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COVER PICTURE: Passover seder conducted at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in 1958. Harry Weissman and his son Donald appear at the right end of the head table. The article by Mark K. Bauman and Leah Burnham on pages 1–60 traces the interaction of members of the local Jewish community with Jewish prisoners, including such seders. (Harry Weissman Papers, courtesy of the Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History at the Breman Museum, Atlanta.) TABLE OF CONTENTS The Atlanta Federal Penitentiary and Area Jews: A Social Service Case Study, by Mark K. Bauman and Leah Burnham Insiders or Outsiders: Charlottesville’s Jews, White Supremacy, and Antisemitism, Phyllis K. Leffler PRIMARY SOURCES: The Galveston Diaspora: A Statistical View of Jewish Immigration Through Texas, 1907–1913, Bryan Edward Stone BOOK REVIEWS Michael R. Cohen, Cotton Capitalists: American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the Reconstruction Era, reviewed by Edward S. Shapiro Arlo Haskell, The Jews of Key West: Smugglers, Cigar Makers, and Revolutionaries, 1823–1969, reviewed by Raymond Arsenault Shari Rabin, Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America, reviewed by Lee Shai Weissbach EXHIBIT REVIEWS The Legacy of the Hebrew Orphans’ Home: Educating the Jewish South Since 1876, reviewed by Caroline Light Kehillah: A History of Jewish Life in Greater Orlando, reviewed by Mark I. Pinsky WEBSITE REVIEW The Texas Slavery Project, reviewed by Joshua Furman
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In 1978 Robert Schneider sent a letter to Arlene Greenberg Peck, a volunteer working with Jewish prisoners at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. Schneider was an inmate at the Georgia State Prison at Reidsville, two-hundred miles from Atlanta, serving three life sentences plus ninety years for murdering three men involved in a nightclub feud the previous year. Schneider explained that his parents had died when he was a child and that he had lived a violent life and spent six years in prison for refusing to go to Vietnam. Twenty-five years old, married, and the father of three children, he was the only Jewish prisoner in Reidsville. Schneider beseeched Peck: “[He] felt completely cut off from the world . . . and [was] desperately looking for his ‘Jewish roots.’“ He was aware of his Jewish identity, but had little knowledge of Judaism. Peck asked the readers of the Southern Israelite, “Does a Robert Schneider deserve our compassion? I think he does, if for no other reason than that’s what our religion teaches. I think he is entitled to religion that he seems to be searching for now.”
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