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

Morris Goldsmith

Magazine Street

A deputy US marshal

In 1803, English-born Morris Goldsmith (1778–1861) married Sarah Levy (1785–1828). The couple moved frequently around the city, living in this neighborhood, across from the jail, in the 1830s. (The house is no longer standing.) Morris seems to have changed religious allegiances almost as often as he did addresses. He left Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim in 1825 and became secretary of the Reformed Society of Israelites, from which he later resigned; in the 1840s, he left KKBE again to join the traditionalists who founded Shearit Israel, but eventually rejoined the mother congregation. He served as a deputy U.S. marshal from about 1815 until well into the 1850s. In 1831, he compiled a city directory. He took leadership roles in the Ancient York Masons and, in the 1820s and 1830s, had an interest in a sloop that sailed to Havana. In 1850, he owned sixteen slaves, three times the average for Charleston’s Jewish slaveholders. Morris’s son Henry (1805–1861) followed his father in his religious allegiances but not in occupational pursuits. He worked as a playwright and author and, in 1835, announced his intention to publish a weekly news and literary paper, Southern Sentinel and Advocate.