News, articles and information about Jewish art, architecture, and historic sites. This blog includes material to be posted on the website of the International Survey of Jewish Monuments (www.isjm.org).
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
USA: Film & Exhibition Tell Story of North Carolina Jews
USA: Film & Exhibition Tell Story of North Carolina Jews
The Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina(JHFNC) premiered its new documentary film DownHome: Jewish Life in North Carolina with showing in Greensboro, NC on October 11th and October 19th. The film will next be screened in Charlotte on February 22, 2009.You can read about it here: Greensboro News & Record Article.
The Down Home Documentary film is the first component of larger project to document the Jewish history of North Carolina.
JHFNC was established in 1996 and is North Carolina’s only statewide Jewish historical organization. The Foundation seeks to promote understanding of the Jewish people by educating both Jews and the general public about the history, culture, and religion of the Jewish people and by encouraging appreciation of the beauty of Jewish ritual and practice. The JHFNC collects and preserves artifacts and records the history of Jewish settlement in North Carolina, as well as conducting programs that examine and portray the Jewish experience in North Carolina. The JHFNC also seeks to strengthen Jewish communal bonds among North Carolina’s diverse Jewish and non-Jewish communities by maintaining networks that connect collections and educational resources across the state and by creating bridges between the older established communities and our many newly arriving residents.
In September the Foundation announced the design team for the final design and installation of the Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolinamuseum exhibit. The exhibit will chronicle the 400-year story of Jewish life in the state. In 2010 the exhibit will travel to North Carolina’s major history museums including those in Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro, Wilmington and Asheville. The exhibit is a major component of the Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolinamulti-media project which also includes a TV-quality documentary film, educational DVDs and teaching curricula for the state’s public schools, and a richly illustrated book to be published by UNC Press.
North Carolina is also the home of many historic and well preserved synagogues. The Foundation is looking at ways to promote the history and architecture of the synagogues and to ensure their continued use and preservation.
This blog provides news and opinion articles about Jewish art, architecture and historic sites - especially those where something new is happening. Developed in connection with news gathering for the International Survey of Jewish Monuments website (www.isjm.org), this blog highlights some of the most interesting Jewish sites around the world, and the most pressing issues affecting them.
Samuel D. Gruber I am a cultural heritage consultant involved in a wide variety of
documentation, research, preservation, planning, publication, exhibition
and education projects in America and abroad.
I was trained as a medievalist, architectural historian and
archaeologist, but for 20 years my special expertise has developed in
Jewish art, architecture and historic sites. My various blogs about Jewish monuments, Central New York and Public Art and Memory allow me to
clear my email and my desk, and to report on some of my travels, by
passing on to a broader public just some of the interesting and
compelling information from projects I am working on, or am following.
Feel free to contact me for more information on any of the topics
posted, or if you have a project of your own you would like to discuss.
Classic Reform, Classical Synagogues and the American South
This paper documents the spread of classical-style (Jewish) temples across the South and looks at the motives of selected patrons and architects to test the idea that the use of classicism for American, and especially Southern synagogue architecture was aesthetic and ideological, and an important mechanism for shaping Jewish identity.In the South, of course, there was already a precedent for“Classical Reform” architecture in the structure of Congregation Beth Elohim in Charleston, erected in 1841 in the form of a Greek Temple.These southern architectural roots also played a strong role in the revived popularity of classicism throughout the south – and beyond.
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