A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life

The forgotten history is a good read! When I got the book it was in great condition!

Beautiful book co-edited by historian Theodore Rosengarten who has given us other glimpses of real life in the recent past with All God's Dangers and Tombee. Dale Rosengarten, founding director of the Jewish Heritage Collection at the College of Charleston Rosengarten, is the editor who spent 7 years researching the presence, influence, and lives of the men and women who made Charleston the Jewish Cultural Center of the United States. The book is a hardcover catalog for the 2003 NY exhibition at the Center for Jewish history. It includes many full color photographs not just of religious objects but of portraits and costumes and household objects showing the ways in which Jewish immigrants -- beginning in the 17th century -- became "a portion of the people" in the American South.

Great resource for Yankee transplants to South Carolina. Answers the questions of who, what, where and why the various Jewish settler waves made a happy home here -- with the Jews of Charleston outnumbering their brethren in New York in the early days. The end of the Civil War brought cataclysmic changes to Southern society, some not always good for the Jews.

Excellent the great love book to me.