1 20 405 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/34455/archive/files/5997348018aca80d6d99c574b508cf67.pdf?Expires=1779926400&Signature=rcLDDqsvOruMLUHvxorwxpEeEwsSz%7EXes6ZPa1EeX2bWP-mZHVtxIvUwYU3gHVop8GdKCjR5tpzgHTpk2VmJpTIW5pmqDtEocvGmjsonNbu7tshEC98uxGhlOATE2H1kGi%7EaJCMcROzyb9%7ErKiurJrg%7EpCjdggLphVA0L6nNkpz1IJEuQdd-2cBFcUjlku0brTnXzGTmbV8xHlzwejGj9IxqhA%7E3XSq4c80UMY-612WdYBjaN4QHfGjp6Su8Cdr7W6In36SaH4iJ0eaPeQAdKHLpnbaRac25cqjC7qg53gLpzfqLNEtzo3T1%7EhYAjRiyA9wUp4loSJEkht0dUcTW2g__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 901af882eb8f84370becdb8bb11ac44d PDF Text Text I , TO MOVE MOUNTAINS July l C, 19f 6 ~YM OUTH CONG RfG tTI ONP L CliUhCh I sat in front of my television set and I hear him say it: "We want b.~.a4 k power 11 • I remember he said it several times, each time with more emotion and determination than before. It seems that I said to myself then, ''Lord, help him t o use it right when he gets it", and, like those standing in the crowd, I too added my "Amen." Then I promptly forgot the whole incident. Suddenly, it 1 s staring me in the face again. From the front page of the morning paper: "NAACP condemns demand for "blaek power"; "Humphrtty Against Black Power". Suddenly men and women who had worked side by side, suffering and dying for a common cause, were hurling violent accusations at each other. Me n who had risked their reputations, even their lives, now turned and fled from this nasty phrase 11 hlack power". The question this mass flight raises in my mind is "Are we faced with a golden calf fashioned to lead those in search of the promised land of equality astray?" Or have we finally arrived at that day of judgement when the strong shall be separated from the weak? But the most important question is, "Where must I, as a Christian, take my standr,? We are confronted with a conflict very similiar to that menticned by Paul in his letter to the church at Corinth. I admit that the problem was not central in any of his letters, but his brief mention of it is enough to let us know that it is n ut peculiar to our situati0n. I am speaking specifically of one phrase 11 If I have the faith to move mountains and have not love, I am nothing". The ~onflict is there; it is underlying Paul's thought: If I have, and I would rather say here, the power to move mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. For some strange reason, men have always paid lip service to the great value of love, and to the inherent evil of power. Yet, history can be told as the endless quest for power; the never ending search for the ability to either force, persuade or trick others into behavior patterns not of their own chcn., sing. This is powert The raw fact is that power enables he who posesses it to make others do what he desires them to do. This is what frightens us about it. Add to this the hint of violence, and the near panic seen this past week in Los Angeles is the result. And we have a right to fear such a combination. Did not this marriage of force and political power plunge the whole world into armed conflict from which we have yet to recover? Has not this combination held the south in its grip for almcst three centuries? Would not Medgar Evers, Lemuel Penn and many, many others be alive today if this marriage had never taken place? Any political power that is rooted in force, even if it is great enough to move whole mountains, is demonic and corruptive, be it white, black or green. It is, in the metaphysical terminology of the late Paul Tillic h , th.:manifestation of the destructive power of n on-being. It is the negation of life itself. It reduces human beings to mere pawns on a chess board, or statistics on a casualty list. So and so number �2 of Viet Cong were killed in operat i on 384. We forget that these are people who are dead, not flies. This is the corrup tive influence of power withou t love. And if this is what is meant by "black power;' I must stand, violen tly, if necess ary, opposed to it. But what of love wi. thout power? I am afraid that, while we might over the long run be able to move the mounta in of hate ahd pre- We judice out of the way, we simply don 1 t have the time for that. have preache d the subtle power of love from Negro pulpits for many years now. We have seen it work in the civil rights activi ties of the past. But now, with the new laws for which we fought so hard g -being disrega rded each day; now, with the last hurdle -- housin known has which tion almost sure to stump us; now, with a new genera little else but poverty and police brutal ity -- now, I fear this messag e has very little meanin g. Love is ideal; few would deny that. But the ultimat um issued in watts I and II, in Harlem and Roches ter amd Chicago is not for interra cial love, but f or human justice . \ nd the realiza tion of justice , no matter how one looks at it, demand s power. It demand s that a h r \. , ti... f _·r_; invisib le invisib le people become obviou s. That the non-ex istent man be felt. It is intere sting that one youth, when asked why the watts ri c- t had taken place anawered "It was the cnly way to make whitey see us". Of course he was wrong, there was anothe r way: black pcwer. A voice ''downto wn". A voice that is heard downtow n. That's all. The author ities knew that riot was coming . They were told many times by many men. But that voice was not heard. watts had no power, until that match was struck . Then. Then the whole world knew they were there. Malcolm Boyd says the sania thing, a bit differe lh.Ly, in ~ prayer for racial justice . He asks the centra l questio n: Is what God wants going to make any differe nce in what all of us are going to do? The questio n must never become "Will we lose some white suppor t. We will. We will lose those who desire to patern alistic ally give us small advanc es, but ever keepin g us just a bit below. We will lose them. But we will keep those who are sinc e rely workin g to asdo God 1 s will, to bring about a society where all men are treated men, where love is a possib ility. The questio n must never become "Is black power anti-w hite power" ? because to some it will always be. It will also be agains t some of us. Those who are workin g agains t a just societ y, who profit from discrim ination and segregation . Wheneve r there is a mounta in to be moved, there will be those who like it the way it is. The real questio n is "once we get this power, what will we do with it 11 ? Will we furthe r hate and separa tion? I pray not. Will we seek vengen ce for years of being wronge d? I pray not. These are the real danger s of black power, not these mentio ned in the news media. The danger is not that black power is anti-w hite, but that it will become anti-hu man. 'Ibat it will los e all traces of the love that paved the road to realiza tion. The danger is that we will set out to move mounta ins, having in cur hands the power to do so, but ,.,•y prayer is still "Lord, help withou t love. Then we are nothin g. 11 him use it right when he gets it. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Plymouth Congregational Church (Louisville, Ky.) records, circa 1916-1977, 1992 Subject The topic of the resource Plymouth Congregational Church (Louisville, Ky.) Description An account of the resource <span>The collection consists of twentieth-century records of Plymouth Congregational Church, founded in 1877 in Louisville, Kentucky, and the Plymouth Settlement House, which opened in 1917 as an extension of the church’s mission. The church and settlement house were located next to each other in the Russell neighborhood at the corner of Seventeenth and West Chestnut streets. The church’s membership was primarily made up of middle- and upper-class Black families, and the settlement house provided social services to neighborhood residents. Included in the collection are board minutes, correspondence, annual reports, and publications.</span><br /><br />Only a selection of the records have been digitized; see the finding aid to learn about the entire collection: <a href="https://filsonhistorical.org/research-doc/plymouth-congregational-church-louisville-ky-records-ca-1916-1977/" target="_blank" title="Finding Aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://filsonhistorical.org/research-doc/plymouth-congregational-church-louisville-ky-records-ca-1916-1977/</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Plymouth Congregational Church (Louisville, Ky.) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Mss. BA P738, Plymouth Congregational Church (Louisville, Ky.) records, The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1916-1977, 1992 Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Collection Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mss. BA P738 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 20th century Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mss. BA P738, Folder 07, Item 08 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Mss. BA P738, Folder 7, Plymouth Congregational Church (Louisville, Ky.) records, The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Title A name given to the resource To Move Mountains, July 10, 1966 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Plymouth Congregational Church (Louisville, Ky.) Berry, Benjamin D. Description An account of the resource "To Move Mountains" is a two-page typescript of Rev. Benjamin D. Berry's sermon on the Civil Rights Movement delivered on July 10, 1966 at Plymouth Congregational Church in Louisville, Kentucky. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1966-07-10 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1960s 20th century Subject The topic of the resource Plymouth Congregational Church (Louisville, Ky.) Churches Kentucky--Jefferson County--Louisville African Americans African American churches Sermons Christian sermons Black power Civil rights movements Christian life Racial justice Social justice Racial equity Black people--Segregation Christians Christian men African American Christians African American men Berry, Benjamin D. African American clergy Clergy Protestants Russell (Louisville, Ky.) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. 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To learn about this process, visit https://filsonhistorical.org/collections/order-reproductions/ Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource sermon Language A language of the resource eng https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/34455/archive/files/bd99da0a5ad8a5b0dc5640ea98b0d3be.pdf?Expires=1779926400&Signature=YoFbS8znMF8OlICutc8SvkbKaRF4XxLsZP3yYIu1nQlbLmov5qpSR8HZvYYN4Y%7EGRa3QpaVJNr03HvwBhc8ocj9j9gihjOofxDxtU716z2Sq7AN8rb7%7EX2SOnJ01TVx8a8Z0co%7EgCxFH0NE5Mbd8SKVdHUNOvkvsryK%7EMOiuCfOLfAuUiUFt%7EfR%7EuChMqJyeWrIQAZgoUg6hubMiJ3-VipPbM2XWo1-Ou99ZUftyR48JUo3rhJSDO1GahpDPV0EWtZaJQeDOpZxCyFeTk85dukZDvWw292gLNLnRmHlvFEL4-03QyT7cn2C1hpQ887s0plcTwAFjUAGuniOKWvnqZA__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM a26abfb39c9fc87c83927e258f9d8401 PDF Text Text QUESTIONAIRE FOR ORAL HISTORIES 1. lam with on Kimberly Feinberg, I am conducting an interview Genie Aberson for the JFVS archives July 30, 2007. 2. Can you tell me how and why your family originally came to this country and when? My mother, through my grandparents, was first generation bom in Louisville, they came from different parts of Germany, grandfather Joseph Lang came from Frankfort and grand mother came from Aingbach. And they came over here and met in Louisville. My Father’s family is from Germany also, but not sure which parts, the name was Lowenstein. Elsie Flisher. Fleischer was my other Grandmother Lowenstein 3. What were your parents’ names and where were they born? annie Lang Mother was Fbom in Louisville. Father Stanley Ben Lowenstein in Hamilton OH They met when she went to university of Cincinnati an Conservatory d he went to School law school of Music in Cincy there and that’s how they met. 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? March 18, 1940. mainly English, a little German, quite a bit later when grandmother lived with us when I was about 12. first house was 2228 village drive in Louisville, near the famous village drive circle in the highlands. When I was bout 12 we moved to 2320 on village drive. Brother, mother, father, grandmother and leased with us. 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? A lot of Jewish people lot of fun. It was like a temple. And a lot of my parents friends knew each other and were friends with each other, and we would hang out with the many Jewish people there. A lot of my parents’ friends who were Jewish were in the neighborhood also. No, Iwalked could have to school but I was driven. I wentto temple and Sunday school, we were in a driving group then. Was both, the model drug store was a Jewish drugstore and we would go over there & have delicious sodas and we would hang out and have a good time. 6. How did the 1937 flood affect you and your family? It probably affected my family, but not me. I didn’t really feel it. 7. If you wished to travel what kind of transportation did you use? Did you travel when you were young? If so, where? �A lot of car trips, some plane^Jhatwas^yery exciting and it was not as frequent, by plane we went to Cincinnati and Chicago, we took a trip to Hawaii, when I was in high school, and my brother had just graduated that fromwas highaschool. big deal we loved that. 8. Was your family involved in a synagogue / temple? Very actively, my grandfather on my mother’s side was president of the temple, Brith Sholom My father was pres of temple,BrithShol mand mother pres of sisterhood. I had a very involved family.fathempl or 8 years 9. What holidays and rituals were observed? All of them, especially Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Hanukkah, and Passover was a big deal to my family. I have wonderful memories of it. 10. Did you attend religious school? Were you confirmed? Bar Mitzvah? Yes, confirmed. I was 11.What is your educational background? What was your career? Hs, and 3 yrs to college the university of Miami and University transferred toof Kentucky and at UofL a few courses but didn’t graduate. Elementary education. And volunteered. 12. What brought you to Louisville and when did you come? I was bom here and never left. There were friends and family and it was easy. and I loved it. 13. How did you meet your husband/wife? Where and when were you married? Did you have children? Well it’s really cute. I was at University of Kentucky I had just transferred from U of Miami Miami to be with someone I had been with in high school. And his fraternity brother introduced us at a frat party. October 16, 1960. 3 children. 2 daughters and a son. 14. Tell about you involvement in the Jewish Community? Was you whole family involved? I was a vice president of the sisterhood, at Brith Shohem which is now combined with the temple, membership chair, active in the guild, women’s auxiliary officer of in Jewish Hospita that, head of the bingo project, and patients watched bingo and patients loved it. I just like to volunteer one time things, and now I still like to help out a little bit. Yes.was My very husband involved in the J 15. How was your family affected by the World Wars? Wars in Israel? �My grandfather brought over a lot of his family about 1930’s and came over himself for better job opportunity. Not really no. 16. What are your favorite spiritual memories? How did religion affect your life? Going to Israel. We were on a mission from New York and I never imagined that something could be that touching. Even though you read about it, you can’t even visualize. And the wonderful education from the guides, I feel very lucky that I got that experience. Very much did, mother loved going to temple and had a lot of sayings thank god and knock on wood. She had high spirituality and loved going to temple and the holidayswere very impressed on me. And fasting and Passover andobservdtheritualsofJudaismthe whole bit. 'J" Love to read, bridge, canasta, tennis, work out, going to art museums, and art ©lass,' and works or art, piays and symphony, being social, and being with friends having them over and having cookouts. 18. What are your favorite family memories? Christmas, because my in-laws anniversary was Christmas day, being their anniversary we always had friends and made a big deal out of the day. Holidays, birthdays and any family occasion. 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? Good mother, and a friend, and a active grandparent, and sister, family is the most important. We are very close. Closeness of family and being there for each other and make the most of being together and share the closeness. Do for each other and always enjoy and make the most of their time together. Even if they don’t live in the same city make time to see each other and be there for each other. Bea wonderful parent and grandparent. And be proud of what religion you are, your Jewishness, and give back to your community because it’s been so good to you through volunteering or monetarily. donating JFVS/aj 07/30/07 Word.olderAdult.OralHistories.forms �QUESTIONAIRE FOR ORAL HISTORIES 1. lam with on Kimberly Feinberg, I am conducting an interview Genie Aberson for the JFVS archives July 30, 2007. 2. Can you tell me how and why your family originally came to this country and when? My mother was first generation bom in Louisville, my grandparents came from different parts of Germany, my grandfather, Joseph Lang, came from Frankfort and grandmother came from Ainsbach. And they came over here, and met in Louisville. My father’s family is from Germany also, but not sure which parts, name was Lowenstein. Elsie Fleischer Lowenstein was my other grandmother. 3. What were your parents’ names and where were they born? My mother, Fannie Lang, was bom in Louisville. My father, Stanley Ben Lowenstein, was bom in Hamilton, OH. They met when she went to University of Cincinnati Conservatory School of Music and he went to law school in Cincinnati, and that’s how they met. 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? March 18, 1940. mainly English, a little German, quite a bit later when grandmother lived with us when I was about 12. First house was 2228 village drive in Louisville, near the famous Village Drive Circle. In the highlands. When I was about 12 we moved to 2320 on village drive. Brother , mother, father, grandmother lived with us. 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? A lot of Jewish people lot of fun. It was like a temple. And a lot of my parent’s friends knew each other, we were friends with each other, and we would hang out with the many Jewish people there. A lot of my parents’ friends who were Jewish were in the neighborhood also. No, I could have walked to school, but I was driven. I went to temple and Sunday school; we were in a driving group then. There were both, the Model Drug Store, was a Jewish drugstore and we would go over there and have delicious sodas and we would hang out and have a good time. 6. How did the 1937 flood affect you and your family? It probably affected my family, but not me. I didn’t really feel it. �7. If you wished to travel what kind of transportation did you use? Did you travel when you were young? If so, where? A lot of car trips, some plane, that was very exciting and it was not as frequent, by plane I went to Cincinnati and Chicago, and the family took a trip to Hawaii, when I was in high school, my brother had just graduated from high school and that was a big deal, we loved that. 8. Was your family involved in a synagogue / temple? Very actively, my grandfather on my mother’s side was president of the temple Brith Shalom, my father president of temple Brith Shalom, and mother president of sisterhood at Brith Shalom for 8 years. I had a very involved family at the temple. 9. What holidays and rituals were observed? All of them, especially Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Hanukkah, and Passover were a big deal to my family. I have wonderful memories of it. 10. Did you attend religious school? Were you confirmed? Bar Mitzvah? Yes, I was confirmed. 11 .What is your educational background? What was your career? High school, and 3 yrs to college the University of Miami and transferred to University of Kentucky, and I took a few courses at UofL, but didn’t graduate. Elementary education. And volunteered. 12. What brought you to Louisville and when did you come? I was bom here and never left. There were friends and family and it was easy and I loved it. 13. How did you meet your husband/wife? Where and when were you married? Did you have children? Well it’s really cute. I was at University of Kentucky I had just transferred from the University of Miami to be with someone I had been with in high school. And his fraternity brother introduced us at a frat party. October 16, 1960. 3 children. 2 daughters and a son. 14. Tell about you involvement in the Jewish Community? Was you whole family involved? I was a vice president of the sisterhood, at Brith Shohem which is now combined with the temple, membership chair, active in the guild, women’s auxiliary officer of �Jewish Hospital in that, head of the bingo time project, and patients watched bingo and patients loved it. I just like to volunteer one shot things, and now I still like to help out a little bit. Yes, my husband was very involved in the Jewish community. 15. How was your family affected by the World Wars? Wars in Israel? My grandfather brought over a lot of his family about 1930’s and came over himself for better job opportunity. Not really no. 16. What are your favorite spiritual memories? How did religion affect your life? Going to Israel. We were on a UJA mission from New York, and I never imagined that something could be that touching. Even though you read about it, you can’t even visualize. And the wonderful education from the guides, I feel very lucky that I got that experience. Very much did, mother loved going to temple and had a lot of sayings thank god and knock on wood. She had high spirituality and loved going to temple and the holidays were very impressed on me. And fasting and Passover, and observed the rituals of Judaism. Also the importance of the Seder, because my family made a big deal out of that by having lots of family. It was most enjoyable and memorable having the short service with all of us participating. 17. What interests do you have? Love to read, play bridge, play canasta, I played tennis, I work out, going to art museums, and art glass, and works of art, Broadway plays and attending symphony, being social, and being with friends having them over and having cookouts. 18. What are your favorite family memories? Christmas, because my in-laws anniversary was Christmas day, being their anniversary we always had friends and made a big deal out of the day. Holidays, birthdays and any family occasion. 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? To be a good mother, and a friend, and a caring, active grandparent, and sister, family is the most important. We are very close. Closeness of family and being there for each other and make the most of being together and share the closeness. Do for each other and always enjoy and make the most of their time together. Even if they don’t live in the same city make time to see each other and be there for each other. Be a wonderful parent and grandparent. And be proud of what religion you are, your Jewishness, and give back to your community because it’s been so good to you through volunteering or monetarily donating. JFVS/aj 07/30/07 Word.olderAdult.OralHistories.forms �Jewish Family & \Vocational Service Louis & Lee Roth Family Center JFVS is always here throughout every season of your life. Board of Directors Judy Freundlich Tiell Executive Director Barbara Goldberg President Debbie Friedman Jay Klempner Vice Presidents TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Mark Ament Treasurer I do hereby give my permission to record my life history through the Jewish Lowell D. Katz, M.D. Ex-officio President Family and Vocational Service, 3587 Dutchmans Lane, Louisville, Kentucky 40205. Mitchell Charney Jane Goldstein Marjorie B. Kohn Robert Levine Howard Markus Shirley Markus Gail Pohn Lillian Seligman Steven Shapiro Jeffrey Weiss P'^t Presidents My story will be kept in the JFVS Library and can be accessed by interested people. It will be preserved archivally for future generations. o D. Cole Arthur Grossman Shelton R. 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Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/" target="_blank" title="In Copyright" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</a> Language A language of the resource eng heb Type The nature or genre of the resource Collection Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 20th century 21st century Description An account of the resource Summaries of 206 interviews with Jewish community members in Louisville, Kentucky, conducted by Jewish Family and Career Services volunteers. Originally started by Ann Friedman, Director of Klein Older Adult Services, the project sent volunteers to listen to seniors and summarize their stories. The volunteers used a standardized script to ask community members about their family’s immigration to the United States and move to Louisville; their family and religious life in Louisville; and what they hoped their legacy would be. Some of the interviews include supplemental material on the narrators, such as resumes, obituaries, and photographs. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource bulk 2001-2018 1930s-1950s 1980s-2018 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 024x6_abersong Title A name given to the resource Interview with Genie Aberson, 2007 Description An account of the resource Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Genie Aberson (1940-) on July 30, 2007. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Aberson, Genie, 1940- Feinberg, Kimberly Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-07-30 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Report Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Interviews Jewish families Jews Judaism Jefferson County (Ky.) Kentucky Louisville (Ky.) Aberson, Leslie D., 1936- Highlands (Louisville, Ky.) 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Can you tell me how and why your family originally came to this country and when? My maternal grandparents come from Latvia, Russia in the late 1890’s. They came after the pogroms came into power for freedom. One of my mother’s brothers was bom in Russia. He was the only sibling to be bom there. They came to New York and then moved to St. Louis. He was a blacksmith. On my father’s side, my grandparents came from Russia, moved to Germany, England, and then St. Louis. My father’s mother was from Worchester England. My dad’s father was a tailor, and made clothing. 