{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/028pc2tg0p/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Ember, Edwin \"Ed\""]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2012-01-24 (creation)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Video"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source"]},"value":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum","Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Collection","Jewish Oral History Project of Atlanta"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eEdwin Ember was interviewed by Sandra Berman on January 24, 2012 in Selma, Alabama.\u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eEdwin Roy (Ed) Ember was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1925. He attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn. He was bar mitzvahed in New York. After graduation, he reported for active duty in the United States Navy during World War II, where he trained as combat air crewman. He attended pre-flight school at the University of Georgia and California Polytechnic State University. He was stationed in Lake City, Florida, at a naval air station. When the war ended, he continued his education at the University of Georgia. He belonged to Tau Epsilon Phi Jewish fraternity.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEd married Geraldine Halperin (1926-2015), who was from Fitzgerald, Georgia. He belonged to the Fitzgerald Hebrew Congregation, a Conservative congregation. They had two sons. In 1965, after they separated and divorced, he moved several times for business opportunities in Alabama and Georgia. In 1975, Ed moved to Selma, Alabama for a business opportunity in the retail clothing business, where he met his second wife, Connie Nimrod Melton (1935-2013). \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth Ed and his wife were active members of the Temple Mishkan Israel, a Reform congregation, where he has served as president for many years. He was first exposed to Reform Judaism through Hillel while attending university. He has played golf and officiated high school football games. He was an avid University of Georgia football fan. Ed passed away on January 17, 2019 at the age of 93.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eEdwin (Ed) discusses his life in Selma, Alabama. He mentions that he was born in Brooklyn, New York. He talks about his training as a combat air crewman in the U.S. Navy and earning his education at the University of Georgia. He mentions that he was introduced to Reform Judaism at university through Hillel and that he enjoyed reading prayers in English. He talks about being stationed in Lake City, Florida during World War II. He talks about seeing different parts of the country while in the Navy. He mentions that he did not want to return to New York after the war had ended. Ed talks about living in Fitzgerald, Georgia, where he met his first wife.  He recalls several families from there and the surrounding towns. He recalls Jewish businesses there. He remembers Rabbi Nathan Kohen. He discusses moving to Alabama and Georgia for business opportunities, before finally settling in Selma, Alabama in 1975. He talks about his move to Selma and meeting his second wife, Connie, and her conversion to Judaism. He remembers the welcoming community when he first arrived in Selma. He talks about Temple Mishkan Israel’s historic building and its community members. Ed talks about his vision for the future of the synagogue. He discusses downtown Selma and recalls the vibrant Jewish businesses when he first arrived. He talks about being an avid fan of University of Georgia football. He mentions his two sons, who live in Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28002"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Subject"]},"value":{"en":["Temple Mishkan Israel (corporate name)","Fitzgerald Hebrew Congregation (corporate name)","Rabbi Nathan Kohen (personal name)","Rabbi David Baylinson (personal name)","Temple Beth Or (corporate name)","GI Bill of Rights (topical term)","Selma, Alabama (geographic term)","Fitzgerald, Georgia (topical term)","University of Georgia (corporate name)","World War II (topical term)","Edwin Ember (personal name)","Connie Ember (personal name)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eEdwin Ember was interviewed by Sandra Berman on January 24, 2012 in Selma, Alabama.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEdwin Roy (Ed) Ember was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1925. He attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn. He was bar mitzvahed in New York. After graduation, he reported for active duty in the United States Navy during World War II, where he trained as combat air crewman. He attended pre-flight school at the University of Georgia and California Polytechnic State University. He was stationed in Lake City, Florida, at a naval air station. When the war ended, he continued his education at the University of Georgia. He belonged to Tau Epsilon Phi Jewish fraternity.