Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Joseph Lipton
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- Title:
- Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Joseph Lipton
- Date:
- 2016
- Interviewer:
- Filler, Lilly
- Interviewee:
- Lipton, Joseph, 1923-
- Description:
- Joseph J. Lipton discusses growing up in Beaufort, South Carolina, the eldest of three sons of Helen Stern and Samuel Lipton (Lipsitz). Samuel emigrated from Lithuania as a teen in the early 1900s, arriving first in New York. He followed a relative to Dale, South Carolina, not far from Beaufort, and worked in his store for a time before opening his own business in a small crossroads nearby called Grays Hill. He met Helen while on a visit to Charleston, South Carolina, where she lived with her brother, Gabe Stern, and worked in Kerrison's Department Store. They married in 1922 and moved to Beaufort. After graduating from Clemson College, the interviewee earned his law degree from Mercer University, a Baptist-affiliated institution in Macon, Georgia, where he was the only Jewish student. He describes how, fresh out of law school, he assisted a lawyer whose case regarding asbestos and interstate commerce advanced to the United States Supreme Court. He took a job with the South Carolina Legislative Council, where he was employed for thirty years. Lipton remembers visiting his cousins, the Sterns, in Columbia as a teen, and participating in AZA (Aleph Zadik Aleph) activities. He comments on Congregation Beth Israel in Beaufort and recalls singing Kol Nidre in the synagogue during the High Holidays.
- Collection Title:
- Jewish Heritage Collection Oral Histories
- Contributing Institution:
- College of Charleston Libraries
- Media Type:
- Oral Histories
- Preferred Citation:
- Joseph J. Lipton, audio interview by Lilly Filler, 29 January 2016, Mss 1035-447, Special Collections, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, USA.
- Personal or Corporate Subject:
- Beth Israel (Beaufort, S.C.)
- Topical Subject:
- Jews--South Carolina--Interviews, Jews--South Carolina--Beaufort--Social life and customs, and Jewish lawyers--South Carolina--Columbia--History
- S.C. County:
- Charleston County (S.C.), Richland County (S.C.), and Beaufort County (S.C.)
- Language:
- English
- Shelving Locator:
- Mss 1035-447
- Date Digital:
- 2016-04-27
- Digitization Specifications:
- Mp3 derivative audio created with Audacity software. Archival masters are wav files.
- Internet Media Type:
- audio/mpeg
- Copyright Status Statement:
- Copyright © College of Charleston Libraries.
- Access Statement:
- All rights reserved.
- Access Information:
- For more information contact Special Collections, Addlestone Library, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424.
- Admin ID:
- 220702
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