{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/125q815512/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Belger, Miriam Sepersky"]},"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":["1989-05-30 (creation)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Audio"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source"]},"value":{"en":["Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Collection","Ida Pearle and Joseph Cuba Archives for Southern Jewish History","William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eMiriam Belger interviewed by Margery Diamond on May 30, 1989 in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eBorn to Abraham and Annie Sepersky of the Bronx, N.Y., Miriam was her family’s first university graduate, earning a degree in education from Hunter College. Growing up in New York City specifically in the Bronx, she was always fascinated with art, culture, and social good. Mariam and her husband in 1942, moved to Atlanta. Her husband was transferred to The Lerner Shops. The Lerner Shops were started by Samuel Lerner in 1918 as a retail space. That  was the beginning of a new life down in the South. The couple moved down when the war was just started.  Growing her career, she was inspired by many teachers. Her talent and drive persisted in the education field located in schools across Atlanta while being a mother. During her role eventually as an early childhood educator at Ahavath Achim Synagogue, she taught and inspired many of Atlanta's Jewish youth. After 45 years of her career, she decided to spend her retirement serving as a reading instructor and teacher mentor in several Atlanta public school systems. She married Morris Belger and has two daughters: Joan Barton and Susan Scheinfeld. Miriam Belger died at 98 in Alpharetta on Monday, March 23, 2015, from Pneumonia.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eThis interview is between Mariam Belger and interviewer Margery Diamond. The interview discussion starts about talking through the acceptance of the death of her husband. Mariam often brings up how your workplace is the ultimate support system during that time of her life. Continuing the discussion, Mariam explains her two sides. Her professional work life, and her motherhood. With great humor, and passion Mariam proudly describes her timeline up until her role as an educator for Jewish youth. Because of her strong Jewish roots not only got her involved in her career but made her connected to life long mentors and friends. \u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28468"]}},{"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":["Belger, Miriam (personal name)","Epstein, Harry (Rabbi) (personal name)","Solomon Schechter School of Atlanta (corporate name)","The Epstein School (corporate name)","Ahavath Achim (corporate name)","Atlanta, Ga (geographic term)","The Bronx, New York, Ny (geographic term)","The Conservative Movement (topical term)","Barton, Harris (personal name)","National Football League (corporate name)","San Francisco 49ers (corporate name)","Shearith Israe; (corporate name)","University of North Carolina (corporate name)","Early Childhood Education (topical term)","teachers (topical term)","working mothers (topical term)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eMiriam Belger interviewed by Margery Diamond on May 30, 1989 in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBorn to Abraham and Annie Sepersky of the Bronx, N.Y., Miriam was her family’s first university graduate, earning a degree in education from Hunter College. Growing up in New York City specifically in the Bronx, she was always fascinated with art, culture, and social good. Mariam and her husband in 1942, moved to Atlanta. Her husband was transferred to The Lerner Shops. The Lerner Shops were started by Samuel Lerner in 1918 as a retail space. That  was the beginning of a new life down in the South. The couple moved down when the war was just started.  Growing her career, she was inspired by many teachers. Her talent and drive persisted in the education field located in schools across Atlanta while being a mother. During her role eventually as an early childhood educator at Ahavath Achim Synagogue, she taught and inspired many of Atlanta's Jewish youth. After 45 years of her career, she decided to spend her retirement serving as a reading instructor and teacher mentor in several Atlanta public school systems. She married Morris Belger and has two daughters: Joan Barton and Susan Scheinfeld. Miriam Belger died at 98 in Alpharetta on Monday, March 23, 2015, from Pneumonia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis interview is between Mariam Belger and interviewer Margery Diamond. The interview discussion starts about talking through the acceptance of the death of her husband. Mariam often brings up how your workplace is the ultimate support system during that time of her life. Continuing the discussion, Mariam explains her two sides. Her professional work life, and her motherhood. With great humor, and passion Mariam proudly describes her timeline up until her role as an educator for Jewish youth. Because of her strong Jewish roots not only got her involved in her career but made her connected to life long mentors and friends. \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/000/111/251/small/Miriam_Belger.png?1619439088","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - Belger_Miriam.mp3"]},"duration":5163.65061,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/111/251/small/Miriam_Belger.png?1619439088","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-thebreman.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/111/251/original/Belger_Miriam.mp3?1617795890","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mp3","duration":5163.65061,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Miriam Belger [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DIAMOND: This is Margery Diamond with the American Jewish Committee and the\nAtlanta Council of Jewish Women and the Atlanta Jewish Federation doing an\ninterview for the Oral History Project May 1989.\n\nBELGER: I am ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Miriam S. Belger, 1388 Stevens Drive, Northeast, Atlanta, Georgia, 30329.\n\nDIAMOND: In other words, there's a pattern in this, isn't there. There's some --\n\nBELGER: Some sort of structure.\n\nDIAMOND: --structure.\n\nDIAMOND: Hi, this is Margery Diamond, and I'm speaking with Miriam Belger at her\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"home on May 30th, 1989. This is for the American Jewish Committee, the Council\nof Jewish Women, and now the Atlanta Jewish Federation Oral History Project,\nJewish Women of Achievement. I can't remember if I said it or not, I'm Margery\nDiamond, interviewer. We are very informal, feel comfortable. It is just a conversation.\n\nBELGER: Okay.\n\nDIAMOND: You said something on the telephone, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when I asked could I interview\nyou, that I'd like to start from. That was, when I said I'd love your story, you\nsaid, \"Nobody really knows my story. Nobody really knows the true me.\" -\n\nBELGER: It's interesting.\n\nDIAMOND: I wondered what you were referring to, and let's start with the\npresent. Who is the true Miriam Belger?\n\nBELGER: I think I have two sides. I really do. I have the professional side,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"working with the children, which has been my life work; and being a mother at\nhome. I really think that's my two sides. I find that now that I'm going through\nthis change of a life type, change, I see myself in a different way than I am in\na classroom. I find in the classroom I'm very forward, very aggressive, one step\nahead of the children, able to stimulate, able to motivate them, able to get the\nbest out of them. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think I'm very successful in that. But now that my life has\nchanged, since the death of my husband, I find that I'm more of an introvert,\nwithin my own self, finding it difficult to get on to the other type of world\nthat I have to go into, to make friends, and to keep myself busy. I have a\nstruggle within me. Finding out who really am I, what am I like. Many people\nhave a dual personality, and I think I have that now.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DIAMOND: Do you consider your new role that of a widow?\n\nBELGER: Yes, that is the life of a widow, that I think that changes-- such a\nsudden change is a change that you don't prepare yourself for. Therefore, when\nyou're thrown into it, you-- of course during the shiva period, you don't\nrealize what's going on, but once the door closes a whole new life pattern\nchanges. It just changes. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"All your wonderful friends that you have-- I still\nhave wonderful friends, they retain it-- but I am different. I feel different. I\nfeel different, to the point that even though they are wonderful and include me\nin everything, I could feel there's a wall. It's a change of conversation. It's\na change of how people look upon you. I don't think anybody could realize it\nunless you go through it. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It's an interesting phenomenon, but it happens. It\njust happens. That as people keep telling me, \"Miriam, you just have to keep\ngoing on,\" and I am keep going on. I'm not accustomed to making decisions by\nmyself, and that's what I find hard. I'm not accustomed to-- I was a very\ncontent person at home with my husband, because we were-- we weren't always\ngoers, we were just always together, and he was always reading.\n\nBELGER: always working for the next day plans, as you would know. If you teach\nkindergarteners, you're always ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"working for the next day. But now that he's not\nhere, there's a loss. And it is a complete change. Things are thrown at you. I\nalways look upon myself as a-- I must have been just a doll in my husband's\nhands, in the respect I never had to make decisions. Although he would confide\nin me, he did everything. He really did. My role was the life of a mother, a\nwife, and then the teacher. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Now it's just-- the wife is gone. The mother is\nstill here, but the children are gone, and I'm alone. It it's not pleasant. I\nthink that I have come through it nicely. The children say I got an A.\n\nDIAMOND: They do?\n\nBELGER: It's because the children at the school, the obligation that I have\ntowards the school and towards my profession is to keep going. I think that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that\nhas helped me, that was my support. Absolutely, that was my complete support,\nbecause I could not fall under. I had to keep going for the sake of the\nchildren. The children who I had last year-- that was the time of the death of\nmy husband-- were wonderful. They seemed to comprehend my sorrow. They felt it,\nalthough I never mentioned it in the classroom. It was one morning, I think,\nabout three or four weeks ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"after the death of my husband, that the children's\nparents came in. These children were only four and a half. The parents gave each\none of the children a book to present in his memory. The children are four and a\nhalf years old. They said something. Now they might have been prompted as such\nby their parents. Somehow, they were able to convey in their own little young\nmanner how they felt, or how I felt. It was really a very touching ceremony.