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SUMMARY:Sunday Brunch: “‘Love Letters of a Socialist: Jack London\, Sinclair Lewis\, and the Strunsky Sisters”
DESCRIPTION:This in-person event will take place in the Jewish Studies Center\, Arnold Hall (Room 100) and via Zoom. Brunch will be served beginning at 9:00 AM. \nRegistration: https://bit.ly/loveletters22 \nZoom: https://cofc.zoom.us/j/99718216797 \nAshley Walters is an assistant professor of Jewish Studies\, an affiliate faculty member of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program\, and director of the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture at the College of Charleston. She teaches courses on modern Jewish history\, gender and sexuality\, and Jews and leftist politics. Prof. Walters recently completed her PhD in American and East European Jewish History and a PhD minor in Feminist\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Stanford University. She is currently working on a monograph titled\, Intimate Radicals: East European Jewish Women\, Anglo-American Intellectuals\, and Progressive Desires. She is also co-editing and contributing to a collection of essays titled\, Reframing Jewish American Literary History Through Women’s Writing\, with Annie Atura Bushnell and Lori Harrison-Kahan. \nHer talk explores the complicated ways in which these women served as important conduits of cultural\, political\, and linguistic knowledge about the country of their birth\, as well as their objectification in the eyes of their American-born contemporaries and romantic partners. Their story illuminates a broader trend of ethnoracial intrigue and modern tensions in early twentieth century America. \nSponsors: Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program
URL:https://jewish-south.charleston.edu/event/sunday-brunch-love-letters-of-a-socialist-jack-london-sinclair-lewis-and-the-strunsky-sisters/
LOCATION:Arnold Hall\, 96 Wentworth Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29424\, United States
CATEGORIES:Future Events
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SUMMARY:Russia’s War in Ukraine: A Conversation with Dr. Amber Nickell
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Nickell is an expert on Ukraine\, the Holocaust\, genocide\, and human rights studies as well as a prior Fulbright Fellow to Ukraine. She is currently at work on a book examining ethnic Germans and Jews in southern Ukraine from the late Tsarist era to the postwar. The conversation will focus on the present state of the war and its important historical background. \nSponsors:\nZucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies\nPearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture
URL:https://jewish-south.charleston.edu/event/russias-war-in-ukraine-a-conversation-with-dr-amber-nickell/
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CATEGORIES:Future Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220918T100000
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SUMMARY:Sunday Brunch: Bienvenidos a Miami: How Latinx Jews Remake the Jewish Mainstream
DESCRIPTION:This in-person event will take place in the Jewish Studies Center\, Arnold Hall (Room 100) and via Zoom. Brunch will be served beginning at 9:00 AM. \nRegistration link: https://bit.ly/lauralimonic22 \nLaura Limonic is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the College of Old Westbury of the State University of New York. Her research is in the area of contemporary immigration to the United States and the integration trajectories of ethnic and ethno-religious groups. Her book\, Kugel and Frijoles: Latino Jews in the United States  explores issues of ethnicity\, race\, class and religious community building among Latino Jewish immigrants in Boston\, New York\, Miami and Southern California. Laura’s current work examines the rise of Chabad in Latin America as an avenue for Jewish identity construction and communal life among Jews in Latin America and abroad. Her work has been supported by the Berman Foundation\, the Association for Jewish Studies and the Templeton Trust. Limonic received her PhD in Sociology from the CUNY Graduate Center. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Latin American Studies from Brandeis University and a Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University. \nSponsors:\nPearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture\nDepartment of Hispanic Studies\nDepartment of Religious Studies\nLatin American and Caribbean Studies Program
URL:https://jewish-south.charleston.edu/event/sunday-brunch-bienvenidos-a-miami-how-latinx-jews-remake-the-jewish-mainstream/
LOCATION:Arnold Hall\, 96 Wentworth Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29424\, United States
