Anderson, SC B’Nai Israel Synagogue was built in 1948. Max Siegel wanted his grandson to have his Bar Mitzvah in a “Synagogue”. Before that, services were held above a department store in downtown Anderson. The congregation has been in Anderson for well over 100 years. For more information about Anderson and B’nai Israel, go to Anderson […]
March 17, 2013Anderson, SC Temple B’Nai IsraelAnderson’s Jewish community dates to the antebellum era but grew significantly after 1900 with the arrival of several families from Eastern Europe. This congregation was founded at Temple B’nai Israel (Sons of Israel) as early as 1911. It held services in the Masonic Temple on the square and a […]
November 16, 2014 Aiken, SC Front of Historical MarkerAdath Yeshurun SynagogueAiken’s permanent Jewish community dates to 1890, when immigrants from Eastern Europe, many of the from Knyszyn, Poland, began to settle here. Adath Yeshurun Congregation (Congregation of Israel) held its first services in private homes or in the Masonic Temple. Several community leaders founded the […]
May 2, 2015 Charleston, SC Reception Honoring Ann Meddin Hellman, recipient, Order of the Jewish Palmetto Jeffrey Rosenblum’s Speech Honoring Ann Meddin Hellman I have known Ann and Max almost as long as I have lived in Charleston, and have shared many good times with them. My wife Mickey attended Ashley Hall with Ann. Mickey’s […]
Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of VE-Day May 2-3 2015 Charleston SC Southern Jews and World War II: On the Home Front and Frontlines Dan J Puckett FDR and the Jews: the Controversy Resolved Allan J Lichtman Notes from the Battlefield and the Home Front: A Panel Discussion Moderator: Jack Bass Panelists: Joseph Mazo Butwin, Gale Siegel Messerman, […]
In the first week of May 1943, Earl Mazo of Charleston, South Carolina, crossed the Atlantic Ocean for the second time in his life. The first time was 20 years earlier when he left Warsaw, Poland, with his family, heading for America. He was three years old on that first crossing and apparently the life […]
In 1934, two months after I was born as the Bass family’s seventh child, my oldest sibling Bernie (Samuel Bernard Bass) enrolled as a freshman at the University of South Carolina. Six years later, he had a law degree and that summer opened a law office in our hometown of North in the western part […]
Pictures Taken by Stéphane Grauzam.
Listings are of those veterans who are “Self-designated” Jewish veterans. They have a Jewish star on their marker.