The Rabbis Go South, a narrative non-fiction podcast 

Amy Geller

CREATOR AND CO-WRITER

"The Rabbis Go South" is a seven-part narrative non-fiction podcast that tells the little-known story of three dramatic days in 1964 when 16 rabbis answered the call of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to join forces in St. Augustine, Florida. The rabbis would serve as foot soldiers in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s ongoing attempts to integrate this brutally racist city. While praying with Black clergy, they were arrested and incarcerated, the largest imprisonment of rabbis to that point in American history. In jail, they composed a joint letter “Why We Went,” stating that what happened in the Holocaust is a reason for Jews to stand up against racial injustice in America.