Saving Our Stories
If you can name your eight great-grandparents, you are part of a small minority. Throughout the South, we are losing our past with each passing day. Questions left unasked result in stories and memories left untold. Through an active oral history and genealogy program, the Institute records and preserves family and community histories for future generations. State-of-the-art video interviews and elaborate family trees will ensure that your great-grandchildren can learn about you and your contributions to the southern Jewish experience.
To learn more about the Institute’s oral history programs, or to inquire about interviewing a family member, please contact Stuart Rockoff at 601-362-6357 or email rockoff@isjl.org.
Katrina's Jewish Voices
The Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life has collaborated with the Jewish Women's Archive on the oral history project Katrina’s Jewish Voices, the only project focused on the Jewish experience of Hurricane Katrina. The project has conducted 90 in-depth oral history interviews with members of the New Orleans and Gulf Coast Jewish communities who were directly impacted by the storm, allowing them to serve as “historic witnesses” to a watershed event in their communal history.
The Katrina’s Jewish Voices oral history project is intended to serve as a vital resource for historians of the American Jewish experience and others interested in exploring the ways that individuals and communities responded to this vast humanitarian crisis. Check this website in the future for excerpts and clips from the KJV interviews. For more information about the project, contact Dr. Stuart Rockoff at 601-362-6357 or rockoff@isjl.org.
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Oral History 
History Department
