| Exhibition Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Exhibition Reviews

"A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life." McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208; Jewish Heritage Collection, Robert Scott Small Library, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424; Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina, c/o Jewish Studies Program, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424.

Traveling exhibition. Jan. 13–May 19, 2002, McKissick Museum, Columbia, S.C.; Sept. 13–Nov. 17, 2002, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, S.C.; Feb. 9–July 20, 2003, Yeshiva University Museum, New York, N.Y.; Sept. 14–Nov. 30, 2003, Levine Museum of the New South, Charlotte, N.C. 2,600 sq. ft. Lynn Robertson, project director; Dale Rosengarten, chief curator; Jason E. Shaiman, project manager; Benjamin Hirsch, exhibition designer; Theodore Rosengarten, project editor; Pat Callahan, graphic designer; Karen Beidel, Web site design.

A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life. Ed. by Theodore Rosengarten and Dale Rosengarten. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002. xiii, 268 pp. $34.95, ISBN 1-57003-445-1.) Heavily illustrated.

A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life: An Educator's Guide. By Margaret B. Walden. (Columbia: McKissick Museum, 2002. 67 pp. and 1 CD-ROM with exhibition images. $20.00.)

Land of Promise: The Jews of South Carolina (video). By Paul Keyserling and Steven Channing; music composed by Meira Warshauer. 56 mins. (Charleston: Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina, 2002. $30.00. Music CD, $15.00.)

Shalom Y'All: Images of Jewish Life in the American South. By Bill Aron, Vicki Reikes Fox, and Marcie Cohen Ferris. (Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 2002. xxi, 138 pp. $24.95, ISBN 1-56512-355-7.) Heavily illustrated.

Internet: summary of exhibition and travel schedule at <http://www.cofc.edu/~jhc/portion/> (Aug. 29, 2003).

"A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life," a traveling exhibition on South Carolina Jewry, represents the best of a rapidly proliferating array of books, displays, and films on local and regional American Jewries. Curated by Dale Rosengarten of the Jewish Heritage Collection at the College of Charleston Libraries, "A Portion of the People" endeavors to present the Jewish experience as social history. However interesting its subject, the exhibition would not have succeeded unless it was also graphically engaging. It is both mindful of aesthetic values and informed by current scholarship and perspectives. Its fine arts setting at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston (where I saw it) is appropriate. With the cosponsorship of the McKissick Museum of the University of South Carolina, the College of Charleston Libraries, the Jewish Studies Program at the College of Charleston, and the Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina, "A Portion of the People" attempts a serious engagement with history and cultural issues rather than a mere celebration of ethnic pride.

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