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 […]
Main image: Officers of the National Woman’s Party (Anita Pollitzer with hat in hand) meet in Washington in 1922 to complete the plans for the dedication ceremonies for the Party’s new national headquarters opposite the Capitol. Courtesy of the Records of the National Woman’s Party, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Carrie, Mabel, and […]
Main image: Dr. Rosa Hirschmann Gantt, ca. 1930. Courtesy of Marsha Poliakoff. Love Rosa Hirschmann Gantt (1874–1935) was the first woman physician in Spartanburg, South Carolina. A pioneer in providing health services to rural areas, she served as acting surgeon for the U.S. Public Health Service. Born in Camden, South Carolina, on December 29, […]
The author, Margi Levinson, and her brother, Arnold, pose for a family photo behind their parents, Charles and Libby Friedman Levinson, and Libby’s mother, Baila, 1942. Courtesy of Margi Levinson Goldstein. The story of my mother, Libby Friedman Levinson, is of a woman who faced life’s challenges with courage and resilience. In 1918, at the […]
Left to right: Ernie Marcus, Robert Berger (holding Ernie), Arthur Berger, Ellen Marcus (in front of Arthur), Harry Marcus, and Louise Levi Marcus, outside their Eutawville, SC, home, 1957. Courtesy of Ernie Marcus. Ernie Eutawville, the little town I grew up in, represents a microcosm of how Jewish women ended up behind retail counters in […]
Rabbi Samuel Shillman presided over confirmation exercises, Temple Sinai, Sumter, SC, May 24, 1942. Patty Levi is third from right. Her twin brother, Wendell, is on the far left. Other confirmands, according to the program, were Faye Lomansky, Joan Schlosburg, Everett Ness, and Bernice Richman. Courtesy of Tricia Barnett Greenberg. Patricia Levi Barnett came into […]
Main image: Members of Doris Levkoff Meddin’s family gather in September 1994 to celebrate the naming of the neonatal intensive care unit at the Medical University of South Carolina in honor of her brother, Dr. Abner Levkoff, who established the high-risk nursery. Back row (l to r): Abner H. Levkoff, Alice Fink Levkoff, Douglas Berlinsky, […]
Back row (l to r): Michele Bernstein Perrick, Carol Osterweil Bernstein. Front row (l to r): Anne Bernstein, Beth Bernstein, Hilary Bernstein, at Beth Shalom’s 85th Anniversary Trilogy Gala, Columbia, SC, January 16, 1993, celebrating the synagogue’s 85th anniversary, mortgage burning, and 20th year on Trenholm Road. Carol and Rose Kline chaired the event. Courtesy […]
Mildred Solomon and her daughter Ellen, Ahmedabad, India, 1965. Courtesy of Ellen Solomon. I have almost no papers of my mother’s and was astonished recently when I discovered the speech she gave in 1948 as the finale to her two years as president of the Charleston chapter of Hadassah. The speech—typed and 17 pages long—was […]