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From matzo to gumbo: Museum explores Southern Jewish life

by Stacey Plaisance
| December 16, 2020 8:33 AM

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A new museum under construction in New Orleans will explore the journey of immigrant Jews and subsequent generations to the American South who brought with them a religious way of life they struggled to maintain while seeking acceptance in the home of the Bible Belt.

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