Anne Butler

Title: Author, Historian, Innkeeper

Project Participation:
Please give a comprehensive description of how your expertise will be applied to the proposed project, and outline in detail what your role will be.
Book report on THREE GENEROUS GENERATIONS and the significant contributions of the Freyhan family and other early Jewish settlers along the Mississippi River corridor.

Charles David Isbell

Title: Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies,
LSU; Rabbi, Temple Sinai, Lake Charles, LA

Project Participation

Title: Financial, Business, Educational, and Social Contributions made by Jews to the city of Lake Charles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.”

On the basis of personal field interviews, I propose to offer a survey of the Jewish presence in Lake Charles for the past century. Included in my research are interviews with Lake Charles Jewish leaders in the building industry, commercial real estate, music and the arts, retail and finance, medical education and research, law, and politics. My survey will indicate the similarities between the activities of Jews in Lake Charles and those made in numerous other southern cities during the same time frame.

Catherine Kahn

Title: Archivist, Touro Infirmary

Dr. Stuart Rockoff

Title: Director, History Department
Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life