3. What were your parents’ names and where were they born? My father, Hillard Aberson, was bom 8/15/1903 in St. Louis. My mother Adele Wenneier Aberson, was bom 2/10/1911 in St. Louis. 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? I was bom on 5/30/36. English was spoken in my house, but my mother would speak Yiddish when she wanted to say something secretively. My mother and sister lived in the house with me in St. Louis. My sister’s name is Renee Aberson Hymson. 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 Will Simon neighborhood, you knew your neighbors. My oldest friends were Irish Catholic, white Jewish, and non-Jewish. There was no prejudice shown. There was an area with though guys, but I always went with my Irish friends, and they left us alone. I walked alone to Delmar-Hamed, my school, which was a few miles to walk to. I went to Hamley Junior High School, and we had moved far west to a larger home. I had a very long walk of two or three miles. Winters were cold and there was no bus. We moved to Lexington when I went to Lafayette High. I got my driver’s license when I was 15, and I had skipped a grade. I drove the last few years to School. I was part of the Sheramut Congregation in St. Louis. When we moved to Lexington I was part of Adath Israel. My family went to services. I blew the shofar on Rosh �Hashanah. They would pull pranks on me. One year there was streamers, one year confetti. When I blew the shofar herds would come. We had no air conditioning, and they would flock to the area. In St. Louis Mr. Jaspers was the grocery store, but there was no drug store. Mr. Jaspers was very nice and let us have a pickle. You knew everybody. 6. How did the 1937 flood affect you and your family? We were not part of the flood. 7. If you wished to travel what kind of transportation did you use? Did you travel when you were young? If so, where? Automobile When we were very young we would always go with my parents on vacation. We went to Miami, Lexington, Louisville, and New England. When we were in Lexington there was a lot of family together; lots of aunts and uncles. We had lots of family picnics, and they were great. 8. Was your family involved in a synagogue / temple? My father was president of the brotherhood, and my mother was president of the sisterhood. 9. What holidays and rituals were observed? All of the holidays were observed. Christmas was my parents’ anniversary, and we had a big tree. We celebrated every major Jewish holiday. 10. Did you attend religious school? Were you confirmed? Bar Mitzvah? I attended Adath Israel and was confirmed. 11. What is your educational background? What was your career? I got a BS from UK in 1957, and a law degree in 1960. My first job was attorney for the department of highways, appellate division. I would write briefs for court of appeals. I wrote the case: Low to value lease hold interests in to eminent domain. I wrote laws that are still in effect today. It was a precedent. It stands as a landmark case. I then went to trail as district attorney for Lexington, KY (27 counties). After a year the director of the Louisville department wanted to make me an assistant. We decided that we had to leave Lexington and turned down the big promotion. I left and went with Shelly Wehers and Fred Goldberg. I was with them 2 years, and did general work. I wanted to do a different kind of law. I had been working for Jae Kaplan, and he hired me. He had a well respected practice. This was in 1963.1 did trial work, business law, and estate work. Today my law relates to business and real estate; it relates almost exclusively to corporate tax and estate work. �12. What brought you to Louisville and when did you come? My position with Goldberg in 1961. 13. How did you meet your husband/wife? Where and when were you married? Did you have children? Genie was dating my little brother in my fraternity, and she broke up with him. I then started to date her. Genie loved to go out to dinner. I never called her for a date, I just drove in and often she was on a date. Once I went there and I spent time with her folks. She asked me to marry her. I got her a watch for our engagement. I hadn’t packed to our honeymoon, and I also lost my pants. We had to go back and pack. We were married at Brith Shalom October 16, 1960 by Martin Perely and Joe Rosenbloom. We had three children. Karen Lowenstein Aberson Mengel married Dr. Barry Mengel and had two children, Abigail Fae Mengel and Jashua Sonley. Angela Lynn Aberson Weildstein married Daniel Weilstein and had two children, Max and Charles. Leslie Hillard Aberson married DJacqueline and had two children, Jordon Hunter and Gabriella Ashley. 14. Tell about you involvement in the Jewish Community? Was you whole family involved? I was president of Bnai Brith, Brith Shalom, and the temple men’s club. I was on the Jewish Hospital board, public capital campaign chair for Jewish Hospital, capital campaign chair for Temple, and a board member for the conference of Christians and Jews. Genie was part of the sisterhood, and my children were in religious clubs; my whole family was involved in temple. 15. How was your family affected by the World Wars? Wars in Israel? During WWII all of my cousins were in the Pacific and Europe. My mother helped with the Red Cross, and my father was also involved. All of my cousins came back. 16. What are your favorite spiritual memories? How did religion affect your life? Rabbi Gordon from St. Louis was a fabulous guy. When he spoke it was as if G-d was speaking. My parents’ values were unbelievable. All of the arts are important, they set the example. I had a very special mom and dad that always made time. When I was in grade school a teacher asked me to write an essay about the man you most admired and I wrote about my dad. I was the only one. I am awed by nature. �I try to follow Jewish values; it’s the values as much as the religion. It’s not the ritual it’s who and what you are. 17. What interests do you have? Professionally, well read, business I am in, and friendships are my interests. 18. What are your favorite family memories? Holidays were fabulous. I remember my dad’s mother, she was the only grandparent alive, special occasions, my birthday, Christmas, we had Hershey and no one could get it, we had a party at my parents’ at Christmas. For my parents’ big occasions we had big parties. All of my life cycle events were important. 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? That others had learned values from me and people are proud of me and love me. I want them to think of the great memories we had together. I want people to think of me as a good person. It is important to be caring and honest. Good character leaves a good name. JFVS/aj 06/13/07 Word.olderAdult.OralHistaries.forms �Louis & Lee Roth Family Center Board of Directors Stephanie Speige! Executive Director Marjorie B. Kohn President Steven Shapira President Elect/Treasurar Barbara Goldberg David Handmaker Lowell Katz Robert Riley Vice Presidents Gail Pohn Ex-officio President MltcheH Charney jane Goldstein Robert Levine Howard Markus Shirley Markus Lillian Seligman Jeffrey Weiss Past Presidents TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: I do hereby give my permission to record my life history through the Jewish Family and Vocational Service, 3587 Dutchmans Lane, Louisville, Kentucky 40205. My story will be kept in the JFVS Library and can be accessed by interested people. It will be preserved archivally for future generations. Lewis D. Cole Alexander Erlen Arthur Grossman Shelton R.Weber Honorary Directors 'Km ent Bennett Ellyn Berman Joan Byer Howard L- Cantor Natalie Davis Jonathan Dubins Simon Reids Phyllis Horman Ann Friedman Bob German Rachel Greenberg Debbie Hyman Howard KapHn Jay Klempner Benjamin Levitan Chuck OXoon Jordan Pohn Suzy Post Mona Schramko Judy Shapira Julie Strull Susan Waterman Frank Welsberg Rabbi Avrohom Litvin Rabbi Stanley Miles Rabbi Joe Rooks Rapport Rabbi Gaylia R. Rooks Rabbi Robert Slosberg Rabbi Bradley C.Tecktiel Witness Date Signed JFVS/aj 10/4/01 Word, coununitpannission.history Association of Jewish Family & Children's Agencies International Association of Jewish Vocational Services Accredited by til of Accreditation of Services pllies and Children, Inc. Jewish Family & Vocational Service �Feb 15 02 11:21a 502-326-2669 Bob Friedman p.2 LESLIE D. ABERSON PERSONAL INFORMATION: PROFESSIONAL: Member of law firm Rothschild, Aberson, Miller & Goodin EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: Bachelor of Science Degree - University of Kentucky - 1957 Juris Doctor - University of Kentucky - 1960 CURRENT MEMBERSHIPS AND ORGANIZATIONS; Director - University of Kentucky Law School Foundation since 1987 Fellow - University of Kentucky Director - Louisville Free Public Library Foundation since 1988 Director - Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame since 1963 (Bank of Louisville) Director - MidAmerica Bancorp since 1982 Member - Jewish Hospital Institutional Review Committee Director - The Temple RECENT PAST MEMBERSHIPS AND ORGANIZATIONS: Member Kentucky Council on Higher Education until 1992 Director - Jewish Hospital of Louisville Director - Louisville Medical Research Foundation President & Director - B'rith Sholom Temple Director - National Conference of Christians and Jews Vice President Louisville & Director - Jewish Community Federation of �Feb 15 02 11:22a Bob Friedman 502-326-2669 Leslie D. Aberson Page 2 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: Louisville Bar Association Kentucky Bar Association Kentucky Trial Lawyer's Association American Trial Lawyer's Association Admitted to practice - State of Kentucky, United States Tax Court and Supreme Court of the United States MISCELLANEOUS: Recipient - Louis Cole Young Leadership Award Married - former Regene Jo Lowenstein. Three children: Karen A. Mangel, Angie A. Wildstein and Leslie H Aberson. Three grandchildren: Abigail and Josh Mangel and Maxwell H. Wildstein. p.3 �Feb 15 02 1 1 :22a p. 4 502-326-2669 Bob Fr i edman LESLIE D. ABERSON CURRENT MEMBERSHIPS AND ORGANIZATIONS: Director - Louisville Free Public Library Foundation since 1968 Director - Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame since 1963 (Bank of Louisville) since 1982 Director - MidAmerica Bancorp Member - Jewish Hospital Institutional Review Committee Director - The Temple and current Chairman of The Temple Capital Campaign Drive Fellow - University of Kentucky RECENT PAST MEMBERSHIPS AND ORGANIZATIONS: Director - University of Kentucky Law School Foundation Member Kentucky Council on Higher Education until 1992 Director - Jewish Hospital of Louisville Director - Louisville Medical Research Foundation President & Director - B1rith Sholom Temple Director - National Conference of Christians and Jews Vice President Louisville & Director - Jewish Community Federation of PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: Louisville Bar Association Kentucky Bar Association Admitted to practice - State of Kentucky, United States Tax Court and Supreme Court of the United States C: \DOCUMENT\IxDA-PERS\lda .bio2 -wpd � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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The volunteers used a standardized script to ask community members about their family’s immigration to the United States and move to Louisville; their family and religious life in Louisville; and what they hoped their legacy would be. Some of the interviews include supplemental material on the narrators, such as resumes, obituaries, and photographs. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource bulk 2001-2018 1930s-1950s 1980s-2018 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 024x6_abersonl Title A name given to the resource Interview with Les Aberson, 2002 Description An account of the resource Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Leslie D. Aberson (1936-) on February 4, 2002. The summary is accompanied by Aberson's resume. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Aberson, Leslie D., 1936- Friedman, Ann Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2002-02-04 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Report Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Interviews Jewish families Jews Judaism Jefferson County (Ky.) Kentucky Louisville (Ky.) St. Louis (Mo.) Missouri Lexington (Ky.) 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To learn about this process, visit https://filsonhistorical.org/collections/order-reproductions/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Jewish Family and Career Services (Louisville, Ky.) https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/34455/archive/files/2a0e2f175d3b79d0652a8242d18b5ee8.pdf?Expires=1779926400&Signature=LaT7omwPqC%7E0JGxfoPP0zHgE4orNXISw2thlf8JQhjpO0n8%7ElCHcD8XG4dHIB1pqNNTVP69zQ7cjbH9TBNK2F4HaU59e%7EOpsLKbqUmZEmbCnL03cO7fc6UHJgyarDKrJFnrQ-K4sDpBQzJNERXZZObhPypEhg%7E4LRs7YAUAqzCx6q2z4-Z1l4F9-K2VL4hfiAu7tmcsST0vgh4trkyumodIqFtGEPYPtB6V0drbJZF7QxFh5OQH-hO87ZMQYL5DYJfWp2VcrpISX6qH2cJwa2oFYSbSabSJ%7EjDjKHZovU%7EEl%7EbgI3fmDtawDFWd-%7E41-qlpBpjlapOeLs334LzspMA__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM a4355990ed26a9e10d8e2cb22764e968 PDF Text Text QUESTIONAIRE FOR ORAL HISTORIES 1. I am with on Robert Friedman , I am conducting an interview Marie K. Abrams for the JFVS archives October 2, 2001. 2. Can you tell me how and why your family originally came to this country and when? Charles SW1 helped my father come from Germany in 1929 when he was 18 years old, because Hitler was coming into power, and he had to leave. My grandmother came in 1939, because she wouldn’t leave my grandfather while he was alive. My mother’s grandparents came from Lithuania and were married in 1893 in Louisville, Kentucky, and then went to Mississippi and lived there in a small town until my grandmother came over from Lithuania in 1886. After my mother was bom they moved back to Louisville. 3. What were your parents’ names and where were they born? My mother Thelma Evans Kahn 4/22/12-7/10/89 was bom in Louisville, Kentucky. My father Leo Kahn 2/7/11- 4/27/87 was bom in Germany. 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? I was bom 10/19/37. My father decided that English would be the only language spoken in my house. Even when refugees came to our house he would only speak English. We lived on Auerbach er Court when I was bom. When I was 1 /2 we moved to Murray. We had a one bedroom apartment, in which the maid lived along with the family, so I slept in the back. 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? There were Jews were in my neighborhood, we were the only Jewish family, and people walked places. It was 2-3 blocks to the grocery store, Liberty Bank, and Cherokee Dairy, where everyone walked to get ice cream. When I was in 5th and 6th grades I walked to both school and temple. 6. How did the 1937 flood affect you and your family? This question was not asked �7. If you wished to travel what kind of transportation did you use? Did you travel when you were young? If so, where? I preferred traveling by bus. From the age of 1 I went to AJ until I was about 3. When I was 8 or 9 I would go to YMHA to dancing school. Every Saturday I went to Brith Shalom, and then Laura Kahy and I would go to 2nd and Broadway for lunch and a movie. When we took long trips we took the train and when I was a teenager we used a car. I went to Chattanooga and I stayed one month during the Polis Scare, and for 5years I went to Biloxi Mississippi for a big family reunion. 8. Was your family involved in a synagogue / temple? My father was on the board of the temple. 9. What holidays and rituals were observed? We celebrated Passover dinner at my mother’s sister’s (Aunt Sophie’s) house, Rosh Hashanah at home, and for the Sabbath I went to Brith Shalom every Saturday. 10. Did you attend religious school? Were you confirmed? Bar Mitzvah? I attended temple and was confirmed with my class until we graduated high school which no other class had done. 11. What is your educational background? What was your career? I spent 2 years at Vanderbilt and 2 years at the University of Louisville. I received History, Sacred Science, and a Teaching certificate. I then taught at Southern High for 2.5 years, and when I stopped teaching there was a great teacher increase. 12. What brought you to Louisville and when did you come? I have always lived in Louisville. My family came here when my mother was bom. 13. How did you meet your husband/wife? Where and when were you married? Did you have children? I met Ronnie at Vanderbilt. I was a Frat. Project. I was dating a ZBT Parents picked me up at end of freshman year. My mother said about Ronnie, “He’s cute.” �I said “yuck” When I went sophomore year I had broken up with the ZBT brother. Ronnie decided they were going to rush the Jewish girls. I always had dates with the 2 guys. Ronnie said he was serious so I stopped dating the other guy. We were married on February 2, 1958 in my parents’ living room. We had a choice of big wedding or small and cash was sparse to us. I had two children, Elizabeth Sue (Beth) Abrams Mitchell 5/11/62 and Marc Neil Abrams 5/19/64. 14. Tell about you involvement in the Jewish Community? Was you whole family involved? Club? My mother and father active in the temple, Shriners, and Oldhum Church. My mother was very active in NCSW but wouldn’t take presidency. When I joined she resigned. NCJW? 15. How was your family affected by the World Wars? Wars in Israel? My father’s father (my grandfather) was killed in WWI in Germany. WWII my father was of age to be drafted but declared 47-7th and became an air raid warden. I remember the rations and tin cans. My family had no personal involvement in Israeli wars. 16. What are your favorite spiritual memories? How did religion affect your life? I always was devout to Judaism because of the concept of giving and responsibility to uphold justice to make the world a better place. As a teenager I was attentive to services. I didn’t think of spirituality. I lived through Judaism “It’s what you do” if you are a Jew. I was always drawn to livelihood passages, “Do Justice-love mercy. I walk humbly with thou G-d.” There is not a day in my life that I’m not affected by choices. I can make (Jewish) it’s me! 17. What interests do you have? My interests include family, community service, friends, and reading. 18. What are your favorite family memories? They all deal with humor and storytelling. My father was a practical joker and my children still tell Thelma and Ted jokes or stories. 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? My legacy is my children. Remembered for their humor and humanity. �I want to be remembered for the small things that have affected others. Little victories are the values that everyone should take with them. JFVS/aj 06/01/07 Word.olderAdult.OralHistories.forms �Resume MARIE K. ABRAMS 2829 Avenue of the Woods Louisville, KY 40241 502-426-4220 CURRENT COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES Board of Trustees, University of Louisville Board, Jewish Council for Public Afiairs (JCPA) Board, Southern Regional Council Board, Center for Women and Families United Jewish Communities (UJC), Trustee and Pillar member of HSSP (Human Services and Social Policy) UJC, HSSP Chair of National Agencies Committee PAST COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES National Vice Chair, National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council (NJCRAC) Co-Chair Equal Opportunity and Social Justice Task Force, NJCRAC Race and Public Policy Ad Hoc Committee, JCPA Chair, Social Security Task Force, Council of Jewish Federation’s Washington Action Office Chairperson, Kentucky Commission on Women President, National Council of Jewish Women (N.C.J.W.), Louisville Section Member, National Board, N.C.J.W. and Vice Chair of National Affairs Committee President, Kentucky Youth Advocates Leadership Kentucky Class, 1986 Board, Louisville Jewish Community Federation Chair, Women's Division, Louisville United Jewish Campaign Chair, Community Relations Council, Jewish Community Federation Advisory Council, Jefferson County Office for Women Chamber of Commerce Economic Development Task Force Louisville Public Education Committee (group of 12 people appointed by the Chamber of Commerce to involve the business community in the direction and quality of education in our community) Chairman, Israel Advisory Committee of the Louisville Community Relations Council (CRC) Governor's Task Force on Juvenile Delinquency; Chair, Subcommittee on Status Offenders Board, Jewish Hospital Chair, Task Force on Educational Funding, Jefferson County Public Schools Chair, Community-wide pro- and anti-busing dialogue group appointed by mayor and county judge to reduce tension Chair, Title XX Coalition White House Conference on Domestic and Economic Affairs Board member, Louisville and Jefferson County Youth Commission �Board member, Jewish Social Service Agency Board member, Family and Children’s Agency Board member, Jewish Community Center Delegate, Democratic National Convention, 1988 Chair, Harvey Sloane Inauguration, 1982 EMPLOYMENT Legislative Aide to Kentucky Senate Majority Office, 1982-Present, (full-time during sessions, part-time in interim) Associate, Schimpeler Corradino & Associates, 1984-1989, an engineering and urban design firm (coordinated projects, managed public involvement activities and served as intergovernmental liaison) Legislative Aide to Chairman Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee, 1980 Administrative Assistant to Governor of Kentucky during 1972 and 1974 General Assemblies Public School Teacher AWARDS Hannah G. Solomon Award, National Council of Jewish Women, Louisville Section Lewis Cole Young Leadership Award, Jewish Community Federation Wilson Wyatt, Sr. Award, Leadership Kentucky National Conference Brotherhood Award Ottenheimer Award EDUCATION Vanderbilt University, 1955-1957 B.A., University of Louisville, 1959 - Social Science Major �Jewish Family & Vocational Service Louis & Lee Roth Family Center Board of Directors Stephanie Speigel Executive Director Marjorie B. Kohn President Steven Shapiro President Elect/Treasurer Barbara Goldberg David Handmaker Lowell Katz Robert Riley Vice Presidents Gail Pohn Ex-officio President Mitchell Charney Jane Goldstein Robert Levine Howard Markus Shirley Markus Lillian Seligman Jeffrey Weiss Past Presidents Lewis D. Cole Alexander Erlen Arthur Grossman Shelton R.Weber Honorary Directors TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: I do hereby give my permission to record my life history through the Jewish Family and Vocational Service, 3587 Dutchmans Lane, Louisville, Kentucky 40205. My story will be kept in the JFVS library unless I choose to keep it myself. ’ark Ament .ne Bennett _ilyn Berman Joan Byer Howard L Cantor Natalie Davis Jonathan Dubins Simon Fields Phyllis Florman Ann Friedman Bob German Rachel Greenberg Debbie Hyman Howard Kaplin Jay Klempner Benjamin Levitan Chuck O'Koon Jordan Pohn Suzy Post Mona Schramko Judy Shapira Julie Strull Susan Waterman Frank Weisberg Participant Witness Rabbi Avrohom Litvin Rabbi Stanley Miles Rabbi Joe Rooks Rapport Rabbi Gaylia R. Rooks Rabbi Robert Slosberg Rabbi Bradley C.Tecktiel JFVS/aj 5/14/01 Word.coununit.p Association of Jewish Family & Children's Agencies International Association of Jewish Vocational Services Accredited by Council of Accreditation of Services or Families and Children, Inc. United Way Jewish Family & Vocational Service 3587 Dutchmans Lane • Louisville, Kentucky 40205 • (502) 452-6341 • Fax (502) 452-6718 E-mail: jfvs@jfvs.com • Web: www.jfvs.com � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jewish Family and Career Services interviews, 2001-2018 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jewish Family and Career Services (Louisville, Ky.) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/" target="_blank" title="In Copyright" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</a> Language A language of the resource eng heb Type The nature or genre of the resource Collection Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 20th century 21st century Description An account of the resource Summaries of 206 interviews with Jewish community members in Louisville, Kentucky, conducted by Jewish Family and Career Services volunteers. Originally started by Ann Friedman, Director of Klein Older Adult Services, the project sent volunteers to listen to seniors and summarize their stories. The volunteers used a standardized script to ask community members about their family’s immigration to the United States and move to Louisville; their family and religious life in Louisville; and what they hoped their legacy would be. Some of the interviews include supplemental material on the narrators, such as resumes, obituaries, and photographs. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource bulk 2001-2018 1930s-1950s 1980s-2018 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 024x6_abramsm Title A name given to the resource Interview with Marie Abrams, 2001 Description An account of the resource Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Marie Abrams (1937-) on October 2, 2001. The summary is accompanied by Marie Abrams's resume. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Abrams, Marie K., 1937- Friedman, Robert Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2001-10-02 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Report Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Interviews Jewish families Jews Judaism Jefferson County (Ky.) Kentucky Louisville (Ky.) Highlands (Louisville, Ky.) 