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Mr. Cohen was a lifelong member and past president of Congregation Mickve Israel. He served as a First Lieutenant in the U. S. Army where he was attached to the 100th Bomb Group of the Mighty Eighth during World War II. He later served stateside during the Korean Conflict. Mr. Cohen continued the tradition as a 4th generation merchant serving the Savannah community from 1859 until 1992. He retired after 40+ years as owner and operator of The Lady Jane Shop. Mr. Cohen was affectionately known as the “Mayor of Bull Street.” He believed strongly in community service. He served on the Park and Tree Commission for 17 years and was a past president of the National Retail Merchants Association. Mr. Cohen founded Lady Jane’s Foster Children’s Tennis Tournament and Road Race. He was a charter member of L’Alliance Francaise.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe passed away in Savannah in 2014.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eA.J. 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He retired after 40+ years as owner and operator of The Lady Jane Shop. Mr. Cohen was affectionately known as the “Mayor of Bull Street.” He believed strongly in community service. He served on the Park and Tree Commission for 17 years and was a past president of the National Retail Merchants Association. Mr. Cohen founded Lady Jane’s Foster Children’s Tennis Tournament and Road Race. He was a charter member of L’Alliance Francaise.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe passed away in Savannah in 2014.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.J. Cohen begins the interview with his family history and his early life in Savannah, Georgia. He describes his education, military service, and the Jewish community of Savannah. He also details what life what was like growing up in a segregated society.\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/000/097/284/small/Cohen__AJ.jpg?1619288663","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - Cohen_AJ.mp3"]},"duration":6628.85878,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/097/284/small/Cohen__AJ.jpg?1619288663","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-thebreman.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/097/284/original/Cohen_AJ.mp3?1610561943","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mp3","duration":6628.85878,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["AJ Cohen [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"COHEN: I am going to do the best I can to tell you how I got here and who my\nfamily was and is. Back in 1859 a man named Tobias Cohen came to Savannah from\nBuffalo, New York, with one son, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"whose name was Jacob Tobias, known as J.T. J.T.\nmarried a woman named Paulina (for some reason I forget her last name) who was\nborn in Berlin. They had one son. Old man Tobias was an itinerant peddler and he\ncame here selling out the back of a wagon. 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My mother's family were\nAlsatian and came to this country in the 1850s. Her grandfather, named Marcus\nIsaac ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Fiest, came in through the port of New Orleans probably a year or two\nprior to the War Between the States, and moved up through Louisiana to Arkansas\nand was a private in the Arkansas infantry for four years, having been wounded\nin Murfreesboro, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tennessee, and he got out of the Confederate Army at the end of\nfour years. He immediately went to New Orleans and married a woman named\nHenrietta Kahn who came from the same area of Alsace Lorraine that he came from.\nMost of the Alsatian Jews who came to this country went to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mississippi and\nLouisiana and they left Alsace Lorraine because every time Germany would conquer\nFrance in that area, these men would get conscripted into the German Army.\nMarcus Isaac Fiest and Henrietta Fiest had three sons and two daughters. One of\nthe daughters, Betty Fiest, was my mother's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mother and her sister, Julia Fiest,\nwho we'll talk about later, is responsible for my father and mother meeting.\nBetty Fiest married a man named Nicholas Kahn, who was also Alsatian. Julia\nFiest married George Solomon, who graduated from the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hebrew Union College in\n1895, and his first pulpit was Vicksburg, Mississippi, where mama's family had\nmoved to from Louisiana across the river. When George Solomon came to Vicksburg,\nMississippi, and met Julia Fiest and married her, his next pulpit was Savannah,\nGeorgia, in 1901. 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She was very young and my dad,\nAbram Jacob, A.J., Sr., was a confirmed bachelor and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"17 years older than my\nmother. Aunt Julia and Uncle George introduced them and they got married in\n1918. I was born in 1920. Of A.J., Sr's family, Abram Jacob, lived in Savannah\nthrough a lot of yellow fever epidemics and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"one of the great fires of the city\nwhere most of the city burned down. He was born on the back of a wagon going out\nof the city during one of the yellow fever epidemics, and was registered in the\ncourthouse in Waynesboro, Georgia, where the family would light until the\nepidemic was over. Those ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"eight children lost their father, old man J.T. Cohen,\nwhen my daddy was 16 years old. He died of bilious fever, whatever that is. My\nfather had to go to work to help support the family. He had a retail business if\nyou want to call it that, from the wagon to a store on Barnard and Broughton\nwhich I have seen ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"pictures of. It was called J. T. Cohen and Sons. The mother\nPaulina, I think a year or two after my grandfather had died, dropped dead on\nthe corner of Gaston and Lincoln Street of a heart attack, and there were the\neight children in this house on Tattnall Street just off of Liberty. I saw the\nhouse as a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"young child - I remember my father showing me the house. It's right\nnow where Kutchey Motors has a shop there. The other brothers, S.J., Sam, who\nmoved to Charleston, and Howard who moved to Baltimore, and Jerry who moved to I\ncan't remember where. The 5th brother was Arthur who moved to South Carolina. 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Coming back to\nSavannah, George Solomon and Julia Solomon had no children, so my sister and I\nspent a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"great deal of time at their house and sort of became their children. A\nlot of the things that I learned that were really good, other than from my\nparents, were from Julia and George Solomon, who were just wonderful people. We\nlived in the 300 block on 44th Street between Reynolds and Battey which was a\ndirt ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"street, and we walked nearly everywhere we went. I walked from 44th and\nReynolds over to 37th Street School which wasn't too far away, and then I walked\nfrom there to 35th Street School which is now changed to Richard Arnold. Then\nthe first year of high school I couldn't walk, I rode my bicycle down to high\nschool which was the Chatham Academy ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on Oglethorpe and Bull. Then they built the\nnew high school out on 47th Street between Reynolds and Atlantic, and I finished\ntwo years there. I graduated from Savannah High School in 1938, and entered\nArmstrong College in the fall of 1938, on the corner of Bull and Gaston Street.\nI was there ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in the early years of Armstrong Junior College and during its real\ndevelopment years, 1938-39, 39-40 and 41. In 1941 - December was Pearl Harbor,\nand I enlisted in the military in February 1942. I would like to go ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"back and\ntalk about Savannah during the 20s and 30s and say that things were very quiet\nin our city; it was a very laid back city. It was highly segregated. The\npolitics of the city were real interesting during those days. 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It seemed pretty equitable, but\nthere were no Black jobs - we were ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"highly segregated. The boss of the county was\nIrish, and the county was controlled by the Irish. Johnny Bouhan, whose firm of\nlawyers still exists, now known as Bouhan, Williams \u0026 Levy was county boss. I\ntold my daddy ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that I wanted to work at the post office during the holidays\ndelivering special deliveries which was the best money-making job you could get.\nSo naturally through his Irish connections and Mr. Bouhan I got put on at the\npost office. When I walked in there it was as White as it could be; there were\nno blacks and there damn sure weren't any ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jews. The two Brady brothers ran the\npost office and the Irish were pretty much in control of it. That was during the\nDepression. I delivered special deliveries at all hours of the night, and the\nBlacks sent cash in the special deliveries all over. We all knew that there was\ncash in the envelopes but nobody ever opened one. There was no crime, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"everybody\nwas poor, and you would have thought that with the knowledge that there was cash\nin those envelopes that somebody would have either stole or held you up, but\nnobody did. You could go in any neighborhood in this city at all, and probably\nthe whole city was run by four or five policemen at night, and there was never a\nproblem, there was no crime. 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Hugo Frank's father, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hugo Frank, Sr.,\ntook over his father's business on West Broad Street which was Frank \u0026 Co., the\nlargest wholesale dry goods company, and that building eventually was bought by\nBaldwin Kahn who was in the same business, known as Kahn \u0026 Co. 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My\ncontemporary group during that period, some are still living, would have been\nHelen Edel who is still living, Helene Herman Harris ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"who is still living,\nHenrietta Steinheimer who is still living, Adele Meddin Schneider who is still\nliving, Jack Coleman who is still living. We were all confirmed at Mickve Israel\nSynagogue in 1935 in white dresses and white suits. Mickve Israel Synagogue had\nno bar mitzvahs, why we don't know, but there were no ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"bar mitzvahs. Before I was\nconfirmed and after I was confirmed, I attended Temple every Saturday morning.