Creator Bio
Marcie Cohen Ferris
b. 1957
Marcie Cohen Ferris grew up in Blytheville, Arkansas. She holds a doctorate from the George Washington University, teaches American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is associated with the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies. A historian of the Jewish American South, she has published and edited articles on that theme, plans museum exhibits, and was associate producer of the video documentary The Natchez Jewish Experience.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South
Mildred Lubritz Covert was born in uptown New Orleans in 1927 and ate a rich mix of eastern European, creole, and African American foods throughout her childhood. She later chronicled this cuisine in…