Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Jennie Shimel Ackerman
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- Title:
- Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Jennie Shimel Ackerman
- Date:
- 1997
- Interviewer:
- Rosengarten, Dale, 1948-;Grossman, Michael Samuel
- Interviewee:
- Ackerman, Jennie Shimel, 1923-2003
- Description:
- Jennie Shimel Ackerman, born in 1923 in Charleston, South Carolina, grew up with a strong sense of Jewish identity in a family where religious observance was limited to the holidays. She discusses her father and daughter’s law careers, and mentions her husband’s involvement in the collection of money for arms to send to Haganah, the Jewish paramilitary defense force in Palestine.
- Collection Title:
- Jewish Heritage Collection Oral Histories
- Contributing Institution:
- College of Charleston Libraries
- Media Type:
- Oral Histories
- Personal or Corporate Subject:
- Ackerman, Jennie Shimel, 1923- -- Interviews
Ackerman, William, 1915-1999
Ackerman, Connie, 1947-
Shimel, Louis M., 1885-1969 - Topical Subject:
- Jews -- South Carolina -– Interviews, African Americans – Relations with Jews, Jews -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Identity, Haganah (Organization), Illegal arms transfers -- Israel, Women in Judaism -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History, and Jewish sects
- Geographic Subject:
- Lowcountry
- S.C. County:
- Charleston County (S.C.)
- Shelving Locator:
- MSS 1035-119
- Digitization Specifications:
- Mp3 derivative audio created with Audacity software. Archival masters are wav files.
- Internet Media Type:
- application/pdf;audio/mpeg
- Copyright Status Statement:
- Digital resource copyright 2011, The College of Charleston. All rights reserved. For more information contact The College of Charleston Library, Charleston, SC 29424.
- Admin ID:
- 220743
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