\nIt was a religious thing. We first used to have our religious school on Saturday\nand it was called Sabbath School, and for whatever reason, I never have found\nout, they changed it to Sunday and called it Sunday School. 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Now there was the grandson of Rabbi Isaac Mendes who preceded\nGeorge Solomon in the pulpit at Mickve Israel, the last of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sephardic rabbis\nthat we had here, had only one child. He had a son named Joe Mendes, and Joe\nMendes married an Irish girl named Susie Grady but she converted to Judaism and\nbecame a very strong Jewess. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The family Mendes lived down on Gwinnett Street\nbetween Barnard and Jefferson. Because their father was a rabbi, it was a very\nstrict family in the observances that they had and the way they ran their lives.\nBig Joe Mendes, son of Isaac Mendes, had four spinster sisters; ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Joy Mendes, one\nsister, taught music in the public schools; she was a long stalk of celery -\nI'll never forget her. They were spinsters, and Zipprah Mendes the other sister\nwas a math teacher in the public schools and she was a wonderful woman. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zipprah\nand Joy - I can't remember the other two sisters. None of them ever married. On\nsome Saturdays or Friday nights, I used to go over because big Joe Mendes who\nmarried Susie the Irish girl, had one son, that's the only son they had, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Joe\nMendes Jr. Joe is dead now. Joe and I carried the Torah every Saturday morning\nfor years and years and years. My Uncle George would be in the pulpit and our\ncue would be, \"And who shall ascend the mountain of the Lord,\" and we would\nmarch down the center aisle and up on to the bemah and take the pulpit out for\nUncle George. We just did it for years and years and years. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"On Saturdays, I\nalways looked forward to Saturdays, because my sister Valerie Betty who is some\neight years younger than I am. We had lunch at Uncle George and Aunt Julia's\nevery Saturday. It was wonderful. What made these so . . . when I had dinner\nover there, the Sephardic ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"practice was that they said the prayer after the meal\ninstead of before the meal. That has been explained to me and I can't think of\nwhy they did it the way they did it, but that was their routine; they also held\nhands and bowed their heads. Big Joe Mendes, because his father was a rabbi, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was\nsolicited all the time for ideas. He sang on Yom Kippur, he would sing the\nSephardic chant which we still do call \"El Nora.\" I can remember him doing it.\nHis wife said, \"Now you know when my husband dies you are going to have to learn\nto do this ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so that somebody will take his place.\" Well, I never got around to it\nbecause Steve Traub came along about that time and Steve took it over. Steve had\na wonderful, wonderful voice and did such a great job. Well, the years went by.\nBeing a Jew in Savannah was not really a problem that I ever knew about except\none day when a kid came up to me in the park and said, \"You are a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jew, aren't\nyou?\" I said, \"Yes.\" He said, \"Y'all killed Christ, didn't you?\" I said, \"Well,\nI really didn't know that we had killed him.\" Other than that, we really never\nran into much anti-Semitism. The community was a nice place to live. My father\nwho was very gregarious and also rather well known in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"community, he never\nparticipated strongly in the synagogue because he always felt that because his\nwife's uncle was the rabbi that he wasn't too comfortable getting involved in\nthe synagogue. So he participated in the community in general and was really a\nvaluable citizen in this community. My father was really a wonderful man. 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Waring, who was the first pediatrician in town, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was the first president.\nThey were the ones who built the building that is over here on the corner of\nCharlton and Drayton. Then daddy was the first president of the Savannah\nTuberculosis Association which he was very active in. He was in the Rotary Club,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a month after the first club started here in 1914. He had a lot of friends in\nthe Irish political community, and so during the depression when the store was\nhaving problems, everybody was having a problem, he put my mother in charge of\nthe store and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he got a job as internal auditor for the City of Savannah. The\nfamous Irish mayor named Peter Roe Nugent (the Nugent family was in the baking\nbusiness, Nugent's Bakery), and Peter Nugent was a good friend of my father's,\nand Daddy served in City Hall during that period. My mother ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"who had a very\ninteresting life, had a magnificent voice, a mezzo soprano voice, sang in every\nchurch in this city. She sang the Kol Nidre at the synagogue and the Elie Elie.\nShe was an accomplished pianist with a magnificent voice, and I learned to\nappreciate music because of my mother. And interestingly enough ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"after her two\nsisters got married, Mama's mother and her grandmother, Betty Fiest Kahn and old\nlady Henrietta Fiest were going to see to it that my mother was going to go\nsomewhere in the music field. They were living in Vicksburg just before she\nmarried my daddy, and they left Vicksburg and went to Birmingham, Alabama, and\nrented a big house and ran a boarding house for a whole year ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so Mama could study\nmusic at the Birmingham Conservatory of Music. They just did it for a year and\nthey evidently saved enough for the next year to send her to New York. I have a\nwonderful picture of her in the Mikado in costume. Mama had a gorgeous voice,\njust beautiful, and played piano beautifully. Every Sunday we had music in our\nhouse because Maude Mendel, who taught piano, who had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"three daughters, Muriel\nand I can't remember the others' names. Anyway, Maude taught piano, her daughter\ntaught piano here, and Maude would play four hands with Mama on the piano. They\nplayed symphonies, they played operas, they played everything. I learned a lot\nof music listening to them, and Mama had me glued to music which was really one\nof the greatest contributions to my life, the appreciation of good ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"music.\nInteresting enough, Maude Mendel married Joe Mendel who was half Jewish, and the\nmixture of Jews and non-Jews here was very interesting, and there was a\ntremendous number of them. Nobody would know who the hell they were now, but\nthey were . . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Armstrong College was here at the very right time for me,\nbecause we were still in the Depression and there was no money, and going to\nArmstrong I think was $250 per year. Or, maybe it could have been $300 a year,\nand it served a great purpose for the kids in our community who couldn't go off\nto college. It was a wonderful school, it was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so great! We had teachers like\nArthur Gignilliat's father who heads the electric company, his daddy was one of\nmy teachers. Stacy Keach whose son is now so famous in television was a teacher\nof mine. He started the theater here that was just terrific. Keach was so\ntalented that when he left here he went out to California to direct the Pasadena\nPlayhouse, and we had dedicated the annual to this young ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Stacy Keach who you see\non television. The atmosphere of Armstrong College was just so cultural, it was\njust wonderful. A small group of people like that, we were very, very close knit\nand it contributed so much to our lives. I don't remember ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the differentiation in\nour community among the Jewish people because there was one when the AZA was\nstarted here in the JEA. I joined the AZA initially and I had a lot of friends\nwho went to B. B. Jacob Synagogue. Bobby Gordon was a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"close friend of mine and\nback in, I can't remember, in grammar school, Bobby was a big guy and he was a\nbasketball player, but he was big and I was a little guy, and I always hung\naround Bobby to make sure. There was some kid over at 37th street, I don't\nremember who the hell he was, trying to pick a fight with me ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I don't think\nit was over being Jewish. He wanted to pick a fight with me, and I would get to\nthe front door of the school and look out to see if he was there. If he wasn't\nthere I would run down Habersham Street. One day we finally had to get around to\nit because he wasn't going to go away unless I was going to fight him. In back\nof 37th Street School there was a concrete ring there that once was a fountain,\nand that's where you settled your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"disputes. So I went back there with him and\npunched him first and that ended the fight. We had to get around to it someday.\nI never felt uncomfortable being Jewish except when you would run into an\noccasional ignoramus who would question you about what you Jews did, and what\nyou Jews are, and so on and so forth. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"At 35th Street School, over on 35th and\nBull-- At 35th Street School when you first went there they had a belt line. You\nhad to get across the whole length of the park and everybody was standing there\nwith a belt whipping your bottom. I think they did away with that later on but\nthat was the first initiation. Also, in that neighborhood, it was interesting,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when I turned 12 years old I joined the Boy Scouts and I don't know whether we\nhad a Jewish troop or whether we didn't. The troop I joined was Troop 6 and it\nwas the Hull Memorial Presbyterian Church on the corner of 37th and Bull next to\nthe library - it's something else now, but we had Jewish kids in the troop, and\nI don't remember but I think later on there was an all Jewish troop that may\nhave been started at the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Alliance, but at the time most of the Jewish boys were\nin different troops. So I joined Troop 6 and then a man named Lon Keisker who\nhad 2 daughters, you probably know his 2 daughters, lived on 46th Street between\nAbercorn and Habersham, he owned the Crane Plumbing Company here. One daughter\nmarried Deb Maner and one married Bob Gunn. