August 22, 2021South Carolina Jews and Medicine: Session IJewish Quotas for Admission to Medical and Dental Schools, 1920’s -1960’s: A National Perspective. View the Power Point Presentation Read The Jewish Problem in U.S. Medical Education, 1920-1955 [PDF] Read Frank Porter Graham, Isaac Hall Manning, and the Jewish Quota at the University of North Carolina Medical […]
Remember typewriters? Remember how the keys often clogged with ink from the ribbon? About one hundred years ago, my grandfather Dr. Leon Banov co-invented a solution to clean the keys. It was called Clar-O-Type. Leon Banov’s history as an immigrant who served as Charleston’s health director for about 40 years is well known to 20th-century […]
FROM KALUSZYN TO CHARLESTON Charleston, South CarolinaMay 17 – 19, 2024 WHO ARE YOUR LANDSMEN?Jewish emigrants from Eastern Europe tended to identify with their town of origin and often followed their landsmen, or fellow countrymen, to their new home city in the United States. Assistance might come from family, or in some cases, from a […]
Sid Dubin in the door of Temple Beth Or, no date. Courtesy of Neil Dubin. Turn out the lights when you leave. It’s a simple statement that we’ve all heard. Seems reasonable, seems easy, but how do you do it? How do you do it when it’s your synagogue and you’re not only leaving, you’re […]
The Baum family (l to r): Garry Baum, Bernie Baum, Becky Baum Lourie, Cheryl Baum, Harry Baum, and Ann Briskin Baum, Temple Beth El, Camden, SC, Rosh Hashanah 1995. Courtesy of the Baum family. Garry When I was growing up in Camden, South Carolina, in the 1960s and ’70s, the city had a population of […]
Irvin (l), Caroline, and Raymond Rosenblum, children of founding member Nahum Rosenblum, in front of Temple B’Nai Israel, in Anderson, SC, 1954, six years after it was built across the street from their home. Collection of Sandra Lee Kahn Rosenblum. My earliest recollection of going to shul in Anderson was around 1947. I was about […]
To Honor the Survivors and Remember the Dead: Building a Memorial in Marion Square I am the child of Holocaust survivors. Henry Popowski and Paula Kornblum Popowski were both from Kaluszyn, a Polish town 50 miles east of Warsaw. Before World War II its population numbered approximately 10,000—80 percent of whom were Jews. My father was 11 years older than my […]