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He talks about his paternal grandmother living with them making a total of nine family members living in a three-bedroom house with one bathroom. He says that his father, a shoemaker, could not afford to send him to college, so he attended Emory University under the GI Bill.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter graduating from Emory and beginning his work as an accountant, Jimmy talks about teaching college and going to law school at night at the same time he was raising four children. As the successful CPA and lawyer he eventually became, the contrast between the life he built for his family and the way he grew up is remarkable.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the interview, we hear about Jimmy’s deep involvement in Atlanta’s Sephardic community, as well as some of its history and traditions. He talks about how the community stuck together, had their own clubs, and how that has changed.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere were tremendous technological changes over his professional career, from archaic adding machines and paper files, to computers files, email, and the internet. At the same time, Jimmy reflects on the ways that people haven’t changed; both the good and the not so good.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28591"]}},{"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":["Arogeti, James (personal name)","Accounting (topical term)","Atlanta, Ga (geographic term)","Emory University (corporate name)","Georgia State University (corporate name)","Habif, Issac (personal name)","World War II (named event)","Bodrum, Turkey (geographic term)","Congregation Or VeShalom (corporate name)","Hoke Smith Junior High School (corporate name)","Isle of Rhodes (geographic term)","Rhodes, Greece (geographic term)","Sephardic Judaism (topical term)","Ladino (topical term)","United States Air Force (corporate name)","Weiller, Margaret Strauss (personal name)","Ichay, Rabbi S. Robert (personal name)","Beit HaKnesset Kahal Kadosh Shalom (corporate name)","Pryor Street, Atlanta, Ga (geographic term)","The Jewish Progressive Club (corporate name)","Shoemaking (topical term)","Greenwood Cemetery (geographic term)","Sephardic Rituals (topical term)","Certified Public Accountant (topical term)","Habif, Arogeti \u0026amp; Wynne, LLP (corporate name)","Debra Halpen Bernes (personal name)","Turkish Jews (topical term)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eJames Arogeti interviewed by Beryl Weiner on August 3rd, 2006 in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJimmy reflects on growing up as one of six children in Atlanta. He talks about his paternal grandmother living with them making a total of nine family members living in a three-bedroom house with one bathroom. He says that his father, a shoemaker, could not afford to send him to college, so he attended Emory University under the GI Bill.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter graduating from Emory and beginning his work as an accountant, Jimmy talks about teaching college and going to law school at night at the same time he was raising four children. As the successful CPA and lawyer he eventually became, the contrast between the life he built for his family and the way he grew up is remarkable.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the interview, we hear about Jimmy’s deep involvement in Atlanta’s Sephardic community, as well as some of its history and traditions. He talks about how the community stuck together, had their own clubs, and how that has changed.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere were tremendous technological changes over his professional career, from archaic adding machines and paper files, to computers files, email, and the internet. At the same time, Jimmy reflects on the ways that people haven’t changed; both the good and the not so good.\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/000/104/614/small/James_Arogeti.png?1619437783","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - Arogeti_James.mp3"]},"duration":4307.22612,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/104/614/small/James_Arogeti.png?1619437783","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-thebreman.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/104/614/original/Arogeti_James.mp3?1611315520","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mp3","duration":4307.22612,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Arogeti_James [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Weiner: This is Beryl Weiner interviewing James Arogeti. Do you have middle initial?\n\nArogeti: No middle initial. A-R-O-G-E-T-I.\n\nWeiner: It's August 3, 2006 for the Jewish Oral History project of Atlanta,\nco-sponsored by the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, the American Jewish\nCommittee, and the National Council of Jewish Women.\n\nWeiner: Jimmy, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we've known each other a long time.\n\nArogeti: We certainly have. This is correct.\n\nWeiner: This will be a lot of fun just to reminisce. The first thing I want to\ndiscuss with you, if you don't mind, is a little bit out of order. I came into\nthis beautiful office, walked down the aisle, and all of these boxes and people\nwere sitting. I was just amazed at this huge organization that you're the\nfounder of. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How has it changed since you started it? I'd love to hear that.\n\nArogeti: I started practicing in 1948. I served in World War II. I was an aerial\ngunner on a B-17 when I got over to England. I enlisted when I was 17 years old.\nBy the time I got overseas, the war was over. I didn't see any combat. I came\nback and went to Emory [University−Atlanta, Georgia] under the GI Bill. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My\nfather was a shoemaker. He couldn't afford to send me to college. The GI Bill\nwas instrumental in sending me to college. I was very good in accounting. I've\nbeen practicing accounting since 1948. I've been in the accounting profession\nfor 56 years. I'm 81. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I have no desire to retire. I've gotten over a major\noperation. Still, I come to work every day.\n\nWeiner: That's good. What about when you started? What kind of office did you have?\n\nArogeti: When I started, everything was handwritten. We depended upon an archaic\ntype of adding machine. That's how we numbered. We used working trial balances.\nWe had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"files galore. Here it is, 58 years later. We are known as a pioneer in\nthe paperless society. In other words, we don't maintain files. Everything is\npaperless. It's put on computers. I've become computer literate. It's taken a\n[long] time. I'm really enjoying it. A lot of this paperwork, we just scan it,\nput it on the machine, and then throw it away.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Weiner: It's incredible, isn't it?\n\nArogeti: It's incredible... paperless society...\n\nWeiner: ...all the, the different things like cell phones and...\n\nArogeti: ...I had a client in the pay telephone business. He was really making\nmoney. All of a sudden, these cell phones came out and just ruined the pay\ntelephone. Nobody uses the pay telephone now. Everybody goes down the street\nwith a cell phone in their hand. Everybody uses them. All of my kids ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and\ngrandkids have cell phones. It's unbelievable.