Upcoming Events

The spring issue of the JHSSC magazine can be accessed HERE

JHSSC SPRING CONFERENCE in conjunction with University of South Carolina McCausland College of Arts and Sciences Jewish Studies Program, and College of Charleston’s Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture and Jewish Heritage Collection

Southern Jewish Women: Uncovering Stories of Everyday Greatness

May 2 – 3, 2026

University of South Carolina
The Campus Room, Capstone House
898 Barnwell Street, Columbia, SC

Hotel Reservations

The Graduate Hotel
1619 Pendleton Street
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Saturday, May 2, 2026

11:30 a.m. Registration and lunch

12:15 p.m. Welcome ~ Mickey Rosenblum, President, JHSSC; Saskia Coenen Snyder, Director, Jewish Studies Program, University of South Carolina; Ashley Walters, Director, Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture, College of Charleston

12:30 Looking Inward, Looking Outward: Jewish Women in the American South ~ Shari Rabin, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, Religion, and History/Chair of Jewish Studies, Oberlin College; author of The Jewish South: An American History (2025)

1:15 Ashley Walters and Shari Rabin in conversation

1:45 Break

2:00 “A Woman’s Role Is the Role She Chooses”: Southern Feminisms and the National Council of Jewish Women in the 1970s ~ Jillian M. Hinderliter, Assistant Professor and the Moses M. and Hannah L. Malkin Fellow in Jewish History and Culture, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2:45 In Pursuit of Equality ~ Lauren Sklaroff, Professor of History, University of South Carolina, leads a discussion with Jillian M. Hinderliter, Lilly Filler, and Harriett Steinert

3:15 Break

3:30 – 4:30 Trailblazing Mothers – Moderator: Dale Rosengarten, curator emerita, Jewish Heritage Collection, College of Charleston Libraries.
Panelists: Fern Litman Mazo and Deborah Litman (Judith Greenberg Litman Lindau, lawyer), Marsha Silver Greenhill (Helen Schneider Silver, journalist), Beth Bernstein (Carol Bernstein, first president of Beth Shalom, Columbia), Joe Butwin (Frances Mazo Butwin, writer), Ben Means (Norma Mazo Perlmutter, artist)

5:00 – 6:00 Reception ~ Anne Frank Center, University of South Carolina, 1731 College Street, Columbia, SC

Dinner on your own

 

Sunday, May 3, 2026

9:30 a.m. Brunch and welcome

10:00 You Never Call! You Never Write!: A History of the Jewish Mother ~ Joyce Antler, Professor Emerita of American Jewish History and Culture, and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University

11:00 – 12:00 JHSSC Board Meeting

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