Only in America

Harry Golden seems to me to be an earlier and more thoughtful version of Bob Greene, with more philosophical and religious overtones. He was a liberal Jewish humanist publishing "The Carolina Israelite" in North Carolina during a time when such a thing just wasn't done. His essays run the gamut from whimsy to thoughtful and deeply held opinion that could have got him killed had he been an outsider, but being a fellow Southerner, he was accepted as one might an eccentric uncle in the family.

Miscellaneous excerpts from the author's periodical The Carolina Israelite on a wide variety of subjects. He writes extensively on human relations, especially as relating to race relations in 1950's South and politics of that time. His references to Jews in the South and the attempts at cooperation are sometimes funny, sometimes sad. The reader's emotions range from sad, to angry, to thoughtfulness, to hilarious depending on the tack of the writer. A slow read, but a good one.

Midcentury autobiography of Jewish Southerner, publisher of daily newspaper.

humor, Americana, Jews