CATEGORIES:Future Events
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SUMMARY:Charleston Jewish Filmfest Presents: “The Levys of Monticello” followed by a Zoom conversation with producer/director Steve Pressman
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a hybrid screening of “The Levys of Monticello” followed by a conversation with director and producer\, Steve Pressman. \nSteven Pressman was born and raised in Los Angeles and received an undergraduate degree in political science at the University of California\, Berkeley. He worked as a newspaper and magazine journalist for many years\, as both a reporter and editor at a variety of publications in Los Angeles\, Washington DC and San Francisco. As a filmmaker\, he produced and directed 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus\, which premiered on HBO in 2013 and received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Historical Programming. He also produced and directed Holy Silence\, which premiered on PBS in 2020. Along with their television broadcasts\, Steve’s films have played at numerous film festivals\, museums\, schools and universities and other venues throughout the US and abroad. In addition to his work as a filmmaker\, Steve is the author of 50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple’s Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany (HarperCollins\, 2014). \nSponsors:\nCharleston Jewish Filmfest\nPearlestine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture \nFilm trailer: https://www.menemshafilms.com/the-levys-of-monticello \nThis event will take place in the Jewish Studies Center\, Arnold Hall (Room 100) and via Zoom. \nRegistration: https://bit.ly/levysofmont22 \nZoom: https://cofc.zoom.us/j/95667167650
URL:https://jewish-south.charleston.edu/event/charleston-jewish-filmfest-presents-the-levys-of-monticello-followed-by-a-zoom-conversation-with-producer-director-steve-pressman/
LOCATION:Arnold Hall\, 96 Wentworth Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29424\, United States
CATEGORIES:Future Events
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SUMMARY:Creole Israel: Abraham Philip Samson and the Formation of the Caribbean Jewish Rootsman
DESCRIPTION:Eli Rosenblatt is the Wallerstein Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at Drew University in Madison\, New Jersey. His research interests include Modern Yiddish Literature\, United States and Caribbean Jewish Cultures\, and Modern Jewish Thought. He is currently at work on two projects\, one about Ashkenazic Jews and racial politics in the Atlantic world\, and the other a collection of scholarly essays on the writings of WEB Du Bois in light of contemporary Jewish concerns. \nThis in-person event will take place in the Jewish Studies Center\, Arnold Hall (Room 100) and via Zoom. \nRegistration: https://bit.ly/creoleisrael22 \nZoom: https://cofc.zoom.us/j/98584102391 \nSponsors:\nPearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture\nDepartment of Religious Studies\nDepartment of Hispanic Studies\nLatin American and Caribbean Studies Program
URL:https://jewish-south.charleston.edu/event/creole-israel-abraham-philip-samson-and-the-formation-of-the-caribbean-jewish-rootsman/
LOCATION:Arnold Hall\, 96 Wentworth Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29424\, United States
CATEGORIES:Future Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221023T160000
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SUMMARY:46th Annual Southern Jewish Historical Society Conference: Southern Jews and the Atlantic World
DESCRIPTION:Planning is complete for the 46th annual SJHS conference\, which will be held in Charleston\, South Carolina\, from October 21 to 23\, 2022. Hosted by the Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina\, the 2022 conference will take place at the historic College of Charleston. The theme for this year’s conference is “Southern Jews and the Atlantic World.” Once a major port in the Atlantic mercantile system\, Charleston is an ideal locale to delve into the transatlantic history of southern Jewry. \nCharleston has remained at the heart of southern Jewish economic\, cultural\, and religious life for more than three centuries\, and conference-goers will have the opportunity to participate in walking tours of Jewish Charleston\, Shabbat dinner and services at the historic Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim\, and an evening with the treasures housed in the Jewish Heritage Collection at the College’s Addlestone Library. The conference weekend will also feature a variety of panels exploring various aspects of southern Jewish life and the Atlantic world.
