Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Ella Levenson Schlosburg

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Title:

Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Ella Levenson Schlosburg

Date:

1995

Interviewer:

Rosengarten, Dale, 1948-

Interviewee:

Schlosburg, Ella Levenson, 1920-

Description:

Ella Levenson Schlosburg, the daughter of emigrants from Lithuania, recounts her family history and describes growing up in an Orthodox Jewish family in the small midlands town of Bishopville, South Carolina. Her father, Frank Levenson, one of a handful of Jewish merchants in Bishopville in the early 1900s, ran a general store that sold everything from groceries to mules. Ella married Elihu Schlosburg, the son of Anna Karesh and Harry Schlosburg, and they moved to Camden, South Carolina, where they established a liquor business.

Collection Title:

Jewish Heritage Collection Oral Histories

Contributing Institution:

College of Charleston Libraries

Media Type:

Oral Histories

Personal or Corporate Subject:

Schlosburg, Ella, 1920- --Interviews

Topical Subject:

Jews -- South Carolina -- Interviews, Jewish merchants -- South Carolina -- Bishopville -- History, Jews -- South Carolina -- Bishopville -- Religious life, Jews -- South Carolina -- Bishopville -- Social life and customs, Jewish businesspeople -- South Carolina -- Camden –- History, and Beth Shalom (Columbia, S.C.)

Geographic Subject:

Lowcountry

S.C. County:

Charleston County (S.C.)

Shelving Locator:

MSS 1035-025

Date Digital:

2011-8

Digitization Specifications:

Mp3 derivative audio created with Audacity software. Archival masters are wav files.

Internet Media Type:

application/pdf;audio/mpeg

Copyright Status Statement:

Copyright © Jewish Heritage Collection

Access Information:

For more information, contact Special Collections, College of Charleston Libraries, 66 George Street, Charleston SC 29424.

Admin ID:

220783