{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/2v2c825n59/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Dolin, Rhea"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["1992 (captured)","1993-01-30 (captured)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Lisa Dolin (Interviewer)","Rhea Dolin (Interviewee)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Video"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source"]},"value":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum","Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Collection","Legacy Project"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eRhea Dolin was interviewed by Lisa Dolin in 1992 and on January 30, 1993 in New York, New York.\u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eRhea Dolin was born Broche Dalinski in 1902 in Prescitz, a shtetl in the Russia Empire. She was the youngest of eight children born to Jewish farmers, “Aaron” Dalinski (1855-1913) and Mahel “Molly” Shavinsky (1859-1937). In 1908, Rhea, her mother, and four siblings sailed to the United States. In New York City, they joined her father and three other siblings, who had immigrated earlier.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRhea’s father died of cancer when she was eleven years old. Her older siblings worked in factories to support the family, while Rhea was able to finish school. After graduating from The Hebrew Technical School for Girls, she began working as a bookkeeper.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1924, Rhea married Sam Dolin (1896-1967). Sam had also been born in the Russian Empire and immigrated to New York City in 1910. Shortly after their marriage, the couple moved to Waynesboro, Georgia. Rhea and Sam raised three children while running a successful business, Dolin’s Department Store. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAfter Sam’s death, Rhea’s eldest son took over the family business. Rhea eventually moved to New York City, where she enjoyed spending time with three of her five grandchildren, and remarried Martin Schon. Rhea died in 1996.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eThe first part of the interview, Rhea talks about her childhood and family. She remembers sailing to the United States and settling in New York City. Rhea talks about her education and shares her love of reading and music. In the second part of the interview, Rhea’s family has gathered to celebrate her 90th birthday. Various family members honor her with toasts that describe her as a mother, grandmother and aunt. In the final part of the interview, Rhea recalls her marriage to Sam Dolin. She remembers moving to the South. Rhea reflects on her inability to attend Hebrew school or go to college. She remembers when her children were small. At the end of the interview, Rhea talks about former friends from Waynesboro.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/29201"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Subject"]},"value":{"en":["Dolin, Rhea (personal name)","New York (N.Y.) (geographic)","immigration (topical term)","Waynesboro (Ga.) (geographic)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eRhea Dolin was interviewed by Lisa Dolin in 1992 and on January 30, 1993 in New York, New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRhea Dolin was born Broche Dalinski in 1902 in Prescitz, a shtetl in the Russia Empire. She was the youngest of eight children born to Jewish farmers, \u0026ldquo;Aaron\u0026rdquo; Dalinski (1855-1913) and Mahel \u0026ldquo;Molly\u0026rdquo; Shavinsky (1859-1937). In 1908, Rhea, her mother, and four siblings sailed to the United States. In New York City, they joined her father and three other siblings, who had immigrated earlier.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRhea\u0026rsquo;s father died of cancer when she was eleven years old. Her older siblings worked in factories to support the family, while Rhea was able to finish school. After graduating from The Hebrew Technical School for Girls, she began working as a bookkeeper.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1924, Rhea married Sam Dolin (1896-1967). Sam had also been born in the Russian Empire and immigrated to New York City in 1910. Shortly after their marriage, the couple moved to Waynesboro, Georgia. Rhea and Sam raised three children while running a successful business, Dolin\u0026rsquo;s Department Store.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAfter Sam\u0026rsquo;s death, Rhea\u0026rsquo;s eldest son took over the family business. Rhea eventually moved to New York City, where she enjoyed spending time with three of her five grandchildren, and remarried Martin Schon. Rhea died in 1996.