URL:https://jewish-south.charleston.edu/event/46th-annual-southern-jewish-historical-society-conference-southern-jews-and-the-atlantic-world/
LOCATION:College of Charleston\, 175 Calhoun St\, Charleston\, South Carolina
CATEGORIES:Future Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230122T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230122T110000
DTSTAMP:20260405T175616
CREATED:20230105T201234Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230106T203737Z
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SUMMARY:Private Lives/Public Archives: The Papers of Frances Mazo Butwin
DESCRIPTION:What exactly happens when private papers—letters\, diaries\, snapshots\, unpublished fiction—enter an archive of a public university where they will be available to all comers? Their relevance\, their meaning\, their status all shift from whatever they may have meant in the hands—or in the attic—of their author or the family. Suddenly they become History. This talk will examine that transfer of meaning with particular attention to Dr. Butwin’s mother\, Frances Mazo Butwin\, a woman whose documentary history begins as Frania (in Polish or Freydl in Yiddish) Mazo in Warsaw with diaries written shortly after the First World War when her family emigrated to Charleston to live above a delicatessen on King Street. \nAt the College of Charleston she edited the literary Magazine (as it was called) and began a lengthy correspondence with Julius Butwin whom she would marry and join in Minneapolis-St. Paul where they were active on the political left in the 1930s\, owned a bookstore and together translated the Yiddish fiction of Sholom Aleichem in the early ‘40s. Julius died in 1945. Dr. Butwin is the youngest of their three children. \nCo-sponsors: Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina
URL:https://jewish-south.charleston.edu/event/private-lives-public-archives-the-papers-of-frances-mazo-butwin/
LOCATION:Arnold Hall\, 96 Wentworth Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29424\, United States
CATEGORIES:Future Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230402T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230402T110000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230117T143309Z
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SUMMARY:S.L Wisenberg’s The Wandering Womb Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Even as a fourth-generation Jewish Texan\, S.L. Wisenberg always felt the ghost of Europe dogging her steps\, making her feel uneasy in her body and in the world. \nWith wit\, verve\, blood\, scars\, and a solid dose of self-deprecation\, Wisenberg wanders across the expanse of continents and combs through history books and family records in her search for home and meaning. Her travels take her from Selma\, Alabama\, where her Eastern European Jewish ancestors once settled\, to Vienna\, where she tours Freud’s home and figures out what women really want\, and she visits Auschwitz\, which—disappointingly— leaves no emotional mark. The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of Home will arrive in bookstores March 31\, 2023. Her book won the  2022 Juniper Prize in nonfiction from University of Massachusetts Press. \nJoin us for a conversation with S.L.Wisenberg about her new book. This hybrid event will take place in the Jewish Studies Center\, Arnold Hall (Room 100) and via Zoom. Brunch will be served beginning at 9:00 a.m. \nReviews of the book: \n“In The Wandering Womb\, our bodies (the vulnerable\, the despised\, the used) are the receptacles of history. We survive to tell its tales if we were permitted to live or had the luck to escape. Regimes and religions control and define our bodies\, through traditions and laws that kidnap us right out of our own skins. Our names are documents of diaspora\, our maps of wandering; Wisenberg’s life as a Texan Jew lets her see the swirling entanglement of the Black and Jewish diasporas\, where catastrophes echo and pull apart. In The Wandering Womb\, history breathes into our lungs and speaks through every word we say.”\n– Riva Lehrer\, author of the award-winning Golem Girl: A Memoir \n“A sharp\, deeply questioning mind and a wayward heart inform these delicious essays. They are wry\, humorous\, melancholy\, and universally relatable\, filled with the shock of recognition.”\n– Phillip Lopate\, distinguished essayist\, celebrated editor of The Art of the Personal Essay\, and many others \n“Each essay is a lens through which we are invited to view in Joycean detail the author’s deeply personal present\, yet at the same time to ponder and to rethink larger worlds of history and cultures. It’s a collection that often is wry but never cynical\, deeply learned and always alert to humor and wonder.”\n– David Toomey\, author of Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very\, Very Different from Our Own\, and professor of English and director of the Professional Writing and Technical Communication Program at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst \n“Sometimes subtle\, sometimes fierce\, these brilliant feminist essays explore Woman’s role as patient\, cultural warrior\, daughter\, partner\, and artist. Lyrical and targeted\, they express what it’s like to be a Jewish woman today\, and what it’s like to be an embodied human being.”\n– Paula Kamen\, author\, All in My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting\, Totally Unreasonable and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache; and the play Jane: Abortion and the Underground
URL:https://jewish-south.charleston.edu/event/s-l-wisenbergs-the-wandering-womb-book-launch/
LOCATION:Arnold Hall\, 96 Wentworth Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29424\, United States
CATEGORIES:Future Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230910T120000
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Author Daniel Wolff
DESCRIPTION:The histories of US immigrants do not always begin and end in Ellis Island and northeastern cities. Many arrived earlier and some migrated south and west\, fanning out into their vast new country. They sought a renewed life\, fresh prospects\, and a safe harbor\, despite a nation that was not always welcoming and not always tolerant. How to Become an American begins with an abandoned diary—and from there author Daniel Wolff examines the sweeping history of immigration into the United States through the experiences of one unnamed\, seemingly unremarkable Jewish family\, and\, in the process\, makes their lives remarkable. It is a deeply human odyssey that journeys from pre-Civil War Charleston\, South Carolina\, to post-World War II Minneapolis\, Minnesota. In some ways\, the family’s journey parallels that of the nation\, as it struggled to define itself through the Industrial Age. A persistent strain of loneliness permeates this story\, and Wolff holds up this theme for contemplation. In a country that prides itself on being “a nation of immigrants\,” where “all men are created equal\,” why do we end up feeling alone in the land we love? \nThis hybrid event will take place in the Jewish Studies Center\, Arnold Hall (Room 100) and via Zoom. Brunch will be served beginning at 9:00 a.m. \nDaniel Wolff is an award-winning author of numerous books\, including Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan\, Woody Guthrie\, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913 and The Fight for Home: How (Parts of) New Orleans Came Back.
