Selections from oral histories, memoirs, and manuscripts from the Collection provide glimpses into the lives of Jewish South Carolinians. To date, we have recorded over 300 interviews. The narratives that follow represent a fraction of what we have on tape. Chosen for their literary and historical merit, the vignettes are grouped thematically and (loosely) chronologically.

• First Families
• Plantation Life
• Civil War
• The Old Country
• Immigration
• New Names for a New Country
• Growing Up
• Fitting In
• Store Stories
• More Store Stories
• Uptown/Downtown
• St. Philip Street
• Identity
• Small Towns
• Family Stories
• Of Blessed Memory

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Editorial staff: Karen Beidel, James Buxton, Tara Kelly, Elizabeth Moses, Dale Rosengarten, Theodore Rosengarten.