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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Clara Teplit Katz Memoir #5429-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Lorraine Wechsler in June 2009 (Acc. 101130).

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Processed by: Matt Dailey and Rachel Shope, February 2011

Encoded by: Matt Dailey, February 2011

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Diaries (Blank-books)
• Families--Mississippi--Social life and customs.
• Jewish college students--Southern States.
• Jewish families--Mississippi.
• Jewish women--Southern States.
• Jews, American--Southern States.
• Jews--Mississippi--History--20th century.
• Katz, Clara Teplit, 1916-1998.
• Lambert (Miss.)--History.
• Lambert (Miss.)--Social life and customs.

Clara Teplit Katz was born on 4 February 1916 in Memphis, Tenn. When she was six months old, Katz and her family moved to Lambert, Miss. The Teplits were one of a very small number of Jewish families in Lambert. Katz attended Delta State University, the University of Mississippi, and the University of Alabama, where she met her husband, Nat Katz. After marrying, they opened a store just outside of Lambert. The Katzs had one daughter, Mariette, who also attended the University of Alabama. Clara Teplit Katz died on 14 August 1998.

The collection consists of Clara Teplit Katz's typewritten memoir of her upbringing in a Jewish family in Lambert, Miss., during the 1920s. The memoir spans Katz's childhood, adolesence, and college years.