From a New York Times obit by Clay Risen headlined “Eli N. Evans, Who Wrote About Jews in American South, Dies at 85”:

Eli N. Evans, a courtly Carolina Tarheel who rose to the upper ranks of the New York philanthropic world, but who left his biggest mark as the author of three books exploring the culture and history of Jews in the American South, including his own family, died on July 26 in Manhattan.