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Collection Number: 05177

Collection Title: Marcie Cohen Ferris Papers, 1960s-2018

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Size 37.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 25,000 items)
Abstract Marcie Cohen Ferris is a white retired professor of American Studies and associate director of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies (CCJS) at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. The collection consists of sound recordings of guest speakers from a fundraising event hosted by the CCJS and from interviews conducted and classes taught by Marcie Cohen Ferris. The recordings discuss the CCJS, the history of Jews in the South, and the practice of Jewish history research. Additions to the collection consist of personal and professional papers that document her youth and family, her academic training, and her career researching, teaching, and publishing about foodways and the Jewish experience in the South.
Creator Ferris, Marcie Cohen.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
Use of audio cassettes may require production of listening copies.
This collection contains additional born digital materials that are not available for immediate or same day access. Please contact Research and Instructional Service staff at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu to discuss options for consulting these materials.
Restrictions to Use
No usage restrictions.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Marcie Cohen Ferris Sound Recordings #5177, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Marcie Cohen Ferris of Chapel Hill, N.C., in October 2005 (Acc. 100236), May 2007 (Acc. 100659), February 2008 (Acc. 100907), October 2015 (Acc. 102261), August 2018 (Acc. 103413), and January 2019 (Acc. 103561).
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Processed by: Nancy Kaiser, February 2006

Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser, February 2006

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

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Marcie Cohen Ferris (1957- ) was born in Blytheville, Ark., to Jerome and Hudda Cohen. Ferris received her B.A. from Brown University in 1981, her M.A. from the College of William and Mary in 1985, and her Ph.D. from George Washington University in 2003. In 2004, she joined the American Studies faculty at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where she regularly taught seminars exploring the history of the Jewish experience in the American South, American Jewish women, and the meaning of food in American culture. She also served as the associate director of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies. Before moving to Chapel Hill, Ferris worked in the field of museums, public history, and oral history for over twenty years in Maine, Virginia, Massachusetts, and Mississippi. She is married to William (Bill) R. Ferris.

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The collection consists of sound recordings of guest speakers from a fundraising event hosted by the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies (CCJS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and from interviews conducted and classes taught by Marcie Cohen Ferris, a now retired American Studies faculty member and associate director of the CCJS. The recordings discuss the CCJS, the history of Jews in the South, and the practice of Jewish history research.

Additions to the collection consist of Marcie Cohen Ferris's professional and personal papers that document her dissertation and later research for scholarly publications, teaching, and museum exhibit work; academic training; lectures on campus; and board and committee work for the Center for Jewish Studies, the Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina, and the Southern Jewish Historical Society. Personal papers document her youth and school years, the Cohen family in Blythville, Ark., and her marriage to William (Bill) R. Ferris.

Materials include research files on foodways and the Jewish experience in the South, with copies of recipes, interview transcripts, copies of archival and published sources among handwritten notes, journals, and photographs of Jewish sites in South; professional and personal correspondence, photographs, and scrapbooks; yearbooks from Blytheville public schools; and ephemera, such as pamphlets, posters, and programs from events at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, museums at which Ferris worked, and relating to her books, Shalom Y'all and Matzoh Ball Gumbo.

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Contents list

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 1. Sound Recordings, 2003-2004 (Original Deposit of October 2005).

8 items.

Acquisitions Information: Accession 100236

Arrangement: alphabetical.

Sound recordings of guest speakers from a fundraising event hosted by the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies (CCJS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and from interviews conducted and classes taught by Marcie Cohen Ferris, a now retired American Studies faculty member and associate director of the CCJS. The recordings discuss the CCJS, the history of Jews in the South, and the practice of Jewish history research.

Audiocassette C-05177/1

Cone fundraiser, 21 September 2004

Audiocassette C-05177/2

Evans, Eli, 8 November 2004

Audiocassette C-05177/3

Kittner, Harry and Sarah Kittner, and Ben Cone, 20 November 2003

Audiocassette C-05177/4

Nislick, Steve, 10 September 2004

Audiocassette C-05177/5

Rogoff, Leonard, 1 November 2004

Audiocassette C-05177/6

Savna, John, 4 October 2004

Audiocassette C-05177/7

Schochet, Jan, 3 November 2004

Audiocassette C-05177/8

Stollman, Jennifer, 29 September 2004

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12,000 items.

Acquisitions Information: Accession 100659, 100907, 102261

Professional and personal papers that document dissertation and later research for scholarly publications, teaching, and museum exhibit work; board and committee work for the Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina and the Southern Jewish Historical Society; school and family experiences in Blytheville, Ark.; and her marriage to William (Bill) R. Ferris. Materials include research files on foodways and the Jewish experience in the South, with copies of recipes, interview transcripts, and copies of archival and published sources among handwritten notes; professional and personal correspondence, photographs, and scrapbooks; yearbooks from Blytheville public schools; and ephemera, such as pamphlets, posters, and programs from events at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, museums at which Ferris worked, and relating to her books, Shalom Y'all and Matzoh Ball Gumbo.

