Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Abel Banov
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- Title:
- Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Abel Banov
- Date:
- 1996
- Interviewer:
- Rosengarten, Dale, 1948-
- Interviewee:
- Banov, Abel, 1915-1997
- Description:
- Abel Banov draws on memories of his childhood in Charleston, South Carolina, to describe his familys customs, the synagogues, his fathers business ventures, the local merchants, and the differences between the citys uptown and downtown Jews. In 1939, he was hired by the North American Newspaper Alliance to cover stories in Spain just after the Spanish Civil War ended and, in the 1940s, he was founding editor of El Mundos English newspaper in Puerto Rico. He married Joan Heinemann, who fled Nazi Germany in the late 1930s.
- Collection Title:
- Jewish Heritage Collection Oral Histories
- Contributing Institution:
- College of Charleston Libraries
- Media Type:
- Oral Histories
- Personal or Corporate Subject:
- Banov, Abel, 1915-1997 -- Interviews
Wichmann, G. Theodore, b. 1886 - Topical Subject:
- Jews -- South Carolina –- Interviews, Kalushiner Society (Charleston, S.C.), Brith Sholom (Charleston, S.C.), Beth Israel (Charleston, S.C.), Jews -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History, Emanu-El (Charleston, S.C.), Segregation -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History, Jewish religious education -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History, Motion picture theaters -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History, Jewish merchants -- South Carolina -- Charleston – History, African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Relations with Jews -- History, Antisemitism -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History, and Jewish journalists –- Biography
- Geographic Subject:
- Lowcountry
- S.C. County:
- Charleston County (S.C.)
- Shelving Locator:
- MSS 1035-060
- Date Digital:
- 2011-05
- 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:
- 220753
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