Israelite Sunday School
Front:
The Israelite Sunday School, the first Jewish religious school in Columbia, met in a building
on this site until 1865. It had been founded in 1843 to give Jewish children of the city “an intimate ...
and full exposition of our faith.” Supported by the Columbia Hebrew Benevolent Society, the school had 20-30 students when it was organized in a nearby building, in space donated by a member of the society.
Reverse:
In 1846 the Columbia Hebrew Benevolent Society built a frame building on this site for the Israelite Sunday School, which met on the first floor. The society also organized the first formal congregation in Columbia, which they named Shearith Israel (Remnant of Israel), with its synagogue on the second
floor. The building burned when Gen. William T. Sherman’s Federals captured the city in February 1865.
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Marker data: South Carolina Historical Marker Program, SC Department of Archives and History
Sponsored by Beth Shalom Synagogue, the Tree of Life Temple, and the Jewish Historical Society of S.C.
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