Friday October 28, 2011
Sumter, SC |
Trip to Sumter, SC
Temple Sinai-Talk and Tour of
Sanctuary and Stained Glass Windows
Sumter County Museum and
Jewish Collections
Home and Garden Tour
led by Dr. Wendell and Katie Levi |
Participants viewing Historical Marker
Placed in front of Temple Sinai by JHSSC |
Dale Rosengarten |
Elizabeth Moses
talking about the stained galss windows |
Robert and Clara Moses |
Participants viewing the stained glass windows |
Stained Glass Window Over Front Door |
Participants viewing the stained glass windows |
Hearing about the Jewish Colletions in
the
Sumter County Museum |
Rachel Gordin Barnett
going over the after lunch schedule |

Katie Levi telling the history of the
Dr. Wendell and Katie Levi home
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Patricia Barnett Greenberg and Ernest Marcus
Cousins who just met for the first time |
Saturday, October 29, 2011 Panel Sessions
Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library |

Stuart Rockoff
President Southern Jewish Historical Society |

Ann Meddin Hellman
President Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina
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Participants enjoying the lectures
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Mark Bauman
Presenting the 2011 Book Awards
Honarable Mention
Leonard Rogoff
Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina
Best Book
Bryan E. Stone
The Chosen Folks:
Jews on the Frontiers of Texas |
Bryan E. Stone
Associate Professor
Del Mar College Corpus Christi, TX
Leonard Rogoff
Research Historian
Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina
Mark Bauman
Editor Southern Jewish History |
Ellen M. Urmansky
Carl and Dorothy Bennett Professor of Judaic Studies Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
Moderator Tolerance and Tensions |
TOLERANCE AND TENSIONS
Allen Krause
The Hazan, the Minister, and the Merchant: A 177-Year-Old Lesson from Charleston, S.C
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Hyman Rubin III
South Carolina’s Jewish Republicans during Radical Reconstruction
Marni Davis
Allies or Adversaries? Jewish and Irish Immigrants in the New South
Rachel R. Bergstein
A Tale of Two Rabbis: How David Marx and Tobias Geffen Imagined Judaism in the South
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Rabbi Allen Krause
Author
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Hyman Rubin III
Associate Professor Columbia College, Columbia, SC
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Marni Davis
Georgia State Universtiy, Atlanta, GA
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Rachel R. Bergstein
Ph.D Candidate in Modern Jewish History, Yale University
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Phyllis Leffler
Professor University Virginia
Conference Program Co-Chair |
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Lauren L. Sklaroff
Associate Professor University of South Carolina
Moderator |
Bob Gillette
Educator and Author |
Theodore Rosengaten
Goldberg/Zucker Chair in Holocaust Studies
College of Charleston
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Catherine R. Eskin
Associate Professor Florida Southern College
Archivist Temple Emanuel, Lakeland, FL
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Dale Rosengarten
Curator Jewish Heritage Collection
College of Charleston
Moderator
Conference Program Co-Chair |
Joseph Butkin
Professor Universtity of Washington |
Ellen Solomon
Ed.D Harvard University
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Rachel Gordin Barnett
Conference Coordinator |
CAPITAL CITY BUS TOUR of Columbia
led by Judge Richard and Belinda Gergel
Big Apple, Beth Shalom's first synagogue
Holocaust Memorial in Memorial Park
Hebrew Benevolent Society Cemetery |

DeLeon Family Setion
Hebrew Benevolent Society Cemetery |

Fleishman Family Chapel
Hebrew Benevolent Society Cemetery |

Holocaust Memorial in Memorial Park |

Holocaust Memorial in Memorial Park |
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Saturday Evening Reception
Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library, University of South Carolina |
Max Hellman
, Jeri Perlmutter
Our Photographers
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Becky Baum Lourie, Eli Poliakoff
Ann Meddin Hellman - President JHSSC |
Enid Idelsohn
Administrator
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Enjoying the Reception |
Eli Evans, Martin Perlmutter, Phyllis Leffler,
Dale Rosengarten, Stuart Rockoff,
Rachel Gordin Barnett,
Harris Pastides - President USC, Mick Lourie |
Eli Evans, Martin Perlmutter, Senator Joel Lourie Judge Richard Gergel, Rachel Gordin Barnett,
Dale Rosengarten |
? Eli Evans, Martin Perlmutter, Ann Meddin Hellman |
Martin Perlmutter, Billy Keyserling |
Book Sales and Book Signing by Bryan E. Stone |
Becky Baum Lourie, Senator Joel Lourie,
Susan Lourie, Sam Strause
Looking over papers about Senator Isadore Lourie |
Rachel Heimovics Braun, Martin Perlmutter
Bernard Goldstein
Looking over papers about Harriet Keyserling
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Phyllis Leffler, Judge Richard Grgel, Belinda Gergel
Looking over papers about Senator Isadore Lourie |
Sunday, October 30, 2011
JHSSC Board Meeting, The Inn and USC |
Mike Krupshaw Ed Poliakoff - Past-President,
Rachel Gordin Barnett, Martin Perlmutter,
Ann Meddin Hellman |
David Draisen, Barry Draisen, Billy Keyserling,
Adam Mendelsohn, Gerry Katz |
Rachel Gordin Barnett - President
Martin Perlmutter - Executive Director
Ann Meddin Hellman - Past-President
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Sunday, October 30, 2011
Recital Hall, School of Music,
University of South Carolina |
SOUNDS OF THE JEWISH SOUTH:
THE MUSIC OF COMPOSER MEIRA WARSHAUER
Moderator: Phyllis Leffler
Performance and Panel with Meira Warshauer, piano, Robert Jesselson, cello,
and Janet Hopkins, mezzo soprano
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Phyllis Leffler, Meira Warshauer |

Robert Jesselson
Carolina Distinguished Progessor USC
Meira Warshauer
Janet Hopkins
Assistant Professor of Voice USC
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Meira Warshauer
Recipient of JHSSC's first
Arts and Cultural Achievement Award |
Martin Perlmutter, Meira Warshauer |
WHAT’S SO FUNNY ABOUT SOUTHERN JEWS?:
PERFORMANCE INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE TRADITION
Bryan E. Stone
Havah Nagilah, Texas-Style: Christian Zionism and the Cornerstone Church
Jarrod Tanny
From the Borscht Belt to the B’nei Mississippi: Jewish Humor’s Encounter with the South |
Eli N. Evans
Author
President Emeritus Charles H. Revson Foundation
Moderator |
Bryan E. Stone
Associate Professor
Del Mar College Corpus Christi, TX
Jarrod Tanny
Assistant Professor
Charles and Hannah Block Distinguishe Fellow of Jewish History UNC Wilmington |
Papers in brown may be read by clicking the link. |
Photographers, Max Hellman, Jeri Perlmutter, and Gerald Katz |