\n\nWeiner: One of the things that happened when I was six years old was my\ngrandmother fell down the steps. I climbed through the window and called on the\nphone. I said to the operator, \"Central (it was called 'The Central'), I need to\ntalk to my mama.\" This was in Camilla [Georgia]. She got a hold of them. Did you\nhave any experience like that?\n\nArogeti: No, but ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Main 1-2-7-4 was our phone [number] when I was a kid. It was a\nfour-party line. In other words, four people were on the line. I'd pick up the\nphone and somebody else would be talking. Then they came out with all these\nnumbers, and everything else.\n\nWeiner: Did you have to dial?\n\nArogeti: No, we called. My first phone, you picked up. You told the operator,\n\"Operator, give me ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jackson 1-2-6-8.\" They'd call. Then I'd hear one of the party\nlines on there. You could always hear what your party line was calling. I think\nthe bill was something like $1.45 a month. This was way back in the Thirties.\n\nWeiner: Also, there's been a lot of change in copy machines and things like...\n\nArogeti: ...tremendous, in sending faxes and e-mail. E-mail is just ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"amazing. Are\nyou computer literate?\n\nWeiner: I just do e-mail. I noticed we did an e-mail to confirm that we were\ngoing to meet today. We would have never done that in years past.\n\nArogeti: We would have had ten phone calls. A lot of times e-mail is wonderful.\nYou don't have to write a letter. You don't have to make a phone call.\n\nWeiner: Now, let's stop and...\n\n[Interview stops, then resumes]\n\nArogeti: ...you don't have to return somebody's call. You may not want to speak\nto somebody. It's easier to send them an e-mail, rather than speak to them.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Especially if it's a troubled fellow, and you want to avoid them.\n\nWeiner: What about your relationship with government. Has that changed any?\n\nArogeti: I was a veteran. Then, from 1948 to 1952, I worked for an accounting\nfirm. In 1952, I started my own practice. I went down to Georgia State\n[University−Atlanta, Georgia] and became an accounting professor. 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I taught ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"intermediary and advanced accounting. I taught\nincome tax. Then I said, \"I've had enough.\" A few years later, the head of the\naccounting department came to me and asked me, \"Would you like to teach a course\nin the master?\" I said, \"What course do you want me to teach?\" She said, \"We\nhave this Master of Taxation in real estate. Would you like to teach it?\" I\nsaid, \"That sounds interesting.\" I taught that until about 1984. I quit\nteaching, mainly because of time. 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The minute we\nhad children, she became a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"housewife. She was also an assistant buyer at Macy's\nin the robe department.\n\nWeiner: What was her maiden name?\n\nArogeti: Her maiden name was Alhadeff... A-L-H-A-D-E-F-F.\n\nWeiner: Isaac Habif, your wife, and you... you're what you call Sephardic Jews?\n\nArogeti: Yes, I'm Sephardic. In fact, it's a funny thing. When I was a kid\ngrowing up, there were six children that lived in the house. My grandmother, my\nmother and father...we lived on Pryor Street ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in a three-bedroom house with nine\npeople and one bathroom. We didn't speak English. We spoke Ladino, which is a\nform of Spanish. It wasn't until I was four or five years old that I really\nstarted learning English. I used to go to a grade school in the morning and go\nto Hebrew school in the afternoon.\n\nWeiner: Where was the Hebrew school located?\n\nArogeti: Hebrew school... everything was done by walking. The Hebrew school was\nin our ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"synagogue. We had several rabbis when I was a kid. Rabbi Joseph Cohen\ncame over here in 1932 from Cuba. He was the Hebrew teacher until I was bar\nmitzvahed. Then we continued to go to Hebrew school. It was quite an experience\ngoing to grade school in the morning. Then in the afternoon, we'd go to Hebrew school.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Weiner: That didn't leave you much time to play ball, did it?\n\nArogeti: We played in between when the rabbi wasn't there. We'd get out there in\nthe yard and play. We were kids. We were very mischievous. Now it's entirely\ndifferent. I have ten grandchildren. All of them went to private schools.\nBetween the Epstein School, the Weber [School], and Davis Academy... I can't\neven remember with ten grandchildren. 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Do you\nhave a family tree?\n\nArogeti: I was born ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"August 17, 1925. There were six kids. My father got married\nin 1922. I know the ages of my brothers and sisters, because every two years my\nmother had another child. She had six children in 12 years. My grandmother lived\nthere. She helped take care of the children and my mother. My father was a\nshoemaker. He was born in Turkey. 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My mother got\nall of her gold ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and went to see the army. She bribed him to put my daddy on the\nboat. My daddy came on the boat when he was 19 years old. He just left his shoe\nshop he had, got on the boat, and came here in 1919. He opened up a shoe repair\nbusiness. He married my mother in 1922. His name was Jack... J-A-C-K. In\nSpanish, they called the oldest member of the family 'Behor'... 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I\nremember a lot of that membership came from the Isle of Rhodes.\n\nArogeti: That's correct.\n\nWeiner: At one time, I thought my grandmother had come from the Isle of Rhodes,\nbut I hadn't been able to establish that.\n\nArogeti: Maybe she came from Rhode Island, the state. It was a funny thing,\nthough. We spoke Ladino until I was five years old. Even to this very day, my\nSpanish comes in handy. I've been able to translate documents ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and read Spanish.\nSpanish is a lot like Italian. It's a romance language. My mother went to school\nwhen the Rothschild's prepared school, but they were not economically sound.\n\nWeiner: Where was this?\n\nArogeti: It was in Turkey.\n\nWeiner: You said the Rothschilds...\n\nArogeti: ...the French Rothschilds ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"endowed schools for Jewish people in various\ncountries. Since Rhodes was a fairly poor community, they endowed a school. She\ngot her training at the Rothschild institution.\n\nWeiner: Did your father have any...\n\nArogeti: ...no.\n\nWeiner: ...no formal...\n\nArogeti: ...no. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My\nfather brought them all over.\n\nWeiner: Your uncle, what was his name?\n\nArogeti: Morris. M-O-R-R-I-S. Morris Arogeti.\n\nWeiner: Was he in the shoe business, too?\n\nArogeti: No, he had a restaurant. Most of the Sephardics that first came over\nwere shoemakers, had something to do with food, or were just peasants who sold merchandise.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Weiner: The first place you lived was on Pryor Street?\n\nArogeti: Pry... 'P-R-Y.' I've only lived in two houses and one apartment all my\nlife. Moving is a trauma to me. I live on Arborvista [Drive] near [Congregation]\nBeth Jacob now. Here I am, 81 years old, and only lived in two houses. All of my\nchildren and grandchildren live within five or ten miles of me.