About the Collection
The Temple Sinai (Sumter, S.C.) Records collection is comprised of various records regarding Temple Sinai, a Reform Judaism synagogue in Sumter, South Carolina. The digitized portion of this collection are the scrapbooks, correspondence, and several published poems written by Penina Moise, a prominent American poet and hymnist; and a scrapbook compiled by Abraham Moise. The finding aid to the complete physical collection also includes papers and artifacts documenting prominent Jewish families of Sumter in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This collection contains papers from 1789 – 2012 (bulk 1920-1996).
This collection was digitized and made freely available online through the generous support of the Council on Library and Information Resources.