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe first part of the interview, Rhea talks about her childhood and family. She remembers sailing to the United States and settling in New York City. Rhea talks about her education and shares her love of reading and music. In the second part of the interview, Rhea\u0026rsquo;s family has gathered to celebrate her 90th birthday. Various family members honor her with toasts that describe her as a mother, grandmother and aunt. In the final part of the interview, Rhea recalls her marriage to Sam Dolin. She remembers moving to the South. Rhea reflects on her inability to attend Hebrew school or go to college. She remembers when her children were small. At the end of the interview, Rhea talks about former friends from Waynesboro.\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/000/208/012/small/Dolin_Rhea.mp4_1694886511.jpg?1694886516","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - Dolin__Rhea.mp4"]},"duration":2235.71198,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/208/012/small/Dolin_Rhea.mp4_1694886511.jpg?1694886516","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-thebreman.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/208/012/original/Dolin__Rhea.mp4?1694886499","type":"Video","format":"video/mp4","duration":2235.71198,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Rhea Dolin [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LISA: This is my grandmother, Rhea Dolin. She is going to tell grandchildren,\nand great-grandchildren, and maybe great-great-grandchildren, and\ngreat-great-great-grandchildren the story of her life.\n\nRHEA: Just one great-grandchild. Shall I start?\n\nLISA: Yes, you should.\n\nRHEA: It was just about this time of the year when we left Europe, just ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"right\nafter the holidays. I was a little girl, about seven years old. I remember the\nhorse and wagon. We got up into the carriage and I said to my mother, \"Oh, I\nwant to look back at my house one more time.\" I shall never forget it. I don't\nknow how long we traveled to cross the border. I think I lost one of my shoes,\nbut anyway, it was replaced somewhere in Holland with a pair of wooden shoes.\n\nLISA: What was the town that you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"came from?\n\nRHEA: We came from a town with the name Prescitz. [in present-day Belarus]. It\nwas a little shtetl with all Jewish population. Most of them had farms. My\nfather was a farmer. He had left that little town about three years before so he\ncould work and save up money and send us tickets. Finally, we were on our way.\n\nLISA: What year was that?\n\nRHEA: That was I came to New York on December, 8, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1909. That was 1909 when we left.\n\nLISA: If it was after the holidays that you started leaving, this whole journey\ntook several months.\n\nRHEA: [It] took several months. We were in steerage. The name of the ship was\nStatendam. I remember we must have stayed in Rotterdam [The Netherlands] a\ncouple of weeks till the ship left. We were in steerage and I was sick. I still\nremember ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the food. They served us lots of herring. My mother had taken along\napples and pears that came off our land. It took a long time. Finally, we landed\non Ellis Island. My mother kept saying, \"Will Papa recognize me? Will he\nrecognize me? Maybe he won't recognize me.\" But he did and he was there waiting\nfor us. We all worried. At that time, if you had the littlest thing wrong with\nyour ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"eyes, you were sent back to Europe. Fortunately, nothing was wrong. I was\nthe youngest of a family of eight, but three of my siblings--my older two\nbrothers and my sister--had already left. They were already in the United States.\n\nLISA: It was your mother and five children?\n\nRHEA: Yes, and someone--another young lady from our shtetl--wanted to go with\nthe family. She was in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"steerage with us. I shall never forget walking along the\nstreets of New York when we finally got off the ferryboat, and people looking at\nus, and calling us, \"Greenhorns. Greenhorns.\" That was the name. They\nimmediately recognized we had come from Europe, just arrived. My father had\nprepared a lovely, big apartment [but it was] hardly big enough for the whole\nfamily. We had like five rooms. Some of my cousins were there--my mother's\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"nieces, who prepared the meal. I still remember the food that we had. That was\nthe first time in my life I had eaten rye bread, because my mother baked all her\nbread. They were always black--marvelous bread, but not rye bread. I still\nremember the borsht that we ate. [It was] cabbage borsht with prunes. It was a\nwonderful meal. There we were, in the United States. That was December 8, 1909\nwhen we arrived.