JHC. Jewish Heritage Collection

Abstract Biographical files, sermons, correspondence, articles, photographs, and other papers of William A. Rosenthall, rabbi, scholar, and collector of Judaica. Materials document Rosenthall's rabbinates, particularly his sixteen-year tenure at Charleston's Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, and involvement in the World Union for Progressive Judaism, Hebrew Union College, and other faith- or art-based organizations. Also included are Rosenthall's expansive topical files on Jewish history and culture. Topics...

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Photographs of Robert Rovner, his son Philip S. Rovner, and his business, Bob's Men's Shop, in Greenville, South Carolina. Also includes a newspaper article on the graduation of Philip S. Rovner from the Officer Candidate School at the Army Artillery and Missile Center at Fort Sill in Oklahoma.

Collection Overview Includes photographs, photocopies, clippings. Bulk of collection consists of Rubin family photographs (1930s-1950s). All are black and white; most feature Evelyn and Benjamin Rubin (1940) or Alan Rubin as a child (1930s-1950s); also, group photographs (1940s) of extended Rubin family and of Nancee and Julie Rubin (1970s). Other material includes photocopies of newspaper and magazine clippings re. members of the Rubin family and advertisements for Evelyn Rubin [store]. Also photocopies of the...

Collection Overview Includes correspondence, speeches, photographs, photocopies, clippings, ephemera, pamphlets, certificates. Material related to career and professional accomplishments of Dr. Mitchell I. Rubin: drafts of speeches (1970s-1980s) to medical groups and at awards ceremonies; typescripts (1970s-1980s) regarding medical career of Oliver Wendell Holmes and life of Peter Mark Roget; tributes (1983) written to Dr. Rubin at Buffalo Children's Hospital; certificates and award ephemera (1972-1992);...

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Group portrait of the S.A.C. formal pajama dance taken on October 17, 1929, at the Jewish Community Center on George Street near St. Philip Street in Charleston, South Carolina.

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The collection consists of three scrapbooks compiled by Herbert S. Goldberg and Stanley Cohen that include photographs, clippings, certificates, and correspondence of the Samuel D. Turtletaub Post 237 of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States, Charleston, South Carolina. Materials relate to the activities and community service projects conducted by the Post from 1947 to 1969.

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One black and white photograph of the Savitz brothers (Maurice, Isaac, Samuel, and Daniel) taken in St. Matthews, South Carolina, in the late 1920s or early 1930s.

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Correspondence, newspaper clippings, memoirs, and other papers of Hugo Schiller. Materials relate to Schiller's rescue from the Gurs concentration camp in France by Alice Resch Synnestvedt, a Quaker volunteer from Norway; his time at Aspet, the Quaker children's home; and his eventual escape from France to the United States. Correspondence includes letters from his parents and aunt while he was at Aspet, discussing their life in Gurs and advice for Schiller after his rescue.

Collection Overview Collection includes photographs, photocopies, clippings, and genealogies. All collection materials are copies of originals; Lewenthal-Schneider family papers include marriage certificate (1881) of Philip Lewenthal and Sarah Weinberg; letter (to Laz Schneider) from Salem College (NC) regarding Frances Lewenthal's time at the school (1897-1900); newspaper ad (1988) regarding closing of Philip Schneider's store in Georgetown, SC. Copy photographs include portrait images of Benedict and Fannie...

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The collection consists of approximately 42 photographs taken in 1945 by Harold Schreiner, a U.S. Army tank commander. These images show war damage in Germany and include 14 Holocaust atrocity photographs from Dachau concentration camp.