Editing Yazoo City, Mississippi (section)

===Jewish community===
The [[Institute of Southern Jewish Life]] stated that the Jewish community has been characterized by assimilation and was "small, but influential".<ref name=ISJL>{{cite web|url=http://www.isjl.org/history/archive/ms/yazoocity.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071005094135/http://www.isjl.org/history/archive/ms/yazoocity.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2007-10-05|title=Yazoo City, Mississippi|work=[[Institute of Southern Jewish Life]]|date=2007-10-05|access-date=2019-11-18}}</ref> 44 Jews lived in the community in 1878, but a flood of the [[Mississippi River]] in 1882 meant that additional Jews displaced by the flood came. There were 61 Jews in the city by 1937. The Jews in the community did not create a congregation, and the nearest houses of worship were, in the mid-20th century, in [[Jackson, Mississippi|Jackson]] and [[Greenwood, Mississippi|Greenwood]].<ref name=ISJL/>