{"id":2552,"date":"2011-04-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2011\/04\/07\/exploring-southern-jewish-heritage-in-the-delta\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:07:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:07:04","slug":"exploring-southern-jewish-heritage-in-the-delta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2011\/04\/exploring-southern-jewish-heritage-in-the-delta\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Southern Jewish Heritage in the Delta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\" class=\"caption\" alt=\"Luther Brown and members of the Oak Park, Illinois, B'nai Abraham Zion Temple in Ewing Hall\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/2011Releases\/S5031045.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Delta State University Delta Center for Culture and Learning recently provided an introduction to the Delta&#8217;s cultural heritage to members of the Oak Park, Illinois, B&#8217;nai Abraham Zion Temple. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The group of 30 visitors was led by Rabbi Max Weiss, and accompanied by Stuart Rockoff of the Institute of Southern Jewish Life in Jackson. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The travelers passed through the Delta on their way from New Orleans to Memphis. They explored Jewish history in the South and learned about the Blues and Civil Rights heritage. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The group is pictured in front of the collection of life-masks, cast from the faces of living Blues performers by artist Sharon McConnell. The collection is house in Ewing Hall on the Delta State campus. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta State University Delta Center for Culture and Learning recently provided an introduction to the Delta&#8217;s cultural heritage &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2552"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41244,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions\/41244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}