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lon Keisker came to a group of us,\nmyself and Philip Solomons and somebody else, and said \"I want my garage to be a\nBoy Scout Troop. So we started Troop 60 in Lon Keisker's garage back there. I\ncan't remember who all was in it; I know Philip Solomons was in it, Jack Coleman\nwas in it. Do you know who Jack Coleman is? You know, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at Mickve Israel there's\nthe Coleman library? Well, the Coleman family here, Jack's uncle, Philip Coleman\ninvented the crossbar for telephone poles for the wires to go through or\nwhatever it is, and made an excellent fortune. Jack ended up working for him,\nand he's still living, he lives in Jacksonville. Old man Coleman gave a lot of\nmoney to the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"synagogue. Anyhow, a few weeks ago I was sitting at Madison Square\nand I was talking to a . . . a fellow named Day who bought the Eliza Thompson\nhouse, a real nice guy. And I said, \"I'm sitting here looking to the right and\nto the left, and all of a sudden I am seeing my life down Bull Street. I lived\nout ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on 44th Street but spent a lot of my life right here on Bull Street between\nVictory Drive and Broughton Street, and the guy said, \"Yes what was that?\" I\nsaid, \"Well, if I look to my right I see a green building, behind the green\nbuilding is a garage that belongs to SCAD, it is called Kantor Hall - it was the\nHarmonie Club which was a Jewish Club. Men used to go there, they played\npinochle ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and poker, and the women played bridge and mahjong there. It was just a\nsocial club, a Jewish club, and right on the corner of Jones there.\" And I said,\n\"Back in that building behind it that they own, Ebba Thompson came here as Ebba\nOlsen, she was with the Shell sisters, and they danced at the Savannah theater\nhere. She decided to stay here and teach dancing, and I took tap dancing in that\nbuilding that I am looking ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at.\" I said, \"I remember the building.\" So there were\ntwo buildings that were familiar to me between Jones and Charlton, the one I\ntook tap dancing in, and the other one was the Harmonie Club. Then the next\nbuilding is the Guards' Armory, which is Preston Hall for SCAD. And Ebba moved\nfrom the garage over to Guards' Armory, and there I took ballroom dancing. A lot\nof ballroom dancing, I remember. That was one of the favorite things of mine,\nballroom ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"dancing. I've always loved to dance, so there that block was a\nmeaningful thing to me. Then if I come from Guards' Armory over to the middle of\nMadison Square, where there are two townhouses, this is the location of the\nYMCA. The YMCA - there were a lot of Jewish kids that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"belonged because they had\na swimming pool in there, and we went to use the swimming pool, and swimming was\none of the things that I was interested in. So there was a block and half that I\nknew, and then there was the Desoto Hotel where we went sometimes for Sunday\ndinner and whatnot, and there was a swimming pool . . . and over there is where\nI swam on the Savannah High School Swimming Team for three years or four ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"years.\nI also taught life saving in that swimming pool right across the street here, so\nhere this whole area meant something to me. Then in 1941, A.J., Sr., bought this\nproperty so we had a close tie in.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Meaning this property, please explain where you are now.\n\nCOHEN: This property is the Sorrell Weed property built between 1839 and 1841 by\na man named ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Francis Sorrell. Sorrell had two wives. His second wife produced a\nson named Moxley Sorrel and at age 26 Moxley Sorrell was on General Robert E.\nLee's general staff, during the War Between the States, and Lee visited this\nproperty and stayed here. 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During that year, which was 1936, when I got a driver's\nlicense, and we had the annual High ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"School - BC football game on Thanksgiving\nDay and we were big, big rivals! I drove my daddy's car through Madison Square\nand through Chippewa Square and the police caught me. I'll never forget that. We\ntook chances riding cars through the square. It was a wild sort of a day and the\nrivalry was big but everybody looked forward to it all year long, and it was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a\nlot of fun. Then Armstrong came along. Thinking of Armstrong, and thinking about\nyou, Harriet. Arthur Cranman was a good friend of mine and he was a big star at\nArmstrong, a football player. I knew Arthur for many, many years, and we were\ngood friends. Armstrong was just a wonderful place. 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Well, the St. Patrick's Day Parade was a big thing, and one year when\nI was a Senior Life Saving Instructor, I rode on a float in my swimsuit with my\nbig red cross emblem on my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"shirt holding up a buoy to throw out to somebody. I\ntaught a number of classes in the DeSoto Hotel swimming pool and in Armstrong, I\nhad a class there. At Armstrong we did not have a swim team but my sport was\nfencing. I was on a fencing team in high school, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and the swimming team. Paul\nEwaldsen's brother, Otto Ewaldsen, was on the fencing team, and we fenced Emory,\nand then when I got to Armstrong I coached a girls' fencing team. Our men's team\nwas very small. It was William Cone, a retired ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lawyer from the navy. His father\nwas collector of customs who had moved here from Statesboro - wonderful people.\nHe just moved back here. There was Morehouse Bowyer who was named for his uncle\nwho was a great journalist in New York, Ward Morehouse. There was Edwin Lennox,\nhe was the brother of John Lennox who was a nephew and worked for Mr. B. I.\nFriedman. 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And, boy, you had to stay in good shape ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to fence. Oh! I didn't\ntell you that I went to Pape School, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grades, because they\ntook boys for four grades. It was down here on Bolton and Abercorn Street. 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Mrs. Pape who ran the school, a\nlong stalk of celery who was a spinster with a black net around her neck, she\nwas a Long John with a whistle around ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"her neck, and would blow the whistle. We\nwould all get on the train with our lunch and go down to the beach, and I forgot\nhow we changed. But some place we changed to go swimming and she would blow the\nwhistle and you would have to get out of the water and get back on the train. It\nwas kind of nice to ride the train down to Tybee, and it is a damn shame, and I\nunderstand that railroad track is still there and they're making it a bicycle\ntrack or walking track. 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I can't remember the other things - Tybee was important.\nWell, you rode out to Isle of Hope.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Were these activities that many of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jewish families from the\ndifferent synagogues or would you say it was specifically the Temple crowd?\nWould you see the B. B. Jacob . . .?\n\nCOHEN: It was never a group. It was only just my father, mother, sister, and I.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Well, I know that those were popular activities. I'm wondering if-\n\nCOHEN: I don't think they were ever group activities not from the standpoint of\nthe Temple. They were never group activities. Not that I ever remember them\nbeing. A. 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My father walked to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"work every\nday for thirty years with Eddie Abrahams, Marion Levy's father, lived on Battey\nand Victory Drive. Her father, Ed Abrahams, who was my father's best friend.\nDaddy would walk around from where we lived, which was about half a block, and\nhe and Eddie would walk down Victory Drive and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"down Bull, and Eddie would go to\nhis office and Daddy would go to the store. Eddie and Alex Lawrence's father\nstarted that law firm; it was Abrahams and Lawrence, then it became Abrahams,\nLawrence and Atkinson, and then Johnny Bouhan came in and it was Abrahams,\nAtkinson, Lawrence and Bouhan. Williams was way later. Then young Alex Lawrence\ncame into the firm, who became a federal judge, a brilliant ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"man. Daddy said that\nhe learned law because Eddie tried his cases on him walking downtown every day.\nBack when things were tough, which would have been 1940, every time Daddy would\npass this piece of property, the Sorrell Weed property, he thought to himself\nthat he'd like to own it. He never told anybody, he never told my mother. He\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"investigated it in 1940 and found out that it was in the hands of receivership\nand it was at the Savannah Bank. So was the Greene Meldrim house in\nreceivership, and so was Windsor Forest acreage was in receivership. In 1941\nDaddy gave them I guess a small deposit or something and bought this property\nand didn't tell anybody. At the same time, St. John's Church bought the Greene\nMeldrim house. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And at the same time the Livingston family bought Windsor Forest\nacreage. It all happened, they were all in receivership at Savannah Bank. Daddy\ndid not like the Savannah Bank because all the Jews had put their money with the\nCitizens Bank \u0026 Trust Company.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Which is now Nations-Bank?\n\nCOHEN: No, it's not anything, it went out. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They sold it out to Savannah Bank.