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It's almost as if it should have been taped for the time (inaudible). The school\nhas been my support. I really-- I don't know what I would do without them. It's\nquite interesting right now, because I really do think that the time will be\ncoming soon when I have to retire. Not that I have to retire, I should retire.\nNot that I have to, but because I feel as if I'm (inaudible) still able to hop,\nskip, and jump as you would say. I do feel that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I keep putting that thought off\nbecause I'm afraid to face it. Because what will I do with my time? Each one\nsays to me, Dr. Grablowski (sp.) in fact said that to me the other day, \"You\nmust plan now, Miriam, for the time that you won't have much time.\" that seems\nto be very very in front of me at all times, what will I do with my time.\nVolunteer work? I don't think-- ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think I might go into volunteer work, but I\nreally think that I would go into the public school system and give -volunteer\nmy time to the children who need help. I have been doing that. I have been going\nto the-- since I felt as if I have a lot of time, I don't have to run home any\nlonger. Last year, at the beginning of the school year and all last year, I went\nto the Briar Vista School right here in the area. I went into the first grade\nand gave my time to the teacher in the afternoon. I came in at the time when the\nteacher really didn't need any help. It was one o'clock, half past one is not\nreally the time ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that the teacher needs much help. But this year, I went into the\nbehavior class. Briar Vista School has many classes. I was more or less a branch\nof the Carlwood School. I found it very rewarding. I can't spend much time\nthere, but the time that I spent there, I left with a very nice feeling that I\ndid a mitzvah. I did a mitzvah. Each time I left, I said to that young teacher,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"her first year of teaching special education, I said, \"Terri, you're doing a\ngreat job.\" she did. She was trained for that role. It wasn't easy on her. I\njust forewarned her, \"Don't take these worries home with you. You're too young\nto worry about that. I'll take it home.\" Which is not easy. What else can I tell you?\n\nDIAMOND: I have a question about your teaching. You are ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Atlanta's teacher, you\nhave taught--\n\nBELGER: Oh, I don't know--\n\nDIAMOND: --many, many, many children. Tell us a little about that?\n\nBELGER: The Lord has given me a good memory. I seem to remember each one of\nthem. I seem to-- if you give me the first name, I'll come back with the second\nname. The children are all grown. I always felt that the children have a lot to\ngive. I always felt that the Jewish children ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"are successful in life. I really\nfeel that way. They might have some that might have a hard beginning only\nbecause the parents are impatient. They find a niche in life. Most of our\nchildren, the Jewish children, have been very successful. They're doctors or\nlawyers and the Indian chiefs. I'm now in my second generation. I'm the second\ngeneration now. I have given all of myself ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to them. Teaching is not easy. It's\ngetting harder. A teacher and I have always done that. Go into the classroom\nprepared, but at the same time prepared to change. If the time comes that you\nmight have a wonderful program, wonderful schedule, and all of a sudden\nsomething happens. You'll throw it away and do what the child wants you to do,\nto go along with the crowd. 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My ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"goal in teaching these\nchildren: to make each child feel good about himself, (inaudible). We do a lot\nof things in the classroom. I never say to the child, \"That's wrong.\" I never\ndo. I think it is this way, don't you? They go along with you. I feel that the\nchild has to learn to be happy with his own self, to laugh, feel good. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Why don't\nyou feel good? We question him. We talk about ourselves. My goal is to see to it\nthat coming to school is having and learning makes him feel good. Why am I known\nin the city? I think there's many reasons why I'm known. When I started, there\nwere only two schools. There was the Community Center and the Ahavath Achim.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DIAMOND: When was that? When did you --\n\nBELGER: 1949. There were only two schools, and they were-- I don't know whether\nthey were competitive, but we knew they were there. There were many Jewish\nchildren in the city. The synagogue opened up to take care of their own. We've\nhad --\n\nDIAMOND: Let me ask you a little bit about that. In 1949 --\n\nBELGER: At the Tenth Street School, there was.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DIAMOND: What were the circumstances like that made a Jewish school necessary?\nDid the school open, did you open the school, or had it been in existence --\n\nBELGER: No, no, no. The school was-- I don't remember when the school was\nopened. It was opened by Mary Dwoskin. When Mary Dwoskin, who was well known in\nthe city, when her daughter Diane was becoming of school age, she realized the\nway the children-- she lived in an area where there were not ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"many other\nchildren. She realized-- because Mary was a teacher by profession-- she realized\nthat Diane needed something a little bit more than hanging around the house with\nthe maid. I think she came to speak to the synagogue board that a nursery school\nto take care of the children, the Jewish children in the area, was necessary.\nFrom what I gather from Rabbi Epstein's sermon ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that he gave one time, the board\ndid not go along with him. Two or three years later, they did. I think it\nstarted in 1942. I think that the time that the school opened up on Tenth\nStreet. It was a school that was really-- its goal was to teach the Jewish\nchildren, take care of the Jewish children of young ages. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was threes and\nfours. We did not have kindergarten at the very beginning. That came later. But\nit was two classes of three years old and four years old. When I came in 1949,\nElaine Cummins came along with me. We were the two of us. We both-- she did an\nexcellent job because she was an artist by profession. She (inaudible) now. The\ntwo of us worked together, and it became a good school. It was a good school. It\nwas ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"geared for the children and recognizing the abilities of each child. It was\nnot a pressure type school. It was a school where the children could feel very\ncomfortable and grow and socialize. Getting to the school was well known to Leo.\nIf you could recall him. Leo was a Black man who drove the bus. The school was\non Tenth Street and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"most of the Jewish children lived in the Johnson Road area,\nby the time he picked-- he started at eight o'clock in the morning, and we\nsometimes got there by nine-thirty. The children drove-- rode a long time. They\nloved it, because Leo was just well-loved, and he loved every one of those\nchildren he teachers were on the bus. One teacher going home-- one teacher going\nto school; one teacher going home. Then of course, the school expanded when we\nmoved to the new quarters.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DIAMOND: Let me hold up just a minute. How did you choose to go teach nursery\nschool at the AA in 1949? What were your circumstances in your life at that time?\n\nBELGER: I was married ten years at the time. I realized that I liked homemaking.\nI was really a nice home wife. I felt as if I could do a little bit more with my\nlife. I've always been geared towards education because of my education that I\nhad previously at the time I came to Atlanta. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I felt that I had to do something\nmore. There was a drive within me. The drive must have started years and years--\nthe time I was growing up in the Bronx, New York. I recall, and my little essay\nsays that too, that during the time I was growing up in New York, I lived in the\nBronx at the time. Mother and daddy moved up to the Bronx when the Bronx was\njust developing. My father ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was quite comfortable and he took the family from the\nlower East Side, and we migrated to the rich Bronx. I was about six months old,\nI was told, when I went up there. As time developed and I grew, I always found\npeople didn't send their children to camps during the summer months. The\nchildren were street children. They lived in the streets. I always had the\npattern during the summer months of gathering the kids in the neighborhood, of\nkids in the apartment house. It was this whole apartment house. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I used to get\none of these nice orange crates that were available at that time, and I used to\nplay school. I remember that very vividly, very vividly. I don't know what I\ntaught them, but I always held class, not knowing that someday I would become a\nteacher. After I-- both daughters were born at the time. Susan, who was the\nyounger one, was about a year and a half old. Saying to my husband, \"I must do\nsomething.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he encouraged me to go ahead. I remember going to the synagogue, and\nI met with Rabbi Epstein, and I told him that I'd like to teach Sunday School.\nHe was very gracious and wonderful. He says, \"We need you.\" I started teaching\nSunday School two years before I actually went into the early childhood program.\nThen started the career of being in the early childhood program. It has\nflourished. These children ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"were well taken care of. You know that being the\npupils' first teacher in a formal/informal pattern, the children remember that\nwell. It seems to have made a-- something that the child receives from the first\nteacher. I think maybe that is why it evolved ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that I became the \"Teacher of the\nYear\"; I don't know. I know that I gave all myself to it, and to this day I do.