Rachel Jarman Myers

Rachel Jarman Myers is the Museum and Special Projects Coordinator for the ISJL.


Articles by Rachel Jarman Myers

From the Collection: When Life Gives You Wood, Make Ducks

I was in North Mississippi, visiting my husband’s family for the first time over Thanksgiving when I first heard about ...

Spend a Summer in the South

Devoid of a Southern accent, people often ask me where I’m from. They are surprised that I’m from Connecticut. The ...

Shopping: A Southern Jewish Tradition

It’s that time of year again. Just when Southerners are celebrating football and the waning summer heat, the holiday shopping ...

From the Collection: High Water

As stated in one of our last posts about the hurricane, we are familiar with what the devastation of hurricanes ...

From the Collection: “What My Lady Should Not Wear”

There are moments as an archivist when something unusual (like a fur muff or a military notebook) sticks out from ...

From the Collection: Clarksdale’s Spunky, Scrapbooking Youth

The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience has a collection of over 3,000 objects and archival materials that tell the ...

How to Ship a Torah

A new congregation in Savannah, Georgia was looking forward to celebrating the high holidays together for the first time, but ...

Mazel Tov to Temple Kol Tikvah

Last Wednesday morning, a beautiful photograph of Jerusalem stone appeared in my Facebook newsfeed. The picture shows a large wall ...