The Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina is the only independent statewide organzation dedicated to preserving, sharing and celebrating Jewish culture and artistry.
"Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina" is now complete.
"Down Home's" Honorary Chairman,
Gov. Jim Hunt, Jr.,
calls the project an important lesson for all North Carolinians!
read about Down Home
Governor Jim Hunt, Jr.
Honorary Chairman
Down Home Project
RECENT NEWS
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"Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina"
Museum Exhibit
opens to the public
June 14, 2010 at the
North Carolina Museum of History
read more
Read about the Down Home exhibit opening in this article from the News & Observer of Raleigh read more
The Jewish Experience in North Carolina read more
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Heritage Programs
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A central part of the JHFNC mission is to collect, preserve, and present the history of the Jewish people of North Carolina. The first of these "heritage programs" was "What We Brought with Us," an exhibit of personal items and stories of North Carolina’s Holocaust survivors, held at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh.
It was followed by "Migrations: Jewish Settlers of Eastern North Carolina," an exhibit which portrayed the state’s coastal Jewish settlement from the earliest times to the modern day. Curated and created by JHFNC research historian Len Rogoff, the exhibit told the story of North Carolina's first Jewish settlers— who they were, where they came from, and what kind of lives they made. Featured in local, state, and national media, “Migrations” had a highly acclaimed three-year tour of six locations, travelling as far west as Greensboro. The project was funded by contributions from the North Carolina Jewish community and a matching grant from the North Carolina Humanities Center.
The remarkable success of Migrations became the impetus for the creation of a statewide project. As interest in and knowledge about Jewish contributions to North Carolina increase and in concert with celebration of the 350th anniversary of Jewish settlement in America, the JHFNC embarked upon its most ambitious project to date — a $1,250,00 campaign to create Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina, a multimedia project that will celebrate a remarkable and compelling story of personal endeavor that has left an indelible mark on the progressive development of the state of North Carolina.
The four major elements of Down Home will be produced in stages. Current plans are to premiere the film at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh in 2007 and to circulate the educational video soon thereafter. We hope to debut the museum exhibit at the Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte in mid-2008, simultaneous to the publication of the book. The exhibition will tour the state’s historical museums through the following two years. It is envisioned that Down Home will be installed as permanent venue at the end of its travel schedule.
The project has garnered statements of support from the state’s historical museums, academic centers, and cultural institutions and has attracted a distinguished group of scholars, community leaders, and historians to its advisory and planning boards. 
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