Bibliograph

The Jews of New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta, a history of life & community along the bayou, Emily Ford & Barry Stiefel

Type

Label

The Jews of New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta, a history of life & community along the bayou, Emily Ford & Barry Stiefel

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Jews of New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Emily Ford & Barry Stiefel

Sub title

a history of life & community along the bayou

Summary

Celebrate the unique and wonderful melding of Jewish and Bayou cultures. The early days of Louisiana settlement brought with them a clandestine group of Jewish pioneers. Isaac Monsanto and other traders spited the rarely enforced Code Noir banning their occupancy, but it wasn't until the Louisiana Purchase that larger numbers colonized the area. Immigrants like the Sartorius brothers and Samuel Zemurray made their way from Central and Eastern Europe to settle the bayou country along the Mississippi. They made their homes in and around New Orleans and the Mississippi River delta, establishing congregations like that of Tememe Derech and B'Nai Israel, with the mighty river serving as a mode of transportation and communication, connecting the communities on both sides of the riverbank

Target audience

adult

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