\nOld Man Slotin was on the Board, Daddy was on the Board, Hugo Frank was on the\nboard, and Jacob Gazan was on the board. A big Jewish population and most of the\nJews used Citizens Bank \u0026 Trust Company, which was on the corner of Bay and\nBull; it's an empty building now across from the City Hall on the other side\nfrom the Customs building. They brought a man named ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"George Smith in from\nBrunswick to run the bank, but these Jewish families really ran and controlled\nthe bank. Slotin became a strong member of the bank, and George Smith sold the\nbank out to Savannah Bank. I will never forget my father, he was just absolutely\ndevastated by the whole thing. It wasn't a big bank; we had the Liberty Bank and\nwe had the Savannah Bank, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and maybe some others, like we had the Morris Plan\nBank, and you know Ed Shepherd and Betty Shepherd, she was Betty McCuen, her\nfather was the head of that bank, Ed McCuen. The Jews of the community used\nCitizens Bank \u0026 Trust Company. Forgot the Lane family and the C\u0026S Bank. Daddy\nsaid never do business with the Lanes. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm trying to think of other things that\ntie into the community. Well, you know the strong families here during my\nchildhood was the Adler's and the Levy's. The Levy's had a department store and\nthe Adler's had a department store, and they were the strong families. The Minis\nfamily had sort of assimilated by then and that was the last of the Sephardic's.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=2970.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bob Minis still belongs to Mickve Israel. The Sephardic's all assimilated, and\nthen the next group all assimilated, and so on down the line; that's been the\nhistory of Jews. When I went to war, which was February 1942, and I came back\nThanksgiving ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of 1945 and I went to work for Rich's in Atlanta, and that had a\ngreat Jewish Savannah background. Walter Rich, who was the last of the original\nRiches, was living when I went to work there January 1946, and he had married\nMarjorie Myers of Savannah whose father Leroy Myers ran Leroy Myers Tobacco\nCompany ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"which is where Christ Church's Sunday School building is on Abercorn and\nBryan Street, Leroy Myers Tobacco Company. When Dick Rich who was heir apparent\nat Rich's was born Richard Rosenheim (his father was Herman Rosenheim), and he\nwas from Savannah, but he married one of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3060.0,3090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rich daughters, so Dick changed his\nname from Dick Rosenheim to Dick Rich. There were several parts of the family\nwhen I went there; there was Dick Rich and then there was Oscar Strauss. The\nStrauss's were in there too. These two guys were sort of on a level age wise,\nand they were competing, and Dick Rich ended up being the head honcho there.\nThat all happened while I was working at ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3090.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rich's. While I was there Walter Rich\ndied and I was asked out to his house one time and met his wife. There's a cross\nover ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"between Mr. Frank Neeley and Mr. Walter Rich and their children, and I\ncan't remember what it was but it was a non-Jew to a Jew, and Frank Neeley\nbecame a very dominant part of Rich's. I had really four wonderful years at\nRich's; it was a wonderful time. [Mr. Neeley's son-in-law was a rabbi.]\nInteresting enough, if you've read the Temple Bombing, and I know most of the\nnames of the people in there. I knew Dr. Marx who was the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"rabbi of the temple\nthere because Uncle George had visited his home and took me with him. Jack\nRothschild came to town and I used to date Janice Oettinger, whom he married.\nShe used to visit Savannah and she visited the Ed Wolfe family. Did you ever\nhear of the Ed Wolfe family? Well, back in the 1930's a man named Ed Wolfe moved\nhere, Jewish people from the Midwest, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3180.0,3210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and they were very well-to-do people, and\nthey bought a huge hunk of land out on the Vernon River. They bought Judge Peter\nMeldrim's property out there and turned it into what they called Amony Marsh,\nand it was a beautiful place, and they had three children - two daughters, Jean,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"little Adeline, and Edwin, and Jean was a friend of Janice Oettinger from\nAtlanta, and she used to come down and that's when I dated her. Then, when I was\nin Atlanta and I'd go to Temple on Friday night, I'd take Janice to Temple. When\nJack Rothschild came, she always had to tell me in the beginning, would I wait\nuntil Temple was over to find out whether Jack was going to ask her to take her\nhome. 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I always thought\nthat the Atlanta crowd of Jews was a wild ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"bunch. Funniest thing how connections\nto Savannah show up. I dated a gal named Pat Schoen whose mother was a Hirsch.\nOld man Hirsch left Savannah and went to Atlanta and had three daughters; one of\nthem married a fellow named Gabe Schoen, the other married Oscar Strauss, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3300.0,3330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Peggy,\nand then the third one married . . . an old family in the insurance business. So\nI went with Pat Schoen, and interesting ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3330.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"enough with Pat, she was a very pretty\ngirl, beautiful girl, but I wasn't really in love with Pat. But her mother\nthought I was great; she knew I was a nice young man and upwardly mobile or\nwhatever it was. Then she got engaged to some guy that I knew, and then they\nbroke it up, and then, interestingly enough, Henry Alexander came back to town\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3360.0,3390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"from God knows where. Well, the Alexander family is related to the Solomons\nfamily, Philip Solomons family. The two Alexander brothers took the streetcar,\nthe bus, to the end of the line in Atlanta once and decided to buy a chunk of\nland. That chunk of land is Phipps Plaza. Old man ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3390.0,3420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Alexander married a Russian\nwoman and they had a pile of kids. And I remember the house, a huge house. Well,\nHenry went to camp with me and he developed a British accent somewhere along the\nline. When he came back and found out I was there, we knew each other, so he\nsaid, \"I'd like to take you out to supper.\" So he called me up and took me out.\nHe didn't have a car, I had to pick him ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3420.0,3450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"up and took him, and he said, \"I want to\ngo to Herron's, cause that's where my family eats.\" Well, the Alexander family\nwere rich, and well-to-do people, and Cecil Alexander's name is in The Temple\nBombing. He's an architect. So Henry took me to Heron's and he gave me all this\nbaloney about his family, and when we got to the end of the meal he didn't have\na ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3450.0,3480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"damn cent. Well, that happens with rich people a lot of times, and I paid for\nthe meal. I will never forget it. We got together another time and he said,\n\"What are you doing?\" I said, \"Well, I'm dating this Pat Schoen. \"Oh,\" he said,\n\"I remember Pat when she was a little girl.\" So he said, \"I'll go over there\nwith you.\" So he went over there. P.S. - he got engaged and got married to Pat\nSchoen. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3480.0,3510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They're living in California somewhere. Then her best friend, whose name\nescapes me right now, whose mother was Jake Gazan's daughter from Savannah.\nHenrietta Gazan married Julian Hirschberg in Atlanta and they had a daughter and\ntheir daughter was a friend of Pat Schoen so I knew them. Of course, I knew Mrs.\nHirschberg; I didn't remember her from Savannah because she was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3510.0,3540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"much older than\nI was. But all the Savannah connections were constant Savannah connections where\npeople left here and went to Atlanta.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Tell me now how you met up with Kelly.\n\nCOHEN: Well, that was interesting. I was a buyer for Rich's. Joyce Oberdorfer,\nOberdorfer was the other sister of the Hirsch girls, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3540.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Joyce got married to a\nfellow named Frank Happ from Macon, Georgia. Joyce went to Goucher College and\nher roommate was Renee Kauffman from Brooklyn, and so they teamed me up with\nRenee for the wedding. I thought she was darling and then I was going to New\nYork a lot for Rich's as a buyer. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3570.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So the first time I went she had her folks ask\nme out to Brooklyn for dinner. Well, that was a first-class pain in the . . . I\nhad to take the subway, the bus, and walk. I said, \"Jesus, I ain't going to do\nthat anymore.\" So I told Renee if we were going to date that she'd have to come\nto New York. Well, she had an aunt that lived on Park Avenue. So I'd call her I\nwas coming from Atlanta and she'd move into Park Avenue, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3600.0,3630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I dated her. Then\none Sunday we were at the Pierre Hotel - they used to have tea dancing there on\nSunday, and I introduced her to a guy who I knew from my connections with Rich's\nwho was in the market there and he was from Brooklyn. The next time I called\nwhen I called to go to New York, they were engaged. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3630.0,3660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So I wrote her off, right.\nAt that time Buddy Frank, Hugo Frank . . . Well, there I was in 1948, I think it\nwas, without a New York date, having to go to New York for Rich's. