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Kugels and Collards: Sunday Brunch Book talk with Rachel Gordin Barnett and Lyssa Kligman Harvey

Arnold Hall 96 Wentworth Street, Charleston

Explore South Carolina’s Jewish history through the lens of food and memory. Kugels and Collards is a lively collection of South Carolina Jewish family and community stories and special family recipes. Where people go, so goes their food.
Join us for a conversation with Rachel Gordin Barnett and Lyssa Kligman Harvey about their work on this project. 
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. The event will begin at 10:00 a.m.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase after the event.

Sunday Brunch Book talk with Dr. Ayelet Brinn about Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press

Arnold Hall 96 Wentworth Street, Charleston

Between the 1880s and 1920s, Yiddish-language newspapers rose from obscurity to become successful institutions integral to American Jewish life. During this period, Yiddish-speaking immigrants came to view newspapers as indispensable parts of their daily lives. For many Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, acclimating to America became inextricably intertwined with becoming a devoted reader of the Yiddish periodical press, as the newspapers and their staffs became a fusion of friends, religious and political authorities, tour guides, matchmakers, and social welfare agencies. 
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. The program will begin at 10:00 a.m. 
Copies of the book will be available for purchase after the event.

Lushington Lost and Found: Charleston’s Quaker Commander Comes Home

Arnold Hall 96 Wentworth Street, Charleston

In 1936, the Gibbes Museum held “An Exhibition of Miniatures Owned in South Carolina and Miniatures of South Carolinians Owned Elsewhere.” One of those on exhibit was a two-sided miniature featuring Richard and Charity Lushington which was “Lent by the Misses Oemler, Savannah, GA.” For nearly a century, the Lushingtons remained in Savannah unknown to those who held them, but now they have returned home to Charleston. Join George H. McDaniel, historian at SC Battleground Preservation Trust, and Ashley Walters, director of the Pearlstein/Lipov Center for the Study of Southern Jewish Culture, as they discuss the significance of Richard Lushington to Charleston’s history, his connection to Jewish history through his unique militia unit, and the world of Revolutionary Charles Town which brought them all together.  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.
Free