Acknowledgments
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Section I: Scattered Threads, 1820s–1860s: A History of the Pioneer Jewish Settlers
Chapter 1. Abraham Comes to Arkansas, 1820s–1830s
Chapter 2. The Search for a Safe Home, 1840s
Chapter 3. A Persistence Greater than Prejudice, 1850s
Chapter 4. Loyalty to a New Land, 1860–1865
Section II: The Threads Come Together, 1860s–1930s: Early Congregational Histories
Chapter 5. The German Migration, 1865–1930
Chapter 6. The East European Migration, 1880–1930
Section III: Colorful Threads, 1860s–1940s: Economic and Civic Progress
Introduction
Chapter 7. German Migration in Central Arkansas
Chapter 8. German Migration in Eastern Arkansas
Chapter 9. German Migration in Western Arkansas
Chapter 10. East European Migration in Central Arkansas
Chapter 11. East European Migration in Eastern Arkansas
Chapter 12. East European Migration in Western Arkansas
Section IV: Strengthening the Threads, 1930s–1950s: The Arkansas Jewish Assembly Years
Chapter 13. The Arkansas “Kehillah,” 1930s
Chapter 14. World War II—the Perspective Changes, 1940s
Section V: The Warp and the Woof, 1940s–1990s: Merging of German and East European
Introduction
Chapter 15. Congregational Histories
Chapter 16. Central Arkansas
Chapter 17. Eastern Arkansas
Chapter 18. Western Arkansas
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index