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEd married Geraldine Halperin (1926-2015), who was from Fitzgerald, Georgia. He belonged to the Fitzgerald Hebrew Congregation, a Conservative congregation. They had two sons. In 1965, after they separated and divorced, he moved several times for business opportunities in Alabama and Georgia. In 1975, Ed moved to Selma, Alabama for a business opportunity in the retail clothing business, where he met his second wife, Connie Nimrod Melton (1935-2013). \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth Ed and his wife were active members of the Temple Mishkan Israel, a Reform congregation, where he has served as president for many years. He was first exposed to Reform Judaism through Hillel while attending university. He has played golf and officiated high school football games. He was an avid University of Georgia football fan. Ed passed away on January 17, 2019 at the age of 93.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEdwin (Ed) discusses his life in Selma, Alabama. He mentions that he was born in Brooklyn, New York. He talks about his training as a combat air crewman in the U.S. Navy and earning his education at the University of Georgia. He mentions that he was introduced to Reform Judaism at university through Hillel and that he enjoyed reading prayers in English. He talks about being stationed in Lake City, Florida during World War II. He talks about seeing different parts of the country while in the Navy. He mentions that he did not want to return to New York after the war had ended. Ed talks about living in Fitzgerald, Georgia, where he met his first wife.  He recalls several families from there and the surrounding towns. He recalls Jewish businesses there. He remembers Rabbi Nathan Kohen. He discusses moving to Alabama and Georgia for business opportunities, before finally settling in Selma, Alabama in 1975. He talks about his move to Selma and meeting his second wife, Connie, and her conversion to Judaism. He remembers the welcoming community when he first arrived in Selma. He talks about Temple Mishkan Israel’s historic building and its community members. Ed talks about his vision for the future of the synagogue. He discusses downtown Selma and recalls the vibrant Jewish businesses when he first arrived. He talks about being an avid fan of University of Georgia football. He mentions his two sons, who live in Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/098/208/small/Edwin_Ember.png?1619297268","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - Ember_Edwin.mp4"]},"duration":2488.785,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/098/208/small/Edwin_Ember.png?1619297268","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-thebreman.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/098/208/original/Ember_Edwin.mp4?1601909988","type":"Video","format":"video/mp4","duration":2488.785,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Ember, Edwin [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"BERMAN: Edward or Edwin?\n\nEMBER: Edwin.\n\nBERMAN: I'll say Ed for the tape. It's whatever you prefer.\n\nEMBER: The only one that ever called me Edwin was my mother.\n\nBERMAN: Today is January 24, 2012. I am in Selma, Alabama, with Ed Ember, who\nhas agreed to participate in the Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Project\nof the William Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum. My name is Sandra\nBerman. I'm the archivist with the Museum. Thank you very much, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ed, for agreeing\nto participate in our project.\n\nEMBER: Glad to.\n\nBERMAN: I'd like to begin by asking you how you arrived in Selma. I know you're\nnot originally from here.\n\nEMBER: Long story. It was the United States Navy and World War II that got me to\nthe South. I was born in Brooklyn, New York. I was 17 years ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"old. I was just\nabout to graduate from high school. I went to Erasmus Hall High School in\nBrooklyn. I had already enlisted in the Navy, and they let me graduate. The day\nafter I graduated, I reported for active duty in the Navy. When the war ended, I\nwas in naval pre-flight school at the University of Georgia in Athens, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Georgia.\nActually, I was released to inactive duty in the Reserve right after the war\nended. Since I was in Athens, I just turned around and used the GI Bill of\nRights and went to school at the University of Georgia. That's how I got to the\nSouth. Eventually, married a girl from South Georgia. Fitzgerald, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Georgia. We\ngot married and we lived in Statesboro. We lived in Dublin and then Fitzgerald.\nIn 1965, we separated and divorced. I moved to Birmingham, Alabama. I had a job\nopportunity there. Lived in Birmingham about four years and moved on to\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tuscaloosa. I lived in Tuscaloosa about five, six years. Then another business\nopportunity brought me to Selma. This was 1975.\n\nBERMAN: What was the business opportunity?\n\nEMBER: I was in retail clothing business. I managed a Leon's store here in\nSelma. Leon's was part of a small chain of ladies ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"clothing stores. We had 18\nstores at that time. Two in Georgia, two in Florida, and the other 16 in Alabama.\n\nBERMAN: Who owned the Leon clothing chain?\n\nEMBER: Pookie Tepper was the principal owner, but there were two other owners.