ABOUT THE CENTER
The College of Charleston’s Center for Southern Jewish Culture seeks to broaden public knowledge and inspire conversations about the southern Jewish experience.
Generously funded by the Pearlstine/Lipov family in 2014, it brings together the resources of the College’s Jewish Studies Program, Addlestone Library’s Jewish Heritage Collection, and The Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina.
The College of Charleston’s Center for Southern Jewish Culture hosts a wide array of speakers, films, and other events.
Our Charleston Research Fellowship Program supports works of scholarship, public history, and artistic production.
We partner with other organizations to help the public discover the rich history and culture of the Jewish South.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Dr. Max Modiano Daniel, Public Historian and Director of the Jewish Heritage Collection at the College of Charleston will give a talk on his latest research, which explores how North African Jews shaped 19th-century American Jewish history and challenged racial and political norms in the antebellum South. Doors will open for brunch at 9:00 AM.
Dr. Adam Jortner (Auburn University) will talk about his new book, A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom. This talk dismantles the enduring myth that America was founded primarily as a Christian nation, instead highlighting the diverse religious and cultural forces that shaped its origins. By widening the scope of the American Revolution to include Jewish patriots and other overlooked figures, it uncovers how Judaism played a central role in defining both the new nation and its evolving concept of citizenship. Doors will open for brunch at 9:00 AM.
NEWS AND NOTES
Farah Art Griffin: Holocaust of Our Beloved
I am immensely grateful to have received the Charleston Research Fellowship from the Pearlstine/Lipov Center [...]
Ben Bascom: Researching the life and writings of Charlotte Myers (1802–1891)
I recently visited the College of Charleston’s special collections through a generous fellowship from the [...]
Synagogues of the South
Six years in the making, Synagogues of the South: Architecture and Jewish Identity is now [...]
Mapping Jewish Charleston 2020
The 2020 page of Mapping Jewish Charleston brings the story of Jewish life in the [...]