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Local & Global: Exploring the Southern Jewish Experience Through the Carolinas
Monday June 22, 2026 5:30pm - 6:30pm EDT
Tyvola
For the first time ever, the ISJL’s annual conference is taking place outside of Mississippi, our longtime home in the heart of the Deep South. To help explore our new location, the ISJL Culture division welcomes North Carolina-based historians Dr. Leonard Rogoff, Dr. Marcie Cohen Ferris, and Mimi Wooten for a panel discussion on how Jewish histories of the Carolinas reinforce and challenge enduring notions of the southern Jewish experience. Participants will gain new insights into the ever-evolving role of race, religion, and region in southern Jewish stories from colonial-era Charleston to the present-day Research Triangle.
Presenters
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Shira Muroff

Director of Programs, ISJL
Shira Muroff is the ISJL's Director of Programs. She is a California native and a graduate of the University of California, Davis, with a degree in Human Development. A Jacksonian since 2016, Shira first joined the ISJL as an Education Fellow from 2016-2018. After the fellowship... Read More →
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Ana Berman

Programs & Education Coordinator, ISJL
Ana Berman is the ISJL's Programs & Education Coordinator. Originally from New York, she graduated from Macalester College with a degree in History and Religious Studies. Ana joined the ISJL in 2023 as a public history intern and then as the 2023-2024 Education and Culture Program... Read More →
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Leonard W. Rogoff

Leonard Rogoff holds a doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Former president of the Southern Jewish Historical Society and recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award, he is currently historian and president of Jewish Heritage North Carolina.  He is a frequent... Read More →
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Marcie Ferris

Emeritus Professor, UNC Chapel Hill
Marcie Cohen Ferris is an emeritus professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she serves as an editor for Southern Cultures, a quarterly journal of the history and cultures of the U.S. South. Ferris is the author of T... Read More →
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Mimi Wooten

Mimi Wooten is a PhD candidate in the department of History at the University of Michigan anda Todd M. Endelman Fellow at the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. Her dissertation is amicrohistory of the Ottoman Sephardi migrants who settled in Atlanta, Georgia andMontgomery, Alabama... Read More →
Monday June 22, 2026 5:30pm - 6:30pm EDT
Tyvola
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