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Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with William Ackerman

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William Ackerman, the son of Hungarian immigrants, grew up in a small coal-mining town in Pennsylvania, with a community of about 35 Orthodox Jewish families who came from the same region of Hungary. He married Jennie Shimel of Charleston, South Carolina, and worked there as an attorney, joining her father, Louis Shimel, in his practice. He developed the suburban neighborhood and shopping center, South Windermere, and was a founder of the Conservative synagogue, Emanu-El.
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Oral Histories
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Digital resource copyright 2011, The College of Charleston. All rights reserved. For more information contact The College of Charleston Library, Charleston, SC 29424.
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South Carolina Digital Library

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Antisemitism
  3. Charleston
  4. Charleston (S.C.)
  5. Civil Rights
  6. Cultural Assimilation
  7. Government
  8. History
  9. Interviews
  10. Jewish Businesspeople
  11. Jews
  12. Pennsylvania
  13. Political Corruption
  14. Politics And Government
  15. Race Relations
  16. Relations With Jews
  17. South Carolina
  18. South Windermere (Charleston, S.C.)
  19. Sunday Legislation
  20. Synagogue Emanu El (Charleston, S.C.)

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