\nThere were three owners, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"actually.\n\nBERMAN: Was it a Jewish owned business?\n\nEMBER: Partially. Pookie was a member of this temple. He was Jewish. The other\ntwo gentlemen weren't.\n\nBERMAN: What was his real name?\n\nEMBER: Let's see. Pookie did have a real name.\n\nRUTH: It was Max Leon.\n\nEMBER: Max Leon. There you go.\n\nBERMAN: I want to get back a little bit ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to after the war and you going to the\nUniversity of Georgia. You had no desire to go back up North?\n\nEMBER: None whatsoever.\n\nBERMAN: How come? What was the allure of the south?\n\nEMBER: I'd never really been out of New York and the New York area until I\njoined the Navy. Because of the Navy and various trainings that I had, I saw\ndifferent parts of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"country. I was stationed in Chicago for a while, the\nMidwest, Oklahoma, Florida. Before I could get into the naval pilot training\nprogram, I was supposed to have had a year's worth of college. Before they sent\nme to pre-flight school, they sent me out to San Luis Obispo, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"California to Cal\nPoly, where I took an accelerated year's worth of college before I got to\nAthens. I was trained in the navy as an aviation ordnanceman and then went\nthrough combat air crewmen's school. I was actually a turret gunner on a small\nnavy bomber. I sat in the turret up on top with the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"twin 50 caliber machine\nguns. Then, I was stationed in Lake City, Florida, at a naval air station there.\nWhen I took the exam for pilot training, I was accepted. From Lake City,\nFlorida, I went out to San Luis Obispo, California. When I finished there, they\nshipped me back to Athens, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Georgia. I got to see other parts of the country. I\nknew that I really didn't want to go back to New York. I was either going to end\nup in Florida somewhere, California, or Georgia. Georgia won.\n\nBERMAN: What was the appeal?\n\nEMBER: The appeal was a young lady I met from Fitzgerald, Georgia.\n\nBERMAN: What was her name?\n\nEMBER: Her name was Geraldine ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Halperin.\n\nBERMAN: What was it like for a young man from the northeast, Brooklyn, to come\ninto the Jim Crow South? Was it culture shock?\n\nEMBER: Not really. Again, I had been exposed to a lot of different cultures\nafter I left New ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"York. Actually, back then, living in the part of Brooklyn that\nI lived in, it was like a small community. Brooklyn is made up of different\ncommunities. I was living in a predominantly Jewish area. There was a\npredominantly Italian, Irish, or you know. It wasn't . . . it just didn't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"seem\ndifferent. Of course, being in the navy and meeting and associating with young\nmen from various parts of the country, it was no culture shock, really.\n\nBERMAN: We've been to Fitzgerald a couple of times and that whole area. Ocilla.\nDublin. Can you name some of the other people that you met? Jewish families that\nyou had interaction with?\n\nEMBER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You've mentioned some of them. The Krugers. The Kaminskys. I'm trying to\nthink who else. There were two Kruger families. The Harrises from Ocilla, which\nwas just eight miles from Fitzgerald.\n\nBERMAN: Did you attend the Fitzgerald Jewish congregation?\n\nEMBER: Oh yes.\n\nBERMAN: Do you remember Rabbi Nathan Kohen?\n\nEMBER: Very much so. Yes.\n\nBERMAN: What was he ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"like? We've not interviewed anybody who's really spoken\nabout him.\n\nEMBER: He was a very reserved and quiet man. The Fitzgerald congregation was\nactually . . . there were only, I think, eight Jewish families in Fitzgerald\nproper. But we had a congregation from all around. Tifton. Even Dublin had . . .\nof course, we were a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Conservative congregation. All around. Douglas. Interactive\nwith a lot of the Jewish community. Fitzgerald was like . . . for that area, it\nwas like a gathering place for Jewish families. The holidays, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"people would come\nin and stay in the motels or a hotel. We would have a meal at the synagogue. We\nhad folks that were more Orthodox. The reason they came to Fitzgerald was they\ncould walk to the synagogue on the High Holy Days. We had regular Friday night\nservices, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"which I attended, except during football season when Fitzgerald played\nhigh school football on Friday nights.\n\nBERMAN: Do you remember . . . what was his first name, Reuben Kruger?\n\nEMBER: Reuben Kruger. Yes.\n\nBERMAN: Yes. Do you remember him very well?\n\nEMBER: Very well.\n\nBERMAN: I think he led the services at times. I think he was very active in the\nsynagogue. What was he like?\n\nEMBER: His father was more active than Reuben ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was. Yes.\n\nBERMAN: What was his father's name?