\n\nWeiner: Isn't that something?\n\nArogeti: It's probably because of the family connections here.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Weiner: What grammar school and high school did you go to?\n\nArogeti: I went to Georgia Avenue Grade School, which was a block-and-a-half\nfrom my house. I went to Hoke Smith [Junior] High School which was about a mile\nfrom my house. I went to Commercial High School which was about a mile from my\nhouse. We didn't have transportation. We didn't have a car. I used to walk to\nschool. When I graduated from high school, I enlisted in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Air Force. I came\nback and my dad could not afford to send me to college. The GI Bill paid my\ntuition. I went to Emory University. Two of my kids went to Emory. I paid $50 a\nquarter. I understand that the tuition now is about $15,000 a quarter or a\nsemester. I'm not sure.\n\nWeiner: I had the same thing. I went to University of Georgia\n[Athens−Georgia]. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I paid more for my kids' kindergarten than I did for my\nwhole college education.\n\nArogeti: I didn't get a car until I was a senior in college. I would work\npart-time in the afternoon. I got married in 1953. Then we had four children.\n\nWeiner: What kind of car did you get?\n\nArogeti: My first car was a Plymouth, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think. I bought a second hand car, a\n1948 or a 1949. I'm not sure what it was. Since that time, I've gone through a\ndozen cars.\n\nWeiner: Some of your children are working in your business too, aren't they?\n\nArogeti: I'm a CPA [Certified Public Accountant] and a lawyer. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She sort of stayed with Jewish names. She really professes her Judaism.\n\nWeiner: Your daughter's name?\n\nArogeti: It's Jane... J-A-N-E.\n\nWeiner: Her married name is?\n\nArogeti: Her married name is Durham... D-U-R-H-A-M.\n\nWeiner: Her husband's name?\n\nArogeti: Her husband is Mitchell Durham. He's a criminal attorney in Marietta [Georgia].\n\nWeiner: What about your other sons?\n\nArogeti: Robert Arogeti is my oldest one. He married Amy Romm, who was a member\nof the Temple and...\n\nWeiner: ...that was like an intermarriage...\n\nArogeti: ...intermarriage, yes. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In our family there were six children. Five of\nthem married Sephardics. One married an Ashkenazi. We accused him of being\nmarried out of the faith. We were very clannish at that time. We didn't know...\n\nWeiner: ...it's all changed.\n\nArogeti: Yes, exactly. The membership of our congregation now is 70 percent\nnon-Sephardic born.\n\nWeiner: Is that right?\n\nArogeti: Yes. 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In fact, when, when my son ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Joel was marrying her, we\nhad a difficult time to get our rabbi to come over to the Temple. Our rabbi was\na little on the Orthodox side. He didn't like the idea of going to a Reform\nsynagogue. Ultimately, we prevailed and he came over. My son Robert...\n\nWeiner: ...that was Rabbi [S. Robert] Ichay, right?\n\nArogeti: Rabbi Ichay.\n\nWeiner: I-C-H-A-Y?\n\nArogeti: Right. My other son, Robert Arogeti, was very active in AZA. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She was the principal\nof the grade school about 50 or 60 years ago. I remember reading that Kate R.\nFavor died. She was 96. She was never married. She had no survivors. When I read\nthat in the obituary, I cried. I remembered her very well. I remember all of my\ngrade school teachers. Then I went to Hoke Smith High School. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"There was a Jewish\nteacher named Katherine Hertzka... H-E-R-T-Z-K-A. I had a course with her.\n\nWeiner: That name is familiar, Hertzka...\n\nArogeti: ...Hertzka, yes. There was another Jewish teacher. Her husband was a\ncaptain of police, I think. She was a Franklin. I'm not sure I remember her\nmarried name. They had a couple of Jewish teachers at Hoke Smith. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When I got to\nCommercial High School, I was very good in accounting. I was very good in\nmathematics; so, I found my career. Then I volunteered, as I said, for the\nservice. I was three years in the military. I came back in 1946 and went to\nEmory. The government paid for my tuition and everything. I graduated in 1948.\nSince 1948, I've been working in accounting.\n\nWeiner: How did you meet your wife?\n\nArogeti: She lived across the street, but I didn't know her. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She saw me at\nsynagogue one day. We got to talking. She asked me if I would teach her how to\ndrive. I said, \"Not in my car.\" I said we'd use her mother's car to teach her.\nShe's Sephardic. I got married in 1953. I've been married 53 years.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Weiner: There was a lawyer named Raymond Hala...\n\nArogeti: ...Raymond Alhadeff. No relationship. Alhadeff is sort of like 'Schwob'\nor 'Cohen.' I mean, there's a lot of Sephardic names. They date back to the\nancient Sephardics. My mother's maiden name was De Leon... D-E L-E-O-N. Her\ngreat, great, great ancestors came from Spain, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"from the community of Leon. They\nlived a very temperate life down in Rhodes for 300 or 400 years without being\nactively persecuted, except when they all got out of there in 1944. When Italy\ngot out of the war, the Germans took over the Isle of Rhodes. They sent them to\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Auschwitz-[Birkenau]. There were very few survivors. The synagogue is still\nthere. It's a funny thing. I've gone there two or three times. I've asked my\nmother on several occasions, would she like to go. She wouldn't go. I think it\nwas because she left her father, never to see him again at the age of 21. All\nshe had were fond memories. She didn't want to restructure the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"fond memories she had.\n\nWeiner: The gravesites, I guess, are still--\n\nArogeti: ...yes, the gravesites. I went there and visited the cemetery. I saw\nthe graves that dated way back there in 1600. I think prior to that, they were\njust throwing them in the ground. Just burying them without any...\n\nWeiner: ...tombstones...\n\nArogeti: ...tombstones that were meant... although there are some old\ntombstones. The Isle of Rhodes, during the time it was under the Italian\ngovernment, was very favorable to Jews. It was when the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Germans came that the\nHolocaust began in 1944. Most of the Jews in Rhodes perished.\n\nWeiner: In your early days, that synagogue on Pryor...\n\nArogeti: ...the one on Pryor was on Central Avenue.\n\nWeiner: Central?\n\nArogeti: Yes. It's where the old stadium was.\n\nWeiner: Was it a big facility?\n\nArogeti: No, it was a converted house. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That got all of my\nchildren started in pro bono work, which I'm very proud of.\n\nWeiner: Can we take a break for a minute?\n\nArogeti: Sure.\n\n[Interview stops, then resumes]\n\nWeiner: Jimmy, how about some family stories. Did you dad or your grandfather\never talk to you about what happened in the old days?\n\nArogeti: I didn't know my paternal grandfather. My maternal grandfather, in\n1941, was coming from the Isle of Rhodes to the United States. