Janet Bordelon
Dr. Janet Bordelon became the Historian at the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life in June 2014.
Articles by Janet Bordelon
Getting to Know (Jewish) Natchez
Last week, I was on the road with TENT, a week-long traveling seminar on culture, history, and social justice for ...
A Phone Call From a Man Named Spike
Fully capturing the essence of Jewish life across the South can be tricky, especially in towns without a formal congregation. ...
Interfaith Collaboration: A Southern Tradition
This past week, two of my co-workers and I attended an interesting lecture by Reverend Ben Matin at Millsaps College, ...
A Historian’s First Trip to the Jewish Delta
What’s “new” for this historian? Well, at the moment, we are in the process of updating the Mississippi entries for ...
A Different Kind of Jewish “Movement”
“Do you live in the same place where you were raised?” The ISJL’s founder, Macy B. Hart, likes to ask ...
Operation: Understanding – Our History, Our Present
Yesterday, the ISJL hosted students from Operation Understanding, an organization whose mission is to develop a group of young African ...
Jewish History in Cajun Country: A Secret Synagogue
I am Jewish. I am a historian. And, as my name attests—I am also Cajun French, so I was most ...
Historical Connections
This is my first week as the historian for the ISJL. I’ve been so warmly welcomed here—and am already finding connections ...