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The Jews of New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta: A History of Life and Community Along the Bayou

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The Jews of New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta: A History of Life and Community Along the Bayou - Ford, Emily, and Stiefel, Barry
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Authors Emily Ford and Barry Stiefel delve into the Jewish communities settled in New Orleans and along the Mississippi Delta. 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 ...

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The Jews of New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta: A History of Life and Community Along the Bayou 2012, History Press, Charleston

ISBN-13: 9781609496814

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The Jews of New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta: A History of Life and Community Along the Bayou 2012, History Press Library Editions

ISBN-13: 9781540231963

Hardcover