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LISA: Nineteen nine?\n\nRHEA: Nineteen nine. We were -- I don't know how we stayed in that five room\napartment. There were only two bedrooms, but we had a living room and a dining\nroom. Every room had a bed, I suppose. I occupied a bed with my sister, who was\ntwo and a half years older than me. Her name was Rochel and she was named Rose.\nI was Broche, named for a grandfather. They named me ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rebecca, which I hated,\nbecause everyone called me Becky.\n\nLISA: That happened when you reached Ellis Island that you became Rebecca?\n\nRHEA: No, I became Rebecca after I got to New York. Some of my cousins helped\nname all of us. My sister Rachel became Rose. I was Rebecca, and they all called\nme Becky. Later in life, I changed it to Rhea. There was my sister Mary, my\nsister Minnie, my brother Abe, Yankele, my brother Sam, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and Moishe. My brother\nSam was really the one I've always loved. I looked up to him as a daddy, because\nmy father died when I was quite young, something like ten years old.\n\nLISA: [What were] your mother and father's names?\n\nRHEA: My mother's name was Mahle, which she was named Mollie. My father's name\nwas Arnold. They all called him Reb Arnold. Aaron [was] the English name.\n\nLISA: Your father's name?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"RHEA: Arnold, Aaron.\n\nLISA: [What was] your mother's maiden name?\n\nRHEA: [It] was Mahle.\n\nLISA: Her last name?\n\nRHEA: Schavinsky. She was a Schavinsky. They were a very well-known family from\nwhere they came [in] Kobryn [Belarus]. They were very -- How should I call them?\nA biblical family. Her father never did a day's work in his life. He studied the\nTorah. When my mother married, she used to tell us that she stayed for about two\nand a half years with her ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"parents. That was -- I forget the name, what they call\nit again. They give you -- Do you know the name of that? Martin.\n\nMARTIN: What?\n\nRHEA: There's a certain name they give you when you stay with your parents after\nyou're married. MARTIN: After you marry?\n\nRHEA: Yes, there's a certain name. I can't remember the name of this. It's a\nHebrew name.\n\nMARTIN: No.\n\nRHEA: She lived with them for about two and a half years. My mother had a first\nchild, a little boy who died when he was two years old. I remember my mother\nmourning for that child the rest of her ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"life. Even though she had four more sons\nand four daughters, she mourned for that little boy.\n\nLISA: Was that the only child she lost?\n\nRHEA: That was the only child. My mother was a great nurse, a marvelous nurse.\nActually, when we lived in Prescitz, anyone who gave birth to a child, my mother\nwas called to be the nurse. She was a wonderful nurse.\n\nLISA: Your father's name was Dalinski?\n\nRHEA: Dalinski, yes. He was Dalinski. We must have lived about two and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a half\nyears in New York. My father bought a farm in Monticello [New York] with his\nson. It didn't work well. We only stay there for a year. We sold the farm that\ncame back to New York. In six months, he bought another farm in Mountain Dale\n[New York], which I hated. I loved the schools in New York. He became sick and\nhad to go back to New York. He stayed with my brother Sam. [He was] hospitalized\nand eventually died. I must have been about ten ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"years old. We lived on and we\nsuffered, but we got along. You didn't really realize that you were poor, but it\nwas a struggle.\n\nLISA: How old was your eldest brother at the time that you came to New York?\n\nRHEA: My eldest brother was in his twenties. He had served in the Russian Army.\nActually, he served during the Russian and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Japanese war. My parents, my father,\nin some way got him out and shipped him to the United States. He learned how to\nplay the clarinet when he was in the army. He was the oldest. I looked up to him\nas a father.\n\nLISA: That was Sam?\n\nRHEA: That was Sam, who migrated to the South.\n\nLISA: Before, when your father died, did the brothers support you, the mother\nand all the --\n\nRHEA: Yes, the children worked. They all lived in the same apartment with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my\nmother and most of the children. They supported my mother, yes. We all supported\nuntil the very day that we all married. Finally, they all married. I was the\nlast one to marry. Anything else you want to know about the family?\n\nLISA: Do you remember any grandparents back in Russia?