Preserving the Past & Enhancing the Future

About Us


We invite you to join us!

    Your membership contribution helps us safeguard the precious history of Jewish life in the Mid-South, and enables us to continue to offer a variety of outstanding speakers, programs and services. Your membership entitles you to receive by mail our newsletter as well as individual notices of our programs throughout the year.
    You can become a member for a very nominal $36.00 per member (family) per year. Or, if you wish to support the society at a higher level, you will be supporting our wonderful programs throughout the year. A full list of membership levels follows:


Regular Member: $36
Donor: $50
Patron: $100
Silver Sponsorship: $250
Gold Sponsorship: $500
Platinum Sponsorship: $1000 or greater

We hope you will also consider donating to the Sumner Levine Speaker Series (SLSS) Fund which was established in 2014 to honor the memory of Sumner Levine, a driving force in bringing programs of excellence to the Jewish Historical Society of Memphis and the Mid-South.

To join:

  • Print and fill out a Membership Application Form ( Click here for a printable Application.)

To Pay Dues or Make a Donation:

  • You may pay by check or credit card (Visa, MasterCard, American Express or Diners Club).To pay by check, make your check payable to Jewish Historical Society of Memphis & the Mid-South with a memo that it is for JHS Membership dues.
To pay by credit card, click here.
  • Mail the completed Membership application(or a letter denoting a donation and any person you want to honor or memorialize) with check or Credit Card information to: 

                                               Jewish Historical Society of Memphis and the Mid-South
                                               6560 Poplar Ave.
                                               Memphis TN 38138

We welcome your interest, your support and your participation!

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