Thomas J. Tobias papers

Includes family and research papers, photocopies, scrapbook, photographs, clippings. Tobias papers include family histories and research on individuals. Slave sales of Abraham Tobias, oath of allegiance, etc. of Emily T. Minis, & resolution, Charleston Board of Health, on Joseph L. Tobias. Family Bibles and data regarding Tobias, Mordecai, Lazarus, Alexander, and de Lyon families. Mordecai family histories and notes on individuals. M.C. Mordecai papers regarding blockade runner Isabel, Baltimore, MD, business letters; and J. Randolph Mordecai letter mentioning start of phosphate industry. Common place book of Isabel L. Mordecai and daughter Hortensia, mentioning actress Charlotte Cushman. Hortensia Mordecai European diary, mentioning Harriet Hosmer, and Charles Sumner; David Henry Mordecai diaries through the Florida Keys, Key West, Cuba, England, Europe, mentioning study in Germany, politics, inevitability of Civil War, women wearing makeup, his declining health and trip Edgar M. Lazarus papers include travel diary through US and Europe, schooling in Germany, with comments on Jewish life; CSA service papers; ketubah; letter regarding torpedo boat; presidential appointment as appraiser, Customs House, Charleston, and inability to serve due to CSA service, with petition of Charleston merchants. Joshua Lazarus military and marriage settlement papers, and data regarding street railroads in Charleston, Philadelphia and Brooklyn. Phoebe Yates common place book and Lazarus and Yates family histories. Research on dozens of significant SC Jews including members of Alexander, Cohen, DaCosta, DeLeon, Harby and other families; data on Henry F. Lewith, founder of Be Kind to Animal Week, Moses Lopez, Penina Mo_se, & others. With Ketuba of Joseph and Sarah Alexander, papers regarding Sidney J. Cohen; common place book of Rosina Hendricks Levy; diary of Joseph Lyons detailing his study, religious and social life of SC Jews, health, and many philosophical topics; CSA quartermaster letter of Raphael J. Moses, with Robert E. Lee signature. Includes copy of Benjamin & Levi Sheftall diary regarding vital statistics, Savannah Jews, and papers re. death of Samuel Turtletaub. With notes and research re. Tobias's histories of Hebrew Orphan and Hebrew Benevolent Societies, KK Beth Elohim history, its Coming Street cemetery, other cemeteries, American Jewish Historical Society 1964 meeting in Charleston; Charleston Jewish Bicentennial celebration; Francis Salvador, & diorama sponsored by B'nai B'rith; Brith Shalom, Shearith Israel synagogues and other Jewish topics & persons.