Jewish Studies

Manuscript Collections

Beth-El Synagogue Records, 1899-1988 (bulk 1950-1980). 

Evans Family Papers, 1926-1989.

Goldberg, Mattie K. Papers, 1889-1981.

Mordecai, Jacob. Papers, 1784-1936 (bulk 1784-1904).

Oettinger, Abraham. Papers, 1886-1900.

Rare Printed Materials

Beth-El Synagogue. Report of the Building Committee of the Beth-El Congregation Upon the Completion of the Beth-El Synagogue.

Jacob, Henry. The Right of a Jew to Hold Elective Office: A Speech Delivered before the North Carolina Commons in 1809

Moïse, Penina. Fancy's Sketch Book Penina Moïse (1797-1880) ran an exceptionally fine school for Jewish girls and was a successful poet. In addition to her 1833 book, her work was published widely, including in the Occident and American Jewish Advocate, Godey’s Lady’s Book, and the Home Journal. Her best-loved and most characteristic work is contained in the volume of Hymns Written for the Use of Hebrew Congregations (1856).

North Carolina Association of Jewish Women, 1935-40. Library has 1934/35-1939/40.

Branson’s North Carolina Business Directory.

Secondary Print Sources

Lavender, Abraham D., ed. and comp. A Coat of Many Colors: Jewish Subcommunities in the United States.

Apte, Helen Jacobus. Heart of a Wife: The Diary of a Southern Jewish Woman.

Rogoff, Leonard. Homelands: Southern Jewish Identity in Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Dinnersteinn, L. and Mary Dale Palsson, eds. Jews in the South.

Proctor, Samuel and Louis Schmier with Malcolm Stern, eds. Jews of the South: Selected Essays from the Southern Jewish Historical Society.

Evans, Eli N. Judah P. Benjamin, the Jewish Confederate.

Evans, Eli N. The Lonely Days were Sundays: Reflections of a Jewish Southerner.

Bingham, Emily. Mordecai, an Early American Family.

Evans, Eli N. The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South.

Dinnerstein, Leonard. Uneasy at Home: Antisemitism and the American Jewish Experience.

Whitfield, Stephen J. Voices of Jacob, Hands of Esau: Jews in American Life and Thought.