How Jews in the Jim Crow South Labored to be White

Published: April 13, 2018, 5 a.m.

Dr. Caroline Light of the Program in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Harvard University talks with host Gilad Halpern about her recent book,\xa0That Pride of Race and Character: The Roots of Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South. It analyses the circumstances that led to the establishment of a sizable Jewish charity network in the American South in the post-Reconstruction period.

This episode originally aired April 18, 2015.