The Jewish
Heritage Collection Archives at the
College of Charleston
contains books,
manuscripts,
photographs, prints,
oral histories,
and artifacts of special rarity or significance. The Jewish Heritage
Collection documents the Jewish experience in
South Carolina from colonial times
to the present day. The archives grew out of an active program of
collection, field work, and public education that was inaugurated in
January 1995 by the Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina, the
College of
Charleston’s
Jewish Studies Program, and
McKissick Museum at the
University of South
Carolina. Project
staff
have spearheaded research and development of a major museum
exhibition, “...A Portion of the People”: Three Hundred
Years of Southern Jewish Life, which opened at
McKissick
in January 2002.
Located in Special Collections at the College’s Addlestone
Library, the Jewish Heritage Collection Archives is broad in scope. It
encompasses recorded interviews, manuscripts, photographs, genealogies,
memoirs, home movies, and other material. The collection was
processed
between 2002-2003 with a generous grant
from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The
collection records are searchable using the
College of Charleston’s
on-line library catalog.