URL:https://jewish-south.charleston.edu/event/a-conversation-with-author-daniel-wolff/
LOCATION:Arnold Hall\, 96 Wentworth Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29424\, United States
CATEGORIES:Future Events
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SUMMARY:Lushington Lost and Found: Charleston’s Quaker Commander Comes Home
DESCRIPTION:George H. McDaniel grew up in Summerville and has spent most of his life here in the Lowcountry. He received his B.A. in history from Davidson College and\, after spending nearly a decade as a professional musician\, he returned to school and earned his M.A. at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. \nHis graduate work focused on African American history and public history\, particularly interpreting that history at historic sites. While in Oxford\, George managed two museums—the L.Q.C. Lamar House\, the home of the 19th century Mississippi politician and Supreme Court Justice; and the Burns-Belfry Museum and Multicultural Center\, which was housed in the first African American church established in Oxford after the Civil War in 1867. \nHe also served on the University of Mississippi’s Slavery Working Group which researched and interpreted the history of slavery at the university; and he was a founding member of L.O.C.A.L (Lafayette Oxford Community Archive Library) which worked to bring university resources to bear to preserve the local history of the African American community. \nHe was the lead historian for Audubon South Carolina’s successful project to have Francis Beidler Forest designated as a site in the National Park Service’s “National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom” program. He currently works as an historian for South Carolina Battleground Preservation Trust. In that capacity\, he is involved in numerous projects dealing with 18th century Charleston. In one of those projects\, he is researching and developing interpretation for the Charleston Liberty Trail. A forthcoming app\, which will use interactive technology undergirded by strong historical research and scholarship to guide visitors to important sites and to help them see the world of Revolutionary Era Charleston.
URL:https://jewish-south.charleston.edu/event/lushington-lost-and-found-charlestons-quaker-commander-comes-home/
LOCATION:Arnold Hall\, 96 Wentworth Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29424\, United States
CATEGORIES:Future Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240121T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240121T120000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240112T150631Z
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SUMMARY:Sunday Brunch Book talk with Dr. Ayelet Brinn about Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with Dr. Ayelet Brinn. In her new book\, A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press\, Dr. Ayelet Brinn explains how women and gender were central to the emergence of the Yiddish press as a powerful\, influential force in American Jewish culture. Through rhetorical debates about women readers and writers\, the producers of the Yiddish press explored how to transform their newspapers to reach a large\, diverse audience. The seemingly peripheral status of women’s columns and other newspaper features supposedly aimed at a female audience—but in reality\, read with great interest by male and female readers alike—meant that editors and publishers often used these articles as testing grounds for the types of content their newspapers should encompass. The book explores the discovery of previously unknown work by female writers in the Yiddish press\, whose contributions most often appeared without attribution; it also examines the work of men who wrote under women’s names in order to break into the press. Brinn shows that instead of framing issues of gender as marginal\, we must view them as central to understanding how the American Yiddish press developed into the influential\, complex\, and diverse publication field it eventually became. \nAyelet Brinn is an Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies and History at the University of Hartford\, where she holds the Philip D. Feltman Professorship in Modern Jewish History. Her first book\, A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press is now in available with New York University Press. \nThis hybrid event will take place in the Jewish Studies Center\, Arnold Hall (Room 100) and via Zoom. Brunch will be served beginning at 9:00 AM. Copies of the book will be available for purchase after the event.
