The Lonely Days Were Sundays
Book description
This collection of essays by the astute historian Eli N. Evans is written from the unique perspective of a Jew raised in the South.
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1 author picked The Lonely Days Were Sundays as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
As a fiction author who investigates the Southern Jewish Experience as it transects with the African American one, I’ve found the work of Eli Evans indispensible. This collection of essays highlights Evans’ Civil Rights Era bona fides, his work in the LBJ administration as speech writer, his trip with Henry Kissinger to the Middle East. But it is also a book at its most personal and insightful when it celebrates small-town Southern life and the Southern Jew’s place in it. In the title essay Christian neighbors, both Black and white, are at church or enjoying Sunday supper after church, which…
From Mary's list on southern themes you’ve never heard of (maybe).
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