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In that day, they\nwent by boat to Naples, Italy. Then Italy got into war on the German side. We\ncould not bring him over to this country. He stayed there and died in Naples,\nItaly. I never knew my paternal grandfather or my maternal grandfather. I knew\nmy paternal grandmother. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She lived with us. She spoke Spanish. She could not\nspeak English. She told me stories about her younger days when she and her\nhusband would go to these small towns in Turkey and sell pots and pans from\nhorses and donkeys. They lived what they considered to be a very good life. They\nhad no persecution there. There were no pogroms, or anything like that.\nEconomically they didn't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"do well. I don't think it mattered to them. They didn't\nhave anything to compare it with. Their life centered around their relatives in\nthe synagogue... their whole life. Her father was sort of a lay rabbi. He\nperformed rabbinical services. He wasn't getting paid for it, but he was a\nleader in the prayers, and everything else. All of them grew up in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Orthodox\nfamilies. They kept kosher. They wouldn't eat treif meat. In the towns they\nlived in, they had a kosher butcher. The Sephardics were never big meat eaters.\nThey did eat a lot of chicken and fish. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Meat was a rare treat for them. I think\nmaybe they were eating meat once or twice a month. Chicken and fish were their\nmainstays. They had that sort of diet. It's been studied that the Sephardic diet\nwas better for people who had cardiac problems, because it didn't have any\nanimal fat. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They ate very little animal fat.\n\nWeiner: Every time I've ever been at Or VeShalom, the food has been outstanding.\n\nArogeti: It's changing a little bit now.\n\nWeiner: What about wine, and things like...\n\nArogeti: ...yes, they made wine out of grapes. They had sort of a whiskey. They\nused to call it 'raki.' I think it was made out of grain. 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I don't think they drank very much beer.\nIt was wine, mostly.\n\nWeiner: How did your family get to Georgia?\n\nArogeti: It just so happens that at the turn of the century one or two of the\nrelatives ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"came to Georgia. I think the first Sephardic came into Atlanta about\n1900. He sort of established the ground rules. Then people would come here and\nvisit him. The Sephardics were mainly shoemakers. They were able to open up shoe\nshops and conduct a living. In fact, when President [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt\ncame in with the NIRA [National Industrial Recovery Act], they had a big\nconglomeration of shoemakers in Atlanta. I got a picture of him. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"There were\nabout a hundred people who were shoemakers. About 65 or 70 were Sephardics. That\nprofession ...shoemaking was... because I guess when you were a young boy, you'd\nhave your training so you could fix shoes. Shoes were their means of livelihood.\n\nWeiner: Did they ever develop into big companies?\n\nArogeti: Some of them did. Some of them went well. They formed shoe companies.\nBennie's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"father was a shoemaker. Now he sells shoes. The Taranto boys, a couple\nof them were doctors. They had a shoe company. Their successors had shoe\ncompanies. The shoe business has taken a major turn in the last several years.\nNow it's oriental and imports. The shoe business is not like it was before. 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Whew!\n\nWeiner: They're not out of leather like what your...\n\nArogeti: ...no, they weren't, no...\n\nWeiner: ...but the shoemaking business ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"relied on leather, right?\n\nArogeti: Right. Relied on leather... soles, half-soles, rubber heels, ladies\ntaps, and so forth. All of that's changed now. There are very few shoemakers in Atlanta.\n\nWeiner: Did your parents come directly to Georgia?\n\nArogeti: They came to Georgia. The reason they came to Georgia is because their\npredecessors settled here in 1900. Naturally, they came to where their kinfolks were.\n\nWeiner: Who, were they?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: My mother and her sister both came to Atlanta, because one sister\n[Estrella De Leon] was living here. She was married to Victor Benator, who was a\nshoemaker. He was very friendly. He let the two girls stay in his house until\nthey met their husbands. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My mother became a housewife. Her husband was a\nshoemaker, like we said. The other sister [Marie De Leon] was married to a\ntailor... [Victor] Franco... F-R-A-N-C-O... which was quite a big family here in\nAtlanta, Georgia which we seem to be related to.\n\nWeiner: Mr. Franco just passed away. He lived right across the street from me.\n\nArogeti: Which one? 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Robert Franco is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"married to Erwin Zaban's\ndaughter. I think most of the Franco's, married in the faith. Very few of them\nmarried out of the faith and--\n\nWeiner: ...what about [Morris] Piha...\n\nArogeti: Morris Piha was from Atlanta. He passed away in February. His wife\nSarah Piha was from Montgomery [Alabama]. She was a Franco. She passed away just\nabout ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a month ago.\n\nWeiner: A lot of those Sephardic families within Or VeShalom have intermarried a lot.\n\nArogeti: When you use the word intermarried, they were in the Isle of Rhodes.\nThey were marrying their first cousins. It was a community there. The eligible\nhusbands were related. You either married a second, third, or a first cousin. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In\nfact, my aunt married her first cousin.\n\nWeiner: Who was your aunt?\n\nArogeti: Estrea Benator. B-E-N-A-T-O-R. Victor Benator was her first cousin.\nVictor Benator's mother and my aunt's mother were sisters. They were first cousins.\n\nWeiner: Which Benator has been active all these years in...\n\nArogeti: ...Asher Benator.\n\nWeiner: Asher is...\n\nArogeti: ...Asher's related to the family--\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Weiner: He's been in the Scout movement, right?\n\nArogeti: Sort of. Asher's hasn't been active much. Josiah Benator is still very\nactive. Joe is about 83 or 84 years old. He still heads a troop. He was an Eagle\nScout and a very active scoutmaster. He got me interested in scouting. I went as\nfar as becoming a Star Scout. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Scouting doesn't\nappeal to these Jewish boys by virtue of the fact that they belong to AZA clubs,\nand so forth. That's competing.\n\nWeiner: When I was growing up, I would go to a dance, say in Birmingham\n[Alabama]. I'd be dancing with a girl. I'd say, \"Where are you from?\" She'd say,\n\"I'm from Atlanta.\" I'd say, \"I'm from Atlanta.\" We wouldn't know each other. It\nwas because these congregations were so separate. Do you remember that?\n\nArogeti: Sure.\n\nWeiner: It was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"after the war, I guess it began to change...\n\nArogeti: ...co-mingling. Then there was a lot of marriage between the Ashkenazi\nand the Reforms, and so forth. Like I told you, 70 percent of our members are\nnot Sephardic. We were an Orthodox synagogue. Now we're a traditional synagogue.\nWe have mixed seating, but we do have a separate section for men and women.\n\nWeiner: You still--\n\nArogeti: ...still, we have a section.