Always felt anti semitism was overblown in the US now in Europe different story growing up on the South Jews were fellow Whites who were people of the book now rasicm against blacks yes I saw a lot of that down here but hardly any anti JewishThis was our grandmother's experience growing up in Baton Rouge and later Waterproof, Louisiana. She was born in Natchez, Mississippi (pronounced nachis, don't tell this blog it doesn't have southern roots. As our mother was from Kentucky, more or less, we also know how to pronounce Louisville, sort of like luulvul. You really have to swallow the vowels).
Anyway, here's an old post we did on the subject.
Now here's an interesting question. Would Southern Jews have faced the same kind of wink and a nod de-facto discrimination of the type portrayed in Gentlemen's Agreement?
Below, Hanna Marx Stroock with her only grandchildren, Hartsdale, NY, 1987:
Did some thinking on this last night the 2 main reasons there was never much anti semitism in the South is there is a smaller number of Jews down South and also there was never a large group of ultra orthodox down here that kept the groups from intermingling that I think is the biggest reason for anti semitism up north and in Europe Jewish groups never tried to become part of the community as they did down South
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