\n\nRHEA: I never had any grandparents. My mother was the youngest in her family. I\nam the youngest of the youngest, so I don't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I do not remember any grandparents.\nI never had any grandparents, although my mom used to talk about them. There was\none grandmother, my father's mother, who she always called 'Angel.' She was very\nangelic, and very kind, and marvelous. Her name was Freydis [9:25], I think.\n\nLISA: When you came to New York, other than your immediate family, did you have\naunts or uncles here?\n\nRHEA: Yes, I had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"an uncle and aunt. That was my mother's brother, to whom she\nlooked up. We loved them. They were the Schavinskys. There was a bunch of\nchildren in that family. That family was sort of the aristocratic family of the\nwhole bunch. My mother's brother took care of a Count's estate in Russia. They\nwere surrounded by really royalty, so the children were very aristocratic and\nvery snobbish. They never let their father do a day's work. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"remember when I\ncome there, he taught me how to play penuchle [a card game] two-handed. He was\nvery highly educated in the Jewish, and the Talmud, and all that sort of thing.\nI had another uncle--my mother's brother was here in the United States--who\neventually went back to Russia. I think that was the whole family. We had many\ncousins, very close knit.\n\nLISA: What about education? Did you start school?\n\nRHEA: Immediately, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I started school. My sister Rose and I started immediately.\n\nLISA: You were six?\n\nRHEA: I was seven.\n\nLISA: Seven.\n\nRHEA: I never had kindergarten. I was put into the first grade, skipped several times.\n\nLISA: Do you remember what it was like not knowing the language?\n\nRHEA: It was horrible. I can tell you one incident. I remember people talking\nabout knowing at least how to sign your name. [They said,] \"You must know how to\nsign your name.\" My first day in class, I cried all day, begging the teacher ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to\nput my name on the board and she wouldn't do it. I just cried. I wanted my name\non the blackboard. Then, Christmas came around, so I had about a week's\nvacation. I went back to school and I loved school. I did very well. They kept\npromoting me and skipping me grades. 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It was really marvelous, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"maintained\nby a Jewish philanthropist. His name was Mr. Meyer. I still remember that old\nman coming through the doorway, examining the rooms. To this very day, I just\nwill never forget Hebrew Technical School, for they did a great deal for me.\n\nLISA: Was that on the Lower East Side?\n\nRHEA: No, it was on 15th Street and Second Avenue. The building is still there.\n[It is] a very beautiful building, but empty; nothing is there.\n\nLISA: Did you live on the Lower East Side at that time?\n\nRHEA: At that time, I lived in Brooklyn. 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We had a marvelous instructor whose name was Herman Epstein.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I shall never forget it. He taught us the beginning of music, the structure of\nmusic. We had music appreciation. One of the things that I loved the most was\nthe Wagner opera -- What's the name of it? Martin?\n\nMARTIN: Yes.\n\nRHEA: What's the name of that Wagner opera?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MARTIN: Which one?\n\nRHEA: The Wagner; the one I was taught --\n\nLISA: The ring.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"RHEA: The ring! I couldn't think of it. The Ring of the Nibelunge. That was\nmarvelous. That was in music appreciation.\n\nLISA: Were you able to attend a concert in New York or was that --\n\nRHEA: Yes, I did. As I was growing up, we'd go up to Carnegie Hall and stand in\nthe pit--all the way on top; stand and not get a seat--and listen to the\nPhilharmonic. Then later on, my life started to work and we'd see operas. My\nfuture ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"husband--at that time, I was not married; that's another story--he used\nto send us tickets when Mischa Elman appeared, or Jascha Heifitz, or [Fritz]\nKreisler, or any of those. We had tickets and we would attend concerts.\n\nLISA: Was everyone in your family is interested in music?\n\nRHEA: I mean, my sister Rose was, but she didn't have much knowledge.\n\nLISA: What about your mother?\n\nRHEA: My mother said when she was -- This is how she used to describe her voice:\nshe sang like a fiddle. She had a voice, but I never heard it, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"not when I was\ngrowing up. She was -- She lost her voice like I have lost my voice. I'm trying\nto think of something else. Ask me some questions.