Jews on the Mayflower… Live and learn, and I thought the Mayflower consisted of mainly Pilgrims from Plymouth, England. Next thing you know it was the Jews and not the Spaniards who settled in St. Augustine, Florida in the early 1500s. TGO
Refer to brief story below. Source: Associated Press
History museum presents exhibit on 400 years of Jewish life in NC
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Visitors to the North Carolina Museum of History will have the chance to view the results of the first major effort to document and present more than 400 years of Jewish life in the state.
“Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina” is on exhibit at the museum in downtown Raleigh. Next year, it will begin a tour of museums in Greensboro, Wilmington, Charlotte and Asheville.
The exhibit chronicles how Jews integrated into North Carolina by blending their own traditions into Southern culture while maintained their religious traditions.
The exhibit will close at the Raleigh museum between July 11 and Aug. 1, then reopen Aug. 2 and continue through March 7, 2011. It was produced and organized by the Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina.
