Abstract
I was born and grew up in Hendersonville, North Carolina, a small town of about 6000 people in the western part of the state. There were about 30 Jewish families in Hendersonville, and I knew from a very early age that I was Jewish and, consequently, that I was different in an important way from almost all of my neighbors and classmates. The most evident way, especially to a child, involved dietary prohibitions against eating pork. I also knew that I was allowed absences from school (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur) while other children were not. Inevitably, my Jewishness accounts for many of the memories-most of them, it is important to say at the outset, quite pleasant-I have of growing up in Hendersonville, and I begin this essay with two of them.
Recommended Citation
Sanford Levinson,
Some Reflections on Multiculturalism, "Equal Concern and Respect," and the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment,
27
U. Rich. L. Rev.
989
(1993).
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https://scholarship.richmond.edu/lawreview/vol27/iss5/3