\n\nWeiner: What about the social clubs. 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The\neconomic scale of the Mayfair Club was probably greater than the economic scale\nof the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Progressive Club. We were members of the Progressive Club.\n\nWeiner: Was there a lot of resentment between the two?\n\nArogeti: No, I didn't notice it. At first, the Reformed movement didn't seem to\nbe as pro-Israel as much as the Conservative and the Orthodox. All of that\nprobably changed when Rabbi Rothschild became the spiritual leader of the Reform\nsynagogue. They led the movement in the civil rights with Rothschild there.\nRabbi Marx, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think, was a little bit aloof of the cooperation with Israel.\nRabbi Rothschild changed that, I think.\n\nWeiner: Who took over after Rabbi Joseph Cohen?\n\nArogeti: Rabbi Ichay.\n\nWeiner: Right. He just recently retired.\n\nArogeti: Yes, he's retired. Rabbi Ichay is Rabbi Emeritus. Rabbi Cohen passed\naway. Rabbi Cohen was the rabbi for a long time. I remember a couple of the\nearlier rabbis ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"before Rabbi Cohen. Rabbi Cohen originally came from Turkey. He\nwas a lieutenant in the Turkish army. Then he moved to Cuba. We brought him over\nin l931 or 1932, when I was seven years old. You've got to remember, I went to\nHebrew school when I was under five years old. At four and a-half, my parents\nused to send me to Hebrew school. I think they paid $1 a week, or $1 a month, to\nthe Hebrew school. In the daytime, we would go to grade school. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In the\nafternoon, we would go to Hebrew school. We received the rudiments in elementary\ntraining. All of us bar mitzvahed. That was a must.\n\nWeiner: Do you keep kosher now?\n\nArogeti: No, I do not.\n\nWeiner: Your wife, did she ever keep kosher?\n\nArogeti: They kept kosher, except during World War II. When meat was hard to\nget, they went to non-kosher. My mother, until she died, she kept kosher.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Weiner: Tell about your early remembrances of Passover.\n\nArogeti: The night before Passover, we'd light a candle and go around to all the\nrooms to see if there were bread crumbs anywhere. We observed Passover. Passover\nwas a big holiday. We'd get the family and the relatives coming over. It was a\nreal remembrance. I remember, we would all fall asleep. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We were allowed to drink\nwine. My family never discouraged the drinking of wine. They just felt that wine\nwas sort of a sacred drink. We drank wine and we would eat. We'd keep Passover.\nMy mother had separate dishes for Passover. We threw away all of the bread and\nthe cereal. 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I'm interviewing James Arogeti on August 3,\n2006 for the Jewish Oral History Project of Atlanta co-sponsored by the William\nBreman ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jewish Heritage Museum, The American Jewish Committee, and The National\nCouncil of Jewish Women. Jimmy, we left off about the auctions...\n\nArogeti: ...the mitzvah auctions.\n\nWeiner: Have you ever seen anything like the Temple here? They had a $20 million\ncapital fund drive. They made it. Can you believe that?\n\nArogeti: Of course, I can believe it. I'm sure there are a number of prominent\nJewish families. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rabbi [Alvin] Sugarman was pretty good about hitting these\nfamilies and raising capital. There are a lot of Jewish foundations. Jewish\npeople have always been philanthropic. The ones who do well, really donate...\nthe Marcuses, the Blanks, the Massells, and all those people. They were big\ncontributors. Their names still go around like that.\n\nWeiner: Actually, in this current era, we've never seen anything like the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Marcuses and the Blanks turning this town over. It used to be only the Coca-Cola\nfolks, but now...\n\nArogeti: ...there were the Alexanders... then there was Hirsch... Bernie\nHoward's father, or was it his...\n\nWeiner: ...father-in-law, wasn't it?\n\nArogeti: Was it his father-in-law who was in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"brassieres? What's his name, Frank Garson?\n\nWeiner: Yes.\n\nArogeti: Frank Garson was a big philanthropist--\n\nWeiner: ...this fellow that's on television and on radio...\n\nArogeti: ...what's his name?\n\nWeiner: ...he's the grandson of Garson...\n\nArogeti: ...he is and...\n\nWeiner: ...he tells everybody how to save money. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[Clark] Howard is his name.\n\nArogeti: ...yes. What's his first name? It escapes you.\n\nWeiner: Yes, right now. What about in your congregation?\n\nArogeti: The Francos and the Galantis were the big contributors in those days\nwhen I was president. I operated at a budget of $10,000 a year. Now, our budget\nis about $1 million a year. I was president in 1954 and 1955.\n\nWeiner: The annual budget for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Or VeShalom is...\n\nArogeti: ...the annual operating budget now is about $1,000,000. You've got two\nrabbis. You've got a building to maintain. I was the finance chairman of our\nbuilding there. We raised, I think, $500,000. That was quite a sum that we\nraised. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=2970.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I imagine Jews... the ones who do well... a lot of them are very\nphilanthropic. I'm a big supporter of Jewish causes. I'm a big supporter of my\ncongregation. I'm probably one of the leading contributors, among others.\n\nWeiner: You realize [unintelligible]...\n\nArogeti: ...absolutely... [unintelligible]\n\n[Both are talking at the same time]\n\nWeiner: ...because even in the early days, the rabbi had to be maintained, right?\n\nArogeti: Right.\n\nWeiner: Did the rabbi have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a house to live in?\n\nArogeti: The parish house was next to the synagogue. When I was president, the\nrabbi used to come to see me to get his pay. I could write a check. I think we\nhad a budget of $10,000 in 1954. I think the rabbi's salary was about $5,000 or\n$6,000. The rabbis, at that time, did get a little extra money from the members\nwhen they had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"yahrzeits, weddings or bar mitzvahs. There were special donations.\nWe don't do that now. In other words, a wedding comes with the membership now.\nMost of these modern rabbis now, they don't take contributions from the members.\nIt goes to the synagogue, most of it.\n\nWeiner: What about your burial sites here in Atlanta? Where are they?\n\nArogeti: We've got Greenwood Cemetery. When I was president, we bought an extra\nlot out there. Now Greenwood, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=3060.0,3090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the area there, is becoming a little blighted. A\nlot of them now are being buried at Arlington. We have lots at Arlington and we\nhave lots at Greenwood.\n\nWeiner: Does the individual buy the...\n\nArogeti: ...Greenwood, the congregation has maybe about 100 or 200 lots. Each\nmember is entitled to a free lot. 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Greenwood is considered a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"slightly blighted area. It still\nhas a lot of Jewish cemeteries, though.\n\nWeiner: Do we have sanctified grounds, is that what...