Category Archives: Charleston

Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (KKBE) Huguenin Avenue Cemetery

Photographs taken by Stéphane Grauzam Sources for additional information AJF – First American Jewish Families by Malcolm Stern CLC – 1974 List of Graves in the Huguenin Avenue Cemetery CSC – Removed from KKBE Coming Street Cemetery EC – The Old Jewish Cemeteries at Charleston, SC by Barnett Elzas 1903 ENC – New Jewish Cemetery […]

Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (KKBE) Coming Street Cemetery

Coming Street Cemetery SourcesAJF – First American Jewish Families by Malcolm SternAJ – American Jewish Historical Society PublicationCDR – Charleston Board of Health-Return of Deaths 1830-1926 CG – Charleston City Gazette CLL 1871 List (Probably compiled by Nathaniel Levin)CLC – 1974 List of graves in the Huguenin Avenue Cemetery CT – The Charleston TimesEC – The Old Jewish Cemeteries at Charleston, S.C. by […]

Emanu-El Cemetery

Gravestone pictures taken by Burnett Mendelsohn and Samuel Steinberg and Max B Hellman

Brith Sholom Magnolia Cemetery

Pictures taken by Max B. Hellman and Ann Meddin Hellman Additional information from SC Death Records 1821-1955 on Ancestry.com“The Jewish Cemeteries of Congregation Berith Shalome at Charleston, SC” Compiled by Barnett A. Elzas, MD LLD Charleston, SC 1910” This Cemetery, situated near Magnolia Cemetery, at Charleston, S. C, has been in use since 1856. The […]

Beth Israel Magnolia Cemetery

Documentation of Cemetery and Photographs compiled by Alyssa Lee Neely Additional information found in Obituaries and South Carolina Death Records Sources SCDR South Carolina Death Records NC News and Courier Charleston SC PC Post and Courier Charleston SC NCDR North Carolina Death

Brith Sholom Beth Israel Cemetery

Gravestone pictures taken by Max B. Hellman and Ann Meddin Hellman Additional Information found in South Carolina Death Records 1881-1955 and Obituaries found in The News and Courier and The Post and Courier  “The Jewish Cemeteries of Congregation Berith Shalome at Charleston, SC” Compiled by Barnett A. Elzas, MD LLD Charleston, SC 1910“This cemetery, now […]

Da Costa Cemetery, Harby Hanover Street Cemetery, Tobias Cemetery

For more information on these cemeteries see pages 179-181, Explorations in Charleston’s Jewish History by Solomon Breibart.Other information on these cemeteries can be found in The Old Jewish Cemeteries at Charleston, S.C. by Dr. Barnett A. ElzasDaCosta and Hanover Street Cemeteries in Charleston SC. The Silence of the Dead: Giving Charleston Cemeteries a Voice. Chicora […]