To Stand Aside or Stand Alone – Southern Reform Rabbis and the Civil Rights Mov…

To Stand Aside or Stand AloneSouthern Reform Rabbis and the Civil Rights Movement\nAuthor(s): P. Allen Krause, Mark K. Bauman, Stephen Krause\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Alabama Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Alabama Press\nISBN-13: 9780817359096, 978-0817359096\nSynopsis\nA landmark collection of previously unpublished interviews with Reform rabbis concerning their roles in the civil rights movement. In 1966, a young rabbinical student named P. Allen Krause conducted interviews with twelve Reform rabbis from southern congregations concerning their thoughts, principles, and activities as they related to the civil rights movement. Perhaps because he was a young seminary student or more likely because the interviewees were promised an embargo of twenty-five years before the interviews would be released to the public, the rabbis were extremely candid about their opinions on and their own involvement with what was still an incendiary subject. Now, i.