SOUTHERN JEWS: THE TWO COMMUNITIES.

The article presents a description of all Southern Jews. Iron City, Utah, is a steel, rubber, and textile town of some 60,000 people. Located in the hilly north of one of the Deep South states, Iron City is blessed with many natural resources but not with much new investment in the past decade. Jews and Catholics are recognized as white minorities. The distinction between old and new is not an easy one but although it is implicit, the Iron City Jews appear to understand it well enough and to behave accordingly. Roughly, there are two dimensions in the distinction, one of time and one of place. Not all the old Jews have been residents of Iron City for over a generation; and many of the new Jews can at least claim to have seen the "Depression" come and go in their present businesses. The new Jew, in contrast, is one who himself came to town from the North. Differences in the marital patterns of the two communities are more difficult to discern because they become submerged in extremely strong family solidarity and hidden from the observer. There are more marriages outside the faith among children of the old families, but the greater significance here lies in their small numbers and the reaction of the old Jews to such marriages.