URL:https://jewish-south.charleston.edu/event/sunday-brunch-book-talk-with-dr-ayelet-brinn-about-gender-and-the-making-of-the-american-yiddish-press/
LOCATION:Arnold Hall\, 96 Wentworth Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29424\, United States
CATEGORIES:Future Events
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SUMMARY:Kugels and Collards: Sunday Brunch Book talk with Rachel Gordin Barnett and Lyssa Kligman Harvey
DESCRIPTION:In Kugels and Collards\, Rachel Gordin Barnett and Lyssa Kligman Harvey explore the food history\, traditions\, and memories of Jews in South Carolina\, building on their blog of the same title. The book explores the diversity of Jewish South Carolina\, with stories and recipes contributed from families with Sephardic and Ashkenazi heritage who have been in the state for hundreds of years\, from descendants of Holocaust survivors\, and from more recent immigrants from Russia and Israel. Kugels and Collards is also a story of cultural assimilation and exchange and considers how local ingredients and techniques have become part of the South Carolina Jewish table\, including the influence of the generations of Black women who cooked for Jewish families. \nThis hybrid event will take place in the Jewish Studies Center\, Arnold Hall (Room 100) and via Zoom. Brunch will be served beginning at 9:00 AM. Copies of the book will be available for purchase after the event. \nRachel Gordin Barnett and Lyssa Kligman Harvey have an interest in all things southern\, Jewish\, and historical\, including foodways. Native South Carolinians\, Rachel hails from small-town Summerton\, SC\, and Lyssa from Columbia\, SC. They live in Columbia and have been instrumental in preserving Jewish history across the state. Founding members of the Historic Columbia Jewish Heritage Initiative\, they created the Kugels & Collards blog to preserve and share Columbia’s Jewish history by collecting food stories\, recipes\, and photographs in a digital venue. Rachel is a past president and current executive director of the Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina (JHSSC). Lyssa is a past chair of JHSSC’s Jewish Cultural Arts committee and the past chair of The Columbia Holocaust Education Commission.
URL:https://jewish-south.charleston.edu/event/kugels-and-collards-sunday-brunch-book-talk-with-rachel-gordin-barnett-and-lyssa-kligman-harvey/
LOCATION:Arnold Hall\, 96 Wentworth Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29424\, United States
CATEGORIES:Future Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240908T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240908T120000
DTSTAMP:20260405T175616
CREATED:20240716T211041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240718T132437Z
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SUMMARY:What Kałuszyn Tells: the Life\, Death\, and Afterlife of a Polish Shtetl
DESCRIPTION:Chad Gibbs is assistant professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies at the College of Charleston. His research focuses on Jewish resistance and the legacies of genocide in the lives of generations born after the Shoah. \nAshley Walters is assistant professor of Jewish Studies and director of the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture at the College of Charleston. She is a co-editor and contributor to Matrilineal Dissent: Women’s Writing and Jewish American Literary History (2024). Her research interests include East European Jewish immigration to the United States\, Jews and the radical Left\, and Jewish women’s writing.
URL:https://jewish-south.charleston.edu/event/what-kaluszyn-tells-the-life-death-and-afterlife-of-a-polish-shtetl/
LOCATION:Arnold Hall\, 96 Wentworth Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29424\, United States
CATEGORIES:Future Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241027T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241027T120000
DTSTAMP:20260405T175616
CREATED:20240716T141459Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240716T142352Z
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SUMMARY:Dr. Annelise Heinz and the History of Mahjong in the US
DESCRIPTION:How has a game brought together Americans and defined separate ethnic communities? This book tells the first history of mahjong and its meaning in American culture. \nClick-click-click. The sound of mahjong tiles connects American expatriates in Shanghai\, Jazz Age white Americans\, urban Chinese Americans in the 1930s\, incarcerated Japanese Americans in wartime\, Jewish American suburban mothers\, and Air Force officers’ wives in the postwar era. \nDr. Heinz is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Oregon\, where she teaches courses on women’s history\, gender and sexuality\, ethnicity and immigration\, and consumerism. She has lived in Oregon since 2018\, after three years as a faculty member at the University of Texas at Dallas. She earned her doctorate at Stanford University in 2015. \nThis hybrid event will take place in the Jewish Studies Center\, Arnold Hall (Room 100) and via Zoom. Brunch will be served beginning at 9:00 AM.
