Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe Volume 7 Issue 4 Article 2 1987 Bourbon and Vodka: A Comparison of the Southern-Black and Polish-Jewish Questions Bob Donnorummo University of Pittsburgh Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/ree Part of the Christianity Commons, and the Eastern European Studies Commons Recommended Citation Donnorummo, Bob (1987) "Bourbon and Vodka: A Comparison of the Southern-Black and Polish-Jewish Questions," Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe: Vol. 7 : Iss. 4 , Article 2. Available at: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/ree/vol7/iss4/2 This Article, Exploration, or Report is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ George Fox University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ George Fox University. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. BOURBON AND VODKA: A COMPARISON OF THE SOUTHERN-BLACK AND POLISH-JEWISH QUESTIONS by Bob Donnorummo Dr. Bob Donnorummo is the associate director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh and teaches courses on Russian and East European history. He is the author of The Peasants of Central Rus sia: Reactions to Emancipation and the Market, 1850-1900 (1987). Professor Donnorummo is presently researching the relationship between economic development and political legitimacy in post-1918 Poland. "P oland is a beautiful, heart-wrenching, soul-split country which in many ways •••res embles or conjures up images of the American South--or at least the South of other, not-so-dis tant times ••• tormented into its shape like that of the Old South out of adversity, penury, and defeat," writes William Styron in his best-selling nove l 1 Sophie's Choice.