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3660.0,3690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"On a trip to\nNew York without a New York nice Jewish girl, I was invited to dinner at Eleanor\nRossbach's house. Eleanor Rossbach was Eleanor Frank, Hugo Frank's sister. She\nmarried a man named Rossbach who was the nephew of Governor Herbert Lehman. He\npracticed law in New York, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3690.0,3720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and they had an apartment with children. She had me\ndown for dinner, or up for dinner. And he became a judge, Rossbach. He came to\nSavannah - she met him when that famous 6th Regiment came here, the\nsilk-stocking regiment from New York, and a lot of those boys married Savannah\ngirls. That's where he met Eleanor Frank. She was a beautiful girl, still\nliving; he's dead. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3720.0,3750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And of all people, Sam Adler was there, young Sam Adler.\nWell, I know Sammy from the time he was a little boy. He was not always one of\nmy favorite people. Now his brother Lee I liked. We were at Ellie Rossbach's\nhouse for dinner and Sammy Adler was there. I said to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3750.0,3780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Eleanor at the table, I\nsaid, \"You know, I was going with a nice Jewish girl from Brooklyn but I\nintroduced her to somebody she got engaged to.\" Incidentally, she ended up as\nthe librarian at Sarah Lawrence College. Brilliant girl. So Sammy got out his\nbook, he had a book from going up to some club or whatever they went to, and he\nhad a list of girls, and he gave me a list of about six ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3780.0,3810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"girls. The first two,\nPat somebody, didn't have a Jewish name; the second one was Gloria \"Kelly\"\nStephins. So the next trip to New York, I picked up the phone and I called for\nPat. Well, her roommate was Kelly and Pat wasn't there. And so I started talking\nto Kelly. I said, \"Well, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3810.0,3840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"why don't you have dinner with me.\" And so that's how I\nmet her, over the telephone; from Sam Adler, of all people.\n\nMEYERHOFF: How do you spell Kelly's last name - maiden name?\n\nCOHEN: Well, I'm gonna tell you how she got the Stephins. So I took her out to\ndinner. She says I took her to the Rexall Drug Store but that's a lie. I took\nher to hear a band to find out whether she could dance or not, cause that was my\nbig love ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3840.0,3870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and it was in the Pennsylvania Hotel, where they do Pennsylvania Six\nFive Thousand, the old Glenn Miller. Anyhow, I didn't particularly care for her.\nBut it was something about her that I liked, a sort of - I don't know what it\nwas. You know, I wasn't bowled over. So the story of her life that she told me\nwas that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3870.0,3900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"her mother had died when she was three years old, and the family name\nwas Stein. The father's name was Irving Stein, and she had a brother named\nSanford Stein. Sanford went to the University of North Carolina and was a Phi\nBeta Kappa, and he was a lyricist, and he was a protege of Richard Rogers.\nBrilliant boy. Spoke several languages. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3900.0,3930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Went into World War II as a buck\nprivate, and was in Mark Clark's Thirty-sixth Division, the same division that\nSylvan Garfunkel was in - Texas Regiment. They made him an MP cause he could\nspeak French, and German I think, and going into Germany, I believe, he was in a\nJeep, hit a land mine, blew him to pieces. He's buried over there. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3930.0,3960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kelly was a\nchild radio actress - acted in radio - and as she grew up, she joined WHN radio\nstation in the Lowe's Building, and when World War II came along she joined the\nWAVES. She couldn't get into radio with a Jewish name, so she changed her last\nname to Stephins. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3960.0,3990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Gloria Stephins. And her uncle was nicknamed \"Kelly\" and so he\nnicknamed her \"Kelly.\" She was known in the navy as \"Kelly.\" She was Stephins in\nthe navy. Then she went back to Gloria Stein. So I dated her off and on a little\nbit, but the more I dated her, the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=3990.0,4020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"more I liked her. Then I dropped her for a\nwhile and she went with an Irishman, and when I met her, Kelly was assistant\nprogram director at WMGM Radio Station in New York, which was owned by MGM\nStudios. Radio was still big, and that's where they used to take all of their\nstars from Hollywood, and they'd go to New York and they'd do canned shows and\nwhat-not. Kelly had a show called \"Books on Trial\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=4020.0,4050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with Sterling North, I think\nhis name was, with the Herald Tribune. I picked her up from the radio station\nthe first time I met her, and she was then living with Pat, which - I can't\nremember Pat's name, and so on and so forth. I don't know, we evolved down\nthrough 1949, and finally I sort of thought that in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=4050.0,4080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1950, I said to my mother\nand father, \"I'll get an engagement ring; I'm going to New York in January and\nI'm gonna get engaged to her.\" She was living at the Park Vendome on East 57th\nStreet - West 57th Street, over near, not too far from Lincoln Center. I took\nher to Carnegie Hall to hear Dame Myra Hess play in concert and went back to her\napartment and asked her to marry ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=4080.0,4110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"me. We set the date for June 25th 1950, and\nthat was the day the Korean War broke out. Well, it was A. J. Cohen and Gloria\nStein, Kelly. And I brought her here to Savannah and introduced her to all the\npeople that we knew in June of 1950.\n\nMEYERHOFF: In those days did ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=4110.0,4140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"quiet southern, genteel southern hospitality\nwelcome a northerner?\n\nCOHEN: Not too good. My father in particular. He had no use for Yankees, and he\nwas very set in his ways, and he and Kelly locked horns. I had her down here on\nreview the spring ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=4140.0,4170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"before 50, in 49, and Mama's mama was here, and Mama and Daddy\nsat while Kelly paraded by them and looked her up and down. They loved her -\nMamma did and so did her mother. Daddy was very reserved. There was a bad\nexperience here - I don't want to mention the name because the . . . woman's\nstill living, but the New York girl married a Savannah ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=4170.0,4200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"boy, and acted like a New\nYorker. But I think Daddy loved Kelly. They didn't jell too great. He could be a\nvery difficult man, very difficult man, very strict. He'd rather be right than\npresident, and if you told a lie, you would steal, and there was no ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=4200.0,4230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"gray - it\nwas either black or white - like in the book The Temple Bombing, he belonged to\na white supremacist group. You know, these Jews down here were raised in\nsegregation, they believed in it. It was part of their life. So, anyway, Kelly\nand I cranked up and, by God, here came January and I got a notice. I was a\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=4230.0,4260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"reserve officer. I got called back in the damn Korean thing. And I was sent to\nthe Second Bomb Wing where a man named Glanzberg was the commanding general\nhere, and I got hauled back in. I went to England with the Second Bomb Wing, and\nthat summer, which was the summer of 1951, Kelly and her step-mother and father\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=4260.0,4290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and her half-sister went to France to see the brother's grave - they'd never\nbeen over to the grave where he was buried in . . . in the South of France. So I\nwent over and met Kelly in Paris, and we spent our first anniversary in Paris.\nThen I got out in about twelve months, I think, on recall, and came back here\nand took over the business. 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Cohen \u0026 Sons until, after the turn of\nthe century, during the First World War, when A.J., Sr., employed six milliners,\nthey made ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=4350.0,4380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hats for women, and the hats were one hundred dollars, one hundred and\nsome dollars. A hat was more important than was ready-to-wear then. There was no\nready-to wear-clothing. It was - the main thing was the hat. You know, you'd sit\ndown and the milliner would put a frame on your head, and then she'd add flowers\nand whatever else they put on there, and build a hat up. They had a carriage\ntrade. Three of their best customers were the three Meldrim girls from across\nthe street. There was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=4380.0,4410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sophie - Sophie was supposed to be the most beautiful\nwoman to ever come out of Savannah. And there was Jane, and there was Caroline.\nWell, Caroline ended up a spinster. Sophie married an all-American star from\nYale named Coy, whose children live here. Do you know Peter Coy? The Coy family\n- that's her children, that was Sophie's children. Beautiful woman, even as an\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=4410.0,4440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"old woman. I saw her when she came back here, gorgeous woman. She married twice\nI believe. Judge Meldrim came in one day and said to my father, \"Is Lady Jane's\nhat ready?\" It struck my daddy. The firm then was called J. T. Cohen \u0026 Sons Lady\nJane, and they dropped the J. T. Cohen \u0026 Sons, and left it only Lady Jane.\n\nMEYERHOFF: And about what year was this?