Join us in Natchez!The Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life is excited to welcome the SJHS to the Deep South in 2016!
We are planning a unique and memorable program, where conference participants will become immersed in the Southern Jewish experience from the moment you set foot in Mississippi. The SJHS Natchez 2016 experience will include
Special Invitation to SJHS Members
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Conference RegistrationHotel and TravelUPDATE: Our block The Natchez Grand Hotel is has a few additional rooms. You can reach the Sales Department at 601-445-3506 and ask for the SJHS rate of $139. We have also secured a small block of rooms at the Hampton Inn. Please call the Sales Department, and ask for the SJHS rate of $111 per night. 1-601-446-6770
For Thursday night in Jackson, we have a SJHS block of rooms at the Hilton, Jackson for $107. Guests may call toll free to 1-888-263-0524 and request reservations or go online to www.hiltonjackson.com and place the group code where prompted. Group Code:ISJL11 Travel Options: Our main venue, Natchez, is two hours from the Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport. Our two-hour bus tour through the Mississippi countryside will allow us to visit multiple historic Jewish communities provide a first-hand look into small-town Southern Jewish life. We hope you’ll arrive in Jackson on Thursday evening. We will be arranging two buses on Friday and Sunday to accommodate incoming and outgoing flights. Friday, a bus will leave the hotel at 9am to Vicksburg, and the 1pm bus will leave the Jackson airport for Natchez. Sunday, a bus will leave for the Jackson airport at 9am and 12:30pm. The 12:30 bus will also make a final stop at the Jackson Hilton for those planning on leaving your car at the hotel. If you prefer to rent a car, Natchez is 90 miles from Baton Rouge and 175 miles from New Orleans. Accessibility:Many of the conference programs will take place in Temple B'nai Israel. Due to the age of this historic synagogue, the building is not yet accessible to visitors in a wheel chair or those who are unable to climb stairs.
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PROGRAM
Jews in the Southern Hinterland
41st Annual Southern Jewish Historical Society Conference
Friday November 4th 2016
9:30- 10:00 am Tour bus: Jackson to Vicksburg (UPDATE- 9:30 Departure)
10:30-11:30 pm Visit Anshe Chesed and Cemetery, Vicksburg
12:00-1:00 pm Lunch at B’nai B’rith Club, Vicksburg
1:00pm Non-touring bus from the Jackson airport departs for Natchez (will not visit Vicksburg or Port Gibson)
1:15-1:45 pm Vicksburg to Port Gibson
1:45-2:15 pm Visit Temple Gemiluth Chassed, Port Gibson
2:15-3:15 pm Port Gibson to Natchez
3:30-4:45pm Welcome to Natchez at Temple B’nai Israel. Natchez Jewish History by Teri Tillman and Jennifer Stollman
5:00-5:30 pm Check in at Hotel
5:30-6:45 pm Dinner at Rolling River Bistro
7:30-9:00 pm Shabbat Services at Temple B’nai Israel led by ISJL Rabbi Jeremy Simons,
Keynote by Robin Amer: “Growing up with the last Jews of Natchez”
10:30-11:30 pm Visit Anshe Chesed and Cemetery, Vicksburg
12:00-1:00 pm Lunch at B’nai B’rith Club, Vicksburg
1:00pm Non-touring bus from the Jackson airport departs for Natchez (will not visit Vicksburg or Port Gibson)
1:15-1:45 pm Vicksburg to Port Gibson
1:45-2:15 pm Visit Temple Gemiluth Chassed, Port Gibson
2:15-3:15 pm Port Gibson to Natchez
3:30-4:45pm Welcome to Natchez at Temple B’nai Israel. Natchez Jewish History by Teri Tillman and Jennifer Stollman
5:00-5:30 pm Check in at Hotel
5:30-6:45 pm Dinner at Rolling River Bistro
7:30-9:00 pm Shabbat Services at Temple B’nai Israel led by ISJL Rabbi Jeremy Simons,
Keynote by Robin Amer: “Growing up with the last Jews of Natchez”
Saturday November 5th 2016
7:45 am Shabbat Service led by Rabbi Stanley Garfein
9:00-10:15 am Standing on Ceremony:
Jews & Gentiles in the South
Sam Gruber, “Jews, Masons, and Cornerstone Laying Ceremonies for Synagogues in the South”
Kay Goldman, “The Grandest Masquerade of the Season: Purim and Other Social Occasions as Opportunities
