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We are Southerners

We are…Southerners

Jewish immigrants quickly adapted to the South. In the Civil War, many fought for the Confederacy. In small towns especially they became part of their communities, winning honors in schools, competing on sports fields and in beauty pageants, and sometimes even enjoying that forbidden food, barbecue.

 

“I’m very much a Jewish Southerner. I love the South, and they’re my people.”

Jerry Sternberg, Asheville

 

Southerners Gallery

Click the thumbnails below to view a slideshow of Jewish Southerners in North Carolina.

Louis Baer, Dunn, c. 1950s, Photo Courtesy Marcia Simon
Advertisement for B.L. Susman’s Washinton Horse Exchange Co. in the sales booklet ‘Washington, North Carolina,’ 1913
Two Men Plowing, n.d., Courtesy Van Eeden Collection, North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina Library at Chapel Hill
Family on Fence, Courtesy Van Eeden Collection, North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina Library at Chapel Hill
Barker Family on Porch, n.d., Courtesy Michael Barker
Julian Rauch Kicking Field Goal, n.d., Courtesy Marshal Rauch
Katzenstein Farm, n.d., Courtesy Katzenstein Family
Debutante Cotillion, n.d., Courtesy American Jewish Historical Society
Connie Lerner, Miss North Carolina (left), n.d., Courtesy Carpenter Archives, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Cheryl Fleishman, Miss Azalea, n.d., Courtesy Cheryl Fleishman
Beauty Queens with Names of Cities, n.d., Courtesy Charlotte Jewish Historical Society
Adolf Hahn, n.d., Courtesy Joe Hahn
Art Heyman, Duke University 1961-1963, Photo Courtesy Duke University Archives
Lennie Rosenbluth, UNC-CH 1953-1957, Courtesy North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina Library at Chapel Hill
Harry and Solomon, n.d., Courtesy of Cape Fear Museum
Louis Baer, Dunn, about 1950s
Louis Baer, Dunn, about 1950s, Photo Courtesy Marcia Simon