\n\nCOHEN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=4440.0,4470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"This would have been by the time Daddy got married, 1918 - must have been\naround 1916, '17, '18, somewhere in there. They had a good business, a custom\nmillinery business, and it was carried over and they went into the ready to wear\nbusiness, which would have been 1921. They opened up in '22 where the Globe Shoe\nCompany is and they had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=4470.0,4500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"millinery on the first floor and steps going up to the\nbridal shop - I remember it - and ready to wear around the balcony. It stayed\nLady Jane. Then, when I went to work at Rich's, my father came up one day and\nsaid, \"Look, Kurt Appel is interested in buying this business. And he married\nPeggy Kayton. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=4500.0,4530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"If you want it, you better come home and take it or else I'm gonna\nsell it to them.\" So I came home. I had to leave for the military for that\ntwelve-month recall, but we held on and Kelly did not work in the store. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=4530.0,4560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kelly\nworked for a psychiatrist here, not Abe Center, another psychiatrist here, who\nbecame the head of the Milledgeville thing. I can't remember his name. Anyway,\nshe was his secretary, because she was a secretary and she could do shorthand\nand God knows what all. Then she got interested in radio here and TV, and she\nfollowed Kitty Cope who used to have a show on TV, and Kelly did a show ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=4560.0,4590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and so\non and so forth. Then A. J., III, came along. He's 43, he'll be 44 this summer,\nso 44 from where we are in 97 is what year? I'm trying to remember when he was\nborn. Somewhere in the 50s, I guess. And then Sanford was born, named him for\nher brother. Funny enough how things jump, genes ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=4590.0,4620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"jump, ideas jump. Mama was a\nmusician, and Kelly's brother was a musician, and now Sanford is a musician.\nHe's trying to be a composer. Been in New York about fourteen, fifteen years -\ntough. Then the third one came along, who was George, and we named him George\nSolomon after Uncle George, George Solomon Cohen. Then, out of a clear blue ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=4620.0,4650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sky,\nthirty years ago, nearly thirty-one years ago, Kelly was forty-four and I was\nforty-six, we had Julia. I was in New York when I called up because Kelly was\ngoing to Meyer Schneider who was her doctor, and she calls me in New York to\ntell me that she's pregnant! I said, \"My God!\" I had a fit. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=4650.0,4680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I said, \"We can't\ncontrol three boys, what are we gonna do with another boy? Well, maybe it won't\nbe a boy.\" So I'll never forget the day, cause all the children were born at St. Joseph's.\n\nMEYERHOFF: And where was St. Joseph's then?\n\nCOHEN: Downtown.\n\nMEYERHOFF: On Habersham and Taylor?\n\nCOHEN: Taylor, right. And she and Sister Cornelle, Kelly told her to reserve a\nroom for the next child. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=4680.0,4710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We were living on Oakview Drive in Sylvan Terrace. And\nJan Van den Bulck's first husband, I can't remember his name - what's his son's name?\n\nMEYERHOFF: Friedman.\n\nCOHEN: Friedman, she was married to Friedman. Kelly said, \"I think,\" to Jan, one\nmorning, \"I think I'm in trouble or something.\" And Jan said, \"Well, maybe you\nbetter go over to Meyer's office.\" So she put her in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=4710.0,4740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"car and took her over\nto Schneider's office. And Kelly was starting. Meyer put her in his Thunderbird\nand took her across the street to Memorial. And she said, \"What are you doing,\nwhy are we going there. We've got to go to St. Joseph's.\" He said, \"Well, we'll\nbe lucky if we get there.\" Cause she was having the baby. And he said, \"You\nbetter not let your water break in my car.\" That was all.\n\nMEYERHOFF: In his Thunderbird.\n\nCOHEN: In his Thunderbird, which was a new one. So they got over there and they\ntook Kelly ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=4740.0,4770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"up, and then Margaret Bailey who worked for him called me up down at\nthe store and said, \"They're all at Memorial, you'd better get out there.\" So I\ngo traipsing out there, came up on the floor, and this big tall white nurse\nsaid, \"Hey, Mr. Cohen.\" Said, \"What would you like?\" I said, \"It doesn't make\nany difference.\" I said, \"Is everybody all right?\" She said, \"If you had a\nchoice, what would you like?\" I said, \"Well, if I had a choice, I'd like a\ngirl.\" She said, \"You got it.\" Wasn't that funny?\n\nSo that's where Julia came along, who was a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=4770.0,4800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"great bundle of joy after those\nboys. The boys all went one way or another. You know you only have so much\ncontrol over your children. A.J. was kicked out of four or five schools here,\nand I didn't know what I was gonna do with him. I picked him up one day and I\nsaid, \"What am I gonna do with you? We're gonna have our fourth child.\" And he\nsaid, \"I guess you'll have to send me ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=4800.0,4830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"off somewhere.\" So that's what we ended up\ndoing. He went to a little school up in Aiken, South Carolina, and he went to\nWoodward Academy up in Atlanta. Then Sanford went to Woodward, they all went to\nMrs. - that old lady out there on Skidaway who ran a school, what's her name?\nThe school's still -\n\nMEYERHOFF: Where Hancock is?\n\nCOHEN: Hancock, Hancock. She called me up one day and she said, \"Mr. Cohen, take\nA. J. out of the school.\" She said, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=4830.0,4860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Take him down to Florida and find a school\nthat is on a nice lake where they've got palm trees and it's very quiet, and\nenroll him in that school.\" So she wanted him out. I hauled him out. It got to a\nbad point because the last school that he went down here to attend, was\nIndependent Presbyterian. It became St. Andrews, the lady called me up one day\nand said, \"Come down here and get this boy.\" And I said, \"What's the matter?\"\nShe said, \"Well, just before lunch ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=4860.0,4890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he went out to the bathroom and he switched\neverybody's lunch in their boxes, nobody knew whose was whose. He did all kind\nof. He wasn't mean, but he was very mischievous. Now he has a son giving him the\nsame treatment. I told him he deserved every bit of it.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Well, he was also following in his father's footsteps.\n\nCOHEN: Yes.\n\nMEYERHOFF: That's from what you told me at the beginning of this tape.\n\nCOHEN: Well, I was not kicked out of any place. I always stopped short. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=4890.0,4920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He and\nJohnny Schneider got going together and they were both very mischievous. So\nanyhow - and Johnny was adopted. While we were all through with our children,\nfinally I was told that it was my turn to come on the board of the synagogue,\nwhich I had dreaded, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=4920.0,4950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but in those days to go through the chairs which I did. I\ncame on the board - I did choir, and Sunday School, and building and grounds - I\ndid all of them - went right through the chairs to be president of the\ncongregation. When I was vice president of the congregation, I kept telling the\nboard I wanted to build an archive. I had it on my mind to build it. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=4950.0,4980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"All of that\nwas nay- everybody was nay. \"Where are you gonna do it?\", \"Too much trouble.\"\nBlah, blah, blah. So I decided - I sent off to Cincinnati for cases - glass\ncases - airtight cases - to be used in the archives. I had a plan drawn up, and\nI won't mention any names, but my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=4980.0,5010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"best friend on that board, who was coming\nbehind me - we were up at the Chatham Club having lunch and he knew I wanted\nthis thing. I was really determined to build the archives, and I knew that if I\nasked the congregation ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=5010.0,5040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"whether I could spend money or not, people would say,\n\"No.\" I didn't want to ask anybody. I figured either you're gonna do it or\nyou're not gonna do it. I told the board I was gonna do it and we would find the\nmoney. Then we'd build it, and if there was money owing on it, we'd give the\ncongregation the bill. Otherwise you were never going to get it done. I had been\ntalking about it for three, four, five years, and going nowhere. So I sent out\nfor the cases from Cincinnati, the cases that are in the archives right now. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=5040.0,5070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I\ndidn't know what was gonna go in there. In talking to Saul Rubin, he said,\n\"Well, we'll find some things. Okay.\" Some of the things of Uncle George's and\nnew things were gonna show up. Ed Feiler was on the board, and he said that Jane\nwas a licensed contractor, and she was. I never knew ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=5070.0,5100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that. Oh, before that, how\nwe got to where we were gonna put it. Saul Rubin and I were talking, Suzanne\nDanzig walked up, she got in the conversation. I told her what I was doing, no\nbig secret. And she said, \"I know where you need to put it.\" She said, \"You\ndon't need that stage with the curtain for kids can run up and down, and go\nbehind the curtain, and peek ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=5100.0,5130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"through the curtain, and we don't have any . . .