- Collection:
- Augusta Jewish Museum Collection
- Title:
- Book of Handwritten Poetry, Rosina Hendricks Levy
- Creator:
- Levy, Rosina Hendricks, 1830-1888
- Date of Original:
- 1850/1880
- Subject:
- Poets--Georgia--Augusta
Jewish women--Georgia--Augusta
Jewish families
Weddings
Friendship
Jews--Migrations
Augusta (Ga.)--History
Flowers
Jews--Folklore
Jews--History
Women in synagogues--Georgia--Augusta
Congregation Children of Israel (Augusta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Richmond County, Augusta, 33.47097, -81.97484
- Medium:
- books
poetry - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Paper-bound book of poetry bound with twine into a single volume, handwritten pages. Rosina’s Book of Poetry serves as an essential part of local Jewish history as a rich, female, first-person perspective of the beginning of the Jewish congregation in Augusta. Rosina Hendricks, daughter of the first Jewish family who arrived in Augusta in 1802, authored this book that remains unpublished. Written throughout her adult life, the book includes poems written to her husband and children, on life in Georgia and the South, and on Judaism and her experiences as a Jewish woman. She played a key role in establishing the religious school that would eventually become the Congregation Children of Israel.
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/augjm_augjmc_2019-003-010
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/augjm_augjmc_2019-003-010#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/augjm_augjmc_2019-003-010/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng||heb
- Extent:
- 268 pages
- Holding Institution:
- Augusta Jewish Museum (Augusta, Ga.)
- Rights:
-