\n\nEMBER: Abe. Reuben's father had a clothing business in Fitzgerald. Reuben opened\na shoe store. I think his wife was from Mobile. In fact, Connie and I saw them.\nIt's been a number of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"years. We used to go to Jekyll Island for the\nGeorgia/Florida weekends. We'd stop in Fitzgerald and visit. Jerry Heller and\nhis wife were there.\n\nBERMAN: What else do you remember about Fitzgerald, being there in that\ncommunity? Any anecdotes? Funny stories about life in Fitzgerald as a young . .\n. ?\n\nEMBER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Not really. There were good times and there were some bad times, which is\none of the reasons that Geraldine and I separated and divorced. I moved to\nAlabama. She eventually ended up down in Florida. She lives in Tuscaloosa now.\n\nBERMAN: Right.\n\nEMBER: Yes. We have . . . our two oldest sons . . . one of them lives in\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tuscaloosa. The other one and his family live in Georgia. They lived in Atlanta\nand then Dunwoody. Then they moved to up around Alpharetta. Both of the oldest\nones are retired now. They moved up to a community. 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I was a high school . . . I officiated high school football games.\n\nBERMAN: I can tell you're an avid fan.\n\nEMBER: Avid. Yes. She'll testify to that.\n\nBERMAN: Have you switched allegiance to Alabama now that you live here?\n\nEMBER: Oh no. No. No.\n\nBERMAN: Is the wrong thing to ask?\n\nEMBER: I'm an old ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"dog.\n\nBERMAN: An old dog.\n\nEMBER: Actually, my oldest son and his wife are Georgia alumni. My oldest\ngrandson and his wife are Georgia alumni. My oldest granddaughter and her\nhusband are Georgia alumni. So I kind of started the . . .\n\nBERMAN: I'm sorry I asked.\n\nEMBER: Why?\n\nBERMAN: I'm kidding.\n\nEMBER: But then I've ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"got the group in Tuscaloosa. They're Alabama fans. Alabama\nalumni and Alabama fans.\n\nBERMAN: When you moved to Selma, was there much of a difference in the Jewish\ncommunity here in Selma from the Jewish community you knew in Fitzgerald?\n\nEMBER: Yes. The Fitzgerald community, as you know, the services were\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Conservative. I was exposed to Reform Judaism earlier because of Hillel in\nAthens. I was a TEP at Georgia, Tau Epsilon Phi, which was a Jewish fraternity.\nHillel was Reform ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"services, which I personally enjoyed. I was bar mitzvahed and\ncould read Hebrew at one time. I still could barely do it, but it's been a few\nyears since I was bar mitzvahed. I could read, but I didn't know what I was\nreading. I couldn't speak Hebrew or understand. So, when I got to Reform\nservices, where there was more ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"English, I really got to understand some of the\nliturgy and what the prayers meant. What they said. I found that I really\nenjoyed Reform services more than I did the Conservative services.\n\nBERMAN: Was the community welcoming to a new family? A new member?\n\nEMBER: Yes. 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She happened\nto mention to her mother that Lisa's aunt was here from Miami, and she's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jewish.\nI had a boat that I kept on a marina in the River. It was a 23-foot Cuddy Cabin,\nif you're familiar with boats. It was the kind of boat where . . . I used to\njoke, it's big enough so when you rode down the river, you wouldn't spill your\ndrink. 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That would be\nfine.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Connie was . . . Doris went that Sunday morning and picked up Connie.\nDragged her out to the car and said, \"You come and have lunch with Henry and I.\"\nI was in my boat. I pulled up to their dock and went up. Nobody was there. That\ntime of the year was low and bank was about 100 feet ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"up. So I came back down and\npopped a beer and was sitting on the back of the boat. I had a little portable\nTV that I used to carry with me. I was watching the football game, naturally, in\na pair of cut-off jeans. The usual river attire. I'm making my dermatologist\nvery rich these days because of riding up and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"down the river naked for all those\nyears. Anyway, nobody was there. I'm sitting there. Finally, I hear Doris\nholler, \"Ed!\" I looked way up there. There is Doris, and there is this tall,\nskinny, blond, long hair. I thought I was looking at Mary . . . remember from\nPeter, Paul and Mary?\n\nBERMAN: Mary Travers.\n\nEMBER: Mary Travers. That's who I thought I was looking ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at. So, up I climbed. I\nget introduced to Connie. Doris said, \"Excuse me, I've got to go next door. Help\nyourself. The bar is right here.\" So I fixed a drink and fixed Connie a drink.\nThis was about two o'clock in the afternoon. We start talking and getting\nacquainted. 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Asked her if I could see\nher ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"again. She said, \"Yes,\" and we started dating. That's how we met and started\ngetting serious.