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Jewish Historical Society Program
Sunday September. 18, 2016
Memphis Jewish Community Center, 2 P.M.
COMPLICIT, A Documentary Film
The Untold Story of why the Roosevelt Administration denied safe haven to Jewish Refugees aboard
the SS St. Louis
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JOIN the Jewish Historical Society
of Memphis & the Mid South!
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Sumner Levine Speaker Series Fund
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Photos from the Past
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persons in old photos!
Southern Heritage Newsletter Archive
Sept 2016 newsletter now available!
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Oral Interviews
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Southern Jewish Historical Society!
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Welcome!
     Welcome to the website of the Jewish Historical Society of Memphis and the Mid-South. Founded in 1986, the Society collects, preserves, presents and interprets the history of Jews in Memphis and the Mid-South.
     Jews have been an integral part of southern Jewish history since the earliest days of European settlement in America. According to the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, “Though Jews never comprised more than one percent of the South’s population, few phases of the Southern experience and few places in the South escaped their influence.”
    Through our programs, newsletter and projects, we offer connection, understanding and pride in the achievements of the generations of Jews that preceded our own. It is our mission to preserve and share this valuable history for the generations of the future.


                                                                                                       
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