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Growing up in tiny Cary, Mississippi during the 1960s and 1970s, Deborah Lamensdorf Jacobs thought a lot about what it meant to be Jewish. Her family came to the Mississippi Delta in the late 19th century. Her early relatives, like many of the small population of Jews who have longed called the South home, owned stores. In 1919, her grandfather bought 100 acres of land to farm cotton. As one of few Jewish people in her small town, Lamensdorf Jacobs knew what she did and what she said would define for neighbors what it meant to be Jewish. It was a privilege, because very few Jewish people are the example of what Jews are, she said. We defined Judaism in how we took care of family, how we took care of the older members of our family and how we contributed to the community.

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