Les Juifs de La Nouvelle-Orléans

A great commercial port at the mouth of the Mississippi, New Orleans harbored, from the colonial era and especially during the nineteenth century, a Jewish community composed first of Sephardim and then of Ashkenazim, closely tied to commerce, notably the cotton trade. Its members integrated into Creole society and the economic life of the city, and some attained notable public positions. The community established congregations and institutions and contributed to the civic life of the city. It constituted one of the principal centers of Judaism in the American South.

Sources & resources

• Encyclopaedia Judaica — 2e éd., Keter/Macmillan
• Jewish Virtual Library ↗