Corned beef and corn pone

Gathering to focus on the Jews of the Southby

What do Harry Golden, Hurricane Katrina and the city of Greenbelt have in common?

Not much, except that each has played a role in the evolving story of Jews in the South, a region not often identified with a people who are nearly synonymous with the urban North.

Although they have never been particularly populous below the Mason-Dixon Line, Jews have nevertheless been an integral part of Southern life from Colonial times until now, according to several experts associated with the Southern Jewish Historical Society.