\n\nLISA: When your father died, you were ten years old.\n\nRHEA: I was about ten years old.\n\nLISA: Do you remember your feelings?\n\nRHEA: I was a little girl. I was sad. My mother cried all the time. It was very\nmelancholy in the house, but we always had a crowd for Saturday night. Cousins\nwould ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"come and the friends of my older sisters and brothers. I would hate to see\nthe weekend pass. It was so lonely after that. Everybody would come and visit us\nbecause they all had friends.\n\nLISA: Was there any closeness between you and your father?\n\nRHEA: Not that I could remember. Papa was sick and he was very irritable when he\nwas sick. He had cancer, a terrible cancer of the pancreas, I think, or the\nliver, something like that. To see my mother ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"cry and suffer -- She was still a\nyoung woman by today's standards; not then.\n\nLISA: When he died?\n\nRHEA: When he died, yes. She was maybe 50, something like that.\n\nLISA: How long did your mother live?\n\nRHEA: My mother was 79 when she died. She lived with my sister, Rose.\n\nLISA: You were already down South?\n\nRHEA: I was already down South. I married. The house was just discontinued. 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We had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"gotten to the point of\ndiscussing how she got to this country and went to high school in New York City.\nNow, I'd like her to tell me all about how she met my grandfather, Poppy Sam,\nfell in love, and happened to marry him, if she can.\n\nRHEA: Sure, I can. 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I don't remember that next phase of\nmy life.\n\nLISA: Do you remember anything in Georgia, your life there and when your\nchildren were born?\n\nRHEA: I'm trying to think whether I even lived in Georgia, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"whether they were\nborn there.\n\nLISA: In Waynesboro?\n\nRHEA: Yes.\n\nLISA: Didn't you have a you had a store there?\n\nRHEA: Yes, we had a store. We still have a store.\n\nLISA: Right.\n\nRHEA: I'm trying to think whether they were all born at home, the children. I\ndon't think they were born in the hospital. I don't remember really. You waited\ntoo long.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LISA: Waited too long to have children?\n\nRHEA: No, to remember all this.\n\nLISA: Do you mean to have this interview?\n\nRHEA: Yes, to have this interview. I remember much less now than I did the last\ntime you had an interview with me.\n\nLISA: Right. Do you remember anything about the South that still strikes you\ntoday? What the South really was, what it meant to you, whether it was --\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"RHEA: It always meant to me a great deal. I didn't know what it was all about,\nwhat it meant a great deal until I lived here. Then, I realized it's not that\ngreat living here.\n\nLISA: Do you remember working in the store and building it?\n\nRHEA: I always remember trying to build up the store and making something out of\nit. I worked hard at it. 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That meant a great deal.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LISA: Yes. But no real special thoughts about the South and how it was different\nfrom --\n\nRHEA: I have great thoughts about the South. I always revered the South. It\nmeant a great deal--the South--to live in the South, down South.\n\nLISA: Were there any great characters you remember from the town?\n\nRHEA: From where? From Waynesboro?\n\nLISA: [Yes.]\n\nRHEA: I lived in Waynesboro. 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As far as I can\nremember, I only lived in one house.\n\nLISA: Yes, I know you built ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"one, which is where you lived next door to me, when\nI was growing up. There must have been --\n\nRHEA: Didn't I buy the lot? It seems to me we bought the lot and I was building\nmy own house.\n\nLISA: That's right, you did, but I guess --\n\nRHEA: What happened to it, I don't know. I have no idea how I developed, but I\nknow we were building our own house. Don't ask me what happened after that. 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It wasn't openly done against us.\n\nLISA: But they were thinking it?\n\nRHEA: I'm sure they were thinking it.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LISA: Did you practice your religion when you were down in Georgia, or do you\nfeel like you got more and more away from it?\n\nRHEA: No, I never practiced my religion, which is deplorable. I guess my mother\nwasn't strict enough with me. I was always envious of the children, my friends,\nthat they felt very keenly about Judaism. It was never instilled in me that way.