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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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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
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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
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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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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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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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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
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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
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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:20260404T062651
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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