\nThe number of plays you were having were diminishing, and what did you need the\nstage for? Tear up the stage and put the archives there.\" And I said, \"Capital!\nThat's what we'll do.\" So then, at the meeting, I told the board I was gonna do\nthat, and Ed volunteered Jane, his wife, as a contractor, to tear it out. And\nshe did - she cleared it all out, the cases came in. We ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=5130.0,5160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"put the Torah in there,\nand the stuff that we had in there, and all of a sudden stuff began to come in.\nAnd it was coming from everywhere. Now they've got more things than they can put\nin there, and they have to rotate. They added the case out in the middle there.\nSo when they had trouble getting things for it - the trouble was getting it off\nthe ground, and I was determined to do it. And that was my biggest contribution\nto that congregation, was to get ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=5160.0,5190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that archives done. Then the other thing that I\nfollowed up, if you'll notice, that everywhere I travel and there was anything\nthat was Jewish, we would buy a picture and give it to them, which is scattered\naround that place right now. From Amsterdam, and from any place we ran into\nsomething that we thought was interesting, that was Jewish. So I went ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=5190.0,5220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on out as\nthe president of the congregation, and having served for president I think it's\ntwo years, which is a very thankless job. I got even with one woman, whose name\nI won't mention, on something I did - I don't know whether it was that or not.\nThis woman came up to me and said, \"I don't appreciate you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=5220.0,5250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"spending our money on\nsomething that you're spending money on.\" And I turned around and I said, \"Well,\nI'm only spending the money of people who give over and above the minimum dues.\"\nAnd she said, \"I guess you told me.\" Looking back on it, it was a great\nexperience, it really was. With several of the conventions, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=5250.0,5280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the Union of\nAmerican Hebrew Congregations, I've met a lot of interesting, nice people. I\nenjoyed it, as I look back on it, a part of my life that was very enjoyable. I\nlook back on my whole life here as a very wonderful experience and a very\nenjoyable experience. I had a lot of friends in Savannah; I contributed to the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=5280.0,5310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"community; I had friends from all parts of the city. I joined the Rotary Club in\n1952; I've been in it 45 years; had a lot of wonderful friends in there. I've\nnever considered changing my name from Cohen. I was known as a Jew; I never had\na problem with it, and I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=5310.0,5340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"didn't have anything to be snooty about. I had a broad\nsection of customers in my business, and I had some wonderful customers. I had\nsome great employees. So I really had a very enjoyable existence. Thank the Lord!\n\nMEYERHOFF: I can tell from your enthusiasm, and I think it gives you a lot of\nsatisfaction to see the amount of tourists walking through the Temple today.\n\nCOHEN: Oh, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=5340.0,5370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"yeah, it does! Boy, it's a great drawing card, the Archives!\n\nMEYERHOFF: It's interesting that now, getting back to Lady Jane, and here we are\nsitting in your home on Bull and Harris, that Lady Jane is no longer. You\ndecided to retire and close the door when?\n\nCOHEN: August of 1992. It'll be, what, four and a half, five years this coming\nAugust, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=5370.0,5400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"right? Well, time was up and I was getting old - I was 72 years old. It\nwas time to go on to the next chapter of my life!\n\nMEYERHOFF: Time to close.\n\nCOHEN: Well, yeah, because you can't . . . Nothing is forever.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Now what's interesting, is that you were living in the house, someone\nhas bought this house and is restoring it.\n\nCOHEN: Correct.\n\nMEYERHOFF: And the Lady Jane apparel store has been torn down.\n\nCOHEN: Completely.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Which existed on the side of the Sorrell Weed House ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=5400.0,5430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on Bull Street.\n\nCOHEN: Right. Which I built. I took down the porch and the wall on Bull Street.\nThe fellow that bought the house is gonna put the porch back on and the wall\nback. Then I destroyed the formal garden cause it all became store and then we\nwent underneath the house, and on the back of the house, and the side of the\nhouse. He [the buyer] stripped it completely, and will restore it to its\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=5430.0,5460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"original condition, which is a west porch and an east porch, with a wall across\nBull Street, and a garden behind it, and then the north porch. And will\neventually take out all that glass that you see there, and it will then become\nan open porch, which is what I started with before I closed it in. I've enjoyed\nliving here, what, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=5460.0,5490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"22 years. I enjoyed the high ceilings and the spaciousness.\nThe floor that we're sitting on is 3,000 square feet, the parlor floor is 3,000\nsquare feet, and there's 1,600 feet above us, so we had 7,600 square feet.\n\nMEYERHOFF: I want to ask you about Mayor Myers. Was it possible that a Jew from\nan Orthodox synagogue, say any member from the B. B. Jacob, could have been\nelected ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=5490.0,5520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mayor at that time?\n\nCOHEN: Oh, yeah, I think so. It could have been out of the Garfunkel clan,\nbecause the Garfunkel clan was very highly thought of here, and very much into\npolitics. The social intercourse from Mickve Israel to B. B. Jacob would be\nepitomized by the Garfunkels because all of my parents' friends were friends of\nthe Garfunkels, and our parents ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=5520.0,5550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"played bridge or poker or whatever it was with\nLena Garfunkel and all the Garfunkel clan. They were really an integral part of\nthis community. I don't think there is any differentiation between the\nGarfunkels as orthodox Jews and anybody else as a reform Jew. I don't think\nthere's any -\n\nMEYERHOFF: It's just interesting. I don't know that it would be that easy for a\nJew today to be elected as it was then.\n\nCOHEN: No, it wouldn't. It would not be. Easier then.\n\nMEYERHOFF: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=5550.0,5580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Why do you suppose?\n\nCOHEN: I don't know. Over a period of time things crystallize in different\ndirections. What was acceptable one time here is not acceptable there. You know,\nchange is something that goes on ever more. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=5640.0,5670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The reason he thought they didn't like strangers in the history of\nour city was that you didn't talk to strangers because you were liable to get\nhit over the head and get shanghaied out to sea working on a ship, which\nhappened a lot. It was known that you could get hit over the head and wake up at\nsea working on a ship. 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I can remember Aunt Julia\ntelling me that Rabbi Mendes' wife, I forget what her name was, Isaac Mendes'\nwife - when Aunt Julia came here and Mendes ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=5730.0,5760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"died, she was a widow still living.\nShe was very mean to Aunt Julia, very. Aunt Julia never forgave her. I can also\nremember that the German crowd of Mickve Israel Synagogue came here with not\nmuch in their pocket, and they rose to be very affluent and prominent people in\ntheir assimilating, and the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=5760.0,5790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Russians and the Poles came along and they did the\nsame thing that was done to them. That's the way. Then, let's say you are a\nBaptist here right now. If you were well-to-do and socially prominent, where\nwould you belong? First Baptist Church. You wouldn't want to belong to the\nMorningside Baptist Church. If you were an Episcopalian, if you were prominent,\nyou were gonna belong to either Christ Church or St. John's Church, one or the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=5790.0,5820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"other. If you were Presbyterian you were gonna belong to the Independent\nPresbyterian Church instead of any other. And if you were Lutheran you were\ngonna belong to the Lutheran Church of the Ascension, not any other. So it went\nwith everything. We talked about the Oglethorpe Club --\n\nMEYERHOFF: Tell me more about the Harmony Club. That was by invitation only, right?\n\nCOHEN: I really didn't know because I was too young. I knew very little about\nthe Harmony Club. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=5820.0,5850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I knew about it later in life when it was disintegrating. The\nHarmony Club was at a peak when men who would now be over a hundred years old\nwere at their peak. So it was not a real strong part of my life. It was not, it\ndidn't have tennis, or swimming, or golf, or anything, therefore, in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=5850.0,5880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"30s\nwhen I was a teenager, I didn't play pinochle and I didn't play bridge and I\ndidn't play - I mean, it wasn't part of my life.\n\nMEYERHOFF: So it was mostly for cards, maybe, and dining?\n\nCOHEN: Yeah, dining and cards and drinking. It wouldn't have been part of my -\n\nMEYERHOFF: Similar to the Oglethorpe Club today.\n\nCOHEN: Yes, it would've been similar to the Oglethorpe Club. No golf, no tennis,\nno country club. Just a city club. Harmonie Clubs were established all over the\ncountry. 