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Center for Jewish Southern Culture Blog

Civil Rights from Charleston to Birmingham

July 19th, 2024|

Author: Margaret Norman, Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council in BirminghamA 2015 piece published online in Time, days after the tragic shooting at Mother Emmanuel AME Church, opens: “Think of the Civil Rights Movement, and you’re unlikely to think of Charleston, SC.”[1] [...]

Farah Art Griffin: Holocaust of Our Beloved

November 1st, 2022|

I am immensely grateful to have received the Charleston Research Fellowship from the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture. During my research trip in Charleston, I was so genuinely touched by the encouragement, help, and kindness of Dale Rosengarten, Chad Gibbs, Ashley Walters, and [...]

Ben Bascom: Researching the life and writings of Charlotte Myers (1802–1891)

October 12th, 2022|

I recently visited the College of Charleston’s special collections through a generous fellowship from the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture to research the life and writings of Charlotte Myers (1802–1891), a Jewish woman who was infamously slandered by her Christian husband Rufus Griswold [...]

Taking it to the Streets: Map Making in the Digital Era

January 15th, 2021|

Join us on January 19, 2021 at 7:30 pm as historian Marni Davis (Georgia State University) and author Harlan Greene (College of Charleston) discuss their digital map making projects in Atlanta, Georgia and Charleston, South Carolina. These modern digital maps reveal the hidden histories [...]

Mapping Jewish Charleston 2020 website has been launched!

November 3rd, 2020|

Staff of the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture and the Jewish Heritage Collection (JHC) have been hard at work putting the finishing touches on the 2020 page of the Mapping Jewish Charleston website and are pleased to officially announce its launch. Hats off [...]

Revisiting Southern Jewish History 2020

October 24th, 2020|

Award-winning scholar Dr. Shari Rabin, formerly assistant professor in the College of Charleston’s Jewish Studies Program and Director of the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture, returns for a discussion about southern history with Dr. Adam Domby, Assistant Professor of History, in light of [...]

Body and Soul: An American Bridge, the Black-Jewish History of an American Song

October 23rd, 2020|

The Charleston Jewish Filmfest, the Arts Management Program at the College of Charleston, and the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture present A FREE film screening and discussion of the acclaimed jazz documentary Body and Soul: An American Bridge, the Black-Jewish History of an [...]

“Touched with Fire: Morris B. Abram and the Battle against Racial and Religious Discrimination”

September 23rd, 2020|

Morris B. Abram (1918–2000) emerged from humble origins in a rural South Georgia town to become one of the leading civil rights lawyers in the United States during the 1950s. While unmasking the Ku Klux Klan and serving as a key intermediary for the [...]

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