Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Dorothea Shimel Dumas, Renée Shimel Frisch, and Jennie Shimel Ackerman

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Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Dorothea Shimel Dumas, Renée Shimel Frisch, and Jennie Shimel Ackerman

1997

https://lcdl.library.cofc.edu/lcdl/catalog/lcdl:11819

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.

Sound recording : 1 sound cassette : analog.Sound recording : 1 sound cassette : digital.Transcript : 49 p. ; 28 cm.

eng, Latn

College of Charleston, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7621862

College of Charleston, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library

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