\nI do that every night, cutting and pasting, plus getting ready for the next day.\nBut always with the idea that there's something else behind me. If I can't use\nthis, let's change. I feel very gratified. I really feel as if I did a good job.\nIt makes me feel very good when somebody comes along and says, \"That's my old\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"teacher, my nursery school teacher.\" It wasn't too long ago when I was at the\nwedding-- now this is true (laugh)-- that I was on the receiving line, and there\ncame a girl, Srochi girl, Darrel, she said to her new husband, \"I want you to\nmeet my old teacher.\" (laugh) I said, \"Darrel, I think it's teacher of old.\"\nSomehow a teacher who teaches young children ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"is well remembered by the children.\nIf they enjoy the experience by having a good time, and they developed--\nunconsciously to themselves, that they developed, you are well remembered. Some\nteachers -Jews somehow impress some children. That child does retain it. It does\nfeel good when somebody comes along and says, \"This is Velga.\" I say, \"You'll\nhave to help me out.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"(laugh) Just happened to me the other day.\n\nDIAMOND: Let me ask you this. You said you just went to the rabbi and asked\ncould you teach Sunday School. Did you have any college training--\n\nBELGER: Yes.\n\nDIAMOND: ...teacher degree or--\n\nBELGER: Yes, yes. I graduated from Wadley (sp.) High School, which today is\ncalled the School of Music and Art. I went on to Hunter and did receive a\nscholarship. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"There's quite a little story I'll tell you. I received a\nscholarship to go to Cornell, but in those days being of a Jewish Orthodox\nfamily, that was really a no-no. That was honorary, but my mother says,\n\"Absolutely not. You're not going away from home.\" Children didn't go away from\nhome in those days. I was pleased when I went to Hunter. Before I knew it, the\ntime came that in 1938 I got married, during that time. Then 1942, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my husband\nwas transferred to Atlanta. That was the beginning of a new life down here. We\nmoved down here when the war was just started. He was associated with Lerner\nShops at the time, until the very end, until his time of death. It was the best\nthing that ever happened to us by being transferred down here. It was. My\nhusband never could have lived in New York. He never could have lived as long\nwith his ailment in New York as he was able to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"live in Atlanta, because of the\ndifference of the pace of life. In 1942 I just adjusted very easily. I enjoyed\nliving down here. It was a time that very few migrations were being held. I\nthink I was among the very first of the Orthodox to come down to Atlanta.\nAtlanta was a small little town on Boulevard and Parkway Drive at the time.\nCould you recall that?\n\nDIAMOND: I know of it.\n\nBELGER: It was-- everybody knew each other. It was a small little city, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and the\nfirst question they would ask is, \"Who are you, who is your family?\" then I had\nto explain that I'm a newcomer. I adjusted very nicely to the point that when I\nwas transferred down here, my mother was quite upset at the time. I was one of\nfour children, and I was not the oldest, I was not the youngest, I was in\nbetween. I was the first one to be married and to leave home, which was really\nquite ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"radical in that time. People just didn't do it. They could go from Europe\nto the United States, but to go to another part of the States is something a\nlittle different. At the end of three weeks, my mother came down to visit. She looked\n\naround and she said, \"This is a paradise for the woman. That was the time when\neverybody had maids and all the nice things.\n\nBELGER: Okay. You were talking about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"your mother and what she said about being a paradise.\n\nBELGER: She thought it was a woman's paradise because as she looked around\neverybody had maids at the time. The maids were not paid, but they had to help.\nThe women had a lot of leisure time. They seemed to be enjoying their afternoon\nmahjong. I don't think they played canasta at that time, I think they played\nmahjong. It was a nice life. It was quiet. I had a nice apartment. The apartment\nwas very nice. My mother was glad to see ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that there was food down here. Somehow,\nshe was always afraid there wouldn't be enough to eat in this area. At that\ntime, we lived close, we lived on Parkway Drive right across the street from\nGrady High School at the time. It wasn't too far from obtaining Jewish food, she\nwasn't-- she didn't feel obligated that she had to send me much from New York.\nTime went on. As time went on, we moved on to a-- we bought our own home, and I\ncontinued to teach. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"From Sunday School I went into the early childhood program.\nIt was my life, absolutely my life. Now in between these times, I did attend\nclasses at Emory University at night. It was the adult classes, all the\npsychology, childhood improvement, all those kinds of psychology, the growth\npatterns of a child's life. I went every quarter during the evening hours. It\nwas somehow-- ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when the children were growing up, my husband said to me one day,\n\"Miriam, you're talking down to me,\" which I might have done unconsciously\nbecause I was just accustomed to speaking down to the kids. He says, \"It's\nbeginning to hurt your adult language.\" My husband was quite-- he was a bright\nman. He was a very learned man. He was the quiet, retiring type man. I didn't\nenjoy what he said. [He thought] that I was losing my adult language. I did ask\nhim what I should do. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He says, \"Maybe you ought to just find something else to\ndo to get out into the adult world.\" That was on a Sunday, 1966, I think, or\n'67, as far as-- I don't recall when it was. The next afternoon after school was\nover at twelve, twelve-thirty, I marched myself into Famous Eldon's, and I spoke\nto a wonderful Mr. Ross, whose children I had the pleasure of teaching, and I\nsays, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Harley, you know Mo?\" He says, \"Yes.\" I says, \"Well, he's\"-- I told him\nwhat he said to me. He says, \"Well what shall I do?\" I said, \"What do you think\nyou ought to do?\" He says, \"You want a job?\" I says, \"Yes.\" he gave me a job\nright then and there. He says, \"Would you like to sell?\" I said, \"Yes, I must be\nin contact with people.\" In 1967, I stayed there I think seventeen years, coming\nin in the afternoon hours, I worked about twelve hours a week in the afternoons,\nif you can recall the time I was there. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It opened up a whole new world. It was\nmy avocation. I learned about jewelry. I kept my eyes and ears open. I learned\nabout diamonds, and I enjoyed the experience. Then I had a nice trade. I gained\na lot of call customers, who called for me. I thoroughly enjoyed it until one\nday, just about four years ago, I says, one Monday afternoon I came in, I says,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Why in the world am I here? I think it's enough.\" I retired from it. I didn't\nretire from teaching. I had enough of the other because there were too many\nchanges going on in Eldon's and I didn't prefer the feeling of it any longer. I\ndidn't feel the pleasures of selling any longer. I continued with the early\nchildhood program. At that time-- of course, we already had moved over to the\nnew building and the school was becoming very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"successful. The Epstein School was\nstarted. We grew into big business. Today we outgrew the Epstein School. The\nearly childhood program has moved over to Sandy Springs and has combined with\nthe Epstein School now. We were no longer known as the Ahavath Achim Preschool\nProgram. We're known as the Epstein School early childhood program. It has\nbecome most ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"successful, very successful in fact, to the point that I really\nthink that we ought to open up another school. Standing room only, we have-- we\nhave been very well-- Mrs. Fegrumes (sp.) at the head of it, has done a\nmarvelous job. She surrounded herself with very excellent administrators. She\nhas put the obligation upon teachers, seen to it that they perform. The school\nis a thriving school. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It is a very progressive early childhood program. Where\nthe main interest is the development of the child. Where the child is the\nimportant one. We're well equipped. Nothing is denied to us. We have many\nwonderful donors who helped us along the road. We are in the right area. That's\nwhat counts for the school. To the point that we have wonderful ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"happy parents.\nIf the child is happy, I say the parents are happy. A good student shines\nwherever he goes. That has Jewish parents with bright children. If the child is\nbright, the school is great.\n\nDIAMOND: Now you've spoken a lot about children and childhood and how important\nit is to you. Can we talk about your own personal childhood? You ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mentioned\ngrowing up in (inaudible) --\n\nBELGER: I don't remember, I guess. I don't seem to recall too much about my\nfamily, growing up. It's interesting, I remember playing school. I remember\ngoing to high school.\n\nDIAMOND: Can you go back further than that? Your very earliest memories before\nhigh school. What was-- did you have --\n\nBELGER: Yes, I remember going-- I remember going into kindergarten. Gee, that\ngoes a long time.\n\nDIAMOND: Let's try it.\n\nBELCHER: I remember going into kindergarten. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was living in the Bronx at the\ntime, and my mother had to take me. I was registered to go to kindergarten. I\nremember the teacher's name, Mrs. Coffee. If she would come in right now, I'd\nremember her, I think. I remember the first thing that was on that kindergarten\ntable, which we still use after many years, is the square pegboard with the\ndifferent color pegs. That seems to be very vivid. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Then I think my next memory\nis when the school district was cut in half, I recall, and a new school opened\nup in a brand-new area. That was P.S. 64, the Bronx. At that time there were no\ncarpools. There wasn't even a train in the area. There were no busses where we\nlived. We lived in suburbia. I had to walk, it must have been about two miles if\nnot more, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to the school. That was the time that you walked to school, you walked\nhome for lunch, you walked back to school, and then you walked back to the day.