Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Dorothea Shimel Dumas, Renée Shimel Frisch, and Jennie Shimel Ackerman
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- Title:
- Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Dorothea Shimel Dumas, Renée Shimel Frisch, and Jennie Shimel Ackerman
- Date:
- 1997
- Interviewer:
- Rosengarten, Dale, 1948-;Ackerman, Constance;Grossman, Michael Samuel
- Interviewee:
- Dumas, Dorothea Shimel, 1915-1997;Frisch, Renée Shimel, 1920-;Ackerman, Jennie Shimel, 1923-2003
- Description:
- Sisters Dorothea Dumas, Renée Frisch, and Jennie Ackerman recall their familys immigrant background and share memories of growing up in Charleston, South Carolina, in the 1920s and 30s. Their father, New Yorker Louis Shimel, an attorney who married Lillian Fechter of Charleston, served as the assistant district attorney for the Southeast and was the first president of the Jewish Community Center. The sisters also discuss the founding of Emanu-El, Charlestons Conservative synagogue.
- Collection Title:
- Jewish Heritage Collection Oral Histories
- Contributing Institution:
- College of Charleston Libraries
- Media Type:
- Oral Histories
- Personal or Corporate Subject:
- Tarshish, Allan, 1907-1982
Shimel, Louis M., 1885-1969
Dumas, Dorothea Shimel -- Interviews
Frisch, Renée Shimel -- Interviews
Ackerman, Jennie Shimel 1923- -- Interviews
Shimel, Lillian Fechter, 1892-1970 - Topical Subject:
- Jews -- South Carolina –- Interviews, Brith Sholom (Charleston, S.C.), Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, S.C.), Jews -- Identity, Synagogue Emanu-El (Charleston, S.C.), Jewish lawyers -- South Carolina –- Charleston -- History, and Zionism and Judaism
- Geographic Subject:
- Lowcountry
- S.C. County:
- Charleston County (S.C.)
- Shelving Locator:
- MSS 1035-108
- 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:
- 220756
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