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To learn about this process, visit https://filsonhistorical.org/collections/order-reproductions/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Jewish Family and Career Services (Louisville, Ky.) https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/34455/archive/files/b9df4a592918a00520f31a288752766b.pdf?Expires=1779926400&Signature=QPRmxUZtldtcezGSItr4bwAP3ob9UDGzbyi85XYwou8lgxCaNTrOCk0GSKu%7Ev9UV3vGoInfX1x2U2ZyJADL7nQ4tRJ5u4WyJl5u8RS-E9HXFNi%7EWGXUd%7E9MGXK0J915tWKxKkMN4gq5fhCByZBRTg9c0FM3A1VEVXigqCvE6WE2Sff3mQ8SqYTmfeFgAlIRY8gGgooTSnenj-aYsAuM0dIl8%7EybFYdF-ZL3X-XN2I0HxRbZLNkcLhQymmcskWUapgBiE590Y0mxeOvsusOgRkrbiplARPuNByAJaxM0Lh%7E1gureoWEwvnhEf9Yr2XYXqT5AuFGvVpguF4c2Moe1gMQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 6bcd2c078bf84876396e62a99902bbbc PDF Text Text QUESTIONAIRE FOR ORAL HISTORIES 1. lam _____ Ann Friedman with______ Nancy K. Abrams on________ February 6, 2002 , I am conducting an interview for the JFVS archives 2. Can you tell me how and why your family originally came to this country and when? On my mother’s side, my great grandfather came from Scotland. My grandfather and grandmother lived in Covington, KY but moved to Cincinnati, OH where my mother was bom. My father was bom in Mississippi and his parents were also bom in this country. I don’t know where my great grandparents were bom but they tleft this country and went to Israel to die. In 1967, my husband and I went to Israel and found their graves at Mt. Olive. 3. What were your parents’ names and where were they born? My father, Harry Klein, was bom near Jackson, MI. My mother, Marjorie Levine Klein, was in Cincinnati, OH. 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? My birth date is January 16, 1938. Only English was spoken at home. We lived in the Highlands, and I have one sister. When I was in my teens, my grandmother and great-grandparents all came to live in our home. 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? There were many Jewish families living in the Highlands, and all my relatives lived within a two-mile radius. Out chauffer drove us to school and I was embarrassed so I sat next to him rather than in the back with my sister. On pretty days, I walked home with friends. When I was in high school, I would get out of the chauffeur driven car a block from school and walk. We were always driven to Sunday school, as we had carpools and everybody in our neighborhood had a chauffeur. When I went to temple, it was always with my parents. We had a drug store at Bardstown Road where we hung out. I also went to Cherokee Ice Cream every day for a chocolate ice cream cone, even in the winter. 6. How did the 1937 flood affect you and your family? �The flood didn’t really affect my family as we lived in an apartment at that time. My parents had people over for meals during the flood, people who couldn’t get to their homes. 7. If you wished to travel what kind of transportation did you use? Did you travel when you were young? If so, where? We drove and took the train to Cincinnati many times. We went to Florida when I was one for six months because I was sick. Years later we drove often to Florida. I took a train to Camp Wenonah in Maine every summer. 8. Was your family involved in a synagogue / temple? We belonged to the temple, but were never really involved. My father was always involved with selling bonds. 9. What holidays and rituals were observed? Passover was the big holiday with all of the family together. We also celevrated all the other major Jewish holidays. 10. Did you attend religious school? Were you confirmed? Bar Mitzvah? I went to Sunday school and I was confirmed. 11. What is your educational background? What was your career? I had one year of college in Illinois. My career was motherhood and volunteering. I worked for the temple sisterhood, but mainly for NCJW and the UJC. 12. What brought you to Louisville and when did you come? I was bom in Louisville. 13. How did you meet your husband/wife? Where and when were you married? Did you have children? My brother-in-law introduced us in Louisville in 1955, and we were married there in 1957. We have four children, Karen, Kenny, Kathy, and Keith, all with a K. We also hace twelve wonderful grandchildren (one deceased). 14. Tell about you involvement in the Jewish Community? Was you whole family involved? I started out with the temple sisterhood, but mostly NCJW, which I started doing in my early 20’s, and I was president when I was 35. then I started the candy business, which I had for 18 years. Out children were very involved with B’nai Brith clubs and volunteer work. Our son Kenny started a few volunteer programs that raised money for heart disease (in high school). �15. How was your family affected by the World Wars? Wars in Israel? My family was not affected at all. 16. What are your favorite spiritual memories? How did religion affect your life? There really were not a lot, we always had out extended family for the Jewish Heritage, and we always felt very Jewish. I feel like our parents tried to assimilate. Today there is a lot more with my children. 17. What interests do you have? My interests were golf, tennis, reading, walking, bridge, and especially volunteer work. Now I play tennis, read, walk, play bridge, and do limited volunteer work. 18. What are your favorite family memories? Taking our four children, their spouses, and their children on family vacations early in the summer. Raising my children was the most wonderful time of my life. Once I was eighteen, I went to Florida every year with my parents and my sister, and we went to school there. A bus would pick me up at the hotel. This continued through my second year of high school. My parents took my husband and me on several trips to Europe. My grandmother went on one. I have great memories of my aunt and those trips. That is why my husband and I now take our children and grandchildren, so that we may always be close to family. 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 my children to be good, caring parents, which they are. They have more religion in their life, which pleases me greatly. They are very caring, loving, and thoughtful people. They do lots of volunteer work and we see, in their own way, they are trying to make out world a better place. I feel like I have passed these values on to them. I really did something right. That is how I would like to be remembered, a good parent, grandparent, and friend. JFVS/aj 06/13/07 Word.oiderAdult.OralHistories.forms �TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: I do hereby give my permission to record my life history through the Jewish Family and Vocational Service, 3587 Dutchmans Lane, Louisville, Kentucky 40205. My story will be kept in the JFVS Library and can be accessed by interested people. It will be preserved archivally for future generations. Participant Witness Date Signed JFVS/aj 10/4/01 Word.coununit.permission.history � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jewish Family and Career Services interviews, 2001-2018 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jewish Family and Career Services (Louisville, Ky.) 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The volunteers used a standardized script to ask community members about their family’s immigration to the United States and move to Louisville; their family and religious life in Louisville; and what they hoped their legacy would be. Some of the interviews include supplemental material on the narrators, such as resumes, obituaries, and photographs. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource bulk 2001-2018 1930s-1950s 1980s-2018 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 024x6_abramsn Title A name given to the resource Interview with Nancy Abrams, 2002 Description An account of the resource Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Nancy Abrams (1938-) on February 6, 2002. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky. Nancy K. Abrams was born in Louisville, and grew up in the Highlands in her youth. Her daily life included attending middle and high school, Sunday school on weekends, and socializing with friends at a Bardstown Road drug store. She and her family were largely unaffected by the local flood of 1937 and the international Jewish crisis of the Holocaust and Israeli conflicts. She maintained Jewish faith by being confirmed and participating in the NCJW, a demonstration of social service she passed on to subsequent generations in her family. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Abrams, Nancy K., 1938- Friedman, Ann Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2002-02-06 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Report Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Interviews Jewish families Jews Judaism Jefferson County (Ky.) Kentucky Louisville (Ky.) Highlands (Louisville, Ky.) Abrams, Ronald W., 1936- Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 20th century 21st century Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived 024x6 Jewish Family and Career Services interviews, The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Property rights in the collection belong to The Filson Historical Society. 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To learn about this process, visit https://filsonhistorical.org/collections/order-reproductions/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Jewish Family and Career Services (Louisville, Ky.) https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/34455/archive/files/673e280476d25c2a04933c547adef040.pdf?Expires=1779926400&Signature=tJjAxXY%7EevaX2i%7E-6AhSmR%7EWQwZbLqGjhMAkZKbI3ZfkT0GwErnVvTGpODUyhUpu7nQLjGdXTKavvQyUPmedD5wpXMHX-yLWvF1dq1Fuc-YnqnXbMPKq2NYqTgHtNqRmIKGXWYypJE2sFaenWG5ylA-JzUiJdp71jn8M6JcBlg4vmbm69fQptGKEcr2GSslPVPVOOiOdxlVzT%7EQUVhWh7iMbD40VecyfdzhnDFJOb5SWfYrigxPV9m9sUfiPVsG7BUIHlsOc-FrQu8QOMw4%7EfXMxEi5btgJQd5of6%7ERpcM9fSYGPA6lHzC254ggIAOxhGTNOcLdUPLsxn3efswXGBQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 0bd88217189431e1ad0225b5a5b94b70 PDF Text Text QUESTIONAIRE FOR ORAL HISTORIES 1. lam with on Robert Friedman , I am conducting an interview Ronald Abrams for the JFVS archives October 2, 2001. 2. Can you tell me how and why your family originally came to this country and when? My mother and her father came to the United States when she was six months old. She was bom in Minsk, Russia or on the ship. She never knew her birthday, date, just the year of 1901. My dad was bom in the United States in New York in 1849. His father, from Lithuania came over in the 1880’s. 3. What were your parents’ names and where were they born? My mother, Dorothy Peterman Abromovitz Giller, was bom April 5, 1901 and died February 5, 1987. My father, Benjamin Abromovitz, was bom February 5, 1894 and died May 18, 1967. My name was always Abrams. 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? I was bom June 22, 1936. The languages spoken in my home were English and some Yiddish. My grandfather lived with us until I was 5 at which point he died. We lived in the same apartment until my mother died. My sister also lived there. She was 13 when I was bom, so she was only home for summers. 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? We lived in the upper west side of Manhattan, at 85 and West End Avenue. There were primarily Jewish families. I never though about being Jewish. I did not know in grade school or high school if my friends were Jewish or not. I went to high school in the Bronx. I went to Bronx High School of Science, a college prep high school. I walked to grade school and junior high. I took the subway to high school. There were several grocery stores and drug stores. We lived a block away from Broadway and I would go to Riverside Park. 6. How did the 1937 flood affect you and your family? Not asked on 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? �I went camp every summer in Connecticut and up state New York for two months. There was one time I went to California by train with my family. We also went to Long Island to visit family. We went by car, and never flew. 8. Was your family involved in a synagogue / temple? No, but we were involved in Hebrew Kindergarten and Infants Home. My father founded it. 9. What holidays and rituals were observed? We did not observe holidays and rituals. 10. Did you attend religious school? Were you confirmed? Bar Mitzvah? I attended Sunday school for 3 years. I was Bar Mitzvahed but never learned Hebrew. We were never members of a congregation and I had no formal education. My firs Seder was in school at Vanderbilt University. 11.What is your educational background? What was your career? I received a BA in business from Vanderbilt University. I then went to Coopers and Lybrand as an accountant. I then spent 41 years at Yeager, Ford, and Warren. I am now retired, but I’m still involved with assisting start up companies. (Please see attached sheet.) 12. What brought you to Louisville and when did you come? Marie, because we were dating, and my business, brought me to Louisville. I was going to school at Vanderbilt University and came for a holiday weekend. While I was here inn Louisville, I talked to a CPA who said to graduate and get a CPA degree. 13. How did you meet your husband/wife? Where and when were you married? Did you have children? I met Marie at Vanderbilt.She was a Frat. Project. She was dating a ZBT When I went sophomore year she had broken up with the ZBT brother. I decided they were going to rush the Jewish girls. She always had dates with the 2 guys. I said I was serious so she stopped dating the other guy. We were married on February 2, 1958 in her parents’ living room. We had a choice of big wedding or small and cash was sparse to us. I had two children, Elizabeth Sue (Beth) Abrams Mitchell 5/11/62 and Marc Neil Abrams 5/19/64. 14. Tell about you involvement in the Jewish Community? Was you whole family involved? �My mother and father active in the temple, Shriners, and Oldhum Church. My mother was very active in NCSW but wouldn’t take presidency. When I joined she resigned. 15. How was your family affected by the World Wars? Wars in Israel? My brother-in-law was in the navy during WWII. My family was not affected by the wars in Israel. 16. What are your favorite spiritual memories? How did religion affect your life? I have no real spiritual memories in the religious sense. Family has made the difference. The march on Washington-Soviet Jewry. I believe in what we do here. Marie taught me how to be Jewish. 17. What interests do you have? The community, golf, and travel are my interests. Another interest of mine is to help young people start their business, not in a tax related way, but to help them raise money. 18. What are your favorite family memories? Trips before 1976. The 200th anniversary in 1975. The Seder where we took from two books (we would have other people over and Marie planned the service). 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? My legacy is community and general involvement. Our children are heavily involved in the community, which is a lovely change for us. Beth is involved in NCSW. I tried to do a good job in the community. JFVS/aj 10/17/02 Word.olderAdult.OralHistories.forms �Louis & Lee Roth Family Center Board of Directors Stephanie Speigel Executive Director Marjorie B. Kohn President Steven Shapiro President Elect/Treasurer Barbara Goldberg David Handmaker Lowell Katz Robert Riley Vice Presidents Gail Pohn Ex-officio President Mitchell Charney jane Goldstein Robert Levine Howard Markus Shirley Markus Lillian Seligman Jeffrey Weiss Past Presidents Lewis D. Cole Alexander Erlen Arthur Grossman Shelton R.Weber Honorary Directors TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: I do hereby give my permission to record my life history through the Jewish Family and Vocational Service, 3587 Dutchmans Lane, Louisville, Kentucky 40205. My story will be kept in the JFVS library unless I choose to keep it myself. Mark Ament '>iane Bennett Jlyn Berman Joan Byer Howard L. Cantor Natalie Davis Jonathan Dubins Simon Fields Phyllis Florman Ann Friedman Bob German Rachel Greenberg Debbie Hyman Howard Kaplin Jay Klempner Benjamin Levitan Chuck O'Koon Jordan Pohn Suzy Post Mona Schramko Judy Shapira Julie Strull Susan Waterman Frank Weisberg Rabbi Avrohom Litvin Rabbi Stanley Miles Rabbi Joe Rooks Rapport Rabbi Gaylia R. Rooks Rabbi Robert Slosberg Rabbi Bradley C.Tecktiel Date Signed JFVS/aj 5/14/01 Word.coununit.pennission.history Association of Jewish Family & Children's Agepcies International Association of Jewish Vocational Services Accredited by Council of Accreditation of Services for Families and Children. Inc. Jewish Family & Vocational Service 3587 Dutchmans Lane ■ Louisville, Kentucky 40205 • (502) 452-6341 • Fax (502) 452-6718 E-mail: jfvs@jfvs.com • Web: www.jfvs.com �BIOGRAPHY RONALD W. ABRAMS EDUCATION 1950- 1953 1953 - 1957 1957- 1958 Bronx High School of Science B.A., Vanderbilt University University of Louisville EMPLOYMENT 1957 - Present 1971 - Present 1977 - 1990 1990 - 1994 1994 - 1997 1998-1999 20012001- Coopers & Lybrand, Louisville, Kentucky (or its predecessor) Partner Partner in Charge of Taxes Executive Tax Partner Tax Market Leader Viperlink, International, CFO, Director T eledvance,LLC-Director Monty’s Plant Food-Director COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES Adath Israel B’rith Sholom (B’rith Sholom) Treasurer 1967 - 1969 1969- 1971 Secretary 1971 - 1973 Second Vice President 1973 - 1975 First Vice President 1975 - 1977 President 1977-Present Board Member Jewish Community Federation 1974 - Present Board Member 1973 - Present Campaign - UJC 1977 - 1980 Chairman Community Relations Council 1982 Chairman Group & Social Services Subcommittee, Planning & Budgeting Committee 1982 - Present Endowment Fund 1983 - 1986 Treasurer 1986 - 1988 Vice President 1986 Co-Chairman of United Jewish Campaign 1988 - 1991 President 1991 - Present Executive Committee �1997 - Present Chair, Foundation �Metro United Way 1987 Portfolio Chairman 1991 Leadership Circle Chairman 1991 - 1995 Nominating Committee 1994 Endowment Committee 1994 Allen Society- Volunteer of the Year 1995 - Present Resource Development Cabinet 1997 - Present Board of Directors Louisville Chamber of Commerce Activities Economic Development Steering Committee Targeted Marketing Subcommittee Chairman Occupational Tax Task Force Entrepreneurial Conference Chairman, Tax Legislative Policy Subcommittee Government Affairs Committee OTHER 1971 - 1974 1973 1973 1968 1969 - 1971 1971 - 1973 1974 1974- 1982 1978 - 1979 1973 - 1975 1969- 1971 1974 1976- 1978 1976 - 1978 1981 - 1982 Community Action Committee, Louisville and Jefferson County Council on Religion and Race Board Bureau of Jewish Education Board B'nai Brith - Treasurer Actors Theatre Board Member Standard Country Club Board Member - Treasurer Young Leadership Award, Jewish Community Federation National Conference of Christians & Jews: Board Member Co-Chairman Member, Legislation Advisory Committee Kentucky Society of CPA's Chairman, Federal Taxation Committee Kentucky Society of CPA's Treasurer, Vote Yes for Transit Committee Governor's Economic Development Committee, Task Force-on Finance Board Member, Midwest Council, Union of American Hebrew Congregations Leadership Louisville, Louisville Chamber of Commerce National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council / Jewish Council for Public Affairs 1982 - 1986 Church State Commission 1982 - Present Equal Opportunity and Social Justice Task Force 1995 Chair, Budget and Finance Committee 1996- 2000 Treasurer 2000- Present Executive Com �1979- 1983 1984- 1990 1990 - Present 1987- 1993 1994- 1996 1989 - Present 1991 - 1993 1992 1994- 1996 Urban League - Board Member Jewish Hospital Board Jewish Hospital Healthcare Systems Board Fifteen Telecommunications (Public TV station): Chairman and Board Member, Finance Committee Chairman, Team One subsidiary board Regional Cancer Center Corporation Board Member Midwest United Jewish Appeal Major Gifts Committee Person of the Year - B’nai Brith Council on Peacemaking - Board Member Council of Jewish Federations - (National) 1991 - 1993 Board Member 1993 - 1996 Vice Chairman, Community Budgeting Council 1997 National Funding Council, Executive Committee 1995 - 1997 Strategic Planning Steering Committee 1995 - 1997 1998 - Present Task Force on Soviet Jewry AdvocacyBoard Member � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/" target="_blank" title="In Copyright" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</a> Language A language of the resource eng heb Type The nature or genre of the resource Collection Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 20th century 21st century Description An account of the resource Summaries of 206 interviews with Jewish community members in Louisville, Kentucky, conducted by Jewish Family and Career Services volunteers. Originally started by Ann Friedman, Director of Klein Older Adult Services, the project sent volunteers to listen to seniors and summarize their stories. The volunteers used a standardized script to ask community members about their family’s immigration to the United States and move to Louisville; their family and religious life in Louisville; and what they hoped their legacy would be. Some of the interviews include supplemental material on the narrators, such as resumes, obituaries, and photographs. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource bulk 2001-2018 1930s-1950s 1980s-2018 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 024x6_abramsr Title A name given to the resource Interview with Ronald Abrams, 2001 Description An account of the resource Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Ronald Abrams (1936-) on October 2, 2001. The summary is accompanied by Ronald Abrams's resume. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Abrams, Ronald W., 1936- Friedman, Robert Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2001-10-02 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Report Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Interviews Jewish families Jews Judaism Jefferson County (Ky.) Kentucky Louisville (Ky.) New York (N.Y.) Accountants Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 20th century 21st century Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived 024x6 Jewish Family and Career Services interviews, The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Property rights in the collection belong to The Filson Historical Society. 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To learn about this process, visit https://filsonhistorical.org/collections/order-reproductions/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Jewish Family and Career Services (Louisville, Ky.) https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/34455/archive/files/692e9f23c91dcacadfc2671f6e4adefd.pdf?Expires=1779926400&Signature=Ixsd31LrUslwY-WSZk4J98YqcoLrM90zz1NZ68%7EznpQPjumALXdjSaUVx0k4ShJCDmFEDdkkSqwfKSaxcs-CV48etGmeJLoW%7EElXRI8n9PQ4SHLZu-VYeORAmDuMTZkDz5ZJFySELc7jtEIj-vNwMsQBLCiU4-l-uBBX6JBrme3f8vd-luz6-Wltk8%7EISErOFspX2r0MDIXeAmMXKEvSZGtcbO15isexpqn%7E1vQEwNkskWPx2XmAof-wZheWMUKeJCygfr1mzXjN8b9Cnzgn-ZGQ%7Eh04EMJNIgESO8LqdEA0VNnmG6vJrXne0l2qRjZnkiO2wufrXcTj%7EGWoqIAGmg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 38db2e6acf0b8e368b8f35cb6a2910fc PDF Text Text QUESTIONAIRE FOR ORAL HISTORIES I am Gay Adelstein- Rapley, I am conducting an interview with: Ida Sontzfor the JFCS archives on June 2010 . 1. Tell me how and why your family originally came to this country and when? Mrs. Sontz’s parents, Alex Goldberg and her mother, Bertha Rosen Goldberg met in Russia, moved to Mississippi and opened a dry goods store. The immigrated there before the big Mississippi flood. 2. Tell me about your parents - their names and where were they bom? They were both born in Russia, Alex Goldberg and Bertha Rosen Goldberg. 3. What is your birth date? What language(s) were spoken in your home? Ida Sontz was born in 1923 in Mississippi. Her parents spoke Russian when they didn’t want the children to understand what was being said; otherwise English was spoken in her home. 4. Where did you live as a child? Who Hived in the same house with your Grandparents? Uncles/Aunts? Brothers? Sisters? At first they lived in Sumner, Mississippi and then moved to Inverness. Mississippi. Only the immediate family lived together. One grandmother had to stay in Russia because she had jlaucoma. 5. What brought you or your family to Louisville, Kentucky and when did you come? 6. What was your neighborhood Bike? Were there other Jews living in the neighborhood? Did you walk to school? Sunday school? Synagogue/Temple? Was there a neighborhood grocery? Drug store? In Mississippi they lived in small towns with only 6 or 7 other Jewish families, but she neverencountered discrimination. They had friends in all groups. They walked to school, but since there was no synagogue, a lady named Sweetie Cohen drove them every Sunday to a Jewish School about 10 miles away. In their towns, there were several food and drug stores and a larger town was about 40 miles away. 7. Bf you or your family lived in Louisville at the time - how did the 1937 flood affect you and your loved ones? Mrs. Sontz’s immediate family was not effected by the flood, but her father was concerned his rental properties. about 8. Iff you wished to travel within the city limits what kind of transportation did you use? Did you travel out of town when you were young? What kind of transportation did you use when you raveled out of town? And if so, where did you go? What special memories do you have of those trips? In Mississippi, the family walked and drove places. Sometimes they would drive to Louisville to visit family and would go to the Lerner Auction House. It was very exciting being in such a large city. �9. Was your family involved in a synagogue/temple? n Mississippi, there was 1 shul and 1 synagogue 40 miles away. On major holidays, her who was raised Orthodox, closed his store and went to shul. father, HO.What holidays and rituals were observed in your family? Do you have any significant memories surrounding Jewish celebrations and what was special about those occasions? Her family kept Kosher and celebrated the Sabbath, but did not have Seders or do any other celebrations. 11. Did you attend religious school? Were you confirmed? Did you have a Bar Mitzvah? What are your memories from that time? Are you still in touch with some of the people that attended Sunday School with you? Mrs. Sontz did attend Sunday School in Mississippi but was not confirmed and did not have a Bat Mitzvah. She kept in touch with one friend from Sunday School until 2 years ago when the friend died. 12. What is your educational background? What was your career? Who or what influenced you to choose your career? Mrs. Sontz went to Bowling Green College, a business school for 1 year, her sister, Ann, who was like a second mother to her, married and moved to Memphis, Tennessee so Mrs. Sontz followed her thee. While in Memphis, Mrs. Sontz worked in an office. Io. How did you meet your husband/wife? Where and when were you married? Do you have children? Grandchildren? Mrs. Sontz met her husband while living in Memphis. He was in the Army and there werweekend get-togethers for service men. They were married in Louisville at the Kentucky Hotel. Their children: Michael A. Sontz, a dentist and Rosalin S. Friedman, a retired teacher. Her grandaughter, Pamela Sontz had a 4 year scholarship to III, and is now in Pasadena Polytechnic in chemistry. 