Attracted by palm trees, bungalows, and sunshine as much as by economic opportunity, Jews flocked to the South and West by the tens of thousands after World War II. Once there, they transformed the golden cities as much as the golden cities transformed them. This beautifully written, colorful, and important book is their story, and no one could have told it better than Deborah Dash Moore.
-- Kenneth T. Jackson, author of Crabgrass Frontier
An engaging exploration of what has been an untold story.
-- Eugene Patron Foreword
A richly textured, splendidly readable account of the migration of one of America's most protean minorities. This is social history at its best, and with it Moore emerges as one of this nation's finest social historians.
-- Howard M. Sachar, George Washington University
Moore has told the riveting story of the creation of two new Jewish communities, which were among the first to struggle with mass assimilation, the great challenge facing American Jews today. Professor Moore's absorbing tale contains a past urgently relevant for the future of the American Jewish community as a whole.
-- David Biale, author of Eros and the Jews