In three centuries of Southern Jewish life in the Big Easy, no easy way to be Jewish
Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries By Nicholas Lemann Liveright, 416 pages, $35 Nicholas Lemann’s Jewish life was negligible. Great care was taken to make it so. His family not only celebrated Christmas, they skipped Hanukkah, a fact that created a small scandal in their Reform congregation in New Orleans, a shul that...
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