1998 / Marian W. Kaufman, Gus B. Kaufman. Macon, Ga.]: M.W. Kaufman, 1998.
And the Dead Shall Rise: The Lynching of Leo Frank / Steve Oney. New York: Pantheon Books, 2003.
The Jewish Community of Savannah / Valerie Frey and Kaye Kole. Images of America. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2002.
Jewish Settlement in Colonial Georgia. / Levicki-Lavi, Lara, Burke, Albie, and California State University, Long Beach. 2000.
A List of the Early Settlers of Georgia / E. Merton Coulter and Albert B. Saye. Athens, Ga.: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1949.
Our Legacy: 275 Years of Congregation Mickve Israel and Jewish Life in Savannah 1733-2008 / Congregation Mickve Israel. 2008.
Sephardim & A History of Congregation Or VeShalom / Sol Beton. Atlanta, Ga : The Congregation, 1981.
To Life: A History of Jews in Atlanta / Eric. L. Goldstein. Atlanta: Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, 2006.
The Synagogues of Kentucky: Architecture and History / Lee Shai Weissbach. Perspectives on Kentucky's past. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
This Is Home Now: Kentucky's Holocaust Survivors Speak / [compiled and Edited By] Arwen Donahue; Photographs by Rebecca Gayle Howell. Series: Kentucky Remembered. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 2009.
The Jewish Community of Shreveport / Eric J. Brock. Images of America. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2002.
Jewish Patient's Handbook: A Survey of 12 Selected Area Hospitals' Attitudes towards Jewish Patients / Shimon Sadick. New Orleans, LA, 1982.
Louisianians in the Civil War / Edited with an Introduction by Lawrence Lee Hewitt and Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr. Shades of Blue and Gray Series. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. [5th chapter: "'The Cause a Righteous One": Louisiana Jews and the Confederacy'", by Bruce S. Allardice]
Time's Tapestry: Four Generations of a New Orleans Family / Leta Weiss Marks. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997.
Anshe Chesed : Vicksburg's Jewish Cemetery / by Charles Riles. 2001.
Discovering Jewish Heritage along the Mississippi River. / Cultural Corridors. Jackson, Miss.: Goldring Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life, 1998.
Jews in Early Mississippi / by Leo E. Turitz and Evelyn Turitz. Second ed. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995
Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina / Leonard Rogoff. Chapel Hill: Published in Association with the Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina by the University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Homelands: Southern Jewish Identity in Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina / Leonard Rogoff. Judaic Studies Series. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2001.
They Fled Hitler's Germany and Found Refuge in North Carolina / Editors: Henry A. Landsberger, Christoph E. Schweitzer ; Photo Editor : Frances B. Schultzberg. Southern Research Report ; #8. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1996.
An Architectural History of Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, Charleston / Gene Waddell. Charleston: South Carolina Historical Society, 1997.
Orthodoxy in Charleston: Brith Sholom Beth Israel and American Jewish History / by Jeffrey S. Gurock. Charleston, S.C.: College of Charleston Library in Association with Brith Sholom Beth Israel, 2004.
The Souvenir Book of the Bicentennial: The Story of the Celebration of the Bicentennial of the Charleston Jewish Community, November 19 through November 26, 1950 / [edited By] Jeannette Felsenthal Pearlstine. Charleston: Bicentennial Committee, 1951.
Children of Israel: The Story of Temple Israel, Memphis, Tennessee, 1854-2004 / by Judy G. Ringel. Memphis, Tenn.: Temple Israel Books, 2004.
A Guide for Teaching the History of the Jews of Nashville, Tennessee. / Nashville, Tenn., 1985.
Jewish Community of Chattanooga / Joy Effron Abelson Adams. Images of America. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 1999.
Living on: Portraits of Tennessee Survivors and Liberators: A Project of the Tennessee Holocaust Commission / Photographs by Robert Heller. 1st ed. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008
A Separate Circle: Jewish Life in Knoxville, Tennessee / Wendy Lowe Besmann. 1st ed. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001.
Shabbat on the Cumberland; A family history of Jewish life and acculturation in the Athens of the South, 1851-1926 / by Liliana Jacobus Brown.
New York: Barnard College, Columbia University, 2018.
Gone to Texas: Eastern-European Jewish and Italian Immigrants in Urban Texas, 1900-1924. / Bondurant, Stacy D., Anbinder, Tyler G., Stott, Richard, Ribuffo, Leo P, Joselit, Jenna Weissman, Guglielmo, Thomas A, and George Washington University. History. 2012.
The Jewish Texans. / San Antonio: University of Texas at San Antonio, Institute of Texan Cultures, 1974.
Pioneer Jewish Texans: Their Impact on Texas and American History for Four Hundred Years, 1590-1990 / by Natalie Ornish. 1st ed. Dallas, Tex.: Texas Heritage Press, 1989.
Spoken Memories: Reflections on Dallas Jewish History: From the Oral History Collection of the Dallas Jewish Historical Society: Interviews Conducted from March 1971 through March 2009. / Dallas, TX: Dallas Jewish Historical Society, 2010.
They Came to Stay: The Story of the Jews of Dallas, 1870-1997 / Rose G. Biderman. 1st ed. Austin, Tex.: Eakin Press, 2002.
Women, Culture, and Community: Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920 / Elizabeth Hayes Turner. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Commonwealth and Community: The Jewish Experience in Virginia / Melvin I. Urofsky. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society and Jewish Community Federation of Richmond, 1997.
A Portrait of Jewish Life: Fredericksburg, Virginia, 1860-1986 / Ruth Friedman. Fredericksburg, Va.: S.n., 1986.
Southeastern Virginia Jewish News / United Jewish Federation of Tidewater. [Periodical]