\n\nBERMAN: When did you find out she wasn't Jewish?\n\nEMBER: Right away. Anyway, this went on. 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The ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"rabbi is still up on the bimah. He calls\nConnie to the bimah, and they go through a conversion ceremony. I didn't know\nthat she had been studying for months with the rabbi. Anyway, a couple months\nlater, we got married in the rabbi's study.\n\nBERMAN: That's a great story.\n\nEMBER: Yes.\n\nBERMAN: I'll have to check with her later if it's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"all true.\n\nEMBER: I may have left out a few things. Maybe she'll tell you about the white\nowls. She's grinning at me.\n\nBERMAN: So you've been in Selma since 1975.\n\nEMBER: 1975.\n\nBERMAN: How did you get active in this synagogue? You're the president now, correct?\n\nEMBER: Yes. For life.\n\nBERMAN: How long have you been president?\n\nEMBER: It's a life ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sentence. How long have I been president? I don't even know\nnow. Twenty years or more.\n\nBERMAN: How did you get active here?\n\nEMBER: Because you get in, and in a small community, people find things for you\nto do and get involved in. I got very interested in the history of the temple\nand realized ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what the congregation had once been. Of course, I missed most of\nthem. I go visit them now out at Live Oak Cemetery. It just intrigued me, and I\ngot involved. It took me a little while to . . . it took a lot of politicking\nbefore they would elect me president. Finally did, but now they can't get rid of\nme, it ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"seems.\n\nBERMAN: Like the rest of everybody we've spoken to, this synagogue and the\nbuilding is very meaningful to the small number of you that are still living\nhere in Selma.\n\nEMBER: Yes.\n\nBERMAN: What do you hope you can accomplish for this building?\n\nEMBER: It would take more than me. 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We need something like a\ndehumidifier to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"preserve the three Torahs in there . . . besides the books and\nthings. I would like it one day to be a museum, where we would have a curator,\nand it would be open to the public. It would be a remembrance that there was\nonce a very vibrant and an integral Jewish community here in Selma. The whole\ndowntown of Selma at one time was nothing but Jewish ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"merchants. There were three\nJewish mayors of this town. They were . . . Jews, like I said, were an integral\npart of not only economic growth but the social growth of the city. The Harmony\nClub was a center for Jewish activity and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"entertainment. They had card clubs.\nThey would have dances where young Jewish girls and Jewish men would meet from\nall over the area, not just Selma. They came from Montgomery. They came from\nBirmingham. It's gone today. It's sad.\n\nBERMAN: It made national news a couple of years ago when the . . .\n\nEMBER: You'll have to speak just a little ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"louder.\n\nBERMAN: I'm sorry. It made national news a couple of years ago when the city of\nDothan paid . . . offered . . . I think it was $100,000 to . . .\n\nEMBER: Yes. It didn't last long.\n\nBERMAN: Yes. Have you all thought about doing anything so drastic?\n\nEMBER: If we had $100,000, we would start getting the roof fixed.\n\nBERMAN: Yes. It didn't last long? I don't know.\n\nEMBER: No. It ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"didn't. What's happened to the Jewish community in Selma is so\nsimilar to what's happened all over the country, not just the South, in smaller\nJewish communities. The young people went off to school. Met wives or husbands\nfrom other parts of the country. They all ended up in Birmingham, Atlanta,\nConnecticut, or ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"California and never came back. There was limited opportunity.\nMost of them were well educated. Like David and Lynn Barth you met. They're from\nhere. Even though their families were here, and there is a lot of history, they\nended up in Nashville because of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Vanderbilt. That's typical of what happened.\n\nBERMAN: When you came here in 1975, the Jewish businesses were still a factor,\nvibrant along Broad Street. Can you describe what it looked like?\n\nEMBER: Not that many. There was just a few. There was Tepper's downtown. There\nwas Kayser's. 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That's\npart of what the problem is. Not only in Selma, but all over. There are no jobs\nfor people that aren't engineers or doctors. Everywhere you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"look, there's\nanother lawyer. You've got plenty of those. Really, I don't know. I hope that\nsomehow where people, the country as a whole, which reflects in our Congress,\nwake up and realize that you got ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to rebuild the middle class. It's so different\nfrom when I was young. When I got out of the service, there was opportunity.