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Inventory of the Jewish Business Card Collection, circa 1950s-2000s
Inventory of the Jewish Business Card Collection, circa 1950s-2000s
Descriptive Summary
| Abstract: | Collection consists of the business cards of Southern businessmen, Oscar Sokol, and Marc Howard Wilson, and Southern rabbis, Yossi J. Liebowitz D.D., and Arnold Mark Belzer. |
| Title: | Jewish business card collection |
| Date(s): | circa 1950s-2000s |
| Extent: | 1 folder (4 items) |
| Repository: | Jewish Heritage Collection, Special Collections, College of Charleston Libraries 66 George Street Charleston, SC 29424 Phone: (843) 953-8016 Fax: (843) 953-6319 URL: http://archives.library.cofc.edu |
| Call Number: | Mss 1034-095 |
| Language of Material: | Materials in English |
Biographical Note
These business cards were gathered by Karen Tannenbaum while conducting field work research for the Jewish Heritage Collection.
Collection Overview
Collection consists of the individual business cards of Oscar Sokol, Marc Howard Wilson, Rabbi Yossi J. Liebowitz D.D., and Rabbi Arnold Mark Belzer.
Collection Arrangement
Materials are arranged and described at the item level.
Search Terms
The following terms have been used to index this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person, family, or organization, by topical subject, by place, and by types of material.Names
- Sokol, Oscar, 1908-1967
- Belzer, Arnold Mark
- Liebowitz, Yossi, J.
- Wilson, Marc Howard
Subjects
- Jewish businesspeople--Southern States
- Business cards
Types of Material
- Business cards
Related Resources
Related Material
Related materials in Special Collections include the 1995 publication Our family: a short history of the Sokol family by Frances Sokol Halio.
Inventory
Sokol (1908-1967) was the owner and operator of the Oscar Sokol Agency, a subsidiary of the Milwaukee Insurance Company, located at 29 Broad Street, Charleston, South Carolina. Sokol would later become a successful real estate developer in Charleston.
Wilson is the owner and operator of Rabbi Ribeye Catering and fine specialty foods to order, located in Greenville, South Carolina. For a period of time Wilson served as rabbi of congregation Beth Israel in Greenville, South Carolina.
Rabbi Liebowitz is the Rabbi of Congregation B'nai Israel, Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Rabbi Belzer was the Rabbi of Congregation Mickve Israel, Savannah, Georgia, from 1990 until his retirement in 2011.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Copyright Notice
The nature of the College of Charleston's archival holdings means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. Special Collections claims only physical ownership of most archival materials.
The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Jewish business card collection, College of Charleston Libraries, Charleston, SC, USA.
Acquisitions Information
Materials were donated in 2006 by Karen Tannenbaum.
Processing Information
Processed by Joshua Minor and Anne Bennett, August 2011.
Encoded by Joshua Minor, October 2011.
Reviewed, edited, and uploaded by Martha McTear, January 2012.
Funding from the Council on Library and Information Resources supported the processing of this collection and encoding of the finding aid.