for Jews and Non-Jews to Intermingle in Nineteenth Century Texas”
10:30-12:00 pm Acts of God: Responding to Epidemics & Disasters in Southern Jewish Communities
Moderator: Dan Puckett
Anton Hieke, “Revisiting Yellow Fever in Southern Jewish Communities”
Michael Cohen, “Lost in the Flood: The Story of Washing Away of Jewish Life in Bayou Sara,Louisiana”
Marlene Trestman, “Jewish Orphans of the Southern Hinterland: The Geographic and Social Journeys of the Children
Who Lived in the New Orleans Jewish Orphans Home, 1856-1946”
12:30-1:30 pm Lunch at Carriage Hall
Luncheon Speaker: Steve Whitfield, “Jews against the Ku Klux Klan.” Introduction by Macy B. Hart
1:45-3:00 pm Panel Discussion: Family History & Jews in the South
Sally Wolff King, “The Wolff Family: Two Generations of Jewish Life in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas” Clara Silverstein, “Bertha and Benjamin: A Love Story”
Janice W. Fernheimer and Beth Goldstein, “Sharecropping Tobacco in Kentucky: A Narrative of ‘Jewgrass’ Identity”
Moderated by Stuart Rockoff
3:00-3:45 pm General Membership Meeting
3:45-6:00 pm Guided Natchez Outing Options
Jewish Natchez Tour with Mimi Miller and Teri Tillman including the Natchez Jewish Cemetery, Under the Bluff,
and homes of former Jewish merchants
William Johnson House
Grady Photography Collection at First Presbyterian Church
Longwood Home tour
Melrose Plantation
6:00 pm SJHS Membership Cocktail Party or Dinner on your own
9:00-10:15 am Standing on Ceremony:
Jews & Gentiles in the South
Sam Gruber, “Jews, Masons, and Cornerstone Laying Ceremonies for Synagogues in the South”
Kay Goldman, “The Grandest Masquerade of the Season: Purim and Other Social Occasions as Opportunities
for Jews and Non-Jews to Intermingle in Nineteenth Century Texas”
10:30-12:00 pm Acts of God: Responding to Epidemics & Disasters in Southern Jewish Communities
Moderator: Dan Puckett
Anton Hieke, “Revisiting Yellow Fever in Southern Jewish Communities”
Michael Cohen, “Lost in the Flood: The Story of Washing Away of Jewish Life in Bayou Sara,Louisiana”
Marlene Trestman, “Jewish Orphans of the Southern Hinterland: The Geographic and Social Journeys of the Children
Who Lived in the New Orleans Jewish Orphans Home, 1856-1946”
12:30-1:30 pm Lunch at Carriage Hall
Luncheon Speaker: Steve Whitfield, “Jews against the Ku Klux Klan.” Introduction by Macy B. Hart
1:45-3:00 pm Panel Discussion: Family History & Jews in the South
Sally Wolff King, “The Wolff Family: Two Generations of Jewish Life in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas” Clara Silverstein, “Bertha and Benjamin: A Love Story”
Janice W. Fernheimer and Beth Goldstein, “Sharecropping Tobacco in Kentucky: A Narrative of ‘Jewgrass’ Identity”
Moderated by Stuart Rockoff
3:00-3:45 pm General Membership Meeting
3:45-6:00 pm Guided Natchez Outing Options
Jewish Natchez Tour with Mimi Miller and Teri Tillman including the Natchez Jewish Cemetery, Under the Bluff,
and homes of former Jewish merchants
William Johnson House
Grady Photography Collection at First Presbyterian Church
Longwood Home tour
Melrose Plantation
6:00 pm SJHS Membership Cocktail Party or Dinner on your own
Sunday, November 6th 2016
8:30-9:00 am Book Sale
9:00-10:15 am Southern Synagogues & the Gentile World
Shari Rabin, “Judge, Jury, Jews: Southern Synagogues in Postbellum Courts”
Joshua J. Furman, “The Door is Always Open to Men and Women of Goodwill: Celebrating Brotherhood Week in the Bible Belt,
1945-1975”
10:30-11:30 am Diaries and Memoirs from the Jewish South
Panel discussion moderated by Dale Rosengarten and Adam Meyer
12:30 pm Buses depart with sack lunch
9:00-10:15 am Southern Synagogues & the Gentile World
Shari Rabin, “Judge, Jury, Jews: Southern Synagogues in Postbellum Courts”
Joshua J. Furman, “The Door is Always Open to Men and Women of Goodwill: Celebrating Brotherhood Week in the Bible Belt,
1945-1975”
10:30-11:30 am Diaries and Memoirs from the Jewish South
Panel discussion moderated by Dale Rosengarten and Adam Meyer
12:30 pm Buses depart with sack lunch