{"product_id":"just-and-righteous-causes-rabbi-ira-sanders-and-the-fight-for-racial-and-social-justice-in-arkansas-1926-1963-9781682260753","title":"Just and Righteous Causes: Rabbi Ira Sanders and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA dedicated advocate for social justice long before the term entered everyday usage, Rabbi Ira Sanders began striving against the Jim Crow system soon after he arrived in Little Rock from New York in 1926. Sanders, who led Little Rock’s Temple B’nai Israel for nearly forty years, was a trained social worker as well as a rabbi and his career as a dynamic religious and community leader in Little Rock spanned the traumas of the Great Depression, World War II and the Holocaust, and the social and racial struggles of the 1950s and 1960s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eJust and Righteous Causes\u003c\/em\u003e—a full biographical study of this bold social-activist rabbi—examines how Sanders expertly navigated the intersections of race, religion, and gender to advocate for a more just society. It joins a growing body of literature about the lives and histories of Southern rabbis, deftly balancing scholarly and narrative tones to provide a personal look into the complicated position of the Southern rabbi and the Jewish community throughout the political struggles of the twentieth-century South.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this highly readable and well-researched biography of Ira Sanders, James L. Moses depicts the major contributions made by a hitherto unsung hero of the long civil rights movement. Starting as a young man, but spiraling after witnessing a horrific lynching in 1926, Sanders launched a crusade against segregation highlighted by his stand before the Arkansas legislature against four segregationist laws, his outspoken position during the Little Rock High School crisis, and his commitment to integrated housing. Although his experiences with numerous other social justice reforms established him in his community, as with other Reform rabbis in the South who spoke out, his experience began earlier than most, and the Little Rock environment proved to be generally more moderate than in numerous other southern cities. This book places Sanders in context within his community and relation to the activities—or lack thereof—of other rabbis. It is a must-read for anyone interested in Little Rock, Arkansas, and southern history, the civil rights movement, and southern and American Jewish history.\" —Mark K. Bauman, editor, \u003ci\u003eSouthern Jewish History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An important new biography by James L. Moses, \u003ci\u003eJust and Righteous Causes: Rabbi Ira Sanders and the Fight for Social Justice in Arkansas\u003c\/i\u003e, meticulously chronicles Sanders’ significant, if largely till now unheralded, role in Southern Jewish history.\" —\u003ci\u003eTablet Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, January 2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Historians of Arkansas, civil rights and American Judaism will find \u003ci\u003eJust and Righteous Causes\u003c\/i\u003e an indispensable addition to the literature.\" —Melanie K. Welch, \u003ci\u003eArkansas Review\u003c\/i\u003e, August 2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eJust and Righteous Causes\u003c\/i\u003e serves as an accessible and well researched biography of an important Arkansan. … will appeal to casual readers and interested experts alike, even as it adds an important chapter to the histories of Little Rock, southern Jews, and the civil rights movement.\" —Josh Parshall, \u003ci\u003eArkansas Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, Summer 2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With \u003ci\u003eJust and Righteous Causes: Rabbi Ira Sanders and the Fight for Racial and Social Justice in Arkansas, 1926–1963\u003c\/i\u003e, James L. Moses makes a welcome contribution to the study of mid-twentieth-century southern rabbis who walked a tightrope between discharging their duties as spiritual leaders and responding to wider social justice concerns.\" —Mary Stanton, \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Southern History\u003c\/i\u003e, November 2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eJust and Righteous Causes\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent look into the life of one of the South’s most prominent social justice and civil rights activists of the twentieth century. It successfully provides the casual reader, as well as scholars, with a valuable resource that helps shed light on not only Sanders’s life but the period as well.\" —Seth A. Weitz, \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e, March 2020","brand":"University of Arkansas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042095202647,"sku":"9781682260753","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781682260753.jpg?v=1750952994","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/just-and-righteous-causes-rabbi-ira-sanders-and-the-fight-for-racial-and-social-justice-in-arkansas-1926-1963-9781682260753","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}