\nFirst of all, the whole generation was exposed to college that probably wouldn't\nhave gone or wouldn't . . . just like . . . I would have had a time financing\nmyself through school. My parents couldn't send me. 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I'm talking about\nWorld War II, where the whole country was involved in the war effort. It wasn't\njust the ones that were in service, serving in the army or the navy. There\nwasn't an air force then. It was the Army Air Corps. But it was people at home.\nThey went through ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"rationing, food rationing. Bought war bonds. Women went to\nwork for the first time in factories. Everybody was working, and everybody was\ntogether. The kids . . . I remember scrap metal drives. My ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"group . . . my\n\"gang,\" as we called ourselves, we were the \"Huskies.\" That was our name. We\nplayed ball together and hung out together. One of the fellows in the gang, his\nfather ran a filling station. There was an old junker car there. I remember that\nit couldn't run. 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The whole country was involved.\nKorea was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"different. Vietnam was different, and Iraq and Iran is different. The\ncountry, as a whole, isn't involved. Just the folks that's over there, has\nfamily over there fighting. It's just so different. There was economic\nopportunity for people who'd come up and get into the upper middle class and\neven ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"higher. It's not there in this country today.\n\nBERMAN: You expressed that really well. I was wondering if you, personally, see\nwhat we can do to get back on track?\n\nEMBER: It's like I said. It's got to come from the country as a whole. It's got\nto be a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"different mentality. I believe we're . . . I was just listening to news\nand politicians talking, and they are beginning to realize that we're losing our\nmiddle class, which is really the backbone of the country. If you don't have\npeople working, they can't pay taxes. If they don't pay ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"taxes, you can't have\nvarious programs that a country as rich and powerful as us should have take care\nof its people that can't take care of themselves. It's way beyond me.\n\nBERMAN: On that note I think we can conclude. I want to thank you very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/transcript/19262/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"much for\nparticipating. Thank you.\n\nEMBER: Glad to. You'll have to let me know when your presentation is available.\nLike I said, I've got family in the Atlanta area or the Georgia area. I know\nthey'll be delighted to go see what grandpa and great-grandpa is about.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=2460.0,2490.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/annotation_set/182","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/annotation_set/182/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eServicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, known informally as the GI Bill, was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as GI’s), including low-cost mortgages, loans to start business or farms and tuition and living expenses to attend college.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/annotation_set/182/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eTemple Mishkan Israel was founded in 1867, with services held at the home of Joseph Meyer.  In 1870, the Reform Congregation Mishkan Israel was formally established.  In 1876, the congregation began to rent an Episcopal church for its functions, and 16 years later, they acquired a parsonage and school house on Broad Street for Sunday school. The congregation built a permanent temple on that site. Ground was broken in June of 1899, and the building was completed in December of that year.  February, 1900, the synagogue was dedicated.  Although their membership was relatively small, Mishkan Israel was able to support a full-time rabbi. From 1885 through 1976, Mishkan Israel usually employed a rabbi, although its small size meant that most of their spiritual leaders did not stay in Selma for very long. From 1910 to 1930, the congregation reached a plateau of 80 members. Its membership peaked at 104 households in 1940. Since then, its membership has gradually declined. The congregation’s last full-time rabbi, Lothair Lubasch, died in 1976. In the early 20th century an Orthodox congregation, B'nai Abraham, located at the corner of Alabama and Green, was founded, but eventually disbanded due to declining membership in 1944. Its remaining members joined Mishkan Israel.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/annotation_set/182/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eJim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965.  The name seems to have originated in the song “Jump Jim Crow,” a song-and-dance caricature of blacks performed by white actor Thomas D. Rice in blackface in 1832.  