A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life

Rosengarten, Theodore and Dale Rosengarten (edited by) ; Eli Evans, Preface

ISBN 10: 1570034451 / ISBN 13: 9781570034459

Verlag: University of South Carolina Press, 2002

268 pages. Clean, very good binding, DJ creases. Illustrated throughout. Includes essays by Jack Bass, Jenna Weissman Joselit, Deborah Dash Moore. Chronicles 300 years of Jewish life in Charleston, SC, from the 17th century on Portrays many families including the Jacobs family of Charleston; the Citron, Berkowitz and Chaplin families of Columbia; War of 1812 military members, Daughters of the Confederacy, Holocaust survivors, etc ; ; Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 28024

Inhaltsangabe:

In the year 1800, South Carolina was home to more Jews than any other place in North America. As old as the province of Carolina itself, the Jewish presence has been a vital but little-examined element in the growth of South Carolina's cities and towns, in the economy of slavery and post-slavery society and in the creation of American Jewish religious identity.
The record of a landmark exhibition that will change the way people think about Jewish history and American history, A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life presents a remarkable group of objects and a provocative investigation of the people and circumstances that produced them. The book and exhibition culminate a seven-year collaboration by the Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina, McKissick Museum of the University of South Carolina, and the College of Charleston. A Portion of the People is an important addition to southern arts and letters.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Dale Rosengarten is curator of the Jewish Heritage Collection at the College of Charleston Libraries. She holds a B.A., an M.A., and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. As curator of the Lowcountry Basket Project at the University of South Carolina's McKissick Museum, she wrote the exhibition catalogue, Row Upon Row: Sea Grass Baskets of the South Carolina Lowcountry. The Rosengartens live in McClellanville, South Carolina.

Theodore Rosengarten, a teacher, writer, and community activist, holds a B.A. from Amherst College and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. The author of Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter (National Book Critics Circle Award for best biography), All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw (National Book Award for contemporary affairs), Rosengarten was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1989.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years...
Verlag: University of South Carolina Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: NF
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: VG