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A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life, University of South Carolina Press; Jewish History in Charleston; A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life (February 6 through July 20, 2003), Center for Jewish History, New York City; Southern Jewish Life: The Life and Times of Southern Jewry
The first major Jewish community in the South was formed in Charleston, South Carolina. By 1700, there was a small Jewish community in Charles Town, as the colony was then called. [ 7 ] The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, the charter of the colony, guaranteed religious freedom and allowed Jews to own property.
Billy Simmons (also known as Billy Simons; c. 1780 - c. 1860) was an African-American Jew from Charleston, South Carolina, one of the few documented Black Jews living in the Antebellum South. Simmons was a scholar in both Hebrew and Arabic .
Francis Salvador (1747 – 1 August 1776) was an English-born American plantation owner in the colony of South Carolina from the Sephardic Jewish community of London; in 1774, he was the first professing Jew to be elected to public office in the colonies when chosen for the Provincial Congress.
Sephardic Jews migrated to the city in such numbers that Charleston eventually was home to, by the beginning of the 19th century and until about 1830, the largest and wealthiest Jewish community in North America [12] [13] The Jewish Coming Street Cemetery, first established in 1762, attests to their long-standing presence in the community.
Johnson, who traveled to South Carolina and North Carolina in April 2024 to research her family history, said Mills and her husband Jerry were born into slavery and was able to locate the house in ...
From Myrtle Beach south to Hilton Head, Black landowners who inherited property have been embroiled in disputes with investors looking The post In South Carolina, descendants of enslaved people ...
Early examples include a Jewish orphanage set up in Charleston, South Carolina in 1801, and the first Jewish school, Polonies Talmud Torah, established in New York in 1806. In 1843, the first national secular Jewish organization in the United States, the B'nai B'rith was established.