\n\nArogeti: ...yes, in our cemetery lots. We will not allow non-Jews to be buried\nthere. We have a certain section. We have an organization called the Bikur\nCholim which takes care of decedants. We don't spend money on coffins. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They use\na very plain pine box.\n\nWeiner: What about suicides? Do you have a lot? You know, there was a time...\n\nArogeti: ...in the old days until the Holocaust and everything else, Jews\nprobably had a low suicide rate. In my childhood, I can't remember but one or\ntwo suicides at the most because of a love affair or something like that, or a\nmental disorder. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=3180.0,3210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"During the holocaust, it became quite prevalent among Jews.\nThey were being persecuted. I think Jews, probably as a whole, still have a\nlower suicide rate than the average population.\n\nWeiner: Would they be allowed to be buried in the...\n\nArogeti: ...yes, we...\n\nWeiner: ...no distinctions then?\n\nArogeti: ...no, if they were Jews.\n\nWeiner: There is some custom, too, about Kohens.\n\nArogeti: They can't visit cemeteries.\n\nWeiner: Is that right?\n\nArogeti: Yes. We still follow that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"among the real Orthodox Kohens. They're not\nallowed to visit cemeteries. I guess once they need family, they sort of break\nthe rules. I noticed the Kohen family, when we have a funeral, they stay\noutside. They're right there. I guess it's a custom.\n\nWeiner: I had that in Thomasville [Georgia] where my folks are buried. We were\nvery close to the Feinbergs. I think they were Kohens, too. They wouldn't come\ninto the cemetery.\n\nArogeti: Another thing, too. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=3240.0,3270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We have our burial procedure. We used to let all\nthe members who were close to the decedent put dirt on the grave. It was sort of\na holdover from the other day. It was considered a mitzvah to put dirt over the\ngraves. That way they would get free burial service. Now we've cut that out. We\nonly let the immediate family do it. Otherwise, you'd have 100 people coming up\nthere shoveling dirt. Now we just let the immediate family do it.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Weiner: Just as a token?\n\nArogeti: As a token. Those that would like to follow the old custom, after the\nservices are all over with, they can stick around and do it, but with nobody\nwatching them. They can just leave.\n\nWeiner: You mentioned that you were president of the congregation.\n\nArogeti: Yes, 1954 and 1955.\n\nWeiner: You've been nominated for a lot of different things. I know you've got\nsome ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=3300.0,3330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"professional achievements.\n\nArogeti: Yes. I'm a CPA [Certified Public Accountant]. I'm a lawyer. I've been a\nbank director. I was a college professor. I was an entrepreneur.\n\nWeiner: At what bank?\n\nArogeti: The Century. That was bought out by SouthTrust. CPA's have tremendous\nconflicts being on bank boards. If they represent people who borrowed money from\nthe bank, they can't not only ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=3330.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"recuse themselves but they also have to put in\nthere everything they do for them, even if it doesn't concern the bank... saying\nthey're not independent. After about ten years on a bank board, I had to resign.\nMy partner is still very active on bank boards. My son is on a bank board.\nBanking is a good business.\n\nWeiner: You're connected somewhat to my cousin, Morris Macey.\n\nArogeti: Yes, he and I grew up together.\n\nWeiner: Also, didn't you have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=3360.0,3390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"some kind of a finance...\n\nArogeti: ...Associated Credit Union.\n\nWeiner: Yes.\n\nArogeti: Morris originally came up with the idea. He did a lot of work for\ncredit. Morris was really the prime mover on that. He set up a credit union. Bob\nLipshutz and I helped him. Bob Barris was the president. He left and Morris was\nlooking for someone. We got Danny Maslia, who was a close friend of mine. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=3390.0,3420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They\nreally branched off the credit union. I could not serve as director, because I\nhad a conflict of interest. Our firm was doing the accounting. Danny has now\nretired from the credit union. I don't know to this date how active Morris is\nwith credit union work.\n\nWeiner: I think he still goes to those meetings. Does Merrill?\n\nArogeti: Merrill is on the bank board. Merrill was with Chattahoochee, then ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=3420.0,3450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the\nRiverside and then the Sovereign Bank... I can't think of the names.\n\nWeiner: Now everybody's got a website, right? That's the new deal. According to\nyour website, you are a member of the Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants.\n\nArogeti: That's correct.\n\nWeiner: You're also on the Atlanta Estate Planning Council?\n\nArogeti: That's correct.\n\nWeiner: Have you been an officer?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=3450.0,3480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: In the old days, I was a treasurer of the Georgia Society of CPA's. I\ndidn't take an active interest. I had so much outside activity being a college\nprofessor and raising kids. I belonged to the Atlanta Bar Association.\nFortunately, I'm of the age now that I don't have to take CP., Continuing Public\nEducation. I'm exempt from taking courses.\n\nWeiner: If you're 70, or over.\n\nArogeti: That's correct, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=3480.0,3510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I don't have to pay any bar dues if I'm 70 or over.\n\nWeiner: What about...\n\nArogeti: ...wait a minute... I think I do have to pay bar. CPA dues I don't have\nto pay.\n\nBeryl Would you say you wanted to do well? You went to law school, as well.\n\nArogeti: At night, that's correct. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=3510.0,3540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That was tough to do.\n\nArogeti: Yes... raising family... four children... night school.\n\nWeiner: You were ambitious. That's the word I was looking for.\n\nArogeti: Yes, I was a real entrepreneur. I'm sure that most people have heard\nthis story. When I was a professor at Georgia State, one of the students held up\nhis hand. He says, \"Professor Arogeti, what do you owe your success to? You're a\nCPA, you're a lawyer, you're a bank director, you're a college professor, and\nyou're an entrepreneur.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=3540.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I say, \"I owe my success to two words.\" Then one of the\nstudents said, \"What is that?\" I said, \"Good decisions.\" One of the students in\nthe back holds up his hand and says, \"Professor, let me ask you a question. How\ndo you make good decisions?\" I said, \"I can tell you that in one word.\" He said,\n\"What is that?\" I said, \"Experience.\" Another student holds up his hand and\nsays, \"Professor, how do you get experience?\" I say, \"I can tell you that in two\nwords.\" He says, \"What's that?\" I say, \"Bad decisions.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=3570.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's an old story. I\nbet you've heard it a dozen times.