The Center hosted our 2nd film screening, of Carvalho’s Journey, which charts the life & work of Charleston Jewish photographer & artist Solomon Nunes Carvalho.
Princeton University Library announces the opening of the exhibition "By Dawn’s Early Light: Jewish Contributions to American Culture from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War" on Saturday, February 13, 2016.
Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture is developing a new online exhibition titled "Synagogues of the South", curated by Dr. Samuel D. Gruber.
The "Mapping Jewish Charleston" exhibit will explore the Jewish presence in the city with historical sites, topical themes, documents, images, and oral histories.
The Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture held its first public event, a discussion of “Jews in the Freedom Summer” with Bruce Watson, author of this year’s College Reads! selection, Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy.
A s a historian I don’t have to predict the future, just the past – an easier task, though scholars don’t always get that right either. Whatever my limitations as a seer, I know enough to tell that the grim tidings in the Jewish and the general press about Jewish life in the South are misplaced.