The Southern Jewish Historical Society 1999 Conference

Thursday, November 4, 1999
3 P.M.	Registration Desk open at the Hyatt. Hospitality Suite open at noon.
6:00 PM	SJHS Officers and Board members: Board Meeting/Dinner Non-Board members: Dinner on your own.

Friday, November 5, 1999
10 AM to 4:30 PM	Registration Desk open at the Hyatt
10 AM to 5:PM	Hospitality Suite open
9:15 AM to1:30 PM	Optional Tour of Jewish Richmond Temple Beth Ahabah Museum and Archives Temple Beth Ahabah sanctuary and windows Virginia Holocaust Museum Beth El Synagogue Sanctuary Hebrew Cemetery, Confederate Section Lunch at Beth El Synagogue
2:00 PM	Conference Convenes Greetings: Richard November, President of the Richmond Jewish Federation Welcome by SJHS President Bruce Beeber, MD
2:30 PM to 3:30 PM	“The Virginia Experience: Challenge and Response” Moderator : Clara G. Schiffer, Advocate, Women’s Rights Dr. Peter Opper, Exec. Director, Jewish Family Services of Richmond: “Ladies’ Hebrew Benevolent Association’s First 150 Years” Rita Ruby, President, Jewish Family Services: “Women and Community: Yesterday and Tomorrow”
3:30 PM to 3:45 PM	Break
3:45 PM to 4:45 PM	Moderator: Minette Cooper, Chair, Ohef Sholom Temple Archives Norfolk, VA Benn Trask, Associate Curator, Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, VA and Jennifer Priest, Curator, Ohef Sholom Temple Archives, Norfolk, VA: “Chartered for History: SS President Warfield Becomes Exodus 1947” Neil November, Community Volunteer:“Now It Can Be Told: Guns for Ben Gurion” Dr. Melvin Urofsky, Director, Ph.D Program in Public Policy, Virginia Commonwealth University: “Why Is This Time Different From All Other Times?”
5:30 PM	Depart Hyatt for Temple Beth Ahabah by bus
6 PM	Dinner at Temple Beth Ahabah
8 PM	Shabbat Service at Temple Beth Ahabah, Sermon by Rabbi Martin P. Beifield, Jr. Tribute to Dr. Abram Kanof
9:45 P.M.	Oneg Shabbat
10:15P.M	Return to Hyatt Hotel by bus

Saturday, November 6, 1999
10:30 AM to 6 PM	Hospitality Suite Open
8:15 AM to 8:45 AM	Shabbat service at the Hyatt
9 AM to 9:50 AM	“The Lone Star of David” Moderator: Hollace Weiner, author of Jewish Stars in Texas Sherry Zander: “Texas Touchstones: Small Synagogues and Their Communities” Kay Goldman: “Merchants, Masons and Politicians; Jews on the Texas Frontier”
9:50 AM to 10:10 AM	Break
10:10 AM to 11 AM	“History through Fiction” Moderator: Terry Barr, Presbyterian College Leta Weiss Marks, author of Time’s Tapestry, Four Generations of a New Orleans Family Judy Goldman, author of The Slow Way Back
11 AM to 11:10 AM	Break
11:10 AM to Noon	“Fitting In” Moderator: Dr. Dianne Ashton Dr. Scott Langston, Southwest Baptist University: “Negotiating the Boundaries of Faith: Reverend Benjamin Morgan Palmer, Rabbi James K. Gutheim and Rabbi Max Heller” Caroline Light: “Social Uplift, Jewish Motherhood, and Becoming ‘White’ in the Depression Era South.”
Noon to 12 :30 PM	Break
12:30 PM	Luncheon and speaker: The Jerome Gumenick Lectureship Guest Speaker: Alfred Uhry, Pulitzer, Oscar and Tony prize winning playwright, author of Driving Miss Daisy, Last Night of Ballyhoo and Parade.
2:45 PM to 4:30 PM	“The Printed Word” Moderator: Rosel Schewel, Chairman, Board of Trustees, Lynchburg College Dr. Lance Sussman, author of Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism, “Isaac Leeser and The Occident” Dr. Clarence W. Thomas , author of The Serious Humor of Harry Golden, “Harry Golden and The Carolina Israelite” Seth Gitell, National Editor of the Forward, “Forward Newspaper: Next 100 Years” Dr. Michael Feldberg, Executive Director of the American Jewish Historical Society to give commentary on the panel, The Printed Word.
4:30 PM	Break
6:15 PM	Havdalah
6:30 PM	Cash Bar
7:00 PM	Banquet and Keynote Speaker Susan Stein, Curator of Monticello, The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation “The Levy Family and the Preservation of Monticello.”

Sunday, November 7, 1999
8:30 AM-9:30 AM.	SJHS General Membership Meeting
9:30 AM-10:30 AM	“A Touro Family Album” Moderator: Dr. Mark Greenberg, Historian, The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience Lester Sullivan, Archivist, Xavier University of Louisiana, “Judah Touro’s New Orleans in Black and White” Keith and Theresa Stokes, Newport, Rhode Island, “200 Years of an Ethnic American Family”
10:30 AM-10:45 AM	Break
10:45 AM-Noon	“Meet the Authors” Moderator: Marcus Rosenbaum, editor of Heart of a Wife: The Diary of a Southern Jewish Woman Edward Cohen, The Peddler’s Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi Stella Suberman, The Jew Store Hollace Weiner, Jewish Stars in Texas: Rabbis and Their Work
12:30 PM Lunch	Report by Beryl Weiner, Chairman of the Grants Committee Installation of Officers: Catherine Kahn, President Report of the Planning Committee for 2000
2:00 PM	Adjournment
All events at the Doubletree unless so noted

1999 Southern Jewish Historical Society Conference

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