14. Discuss your involvement in the Jewish Community outside of your temple or synagogue when you were growing up. Mrs. Sontz is a member of Adath Jeshurun, but does not go to services very often. 15. What was your involvement in the non- Jewish community? Did you witness any antiSemitism living in Louisville? Mrs. Sontz has not suffered any discrimination. Where she lives now, in a condo in St. Mathews, she has some wonderful neighbors who look after her. In particular, a retired priest (possibly Episcopalian) and his wife. Also another neighbor - an African American man who also helps her quite often. ' low was your family affected by the World Wars? Wars in Israel? 11. Her family was not affected by wars. Her husband was in the Army, but the war ended before he had to go overseas. �18. What are your favorite spiritual memories? How did religion affect your life? Her father taught her basic values - to be honest and to be reasonable. “You may be poor but you nust still be honest.” 19. What interests or hobbies did you have when you were young and what are they now? When Mrs. Sontz was young her hobbies were driving, movies, reading and shopping. Now, these hobbies are hard to do since she has developed Glaucoma. 20. What are your favorite family memories - whether it was with your family of origin, or your extended family and friends? Mrs. Sontz has no bad memories. She had a loving family who spoiled her (her father bought her a car and a fur coat) and she had a loving and helpful husband (he always did the dishes) who always took good care of her. One funny memory of her granddaughter, Pamela - a friend came over while Pamela was thee and said “Hello Phil” to her husband, and Pamela said, “That’s not Phil, that’s Zayde!” 21. What is your legacy? How would you like to be remembered? What values would you like to pass on to those you leave behind? The values Mrs. Sontz would like to pass on are being hones, considerate and appreciative, and she would like to be remembered as a woman who has appreciated her good luck and is grateful for all the good things that happened to her. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jewish Family and Career Services interviews, 2001-2018 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jewish Family and Career Services (Louisville, Ky.) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/" target="_blank" title="In Copyright" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</a> Language A language of the resource eng heb Type The nature or genre of the resource Collection Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 20th century 21st century Description An account of the resource Summaries of 206 interviews with Jewish community members in Louisville, Kentucky, conducted by Jewish Family and Career Services volunteers. Originally started by Ann Friedman, Director of Klein Older Adult Services, the project sent volunteers to listen to seniors and summarize their stories. The volunteers used a standardized script to ask community members about their family’s immigration to the United States and move to Louisville; their family and religious life in Louisville; and what they hoped their legacy would be. Some of the interviews include supplemental material on the narrators, such as resumes, obituaries, and photographs. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource bulk 2001-2018 1930s-1950s 1980s-2018 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 024x6_sontzi Title A name given to the resource Interview with Ida Sontz, 2010 Description An account of the resource Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Ida Sontz (1923-) in June 2010. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sontz, Ida, 1923- Adelstein, Gay Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2010-06 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Report Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Interviews Jewish families Jews Judaism Jefferson County (Ky.) Kentucky Louisville (Ky.) 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To learn about this process, visit https://filsonhistorical.org/collections/order-reproductions/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Jewish Family and Career Services (Louisville, Ky.) https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/34455/archive/files/50ecb8281d2a555baf9fc6641badfb1b.pdf?Expires=1779926400&Signature=g22uFcNkVL8DQPghmtBLplkdYxXqUuoVQSibGmW5sZuTGZ8MHGtyauDQ0fOhBQkgJzURGt7oRNM0G0IYmvBULmxU2YUkeh50xsLJjm5af83q1cGTLjP7A7yDMmhfI5W8tMH48kJcnq309AWfH4RXmJFde4pQmUXnBYwUiA6I5%7ElQiiX8%7Eq3m0LeVEvgMDFbTSH53K4aLQZ65e4lg9AVQWbRWJtH5FxPPdqljow8N1to%7EfN1HxBwpn37hdjdLYBvy0xwqpocgp5OCqs8upFMSMY2uaml2wEqfNeeP2FQBso54RpKkI6rejhDEeePoi4wqPP8deGi7KRc%7E%7EPHUsYCMFQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 1318be37d4eaedd683a5296204b522de PDF Text Text QUESTIONAIRE FOR ORAL HISTORIES am Gay Adelstein,I am conducting an interview with: Julian “Pinky” Shapiro for the JFCS archives in Dec. 2011 . 1. Tell me how and why your family originally came to this country and when? How did they travel? Julian’s father, Ben Shapero, was born in Lithuania and came to Louisville when he was four. Julian’s mother was born in Cincinnati. No info on how his father traveled. 2. Tell me about your parents - their names and where were they born? Have there been other family names used in the past? Where, when, and why was it changed? Mother: Minnie Weber, born 1898; father: Benjamin Shaperio, born 1896. No other names used. 3. What is your birth date? What language(s) were spoken in your home? Julian was born in 1930. English was spoken at home; occasionally his parents spoke Yiddish if they didn’t want Julian to understand them. 4. Where did you live as a child? Who lived in the same house with you Grandparents? Uncles/Aunts? Brothers? Sisters? Julian’s sister Shirley and a maid lived with Julian and his parents. He never knew his father’s parents as they had died before he was born. They owned a butcher shop which his grandmother ran while his grandfather spent his day at the Orthodox synagogue. His grandfather had a blind horse that was able to get around by following the streetcar tracks. 5. What brought you or your family to Louisville, Kentucky and when did you come? How did they travel? Did they share any unusual experiences with you? Julian doesn’t know what brought his family to Louisville. No experiences shared. 6. What was your neighborhood like? Were there other Jews living in the neighborhood? Did you walk to school? Sunday school? Synagogue/Temple? What kind of shops were in your neighborhood? On Douglass Blvd, there were lots of Jewish kids and many vacant lots so every day was like instant camp. Many of them, such as Phil Levy, Jimmy Roth, Malcolm Fine, and Jimmy Saag are still friends. On nearby Bardstown Road were many shops: Kerr’s Butcher Shop, Dattilo’s vegetables, Heitzman’s bakery, and Piggly Wiggly to name a few, and at the loop the streetcar turned around. The kids all walked to Belknap elementary. Julian went to Sunday School and had his Bar Mitzvah at Adath Jeshurun. Later, when Julian and his friends went to Male High School, after school they went to the YMHA for all the clubs that were offered. 7. If you or your family lived in Louisville at the time - how did the 1937 flood affect you and your loved ones? �In the west end of Louisville the flood water took out houses, people were found on the roofs, and downtown the sewers backed up. The Highlands was not underwater, so some people (whom Julian did not know) lived in their basement for a while. Julian’s father owned Ben Snyder’s, and on the return to Louisville from one of his buying trips to N.Y. he asked a redcap for a taxi and was told he was on an island. Ben Snyder’s gave out many sheets and blankets to the Red Cross. 8. If you wished to travel within the city limits what kind of transportation did you use? Did you travel out of town when you were young? What kind of transportation did you use when you traveled out of town? And if so, where did you go? What special memories do you have of those trips? Around town, Julian and his friends took the bus. When they went to Cincinnati to visit relatives, they went by train, leaving from the Baxter Avenue Station. Sometimes the family drove, but his father often flew on Eastern or American Airlines for buying trips to New York, leaving from Bowman Field, the only airport at the time. On hot days people would go out to Bowman Field to watch the planes land and take off. Sometimes Julian and family would go to Buechel’s restaurant to eat fried chicken. 9. Was your family involved in a synagogue/temple? Were your parents or other family members religious? Julian’s grandparents were Orthodox, but his parents belonged to Adath Jeshrun. However, they were not very involved with the synagogue. They did have seders, but didn’t light Sabbath candles. Julian has no memories of this 10. What holidays and rituals were observed in your family? Do you have any significant memories surrounding Jewish celebrations and what was special about those occasions? NA 11. Did you attend Sunday School or other religious schools? Were you confirmed? Did you have a Bar/Bat Mitzvah? What are your memories from that time? Are you still in touch with some of the people that attended Sunday School with you? Julian was not confirmed but did go to Sunday school, had a Hebrew teacher, and had a Bar Mitzvah at Adath.Jeshrun. There was very little in the way of Bar Mitzvah parties in those days, but his parents had a party for their own friends. Julian is still in touch with friends from that time. 12. What is your educational background? What was your occupation? Who or what influenced you to choose your career? What kind of preparation or training was required for your career? Julian got his BA in business from the University of Missouri. He did some graduate work, but got his real training and his career from working at Ben Snyder’s. As the store expanded, it became Snyder’s. At first, it was a cash and carry store, but later that image changed. The whole family worked there, and Ben Snyder would give any Jewish person a job. �13. How did you meet your mate? At what point did you realize that this was the one you wanted to marry? Where and when were you married? Do you have children? Grandchildren? Julian met his wife, Lois, when her uncle fixed them up as a blind date. She had been living in Muncie, Indiana, but moved back to Louisville where her mother’s family was. They met in March and were married in November, 1958 by a Reform Rabbi at the Standard Country Club, as Lois was Reform. Their children went to the Reform Temple on Third Street. Julian and Lois have been married 53 years, have three daughters and six grandchildren: Vicky who has Nathan, 19 and Alissa, 18 (living in Louisville), Leslie who has Samantha, 13 and Carly, 10 (living in Pennsylvania); and Amy who has Megan, 11 and Leah, 9 (living in Florida). 14. /15. Discuss your involvement in the Jewish Community outside of your temple or synagogue when you were growing up. Julian’s entire involvement was in the Jewish community. He got his nickname “Pinky” at a Jewish YMHA camp because his face got very pink when he played baseball. In Louisville he played baseball with non-Jews but they were just acquaintances, not real friends. Because of this total Jewish involvement, he never witnessed any anti-Semitism. 15. What was your involvement in the non- Jewish community? Did you witness any anti-Semitism living in Louisville? If so, how was this incident handled? 16. How was your family affected by the World Wars? Wars in Israel? Pearl Harbor? What are your earliest recollections when thinking about major events in history? Julian’s father was in the Navy in WWI, and Julian was in the Air Force in the Korean war. One of Lois’s uncles was a POW. Many cousins were in wars but there were no deaths. Julian remembers rationing and victory gardens. Snyder’s had a big hosiery business, and when Neville Hosiery would send Snyder’s 100 dozen silk stockings, the line would go down the street. Because of the store, Julian and family weren’t affected by rationing except for gas. 17. What are your favorite spiritual memories? How did religion affect your life? No read spiritual memories. Julian’s father did tell him that on Yom Kippur there are certain very important prayers, such as Alvida Makenu, so Julian has said the same thing to his own children and grandchildren. 18. What interests or hobbies did you have when you were young and what are they now? What schools did you attend and are there any memories that stand out from that time in your life? As a kid, Julian played sports, built model airplanes, played Monopoly, and went to the movies at the Uptown every Saturday. Now he plays tennis and does volunteer work. He has been on the board of Jewish Hospital for forty years and has been Chairman of the Board. He started Dare to Care barrels at Kroger’s, goes once a month to fill bags for Dare to Care, and worked for United Way and Coalition for the Homeless. �19. What are your favorite family memories - whether it was with your family of origin, or your extended family and friends? A favorite family memory as a child was going to visit grandfather and Aunt Lee. As an adult, he and Lois would rent a house at Sea Pines at Hilton Head so all the kids from the various families could get to know each other. 20. What is your legacy? How would you like to be remembered? What message do you want to leave for your children and future generations? Julian’s message is a paraphrase from a quote: “When I was born I did not find this earth treeless, so I will plant seeds as my father planted for me and as I have planted for my children.” � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jewish Family and Career Services interviews, 2001-2018 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jewish Family and Career Services (Louisville, Ky.) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/" target="_blank" title="In Copyright" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</a> Language A language of the resource eng heb Type The nature or genre of the resource Collection Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 20th century 21st century Description An account of the resource Summaries of 206 interviews with Jewish community members in Louisville, Kentucky, conducted by Jewish Family and Career Services volunteers. Originally started by Ann Friedman, Director of Klein Older Adult Services, the project sent volunteers to listen to seniors and summarize their stories. The volunteers used a standardized script to ask community members about their family’s immigration to the United States and move to Louisville; their family and religious life in Louisville; and what they hoped their legacy would be. Some of the interviews include supplemental material on the narrators, such as resumes, obituaries, and photographs. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource bulk 2001-2018 1930s-1950s 1980s-2018 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 024x6_shapiroj Title A name given to the resource Interview with Julian Shapiro, 2011 Description An account of the resource Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Julian Shapiro (1930-) in December 2011. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Shapiro, Julian, 1930- Adelstein, Gay Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2011-12 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Report Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Interviews Jewish families Jews Judaism Jefferson County (Ky.) Kentucky Louisville (Ky.) 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To learn about this process, visit https://filsonhistorical.org/collections/order-reproductions/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Jewish Family and Career Services (Louisville, Ky.) https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/34455/archive/files/b7df25a8ff5de905651d1736a512f1e8.pdf?Expires=1779926400&Signature=gicgSWYrnYt9pgU-8uNUboVcmEPfs3eYoUwpeFQbADaMYdf7oLuM8-j3vmrFDU5f5tMHFbPxdd8K8buJirAq8fq5YTaqkWwaOJhAsna4IBvBmTslS8c%7EyrqKTbk%7En7dbYeT-brQNw8XbYlVPAkl5qxOvnENA7txKtjcCa2WFU0-HGHmU612bZsJNhYMVLNrnyQQh-RF0sJaMdaso-fMEDPG6Bv8vXXEfSekvXvy67wPTAcgPgAfE3fuUBtjp4%7EFPXaHOcLwvtxBkEiJ%7E95-NPXBMMPkd%7EJQwm-IvVTXf0ZdjzCv67bjkCETjfLXm1YZUPbpXUctphmlY2wrqhDTtag__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 73934639fa06369c1fc6e9ef8fe32018 PDF Text Text QUESTIONAIRE FOR ORAL HISTORY I am Gay Adelstein-Rapley, conducting an interview with Milton Russman for the JFCS archives during the Fall of 2010. 1. Tell me how and why your family originally came to this country and when? Milton Russman’s father’s family came from a province in Kiev. His grandmother came from Lithuania. No one knows how they met. His great-grandmother was a widow with one child. Her name was Clara Russman and she married Max Zeronsky, a peddler. Her son Rubin took the Zeronsky name until he married and then he changed his name to Russman and Max Zeronsky disowned him for a short while. Max and 4 others moved to Madison, IN, and even though they were Jewish, they were allowed to stay because they were white. 2. Tell me about your parents - their names and where they were bom. Milton Russman’s father, Hyman was born in the Louisville, KY. and his mother Sara came from AustriaHungary in 1920. Her oldest brother came here to avoid the draft, and although she had wanted to go to Palestine, he sponsored her to come here. Her father had died when she was young. She and her sister used the name Pilple instead of her brother’s name, Lampach, so consequently, there were immigration problems, and she had to use the name Lampach in order to get a passport. 3. What is your birth date? What languages were spoken in you home? Milton Russman was born on June 6, 1916. His parents spoke Yiddish when they didn’t want the children to know what was being said. His mother wrote in Yiddish but used English script. 4. Where did you live as a child? Who lived in the same house with you - Grandparents? Uncles/Aunts? Brothers? Sisters? As a child, Milton Russman lived at 600 East Chestnut Street with his older sister and younger twin brothers, and parents. 5. What brought you and your family to Louisville, Kentucky and when did you come? Milton Russman’s grandfather Rubin, a master plumber and a Republican, lived in Madison, IN. Rubin Russman always considered Madison, In. his home town, which he visited many times. No one knows why or when they moved to Louisville. However, besides Hyman (Mr. Russman’s father), Rubin produced nine more children, five boys and five girls total. 6. What was your neighborhood like? Were there other Jews living in the neighborhood? Did you walk to school? Sunday school? Synagogue/Temple? Was there a neighborhood grocery? Drug Store? The Louisville neighborhood was comprised mainly of Catholics and Jews. There was a grocery store and a saloon on every corner but the Jews didn’t go to the saloons. There was no outward anti-Semitism. In the 1930s, his doctor told Milton Russman’s mother that Milton should eat a bacon sandwich every day, in order to regain his strength, following an operation. His Catholics neighbors fed him, but he only did this for 1 week. Mr. Russman went to Hebrew School and then studied with Rebbe Star for 6 years. He lived in the middle of a neighborhood with three Catholic churches. The family attended Keneseth Israel. �7. Ilf you or your family lived! in Louisviile at the time - how did the 1937 flood affect you and your oved ones? Mr. Russman’s family was wiped out by the flood. They had 4 feet of water in their house and water was pouring out of Beargrass Creek onto Broadway. When school was over that day, his sister, who was attending Eastern Junior High School at that time, wasn’t able use Broadway so she had to circle around to get home. Sunday morning a neighbor came to warn them; the water was in front of their house. Another neighbor, a black family, in fact the only black family in the neighborhood, offered them refuge on a second floor. Jerry Abramson’s grandmother and Mr. Russman’s father were brother and sister, so his family stayed with them on the second floor on Preston Street, over the grocery store. About 19-20 people were there at that time. They arrived on a Sunday; and on Tuesday afternoon they were told to leave. There was so much oil in the water that if it were set afire the whole city would burn. A boat came to rescue them to take them to the Highlands. The children were put into a boat but it wouldn’t move. It was on top of a car. The car was smashed by the weight of the boat and they were able to travel up Broadway, to the Highlands, but first had to go to Concordia Lutheran Church to get a typhoid shot. Families divided up. Blacks were housed in the Uptown Theatre. Milton Russman’s girl cousins were shipped to Detroit by bus, but his family stayed here. Mr. Russman and Leon Waldman had to share one army cot. Younger men volunteered to go to the west end to rescue people wherever they were needed. 8. If you wished to travel within the city limits what kind of transportation did you use? Did you travel out of town when you were young? What kind of transportation did you use when you traveled out of town? And if so, where die you go? What special memories do you have of those trips? Streetcars were used in town and trains, cars and buses were used to go out of town. Most Jews had 'ars mainly for business. Mr. Russman’s family rarely traveled, but his father with Mrs. Abramson (siblings) went to Toledo for a short visit to see their sister. His family called this trip “an excursion”. 9. Was your family involved in a Synagogue/Temple? His family was involved at Keneseth Israel. In 1926, 2 congregations (Benet Jacob and Beth Midrash Agadol) had merged to form Keneseth Israel. 10. What holidays and rituals were observered in your family? Do you have any significant memories surrounding Jewish celebrations and what was special about those occasions? Mr. Russman has many memories of family members visiting from Detroit. The family there had 3 sons and their father convinced them that Louisville was full of Indians and had only 1 stoplight. 11. Did you attend religious school? Were you confirmed? Did you have a Bar Mitzvah? What are your memories from that time in your life? Are you still in touch with some of the people that attended Sunday School with you? Milton Russman was Bar Mitzvahed but did not have a confirmation ceremony, as that was only done in Reform congregations. He doesn’t socialize with friends from that time, but bumps into them occasionally. He does, however, see his first girlfriend at the JCC. 12. What is your educational background? What was your career? Who or what influenced you to choose your career? As a child, Mr. Russman always thought he would become a teacher. He attended George W. Morris School and Male High School. Mr. Russman earned a Bachelors degree from University of Louisville, but �also went to Bank Street College on a fellowship. He received his masters from U of L but also studied at the Indiana University. He has 65 hours towards a Doctorate but was married with a child and as the Doctorate required a residency, he wasn’t able to consider that. During his employment with the Louisville School System he became the Principal of a variety of schools including: California Elementary, Dan C. Byck Elementary, Gaven Cochran Elementary School, Steven Foster Elementary School, JB Atkinson Elementary, Stoddard Elementary, Roosevelt Elementary School, James Bond Elementary, and Salisbury Elementary. At one point, it was his job to bring together the faculties of Salisbury and James Bond to form Dan C. Byck Elementary. On 3 different occasions, Mr. Russman was Principal of 2 schools at the same time, while the school system was waiting for another employee to become certified. His last school was Bloom Elementary School -but he was also principal at Hawthorn Elementary School at the same time, for 1 year. He taught for 32 years, was a principal for 21 years and also taught summer sessions at U of L, Nazareth College, which is now Spalding University and Indiana University Southeast, where he taught Judaism in the Humanities Department. Within the Jewish community, Mr. Russman served as Principal of Keneseth Israel’s and Brith Shalom’s Sunday Schools. He also taught at the Jewish Day School, the Hebrew School and also served as a teacher with the Melton program. 13. How did you meet your husband/wife? Where and when were you married? Do you have children? Grandchildren? Most Jewish families lived downtown, and his then wife-to-be and his sister were good friends. He and his wife, Annette, were married at Keneseth Israel in June of 1952. They have 2 sons and 2 grandchildren. Their sons live in Canton, Mass, and New York City. 14. Discuss your involvement in the Jewish community outside of your Temple/Synagogue. Besides being active at his synagogue, Mr. Russman attended and participated at the Young Men Hebrew Association (YMHA). His parents couldn’t pay for this so he couldn’t officially join the clubs associated with it, but less fortunate kids were allowed to attend. He also was a member of Young Judea, where he studied about Palestine (at that time only Jews were Palestinians) and he carried Jewish National Fund (the blue box) boxes around the neighborhood to collect money for social action issues such as buying land in Palestine (now Israel) and planting trees there. 15. What was your involvement in the non-Jewish community? Did you witness any antiSemitism living in Louisville? He was not involved with the non-Jewish community socially, because there wasn’t a lot of social mixing in those days, and never encountered any direct anti-Semitism, except for situations that might have been considered to be subtle, but could never be proven. 