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300
YEARS OF SOUTHERN JEWISH
BY CHARLES TOMLINSON
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Through May 19, USC’s McKissick
Museum is playing host to “...A Portion of
the People: Three Hundred Years of
Southern Jewish Life,” an exhibit of the
history of Jewish people in South Carolina.
According to USC’s cultural calendar, the
exhibit focuses on “Jewish involvement in
the military, politics, commerce, the de
velopment of towns and societies and the
early foundations of Jewish life in
America.”
The idea for the exhibit came from the
mind of George Terry, Thomas Cooper
Library’s former dean. McKissick curator
Jason Shaiman said Terry thought this
groundbreaking exhibit would make peo
ple more aware of the Jewish presence in
the South, particularly South Carolina.
“We really want people to understand
how much South Carolina has contributed
to American Jewish life,” Shaiman said.
After the American Revolution, 500
Jews, one-fifth of the United States Jewish
nnnnlatinn lived in Charleston The exhibit
says, “Charleston was the home to the
largest, wealthiest and most cultured
Jewish community in the world.”
Artifacts on display complement the
walk through Jewish history. The exhibit
displays 18th- and 19th-century portraits of
prominent South Carolina Jews, as well as
several antique objects they owned.
The only questionable object was a
Confederate captain’s uniform. Housed in a
glass case, it was simply labeled as a
Confederate captain’s uniform. It was un
clear whether it even belonged to a Jewish
person, or whether any Jew served in the
Civil War in a capacity other than soldier. If
not, it seems the uniform
was only taking up space
in the exhibit.
Walking through the
exhibit is like taking a
logical and linear stroll
through Jewish history in South Carolina.
Exemplary displays were those of Bernard
M. Baruch and Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim.
Baruch was a Camden native and an ear
ly 20th-century millionaire broker. His dis
play featured an entire room devoted to the
prominent South Carolinian businessman
and his contributions. It illustrated his
many accomplishments and honors, in
cluding his presidential appointments dur
ing the world wars and the founding of
Hobcaw Barony near Georgetown.
Baruch’s collection of antique silverware,
donated to USC, was on display in the same
room.
The KahalKadosh Beth Elohim, a syna- ^
gogue in Charleston, is the oldest reformed \
synagogue jn the country. Its display, as
well as Baruch’s, provides a good example
of the impact South Carolina Jews have had
throughout history.
The exhibit covers a variety of topics,
from Jewish participation in the world
wars through the present-day “Palmetto
Jews.” The evolution of Jewish life in South
Carolina seems to come full-circle with a
series of modern photographs featuring an
African-American Jewish man from South
Carolina.
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Shaiman said quite a few students, includ
ing some from art and English classes, have
visited. Through the exhibit, the museum
hopes to reach out to USC’s history pro
gram as well as the Hillel program, an or
ganization for Jewish college students.
The big plan, however, is to reach out
even farther. “We don’t want to restrict this
to something only for the Jews around the
state,” Shaiman said. The exhibit will trav
el to three other museums: the Gibbes
Museum in Charleston, in fall 2002; the
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New York, in spring
2003; and the Museum
of the New South in
Charlotte, N.C., in fall
2003.
PHOTOS SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK
Portrait of Caroline "Caro" Agnes Mose Lopez, by
Theodore Sidney Mose. Oil on canvas, c. 1875.
Silver candle sticks. Poland, mid-19th century.
WUSC Top
Ten Albums
FOR THE WEEK OF
JAN. 13-20
1. BELLE AND
SEBASTIAN
“I’m Waking Up To Us”
^VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Music from the Motion
Picture ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ ”
3. THE AVALANCHES
“Since I Left You”
4. MASTERS OF THE
HEMISPHERE
“Permanent Strangers EP"
5. THE DEADLINES
“Fashion Over Function"
6 TONY BENNETT
“Playin’ With My Friends:
Bennett Sings the Blues”
7. THE GET UP KIDS
“Eudora”
8. THE LARRY KEEL
EXPERIENCE
“The Larry Keel Experience”
9. MISFITS
“Cuts From The Crypt”
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10. RES
“How I Do"
MOVIE REVIEW
Grim film comes close to reality of war
BLACK HAWK DOWN
Starring Josh Hartnett
★★★★ out of
BY BROOK BRISTOW
THE GAMECOCK
Walt Whitman once said,
“Future years will never know
the seething hell and the black
infernal background, the
countless minor scenes and
interiors of the secession war;
and it is best they should not.
The real war will never get in
the books.”
Whitman might never have
fought in a battle, but he did see
its results while ministering to
the wounded during the Civil
War. And even if “real war”
never gets close to reality in the
books, it sure comes close in the
movies.