\n\nWeiner: Yes, but I love it.\n\n[Both are laughing and talking at the same time]\n\nWeiner: That's the only way you can learn, is through...\n\nArogeti: ...is by making a bad decision. Just don't make the same bad decision twice.\n\nWeiner: Right.\n\nArogeti: Someone gave me that story about 45 or 50 years ago. I've used it continuously.\n\nWeiner: It's a good one, too.\n\nArogeti: It's a good one, yes.\n\nWeiner: Can you look in your crystal ball now and see ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=3600.0,3630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"where are we going with\nthe Jewish Community?\n\nArogeti: I think the intermarriage rate is going to... unless we get persecuted\na lot... if the Jewish people get persecuted, they have a way of freezing. If we\ndon't get persecuted, and they keep letting the barriers down, I think that we\nwill be having more than a 50 percent intermarriage rate. Right now, we are\nalmost having a 50 percent divorce rate. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=3630.0,3660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I see it, as they let down the guards.\nI think one of the things that has kept the Jews together a lot is their\ndevotion to their religion, and the fact that they've been persecuted. I\nhonestly think persecution has kept the Jews together. I honestly think so.\n\nWeiner: In a way, though, we might be reaching a different Golden Era. Like you\nsaid, your grandchildren are going to all these parochial schools and...\n\nArogeti: ...now, yes...\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=3660.0,3690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Weiner: ...and that was unusual, isn't it?\n\nArogeti: Yes, it is. That's because it's very expensive to send your kids to\nparochial school. It costs you two or three times. It costs you as much to send\nthem to parochial school as it does to college, as far as the tuition is\nconcerned. Fortunately, they're at home so they didn't have to spend that.\nHopefully my grandchildren will stay in the faith. I believe they'll stay in the\nfaith. Whether they will marry in the faith, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=3690.0,3720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"remains to be seen. Jews for a long\ntime couldn't be in banking. Now I know a lot of Jews that are in banking. Jews\nhave been very active in medicine, always, since the early time. I remember when\nthey had quotas on Jewish medical students. The population was about two or\nthree percent. Most of these schools had a quota. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=3720.0,3750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Now the quota is down, so the\nJewish population is heavy in medicine, heavy in law, heavy in financing.\nThey're now becoming very active in banking. They're very prominent. In the\npolitical circles, in government, we've got what, six or eight Jewish senators?\n\nWeiner: [Joseph] Lieberman, and...\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=3750.0,3780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: ...we've got two from California, one from New York, we had two from\nMinnesota, and then we had...\n\nWeiner: ...Connecticut...\n\nArogeti: ...Connecticut and Michigan. We've got about eight senators. We're\nprobably only about two percent of the population. We've got eight percent of\nthe senate. We probably have about 26 to 30 representatives. Proportionally, we\nare over represented. Even in Georgia, there are now Jewish legislators. 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The lady... she was...\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=3810.0,3840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: ...from Macon. That's...\n\nWeiner: .... no, she's from Atlanta. Her dad is... I can't remember, but she\njust won this election. It was a tough election.\n\nArogeti: What's her name? Bernes.\n\nWeiner: Yes. Her dad was in school.\n\nArogeti: Halpern.\n\nWeiner: He was at Boys' High with me... B-E-R-N-E-S.\n\nArogeti: Yes, [Debra Halpern] Bernes. 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In the federal\ngovernment, board members, and so forth.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=3870.0,3900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Weiner: What about social life? Has it changed a lot since the Fifties or\nForties? The Jews and the gentiles didn't mix socially.\n\nArogeti: Yes, we mix a lot. I have a few non-Jewish friends who I go out with\nsocially. Much more than in my younger days. Still, my main social activity is\nwith Jewish people. 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I've been here\nfor 50 years and I haven't found a way out.\" That's just a passing joke.\n\nWeiner: You put in a full day's work?\n\nArogeti: I try to, but I'm not as ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=4020.0,4050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"active as I used to be in handling accounts.\nI'm much more selective now as to whom I'll represent. I don't necessarily\nrepresent people because of the monetary. I represent people when I like them. A\nlot of my tough clients who used to give me heartaches, I've turned over.\nFortunately, in this day of computers, you don't have to call them back. You\njust write them a little note.\n\nWeiner: But it's harder to keep up with the law, and I guess the tax...\n\nArogeti: ...it is...\n\nWeiner: ...they keep changing on you...\n\nArogeti: ...they keep changing on me, but ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=4050.0,4080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"certain things are basic. The human\nperson is still there. I've learned that when money is involved and people die,\nyou see fights like you never saw. That happened in the old days. That's\nhappening now. It's going to happen in the future.\n\nWeiner: That was what I wanted to ask you. You just reminded me. We started this\ninterview with how have things changed. How have things stayed the same?\n\nArogeti: People fighting over money... families, brothers, sisters, and\neverything else. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=4080.0,4110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Daddy didn't do right.\" \"Daddy said he was going to do this.\"\n\"Mama remarried. She said that if something happened to her, that her new\nhusband would have the house for life. After that, it would go to the children.\nShe wouldn't put it in the will, because she trusted her new husband.\" I used to\ntell them, \"Look, ambulatory conversations aren't worth the paper they're\nwritten on.\" Unless you write it down... people change their minds. You find\nthat, even in even practice today.\n\nWeiner: Yes.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=4110.0,4140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: It hasn't changed. It doesn't change.\n\nWeiner: People are still selfish. They're still always...\n\nArogeti: ...where money's concerned, families fight like mad.\n\nWeiner: Yes. Their boats are full up...\n\nArogeti: ...full up. They will continue to be full up. It will always be the\ncase. Things would never change that way. Human beings, certain people, are\nreally wonderful. They're philanthropic. They roll with the punches. They keep\ntheir self-esteem. My mother had six children, a tough husband, and a\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=4140.0,4170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mother-in-law that lived with her. She maintained her self-esteem. That's very\nimportant to a person. My wife gives in to me a lot, but she does it by\nmaintaining her self-esteem. That's the thing you shouldn't destroy in a person.