16. How was your family affected by the World Wars? Wars in Israel? His mother’s remaining family was all killed in the Holocaust except for 1 cousin, David Pilple, who may have been drafted into the Russian Army. Mr. Russman’s mother had sent the cousin money to get him out of Poland and into Israel. But by that time he had met a Catholic girl and wanted to marry her, so he was unable to go to Israel. The money was returned to Mrs. Russman - which was quite surprising. He stayed in Poland, but in 1967 (a Pogrom occurred) was able to get to Sweden and he raised his daughter Catholic specifically so she wouldn’t have to go through what he did earlier in his life. However, when David Pilple died, his tombstone was written in Hebrew. �Regarding the wars in Israel: His family had friends in Israel with the same name, but they were no ■elation. 17. What are your favorite spiritual memories? How did religion affect your life? Religion has always been a part of his background, a part of his being. 18. What interests or hobbies did you have when you were young and what are they now? Interests when he was younger: Mr. Russman enjoyed stamp collecting, hanging out with friends, going to baseball games where he could get in at no charge. School was very important - he attended Eastern Junior High and Male High School - and he worked in his father’s store. He remembers cutting pork chops when he was 8 years old and had to use both hands to hold the cleaver. T-bone steaks were 39 cents a pound - very expensive at that time, so he couldn’t cut those in case he made a mistake. Now, he would like to spend more of his time reading but cannot due to his eyesight. He uses talking books but they aren’t the same as reading. He also spends much of his time visiting his wife, who is currently in a nursing home. 19. What are your favorite family memories - whether it was with your family of origin, or your extended family and friends? His happiest family memories are of the day he got married and the days his sons were born. One of his worst memories is of the 1937 flood; he was only 11 years old and was very scared of what was happening to them. It was the first time he saw his mother cry. 20. What is your legacy? How would you want to be remembered? What values would you like to pass on to those you leave behind? Mr. Russman would like to be remembered as someone who was honest - “My word is my bond” - and as a good Jew. �>r Every Season Of Your Life Board of Directors President .ay Klempner Vice Presidents □eoDie Friedman Sanoi Frieason Reed Weinberg Treasurer Mark Ament Immediate Past President Barbara Gooberc To Whom It May Concern: Past President Directors G^eg Berman I do hereby give my permission to record my life history through -once oiicert -l/scn Gc.dcerg -nci Moreno erg the Jewish Family & Career Services Oral History Project. Mamr Margolis Sneudr. Adamson Miies Leonunie Mutcm .kk Pere? Resnik runt busier Briar. Segal Bc-rnaro S ^eet Amy \ executive Director .uciy Freundl.cn Heil 2821 Klempner Way. Louisville. Kentucky 40205. My completed story will be sent to me and a second copy will be kept in the JFCS library unless otherwise stipulated in writing by me. Past Presidents Mircne'l Charney jui ie Go dsteiri LWnor:.-? L- Komi Rd Led Mw . mr:ey MarKus GaJ rohn tuiian Seligman Sieve Shapiro Jeffrey WpiSs Participant Honorary Directors aghui Giessman jr.eiton R Weoe. Racoi Stanley Miles Rsdoi ioe Rooks Rapport Date Rabbi Gayiia R Kooks Racoi Robe". Siosherg in.ematioi-.di Association of Jewish Vocational Services mis <r j Roth Family Center <> 2821 Klempner Way • Louisville, Kentucky 40205 )2-452-o341 0 FAX: 502-452-6718 ® www.jfcslouisville.org �Milton Z. Russman, 87, passed away peacefully, Sunday, March 16, 2014. He was bom in Louisville, June 16, 1926 to the late Hyman and Sarah Russman. He was a graduate of Male High School and the University of Louisville. Milton was an elementary school principal, president of the Louisville Education Association and a life-long learner, who retired after 30 years of service to the Louisville public schools. He was a proud member of Keneseth Israel Congregation, an Army veteran of WWII and a Mason of 62 years with Abraham Lodge #8 F&AM. He was a devoted husband for 60 years to the late Annette Brenner Russman. He is survived by his children, Marc Russman (Elyse) of Canton, MA and Eliot Russman; grandchildren, Hayley Russman of New York, NY and Adam Russman of Boston, MA; brothers, Scherrill Russman (Barbara) and Dr. Raymond Russman (Carolyn); and many special nieces and nephews. He resided at Belmont Village, a personal care community in St. Matthews, for the past three years, where he leaves many warm friends and caring staff. Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m. Monday, March 17, 2014 at Herman Meyer & Son, 1338 Ellison Avenue with burial to follow in Keneseth Israel Cemetery. Visitation will be after 1:00 p.m. Expressions of sympathy may be made in his memory to the Kahn Kiddush Fund at Keneseth Israel Congregation, 2531 Taylorsville Road, Louisville, KY 40205. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jewish Family and Career Services interviews, 2001-2018 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jewish Family and Career Services (Louisville, Ky.) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/" target="_blank" title="In Copyright" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</a> Language A language of the resource eng heb Type The nature or genre of the resource Collection Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 20th century 21st century Description An account of the resource Summaries of 206 interviews with Jewish community members in Louisville, Kentucky, conducted by Jewish Family and Career Services volunteers. Originally started by Ann Friedman, Director of Klein Older Adult Services, the project sent volunteers to listen to seniors and summarize their stories. The volunteers used a standardized script to ask community members about their family’s immigration to the United States and move to Louisville; their family and religious life in Louisville; and what they hoped their legacy would be. Some of the interviews include supplemental material on the narrators, such as resumes, obituaries, and photographs. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource bulk 2001-2018 1930s-1950s 1980s-2018 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 024x6_russmanm Title A name given to the resource Interview with Milton Z. Russman, 2010 Description An account of the resource Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Milton Z. Russman (1916-2014) in Fall 2010. The summary is accompanied by an obituary for Milton Z. Russman. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Russman, Milton Z., 1916-2014 Adelstein, Gay Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2010 Fall Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Report Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Interviews Jewish families Jews Judaism Jefferson County (Ky.) Kentucky Louisville (Ky.) 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To learn about this process, visit https://filsonhistorical.org/collections/order-reproductions/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Jewish Family and Career Services (Louisville, Ky.) https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/34455/archive/files/20cb22678b58df034725528a70daa574.pdf?Expires=1779926400&Signature=UeBBcoDu9kKmthi8hNalftNr0WmszWFKqzvxycByT42WEcKJn9fX0MTmtRbribpYUg0tJXiDFrC3blTExNXXqEkH6-NjUemg2lVZiv23lh-L6-c0ly5EJ%7EP4YWn1X1oRUeEH6G%7EmqFcdeK8i3yAVpMIHjJs-06brs938mcxJxhJrkbMZa1jXAj1AejaYG6NoVYmAkkoKvLnEvXU1S7ot6MITgJpdLirJa-jRLnEOVEo1djqXww9zQ6axEMySCTTvBtfWldHz-1--ZAOhsRRMyNILL7342c75z%7EvsidH463RjgdA%7EfoJDpvapPc33wKcPojy28bXh61SR4cexxmnJJg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 3c51638d39936ef257d703a127c118f3 PDF Text Text QUESTIONAIRE FOR ORAL HISTORIES I am Gay Adelstein I am conducting an interview with for the JFCS archives on 6/23/2011. Sonia Cohen Levine Sonia Cohen Levine’s mother, Mayme (Mae) Goldberg Cohen, was born in Louisville in 1904 and lived here until her death at 96. Her father and mother, Lazzar and Sara Reva Goldberg, started a shoe store, one of the first of its kind selling factory rejects and used shoes, near Preston and Market Streets. It later became Schlosserg’s shoes when taken over by Mae’s sister Edith and her husband, Isadora Schlossberg, the long-time cantor of Congregation Adath Jeshuran. Mae’s brother, Sam Goldberg, established G & K Army Goods store with cousin Julius Kaplan that is still in existence today at 639 W. Main Street. Mae graduated from Normal school and began teaching at George Rogers Clark elementary school, driving her first car up the steep hill near Barrett Avenue. In 1931 she married Herman Cohen who lived above her family at 515 East Chestnut. He was the s^n of Rabbi Benjamin Cohen, the rabbi for several years at Anshei Sfard Synagogue. Herman graduated in 1929 from Jefferson School of Law. Besides practicing general law, he was the attorney for several labor unions, including the Kentucky Building and Trades Union, establishing by case law some of the first workman’s compensation laws in Kentucky. His law office in the Republic Building later became Isenberg Sales and Segal after his early death. Mae was very active at the YMHA, appearing in various plays and where she taught English to many of Louisville’s World War II refugees. After her husband’s death she returned to teaching, earning a BS in Education at the U of Louisville, in 1960 and teaching 5th grade at Stephen Foster Elementary School in the West End for eleven years. Mae kept kosher until she was older. Then she was not so strict but still didn’t eat pork or shellfish in her home. Sonia’s paternal grandfather, Rabbi Benjamin Cohen, was an Orthodox rabbi at the age of 28 in Bellingham, Washington, and his wife, Bertha, who was active in the Jewish chapter of the Red Cross. From there they went to El Paso, Texas and Tucson, Arizona, and then in 1928 he came to Louisville as �the rabbi at Anshei Sfard Synagogue. He had been a professor in Iowa of Old Testament Language and Literature and later got his Ph.D. at the Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville. Sonia Fay Cohen was born in Louisville in the west end, but spent most of her young life on Eastern Parkway and Burnett along with her parents and her sister, Bonnie Jay Cohen. Manny Meyers (owned a funeral home) lived next door, and later Ray and Blema Baer lived there. Sonia walked to Emerson Elementary School, and although no other Jewish children were there, she did not experience any anti- Semitism. In fact, she often went to Christian friends’ homes to celebrate Christmas. Her parents were educated people and expected a lot from her academically, and though her mother was over-protective, she was allowed in fifth grade to take the bus and a streetcar by herself to go to the YMHA. Although her parents were Conservative, they were not strictly observant Jews but they did keep kosher, and on high holidays they went to relatives on Brook Street so they could walk to shui (Adath Jeshuran). The ideas of the worth of each human being and of justice for all were most important in their lives. Sonia went to Sunday school at A.J. and was confirmed, but when her parents sent her to Hebrew tool, she hated it and quit after two weeks. She still is friendly with Jean Trager, Frankie Gordon, Belle Levy and others whom she met in Sunday school. In sixth grade Sonia went to Belknap School, then to Highland Junior High, and on to Atherton which at that time was an all-girls’ school. (Years later when Sonia’s sister attended, Atherton was co-ed.) Sonia went to the University of Michigan for two years, then returned to Louisville and got a B.S. in Education at the University of Louisville. After graduation, she taught first grade at Tingley Elementary School at Preston and Ormsby for several years. She was always civic minded, and during WWII she collected gum wrappers for the metal. In high school she collected money for UJC. During the flood of ‘37, when her mother was pregnant with her sister, seven or eight people (a grandfather and a few others) were all staying in their small house. They took a cushion from the porch swing and put it on the floor for Sonia’s bed. They could only flush the toilet once a day and they had to have typhoid ts. �The family had a car and drove to South Haven, Michigan, and stayed at the Mendelsohn Kosher Resort for vacations. They also visited an aunt and uncle in Indianapolis who had once lived in Palestine . .i after WWII returned to the U.S For some high holidays Sonia’s parents would invite Jewish service people from Ft. Knox for dinner, and one year when Sonia was at U of L, they had four men over for Rosh Hashanah. For Yom Kippur they had the same four plus a few others, one of whom was Ronald Leon Levine (born in 1929 in Jackson Break- Fa/tT Heights, N.Y.) who came for the^eakfaet. He had graduated in 1951 from the University of Denver, was drafted, and now had two months left at Ft. Knox where he worked at the Army Medical Research Lab. At the end of this time he replaced himself there in the same position but as a civilian. He and Sonia started dating, she was pinned in 1953, engaged in 1954, and they married in June, 1955. Sadly, Sonia’s father died one month before the wedding. Ronald Levine had been taking graduate classes in Physiology and decided to go to medical school. He was accepted at U of L med school and began classes in the fall after they were married. He went into nily Practice, and then went back for a residency in Ob/Gyn. During this time, he and Sonia had three children. Their oldest, Howard Levine, was born in 1959, and is now married to Karen Klein Levine. At this point, Sonia and Ronald lived in the south end of Louisville. Eighteen months later, in 1961, Stacy Levine Orenstein was born (now married to Josh Orenstein), and in 1964 they had their second son, Glenn Levine. Stacy and Josh live in Chicago and have two children, Jana (20) and Zev (16). Glenn and Marci, who live in Louisville, have two children, Jordyn (16) and Daniel (13), and Glenn is very involved in the Jewish community as the chairman of the teen program and chair of the Endowment Investment Committee. Some of the things that influenced Sonia’s volunteerism were the movie Ox-Bow Incident, the book The Feminine Mystique, and the teachings of Hillel. She became very interested in politics and was state Public Affairs director for NCJW, and was a Democratic precinct captain for 30 years. She worked for ny political campaigns and in 1982 was Campaign Manager for Marcia Weinstein, who ran for State Representative. Sonia served on many committees for Federation and served four years on the Louisville �and Jefferson County Human Relations Commission, marched for desegregation and against the Viet Nam war, and headed study groups for women’s issues such as abortion rights. In 1980, Sonia and Dr. Marcia . ^xler Segal co-chaired the Study of Louisville Jewish Women. With Lillian Seligman, she co-chaired an inter-marriage study for Jewish Family and Career Services. In 1991 she began to work part time at JFCS, and continued working there for nine years. She and Sherrie Urbach worked together, Sonia as a Vocational Counselor and Sherrie as the resettlement person for new Americans. Dr. Ronald Levine was in private practice of OB GYN for over 35 years and was an associate with U of L Medical School. Then in 1996 he became a full time professor at the school. He became interested in a new kind of surgery—pelviscopy—and in 1984 he went to Germany to learn this new technique and brought it back to the U.S. It was the start of Laparoscopy surgery. He was president of AAGL, the largest endoscopy society in the world. He also was on the National Board of Planned Parenthood and worked on sex education programs for the Jefferson Co. Public Schools. As to the wars, Sonia’s father’s brother was a flight surgeon in the Pacific, and she has second and d cousins who live in Israel. Sonia’s favorite memories are vacations and everyday life with her family, and she would like to be remembered as a person who really cared about others. She and husband Ronald are very proud that their children are concerned and caring individuals. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jewish Family and Career Services interviews, 2001-2018 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jewish Family and Career Services (Louisville, Ky.) 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The volunteers used a standardized script to ask community members about their family’s immigration to the United States and move to Louisville; their family and religious life in Louisville; and what they hoped their legacy would be. Some of the interviews include supplemental material on the narrators, such as resumes, obituaries, and photographs. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource bulk 2001-2018 1930s-1950s 1980s-2018 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 024x6_levines Title A name given to the resource Interview with Sonia Cohen Levine, 2011 Description An account of the resource Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Sonia Cohen Levine (1904-) on June 23, 2011. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Levine, Sonia Cohen, 1904- Adelstein, Gay Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2011-06-23 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Report Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Interviews Jewish families Jews Judaism Jefferson County (Ky.) Kentucky Louisville (Ky.) 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To learn about this process, visit https://filsonhistorical.org/collections/order-reproductions/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Jewish Family and Career Services (Louisville, Ky.) https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/34455/archive/files/f9619a35611169b0c63359abe6c5b25f.pdf?Expires=1779926400&Signature=SFIDWSa9%7EiwNQol3l2GsZjdbZlXphMwdahJ6oIXgf3fbJU%7EweBnGKKrLUaYCndeSxBfc4ni7O8yMPUdVaDcM-JoIatdgm8OoBYwiBT-GLc3jfPzin098Ivyp1fRhZv8hcMWmO5tAYnuRfE7ODCVjicBX91waQICR%7Evo8hCwbKFmy3WRJ7ooUOnm7mTQx9xISWRJUUPkX7-ML6wzMKNfoVBsBv287sd5-ob4se7kbhkKbXsUt67dQEFpopCy1lHi9IblKOly0PNI3NzAZOqbIFxmXH-X9b20ET4QakUttaWs2x21V5g2Wn8ShBaZtq7fbk5tZulT-BxdEn49GOUdL-A__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM cce22f66055aef51481bf57a6fac3c2d PDF Text Text QUESTIONAIRE FOR ORAL HISTORIES I am Gay Adelstein- R a Dr. M uriel Handmaker December 14, 2 0 p 1 l 0 e y , I am conducting an interview with:_ for the J FCS archives on . 1. Tell me how and why your family originally came to this country and when? 2. Tell me about your parents - their names and where were they born? My father, Billy Morris Beton, the oldest of 4 children, came from the Island of Rhodes. His family had come from Spain after one of the Spanish inquisitions. My grandfather was a fisherman who drowned when his boat sank, as his family was on the shore waiting for him. My father ended his education at the age of 13 when he threw rotten tomatoes at his teacher from the roof of the school house. He came to me US by himself at the age of 16 and lived in New York, selling Coca Cola at the Metropolitan Opera so that he could hear Caruso sing. He loved opera and sang in and around the house all the time. He then worked his way across the country, even stopping in Louisville along the way, and ending up in Los Angeles. It was there he met my mother, Eleanor Holtzberg, on a blind date and soon married her. They moved to San Francisco, CA, where he opened a shoe findings business, selling shoe laces and polish imported from England as these were not made in the US at that time. My mother was born in the Bronx. My grandmother, Lena Holtzberg, came to the US from Kiev with her 5 or 6 siblings. She was the oldest. She eventually opened a dry goods store in the Bronx, and her husband (also from Kiev) worked as a tailor for Lord and Taylor. My mother attended the Julliard School of Music- she played the piano - but her brother did not go to college. At some point the family moved to Savannah and then to Los Angeles where my mother worked for I. Magnin & Co. She met my father in Los Angeles, CA. I was born in San Francisco in 1934, and 2 years later, my sister, Marsha, was born. Three or four months later, my mother was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. When I was 5, four of us moved to Los Altos, CA. 3. What language(s) were spoken in your home? 4. Where did you live as a child? Who lived in the same house with you - Grandparents? Uncles/Aunts?Brothers? Sisters? My family spoke English most of the time but between my mother and grandmother Yiddish was often spoken. My paternal grandmother lived with us part time and she and my father spoke Latino. During WWII, my maternal grandmother also lived with us most of the time. 5. What brought you or your family to Louisville, Kentucky and when did you come? I came to Louisville in 1956 because my husband, Stuart, was from Louisville. 6. What was your neighborhood like? Were there other Jews living in the neighborhood? Did you walk to school? Sunday school? Synagogue/Temple? Was there a neighborhood grocery? Drug store? In San Francisco, Jews were mainly in the closet at that time. In Los Altos, there were only a few Jews, no synagogue, and no religious education. There was one elementary school (no high school) and I did walk to school. In the town, there was only one grocery store, and one drug store. My big love was riding my bike, and I rode all over the area. I did experience anti-Semitism in school. 7. If you or your family lived in Louisville at the time - how did the 1937 flood affect you and your loved ones? NA you wished to travel within the city limits what kind of transportation did you use? Did you navel out of town when you were young? What kind of transportation did you use when you traveled out of town? And if so, where did you go? What special memories do you have of those trips? �My family had 2 cars and made trips out of town. After WWII my father went into an import/export business and traveled around the world twice a year, gone for 2 months at a time. As a family, we rented a cottage on the coast of Santa Barbara for part of the summer and my father came some of the ' .’kends. We also vacationed at Yosemite and at Lake Tahoe. At Yosemite, when I was a teenager, I stayed in a lodge with my sister and a friend from school, met a young man and had my first kiss. At Lake Tahoe one night, my father said he was going to a club and would be back in a couple of hours. When he returned, he said that he had played craps and the vacation was paid for. 9. Was your family involved in a synagogue/temple? 10. What holidays and rituals were observed in your family? Do you have any significant memories surrounding Jewish celebrations and what was special about those occasions? There was no synagogue in Los Altos, but my parents (not the children) went to Temple Emmanuel in San Francisco, CA for the High Holidays. As kids, we did go to San Francisco, CA to see the Metropolitan Opera. The family did have Seders with my uncle’s family (my mother’s brother). Otherwise, there were no other Jewish observances. And, because everyone else had a Christmas tree, my parents gave in and we had one, too—and observed Christmas, not Chanukah. I was Bat Mitzvah at the age of 40. I was taking a class at Adath Jeshurun with Cantor Portnoy, where I learned the Haftorah tropes. Several women in the class decided to become Bat Mitzvah and I did, too. I still read Haftorah and Torah on a regular basis. I have continued to study Judaism, was very involved with UJA, active in NCJW, served on the Board at AJ and still lead the Minyan on Wednesday nights. 11. Did you attend religious school? Were you confirmed? Did you have a Bar Mitzvah? What are your memories from that time? Are you still in touch with some of the people that attended Sunday school with you? I did not go to religious school and did not have a Bat Mitzvah until I was 40 years old. My mother tried r ‘ -istian Science for a while to try to cure her MS (it didn’t), so I did have some experience with a ^...istian Science Sunday school. In third grade, playing crack the whip, I was at the end and went sprawling, and my face got scratched and bruised. My mother kept reading Mary Baker Eddy (an author of the movement) and for some unknown reason, the next day, my face was fine. 12. What is your educational background? What was your career? Who or what influenced you to choose your career? 13. How did you meet your husband/wife? Where and when were you married? Do you have children? Grandchildren? Because I was so rebellious, my parents sent me to a boarding school, Castilleja School for Girls in Palo Alto. I met my future husband, Stuart Handmaker on a blind date. (I was 15 and he was 19). Two weeks later he called me and again we really hit it off. Later, I found out that the blind dates were part of a scheme he and a friend had set up to meet lots of girls, but that ended after he met me. After I graduated from high school, I attended Stanford University for 2 years and then in 1953 Stuart and I married and moved to Washington, DC while he served in the Army. While living in Washington, DC I attended George Washington University and graduated with a major in Psychology. We have 4 children: Ellen, now a Social Worker in New Jersey, with 2 children: Myles, 27 and Eliza, 23; David, an investment manager in Louisville with 3 children: Maina, a senior in college, Orii, a sophomore in college, and Cal, a junior at DuPont Manual; Billy, Headmaster of a private school in St. Louis (and soon will move to Albuquerque, NM to be Headmaster at a larger school), with 2 boys : Simon, 14 and Lev, 11: and Bobby, who owns 4 restaurants in Jacksonville, Fl. has 2 girls: Daisy, 6 and Sadie, 4. Near the age of 40, I received my Master’s in Psychology from the University of Louisville. At age 50, I completed my Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Louisville. After completing my i jters, I worked for the Louisville Board of Education as a psychological evaluator of children with learning difficulties, consulted at St Francis Elementary in Goshen and at a Montessori preschool. After receiving my Ph.D., I was the Director of Psychological Services at Life Spring Mental Health Services in Jeffersonville, IN. When I had my Master’s Degree, I opened a private practice in St. Matthews, working �with children and families; and now I work primarily with adults. After getting my Doctorate, I supervised psychology students at U of L and Spaulding, and then expanded my private practice and opened an office with Dr. Judith Peoples. I decided to become a psychologist at age 14 so that young people would e someone to talk to when they were hurting. 