\nThere was no -that was the way of life and you accepted it. New York was a\ncold-- the weather was a little bit different than it is today. It was colder\nand hotter. We walked in the snow. I remember that very vividly. I remember--\nthen the years passed by ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"until I got to about the seventh or eighth grade. That\nwas the end of elementary school. I do remember doing very well. I remember in\none grade, the teacher-- at that time of the year in those days, they skipped\nyou from one grade to the next if you were proficient in something. I remember\nstudying very hard. It was astronomy, but it wasn't called astronomy. It was\ncalled something else with an easier name. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I remember studying about the stars\nand the moon. I remember memorizing and not knowing what I was memorizing. I\nremember that. Then I graduated. That was the end of the eighth grade, and I did\nget many awards if I can recall. I was a pretty good student. It still was with\nmy teacher there. I remember another teacher who taught in a different pattern.\nIt was the type that was just being instituted at the time. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was the time that\nyou did project work. You learned-- it was history class, and it was the\nbeginning that you had to do your own teaching. You had to find out the\ninformation by yourself. It was very radical. I remember the teacher saying,\n\"All right, go find more information; go find more information. Use the\nlibrary.\" That was in the seventh or eighth grade if I can recall. I remember my\nart teacher, and I think she's the one that set me in the art that I enjoy. See,\nI admire freeform art. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She was a freeform teacher, the art teacher, art\nenrichment. I loved her class. It was all lines and circle arts. I can remember\nher too today. She was great. Then I went on to high school.\n\nDIAMOND: Let's go back and talk about what-- you talked about what school was.\nWhat was your home life like, an Orthodox family in the Bronx? What was that\nlife like?\n\nBELGER: Well --\n\nDIAMOND: Jewish holidays, or --\n\nBELGER: Yes, yes. My mother and father were very Orthodox. My father ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and mother\nwere a very modern Orthodox to the point they never-- we felt very comfortable\nbeing Orthodox. At that time there was no such thing as Conservatism in the\nBronx. I remember papa going to the synagogue and he had to walk a long\ndistance. We lived on the West side of town. Papa had to walk to the East side\nof town, down a long hill to go to the small synagogue. He never pressured us.\nIt was a way of life. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We knew no other way. We knew that we observed the\nShabbos. We knew that mama was very busy starting on Thursday getting ready for\nShabbos on Friday night. We knew that we did not light-- use the electricity or\nput the lights on or off beginning of Friday night until Saturday night. We\nnever questioned it. This was our life. We did it. We didn't-- no money was\nhandled on Friday night or Saturday. My mother did not attend services because\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it was too far away for her to walk, but papa did. Yes, my father was Orthodox\nbut by the time -\n\nMy father was a businessman, and a very successful businessman. I remember that\ndid he observe the Shabbos during his work on Friday and Saturday. Yes he did.\nBut, however, he became really Orthodox, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"really religious, in customs, of\nceremonies, was at the death of his father. That was in 1929 when his father\ndied. Now I remember that well. That seems to have changed his whole lifestyle,\nwhere he really became more sensitive to Orthodoxy and really within his own\nself, he put a lot of disciplines upon himself. He never put the disciplines\nupon the children. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He never did say to us that you must do this or you must do\nthis. He never said you must do that, or you don't do this and you don't do\nthat. He felt as if he and my mother observed it, but he never pressured the\nchildren, and there were four of us, to the point that I always look upon him as\na free-thinking Orthodox person. We respected him. When we were in his home, we\nrespected his lifestyle. When the time for us to go out on our, I no longer was Orthodox.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I more or less changed Conservative, made life a little-- I don't think I put\nthose disciplines upon myself, or my husband didn't either. He came from an\nOrthodox family too. But we were on our own. Then when we came to Atlanta and\njoined the Conservative movement. We were completely Conservative but had more\nunderstanding of Orthodoxy. During our growing years, holidays, customs,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ceremonies, and kashrut to the dying day of my mother plus father always\nobserved. I do keep a kosher home, but I cannot say it's the way my mother and\nfather's used to be. I feel very comfortable with Orthodoxy. I respect them. I\nlive in a neighborhood that is all Orthodox. I think it's great how they handle\nit. I'm very comfortable in the City of Atlanta being a Conservative pattern. I\nthink it's easier to go along with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and to live in a modern society. I think\nbeing an Orthodox pattern, I think they more or less put themselves in a little\nniche of a ghetto. That is in this particular area which I live, I feel that's\nwhat's being done here. Sometime there's a tendency of the Orthodox people not\nto accept anybody unless they observe the way they do. That doesn't bother me\nbecause I'm very secure within my own self. 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My father in the old country ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that he\ncame from-- I don't know how they say, Cleskabaronure(sp.), I think they call\nit, born in the small little city of Clesmus in Poland, or wherever it is. He\nwas a very fine student. He had an excellent mind, my father. He went to school\nwith Rabbi Cutler. Now I don't know whether you know about him or not. We tried,\nRabbi Cutler migrated to the States too at about the same time ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"as my father, and\nof course they lost communication with each other. Rabbi Cutler went ahead and\nopened up the-- in Lakewood, New Jersey-- the school, a very special school for\nvery Orthodox students. I forgot what you call that school. It's where the young\nfolks are married and the husband continues to learn. 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My father ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was\nvery bright, very intense, very learned, and a great speaker. He used to be\ncalled by the UJH and do the speaking for the pledges, and he felt very\ncomfortable with it. My mother was a real housewife, took care of the family.\n\nShe took care of the family. She did a pretty good job of it, now that I recall.\nI keep evaluating her because now as time goes on, you begin to realize and you\nbegin to recall ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"all that mama did. In fact, this past week as I told you, we had\na bar mitzvah of my youngest grandson. I made my brother from New York come with\nhis wife and my sister from Florida areas attend. I made old-fashioned challah\nfor them. I served it, and my kid brother told me, he says, \"Just like mama.\"\nSomehow, the memories of a departed one becomes more intense at the moment of\ndeath. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You just don't appreciate it as time goes on. As I go on, maybe my young\nfolks will start thinking about me as time goes on a little bit more. (laugh)\n\nDIAMOND: We try--\n\nBELGER: I really enjoy teaching. I really-- I could think of no other way. The\nchildren have been great. They really have. Some of them, what they say, how\nthey perform. There are some tough days. Some of the children have been very\ntough. We've had-- I've met a lot of problems. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Many of the parents were very\nupset with me along the road. To this day, some parents don't speak to me. I had\nto do it for the good of the child. The parent realizes later on, when they were\nable to accept that the child had to be helped. That is the hardest part of\nteaching, as you would know, is when you have to confront a parent and say we\nhave to do something for the little one, the little child, to help them. That\nbecomes very difficult ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for a teacher, especially if you know her well too.\nWorking in this community, you get to know the parents. You are no longer\nstanding on the outside, you're stepping into their world which they don't know.\nYou try to be objective, but subjectiveness comes right on out. I felt that I\nhave been truthful to the parents. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I really do. I really find that the parents\nhave not been my friends. I am the teacher. I felt that it is my duty to do the\nbest I can for each child, cause each child is special and each child is\nindividual. There is no set way of teaching children. You have to just find the\nbest way for them.\n\nDIAMOND: Now, I'm going to say let's stop right here and take a breather,\nbecause you've done a fantastic job--\n\nBELGER: How about a drink.\n\nDIAMOND: Let me push stop\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"BELGER: I don't think you know about my grandchildren, do you?\n\nDIAMOND: Let's see. I really don't know about your children. I don't know you as\nmother. I don't know your children or --\n\nBELGER: I have two different roles.\n\nDIAMOND: Okay.\n\nBELGER: At the beginning of the school year, I tell-- we ask -we have a little\nunit on who am I, my family. I tell them about my family. It's very hard for the\nchildren to see that I'm other than a teacher. I get my little hand down, and I\nsay, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"I'm a girl, I'm a daughter, I'm a sister, I'm a wife and I'm a mother.\"\nSomehow it becomes very overwhelming to them. Of course, they're young. It's\nvery hard for them to conceive relationships. I'm a grandma too. That seemed to\nhit home, because grandmas are very dear to the young folks. Yes, I am the\nmother of two daughters. The older daughter today is-- ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"she was born in 1941,\nshe's forty-eight years old. She has a son twenty-five. Then I have Susan, born\nin 1948, she's forty-one. I raised two only children, being six and a half years\napart, I raised two only children. The children were good students. Susan, the\nyounger one, has a Master's in education; ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the older one didn't want to go to\ncollege. She just started college, went for a few years and she decided she\nwanted to get married, because during those times girls got married early, right\nafter high school. Usually, they went out to get married, if you can recall\nthose days.