{"product_id":"dry-goods-cotton-and-cane-brian-j-costello-9781596414686","title":"Dry Goods, Cotton and Cane: 250 Years of Jewish Life, Business and Agriculture in Pointe Coup馥 Parish, Louisiana","description":"\u003cp\u003eDRY GOODS, COTTON AND CANE: 250 YEARS OF JEWISH LIFE, BUSINESS AND AGRICULTURE IN POINTE COUPﾉE PARISH, LOUISIANA. With a record of permanent settlement since the 1720s, Pointe Coup馥 Parish is one of the oldest communities in the Mississippi River Valley. Cr駮le in culture, owing to the predominance of its French, African, and blended ethnicities, the parish, however, owes much to its Jewish families, who once numbered in the hundreds and whose presence dated from the 1760s. In the wake of the Civil War, when the traditional plantation system collapsed, Jewish financiers, merchants, livestock dealers, and sugar and cotton brokers played prominent roles in shoring up Pointe Coup馥's war-torn economy. Jews were held in respect and friendship, and not infrequently married into the larger Gentile population. The earliest Jewish families in Pointe Coup馥 hailed from the Iberian Peninsula, via the Netherlands and the Caribbean. They were succeeded by successive waves of immigrants from France, the German states, and, at the turn of the 19\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e-20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e centuries, from Austria-Hungary, Prussia, Romania and the Russian Empire. Their numbers were relatively small, but some communities had a particularly Jewish stamp, including the Lower Chenal of False River and Upper, or northern, Pointe Coup馥. The Jewish people of Pointe Coup馥 Parish shared in the economic successes of their Gentile neighbors, and like them suffered from levee failures and disastrous floods, hurricanes, epidemics and crop failures. Most moved to better economic and educational opportunities in New Orleans and the cities of the American North and West. In the 21\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e century, the Jewish legacy lives on not only in local place names but in these immigrants' dedication to local education and philanthropy, thereby providing a rich tile in the cultural mosaic that is Pointe Coup馥 Parish, Louisiana.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brian J. Costello, Carol Mills-Nichol\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1596414685\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781596414686\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Janaway Publishing, Inc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 402\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.82d","brand":"Brian J. Costello","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44076280283391,"sku":"9781596414686","price":48.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d7e81771-98a3-4c57-922f-df70ea077a44.jpg?v=1685464128","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dry-goods-cotton-and-cane-brian-j-costello-9781596414686","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}