14. Discuss your involvement in the Jewish Community outside of your temple or synagogue when you were growing up. I had no involvement with a Jewish community of any sort when I was growing up; neither did I have any Jewish friends. In addition to raising a family and working in psychology, I was a Vice President of National Council of Jewish Women, Louisville Section for several years and in the 50s was named Council Woman of the Year. I also worked very closely with Fannie Rose Rosenbaum for the UJC, and Stuart and I led a UJC mission to Israel. 15. What was your involvement in the non- Jewish community? Did you witness any antiSemitism living in Louisville? As an adult I have been socially and professionally involved with both Jews and non-Jews. As a child I did experience anti-Semitism, sometimes from teachers, and in 8th grade, my boyfriend said his mother wouldn’t allow him to invite me to his graduation party because I was Jewish. Since being in Louisville, any anti-Semitism I have experienced has been very subtle and I have confronted the person at the time he/she was making anti-Semitic remarks. This has been very empowering. In the 1960s, I marched with Martin Luther King in Frankfort, Kentucky and participated in a sit-in at a restaurant with an African-American friend. I also organized an NCJW workshop on Open Occupancy (which allows people of any race to buy property and help them get a loan). At that time, many Blacks wanted to move to the East End, but couldn’t get loans. As a result of this workshop, changes began in r -r community. 16. How was your family affected by the World Wars? Wars in Israel? WWII had an effect on my father’s side of the family. In 1939, he went back to Rhodes and brought his mother and youngest brother to the US. His sister went to Palestine and another brother went to Buenos Aires. Because I was living in the San Francisco area we were definitely affected by WWII. There were many air raids which were taken very seriously. It was a frightening time because we feared being attacked by the Japanese. Another lasting memory goes as follows: A Japanese couple and their son lived in a cottage on our California property. When WWII started, the husband and wife were (like all Japanese in the US) sent to a concentration camp. However, their son was allowed to join the US Army. To this day I don’t understand this discrepancy. The wars in Israel had no effect on the immediate family. 17. What are your favorite spiritual memories? How did religion affect your life? Religion affected my life in a very negative way when I was growing up. Because of ongoing antiSemitism, the lack of any positive religious experiences, as well as the lack of a Jewish community, being Jewish brought me much unhappiness. However, after moving to Louisville and being exposed to Judaism and a Jewish community, I gradually began to embrace my Judaism. This has brought me much joy, happiness and peace, and I am very committed to my Judaism and all it brings to me. My most spiritual memories take place at the beach or in the woods. I believe that the spiritual and the religious do not always have to happen together, although they certainly do at times. 1K What interests or hobbies did you have when you were young and what are they now? 1 young girl, my main hobbies were reading and riding my bike and exploring. Now they include reading, walking, making pottery, knitting and listening to music. �19. What are your favorite family memories - whether it was with your family of origin, or your extended family and friends? Some of my favorite memories are of camping with our kids all across the US and Canada. Once at Zion I onal Park, we were looking for a camp site. The boys stayed at a site while the family checked out another. We had bought Bobby (our youngest) a small pocket knife, but had said he could not open it unless we were with him. When we returned he had opened it and had cut himself, but insisted a bug had bitten him instead. Another time, in Quebec, David, wearing a cap, was sitting by himself whittling. Some Americans came by and thought he was French-Canadian, so they spoke to him in broken English. He answered them in a sort of dialect and never let on that he understood them perfectly. My favorite times were taking off as a family and being in the outdoors camping, cooking out, roasting marshmallows, and having lots of fun. We explored many places this way and traveled all the way across the country and back. 20. 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 as a person who gave of myself to others and imparted values that were meaningful, NOT of money, power or fame. I believe in helping others and finding value in connections and relationships with others. I also feel professionally and personally fulfilled. JFCS/smh 03.30.09 Word.olderAdult.OralHistories.forms �For Every Season O f Your Life Board o f D irectors President Jay Klempner Vice Presidents Debbie Friedman Sandi Fneason Peed W emberg Treasurer i iark Ament Im m ediate Past President B .rbara Goldberg To Whom It May Concern: Past P resident Lc "II 0 Katt Directors I do hereby give my permission to record my life history through Greg Berman Lance Gilbert Alyson Goldberg Ariel Kt jnenberg the Jewish Family & Career Services Oral History Project, M a rtin . iarguhs Shedah Abramson I iiies Stephanie Mutchnick Peter Resnik I iarshi 8 t;k Roth Hunt Schuster 2821 Klempner Way, Louisville, Kentucky 40205. My completed story will be sent to me and a second Brian Segal Bernard .weet Wisotsky copy will be kept in the JFCS library unless ii Wol»f executive D irector Judy Freundlich Tiell otherwise stipulated in writing by me. Past Presidents i.litcheil Charney Jane Goidsreiri i larjone B. Kohn Robert Levine Her rjto Markus Shirley i larkus Gail Pohn Lillian Seligman Stese Shapiro Jeffrey' Vee* H o no rary Directors Arthur Grc^man Shelton R Webei Rabbi David ^r1e l -joel Rabbi A rohom Lit..n Rabbi Stanley ! files Rabbi loe Roaks Rapport R. bbi Gaylia R. Rooks Date Rabbi Roden Siosberg Association of Je ish Family & Children’s Agencies international Association of Jewish Vocational Services b bi & Lee Roth Family Center • 2821 Klempner Way • Louisville, Kentucky 40205 -*52-6341 • FAX: 502-452-6718 ® w w w .Jfcslouisville.org Career Services | Multicultural Services | Counseling Services | Klein Older Adult Services � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jewish Family and Career Services interviews, 2001-2018 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jewish Family and Career Services (Louisville, Ky.) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/" target="_blank" title="In Copyright" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</a> Language A language of the resource eng heb Type The nature or genre of the resource Collection Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 20th century 21st century Description An account of the resource Summaries of 206 interviews with Jewish community members in Louisville, Kentucky, conducted by Jewish Family and Career Services volunteers. Originally started by Ann Friedman, Director of Klein Older Adult Services, the project sent volunteers to listen to seniors and summarize their stories. The volunteers used a standardized script to ask community members about their family’s immigration to the United States and move to Louisville; their family and religious life in Louisville; and what they hoped their legacy would be. Some of the interviews include supplemental material on the narrators, such as resumes, obituaries, and photographs. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource bulk 2001-2018 1930s-1950s 1980s-2018 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 024x6_handmakerm Title A name given to the resource Interview with Muriel Handmaker, 2010 Description An account of the resource Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Muriel Handmaker (1934-) on December 14, 2010. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Handmaker, Muriel, 1934- Adelstein, Gay Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2010-12-14 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Report Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Interviews Jewish families Jews Judaism Jefferson County (Ky.) Kentucky Louisville (Ky.) 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To learn about this process, visit https://filsonhistorical.org/collections/order-reproductions/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Jewish Family and Career Services (Louisville, Ky.) https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/34455/archive/files/85bc1714b65d419dd01b83f4062c41de.pdf?Expires=1779926400&Signature=fM6u5hfz0Acptg3XxBLXftCQgUoQ87UnRTrYcOIlu8Ik3JjdOprdchRBIZ6IVFmhUCZ2lsaWkwu99elbNmfNueWKmyBIbYxmSR8Vdo1U4ray5SZLZjj7NKmwZGeZYF3DV%7E8kw4NmcpvaZwFLyRFKdMAQvAQtjAt%7EQCnGqJhDN17uLpGwTsxFzfH5S%7EbtnDgweOYnVZfvc3mrz708%7EtKY3Cm78tWvFjGOLu32fVByDy31Y0bNceYocVRwOz0DtzppKKENy3l7tbRs-rctM85PgWdeiwLcevYtC7EasVRcOQtAaq5VoQr2ATP7eBaaLeyvtPK8%7EXB2gK7SepcOVM5dgA__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM d15c73f3a2839da24bf70efcf9f96fdc PDF Text Text QUESTIONAIRE FOR ORAL HISTORIES I am _ Gay Adelstein- R Byck Goodman a p l e y , I am conducting an interview with: Betty for the JFCS archives on August 2 0 1 1 . 1. Tell me how and why your family originally came to this country and when? How did they travel? Betty’s great grandfather, Benedict Dann, born 1851, came from Frankfort, Germany, and emigrated to Savanna, GA. Her maternal great-grandfather, Nathan Bloom, born 1840 in Germany, came to Kentucky as a traveling salesman, and his family became very involved with Adath Israel. 2. Tell me about your parents - their names and where were they born? Have there been other family names used in the past? Where, when, and why was it changed? Betty’s father, Dann Byck was born in 1899 in Atlanta, GA, and her mother, Mary Helen Adler, was born in 1907 in Louisville, and her family was from Louisville. 3. What is your birth date? What language(s) were spoken in your home? Betty was born in Louisville on 7/1/19341 English was spoken in her home. 4. Where did you live as a child? Who lived in the same house with you - Grandparents? Uncles/Aunts? Brothers? Sisters? Betty lived at 3321 Greenhill Lane until she married. Her brother Dann was born in 1936 and her sister Lucy was born in 1932. Lucy died three weeks before Betty’s husband, Steve, (2008) and her brother Dann died 6 months later (2009). 5. What brought you or your family to Louisville, Kentucky and when did you come? How did they travel? Did they share any unusual experiences with you? Betty’s father came to Louisville in 1902 when he was two, but he never talked about his past. 6. What was your neighborhood like? Were there other Jews living in the neighborhood? Did you walk to school? Sunday school? Synagogue/Temple? What kind of shops were in your neighborhood? Betty’s neighborhood was very upscale—few Jews and no shops. The Temple was on 3rd Street. The family used their car for traveling, as well as buses and streetcars. They went by car to the zoo in Cincinnati and during the war they took buses due to the gas shortage. Her sister Lucy read books �all the time, but Betty was on the run constantly. She and Dann were inseparable. He loved her unconditionally and she protected him. She became closer to her sister as a teenager. 7. If you or your family lived in Louisville at the time - how did the 1937 flood affect you and your loved ones? During the ’37 flood the maid walked Betty and siblings down Mockingbird Valley to see the water. Her father had to row a boat to her aunt’s house. There was no electricity for a month, and the maids had to cook on a little wood-burning stove in the basement. They had company over when the lights finally came back on and when they flickered everyone’s eyes squinted. 8. If you wished to travel within the city limits what kind of transportation did you use? Did you travel out of town when you were young? What kind of transportation did you use when you traveled out of town? And if so, where did you go? What special memories do you have of those trips? When Betty was 14 she went to a ranch in Montana and continued to do this for four summers six weeks each. She loved riding and got her own horse after she married. 9. Was your family involved in a synagogue/temple? Were your parents or other family members religious? Her parents were not religious and seldom went to Temple. The children lit Hanukkah candles in the kitchen with the maids, and her father went dove-hunting on Yom Kippur. The children did go to Sunday school, but were pulled out of class for Hebrew studies. Betty was confirmed but does not keep up with Sunday School friends. 10. What holidays and rituals were observed in your family? Do you have any significant memories surrounding Jewish celebrations and what was special about those occasions? See q. 9 Passover Seder was always at Aunt Louise Flarsheim’s. 11. Did you attend Sunday School or other religious schools? Were you confirmed? Did you have a Bar/Bat Mitzvah? What are your memories from that time? Are you still in touch with some of the people that attended Sunday School with you? See q. 9 �12. What is your educational background? What was your occupation? Who or what influenced you to choose your career? What kind of preparation or training was required for your career? Betty went to Emmet Field Elementary through 6th grade, Barrett Junior High for 7th grade and Kentucky Home School for Girls on Douglass across from A.J. for high school. It was a very happy time in her life. There were 19 girls in her class and she was close to everyone. For college she went to Miami University in Ohio and loved it. She majored in Sociology. Later she trained employees for her parents’ store and volunteered at St. MAMS intervention services. She went to a workshop and then was asked to work with the Director. She soon realized how dysfunctional alcoholic families were and knew she needed more training, so went to Spalding for Counseling Psychology and her Master’s in 1985. Most of her training was in interventions and co-dependency. St. MAMS was taken over by Baptist Hospital, and Betty did all the counseling for families. In 1989 she joined a group of five women and worked with them for 15 years. She did 3-4 interventions a year, but mainly did mental health counseling. Ninety percent of Betty’s interventions were successful, i.e. they went into treatment. Interventions were very emotional, lots of crying, sometimes even Betty. 13. How did you meet your mate? At what point did you realize that this was the one you wanted to marry? Where and when were you married? Do you have children? Grandchildren? Betty met her husband Steve on a blind date. One of her friends was engaged to a guy at Ft. Knox who was a friend of Steve’s. He told Steve he had to meet Betty (said she had a great body). Betty was 5’9” and she and her mother had a code. If her blind date was short, she’d say “Betty, he’s here” and if he was tall, she’d call her Betts. Steve was tall so her mother called her Betts, and Betty put on her heels. Steve was sitting down when she came in and looked short. He was very tan and looked like an Arab. Then he stood up, they looked into each other’s eyes, and both were smitten. They dated for 11 months and then were married at home by Dr. Waller, one of his first weddings. Betty and Steve have three children. Eric (53) is chief investment officer at Aegon and married to Sharon. They are very observant Jews, live in Louisville and they have three children: Judy (17) who is going �to NYU; Aaron (15); and Sylvia (10). Sally (50) is her mother’s right hand. She works for Valpak as a national trainer and regional manager. She lives in Louisville and has two children: Katie (22); and Chris (20). Sally is married to Todd Whitchurch who also has two children: Haley (17); and Tyler (19). Tyler and Chris go to U of L and will be room mates. Jennifer (49) works as a headhunter for Human Resources Company and is married to Jim Kaplan. They have three children: Elle (16); Jarrett (14); and Alec (12). They live in Huntsville, AL. 14. Discuss your involvement in the Jewish Community outside of your temple or synagogue when you were growing up. As a child Betty had little contact with the Jewish community. She had no Jewish friends, but belonged to one Jewish Club which she hated because all they did was argue. 15. What was your involvement in the non- Jewish community? Did you witness any antiSemitism living in Louisville? If so, how was this incident handled? She had one experience with anti-Semitism. In 7th grade she was playing softball and caught a ball in the outfield. Some girl yelled, “Don’t touch that ball, a dirty Jew caught it.” Her mother told her if the girl hit her, Betty had permission to hit her back. 16. How was your family affected by the World Wars? Wars in Israel? Pearl Harbor? What are your earliest recollections when thinking about major events in history? Betty’s father was 42 when WWII began and he decided to join the army. He was gone for three years and her mother ran Byck’s which was downtown. In 1946 her mother decided to open a suburban store in St. Matthews. Her father was stationed at Camp McCall in North Carolina and was in charge of the PX. He then went to Fort Bragg. 17. What are your favorite spiritual memories? How did religion affect your life? Betty’s trip to Montana was a spiritual experience. So also are her high school memories—a feeling of being connected, though not necessarily to a higher power. She sometimes felt this connection with clients, and in Africa, looking at a baby zebra’s head and seeing every line so perfect she felt there must be a higher power greater then herself. �18. What interests or hobbies did you have when you were young and what are they now? What schools did you attend and are there any memories that stand out from that time in your life? Betty’s sister got breast cancer at the age of 37. She had radiation, but the cancer returned, and in 1975 doctors took out her ovaries and did more radiation. Her cancer didn’t return but she was over­ treated and over-dosed for every illness which caused many other problems and constant illness. After her sister got sick, Betty felt her own mortality and thought about how she was living her life and realized she had just copied her mother and sister. She began to do things her own way, changed the sexist way household chores were being done, and got caught up in the women’s liberation movement. When she was young, Betty was a jock. Her hobbies were movies, sports and horseback riding, tennis and golf. Now she paints and takes classes at The Temple. 19. What are your favorite family memories - whether it was with your family of origin, or your extended family and friends? Memories are mainly of travel. When she was 18 the whole family went to Europe and they took their own station wagon as they were all tall people and the European cars were very small. Betty and Steve took the kids on many trips in the States, and went themselves to Europe, Africa and China. 20. What is your legacy? How would you like to be remembered? What message do you want to leave for your children and future generations? Betty would like to be remembered as someone who helped some people better their lives, and as a good, loving mother, a wonderful wife, a loving Grammy. She would like to leave for her children and grandchildren a respect for people, love of family, and an ability to find joy in their own lives. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jewish Family and Career Services interviews, 2001-2018 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jewish Family and Career Services (Louisville, Ky.) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/" target="_blank" title="In Copyright" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</a> Language A language of the resource eng heb Type The nature or genre of the resource Collection Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 20th century 21st century Description An account of the resource Summaries of 206 interviews with Jewish community members in Louisville, Kentucky, conducted by Jewish Family and Career Services volunteers. Originally started by Ann Friedman, Director of Klein Older Adult Services, the project sent volunteers to listen to seniors and summarize their stories. The volunteers used a standardized script to ask community members about their family’s immigration to the United States and move to Louisville; their family and religious life in Louisville; and what they hoped their legacy would be. Some of the interviews include supplemental material on the narrators, such as resumes, obituaries, and photographs. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource bulk 2001-2018 1930s-1950s 1980s-2018 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 024x6_goodmanb Title A name given to the resource Interview with Betty Byck Goodman, 2011 Description An account of the resource Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Betty Byck Goodman (1934-) in August 2011. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky. Betty Byck Goodman, the daughter of German immigrants, was born in Louisville. She lived in an upscale neighborhood that housed few Jews and few shops. During the Great Flood of 1937 she went down to Mockingbird Valley with a maid to see the water level and lived a month without electricity. Her experiences with synagogue were limited but she was confirmed and did observe Passover. Betty attended Emmet Field Elementary School, then Barrett Junior High, then went to the Kentucky Home School for Girls. She attended college at the University of Miami, Ohio, and then enrolled in Spalding for Counseling Psychology and her Master’s, which she used to help families with alcohol abuse. Her father joined the United States Army at the beginning of World War II at age 42 and eventually landed at Fort Bragg. One of her most passionate hobbies is painting, for which she takes classes at the Temple. She intends to leave behind a spirit of respect, love, and dignity to treat others with. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Goodman, Betty Byck, 1934- Adelstein, Gay Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2011-08 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Report Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Interviews Jewish families Jews Judaism Jefferson County (Ky.) Kentucky Louisville (Ky.) 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To learn about this process, visit https://filsonhistorical.org/collections/order-reproductions/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Jewish Family and Career Services (Louisville, Ky.) https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/34455/archive/files/c0c0b0a1f00060c183265eb1be18edc0.pdf?Expires=1779926400&Signature=RjGeB5D6m9Gz5QhxshGmhuZykAEk5t-AvIYK4g5iRwCcDGoFj65NlHqBsuqkzF-ItXHKIeg85oeiwiBQcpVvuJJecbJa55iwjwZunMcSUBIzJbHyY5NC6G6zd3MEqj38Fl5jN9eDuE3EWFFFpd1DAq31dxEkngkv8pdKh5L5IILy71mjldVU8SWEsSIjRhpy23pRzq%7EEER8qCan4c%7EKBSgZjdxBm-KzB-vma020foSDQg3bVGol%7EWE1qrquO1%7EWgmz5fRfDETBzZbBqlQbhz6Dir48ky-mtNMVjVUFj%7EfOK6xYeGhJ4RX3kMef7nKajFfWeToj%7EQ00FHbyGp5HlJlg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 84086c84f7e2d4025dd9e89a4ca91831 PDF Text Text QUESTIONAIRE FOR ORAL HISTORIES I am Gay A Balleisen d e l s t e i n , I am conducting an interview with: Caroline for the JFCS archives in September 2011 . 1. Tell me how and why your family originally came to this country and when? How did they travel? My parents, Belle Stern and Isadore Maurice Kimmelfield, were born in Kupel, a village near Odessa, Ukraine. One of Belle’s sisters ran away and Belle went after her, traveling all over Europe for two years. The sister ended up in New York, and Belle found her there in 1917. She stayed with her sister for awhile and then went to New Bedford, Conn, to teach Hebrew. She spoke four languages. Isadore was a Talmudic scholar, a Zionist, and a Socialist. (Jews were slowly being assimilated into Russian society but few Jews were allowed in schools.) Isadore left Kupel in 1914 to escape the draft, went to Cleveland and then to New York. He met Belle at a landsman society. She was being courted by Velvel Chomsky who became president of Dropsie College and was the father of Noam Chomsky, but she chose Isadore instead. Isadore was a foreman with Western Union but he went on strike with his workers and was boycotted for two years. Then he worked for All America Cable and stayed there for the rest of his life. Belle went to adult education classes and took English to get a job, but her husband wouldn’t let her work. Everyone spoke English in their home, no Yiddish, because Belle wanted her kids to be Americanized. 2. Tell me about your parents - their names and where were they born? Have there been other family names used in the past? Where, when, and why was it changed? 3. What is your birth date? What language(s) were spoken in your home? I was born in 1930 in Brooklyn, N.Y. I had one older brother, Arthur. I lived in Brooklyn until I went to college. No other Jewish families lived near us. 4. Where did you live as a child? Who lived in the same house with you - Grandparents? Brothers? Sisters? Uncles/Aunts? 5. What brought you or your family to Louisville, Kentucky and when did you come? How did they travel? Did they share any unusual experiences with you? I met Paul Tenen at Brooklyn College and after several years of dating, we married in 1952 after I graduated from Columbia Law School. Three years later Paul was killed in an auto accident. Five years later I met Donald Balleisen, and we married in 1959. Donald graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law School. He worked for Penicken Ford which was sold to Reynolds Tobacco Co., and we did not want to move to Winston Salem. I knew about Louisville—its orchestra, the Courier Journal and Harry Carmichael who desegregated schools before there was a law—so we decided to move to Louisville. I had mainly preferred mixed gender groups, but I was invited to a meeting of NCJW, and I was so impressed by them that I joined the group. 6. What was your neighborhood like? Were there other Jews living in the neighborhood? Did you walk to school? Sunday school? Synagogue/Temple? What kind of shops were in your neighborhood? �I lived in Louisville on Runnymede since 1969. The houses were just being built then, and many Jews lived there. Donald and I were associated with The Temple (which was downtown) and we shopped at Holiday Manor. We were not here for the flood but were here for the tornado which went ip 1-71 but missed our subdivision. We put the kids in the basement, but Donald was upstairs talking on the phone to N.Y. and I kept calling him to come down to the basement. 