As a result of Rice’s fame, “Jim Crow” became a pejorative expression meaning “Negro” by 1838 and the later segregation laws became known as “Jim Crow” laws.  Jim Crow laws mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the southern state of the former Confederacy, with a supposedly “separate but equal” status for black Americans, although in reality this was not so. Some examples of Jim Crow laws are the segregation of public schools, places, and public transportation and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants and drinking fountains for whites and blacks.  Private businesses, political parties and unions created their own Jim Crow arrangements, barring blacks from buying home in certain neighborhoods, from shopping or working in certain stores, from working at certain trades, etc. In the middle twentieth century, the Supreme Court began to overturn Jim Crow laws on constitutional grounds.  Rosa Parks defied the Jim Crows laws when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man, which became a catalyst to the Civil Rights movement.  Her actions, and the demonstrations that followed, led to a series of legislative and court decisions that contributed to undermining the Jim Crow system.  The Civil Rights Act of 1964 officially ended Jim Crow laws.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/annotation_set/182/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe synagogue of the Fitzgerald Hebrew Congregation was originally used by the Methodist Episcopal Church.  The building was converted to a Hebrew synagogue in 1939 when the northern and southern branches of the Methodist Church united. It is one of very few synagogues in South Georgia serving several other communities, in addition to Fitzgerald.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/annotation_set/182/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRabbi Nathan Kohen (1908-1975) was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  His first rabbinate was at Keneseth Israel in Monessen, Pennsylvania.  In 1945, he accepted the pulpit at Fitzgerald Hebrew Congregation, where he stayed for the next 25 years.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/annotation_set/182/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe two High Holy Days are \u003cem\u003eRosh Ha-Shanah\u003c/em\u003e (Jewish New Year) and \u003cem\u003eYom Kippur\u003c/em\u003e (Day of Atonement).\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/annotation_set/182/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAbe Kruger owned Gershon \u0026amp; Kruger, a dry goods store in partnership with Samuel Gershon of Atlanta.  He later owned Kruger’s Department Store until he sold it to Belk’s. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/annotation_set/182/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eHillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life is a Jewish campus organization.  Its mission is to enrich the lives of Jewish students so they may enrich Jewish people and the world.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/annotation_set/182/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eHebrew for ‘son of commandment.’  A rite of passage for Jewish boys aged 13 years and one day.  At that time, a Jewish boy is considered a responsible adult for most religious purposes.  He is now duty bound to keep the commandments, he puts on \u003cem\u003etefillin,\u003c/em\u003e and may be counted to the \u003cem\u003eminyan\u003c/em\u003e quorum for public worship.  He celebrates the \u003cem\u003ebar mitzvah\u003c/em\u003e by being called up to the reading of the \u003cem\u003eTorah\u003c/em\u003e in the synagogue, usually on the next available Sabbath after his Hebrew birthday. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/annotation_set/182/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eA Reform congregation in Montgomery, Alabama.  The congregation was formally formed in 1852 and was known as Kahl Montgomery.  In 1862, they completed a temple in downtown Montgomery and later changed the name to Temple Beth Or [Hebrew: House of Light].  It is listed in the National Registry of Historic Places and still stands today serving as a church.  Due to the increasing Jewish population, a new house of worship was built in 1902 and again in 1961, which is the location of Temple Beth Or today.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/annotation_set/182/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRabbi David A. 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Stores included Tepper's, Kayser's Liepold's, Rothchild's, the L.C. Adler furniture company, Siegel Automobile Co., Benish and Meyer Tobacco, and Richard Thalheimer liquors.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/30229/file/98208/annotation_set/182/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Harmony Club was formed in 1867.  In 1909, a brick building was erected on Water Avenue.  It served as a social hub for the Jewish community, hosting dances, card games, billiards and other social functions. Non-Jews would occasionally rent out the space to host their events.  It is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.  The names on the building's cornerstone are Ben J. Schuster, Isaac Yaretzky, M.J. 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