HUFFINGTON
08.05.12
SHALOM Y’ALL
Jewish communities in cities like
Birmingham have suffered.
“There has been a huge influx
of Jews from the Northeast down
South,” says Stuart Rockoff, director of the history department at
the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute
of Southern Jewish Life in Jackson, Miss. “But there’s also been a
significant migration of Jews from
other parts of the South to big
Southern cities.”
Alabama, once a beacon for
Jewish immigrants and AmericanJewish migrants seeking prosperity in its booming steel industry,
has 8,850 Jews left in a state of
4.8 million people, down from a
high of 13,000 in the early 20th
century, when the state’s population was less than half of what it
is now. The X