7. If you or your family lived in Louisville at the time - how did the 1937 flood affect you and your loved ones? 8. If you wished to travel within the city limits what kind of transportation did you use? Did you travel out of town when you were young? What kind of transportation did you use when you traveled out of town? And if so, where did you go? What special memories do you have of those trips? THIS GOES BACK TO THE TIME IN BROOKLYN. My family used the subway and buses. Even when we went to the country, Northbranch in the Catskills, we took a bus for five hours. We and another family rented rooms in a farmhouse there. We played Monopoly, hiked, picked berries, etc. It was there that I had my first incident of anti-Semitism when a child called me a dirty Jew. At home I lived close to Coney Island. 9. Was your family involved in a synagogue/temple? Were your parents or other family members religious? BROOKLYN: My family was not much involved with religion. We went to synagogue on the high holidays and celebrated Thanksgiving but not Christmas. Once when I was 6 or 7 my father tried to ’et me sit with him in the Synagogue, but I was sent to sit upstairs with my mother. 10. What holidays and rituals were observed in your family? Do you have any significant memories surrounding Jewish celebrations and what was special about those occasions? 11. Did you attend Sunday School or other religious schools? Were you confirmed? Did you have a Bar/Bat Mitzvah? What are your memories from that time? Are you still in touch with some of the people that attended Sunday School with you? BROOKLYN: I went to Sunday School at the Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst, which was like the JCC. I was not confirmed, but learned Bible stories, sang, took ballet and drama. I am not now in touch with anyone there; but one friend, Iris Kline Owens, persuaded me to apply to Barnard. I would have liked to be in touch with her, but she died. Iris wrote novels. Other well-known people who attended the Community House were Rhoda Karpatkin who was a CEO of Consumer Union and Maurice Sendak. 12. What is your educational background? What was your occupation? Who or what influenced you to choose your career? What kind of preparation or training was required for your career? I attended Brooklyn College, Barnard, and Columbia. My first job, in high school, was selling linens at Loessers Dept, store in Brooklyn. When I graduated from law school there were few if any jobs for Jewish women, so the Dean of the law school hired me to work on a project to develop an income tax code. The people on that committee were famous and interesting. They met at the Bar Association and usually had lunch at the Harvard Club, but since it did not let in women when they were with me they went across the street to the Algonquin. The office looked at the Colgate clock, same as in Louisville. The firm had two Jewish partners, one of whom hired me. I was always interested in �public policy which led me to become an attorney. I had thought I would go into politics, but didn’t have the confidence. Instead, I decided to open my own practice, and worked for the same professor who had hired me, doing research at the Columbia library. There I met Myra Schumann who was ioing the same kind of work. I told Myra I wanted to meet a man who wanted to marry, not just have sex. Myra talked to her husband who was a friend of Donald Balleisen and set up a date for him with me. Donald was tall, wore a hat, and took me to dinner at the Plaza, then to the movie (The Last Angry Man), on to a jazz club, and then to a walk by the river. This was January 17, 1959. On Valentine’s Day he gave me a lovely heart pin, and we married on April 8, 1959, a small wedding at the Sheraton Netherlands. We had three children: Ellen, born January 9, 1960; Wendy, born October 13, 1963; and Edward, born July 3, 1965. I have three grandchildren; Cassandra Marie Finger who graduated from Smith three years ago; Zach who is 15 and Aaron, 13, who live with Edward in Durham, SC where he is a professor at Duke. Daughter Ellen lives in New York and teaches ESL at CUNY and does pension consulting for the teachers’ union. While I was raising my children in Louisville, I was on many boards. When my husband left Greenbaum, I became his associate lawyer, and 'then we became partners with Tilford, Dobbins, Alexanders, Buckaway, and Black. I specialized in estate tax, tax planning, and was a courtappointed lawyer for children’s abuse cases. 13. How did you meet your mate? At what point did you realize that this was the one you wanted to marry? Where and when were you married? Do you have children? Grandchildren? 14. Discuss your involvement in the Jewish Community outside of your temple or synagogue when you were growing up. 15. What was your involvement in the non- Jewish community? Did you witness any antiSemitism living in Louisville? If so, how was this incident handled? In my neighborhood in Brooklyn was an Italian Catholic girl who became my close friend. We would walk to the Bay wearing shorts and the soldiers in trucks would whistle at us. However, once a man exposed himself and that was the end of the walks. I experienced no anti-Semitism in Louisville. 16. How was your family affected by the World Wars? Wars in Israel? Pearl Harbor? What are your earliest recollections when thinking about major events in history? I had one aunt who immigrated to Israel in the 1950s. My Mother’s oldest brother, who had four kids, was in the Red Army and they ended up in a displaced persons’ camp. Bella, who was a poll watcher, finally got them into the U.S. Her brother became a professor at Dropsie College, but was angry with his sister for not getting him a position in New York. My brother enlisted in the army at 17 (1943) and wanted to go into the Specialized Training program. Later he was sent to Penn State on the Gl Bill and became an attorney. 17. What are your favorite spiritual memories? How did religion affect your life? I have no spiritual memories. I just liked being Jewish. 18. What interests or hobbies did you have when you were young and what are they now? What schools did you attend and are there any memories that stand out from that time in your life? When I was young I liked Frank Sinatra, drawing, my cat, folk dancing (as a teenager), politics and playing the piano. I took lessons for eight years at the 3rd Street Music Settlement where lessons �plus music theory were $1.25. Now I am involved in writing my memoirs, politics, the Citizens Housing Counsel, the Citizens Union, and the American Jewish Committee. 19. What are your favorite family memories - whether it was with your family of origin, or your extended family and friends? My best memories are of having my whole family here for my birthday. I wish I had been more involved with them, but they are all far apart geographically. 20. What is your legacy? How would you like to be remembered? What message do you want to leave for your children and future generations? I would like to be remembered as a person who really cared about Tikkun 01am. I want my children and grandchildren to do their own thing and be happy. I am very proud of all of them. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jewish Family and Career Services interviews, 2001-2018 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jewish Family and Career Services (Louisville, Ky.) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/" target="_blank" title="In Copyright" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</a> Language A language of the resource eng heb Type The nature or genre of the resource Collection Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 20th century 21st century Description An account of the resource Summaries of 206 interviews with Jewish community members in Louisville, Kentucky, conducted by Jewish Family and Career Services volunteers. Originally started by Ann Friedman, Director of Klein Older Adult Services, the project sent volunteers to listen to seniors and summarize their stories. The volunteers used a standardized script to ask community members about their family’s immigration to the United States and move to Louisville; their family and religious life in Louisville; and what they hoped their legacy would be. Some of the interviews include supplemental material on the narrators, such as resumes, obituaries, and photographs. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource bulk 2001-2018 1930s-1950s 1980s-2018 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Film and Video Collections Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various collections, The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Collection Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 20th century Moving Image A series of visual representations imparting an impression of motion when shown in succession. Examples include animations, movies, television programs, videos, zoetropes, or visual output from a simulation. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 16mm film Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 15 minutes, 32 seconds Producer Name (or names) of the person who produced the video Shands, Alfred Rives, III, 1928-2021 Director Name (or names) of the person who produced the video Shands, Alfred Rives, III, 1928-2021 Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound The below autogenerated transcript may contain errors: A conservative estimate of 250,000 people gathered at the Washington Monument grounds today for the climax of anti-war demonstrations. This figure made it the largest turnout of its kind in the nation's history. The demonstration was preceded by a 40-hour march against death in which 45,000 people walked single file from the Arlington Bridge past the White House to the capital. Each carried the name of an American GI killed in Vietnam or a Vietnamese village destroyed. At the White House, the demonstrators called out the names which they carried. The night portion of the dramatized by a candle light procession. Upon completion of the march against death, there was a mass march up Pennsylvania Avenue near the White House to the monument grounds leading the bearers with caskets containing the names now. Don't you wish love only love could save this world from disaster? Love, love, only love could save this world from disaster. Don't you wish love could end the confusion? Or is it just one more illusion? Oh shant. If we want to have great love, we got to have great anger. If we want to have great love, we got to have great anger. When I see innocent folk shot down, you want me just shake my head and frown. Oh, terrorist shanti salami. We came to the march because my wife and I are very concerned about the war in Vietnam. We have a boy over there and we had another boy come home. We're not only concerned about them, but we're concerned about the future of our country. If we want to hit the target square, better not have blind anger. If we want to hit the target square, better not have blind anger. Or else it'll just be one more time. The correction creates another crime. My oldest son, Mike Ransom, was killed in Vietnam on May 11th last year. In the last letter he ever wrote, he pleaded, "Tell any friends you have in Washington to quit quibbling and start talking about ways to end this foolishness here." In another letter, he asked a friend to attend every anti-war meeting for him. And so I stand before this congregation to bear witness to my son that we, his family and his friends have come again to Washington as he asked us to and that we will try once more to give meaning to his death by our efforts to bring peace and hope to this troubled nation. My name is Donna Barnett. I have come from Fayetteville, Arkansas. My husband, Rey, is stationed in Vietnam. I want to believe that Rey is serving the best interests of America, that it is necessary for him to be in Vietnam. But that is a lie. Rey was taken from me to fight a war that is neither necessary nor just. A war that we stumbled into and now it seems cannot find the honesty or strength to walk away from. I want my husband back from Vietnam as all women want their husbands back from Vietnam. Now, when you come to the proper place, turn towards the door of the White House, stop and really shout the name and the state as loudly as you can. Forget the press microphones because Mr. Nixon has just returned from Florida and we want him to hear. So, shout right for the door minutes ago by helicopter. Please, as you pass the marshal holding the peace sign in the center of the White House, please turn and shout out the name on your placker. Ernie Jacobs, South Carolina, William Fanwick, Colorado. David Kaiser, West Virginia. Benjamin, Wisconsin. David Miller, Michigan. Larry K, Colorado. Car Miracle, Wisconsin, South Vietnam. Joseph King North Carolina Paul Michigander Colorado Bruce Colorado. I'm here to express my strong hope for peace for this country. I I this is probably the most religious experience uh that I have had. I've never seen people such united with such uh such feeling and and I'm proud to be here. Where have all the flowers gone? Long time passing. Where have all the flowers gone? Long time ago. Where have all the flowers gone? Girls have picked them everyone. When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn? Where all the young I see where all the young No longer. When will they ever? will lay. Where have all the young My name in the Lord. When will we ever will How long will we depend on a foreign aid program that is so largely military aid? How long How long will we continue to spend billions for war or its preparations and be unwilling to spend comparable sums to rebuild the cities and eliminate the slums of the whole world? How long will the white northern nations take advantage of dark southern nations in an unequal economic battle? I remind you that these are not political questions I'm asking. They are moral questions. All we We are shall we shall overcome. We shall overcome. I do. We shall overcome. We shall all be free. We shall all be free. We shall all be free. We shall be free. My heart shall live in peace. We shall live in peace. We shall live in peace. We shall live in my heart. Hallelujah. We are We are not afraid. We are We are not today. Oh, deep in my heart. I do. We shall overcome some shall overcome. We shall overcome. We shall overcome. We shall overcome. Oh, heat. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All We are Saying, 1970 Description An account of the resource All We are Saying documentary (15 minutes, 32 seconds) directed by Rev. Al Shands, III. The film documents the March Against Death, a major anti-Vietnam War protest march and gathering that took place in Washington, DC, on November 13-15, 1969. The film includes footage of Pete Seeger leading protesters in song at the Peace Service in Washington National Cathedral. Rev. Alfred Rives Shands, III (1928-2021), known most often as “Al,” was an Episcopal priest, film producer, author, art collector, and philanthropist who lived in Louisville, Kentucky. He was born in Washington, D.C., and lived with his parents in North Carolina and Delaware as a child. Shands received a BA in English literature from Princeton University and a master’s in divinity from Virginia Theological Seminary, where he was ordained as an Episcopal priest in 1955. In 1967, Shands met and married Mary Norton Ballard in Washington, D.C. In 1969, Al started Alfred Shands Productions, Inc., a documentary production company which he operated until 1983. The Shands moved to Mary's hometown of Louisville in 1970. Credits (c) 1970 Alfred R. Shands Camera: George Voellmer, Albert Ihde, Terry Proch, Sandra Bradley Editor: Sandra Bradley Sound: Curt Wittig Sponsors of the film: Clergy and Laity Concerned about Viet Nam Inter-faith Committee Union of American Hebrew Congregations Executive Council of the Episcopal Church National Association of Laymen (Catholic) Produced with the cooperation of the Rev. Philip E. Wheaton, Director of Inter-American Communication and Action Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Shands, Rev. Alfred Rives, III, 1928-2021 Alfred Shands Productions, Inc. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived 025x69, Alfred Shands Productions, Inc., All We are Saying, Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Alfred Shands Productions, Inc. 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Title A name given to the resource Allan and Anna Weiss collection on Kentucky businesses and institutions Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Weiss, Allan, 1940- Weiss, Anna, 1939-2025 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Mss. A W431a, Allan and Anna Weiss collection on Kentucky businesses and institutions, circa 1830s-1940s, Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mss. A W431a Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 19th century 20th century Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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Can you tell me how and why your family originally came to this country and when? My father came to America first because he had a sister living here. And he sent for my mother and brother and sister, who came over later. 3. What were your parents’ names and where were they born? My mother, Ida Kasap, was bom in Kiev. My father, Samuel Sandler, was bom in Kiev. 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 Brothers? Sisters? Uncles/aunts? Grandparents? July 10, 1914. Mostly English. Mom and pop didn’t speak Yiddish very often. 763 S 1st street, I think it’s all commercial right now. Brothers, 3, and 4 sisters, mother and father. 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? Friendly, no Jews lived there. Yes, yes. Yes, there was a grocery right on the comer right where we lived, a Pigly Wiggly, and the drug store was about three blocks from where we lived, Davis’s drug store. 6. How did the 1937 flood affect you and your family? Quite a bit. My father was in Chicago buying clothes for his store, and one of my brother’s was down at the store, and another brother was down at the river putting up sand bags. And my sister and I were washing this beautiful punch bowl and listening to the news and I dropped the punch bowl. Then my sister and I went to the school, which was about ‘A a block away. And a boat came over to our house to take us out of there. There were about 500 on the second floor of the school and 500 that lived on the first floor, and we were there for quite a bit. 7. If you wished to travel what kind of transportation did you use? Did you travel when you were young? If so, where? Planes, I’ve been on two cruises they are great but I like trains or planes. Street car. No. �8. Was your family involved in a synagogue / temple? No, just as members. 9. What holidays and rituals were observed? All of them. We had one shlu kappors, it was when we would put money in the charity boxes and swing chickens. We had Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Passover. 10. Did you attend religious school? Were you confirmed? Bar Mitzvah? Yes, went to Hebrew school for a short time. No, no. 11 .What is your educational background? What was your career? Hs graduate, and took some courses at UofL, observed but didn’t register. Started out working at Selman’s, then my husband was a football coach, then I had 'YOMZ' two children, then when pay became ill he had dabbled in insurance so I went into agency and became a business woman. that for climbrng^pplej^ 12. What brought you to Louisville and when did you come? Bom here. 13. How did you meet your husband/wife? Where and when were you married? Did you have children? First I met him when I was in high school, and he would come by at the end of school and offer me a ride home, but I didn’t date him for a long time after that. Then he started calling me for dates and that was it. June 21, 1938 at Anches Sphard synagogue. Two children one son has passed away. 14. Tell about you involvement in the Jewish Community? Was you whole family involved? Volunteering for everything, united Jewish campaign, bond selling for Israel, 7,000 hrs for Jewish hospital. Ever since I was 7 I was volunteering, I used to write letters to my parent’s friends children. Jewish convalescent children, council, and community chest, the arts and crafts gallery, my list can go on and on. My family wasn’t really involved, my brothers were away from here, and they traveled a lot. I was really the most active in my family. 15. How was your family affected by the World Wars? Wars in Israel? �Just like everyone, devastated, my brother served in the service and got accommodation for his services. My son was over in Vietnam taking pictures, my sister worked at the hospital as a candy(strippbf, but everyone safely returned home after the wars. My father, who was a tailor, would fix the soldiers uniforms and S' clothes, without charge. No. 16. What are your favorite spiritual memories? How did religion affect your life? Just the fact that Judaism has taught me about sharing and caring for others, and to try to be an example and role model of being good and considerate and thoughtful of other people. It’s taught me charity and its importance. 17. What interests do you have? Right now, working at the hospital is one of my greatest interests, I love to go antiquing, reading, I used to love to drive, but they’ve taken my car away from me, so I straighten up my house and do all the little chores, I still volunteer at 93yrs old, I visit the patients, I have a nephew who is a dr. and he calls me to visit his patients. 18. What are your favorite family memories? My family, my sisters and I were the best of friends, and my brothers were also realy close to us. My sisters and I would travel together, one of my sisters and I went to Israel together and my four sisters and I went to Japan together. And we would celebrate all of the holidays together. I just have the fondest memories with family. 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 don’t know. I would like to be remembered as a very caring person. The golden rule, do unto others as u would like to have done unto u, and I really try to live that, I think prayers are important. When I was really sick I used to watch touched by an angel, and I remember when I had my heart surgery and I was there for 7wks. And it dawned on me that I hadn’t said my prayers, and I remembered how important it was to talk to g-d. And once I began to say them again I really started feeling better. It’s important to know that there is someone greater than us that’s looking down on us and really taking care of us. JFVS/aj 08/06/07 Word.olderAdultOralHistories.forms �Louis & Lee Roth Family Center JFVS is always here throughout every season of your life. Board o f Directors Judy Freundlich Tiell Executive Director Barbara Goldberg President Debbie Friedman Jay Klempner Vice Presidents TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Mark Ament Treasurer I do hereby give my permission to record my life history through the Jewish Lowell D. Katz, M.D. Ex-officio President Family and Vocational Service, 3587 Dutchmans Lane, Louisville, Kentucky 40205. Mitchell Charney Jane Goldstein Marjorie B. Kohn Robert Levine Howard Markus Shirley Markus Gail Pohn Lillian Seligman Steven Shapiro Jeffrey Weiss Past Presidents My story will be kept in the JFVS Library and can be accessed by interested people. It will be preserved archivally for future generations. D. Cole .ur Grossman Shelton R. Weber Honorary Directors Participant Caren Carney Sally Davis Ann Friedman Sandi Friedson Alyson Goldberg Rick Greenberg Ronald Levine Martin Margulis Stephanie Mutchnick Marsha Beck Roth Hunt Schuster Brian Segal Bernard Sweet Reed Weinberg Amy Wisotsky Rabbi Rabbi Rabbi Rabbi Rabbi Rabbi Rabbi Rabbi David Ariel-Joel Avrohom Litvin Stanley Miles Joe Rooks Rapport Gaylia R. Rooks Nadia Siritsky Robert Slosberg Bradley C. Tecktiel Witrfe^, Date Signed JFVS/aj 7/18/007 Word.coununit. permission.history Association of Jewish Family & Children's Agencies International Association of Jewish Vocational Services Jewish Family & Vocational Service F E T D ^ f^ A ^O N Metro United Way 3587 Dutchmans Lane • Louisville, Kentucky 40205 ♦ (502) 452-6341 • Fax (502) 452-6718 E-mail: jfvs@jfvs.com • Web: www.jfvs.com �Blema Baer, 99, died Friday, October 4, 2013 at Deer Park Retirement Center in Cincinnati. She was a native of Louisville bom July 10,1914. Blema was retired sales agent for Klein & Appel Insurance Agency (19541992). She wore many hats as a volunteer for 54 years at Jewish Hospital but her favorite one was visiting the patients on Friday. She was often called "Mama Baer" and "Girl Friday". She served on Jewish Hospital Guild, member of The Speed Museum, a life member of Hadassah, serving on the board, member of NCJW - Louisville Section, member of Congregation Anshei Sfard and Congregation Anshei Sfard Sisterhood. She was a volunteer for United Jewish Campaign, Bonds for Israel, Arts & Crafts gallery and Jewish Home for Convalescent Children. She received The Julia Victor Volunteer of the Year Award in 1986 and won The Bell Award in 2010. Blema's special way with people has also been helpful to Jewish Hospital Transplant Program. The hospital's social service staff needed someone to be a committed friend to Kentucky's first heart transplant recipient. Blema was selected because of her supportive and nurturing nature as well as her level-headedness in dealing with complicated and unpredictable situations. She was so effective in her first case that social services requested her assistance with other patients. Blema enjoyed antique shopping, square dancing, reading, needlepoint and her Canasta games. Her home was always open to family, friends and to Ray's football players, better known as "His" boys. She is preceded in death by her husband, Raymond Baer; her son Perry Baer; her parents, Samuel and Ida Kapsah Sandler; her sisters, Cecil Speevack, Rebecca Judah, Flora Levine and Marian Stem; her brothers, Jack Sandler, Morris Sandler and Carl Sandler. She is survived by her devoted son and daughter-in-law, Gordon and Shirley Baer; sister-in-laws, Emma Sandler and Arlette Baer; and many devoted, nieces, nephews, great-nieces, great-nephews and friends. Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m. Sunday, October 6,2013 at Herman Meyer & Son, 1338 Ellison Avenue with burial to follow in Anshei Sfard Cemetery. Visitation will be after 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, expressions of sympathy may go to donor's favorite charity. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jewish Family and Career Services interviews, 2001-2018 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jewish Family and Career Services (Louisville, Ky.) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/" target="_blank" title="In Copyright" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</a> Language A language of the resource eng heb Type The nature or genre of the resource Collection Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 20th century 21st century Description An account of the resource Summaries of 206 interviews with Jewish community members in Louisville, Kentucky, conducted by Jewish Family and Career Services volunteers. Originally started by Ann Friedman, Director of Klein Older Adult Services, the project sent volunteers to listen to seniors and summarize their stories. The volunteers used a standardized script to ask community members about their family’s immigration to the United States and move to Louisville; their family and religious life in Louisville; and what they hoped their legacy would be. Some of the interviews include supplemental material on the narrators, such as resumes, obituaries, and photographs. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource bulk 2001-2018 1930s-1950s 1980s-2018 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 024x6_baerb Title A name given to the resource Interview with Blema Baer, 2007 Description An account of the resource Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Blema Baer (1914-2013) on August 7, 2007. The summary is accompanied by an obituary for Blema Baer. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Baer, Blema, 1914-2013 Feinberg, Kimberly Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-07 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Report Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Interviews Jewish families Jews Judaism Jefferson County (Ky.) Kentucky Louisville (Ky.) 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To learn about this process, visit https://filsonhistorical.org/collections/order-reproductions/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Jewish Family and Career Services (Louisville, Ky.) https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/34455/archive/files/61c400762287b963413ffdde510aafea.pdf?Expires=1779926400&Signature=ae-SEYC59rjpXAX0qeF-M3Nh89j4gWFnmF4MzveIkR%7Ew3Rw2Hkkp8LUYU-NTxDFAqpYI28p1swZKPYxPSGGJxNYvBmFbsByBZmBtWkRrb0BTzs296bvy1q1u1K0vhKMJkHSIGt0b%7EUqSOjkWMAIum9ik4IBYzP5Xh99XmbwsOkXl-TeYMuHDbsfQe5kdFpr0p4%7EhhNDLu6Y6Q27cHrYeoBPuI%7E5TJgFZJp636hEnl7kuByhzfgkyrcvcLMXdXYz-uhL2DilDd%7EpMdiKW15BCyiMn0rzb--8tGXMFRnp%7ETKB4Az5%7EFmt-5UdIbsTk3vWTv4XxIw47IGQF5iUSI8Ivfg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM f3dafcd603742bd5daa34f8f10c05054 PDF Text Text QUESTIONAIRE FOR ORAL HISTORIES 1. I am Linda Leeser, and I am conducting an interview with Ethel C. B aeffor the JFCS archives October 26, 2010. 2. Can you tell me how and why your family originally came to this country and when? Ethel’s Mother came to this country when she was 20 years old, around 1920. First one of her brothers came, then another, then another, and then it was her turn. Another sister of her Mother moved to Argentina. Ethel’s Mother came to Chicago, where one of her brothers lived. She worked in a knitted dress factory, sewing beads on the dresses. Mother attended the Huffman Preparatory School to learn English. Her Father came sometime between 1918 and 1920. He was a tailor and heard of an opening for a tailor, and that is what brought him. Edith’s parents knew each other in the old country, and when her Father heard that her Mother was in Chicago, he went to see her. Both sides of the family lost relatives in the Holocaust. 3. What were your parents’ names and where were they born? Father-Solomon (Shalom) Cooper, born in 1900 in Bialystok. Mother-Edith Kagan, also born in 1900 in Bialystok. 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? Her birth date is 7-24-24. They spoke Yiddish and English at home. Both parents became citizens at the Old Neighborhood House. They lived at 1121 East Broadway. There was Mother, Father, Bubby Adel Kagan, brother (who was 4 years younger) and sister (who was 13 years younger). 5. What was your neighborhood like? They lived in a family-oriented neighborhood, but there were no other Jews. Her Father’s tailor shop was in the front of their house on East Broadway, and the family lived in the back. They were a couple houses away from the Lutheran Church, and the minister’s children were some of the kids with whom she played. They were respectful of Ethel’s family religion, and the minister asked Bubby what would be kosher so that she could eat with them. In her backyard there were peach trees and a grape arbor, and that was a great source of fun for the neighborhood kids. A girl named Lucille, who was from a German family, became a good friend, and they put on plays in the summer and served lemonade and charged admission. �Ethel lived across the street from Normal School, which is now Breckinridge School, which she attended. Then the school become Eastern Junior High, and she went there, and then to Atherton. Attended Sunday school at KI on the comer of Floyd and Jacob. There was a grocery store called Coldiron’s and a drug store on the corner of Barrett and Broadway, that was owned by Harry Meit. Also found in that area was Dages Paints, OK storage located on the corner of Barrett and Broadway. Her uncle Albert was a kosher butcher and and worked for the Fuch’s. There was also a kosher deli on Preston Street called Deitz. . Mother could get goats’ milk from Marcus Dairy at the recommendation of Ethel’s pediatrician, because she was lactose intolerant. Cave Hill was one of her favorite haunts, as was Highland Library. During the Depression, everything was scarce, but she remembers farmers coming by selling fruit in season and eggs. The area of Grey, Chestnut, Walnut, and Preston was the place where much of Jewish life was centered. Ethel’s family moved to Indianapolis for one year because her Father became ill and couldn’t work as a tailor. Ethel worked in a restaurant that year and went to Arther Jordon Music School on a scholarship. 6. How did the 1937 flood affect you and your family? Ethel was 13 years old at the time of the flood. The water level came very close to their home, even past the bottom of the hill that started at Barrett and Broadway. She remembers people coming in boats to give typhoid shots, and the Red Cross came with flour and yeast, and Bubby made bread. They had to boil their water and put a little iodine in it. Although the house was not inundated with floodwater, her Father’s tailor shop show room was used to give typhoid shots and radio was established to send boats. Other family came to stay with them during this time, and there were 10 people in 3 % rooms. The family could watch the water rise. Ethel remembers some kids being able to ice skate to school from Butchertown prior to the flood. Her Mother worried about Ethel and her brother loosing schooling because of the flood, so they were sent to their uncle in Champaign, Illinois for a semester. 7. If you wished to travel, what kind of transportation did you use? The family had a 1929 Chevy which Father called their “Jewish Packard”. She remembers a trip the family took to the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago. There was a streetcar that went down Broadway with its rails in the middle of the street. �8. Was your family involved in a synagogue/temple? Ethel’s Father was a cantor and sang with Keneseth Israel sometimes, and also Anshei Sfard, if there were no customers. Making a living was primary. But Bubby went every Shabbat. Sometimes when Ethel was good, she would go to shul with Bubby and then go with her to her Bubby’s girlfriends’ homes. Mother would go to shul sometimes, as would Ethel. Then she would go to the picture show with her girlfriends before the price changed in the afternoons. They would also go to Taylor’s Drug Store for tuna and cokes.. 9. What holidays and rituals were observed? Shabbas, Havdallah, Friday eve dinner, even when the pantry was lean. Usually they would have meat or chicken once/week. And Passover was also observed and celebrated. It was fun to change dishes and Bubby would make wine from the grape arbor. But Ethel had an allergy to the rosin in grapes and peaches, and was not allowed to have any of the things that Bubby made from them. She could drink mead, though, which Bubby also made. They could seat 20 around the dining room table. They had an icebox, not a refrigerator. In the morning, the women would congregate in the kitchen and cook all day to prepare-including her Father’s sister and Mother’s sister-in-law. 10. Did you attend religious school? Were you confirmed? Bat Mitzvah? Ethel went to Sunday school and was confirmed, but she didn’t learn Hebrew. That was just not something girls did in those days. She remembers roller-skating to the library, and the sidewalks from Barrett to Rubel Ave. were bricks!! 11. What is your educational background? What was your career? Ethel received a Bachelors Degree in Music Education at the University of Louisville, (which was not a state school then). During part of that time she joined the Cadet Nurse Corp, for 1 years. She worked at the Autistic School as the music therapist for 14 years. A friend worked there and asked her to join them. It was located at 4th and St. Catherine, then at the Hurstbourne Christian Church, and finally it moved to the Coach House behind the Women’s Club on 4th Street. The public school system did not accept children with autism at that time. Ethel still has tapes of her work with the children, and her memories are touching. She went on to get her degree at the Institute of Music Therapy at the age of 54. 12. Ethel was born in Louisville. See # 2 and #3 for family history. 13. How did you meet your husband? Where were you married? Did you have children? She and her husband Ed worked at Waterman’s Department Store-all Jewish kids worked there. They were married in Holyoke, MA, where her husband was stationed, on July 7, 1945, by a Rabbi who didn’t speak English. �Ethel has three children: son Sol is a music professor; daughter Lois is a Spanish professor; son Andrew is a chiropractor. 14. Tell about your involvement in the Jewish Community? As a girl, Ethel belonged to the Fillies Club, played piano at the YWHA for dance classes, and also worked for the USO where she brought classical music recordings for the soldiers. She and her husband and children were members of Brith Shalom where all their kids were confirmed and their sons Bar Mitzvahed. Their daughter had a Bat Mitzvah when she was 50 years old, in Illinois. They kept kosher while her Mother lived with then, but not after. 15. How was your family affected by the World Wars? Wars in Israel? Her Father developed Parkinson’s disease at age 37, thought to have been contracted as a result of encephalitis from the war. Her brother was too young for the army in WWII, but he joined the Reserves when he was old enough. During this time, her Mother ran a dry cleaning shop. Ethel’s husband served in WWII at 19 years of age-until he was 21 or 22. 16. What are your favorite spiritual memories? How did religion affect your life? She loved Chanukah-latkes, dreidl, gelt, lighting the candles and singing. Her Father was a musician, too, and those are fond memories-music and the holidays. Ethel loved Pesach best!!! Mr. Rubenstein used to bring over the Pesach order to them. Her Bubby instituted the tzedakah box, which was called the “Thank God box”. Visiting rabbis could eat with them because they were kosher. The family was brought up to be charitable. When beggars came to the house, the family would share food with them, giving them sandwiches, but didn’t let them in the house. During the Depression, everything was scarce, but there was fruit in season. Farmers would come by with strawberries and eggs. 17. What interests do you have? Ethel likes to play bridge; she plays piano for the senior citizens club at JCC, and she likes to read-especially fiction and biographies. She enjoys going to plays with her friends and enjoys needlework. 18. What are your favorite family memories? Celebrating the holidays with family and friends has always been special to her. �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? She hopes that the people she has known will enjoy music and literature. She is a firm believer in education. Her philosophy is “Live and let live,” which is not always so easy to do. Be a good parent, a good friend, and enjoy life. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jewish Family and Career Services interviews, 2001-2018 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jewish Family and Career Services (Louisville, Ky.) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/" target="_blank" title="In Copyright" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</a> Language A language of the resource eng heb Type The nature or genre of the resource Collection Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 20th century 21st century Description An account of the resource Summaries of 206 interviews with Jewish community members in Louisville, Kentucky, conducted by Jewish Family and Career Services volunteers. Originally started by Ann Friedman, Director of Klein Older Adult Services, the project sent volunteers to listen to seniors and summarize their stories. The volunteers used a standardized script to ask community members about their family’s immigration to the United States and move to Louisville; their family and religious life in Louisville; and what they hoped their legacy would be. Some of the interviews include supplemental material on the narrators, such as resumes, obituaries, and photographs. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource bulk 2001-2018 1930s-1950s 1980s-2018 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 024x6_baere Title A name given to the resource Interview with Ethel Baer, 2010 Description An account of the resource Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Ethel Baer (1924-2012) on October 26, 2010. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky. Ethel C. Baer was born to Polish immigrant parents and was raised in a practicing Jewish household in which she spoke Yiddish and English. Her neighborhood, in which very few other Jewish families lived, accepted her and she made many good friends. She attended Atherton High School and enjoyed going to drugstores with friends, walking Cave Hill Cemetery, and getting groceries locally from farmers and butchers. The Baers were not severely affected by the Great Flood; however, they did assist others in escaping the floodwaters and finding food. Each side of the family lost relatives in the Holocaust. Ethel’s husband served in WWII when he was 19-21 years old. Ethel was heavily involved in religious life and practice, observing feasts such as Passover at home, keeping strictly kosher, and her daughter had a Bat Mitzvah at age 50. Her interests include playing Bridge, playing piano for senior citizens at the Jewish Community Center, and living life by the mantra of “Live and Let Live.” Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Baer, Ethel, 1924-2012 Lesser, Linda Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2010-10-26 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Report Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Interviews Jewish families Jews Judaism Jefferson County (Ky.) Kentucky Louisville (Ky.) Chicago (Ill.) Immigration Textile workers Clothing workers Tailors Floods Business enterprises Music therapists Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 20th century 21st century Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived 024x6 Jewish Family and Career Services interviews, The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Property rights in the collection belong to The Filson Historical Society. 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To learn about this process, visit https://filsonhistorical.org/collections/order-reproductions/ Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Jewish Family and Career Services (Louisville, Ky.) https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/34455/archive/files/44e5e0865581c7c705133161084eb152.pdf?Expires=1779926400&Signature=JyACjfN0sykFQkSUb%7EMBJ8l%7EZI-irAlgj71v9IDdrtvNp3hD42FCf750TYW-50U-aWkp8QNBIXDAIq73qKkusymPqWJGf4BoOravtuDhSMAlocfehI5pfVZn9%7EBJzEQozDVpCsVWzLIx7gBLyGn1xNWewan-ca2gaxFxOUPLB2AQOPV09Y%7Eu21epaGrmIHPo-RbwjsV3mFqiM6k%7EJGrsOZ5rumESiUzGrn2wkD7N7TTX8WWHEf4dRBI59qR6AFfazHLb4WrncdUtqMohf0Y4zV0lMBhB3gC5JEHf45Z7Iq5xRhRL8ba-n2yi7K9%7EO3Ry4PmD%7E4DuMfxKxKylJuPqaQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 3ea6ba39072300f223d482dc3c96e212 PDF Text Text My name is Shirley Bailen and This is my story I was bom in Louisville in the “old” Jewish hospital on May 7, 1922. My father was Wolf Diamond (1884-1978). He was bom in Lithuania. My mother was Birdie Marks. (1888-1978). She was bom in Louisville. I was the third child bom in our family. My sister, Tobie was bom in 1912 and my brother, Victor, was bom in 1915. We lived above my father’s shoe store at 603 West Market. Our next home was at Second at and Lee when I was six. Two years later we moved to Second and Gaulbert. I started school at Prentice Elementary for kindergarten and the first half of first grade. My mother and I walked to school every day. My next school was Cochran which was at Second and Hill. After sixth grade I went to Halleck Hall Junior High and then to Louisville Girls High, graduating in 1940. Everyone remembers we had a major flood here in January-February 1937. We lived on the third floor and while we didn’t get flooded ourselves, the water got into the basement and the furnace was out of commission. At times, t was so cold that my sister and I huddled together in a twin bed under all the blankets we owned trying to get warm. My father tried to cook an egg in a spoon using a candle for heat. We had to get to my Aunt Esther Marks and Uncle Harry who lived at Second and Brandeis. My mother stopped a passing boat operated by two young men and they took my sister and me. Later my parents came. We later moved to the Highlands, near the “loop” at Highland Avenue and we stayed with my father’s sister, a family by the name of Sadawitz, until we were able to get back in our home after the waters receded and repairs were made to the furnace. My brother became a pharmacist and married a girl from North Dakota and my sister became a teacher and she married Abe Goldberg. He was a tailor and had a shop on West Market. I got married right out of high school. It was on October 27, 1940, David Bailen (1918-2004) and I married and began a wonderful life together for 67 years. We knew we couldn’t afford the expense of a large wedding, and the potential guest lists had already expanded beyond our budget. So we went to Lexington and Rabbi Pero married us in a private ceremony. David got a job as a photographer at a ship yard in Evansville, Indiana. It made landing craft for the military. When WWII started he joined the Air Force and we relocated to a base at Stana, California. We rode our bicycles every where and really liked California and we seriously considered staying there. While he was in service there I worked on the base for the air force, also. 1 �Of course during the war, there were shortages of most items and everyone had ration cards. We drank our coffee black as we could not get cream. Mother would send us extra ration stamps so we could buy meat occasionally. Once we went to the races in Tijuana, Mexico. We biked everywhere we could...to Laguna Beach...to Balboa. We had become real Californians, but fate stepped in when David’s father died. After the war we came home and David opened a photo shop in Bonnycastle drugs. Later Hucks Pharmacy, near Speed and Bardstown Road closed and sold his pharmacy business to Bonnycastle, so David moved his photo shop to that location and we ran a dispensary, no pharmacy. Several years later we were unable to renew our lease and closed that business. Then the course of our lives changed again. David worked in sales for one of the candy/tobacco wholesale businesses and during this same time, Donald Stem who had a drug store decided that he needed help. He wanted to spend all of his time with the prescription service and asked me to run the rest of the store for him. This proved to be a good arrangement for both of us, and I did this for 12 years. One event was significant in my life; at age 56 I had cancer. The doctors were reluctant to tell me about my chances for cure and survival. I insisted and was told that I had only a 20% chance. I told the doctor that I was tough and would beat it. After all, I had children and grandchildren I needed to be here for. There came another unusual opportunity when Jack Benjamin was involved with the drama department at the new JCC on Dutchman’s Lane. He asked David to read for a part. David had never done anything with any theater, but finally agreed to read. David was pretty good with accents and we were all surprised when he was selected for the lead in the play, ft was such a big success and had so many sold out performances, they had to extend it for a month. Another unusual experience occurred when David won a trip to the Los Angeles summer Olympics in 1968. His name was drawn by M & M, one of the candy companies he represented. We stayed at Disney and after the Olympics we went to Mexico City for a week before returning to Louisville. Our son, James, was bom here in Louisville while David was still in the army. James attended Centre College on scholarship in Danville. It is a Christian college and a required course was Christian Bible. James took the course and wrote a paper on a Jewish leader and won first place and $263 prize money. He went to UL medical school and made urology as his specialty. He helped form the medical group First Urology which is the largest such group in this area. He married Cathy Eichengreen. 2 �James has three children: Michael attended college at Northwestern and became an investment banker with Deutsch Bank in Manhattan. He married Karen Carney. He was going to work the morning of 9/11. After the collapse of the second tower he had to walk 17 blocks before he could get a phone signal to call us and report that he was OK. They decided that they would rather live in Louisville and came home. He works for Texas Roadhouse as chief financial officer. They have two children: Brody, 9 and Zoe, 6. James second child is Neil, who married Lisa. They have Blair, 5 and Whitney, 2. He is a lawyer with the Stites-Harbison group. Their third child is Erica. She is a pediatrician. Her husband is Sean Griffin. He is an orthopedic surgeon at Norton Hospital. They have no children. Our second son is Barry Paul Bailen. He lives in Olympia, Washington and is now retired from Evergreen University as an academic counselor. His daughter is Molly and she is marred to Greg Maalof. They live in Portland, OR. While we were retired we participated in at least 10 Elderhostel programs at various places of interest including San Francisco, Boston, New Orleans, and St. Louis. We lived in a condo in the St Matthews area. Following David’s death in 2004 I continued to be active and I volunteered at Jewish hospital, at the Kentucky Center for the Arts, and for a year at the Louisville Free Public Library After being alone for 6 years I moved into Magnolia Springs and I have been here about eight years now7. interview by Irvin Goldstein May, 2018 3 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jewish Family and Career Services interviews, 2001-2018 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jewish Family and Career Services (Louisville, Ky.) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/" target="_blank" title="In Copyright" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</a> Language A language of the resource eng heb Type The nature or genre of the resource Collection Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 20th century 21st century Description An account of the resource Summaries of 206 interviews with Jewish community members in Louisville, Kentucky, conducted by Jewish Family and Career Services volunteers. Originally started by Ann Friedman, Director of Klein Older Adult Services, the project sent volunteers to listen to seniors and summarize their stories. The volunteers used a standardized script to ask community members about their family’s immigration to the United States and move to Louisville; their family and religious life in Louisville; and what they hoped their legacy would be. Some of the interviews include supplemental material on the narrators, such as resumes, obituaries, and photographs. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource bulk 2001-2018 1930s-1950s 1980s-2018 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 024x6_bailens Title A name given to the resource Interview with Shirley Bailen, 2018 Description An account of the resource Summary of an oral history interview conducted with Shirley Bailen (1922-2019) in May 2018. The interview was part of the Louisville Jewish Family and Career Services's project to document the lives of Jewish seniors in Louisville, Kentucky. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Bailen, Shirley D., 1922-2019 Goldstein, Irvin Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018-05 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Report Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Interviews Jewish families Jews Judaism Jefferson County (Ky.) Kentucky Louisville (Ky.) Floods Old Louisville (Louisville, Ky.) Highlands (Louisville, Ky.) World War, 1939-1945 Business enterprises Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 20th century 21st century Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived 024x6 Jewish Family and Career Services interviews, The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Property rights in the collection belong to The Filson Historical Society. 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