Wandering Dixie: Dispatches from the Lost Jewish South, Eisenfeld Sue

From South Carolina to Arkansas, she explores the small towns where Jewish people once lived and thrived. She visits the site of her distant cousin and civil rights activist Andrew Goodmans murder during 1964s Freedom Summer. She also talks with the only Jews remaining in some of the lost places, from Selma to the Mississippi Delta to Natchitoches, and visits areas with no Jewish community left--except for an old temple or overgrown cemetery. Eisenfeld follows her curiosity about Jewish Confederates and casts an unflinching eye on early southern Jews participation in slavery. Her travels become a journey of revelation about our nations fraught history and a personal reckoning with the true nature of America.