Finding Judaism in the Holy City
Credits and Further Readings
About the Author
Dr. Shari Rabin is a scholar of modern Judaism and American religions. She is the author of the award-winning Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-century America (NYU Press, 2017). She has also contributed to other digital projects such as Mapping Jewish Charleston. She is currently writing a history of Jews, religion, and race in the U.S. South, from the seventeenth-century to the present day.
Editorial Contributor
Dr. Laura Yares, Michigan State University
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This exhibit was funded by and made freely available online through the generous support of the Council on Library and Information Resources.
Further Reading
Digital Resources
LCDL Research Guide to Digitized Jewish Heritage Collection Materials
Center for Jewish History, Smithsonian Affiliate, New York, NY.
Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life
Jewish Heritage Collection, Special Collections at College of Charleston Libraries
Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina
Mapping Jewish Charleston, Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture, 2022
Mapping Jewish Los Angeles, UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, 2019
Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience
Southern Jewish Historical Society
The National Library of Israel
Lowcountry Digital Library Collections
Cohen, Emanuel, Moses, Sexias Family Papers
Harby, Moise, Levy, Moses, Davis Family Photographs
Hebrew Benevolent Society Papers
Jewish Heritage Collection - Personal Papers
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim Congregation Records
Lazarus and Hirsch Family Papers
Leah Greenberg Postcard Collection
Thomas J. Tobias Papers, ca. 1790-1970
William A. Rosenthall Judaica Collection – Postcards
William A. Rosenthall Judaica Collection – Prints and Photographs
Zionist Organization of America Records - Charleston Chapter
Articles
Green, Harlan. “How KKBE Started American Reform Judaism,” Charleston Magazine, January 2021.
Krause, Allen. “Charleston Jewry, Black Civil Rights, and Rabbi Burton Padoll,” Southern Jewish History 11, 2008.
Books
Evans, Eli N. The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
Ferris, Marcie Cohen and Mark I. Greenberg. Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History. Waltham, MA: University Press of New England, 2006.
Hagy, James William. This Happy Land : the Jews of Colonial and Antebellum Charleston. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1993.
Krause, P. Allen. To Stand Aside Or Stand Alone: Southern Reform Rabbis and the Civil Rights Movement. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2016.
Miller, David (Rabbi). The Secret of the Jew: His Life, His Family. Oakland, California: Rabbi David Miller, 1930.
Nadell, Pamela Susan and Jonathan D. Sarna. Women and American Judaism: Historical Perspectives. Hanover, MA; University Press of New England.
Rabin, Shari. Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2017.
Rogoff, Leonard. Homelands: Southern Jewish Identity in Durham-Chapel Hill and North Carolina. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2001.
Rosengarten, Theodore and Dale Rosengarten. A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life. Columbia, SC: McKissick Museum, 2002.