My Vanishing Country: A Memoir by Bakari Sellers
Please join us for a book talk with former state congressman, CNN political analyst, and author Bakari Sellers. Seller’s recent memoir, My Vanishing Country (2020), tells a story of two generations. He traces his father’s rise to become a civil rights hero, as well as his own childhood growing up in Denmark, South Carolina. In his book, he addresses the plight of the South's dwindling rural, black working-class, many of whom can trace their ancestry back seven generations. My Vanishing Country: A Memoir is Seller’s first book and has received critical acclaim.
Find out more »Taking it to the Streets: Map Making in the Digital Era
Join historian Marni Davis (Georgia State University) and author Harlan Greene (College of Charleston) as they discuss their digital map making projects in Atlanta, Georgia and Charleston, South Carolina. These modern digital maps reveal the hidden histories of the cities they chart.
Find out more »Charleston Jewish Bookfest Presents: Wandering Dixie, Dispatches from the Lost Jewish South, by Sue Eisenfeld
In Wandering Dixie: Dispatches from the Lost Jewish South, Sue Eisenfeld uncovers how the history of Jewish southerners converges with her personal story and the region's conflicted present. Join the author and moderators Dale Rosengarten and Rachel Barnett as they discuss the unexpected ways that race, religion, and hidden histories intertwine.
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Find out more »Revisiting Southern Jewish History 2020
Award-winning scholar Dr. Shari Rabin, formerly assistant professor in the College of Charleston’s Jewish Studies Program and Director of the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture, returns for a discussion about southern history with Dr. Adam Domby, Assistant Professor of History, in light of current events.
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Find out more »Body and Soul: An American Bridge, the Black-Jewish History of an American Song
The Charleston Jewish Filmfest, the Arts Management Program at the College of Charleston, and the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture present
A FREE film screening and discussion of the acclaimed jazz documentary Body and Soul: An American Bridge, the Black-Jewish History of an American Song
• BODY AND SOUL will be available for screening between Monday, October 12 and Thursday, October 15, 2020.
• DISCUSSION of the film and the history of jazz in Charleston with Dr. Karen Chandler and Charlton Singleton takes place on Thursday, October 15, 2020 at 7:00 p.m.
Find out more »“Touched with Fire: Morris B. Abram and the Battle against Racial and Religious Discrimination” – A Sunday ‘Bring-your-own’ Bagels Brunch with author David E. Lowe
Morris B. Abram (1918–2000) emerged from humble origins in a rural South Georgia town to become one of the leading civil rights lawyers in the United States during the 1950s. While unmasking the Ku Klux Klan and serving as a key intermediary for the release of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. from prison on the eve of the 1960 presidential election, Abram carried out a successful fourteen-year battle to end the discriminatory voting system in his home state which had entrenched racial segregation. The result was the historic “one person, one vote” ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1963.
Pursuing Justice: Fighting Hate with the Law
We regret to announce that “Pursuing Justice” has been canceled, along with all other College events in the next few weeks, due to precautions related to the coronavirus. We hope to reschedule at a later date.
The “Unite the Right” rally and hateful attacks that struck Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, served as a wakeup call for many Americans about dangers posed by the rise of white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and affiliated hate groups. Former Charlottesville Mayor Michael Signer and Amy Spitalnick, Director of Integrity First America, will discuss the aftermath of that attack and suggest strategies for combating violence based on racism, sexism, and antisemitism.
Find out more »Southern Circuits: Intersections of Race, Religion, and Ethnicity on the Nineteenth-Century Stage
Photo: Owens’ Academy of Music, Charleston, SC.
From “Memories of the Professional and Social Life of John E. Owens,” by his wife.
Professor Nathans’ Sunday brunch talk has been CANCELED due to current travel restrictions related to the coronavirus. The program may be rescheduled at a later date.
Charleston was a hub of theatrical activity from the colonial period until the early 20th century, as well as a significant site for Jewish and African American cultural encounters. Heather S. Nathans, chair of Tufts University’s Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, will explore the ways Jews were depicted on southern stages.
Find out more »Capable of Arguing: Southern Jewish Women and Suffrage
Charleston, SC 29424 United States
Southern Jewish women often played leading roles in local and state efforts to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment, whose centennial we celebrate in 2020. They were both Southern Ladies and New Women, fitting in to their societies as they challenged the southern conservative consensus. Women's vote impacted their lives not only in civil society but also in the synagogue.
Our presenter, Leonard Rogoff, holds a doctorate from the University of North Carolina, where he directed the English Writing Laboratory.
Find out more »My Food Is My Flag: A Conversation about Jewish, African American, and Southern Foodways
Charleston, SC 29401 United States
While food may seem simple, what people eat is shaped […]
Find out more »American Jewish Women’s History: From Colonial Times to Today
Charleston, SC 29424 United States
In this groundbreaking history, Pamela Nadell asks what does it […]
Find out more »“The Quiet Voices”: Jews and the Civil Rights Movement
Charleston, SC 29424 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.
Find out more »“A Class of Citizens”: Jews and the Civil War
Charleston, SC 29424 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.
Find out more »“Jews Heathens and Infidels”: Southern Jewish Beginnings
Charleston, SC 29424 United States
Part 1 of a mini-course offering an overview of the history of Jews in the southern United States from colonial times until the present.
Find out more »Memory, Monuments, and Memorials: JHSSC Spring Meeting
Monuments, memorials, and historical memory have been much in the news over the last year.
Find out more »After Appomattox: Reconstruction and America’s Jews
Charleston, SC 29401 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.
Find out more »“The Devil Was a Nullifier”: Religious and Political Crisis during the Nullification Revival, 1828-1835
Charleston, SC 29424 United States
Charleston Research Fellow Brian Neumann, currently a PhD candidate in history at the University of Virginia, will present on his research about the Nullification Crisis, in which South Carolina tried to void federal tariffs.
Find out more »A Yankee’s Journey Through the Jewish South – A Travel Writer’s On-the-Ground Exploration of History
Charleston, SC 29424 United States
Charleston Research Fellow and journalist Sue Eisenfeld will talk about the process of writing and researching her next book, Postcards From Dixie: A Yankee’s Journey.
Find out more »Frontier Jews and Black Catholics: New Books in American Religion
Charleston, SC 29424 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.
Find out more »Southern Jewish Historical Society 2017 Conference
The 2017 conference of the Southern Jewish Historical Society will […]
Find out more »Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina Fall Meeting
The fall meeting of the Jewish Historical Society of South […]
Find out more »Louis Brandeis: American Prophet
Charleston, SC 29401 United States
Jeffrey Rosen, president of the National Constitution Center and law […]
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