“Privilege and Prejudice”—25 summer scholars in an NEH-funded institute held at the College of Charleston in May/June 2019 explored this theme from multiple perspectives during the two-week course. For a day-by-day survey of activities, check out the kaleidoscope of images co-director Dale Rosengarten presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Jewish Historical Society in Charlottesville, Virginia, in October 2019.

1. Privilege and Prejudice:
Jewish History in
the American South
~~~
NEH Summer Institute
May ~ June 2019
College of Charleston
~~~
Dale Rosengarten
SJHS ~ Charlottesville, Virginia
October 2019

2. Day 1:
Orientations
Intro to Charleston
Jewish History
walking tour with
Harlan Greene
~
Fulton Street, former
red-light district

3. Day 2:
Port Jews
in the
Atlantic
World
Coming
Street
Cemetery
Tour
~
with Anita
Moïse
Rosefield
Rosenberg
~
Stone
conservator
Frances Ford
doing some
heavy lifting

4. Dr. Jonathan Sarna
braving the
broiling sun
in black cap and
jacket!

5. Tombstones tell tales….
~ Israel Solomon held aloft by
guide Randi Serrins

6. Summer
scholars
standing on
the remnants
of the wall
separating
Shearit Israel
from KKBE
burials.

7. Back in the
classroom
~ On Port
Jews

9. Day 3:
Jews in a
Slaveholding
Society
Visit to the Slave Mart
Museum
~ Interpreter and
historian Christine
Mitchell King presents
new research on Jewish
involvement in what she
calls “the business of
slavery.”

10. Evening cruise in Charleston
harbor ~ a breezy break

11. Day 4:
Judaism in the
American
South
~ Visit to Kahal
Kadosh Beth Elohim
“Reading Synagogue
Architecture”

12. In the boardroom at
KKBE
~ Shari says:
“Talk among
yourselves!”

14. Day 5: Jews at War
~with Adam Mendelsohn + sneak-peak at
the Shappell Roster Project.

15. Day 7:
Sunday Trip to
Beaufort,
South Carolina
Visit to Beth Israel
synagogue,
dedicated in 1906

16. Lunch in Beth Israel social hall ~ with Mayor Billy Keyserling and congregation president Barbara Mark

17. Michael Allen,
NPS interpreter,
explains
how the Reconstruction
Monument passed
through Congress
~

18. Brick Baptist
Church,
built by
enslaved
labor, 1855
~
Penn Center
campus,
St. Helena
Island, SC
http://brickbaptist.com/history.html

19. Reconstruction Era National Monument Welcome Center in
former Firehouse ~ with NPS Ranger Scott Teodorski
Three Musketeers in doorway of
Darrah Hall ~ Penn Center

20. Day 8: Reconstructing Jews
~ with Michael Cohen: “Reconstruction and Economic Life in the Gulf South”
Addlestone 360: Home Sweet Home

21. Day 9:
McLeod
Plantation
~
with tour
guide Paul
Garbarini

22. Row of slave
cabins at McLeod,
inhabited into the
second half of
the 20th century

23. Difficult history ~~~

25. Latecomers:
Eastern
European
Jewish
Migration to
the South
~ Jenna
Weissman
Joselit talks
about trains
and samovars

26. Day 10:
Jewish Merchants and Race
~ King Street Merchants walking tour
led by Harlan Greene

27. Jewish Entrepreneurs and Urban Space:
Teaching with Digital Maps
~ hands-on workshop with Marni Davis
(and Eric Goldstein)

28. Day 11: Field trip to Marion Square and Mother Emanuel

29. “Memorialization, monument-building, and
‘dark tourism’” ~ with tour leaders
Theodore Rosengarten and Jenna W. Joselit
John C. Calhoun
uber alles

30. Emanuel A.M.E.
Church
~ Calhoun Street,
across Meeting from
Marion Square

31. Left: Untitled, by Ronald
Jones, 1991. After stereograph
South Carolina Cherubs (after
Raphael) by George N. Barnard,
Charleston, SC, ca. 1874—75.

32. Lee
Bennett,
member of
Emanuel
A.M.E.
History
Committee

34. Stormy walk back
to Addlestone Library, room 360 ~
Bernard Powers presents slide/lecture
on transformational moments in the
Civil Rights Movement

35. Shout out for CofC photographer Heather Moran,
behind the camera!

36. Mike DeWitt’s Delta Jews (1998),
final film in Piccolo Spoleto series
“Southern Jewish Life on the Big Screen”
“Talk back” led by summer scholars
David Shaerf, filmmaker & screenwriter,
and Amy Milligan, director of the
Institute for Jewish Studies
and Interfaith Understanding,
Old Dominion University

37. Day 12:
“The Edible –
JEWISH –
South: The
Power of Food
and the
Making of
Jewish
Southerners”
~
a multi-media
extravaganza
created by
Marcie C. Ferris
and executed by
Brandon Reid,
Alyssa Neely, &
George
Washington U.
intern Allison
Gerstley

38. Five groups,
five document
sets.
~
You could hear
the wheels
turning…..

39. Farewell Dinner: A Southern Shabbat
~ orchestrated and produced by
Marcie Cohen Ferris, Jonathan Ray, Chefs Kevin Mitchell and Trey Dutton, and food critic Hanna Raskin

41. The NEH
does not
pay one
dollar for
food or
drink.

42. The
End