Box 1

Research files

Photocopies of secondary works and archival materials; oral histories and related materials from Museum of Southern Jewish Experience, College of Charleston, American Jewish Archives, and Breman Museum.

Box 2

Research files

Box 3

Research files

Box 4

Research files

Box 5

Research files

Photocopies recipes from cookbooks and notes.

Box 6

Oral histories

Survey data from/for oral histories; book release forms.

Box 7

Oral histories

Box 8

Oral histories

Box 9

Museum of Southern Jewish Experience

Binders with administrative information.

Circa

Box 10

Board and committee work

Binders relating to the Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina and Southern Jewish Historical Society.

American Studies

Academic program description.

Tenure portfolio

Box 11

Tenure portfolio

Box 12

Subject files

Chiefly about foodways.

Box 13

Professional files

Relating to talks given, publishing, etc.

Box 14

Professional files

Box 15

Scrapbook

Printed materials and publicity relating to professional work.

Box 16

Loose papers

Chiefly printed material relating to exhibits, lectures, and other cultural programming.

Box 17

Personal papers

Greeting cards, school materials, personal documents, wedding mementos, first job and early work experiences, menus, recipes.

Box 18

Personal papers

Box 19

Yearbooks

Blytheville West Junior High School, Blytheville High School, The Lausanne School

Scrapbooks

Box 20

Photograph albums

Oversize Paper Folder OPF-05177/1

Posters

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3,000 items.

Acquisitions Information: Accession 103413

Materials document University of North Carolina Center for Jewish Studies board work; lectures by various speakers on campus; comprehensive exam notebooks on social history, Jewish history, foodways, and material culture; photographs relating to work at the Museum of Southern Jewish Experience; journals of meeting and research notes; greeting cards; printed ephemera for events at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and posters for events related to foodways, Shalom Y'all, Matzoh Ball Gumbo, and the wedding of Marcie Cohen and Bill Ferris.

Box 21

Center for Jewish Studies

Lectures on campus

Museum of Southern Jewish Experience

Box 22-24

Box 22

Box 23

Box 24

Comprehensive exam materials

Readings on social history, Jewish history, foodways, material culture.

Box 25

Journals, 2015

Loose papers

Greeting cards and printed ephemera.

Oversize Paper Folder OPF-05177/2

Posters

Oversize Box OB-05177/1

Posters on foam board

Oversize Image Folder OP-PF-05177/1

Tablesetting with a window view to a cotton field

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About 10000 images.

Acquisitions Information: Accession 102261

Arrangement: Subject

The collection chiefly consists of research images, including black-and-white and color negatives, black-and-white and color prints, black-and-white and color 35mm (mounted) slides, pertaining to her research related to her research into the history of Jews in the South. Also included are a large amount of family photographs depicting events and travel.

Titles in quotation marks came from original notes on boxes. Slides previously stored in 3-ring binders have been placed in folders and have been numbered to preserve original order/groupings.

Image Box IB-05771/1

Photographs: "Marcie Cohen Slides," circa 1980s-1990s

Color 35mm Slides, Black-and-White 35mm Slides

Approximately 1000 images

Materials originally stored in binders (groupings maintained).

Image Box IB-05771/2

Photographs: "Marcie Cohen Slides," (Presentations) circa 1980s-1990s

Color 35mm Slides, Black-and-White 35mm Slides

Approximately 1500 images

Materials for presentations, some materials removed from slide carousels (groupings maintained)

Image Box IB-05771/3

Photographs: "Washington, D.C., 1998-1999," circa 1998-1999

Black-and-White Photographic Prints and Color Photographic Prints

Approximately 1000 images

Image Box IB-05771/4

Photographs: "Washington, D.C., 1999," "National Endowment for the Humanities activities," circa 1999

Black-and-White Photographic Prints and Color Photographic Prints

Approximately 1000 images

Inludes many activites she attended with her husband William Ferris.

Image Box IB-05771/5-6

IB-05771/5

IB-05771/6

Photographs: "Family Photographs," circa 1950s-2000s

Black-and-White Photographic Prints and Color Photographic Prints

Approximately 6000 images

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 3A. Photograph, 1990s (Addition of January 2019).

1 image.

Acquisitions Information: Accession 103561

Photograph of Marcie Cohen Ferris, William R. Ferris, and President William Jefferson Clinton at a formal event.

Image Box IB-05771/6

Marcie Cohen Ferris, William R. Ferris, and President William Jefferson Clinton

Color Photographic Print

1 image

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