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Title: A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life by Theodore Rosengarten, Dale Rosengarten, McKissick Museum, Eli N. Evans ISBN: 1-57003-445-1 Publisher: University of South Carolina Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Summary: Facinating History of a Dynamic Jewish Community
Comment: At important times in early American history, the largest and most important Jewish Community was in Charleston, South Carolina. Unlike many parts of the world where Jews were then treated as a dispised or distrusted minority, relegated to the fringes of community life, these Jews (like their neighbors in Georgia) were an integral and valued element in the colony form its earliest time. The were truly "a portion of the people." Here Jews blended in and prospered and Judaism flourished. The first Jew was elected to a legislature in modern times in the Revolutionary War period there. Jews fought along side their fellow citizens as colonists, in the Revolutionary War, and in the Civil War. A number of nationally prominent Jewish figures (including one of the first two Jewish Senators, the first Jew nominated to the US Supreme Court, prominent business men and cabinet officials) trace their heritage to this part of the South.
And the authors tell of the cradle of Reform Judaism in Charleston where the first prayer book and hymnal were written. The reforms that were to make Reform Judaism the largest denomination, such as services in English, an important role for women, and full integration into the community, were established there. Beth Elohim, the oldest synagogue in continuous use in America, is located here.
The authors have put together a good set of photographs of people and places and interesting text on this little known chapter of American and Jewish history.
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Title: Shalom Y'All: Images of Jewish Life in the American South by Vicki Reikes Fox, Bill Aron, Alfred Uhry, Marcie Cohen Ferris ISBN: 1565123557 Publisher: Algonquin Books Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: And the Dead Shall Rise : The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank by Steve Oney ISBN: 0679421475 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: My Father's People: A Family of Southern Jews by Louis Decimus, Jr. Rubin ISBN: 0807128082 Publisher: Louisiana State University Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: The Provincials by Eli Evans ISBN: 068483412X Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 12 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Brundibar by Tony Kushner, Maurice Sendak, Michael di Capua ISBN: 0786809043 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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