Box JHC Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection Box 3

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Collection contains original black and white photograph (1942) of Rosalie Goldstein [Kurland] receiving award from representative of WCSC [radio station] to represent South Carolina in the Radio Queen of the South Contest. Includes a news clipping (photocopy) of Rosalie Goldstein in Miami with caption"Charlestonian at Beach Contest"; program (ca. 1990s) from a New York Hadassah meeting introducing Kurland as the guest performer.

Collection Overview From the Collection: The collection consists of three certificates presented to Isaac Prodosky: 1) Order of Induction into Military Service of the United States (May 20, 1918), instructing Prodosky to report to the local board at Walterboro, SC; 2) Veteran's Note (1931) for loan of $153.00 made to Prodosky by the U.S. Veteran's Bureau under the World War Adjusted Compensation Act; and 3) United States of America Certification of Military Service awarded to Prodosky, May 6, 1971, which states the years and...

Collection Overview From the Collection: Postcard with photographic image of Isaac Dave Rubin and family (Rubin is pictured with his wife, Sarah, son Moe, daughter Rachel and three other individuals, possibly Rubin's siblings.) Photograph was taken in front of a Charleston home. A greeting is printed in Hebrew on the left edge of the postcard. Translated to English: "May you be written and sealed for a good year/May there be peace and tranquility in your house/Peace to those far and near." Printed below in English:...

Collection Overview From the Collection: Collection includes personal photographs and ephemera of Ethel Oberman Katzen. Six candid photographs (ca. 1930s-1940s) of Katzen with friends posing at various Charleston, SC, locations including Folly Beach, the Battery and King Street (photocopies of images with identifications included). Ephemera includes an invitation to a circumcision (Charleston, SC, 1913); notice of the price of High Holy Day seats at Beth Israel Congregation (Charleston, SC, 1933); Ethel Oberman Katzen's certificate...

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Two photographs (both black and white) of Reverend Jacob Cohen. The first is an original image (1932, donated by Ellen Oberman Katzen) of Cohen taken in Scranton, PA. Second photograph is a print (donated by Cohen's grandson Marvin L. Simner) of original image of Rev. Cohen and his wife, Ellen, which appears to have been taken the same day and location as first photograph. Notes on Rev. Cohen (compiled by his grandson, Marvin L. Simner) also included.

Collection Overview From the Collection: Application for membership to the DAR, from "Sumter's House" Sumter, South Carolina, submitted by Virginia Moïse (Mrs. Herbert A.) Rosefield, January 1959. Mrs. Rosefield was granted membership by right of lineal descent from Marks Lazarus, her great-great-great-great grandfather. Application traces Rosefield's relation to Lazarus and provides genealogical information including birth, death and marriage dates for descendants. The application is accompanied by a typed page with details from...

Collection Overview From the Collection: The genealogy traces the descendants of Oise Sokol of Poland. Family names in genealogy include: Sokol, Solomon, Altman, Levy, Oxler, Morford, Cooper, Shapiro, Greenberg, Lichtman, Meshumar, Katz, Kass, Harris, Haas, Nalibotsky, Spahn, Poliakoff, Goldberg, Miller, Scharff, Aaron, Gotbeter, Arel, Appel, Kaplan, Rones, Saffer, Sykes, Baker, Slotin, Cohen, Parsley, Collis, Weintraub, Obstbaum, Fried, Streit, Wyland, Parker, Toporek, Chaplin, Herman, Stamper, Robinson, Rubin, Budman, Berger,...

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Family history compiled by Jerold Hirschman, 1981-includes information about the Solomon Hirschman Family, Jonas Sternberger Family, David Sternberger Family, Elias Mayer Family, Henry Hirschman Family and Jerold Hirschman Family; information compiled by Judy H. Rivkin and Henry Hirschman about the Hirschman family connection to the College of Charlestons, Jewish Studies Center.

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Articles (1918, 1935) re. deaths of David Sternberger and Dr. Rosa Hirschman Gantt (first female to graduate from Medical College of South Carolina); article re. history of house at 11 Montagu St., (Hirschman family home) Charleston, SC; editorials (1986) re. J. Hirschmans efforts to save marshland on the Ashley River, Charleston, SC; biographical sketch of Rosa Hirschman Gantt, published in Nov. 1987 issue of Journal of the South Carolina Medical Association.

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Portrait (1912) of male members of the Henry Hirschman family: Lionel, Henry, Joseph M., Solomon, Edgar, Victor and Jerold; image (ca. 1930s?) of Rosa Sternberger Hirschman; Jerry, Lilah, Henry and Judy Hirschman, ca. 1942-1943; Lilah and Jerry Hirschman, ca. 1975.