Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Sura Wolff Wengrow
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- Title:
- Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Sura Wolff Wengrow
- Date:
- 1999
- Interviewer:
- Rosengarten, Dale, 1948-
- Interviewee:
- Wengrow, Sura Wollf
- Description:
- Sura Wolff Wengrow grew up in Allendale, South Carolina, in the first quarter of the twentieth century where her father, Henry Wolff, a German immigrant, ran a general merchandise store. In 1901, Henry married Rachel Pearlstine of Branchville, South Carolina. The family kept kosher and observed the holidays, but Sura did not receive a Jewish education, formal or otherwise. With no other Jewish families in town, she socialized, as a child, with gentiles and attended their church events, a pattern of assimilation she would repeat while living in Allendale during the early years of her marriage to Sam Wengrow of Beaufort, South Carolina. Longing for a connection to Judaism, and wanting her children to be involved in synagogue life, the Wengrows moved to Columbia when their oldest son was twelve. Note: This transcript appears to have been heavily edited with corrections, deletions, and additions by the interviewee and/or her son during proofing. Therefore, the transcript differs somewhat from the audio.
- Collection Title:
- Jewish Heritage Collection Oral Histories
- Contributing Institution:
- College of Charleston Libraries
- Media Type:
- Oral Histories
- Personal or Corporate Subject:
- Wengrow, Sura Wolff, -- Interviews, Pearlstine, Fannie, 1879-1968, Pearlstine, Thomas L, Wolff, Henry, 1849-1914, Wolff, Rachel Pearlstine, d. 1936, Wengrow, Sam, 1903-1970
- Topical Subject:
- Jews -- South Carolina –- Interviews, Jewish families -- South Carolina -- Allendale -- History, Jewish families -- South Carolina -- Allendale -- Social life and customs, Jewish merchants -- South Carolina -- Allendale -- History, Jews -- South Carolina -- Social life and customs, Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- South Carolina – History
- Geographic Subject:
- Lowcountry
- S.C. County:
- Charleston County (S.C.)
- Shelving Locator:
- MSS 1035-212
- 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:
- 220784
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