A Portion of the People

by Rosengarten, Theodore

• ISBN13: 9781570034459
• ISBN10: 1570034451
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr

Summary

In the year 1800, South Carolina was home to more Jews than any other place in North America. As old as the province of Carolina itself, the Jewish presence has been a vital but little-examined element in the growth of South Carolina's cities and towns, in the economy of slavery and post-slavery society and in the creation of American Jewish religious identity.
The record of a landmark exhibition that will change the way people think about Jewish history and American history, A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life presents a remarkable group of objects and a provocative investigation of the people and circumstances that produced them. The book and exhibition culminate a seven-year collaboration by the Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina, McKissick Museum of the University of South Carolina, and the College of Charleston. A Portion of the People is an important addition to southern arts and letters.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Preface	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Freedom's Fruits: The Americanization of an Old-time Religion	p. 10
Land of Promise: The Eastern European Jewish Experience in South Carolina	p. 22
Just Like One of Us	p. 31
A Call for Candlesticks	p. 43
A Portion of the People: Narrative of the Exhibition
First Families	p. 59
This Happy Land	p. 90
The Lost Cause	p. 126
Little Jerusalem	p. 145
Pledging Allegiance	p. 165
Of Blessed Memory	p. 180
Palmetto Jews	p. 185
Photo Essay by Bill Aron	p. 195
Catalogue of Exhibition Items	p. 223
Contributors' Biographies	p. 235
Glossary	p. 237
Bibliography	p. 241
Acknowledgments	p. 257
Index	p. 261
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