{"product_id":"the-lonely-days-were-sundays-reflections-of-a-jewish-southerner-9780878057528","title":"The Lonely Days Were Sundays: Reflections of a Jewish Southerner","description":"(In) a multi-layered book of great warmth and feeling, (Evans) reminds us anew of the Jewish southern inheritance, its ancient intensities and rhythms and heartbeats. This is a very southern book, and also an immensely American one (Willie Morris). The Jews of the South have found their poet laureate.--Abba Eban.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEli N. Evans \u003c\/b\u003e(1936-2022) was president emeritus of the Charles H. Revson Foundation in New York City. He graduated from the University of North Carolina (B.A.) and Yale Law School (J.D.) and served as a speechwriter on the White House staff of President Lyndon B. Johnson. A native of Durham, North Carolina, Evans was author of \u003ci\u003eThe Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJudah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Lonely Days Were Sundays: Reflections of a Jewish Southerner\u003c\/i\u003e, the latter title published by University Press of Mississippi.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50846358667538,"sku":"9780878057528","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d04d66be-1c12-4e5a-a648-bce131f53309.jpg?v=1737362500","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-lonely-days-were-sundays-reflections-of-a-jewish-southerner-9780878057528","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}