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                    <text>QUESTIONAIRE FOR ORAL HISTORIES
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2. Can you tell me how and why your family originally came to this country and
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My grandparents came from Russia. My parents and children were bom in the United
States.
3. What were your parents’ names and where were they born?
My parents are Pearl and David Benovitz.
4. What is your birth date? What language(s) were spoken in your home?
Where did you live then? Who lived in the same house with you Grandparents?
Uncles/aunts?
Brothers? Sisters?
English was spoken in our home, and I have one bother and one sister.
5. What was your neighborhood like? Were there other Jews living in the
neighborhood? Did you walk to school? Sunday School? Temple? Was
there a neighborhood grocery? Drug store?
I lived in a residential area, but not all of the families were Jewish. I walked to
school, Sunday and Hebrew school, the grocery store and all kinds of stores on
Bardstown road.
6. How did the 1937 flood affect you and your family?
Not asked during this interview.
7. If you wished to travel what kind of transportation did you use? Did you
travel when you were young? If so, where?
My family had a car, but we took trips by train.
8. Was your family involved in a synagogue / temple?
I graduated Sunday school at Keneseth.
9. What holidays and rituals were observed?
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I had one year at the University of Louisville.
12. What brought you to Louisville and when did you come?
N/A
13. How did you meet your husband/wife? Where and when were you married?
Did you have children?
N/A
14. Tell about you involvement in the Jewish Community? Was you whole family
involved?
I belong to all the Jewish organizations and worked for them, and worked for UJA.
15. How was your family affected by the World Wars? Wars in Israel?
N/A
16. What are your favorite spiritual memories? How did religion affect your life?
My favorite spiritual memories are weddings, Seders, and Jewish holidays.
17. What interests do you have?
I enjoy golf, bridge, and visits to elderly people in nursing homes.
18. What are your favorite family memories?
Jewish holidays hare my favorite memories.
19. What is your legacy? How would you like to be remembered? What values
would you like to pass on to those you leave behind?
I would like to be remembered for my good character and good moral values that I
want to pass on.
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3. What were your parents’ names and where were they bom?
4. What is your birthdate? What language(s) were spoken in your home? Where did
you live then? Who lived in the same house with you - Grandparents? - Uncles? Aunts? - Brothers? - Sisters?
5. What was your neighborhood like? Were there other Jews living in the
neighborhood? Did you walk to school? Sunday School? Temple? Was there a
neighborhood grocery? Drug store?
6. If you wished to travel what kind of transportation did you use? Did you travel when
you were young? If so, where to?
7. Was your family involved in a synagogue/temple?
8. What holidays and rituals were observed?
9. Did you attend religious school? Were you confirmed? Bar Mitzvah?
10. What is your educational background? What was your career?
11. What brought you to Louisville and when did you come?
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involved?
14. How was your family affected by the World Wars? Wars in Israel?
15. What are your favorite spiritual memories? How did religion affect your life?
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