As Confederate statues fall in battle, North Carolina Jews may feel that we are watching someone else’s war. After all, most Jews arrived in America decades after the Civil War, and few have deep or lengthy southern roots. Yet, Confederate memorials in two cities speak to North Carolina’s Jewish heritage. In downtown Charlotte the focus…
The JHFNC is contributing its resources to an on-line Religion in North Carolina Digital Collection. This project is a collaboration of Duke University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Wake Forest University. RNCDC is collecting, preserving, and making accessible primary materials on all religious bodies in the state. Once digitized, anyone, anywhere will…
JHFNC is happy to announce the birth of Down Home: A Virtual Museum on its web site: http://sites.duke.edu/downhome/ . While hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians saw the exhibit in person at one of its several venues, Raleigh, Charlotte, or Wilmington, mounting our interactive site means that Down Home will live on for many years…
In this article from Charlotte NPR by Tom Bullock, the digital “Down Home” exhibit is featured. View the original article at: http://wfae.org/post/harry-golden-takes-seersuckered-south Harry Golden Takes On The Seersuckered South By Tom Bullock Harry Golden, journalist and civil rights activist in Charlotte c.1970’s. Courtesy of J Murrey Atkins Library / UNC Charlotte 1 of 5 Long…
Professor Eric Meyers, Composer Alejandro Rutty, and Conductress Lorena Guillen will be on The State of Things with Frank Stasio this afternoon at 12:40PM to discuss Down Home: The Cantata! You can listen LIVE to the interview at the following: http://wunc.org/programs/state-things The last performance of the Cantata for this Spring will be held in Greensboro…
Triangle Jewish Chorale Presents a Memorable Panorama of Jewish Life in North Carolina By Ken Hoover April 28, 2013 – Durham, NC: Down Home: The Cantata came to life in this World Premiere performance at the Goodson Chapel in the Divinity School of Duke University. Presented by the Triangle Jewish Chorale, with soloists Caroline Oliveira,…
For those of us with memories of heading to upstate New York for summer camps and resort vacations, you’ll be pleased to know that North Carolina was once home to its own “Southern Catskills.” Jews from across the southeast colonized Hendersonville every summer to enoy its cool mountain breezes and stunning scenery—and to be with other Jews.…
Not widely known perhaps, but May is a time to celebrate our Jewish heritage in the United States. Our historian, Len Rogoff has written about the first Jewish person to settle in the English speaking colonies. The locale for this settlement was none other than North Carolina on Roanoke Island. This Jew, by the name…
In remembering the Holocaust, North Carolinians may feel a special poignancy in knowing that one victim was born in our very own Jewish community. In 1881 Therese Sternglanz was born in Tarboro. Her parents, David and Sary, had settled in Tarboro in 1878 to open a store, joining a Jewish community of 100. Times were…
NPR, ‘A State of Things’ recently interviewed Rabbi Steve Sager of Sicha. Click here for the Sicha website and to hear the interview