Jews -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 39 Collections and/or Records:
Lee Cohen Harby papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1019
Collection Overview
Includes correspondence, photographs, photocopies, clippings, scrapbook, typescript.
Genealogical information on descendants of Isaac Harby (birth, death and marriage dates); cabinet card (1891) of Lee C. Harby; handwritten letter re. Harby family of Delhi, NY; clippings of Harby poems published in newspapers (Texas, NY and SC); typescript of poem, "The Lesson of Easter"; clippings of essays about Texas; clippings of misc. published essays, topics include: southern plantation life, Jewish...
Dates:
1859-1911
Found in:
Special Collections
Hirschman family papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-045
Collection Overview
Includes Hirschman family biographical notes, news clippings (1918-1987) and images (1912-1975). Original souvenir handkerchief from the 1929 South Carolina Federation of Temple Sisterhoods annual meeting held in Greenville, SC. Also includes several images of the Rivkin family, ca. 1910 and 1920.
Dates:
1910-1987
Found in:
Special Collections
I. Dave Rubin store photographs
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1058
Collection Overview
Collection consists of five original photographs (ca. 1910) of I.D. Rubin stores in Charleston, SC. Includes two interior and two exterior images of Uncle Dave's New York Pawn Office, 128-130 Market Street. Exterior image of Rubin's Specialty Store, 316 King Street, operated by Leon Rubin (son of Isaac Dave Rubin). All photographs are mounted on decorative board; several were taken by Charleston photographer, D.H. Baker. Includes folder of images (black and white photocopies) of the Isaac...
Dates:
1910
Found in:
Special Collections
Iseman family collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1073
Collection Overview
This collection contains information pertaining to the Iseman family. The first box includes letters, genealogical research, photocopies, photographs, and correspondence related to the Iseman family. The second box contains biographical files of Iseman family members, including family genealogy notes.
Dates:
1961-1996
Found in:
Special Collections
Jacobosky-Friedburg-Gaeser-Altman family papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1011
Collection Overview
Includes photographs, genealogies, correspondence, clippings, certificates, and typescripts.
Papers cover four generations of Jacobosky, Friedberg, Gaeser, and Altman families and include genealogies, family memoirs (1861-1964) compiled by Etta Friedberg Gaeser (1936) and Francine Altman Lichtman (1964), correspondence (1930s-1980s), and certificates awarded to Walter Gaeser (Navy) and Ermine Gaeser Altman (including an original United Daughters of the Confederacy certificate,...
Dates:
1870s-1980s
Found in:
Special Collections
Harold Jacobs papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1012
Collection Overview
Includes correspondence, typescripts, photographs, clippings, ephemera, pamphlets, photocopies.
Papers related to Harold's Cabin include correspondence and articles (1950s-1960s), clippings (1970s-1990s), photographs (1920s-1960s), organizational history, and letters from Charleston mayors and national figures. Collection also contains personal papers: speeches (1980s) made at Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (KKBE) and KKBE correspondence (1979-1981); papers (1942-1945) regarding United States Army...
Dates:
1905-1990; Majority of material found within 1920-1980
Found in:
Special Collections
Jewish Community Center papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1063
Collection Overview
The administrative files mostly document planning for, financing, and building the new Jewish Community Center in suburban Charleston; with blueprints, architects Simons, Lapham, Mitchell and Small correspondence and a small amount of history. The largest series contains photographs documenting Jewish life and Jewish Community Center activities, ca. 1945 to 1998. Original order, when possible, was kept, there being topical and biographical files (including images, 1980s-1990s, of Russian...
Dates:
1920-1998
Found in:
Special Collections
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim congregation records
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1047
Collection Overview
The records are arranged into 13 series: Board of Trustee Minutes (1838-1995) document all aspects of congregational life: hiring and firing staff, fundraising, building, etc. with some data re members, their infractions, marriages, deaths, etc. Financial records (1800-1999) document members, fines, income, salaries, pew assignments, various projects, estates, religious school finances, etc. Trustee and Rabbi Records and Correspondence (1855- 1991, bulk 1930s-1970s) including a few...
Dates:
1798-2002; Majority of material found within 20th century
Found in:
Special Collections
Jack Krawcheck business records
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1026
Collection Overview
Includes business records, financial documents, correspondence, photographs, photocopies, carbon copies, clippings, ephemera, pamphlets, scrapbooks, realia.
Bulk of collection are records from Jack Krawcheck's business (filed alphabetically, in original order in which they were donated); vendor records exist for 1948-49, 1950-51 and 1951-52; files contain invoices, order forms, and occasional correspondence; also included are tax and banking information for same time periods and carbon...
Dates:
1939-1980; Majority of material found within 1948-1953
Found in:
Special Collections
Land of Promise: The Jews of South Carolina tapes and transcripts
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1069
Collection Overview
Materials in the collection were used to produce the hour-long documentary Land of Promise, which focuses on the Jewish experience in South Carolina. Video and audio footage contains interviews with and images of Jewish South Carolinians and locations in South Carolina. Also included is footage of reenactments of the Battle of Camden and Secessionville, S.C. CDs contain images relevant to the history of Jews in South Carolina. 4 CDs of scanned photographs; 96 30-minute small shell BETA...
Dates:
2002
Found in:
Special Collections