With “Black Hawk Down,”
director Ridley Scott delivers
another classic in his warfare
vein. It’s probably one of his
best, contending with “Blade
Runner,”;*Alien” and even
“Gladiator.” Scott’s vision of
war is astounding as he creates
a living hell on screen while
crafting a moviegoer’s heaven
off screen.
“Black Hawk Down” is a
captivating, visually stunning
spectacle that follows the
vicious 15-hour battle between
U.S. troops and Somalian
militia in the streets of
Mogadishu near an area known
as the Bakara Market in 1993.
What is supposed to be a quick
mission makes an ahouliacE_
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Pictures/Revolution Studios presentation, “Black Hawk Down.”
when a helicopter goes down in
the heart of hostile warlord
controlled territory. What
follows is a fight for survival
and a pledge to “leave no man
behind.”
While no actor gets much to
work with, everyone lands a
perfect 10 for his performance.
Josh Hartnett is much more
convincing than he was in
“Pearl Harbor,” and Ewan
McGregor can actually
believably play someone other
than a Jedi Knight. Tom
lieutenant colonel. The
performances of the rest of the
cast only add to the already
incredible ambience of reality.
A few things to remember
when watching: First, this isn’t
“Saving Private Ryan.” Both are
stellar movies on war being hell,
but it doesn’t seem right to
compare them. “Black Hawk
Down” isn’t trying to be “Saving
Private Ryan”; it’s trying to
convey the reality of the battle
at Mogadishu. That grim reality
is one that some, one hopes,
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imagine; but for others, it’s as
clear in their minds as glass.
Second, this film is intense.
Scott is a master of action. One
hundred of the film’s 144
minutes are devoted to the
conflict in the streets that left 18
Americans and almost 1,000
Somalians dead. His attention to
detail is fantastic, but this is
what separates the men from the
boys and the true war movies
from the epic thrill rides.
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CD REVIEW
Rockers
stick to
same old
message
THE PROCESS OF BELIEF
Bad Religion
★★ out of ☆☆☆☆☆
BY WILLIAM MILLS
THE GAMECOCK
Isn’t it nice how some things
never change? “The Simpsons”
is still there to make us laugh,
“Steel Magnolias” is still on
Lifetime every now and then to
make us cry, and Bad Religion is
still putting out albums that
make us question authority.
In an ever-changing society
full of confusion, constants such
as punk rockers Bad Religion are
comforting. Its latest album, “The
Process of Belief,” is no different
from its last five. The 14-song
release is stacKed high with songs
about the sad state of the future
and lyrics calling everyone to
arms against conformity. It seems
/ rather strange, however, that Bad
Religion’s race against the
mainstream has led it to
prominent indie record label
Epitaph, where it has stayed for
nearly all of its albums.
Songs such as “Materialist”
and “Destined for Nothing”
embody the feeling of the entire
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two songs’ pessimistic outlook,
you can put down the album.
Greg Graffin is still pumping out
the same old songs he pumped out
on the band’s debut album, “For
God'and Country,” so many years
ago. Why is Graffin still
preaching the same things five
years later? Like an overly
opinionated professor, he spews
lyrics that flew over our heads
when we were angst-driven teens.
Now, we ask, “What is he talking
' about?” Hey, the world isn’t
really that bad. Graffin is either
the most loyal person ever to his
beliefs or he’s still upset that not
enough people are hearing his
message. Maybe if he made the
songs a little different from the
last album’s, more people would
buy the new one.
Old-fashioned punk ballads fill
the entire album, and there’s
nothing about “The Process of
Belief’ to set it apart from any
previous Bad Religion release.
Steady four-chord guitar riffs
and unvarying drumbeats lay
the track for Graffin’s
“sophisticated” lyrics. Now that
we’re grown and the big words
make sense, however, we see that
every song is essentially the
same. This fact is both
comforting and unfortunate. It’s
nice to know you can still pick up
a Bad Religion album and expect
the same message the band
delivered last year.
That makes decisions in a
record store a lot easier. Instead
of being conflicted about which
album to purchase, you can walk
in and grab one with the
knowledge that they’re all
essentially the same. It doesn’t
matter which one you pick up. Of
course, this makes
distinguishing between its
albums and answering the
question, “What’s the name of
that song about a pathetic
future?” increasingly difficult.
Bad Religion hasn’t lost all of
its appeal, however. Everyone
still respects the band for its
good intentions,and it’s because
of this respect that it deserves
one of the two stars it’s awarded
here. It also deserves some
notoriety for it empowering
lyrics. The album’s ballads leave
you wanting to think about
changing the world, or at least
picking up some litter.