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That's the basis of the Jewish religion,\nplus the Ten Commandments, and everybody's taken from that and enlarged upon it.\nSo we developed the reform Jewish movement coming out of the orthodox movement,\nand then the orthodox that weren't happy with orthodox tried the reform movement\nand didn't like it, so they moved over into the middle and started the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=6090.0,6120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/205","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"conservative movement. Now we have reform, conservative, and orthodox, and over\nthe last fifteen, twenty-five years, they've been shuttling back and forth\nbetween these three movements. Well, along came the revisionist movement. I\nnever have understood that, the rabbi tried to explain it to me. That's a whole\n'nother sect now, the revisionists. Then there was a group in New York City that\nmoved away, they call themselves Jews and their religion is called ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=6120.0,6150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/206","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ethical\nCulture. Did you ever hear of Ethical Culture? Well, that's a group that\nevolved. Now, all these groups are splintered. In the reform movement which is\nthe fastest growing movement of Jews in our country, the Jews that have come\ninto the reform movement came out of orthodox and conservative congregations,\nand there are things that they knew or used or liked that were not ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=6150.0,6180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"being used in\nthe reform movement that they're bringing into the reform movement. Since . . .\nthe dominant part of the thing. In Mickve Israel, where I've been all my life,\nand I see more tradition coming about, if there are people who want to go back\nto what they consider classical reform, it's gonna be very hard, number one, to\ndefine what classical reform is. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=6180.0,6210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When I was president of the congregation, we\nhad the old prayer book that was put together by the Central Conference of\nAmerican Rabbis years ago. This is the prayer book I learned, and I liked it.\nWhile I was president the Central Conference wrote a new prayer book called the\nGates of Prayer. I didn't like it because I thought it was a real activist type\nof a prayer book, and I wasn't gonna buy it to put it in the congregation. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=6210.0,6240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Then\nfinally I said, \"This doesn't make sense cause that's the way it's gonna go.\" So\nwe bought it and then each rabbi had his own interpretation. Now our present\nrabbi, Belzer, says he uses the new prayer book on Friday night and the old\nprayer book on Saturday to try to make more groups who exist happy. You know,\nyou can't make everybody happy all the time. He's bent over backwards to try to\ndo as ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=6240.0,6270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"much as he possibly can to mend whatever it is between the groups, and I\nadmire him for it.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Please mention the name for the tape. Rabbi . . .?\n\nCOHEN: Rabbi Arnold Mark Belzer. Delightful man who comes out of New Jersey and\nNew York, whose background in the congregations that he's been the minister of,\ncertainly would not be anything ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=6270.0,6300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"like the background of Mickve Israel. He has\nadapted and adjusted and he fits like a glove, in my opinion. Other people may\ndiffer from that. He is doing his level best to tune his ears to the people who\nhe's serving, which I think is highly commendable. I've watched a lot of rabbis\nwho were going tooting off on their own direction; ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=6300.0,6330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they wanted to write a book,\nand they wanted to do research, they wanted to do this, they wanted to do that.\nThis man, I think, has tuned himself into the congregation to try to make those\npeople in the congregation happy. One of the things that I really have liked\nabout reform Judaism is that if the rabbi is the right rabbi, he does not preach\ndown to the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=6330.0,6360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"congregants. He does not try to make 'em feel guilty. Now, the\nsynagogue is a place where you go to communicate with God, because in my\nopinion, what I learned from reform Judaism is that Judaism is something between\nme and God. The ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=6360.0,6390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/214","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sanctuary is the place where you go to cut off the outside world\nso that you can communicate with God. The man who's in the pulpit is giving you\na background for religion and an education to put to use however you want to put\nit to use. I don't want him to tell me how bad I am or how, whatever it is, cuss\nme out. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=6390.0,6420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Of course, if I were the rabbi I would probably be inclined, as I've\nheard this rabbi and other rabbis say on Rosh Hashanah, \"Welcome to the annual\nmeeting of the Jews.\" But I still think that if the rabbi is tuned in to the\npeople, and he tries to help educate them and give them an opportunity to\ncommunicate with God, I think that's what it's all about. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=6420.0,6450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I like to think that,\nthat I'm gonna be a better person if I do communicate with God. How am I\ncommunicating with God? By living the way you're supposed to live, according to\nthe Ten Commandments, right? Not supposed to kill anybody, rob anybody, or so on\nand so on and so forth. The Ten Commandments are the basis for all religion.\nEveryone of 'em, I don't care who the religion is.\n\nMEYERHOFF: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=6450.0,6480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Two significant changes have been made in the temple recently, in the\npast few years, and that's optional wearing of yarmulkes -\n\nCOHEN: Right.\n\nMEYERHOFF: And second day Rosh Hashanah.\n\nCOHEN: Correct.\n\nMEYERHOFF: How does the congregation accept this, accept it or reject it? How do\nthey work with this?\n\nCOHEN: Well, anybody who rejects it, I think it's accepted, and I think it\nbecomes an individual choice. People who don't believe ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=6480.0,6510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in wearing a yarmulke are\nnot gonna ever wear 'em. If people who don't wanna go to the second day of Rosh\nHashanah are never gonna go to the second day Rosh Hashanah. But this guy has\ncome up with, Rabbi Belzer's come up with a lot of adult programs that have\ninvolved more people doing things, an adult education, adult bible classes, or\nwhatever it happens to be. It depends on what the individual really wants. 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We have jazz, we have all kinds of musical things\nthat go on, it's wonderful. So, you know, people who don't listen to music and\ndon't appreciate music have missed a very important part of their life. Because\nI think music is healing and also it does something for you. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=6570.0,6600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/transcript/21963/annotation/221","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Our choir on the\nhigh holy days - we use this group, local group called, I can't remember the\nname. But they're terrific. They have beautiful music; it just changes\neverything, it's so good. Traditional melodies. Is that about it?\n\nMEYERHOFF: I want to thank you very much. This is the end of my interview with\nA. J. 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The Confederacy, often called the “South,” grew to include 11 states, and although they claimed 13 states and additional western territories, the Confederacy was never diplomatically recognized by a foreign country. The states that did not declare secession were known as the “Union” or the “North.” The war had its origin in the issue of slavery. After four years of bloody combat, which left over 600,000 Union and Confederate soldiers dead and destroyed much of the South's infrastructure, the Confederacy collapsed, slavery was abolished, and the difficult Reconstruction process of restoring national unity and granting civil rights to freed slaves began.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/annotation_set/381/annotation/223","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine was a territory created by the German Empire in 1871 after it annexed most of Alsace and the Moselle department of Lorraine following its victory in the Franco-Prussian War. 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That was by invitation only, right?","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=5858.0,5957.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/index/47199/annotation/326","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Harmony Club","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oglethorpe Club","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=5858.0,5957.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/index/47199/annotation/327","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Different Branches of Judaism","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=5957.0,6628.80653"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/index/47199/annotation/328","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Judaism is today like other religions is splintered. When Mickve Israel Synagogue was founded in 1733, there\nwas only one kind of Judaism, there was Judaism.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=5957.0,6628.80653"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284/index/47199/annotation/329","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Congregation Mickve Israel","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Conservative Judaism","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Orthodox Judaism","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Reform Judaism","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29497/file/97284#t=5957.0,6628.80653"}]}]}]}