AMST 486 Shalom Y'All: The Jewish Experience in the American South  

Emma Mordecai Diary, 1864-65, Handwritten

Emma Mordecai Diary, 1864-65, Typed

Mordecai Family Papers
Finding Aid for archival materials held in Wilson Library

Southern Jewish History: A Selected Bibliography

The new encyclopedia of Southern culture / Charles Reagan Wilson, general editor. See Volume 6: Ethnicity, in particular.
Davis Library:
F209 .N47 2006

Encyclopedia of religion in the South / edited by Samuel S. Hill and Charles H. Lippy
Davis Library Reference:
BR535 .E52 2005

Jewish women in America: an historical encyclopedia / edited by Paula E. Hyman and Deborah Dash Moore
Davis Library Reference:
DS115.2 .J49 1998

Encyclopedia of Southern culture / Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris, coeditors
Davis Library Reference:
F209 .E53 1989

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