Who We Are

JHSSC Officers
President: Mickey Rosenblum, Charleston, SC
VP, Membership: Anita Rosenberg, Charleston, SC
VP, Programs and Publications: Terri Wolff Kaufman, Mt. Pleasant, SC
VP, Historic Markers: Joe Wachter, Myrtle Beach, SC
Treasurer: Barry Draisen, Anderson, SC
Secretary: Laura Moses, Charleston, SC
Archivist: Marcie Stern Baker, Columbia, SC
Immediate Past President: Stephen T. Savitz, Columbia, SC

Board of Directors
Susan Altman, Charleston, SC
Susan Brill, Columbia, SC
Leah Chase, Charleston, SC
Dyan Cohen, Darlington, SC
Andrea Draisen, Anderson, SC
Allan From, Raleigh, NC
Steven J. Gold, Greenville, SC
Phillip Greenberg, Charleston, SC
Della Hertzberg, Aiken, SC
Lee Kamman, Charleston, SC
Gail Lieb, Columbia, SC
Lance D. Lourie, Atlanta, GA
Rhetta A. Mendelsohn, Charleston, SC
Eli Poliakoff, Charleston, SC
Erica Rabhan, Charleston, SC, ex officio
Alan Reyner, Columbia, SC
Jeffrey Rosenblum, Charleston, SC
Rachel Kronick Rothbart, Los Angeles, CA
Paul Siegel, Walterboro, SC
Barbara Karesh Stender, Charleston, SC
Lisa Strauss, Charleston, SC
Carole Weinstock, Simpsonville, SC

JHSSC Staff
Rachel Gordin Barnett, Executive Director
Tamara Rosas-Bossak, Director of Operations
Alyssa Neely, Administrator and Publications Specialist

Founding Executive Director
Martin Perlmutter, o.b.m.

Founding President
Isadore Lourie, o.b.m.

Past Presidents
Rachel Gordin Barnett
Alexander Cohen
David Draisen, o.b.m.
Lilly Stern Filler
Belinda Gergel
Richard Gergel
Ann Meddin Hellman
Ernest L. Marcus
Edward Poliakoff
Klyde Robinson, o.b.m.
Robert Rosen
Jeffrey Rosenblum
Stephen T. Savitz
Bernard Warshaw, o.b.m.

Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina

CONTACT

JHSSC
205 Calhoun Street
Charleston, SC 29424
843.953.8880


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