Box 1

Scope and Contents Print of synagogue; clippings and excerpts re. history and anniversaries; program (1991) from 70th anniversary service; color photograph (1995) of board members and officers; one page overview (typed) of congregation with history; data (1989) from building survey conducted by the SC State Historic Preservation Office (1989); photocopies of title of real estate (1923) and mortgage of real estate (1925) for synagogue property; image (repro) of 1933 dinner at the synagogue; images (copies) of...

Scope and Contents Clippings (photocopies) re. members of Aiken Jewish community (most from Aiken Standard) include obituaries of Shad Polier (1976), Esther Surasky Persky, (1985), Ralph Surasky, Ida Rosalyn Wolf (1990), Nathan Franzblau (1984), Nettie Franzblau (1992); tributes (1986) to Mandle Surasky, former mayor of Aiken; articles and obituaries (1990) re. Jewish artist, Mina Surasky Tropp (with color photograph of one of her dried flower paintings); article, "Memoirs: Mostly about a South Carolina...

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All photocopies; article "Montmorenci Colony Enjoyed Two-Year Success" re. history of colony (1989) with images; article (1991) "Happyville, South Carolina" by Arnold Shankman from The Palmetto State: Stories from the Making of South Carolina.

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Photocopy of letter (1938) of thanks to Mrs. B.M. Surasky, president of the Jewish Ladies Aid Society of Aiken, from The Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America re. contributions; photocopies of photographs: Aiken Hadassah (1943) and Hadassah Dance Committee (1956); images of Aiken Hadassah Officers, 1959-60, 1954, 1955; photographs (color) of group at Aiken Synagogue (1988); annual meeting (1995), regular meeting of Aiken Sisterhood (1993).

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Color photocopy of images of cemetery gates (1990s); data (1994) on cemetery plots and who owns them, location of plots numbering, etc.

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Past Winners of Man and Youth of the Year Awards (Aiken) with Jewish citizens underlined, 1988; misc. articles re. observance of Jewish holidays in Aiken, (1983, 1984); fliers for events and lectures at the Adas Yeshurun Synagogue; photographs (color) of Succos, 1990; Rosh Hashanah Tash Licht at Hopeland Gardens, 1992; Purim, 1993.