URL:https://jewish-south.charleston.edu/event/dr-annelise-heinz-and-the-history-of-mahjong-in-the-us/
LOCATION:Arnold Hall\, 96 Wentworth Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29424\, United States
CATEGORIES:Future Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241117T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241117T120000
DTSTAMP:20260405T175616
CREATED:20240715T150424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240715T151107Z
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SUMMARY:Southern Jewish Politics and the Coming of the New South
DESCRIPTION:This talk by Jacob Morrow-Spitzer will interrogate the reasons behind the surprisingly long list of Jewish mayors who served during and after Reconstruction. In doing so\, it asks what this pattern reveals about late nineteenth century southern Jewish political ideologies\, and reveals new dimensions of the messy transition from Civil War to New South. \nThis hybrid event will take place in the Jewish Studies Center\, Arnold Hall (Room 100) and via Zoom. Brunch will be served beginning at 9:00 AM.
URL:https://jewish-south.charleston.edu/event/southern-jewish-politics-and-the-coming-of-the-new-south/
LOCATION:Arnold Hall\, 96 Wentworth Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29424\, United States
CATEGORIES:Future Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250119T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250119T110000
DTSTAMP:20260405T175616
CREATED:20241217T165517Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250102T211024Z
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SUMMARY:Sunday Brunch: The Jewish South: New Histories with Dr. Shari Rabin
DESCRIPTION:Shari Rabin is an historian of modern Judaism and American religions. Her first book\, Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-century America (NYU Press\, 2017)\, won the National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish studies. She is associate professor of Jewish studies\, religion\, and history at Oberlin College and serves as vice-president of the Southern Jewish Historical Society.
URL:https://jewish-south.charleston.edu/event/sunday-brunch-the-jewish-south-new-histories-with-dr-shari-rabin/
LOCATION:Arnold Hall\, 96 Wentworth Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29424\, United States
CATEGORIES:Future Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250202T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250202T110000
DTSTAMP:20260405T175616
CREATED:20241217T182037Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250102T211551Z
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SUMMARY:Sunday Brunch: “From Kaluszyn to Paris and Beyond – Jewish Communities in Motion and Memory”
DESCRIPTION:Sara L. Kimble obtained her BA with honors at the University of California\, Santa Cruz and her MA and PhD in modern European history at the University of Iowa. She researches the history of women and law with an emphasis on the legal profession in France\, international networks\, and political engagement. She has also studied methods for teaching Holocaust history at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Illinois Holocaust Educational Foundation. She is devoted to working collaboratively with students on their individual educational paths through the study of history\, social justice\, and the liberal arts.
URL:https://jewish-south.charleston.edu/event/sunday-brunch-from-kaluszyn-to-paris-and-beyond-jewish-communities-in-motion-and-memory/
LOCATION:Arnold Hall\, 96 Wentworth Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29424\, United States
CATEGORIES:Future Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250205T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250205T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T175616
CREATED:20241217T182428Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250102T211535Z
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SUMMARY:“Where were the Women? A History of Gendered Synagogue Space” - An illustrated lecture by Samuel D. Gruber
DESCRIPTION:Traditionally men and women have been separated in Jewish worship spaces\, though in fact\, we know little with certainty about the role of women in Jewish religious life in antiquity and their physical place within religious buildings. There is evidence of women’s involvement in the building and administration of synagogues throughout the Roman Empire\, but few details. Most scholarship of the last 150 years\, however\, has been predicated on later Jewish practice\, which for more than a millennium emphatically separated the sexes\, and with a few exceptions\, discouraged regular female participation. That is still the case in most synagogues of the world and in Orthodox synagogues in the United States.  \nBeginning in the 19th century\, however\, as new forms of Jewish worship developed first in Europe and even more so in 19th century America\, the role of women increased in synagogue life. By the mid-19th century in many American Reform synagogues women and men could sit together. Women were still forbidden from publicly reading the Torah or officiating in regular religious services\, but they were more visible in the synagogue\, and overall\, in Jewish public life. In the 20th and 21st centuries\, Jewish women have forged an identity of their own that draws on Jewish and American values and sensibilities. \nSamuel D. Gruber (BA\, Princeton University; Ph.D. Columbia University) has been a leader in the documentation\, protection\, and preservation of historic Jewish sites worldwide for 35 years. He was founding director of the Jewish Heritage Program of World Monuments Fund (1988-1996) and Research Director of the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad (1998 through 2008). He presently directs Gruber Heritage Global\, a cultural resource consulting firm and is president of the not-for-profit International Survey of Jewish Monuments. From 1994 until 2022 he taught courses in Art History and Jewish Studies at Syracuse University. He has also taught at Binghamton\, Colgate\, Cornell\, and Temple Universities and Le Moyne College. Dr. Gruber has curated two on-line exhibitions for the College of Charleston: Life of the Synagogue and Synagogues of the South\, and helped organize the project to document all synagogues of South Carolina.
