A portion of the people
Subtitle: three hundred years of southern Jewish life
By: edited by Theodore Rosengarten and Dale Rosengarten ; with a preface by Eli N. Evans.
Contributors: Rosengarten, Theodore.; Rosengarten, Dale, 1948-; McKissick Museum.
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press in association with McKissick Museum
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Jews -- South Carolina -- History -- Exhibitions; South Carolina -- Ethnic relations -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Other titles: Three hundred years of southern Jewish life
Description: "In the year 1800, South Carolina was home to more Jews than any other place in North America. As old as the province of Carolina itself, the Jewish presence has been a vital but little-examined element in the growth of South Carolina's cities and towns, in the economy of slavery and post-slavery society and in the creation of American Jewish religious identity.".

"The record of a landmark exhibition that will change the way people think about Jewish history and American history, A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life presents a remarkable group of objects and a provocative investigation of the people and circumstances that produced them. The book and exhibition culminate a seven-year collaboration by the Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina, McKissick Museum of the University of South Carolina, and the College of Charleston.

A Portion of the People is an important addition to southern arts and letters."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Catalog published in conjunction with an exhibition.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-255) and index.