\n\nDIAMOND: That's what I did.\n\nBELGER: They both-- yeah, that's what you did. That's-- Joan and Susan live in\nthe city. They both live in the Dunwoody area. Joan is the mother now of three\nchildren, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"one twenty-five, one twenty-three, and one twenty. Her oldest son is\nquite famous. If you are a big football fan, you would know about Harris Baron.\nHe's one of the three Jewish football, professional football players in this\ncountry. He was drafted, graduated from the University of North Carolina, and\nwas drafted on the first draft to the San Francisco Forty-niners.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DIAMOND: A celebrity, wow.\n\nBELGER: He was in the Super Bowl on the first run. I'll show you a picture of\nhim in a few minutes. He's very successful, but this is what he wanted. He's a\nbig boy. He certainly is a big boy because the part that he plays for the team,\nthe offensive tackle, demands a big boy, and he's a big boy. He realized that he\nis a big boy. He had the strength and he was determined to become a football\nplayer. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was due to the efforts of my daughter and my son-in-law who never--\nwho went along with his wishes encouraged him. If this is what you want, Harris,\nwe will be behind you. He was an excellent student at the same time at the\nUniversity of North Carolina. He graduated Dunwoody High School and got a full\nscholarship to the University of North Carolina. He went through the University\nof North Carolina, came out with a degree in finance, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was drafted to the San\nFrancisco Forty-niners. This year they were in the Super Bowl, and I was happy\nto announce that they won. I was (inaudible) to see him win. Although being a\ngood football player, he has a nice avocation of course in the field of finance.\nBut the nicest part of this nice Jewish football player is that he's a wonderful\nson. He really is. A great boy. He's in town right now. Then I have the grandson\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Todd who is two years younger, he's twenty-three, graduated at twenty-two at the\nUniversity of Washington in Virginia. Now he is a brilliant boy. He really is\nbrilliant. Graduated Lovett with the finest of honors, went on to Washington,\ngraduated Phi Beta Kappa, and summa cum laude. That was last year. Had a hard\ntime finding himself when he got out of school. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He really didn't know what he\nwanted to do, because he came out with a liberal arts [degree]. He went to\nEurope for the last summer, traveled Europe last summer, and it took him a year\nto find himself-- that's the new expression today-- find myself. He has finally\nfound himself a position. He was accepted to medical school. He didn't want to\ngo to medical school. He didn't want to go to law school. He really didn't know\nwhat he wanted. But I think he ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"found what he wanted to do. Now he's with public\nrelations, advertising. I hope he will meet his success there. He's a fine young\nman, real lady's man, very handsome, and very tall. He has all the qualities for\nsuccess. Then Joan's younger daughter is twenty. She graduated Dunwoody and went\non to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Stephens College in St. Louis. She just stayed there a year because she\ndidn't enjoy it. I don't know why she didn't like it. She did very well and made\nthe Dean's List. Now she's transferring to Florida-- is there such a thing as\nFlorida Southern College, University of Florida? That's where she's going.\nThat's where she's going now. Hopefully she'll do that. I think her-- she has a\nlittle problem I think, a slight learning problem, learning disability, and she\nseems to have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"conquered it to the point that she knows what she's able to do.\nShe knows her limitations. She studies very hard. The reason she left Stephens\nis because she wanted to go into the land of boys, which is very fine. We go\nalong with that, because up to this time she was quite retiring. That's Joan's\nfamily. Joan has always worked during. Joan has an obsession for working, and\nshe likes working. She likes ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"being with people. I think when she was first\nmarried, she worked for the government for a while. When she got married, she\ncontinued for a while, stayed home for a while, and then went back. When she\nwent back, she opened up her own business. She opened up a business-- she always\nenjoys the arts-- a gift store in the Stone Mountain area, Memorial Drive, and\nstayed there for about nine successful years. All of a sudden Memorial Drive--\nthe area changed. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She had to give it up. Now, right now she is part of the group\nof the Paper Parlour people, and that's where she's working with people, and she\nenjoys it. Her husband is a salesman. Her husband has met many misfortunes along\nthe road. He's been ill. He's been quite ill. But he seems to be overcoming that\ntoo. But he's finding it very hard. Very interesting story about Poland,\ninteresting story that relates to Todd, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that's the middle son. Todd was, as I\nsaid, was a very good student. He was attending Dunwoody High School because\nthey live in that area. Joan realized that Todd was having a wonderful time\nbringing home wonderful grades and never doing a moment's work at home. They\nrealized that maybe he was not getting-- he wasn't motivated enough. At that\ntime, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2970.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Todd was a very fine basketball player, they said they were going to see\nwhat they could to get him to work harder, to use some of the abilities that he\nhas. It was good that they realized this. Anyway, they made application to\nLovett, and he was accepted to Lovett on a scholarship providing that he stays\non the team, the basketball team. That was during the eighth grade. He went in\nthe eighth grade. At the end ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of the eighth grade where he showed how great he\nwas. The wonderful grades he made, and he was good for the basketball team. That\nwas the time that Paul, his father, and he became very ill. They didn't know\nwhether he was going to make it or not. He had a brain tumor. There was\ndiscussion that Joan told Todd that he might not be able to go back to Lovett\nbecause Lovett was very high. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"However, the school took notice of that, what was\ngoing on. Calling out Todd they told Todd at the very end of the school year,\n\"Todd, you have shown how great you are. You will not have to leave the school.\nYour tuition will be taken care of. You have done honor to the school.\"\n\nDIAMOND: That's beautiful.\n\nBELGER: I'll always remember Lovett for that. He went on, as I say, graduated\nwith the greatest of honors. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3060.0,3090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I've got this nice little letter here that I have\nsaved done at graduation time. He was a great kid, great kid. He finds life-- he\nhas to look for excitement in life. It doesn't have to be an exciting party,\nbecause he's a party boy; excitement in thinking. He doesn't wish for dullness.\nHe doesn't want dull people. He likes things-- he has to be motivated all the\ntime for something bigger and bigger and bigger. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3090.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Now he's working, thank God,\nand he'll be settled. Then Susan. Susan's my younger one, very different from\nJoan. Susan's a little bit more relatable to my husband, sometimes emotional,\nvery dictatorial, very structured in her lifestyle. I call her sometimes, my\nhusband used to call her the sergeant of the family. She has two wonderful kids.\nShe really has. Ryan, who is just ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"thirteen, bar mitzvah, is a gifted child. He's\nan elocutionist, very fine speech writer; speaks beautifully. Both children\nspeak beautifully. She insisted upon good language. They're at the Kingsley\nSchool in Dunwoody. The boy she married is a great guy, Morris Scheinfeld. He's\na CPA, accounting. He has what you would call a nice ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"European head, excellent\nfather, sportsman, good sportsman, and he's great. They lead a nice life\ntogether. They've been wonderful to me. The girls really have been great to me.\nI ask nothing of them, thank God. I'm well secure. I don't need anything\nfinancially from them, but they are good children. I don't demand anything of\nthem. They really are there when I need them. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3180.0,3210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I try not to interfere in the\ngoings-on in their lifestyle. That's my fifty years of marriage. Of course, it\nended when (inaudible) died. We were going to be married fifty years. But life\ndoes go on in spite of it all, life goes on. My until your life becomes-- you\nare known ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"by your children, and your children give you your name. It's one that\nleans upon the other. I always used to say to the children, or the children used\nto say to me, \"Mama, you never praise me. You never do this.\" I said, \"I know\nhow great you are. It is for somebody else to say how great you are. I know it.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3240.0,3270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You have to prove it to others.\" I think they have taken that with them and\ndoing that with their own children. Because we as mothers sometimes have a\ntendency to over praise our children and therefore the striving pattern is not\nthere. It is for somebody else to judge. Somebody else will judge them. I think\nthat how great they are is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"somebody must realize it. They have to go forward\nwith their own life.\n\nI was-- something I was just going to say. Something just hit me. Turn it off\nfor a minute.\n\nDIAMOND: I'll give you a minute to think about it. We don't have to turn it off.