URL:https://jewish-south.charleston.edu/event/where-were-the-women-a-history-of-gendered-synagogue-space-an-illustrated-lecture-by-samuel-d-gruber/
LOCATION:Arnold Hall\, 96 Wentworth Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29424\, United States
CATEGORIES:Future Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251026T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251026T120000
DTSTAMP:20260405T175616
CREATED:20250917T142158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250917T142158Z
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SUMMARY:North African Jews in Christian South Carolina: Slavery\, Diplomacy\, and Religion Across the Atlantic
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Max Modiano Daniel is the public historian and Jewish Heritage Collection coordinator at Special Collections in the Addlestone Library. He also teaches in Jewish Studies. His areas of research include Sephardi/Mizrahi Jews\, American Jewish history\, race and ethnicity\, and Jewish languages. \nSponsored by the Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program
URL:https://jewish-south.charleston.edu/event/north-african-jews-in-christian-south-carolina-slavery-diplomacy-and-religion-across-the-atlantic/
LOCATION:Arnold Hall\, 96 Wentworth Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29424\, United States
CATEGORIES:Future Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251116T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251116T120000
DTSTAMP:20260405T175616
CREATED:20250917T142732Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250919T152014Z
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SUMMARY:Oy Vey\, King George! American Jews and the Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Adam Jortner\, the Goodwin-Philpott Eminent Professor of Religion in Auburn University’s Department of History\, specializes in the history of religion during the American Revolution and early republic\, with particular focus on religious liberty\, patriotism\, theology\, and new traditions. Since joining Auburn in 2009\, he has published The Gods of Prophetstown—winner of the 2013 James Broussard Prize—and Blood from the Sky\, and is a frequent contributor to NPR’s Backstory. His forthcoming Audible lecture series\, God and the Founding Fathers\, continues his exploration of religion’s central role in America’s founding.
URL:https://jewish-south.charleston.edu/event/oy-vey-king-george-american-jews-and-the-revolution/
LOCATION:Arnold Hall\, 96 Wentworth Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29424\, United States
CATEGORIES:Future Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T193000
DTSTAMP:20260405T175616
CREATED:20260105T160453Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260105T161512Z
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SUMMARY:The Civil War Diary of Emma Mordecai featuring Dr. Melissa Klapper
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Melissa R. Klapper is Professor of History and Director of Women’s & Gender Studies at Rowan University. She is the author of numerous books and articles about American Jewish women’s history and the history of American childhood\, including Ballots\, Babies\, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women’s Activism\, 1890-1940\, which won the National Jewish Book Award in Women’s Studies; Ballet Class: An American History; and\, with Dianne Ashton\, The Civil War Diary of Emma Mordecai. Her work has been award many grants and fellowships\, and she lectures frequently in both communal and academic settings. \nHybrid event; Registration link to follow.
URL:https://jewish-south.charleston.edu/event/the-civil-war-diary-of-emma-mordecai-featuring-dr-melissa-klapper/
LOCATION:Arnold Hall\, 96 Wentworth Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29424\, United States
CATEGORIES:Future Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260322T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260322T120000
DTSTAMP:20260405T175616
CREATED:20260105T161925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260108T213906Z
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SUMMARY:Imagining Early American Jews\, with Dr. Michael Hoberman
DESCRIPTION:Michael Hoberman is a professor of American literature at Fitchburg State University and an adjunct professor of history at Yeshiva University. He is also the author of several books on Jewish history in the US\, including New Israel/New England: Jews and Puritans in Early America and A Hundred Acres of America: The Geography of Jewish American Literary History. His articles appear in popular venues and scholarly journals. \nDuring the Spring of 2026\, Hoberman will serve as a fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania\, where he is completing a book about Theodore Seixas Solomons\, the San Francisco-born Jew who created the John Muir Trail. \nDoors will open for brunch at 9:00 AM\nHybrid Event; Registration link to follow
URL:https://jewish-south.charleston.edu/event/imagining-early-american-jews/
LOCATION:Arnold Hall\, 96 Wentworth Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29424\, United States
CATEGORIES:Future Events
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