Upcoming Conference
Columbia, SC 10/27-30/2011
SIGHTS, SOUNDS, AND STORIES OF THE JEWISH SOUTH Joint Conference of the Southern Jewish Historical Society and the Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina
With support from the University of South Carolina’s Jewish Studies Program, Earnest F. Hollings Special Collections Library, School of Music, and McKissick Museum
Conference Schedule (draft/May 2011)
Thursday, October 27th
Arrivals/Registration
Inn at USC [www.innatusc.com]
1619 Pendleton Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29201
Reservations: 1-866-455-4753
6:30pm SJHS Board dinner at the home of Richard and Belinda Gergel, followed by Board meeting at The Inn
Friday, October 28th
Arrivals/Registration
Breakfast Inn at USC (included in room rate)
DAY TRIP TO SUMTER, SOUTH CAROLINA
9am – 4 pm
Temple Sinai
Talk and tour of the sanctuary and its spectacular stained glass windows by Elizabeth Moses and Robert A. Moses
Sumter County Museum
Presentation of the museum’s Jewish collections; box lunch outdoors
Home and garden tour – Dr. Wendell and Katie Levi
6:00 Dinner and Services at Tree of Life
Saturday, October 29thBreakfast – Inn at USC (included in room rate)
Earnest F. Hollings Special Collections Library (enter through Thomas Cooper Library) University of South Carolina, 1322 Greene Street, Columbia, SC
Panel Sessions
9:00 I. Tolerance and Tensions
Allen Krause The Hazan, the Minister, and the Merchant: A 177-Year-Old Lesson from Charleston, S.C.
Hyman Rubin III South Carolina’s Jewish Republicans during Radical Reconstruction
Marni Davis Allies or Adversaries? Jewish and Irish Immigrants in the New South
Rachel R. Bergstein A Tale of Two Rabbis: How David Marx and Tobias Geffen Imagined Judaism in the South
11:00 II. The Topography of Exclusion
Robert Gillette The Virginia Plan: William B. Thalhimer and the Resettlement of German Refugees
Edward S. Shapiro Fighting the War: Southern Jewish Chaplains and the Evolution of American Jewish Identity during World War II
Catherine R. Eskin Jewish Sacred Space in a “City of Churches”: Temple Emanuel in Lakeland, Florida
12:30 Lunch
1:15 III. History and Memory
Joseph Butwin Old Countries: A Jewish Writer in the Southern Diaspora
Laurie Gunst Exploring Taboos
Ellen Solomon Creating Ruchel Solomon: The Imaginatively Constructed Individual
3:00 – 4:45 Capital City
– bus tour of Columbia led by Richard and Belinda Gergel
(Itinerary subject to change)
Big Apple, Beth Shalom’s first synagogue
Holocaust Monument, Monument Park
Hebrew Benevolent Society cemetery
McKissick Museum
6:00 – 7:30 Reception – Hollings Library
Guided “behind the scenes” tours on the half-hour, beginning at 5:30pm
Exhibits:
Political Collections—papers and campaign memorabilia of Isadore Lourie, Harriet Keyserling, Sol Blatt, Hyman Rubin, Inez Tenenbaum, others TBA
Judaica and Rare Books—from the collections of Thomas Cooper and South Caroliniana libraries
Screening of Carvalho’s Journey—video segments of a work in progress by producer/director Steve Rivo
7:30 Dinner on your own
Sunday, October 30th
8:30 Breakfast at the Inn at USC (included in room rate)
Concurrent (both at the Inn): SJHS membership meeting
JHSSC board meeting
Recital Hall, School of Music
University of South Carolina, 813 Assembly Street, room 206, Columbia SC
10:00 IV. Sounds of the Jewish South:
The Music of Composer Meira Warshauer
Performance and panel with Meira Warshauer, piano, Robert Jesselson, cello, and Janet Hopkins, mezzo soprano
11:30 V. What's So Funny About Southern Jews?:
Performance Inside and Outside the Tradition
Bryan E. Stone Havah Nagilah, Texas-Style: Christian Zionism and the Cornerstone Church
Jarrod Tanny From the Borscht Belt to the B’nei Mississippi: Jewish Humor’s Encounter with the South
12:30 Box lunch
1:30 Adjourn