\n\nWeiner: But you always get the last word, don't you?\n\nArogeti: I try.\n\nWeiner: \"Yes, dear.\"\n\nArogeti: \"Yes, dear.\" That's the last word. You got it right.\n\n[Both are laughing]\n\nArogeti: Beryl, certain things have never changed, really. They never are going\nto change. 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You want them to do a lot of things.\n\nWeiner: I have noticed that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=4200.0,4230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"every now and then you'll find a boy that's brought\nup with a silver spoon in his mouth. He takes that and keeps on going. I think\nSteve Selig is...\n\nArogeti: ...yes, a good example. Steve's very active in Jewish causes and...\n\nWeiner: ...he's kept...\n\nArogeti: ...he's got his second wife...\n\nWeiner: ...working...\n\nArogeti: ...very active in the Federation...\n\nWeiner: ...and he's working hard...\n\nArogeti: ...and he's working hard. He's doing things. He goes to Israel. He went\nwith Governor [Sonny] Perdue recently. He's always giving.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=4230.0,4260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/transcript/22200/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Weiner: Doug Hertz is another one.\n\nArogeti: Yes, Doug Hertz. He's a big sponsor of Camp Twin Lakes.\n\nWeiner: Right. Don't get in front of Doug when he's on a campaign, because he's...\n\nArogeti: ...stay away from him...\n\nWeiner: ...he'll clean your pockets real good.\n\n[Both are laughing]\n\nArogeti: That's another thing. Stay away from Robert Arogeti. He's another one\nyou stay away from. 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Thank you.\n\nWeiner: Thank you.\n\nArogeti: Thank you, Beryl.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=4290.0,4320.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/annotation_set/331","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Arogeti_James [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/annotation_set/331/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eHabif, Arogeti \u0026amp; Wynne offers accounting and tax services, financial planning and business consulting.  Jimmy Arogeti and Isaac Habif began offering accounting and tax services in Atlanta in 1952.  In 1970, Merrill Wynne was named partner and the firm’s name changed to Habif, Arogeti \u0026amp; Wynne.  The firm now includes HA\u0026amp;W Wealth Management and is one of Georgia's largest independent certified public accounting and business advisory firms.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/annotation_set/331/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is a four-engine heavy bomber aircraft developed for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC).  From its introduction in 1938, the B-17 evolved through numerous design advances and was primarily employed by the United States Army Air Forces in the strategic bombing campaign of World War II against German industrial and military targets.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/annotation_set/331/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, known informally as the GI Bill, was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as GIs). Benefits included low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, cash payments of tuition and living expenses to attend university, high school or vocational education, as well as one year of unemployment compensation.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/annotation_set/331/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eMacy’s is an American multinational holding company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is the owner of department stores Macy's and Bloomingdale's.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/annotation_set/331/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe descendants of Jews who left Spain or Portugal after the 1492 expulsion are referred to as Sephardim or Sephardic. The word comes from the Hebrew word for Spain.  The Sephardic community scattered across Europe, the Mediterranean and to North Africa.  Sephardic Jews use Ladino instead of Hebrew, which is a combination of Hebrew and Spanish.  Some of their customs and liturgy varies slightly from that of the Ashkenazi Jews.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/annotation_set/331/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eLadino, also known as Judeo-Spanish, is a language primarily spoken among Sephardic Jews.  The written form of Judeo-Spanish is used in Sephardic religious texts, secular literature, and songs.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/annotation_set/331/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003e[1] Rabbi Joseph I. Cohen (1896-1985) was born in Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey.  He was trained for the rabbinate in Turkey and accepted his first pulpit in Havana, Cuba in 1920.  In 1934 he moved to Atlanta, Georgia where he was installed as the rabbi of Congregation Or VeShalom, a Sephardic congregation.  Rabbi Cohen officially retired in 1969, but remained active at both the synagogue and in the community until his death in 1985.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/annotation_set/331/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBar mitzvah is Hebrew for ‘son of commandment.’ A rite of passage for Jewish boys aged 13 years and one day.  At that time, a Jewish boy is considered a responsible adult for most religious purposes.  He is now duty-bound to keep the commandments and may be counted to the minyan quorum for public worship.  He celebrates the bar mitzvah by being called up to the reading of the Torah in the synagogue, usually on the next available Sabbath after his Hebrew birthday.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/annotation_set/331/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Isle of Rhodes had been an important Mediterranean center of Jewish life since the second century BCE. For centuries, the Sephardic community of Rhodes was fortunate in having a number of Jewish scholars and there were many rabbis and “hahams” that served the community. In 1928, a formal rabbinical college was established on Rhodes to serve the Aegean Sea area.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/annotation_set/331/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eCongregation Or VeShalom was established by refugees of the Ottoman Empire, namely from Turkey and the Isle of Rhodes.  The congregation began in 1920 and was based at Central and Woodward Avenues until 1948 when it moved to a larger building on North Highland Road.  The current building for Or VeShalom is on North Druid Hills Road.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35571/file/104614/annotation_set/331/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBeth Jacob is an Orthodox synagogue on Lavista Road in Atlanta founded in 1942 by former members of Ahavath Achim who were looking for a more Orthodox congregation. 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He worked alongside his parents to build Zep Manufacturing Company. Zep later merged with National Linen and became National Service Industries, a Fortune 500 Company. He donated and raised money for undeveloped land in Dunwoody that became Zaban Park, home of the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta. He donated money to the Jewish Home, for which the Zaban Tower is named. 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