Shari Rabin’s The Jewish South: An American History (Princeton University Press, 2025), is the first narrative survey of southern Jewish history. Exploring dynamics of race and religion, it features a wide range of Jewish southerners whose stories complicate popular understandings of their region. In this presentation, Rabin will discuss the process of writing this book and share some of the most intriguing finds from her research.
Shari Rabin is associate professor of Jewish studies, religion, and history at Oberlin College. Her first book, Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-century America (NYU Press, 2017), won the National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish studies. She currently serves as vice-president of the Southern Jewish Historical Society.
September 8, 2025, 5:30p, UNC Stone Center, Multipurpose Room