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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.

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.