Mapping Jewish Charleston

1 Judah P. Benjamin

King Street

2 Cardozo Family

8 Courthouse Square

3 Cohen Family

Broad Street

4 Mordecai Cohen

119 Broad Street

5 Mordecai Cohen

97 Broad Street

6 Philip M. Cohen

63 Broad Street

7 Coming Street Cemetery

189 Coming Street

8 Dacosta Cemetery

55 Amherst Street

9 Dr. Jacob Canter DeLaMotta

106 Broad Street

10 Dr. Jacob Canter DeLaMotta

Logan Street

11 Morris Goldsmith

Magazine Street

12 Harby Cemetery

25 Hanover Street

13 Henry Jefferson Harby

Church Street

14 Isaac Harby

100 Tradd Street

15 Nathan Hart

220 King Street

16 Hebrew Orphan Society

88 Broad Street

17 Hertz Family

King Street

18 Myer Jacobs

Calhoun Street

19 Jewish Auctioneers

East Bay Street at Vendue Range

20 Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim

90 Hasell Street

21 Benjamin D. Lazarus

Tradd Street

22 Joshua Lazarus

East Bay Street

23 Marks Lazarus

109 Tradd Street

24 Rachel DeTorres Benjamin Lazarus

229 King Street

25 Elias & Lyon Levy

Atlantic Street

26 Jacob C. Levy

301 East Bay Street

27 Mary Ann Suares Levy

King Street

28 David Lopez, Jr.

Logan Street

29 Abraham Moïse II

College Street

30 Theodore Sidney Moïse

222 (today 234) King Street.

31 Moses Cohen Mordecai

69 Meeting Street

32 Isaiah Moses

King Street

33 Raphael J. Moses

Beaufain Street

34 Abraham Ottolengui

Pinckney Street

35 Gustavus Poznanski

387 King Street

36 Reformed Society Of Israelites

Meeting Street

37 Benjamin A. Rodriguez

Corner of Meeting and Hasell Streets

38 Shearit Israel Synagogue

34 Wentworth Street

39 Judith Suares

King Street

40 Samuel Valentine

Clifford Street

41 Isaac And Sarah Woolf

King Street

42 Rachel Woolf

Orange Street

Jewish Auctioneers

East Bay Street at Vendue Range

A commercial hub of Jewish auctioneers, clothiers, and dry goods merchants

“Vendue” means public auction, and, not surprisingly, many auctioneers were located here. Among those near the corner of East Bay and Vendue in the 1820s and ’30s were several Jewish men. By the 1840s, there was also at least one female trader in the neighborhood—widowed businesswoman Sarah Solomons. Among the Jewish merchants on Vendue were Moses Cohen Mordecai, Levi J. Moses, Samuel Hart, Sr., and Abraham Tobias, who lived on King Street. Another auctioneer, Abraham Ottolengui, was located on Vendue (or Vendue Range, as it was sometimes called). While these individuals shared the same profession, their religious affiliations ranged from staunch to moderate reform, to strictly traditional. Samuel Hart, Sr., for example, served as president of the breakaway Orthodox congregation Shearit Israel, while M. C. Mordecai led the organ faction in 1840 and served as parnas, or president, of Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim during the Civil War.