\n\nBELGER: It's interesting with the children that you become very important when\nthe children have children of their own. Now maybe that is why a teacher ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3300.0,3330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"is a\nmuch better teacher when she especially teaching young children, not much the\nolder teenagers, but teaching young children-- for her to have the sensitivity\nand the understanding of being a mother. Although it's two different roles,\nbeing a mother and a teacher, but being a mother makes a better teacher of the\nyoung. You're more tolerant. You're more patient. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3330.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You could comprehend a little\nbit more the feelings of the children. You could accept their idiosyncrasies, of\nthe sometimes, and the way they behave. The nicest part is that you forget about\nit the next day. You start a new day all over again. That's the nice part of the\nchildren, when they come in with a smile and don't even remember what happened\nthe day before. (laugh) That he had to sit in the listening chair, or the\ntime-out chair. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3360.0,3390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I feel fortunate that I had a nice family. I am fortunate that\nthey live here.\n\nDIAMOND: How is their practice of Judaism different than say yours was different\nfrom your mothers? How is theirs different from yours?\n\nBELGER: That's very interesting that you ask that. Although I keep a kosher\nhome, they do not. Customs and ceremonies are very important to them. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3390.0,3420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They both\nhave joined the Reform synagogues, and not the same one. Joan belongs to Temple\nSinai and Susan belongs to Temple Immanuel. The reasoning, I think, that they\ndid not join up with the AA is that they did not want to be known, and this I\nknow. \"I am Susan Scheinfeld. Yes, I am ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3420.0,3450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mrs. Belger's daughter, but I am Susan\nScheinfeld.\" I really think that was the reason that they went on-- they wanted\nto be known for themselves and not from whence they came. Both daughters, I\nthink, sometimes-- not resent it, although they enjoy the idea that mother has\ndone a good work in the city. \"I am Joan Baron.\" They wanted their own identity,\nand to create their own identity. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3450.0,3480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think I-- it doesn't bother me, because they\nare the important one. They are not-- they're not going to live on past laurels.\nThey have to create their own. I know that-- Susan is a little bit more-- she\nfeels it more than Joan. I think because Susan is teaching at the Community\nCenter now, as they have an early childhood program. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3480.0,3510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I really think she says,\n\"No.\" Or who is your mother? \"I am Susan Scheinfeld.\" (laugh) Sometimes she\nsays, \"Although my mother is Miriam Belger, I am Susan Scheinfeld\" because she\nis the important one. But I think the pattern in the City of Atlanta is\nchanging. They no longer say where or who are you, because the city has grown\nmuch, and there are more newcomers here than oldsters. There are very few\nSoutherners left of the old group as you would say ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3510.0,3540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in comparison because there's\nmany new ones that are coming into the city now. She's been quite successful\nteaching up at the Community Center. Susan is an excellent sales person. Joan is\ntoo. Excellent. They do very well in the outside world selling. They both admit\nthey're good kids. I think that I've done, and I feel as if I've been successful\nwith them. As for observing ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3540.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the Jewish-- they are very conscious of the Jewish\nfaith. They do not practice it as I do. They do not keep a kosher home. I know\nwhen I go out with them to dinner that they respect me by not eating the foods\nthat they sometimes eat. Of course, I don't eat that kind of food. They have the\nfeeling of respect towards me, the idea of \"covet\". What they do besides that, I\ndon't ask. It's not my business. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3570.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"This is their life and this is the way they\nwant to do it. The interesting part is that-- before it comes back to me. Susan\nmarried Morray Scheinfeld, a great guy. He is part of the Holocaust. His parents\nwere in the Holocaust. He has spoken to his son about it, and his little\ndaughter is ten years old. I find that he doesn't want to talk about it. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3600.0,3630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He\nwas-- I think he was born right after his mother and father were in there. I\ndon't know whether mother or father were in it, but they were not married at the\ntime. Sometimes I think he has the tendency of trying to put it aside and to go\nforward- There were some people who held on to it. He doesn't want to belong to\nany organizations ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3630.0,3660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to keep that feeling alive. He has told his son about it. His\nson is very conscious of it, Ryan, because he speaks of it sometimes. But to\nkeep holding onto it, he doesn't. That is the reason, I think, that he belonged\nto the Reform synagogue. I sometimes feel that is why they belong there. You\nsee, his parents were from the Shearith Israel, and he went to the Reform.\nAlthough the Reform synagogue ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3660.0,3690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to which they belong, to me, is not Reform. It's\nmore Conservative than Reform, because a lot of Hebrew is being used in their\nservices. I sometimes feel more than in our synagogue. Because Reformism is\nchanging. It's coming back to more customs, ceremonies, and more Hebrew. Bar\nmitzvah and bat mitzvah has been introduced. At one time, it never was there,\nduring the times of Rabbi Rothchild anyway. It will come back. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3690.0,3720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"However, both of\nthem have the feeling and sensitivity. Now Harris, the football player, he\n(inaudible) at Hebrew Academy. It made me feel great the other day at the\ngrandson's bar mitzvah, where he went up for Aleah (sp.) and he was able in all\nthese years. He remembered how to say the opening and closing prayers. He's\nquite active in San Francisco. He's always being ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3720.0,3750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"called to the synagogues to\nspeak to the young folks. He speaks to them, I think, of the feeling that stay\nin school as long as you can. He keeps telling them, study hard, you can do\nwhatever you want if you aim for it. But you must be willing to work for it.\nBecause he had to work very hard. Being a football player is very glamorous on\ntelevision, when you sit there and watch the game. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3750.0,3780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lord, you don't know what\ngoes on behind those closed doors, what goes on from Monday to Saturday. Very\ninteresting. It's an eight to five job every day. But you don't see it as a\nplain person, as a common person. I don't mean a common, one of the people not\non the field.\n\nDIAMOND: Average.\n\nBELGER: The average person. He works very hard, and he has attained a great height.\n\nDIAMOND: What is his involvement with, say, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3780.0,3810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a congregation or Judaism? Is that --\n\nBELGER: He observes the holidays. It's interesting. A few weeks ago, he calls\nme, he says \"You know, grandma, shalashudis is coming.\" It comes as part of him.\nAlthough he's really not in a Jewish world or working with any Jewish boys at\nall. Now there was another Jewish boy on the team. If you're familiar with the\nfootball field. There were only four Jewish boys in the country in professional\nfootball. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3810.0,3840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Two of them were on the San Francisco team. One was John Frank and the\nother boy was Harris Farten (sp.). John Frank has just retired, a young fellow,\na great good looking guy. He's a medical student, plays football in the season\nand the next part he goes back to school, medical school. He was on the football\nteam for five years, and he said it was enough. He went back to medical school.\nEven though you play football, there's some very intelligent boys on that team.\nThere are accountants, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3840.0,3870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"one is a dentist but he's still able to play football\nbecause they only play six months of the year, and the other six months they can\ndo what they want to do. He is our-- he has brought fame to the family and to\nhimself. But the most important part is that he is a great boy, to his mother\nplus daddy, and to the family. He is.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3870.0,3900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DIAMOND: I think I want to back up a little bit and ask you about how you met\nyour husband. What was that courtship about, and those years --\n\nBELGER: In those years, courtship was different. He came --\n\nDIAMOND: Let's ask the first one: how you met first.\n\nBELGER: It's very hard for me to recall all that. I met him when I was fourteen\nyears old. Those were the days of non-dating, if I could recall. Those were the\ndays where ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3900.0,3930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the young boys of the environment, the area, used to gather together\nat the corner candy store, it was called, in the Bronx, New York. It was a group\nof boys, young boys. One was four years older than I was. He used to hang out in\nthe corner store. All the girls used to gather walking up the street ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3930.0,3960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and down\nthe street. That's the way they used to do things in those days. He was one of\nthe group. I think, if I could recall, the group-- one of the boys was dating my\nolder sister. He-- I don't know how it happened. It just happened that we\nstarted going with each other. I was going to school and he was going to\ncollege. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3960.0,3990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We had no telephone in those days, every Friday night he used to come\nvisit me. We used to walk up the great big hill, if I can recall. It used to be\nFriday night, and I used to see him at meetings Saturday night, after the\nSabbath was over. That's all when I saw him on Friday, and Saturday. Sunday, I\nstudied all day and he did too. We kept going on for seven years. For seven\nyears ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=3990.0,4020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I never dated anybody else. He did. He dated Fannie, (laugh) I remember\nthe name. Then he graduated. He graduated in 1935 or '36, I don't recall. He was\ndrafted as you would call into Lerners. Lerners came into the school and drafted\nhim. They said come if they would want to join Lerners shop. It was just\ndeveloping at that particular time. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=4020.0,4050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He graduated with a B.A., a B.S. in\neducation to become a teacher. But that was the time it was very very difficult\nfor Jewish boys and girls to get a teaching job. To fill in the gap before he\nwould become a teacher more or less, he went in to join Lerners Shops as a\nmerchandiser. They sent him back to school. We got married in '38. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=4050.0,4080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I finished\nschool at the time, and it was very difficult to get a position. Although I\nthink I recall I got a job for six months and then I don't know whatever\nhappened. I don't know whether I enjoyed it or whatever it was, and I wasn't\nmaking enough money. I was a substitute or something. I never got real employment.\n\nDIAMOND: Why was it hard for Jewish people to get --\n\nBELGER: There was a quota I think at that time. New York City was very-- that\nwas in the Bronx. I was living in the Bronx ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=4080.0,4110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at that time, and that was really\nnot Jewish area when I moved up to the Bronx at that time. He never went back to\nteaching. He stayed with merchandising all those years. I took a job, if I can\nrecall, in one of the department stores. That was the beginning of my\nsalesmanship, of dealing with people rather than with children. But the children\nwere still in me. We were transferred right after that. In '42 ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=4110.0,4140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was transferred\ndown here. That was in me all the time to teach or to do something because I--\nand then in * 49 is when I went to Rabbi Epstein. However, during the time that\nI was teaching everything seems to be coming back to me now-- during the time\nthat I was teaching at the early childhood program, I went into Briarcliff High\nSchool-- I remember that. Miss Davis, she was teaching French. She was one of\nthe French teachers at Briarcliff High. I asked if she needed it-- ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=4140.0,4170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"anybody\nneeded any help. She says yeah. I says, \" I think I could coach.\" I was a\nstudent of French. I was a student of languages. She used to send me pupils. We\nused to sit in my little room there, my little den, and I used to help children\nin their French. I never charged them anything. I did it because I loved it.\nThat was the beginning of my feeling of going back really to the adult world,\nand to use some of the other abilities ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=4170.0,4200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that I had. But I don't do that anymore.\nAlthough I kind of-- we were just talking about that same fact at school, that I\ndid that at one time. Miss Davis was her name. Then of course I continued\nearly-- with all the courses that the City is giving right now, although I've\nbeen dormant right now, I haven't gone back to it-- of the Jewish Institute. I\nseem to enjoy that. I enjoy going for the pleasure of listening and the pleasure\nof learning ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=4200.0,4230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"without the obligation. I don't want the obligation of grades and\nstudying for tests anymore. I think I've outgrown that. I should have. The\nlistening, I'm a good listener, and I still have the presence of mind, thank\nGod, to use my brains a little bit. As I look back at it, I did have too great a life.\n\nDIAMOND: I know just from my own personal experience that I have to keep going\nback to school to keep up my certification.\n\nBELGER: Yes.\n\nDIAMOND: Do you have current certification -\n\nBELGER: Yes and no. You see, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=4230.0,4260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the early childhood program doesn't need that. It's\nwhen you go into the regular school system that's needed. Now with the early\nchildhood program, that's not needed. It's when you start kindergarten. If you\nteach kindergarten per se. See, I'm in the early childhood program. That's prior\nto kindergarten. That's a different pattern. The city has no part of it. That's\ncompletely private. But once you go into the kindergarten area, in our school\nyou must be certified. I didn't want that. I wasn't ready to go back for my\ncertificate-- for any pressures. I didn't need it. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=4260.0,4290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I really was teaching not for\nthe money. I was teaching for my own self-satisfaction and thank God, my husband\nhas always provided well for us. I did it because I liked it. It was always my\naim, Margery, during the time that I worked, if the children were at home, then\nI was always home when they came home from school. The kids had no latch to door\nkeys. I was always home, unless something unusual arises, my Sisterhood or\nsomething ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=4290.0,4320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that might have taken my time. They knew where I always was. It wasn't\nobligatory. I really think that-- I look upon the children I have this year in\nschool. It's a very interesting group of children. I have eight great kids this\nyear, only eight, because most of the children are in the Sandy Springs schools.\nWe're trying to build up the school now at the AA to be able to get more of a\ngrouping there. So no matter how many children we have, we're keeping it going.\nIt's growing. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=4320.0,4350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Next year I might have maybe twelve. But the group of children I\nhave, of the eight children, all the fathers are professionals. Interesting. One\nparent, father, mother are professionals. Both working. It takes time, patience,\nendurance, love, and sincerity to raise a child. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=4350.0,4380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It is not easy to raise\nchildren today. You must show them that you love them. This particular couple I\ndon't think know how to love a child. The child feels it and behaves from it.\nShe is an excellent attorney. She's an excellent attorney in the City of\nAtlanta. When it comes to the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=4380.0,4410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mundane life of raising a child, she finds it very\ndifficult. Because children are not easy. You cannot learn how to be a mother\nfrom a book. You have to learn how to be a mother by being a mother. The\nchildren-- it's interesting this year, of the eight children in a society in\nwhich we live today, all but one are non-working mothers. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=4410.0,4440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But they're all\nprofessionals. I have one mother-- the mothers have been wonderful to me this\nyear. They've been great mothers, very cooperative. I have one mother who is an\nattorney, a CPA, and holds a professorship in the Law School at Emory. She takes\ntime out to raise those kids. It's-- but of course, the society of today, I can\nunderstand why the mothers are working. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=4440.0,4470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It takes two to make a living. The\nchildren really, are they suffering? The child knows no other way. They really don't.\n\nDIAMOND: Do you think parents are working today because it takes two, or are\nthere other societal reasons?\n\nBELGER: I think it's a combination of two. I think our parents are getting\nmarried later in life. They are ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=4470.0,4500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"getting married later in life because we women\nwant to attain and to be self-sufficient. Once they get the feel of the outside\nworld plus attain their degree, they're using their degree, it is very hard to\ncome down to earth to really give up all. They have attained and go into a--\nsometimes an uninteresting pattern of everyday life. If you look back at it, yet\nthere's a lot of growth, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=4500.0,4530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there's a lot of goodies to enjoy with the child. It's\nreally an everyday affair. The glamour is not there. They don't want to give\nthat up. At the same time, it takes a-- when they got married, they had a lot.\nIt's hard to give up what they had and to start from the very bottom. Therefore,\nit takes two of them to buy all those nice things that they want. It is a\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=4530.0,4560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"combination of both. It takes two to make a living today, and at the same time\nparents are impatient. They want to do everything and raise their children at\nthe same time. They cannot do two jobs and do it well. But does the child\nsuffer? The child knows no other way. This is the way he's accepting. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=4560.0,4590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Now as he\ngets older, he might come back, (inaudible) at you, you weren't home. You never\ncame to my PTA meetings. You never came to my Purim party, such as that, if a\nchild is very receptive and sensitive at the same time. I think that parents as\na whole try very hard. It's hard to be a mother. There are a lot of obligations\nput upon them, especially in the working world. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=4590.0,4620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But I think if they're working\nfor an employer, I think the employer today understands that, that there are\ncertain times that a parent has to take care of that child, has to attend\ncertain functions. The child gets sick, has to be home with the child. You see\nthe mother who does work is really pulled in many areas. She has a hard job.\n\nDIAMOND: Were a working mother?