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Jewish Heritage Collection Oral Histories
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College of Charleston Libraries
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2/15/1996
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Lowcountry
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Immigrants -- United States -- History, Jews -- South Carolina -- Interviews, Jewish merchants -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History, Jews -- South Carolina -- Orangeburg -- History, Jews -– South Carolina -- Orangeburg -- Social life and customs, Jews -- South Carolina -- Orangeburg -- Religious life, Jewish merchants -- South Carolina -- Orangeburg -- History, Jewish merchants -- South Carolina -- Summerville -- History, Jewish merchants -- South Carolina -- Blackville -– History, Temple Sinai (Orangeburg), Tree of Life synagogue (Columbia), Temple Beth El (Camden), Antisemitism -- South Carolina -- Orangeburg -- History
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2/15/1996
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Edward Mirmow and Rose Louise Aronson, who grew up in Orangeburg, recall the city’s Jewish families, descendants of German and Russian immigrants, and the types of stores they operated, dating to the 1930s. Edward’s paternal relatives, the Mirmowitzes and the Goldiners, emigrated from Russia around the turn of the 20th century. In the 1950s, Rose led an effort to organize a congregation for the benefit of Orangeburg’s Jewish children, including her two daughters, and Temple Sinai was founded.