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Frontier Jews and Black Catholics: New Books in American Religion

Arnold Hall 96 Wentworth Street, Charleston, SC, United States

Over the last few decades, scholars have worked to expand the study of American religion beyond white Protestants, in the process engaging with questions of race, ethnicity, and migration.

After Appomattox: Reconstruction and America’s Jews

Addlestone Library - Room 227 205 Calhoun St, Charleston, SC, United States

The end of the Civil War initiated a period of dramatic hope, disappointment, and transformation in the American South and the nation as a whole.

“A Class of Citizens”: Jews and the Civil War

Arnold Hall 96 Wentworth Street, Charleston, SC, United States

Part 2 of a mini-course offering an overview of the history of Jews in the southern United States from colonial times until the present.

“The Quiet Voices”: Jews and the Civil Rights Movement

Arnold Hall 96 Wentworth Street, Charleston, SC, United States

Part 3 of a mini-course offering an overview of the history of Jews in the southern United States from colonial times until the present. We will explore some of the key events of southern Jewish history, seeking to understand how Jews have confounded, complicated, and conformed to the region’s “peculiar” norms and categories. Presented by Dr. Shari Rabin, director of the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture. Free and open to the public.