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Homelands blends oral history, documentary studies, and quantitative research to present a colorful local history with much to say about multicultural identity in the South. Homelands is a case study of a unique ethnic group in North America--small-town southern Jews. Both Jews and southerners, Leonard Rogoff points out, have long struggled with questions of identity and whether to retain their differences or try to assimilate into the nationalculture. Rogoff shows how, as immigrant Jews became small-town southerners,they constantly renegotiated their identities and reinvent

Durham Metropolitan Area (N.C.) -- Ethnic relations. --- Jews -- North carolina -- Durham Metropolitan Area -- History. --- Jews -- North carolina -- Durham Metropolitan Area -- Identity. --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- United States Local History