\n\nBELGER: Yes, but I was home, see. I was a working mother, but I was finished at\ntwelve, twelve-thirty. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=4620.0,4650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I didn't come home at six, seven o'clock, at the worst\nhours of those children. When a parent works, she comes and picks. Today we\noffer the child to get to school early. This is a two-year-old, starts at two.\nWe bring in the two-year-olds, and we keep them to five, six o'clock in the\nevening. She goes from one area to another area to another area, and the parent\npicks up that child at ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=4650.0,4680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"five, six o'clock. The parent is exhausted from the day.\nMight have had a bad day at the office, has no time to really give that child\nlove, to prepare food for them. She gets that child at the worst time of the\nday. She can't get that child to bed quick enough. Does the child suffer? He\nknows no other way. It is to be that. I had a nice little session the other day\nin the classroom. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=4680.0,4710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"As I said, they're-- all parents are professionals. I handed\nout some cards, some picture cards of the fairy tales: Snow White, the Seven\nDwarfs and all that, just plain little cards. I asked the children if they could\ntell me the story. They all did that except one little boy. I said, \"Joshua,\ndoes your mommy read to you before you go to bed?\" She had no time. She doesn't\nhave time. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=4710.0,4740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Now I didn't ask them directly. You could see that that mother is\nbusy, that she doesn't have the time. She's delighted that he goes to bed\nquietly. I think it hurt Josh. It really did, because he felt bad that he was\nnot able to recognize the seven little dwarfs. Now we can't teach the child\neverything. Something must be done at home. There is no way that a teacher ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=4740.0,4770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"could\ndo everything for that child. But he'll be fine, Joshua. He'll grow up and be\ngreat because he has the ability to do.\n\nDIAMOND: I wonder if he'll teach his children Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.\n\nBELGER: I don't think he has to teach them. He could enjoy the story. It's a\nnice, creative story.\n\nDIAMOND: I wonder if he'll think that that's important to do with his children?\n\nBELGER: Only time will tell.\n\nDIAMOND: Right.\n\nBELGER: Only time will tell.\n\nDIAMOND: You have been ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=4770.0,4800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"marvelous to give me all this time, and I haven't had to\ndo any work at all. I feel like a little clock here. I'm going to cut the tape\noff --\n\nBELGER: I went through this last year, just at this time, this week last year.\n\nDIAMOND: Oh wow.\n\nBELGER: Last May 25th. I had a hard time getting myself together. I had a hard\ntime. Mozi (sp.) died in September, and I went back to the classroom immediately\nbecause I knew that was the only place, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=4800.0,4830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I would feel better. During the month of\nOctober, I was sitting in the classroom on the floor, as I usually am, and Rabbi\nEpstein came into the room. Now Rabbi Epstein never comes into the classroom.\n\nHe has never come into the classroom. He walks up and down the hall. He might\nhear what goes on. He never really makes himself known to come into the\nclassroom. He came into the classroom, and he said to me, \"Mrs. Belger, see if\nyou can get somebody to stay in the classroom with the children. 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Shirley came in and I said, \"Shirley, sit down ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=4860.0,4890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for a while.\" I\nsaid, \"Rabbi Epstein wants to see me.\" \"What did you do Miriam?\" I said, \"I have\nno idea.\" Walking into his office, was a very formal office. Getting called into\nhis office, he asked me to sit down in a chair. He sat down right opposite me.\nMy heart was beating. I just felt terrible. I was just about ready to cry if I\ncould recall. He says to me, \"Miriam, I have something to tell you. 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I says, \"It would have been nice\nif Mo was here to enjoy it with me, because he was the one behind me all the\ntime, who went to all this business of sitting up nights, and sometimes even\nhelping me ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=4950.0,4980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to get ready for the next day.\" I accepted it. I told him, \"I will\nonly accept it if there are no obligations on my part.\" He says, \"There will be\nno obligations on your part, Miriam.\" from October until the beginning of May,\nit was in the back of my mind. The publicity was over the city, and everybody\ncongratulated me. But I always felt when I accepted this honor, that I didn't\naccept it on my very own. 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From October through\nMay, it was in the back of mind, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=5040.0,5070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"thinking about myself. I used introspection. Of\ncourse, I knew I had to make a presentation. How to put it together, I found it\nvery difficult. Speaking to you now is like a --\n\nDIAMOND: This is a piece of cake.\n\nBELGER: Yeah. Everything, all my thoughts that I have given you, is right on my\nlittle resume of my life that I presented that night. I came into the rabbi at\nthe beginning of May, if I could recall, Rabbi Richardson. 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What are we going to go into now if this takes eight hours?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=5130.0,5160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/transcript/24646/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DIAMOND: We're going to stop.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=5160.0,5190.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/annotation_set/454","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Miriam Belger [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/annotation_set/454/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe National Council of Jewish Women is an organization of volunteers and advocates, founded in the 1890’s, who turn progressive ideals in advocacy and philanthropy inspired by Jewish values.  They strive to improve the quality of life for women, children and families.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/annotation_set/454/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAhavath Achim was founded in 1887 in a small room on Gilmer Street. In 1901 they moved to a permanent building at the corner of Piedmont and Gilmer Street. In 1921, the congregation constructed a synagogue at Washington Street and Woodward Avenue. The final service in that building was held in 1958 to make way for construction of the Downtown Connector (the concurrent section of Interstate 75 and Interstate 85 through Atlanta). The synagogue moved to its current location on Peachtree Battle Avenue in 1958.  Rabbi Abraham Hirmes was the first rabbi of the then Orthodox congregation. In 1928 Rabbi Harry Epstein became the rabbi. The congregation began to shift to Conservatism, which they joined in 1952. Cantor Isaac Goodfriend, a Holocaust survivor, joined the congregation in 1966 and remained until his retirement. Rabbi Epstein retired in 1982, becoming Rabbi Emeritus and Rabbi Arnold Goodman assumed the rabbinic post. He retired in 2002 when he was succeeded by Rabbi Neil Sandler. Rabbi Laurence Rosenthal is the current senior rabbi (2020).\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/annotation_set/454/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRabbi Harry Epstein (1903-2003) served as the rabbi of Ahavath Achim Synagogue in Atlanta, Georgia from 1928 to 1982.  Under his leadership the congregation began to shift to Conservatism, which they adopted in 1952. Rabbi Epstein retired in 1982, becoming Rabbi Emeritus and Rabbi Arnold Goodman assumed the rabbinic post.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/annotation_set/454/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Epstein School (also known as the Solomon Shechter School of Atlanta) is a private Jewish day school in the Atlanta area located in Sandy Springs. In 1973, Rabbi Harry H. Epstein and the leaders of Ahavath Achim synagogue wanted to create a Conservative Jewish day school. The first campus was housed at the synagogue. In 1987 the school moved to Sandy Springs.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/annotation_set/454/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eShabbat [Hebrew] or Shabbos [Yiddish] is the Jewish day of rest and is observed on Saturdays. Shabbat observance entails refraining from work activities, often with great rigor, and engaging in restful activities to honor the day. Shabbat begins at sundown on Friday night and is ushered in by lighting candles and reciting a blessing. It is closed the following evening with the recitation of the havdalah blessing.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/annotation_set/454/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Conservative Movement seeks to preserve Jewish tradition and ritual but has a more flexible approach to the interpretation of the law than Orthodox Judaism. It attempts to combine a positive attitude toward modern culture, while preserving a commitment to Jewish observance. Conservative Judaism observes gender equality (mixed seating, women rabbis and bat mitzvahs).\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/annotation_set/454/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBar mitzvah [Hebrew: son of commandment] is 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 tefillin, and may be counted to the minyan quorum for public worship. 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Barton retired after the 1998 season.[19] In 2006 he was inducted into the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame of Northern California, and in March 2011 he was inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39653/file/111251/annotation_set/454/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eShearith Israel Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1904, Shearith Israel began as a congregation that met in the homes of congregants until 1906 when they began using a Methodist church on Hunter Street. After World War II, Rabbi Tobias Geffen moved the congregation to University Drive, where it became the first synagogue in DeKalb County. 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