 Philip Phillips - Legacy: Encyclopedia II - Philip Phillips - Family and Early LifePhilip Phillips was born into a Jewish family in Charleston, South Carolina, the son of Aaron Pfeiffer from Ansbach, Bavaria, who changed his name to Phillips when he immigrated around 1800. The family were members of the Beth Eliohim Congregation in Charleston, and in 1825 Aaron Phillips was the first president of the Reformed Society of Israelites, early leaders in the Jewish Reform movement. Philip Phillips' mother, Caroline, was the daughter of Marks Lazarus, a veteran of Fort Moultrie, the siege of Savannah, and the siege of Charleston in the Amer ...
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