\nMy mother had her religion. 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I knew I had to work in the business and create something.\n\nLISA: Did you not work for some labor ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"leader at one time? Did you tell me that?\n\nRHEA: I don't remember that. Somebody in my family did, I know, but I don't\nthink I ever did, no.\n\nLISA: Any good family stories that you have?\n\nRHEA: I don't think so. The only thing is, I could say that I didn't have to\nwork in a factory like my sisters and brothers. 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You came here at such a young age that the move was not so\ndevastating to you?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"RHEA: No. I was the only one that had a chance to go to school. I always wanted\nto go to school further and further. Actually, I didn't attain what I wanted. I\nwanted to be a teacher. Today, I think it's horrible to be a teacher. Then, that\nwas my ambition to be a teacher. The ambitions you have when you can't afford it.\n\nLISA: It's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"something you thought about throughout your life, that you wished\nthat you had done it?\n\nRHEA: No, I was glad that I didn't do that any teaching. I realize that it\nwasn't the greatest thing to do, for me. It's something that's very important.\n\nLISA: Do you remember how your store started, Dolin's [Department Store], in\nterms of what you what you sold there and then ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what it became over the years?\n\nRHEA: I think it was your daddy that started it.\n\nLISA: It was Poppy Sam wasn't it, that started the business?\n\nRHEA: Now, who was Poppy Sam?\n\nLISA: Your first husband.\n\nRHEA: No, I don't know. Don't ask me that. I don't remember it anymore.\n\nLISA: Do you remember anything about your children from Arnold, or Martin, or\nAunt Harriet ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"growing up, what they were like?\n\nRHEA: Yes, except that Arnold was so idyllic a child; nothing like Martin.\nMartin was very devilish. Is he your daddy?\n\nLISA: That's my dad.\n\nRHEA: Very devilish.\n\nLISA: I took after him.\n\nRHEA: Yes, devilish and -- What's the other word I want to say?\n\nLISA: Mischievous.\n\nRHEA: Mischievous is the word. Yes, very mischievous.\n\nLISA: Then, Arnold came along and he was the angel.\n\nRHEA: He was the angel. 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Nobody else was there.\n\nLISA: I bet you weren't that hard, though, were you?\n\nRHEA: No, I wasn't that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hard. No, but I was a disciplinarian alright. Someone\nhas to do it; certainly not Poppy Sam. You remember Poppy Sam, don't you?\n\nLISA: Of course. He was alive until I was 12 years old.\n\nRHEA: He was so sweet and loving.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LISA: All of your children were, I think, great successes. I mean, they grew up --\n\nRHEA: They didn't disappointment me.\n\nLISA: -- and went to college, and all graduated, and had careers, and marriages,\nand children.\n\nRHEA: Right, yes. The thing was that they went to college. That was very\nimportant. All of them have college educations. This was what I always wanted\nfor them.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LISA: Who were some of our relatives down in Georgia?\n\nRHEA: Uncle Sam.\n\nLISA: That was your --\n\nRHEA: My brother. He was the most important as far as I was concerned. Now, I\nthink a little different.\n\nLISA: There was Abe Goldberg.\n\nRHEA: Hyman Goldberg.\n\nLISA: How are those people related to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"us?\n\nRHEA: They were not related to us by blood; not at all. It's just that they\nmeant more to us than some of the blood [related] people. They were down South\nway before I ever got there, so they knew all about the neighborhood. They were\nthe Southerners.\n\nLISA: It's hard to believe that there were so many Jewish families when you\nlived there and now there's only one family.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"RHEA: Who is the one family?\n\nLISA: Your son.\n\nRHEA: Martin?\n\nLISA: Yes.\n\nRHEA: There was a lot of at that time.\n\nLISA: How many families do you think there were?\n\nRHEA: At least a half dozen.\n\nLISA: Probably more.\n\nRHEA: More than that, yes.\n\nLISA: There were the Pinchuks.\n\nRHEA: You remember the name Pinchuk?\n\nLISA: Yes, and --\n\nRHEA: The Goldbergs.\n\nLISA: -- the Goldbergs, Dolinsky --\n\nRHEA: Yes. -- There's nobody ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there.\n\nLISA: Yes.\n\nRHEA: It's strange how deteriorated --\n\nLISA: Did you used to travel to Atlanta for concerts?\n\nRHEA: Yes, not only concerts, but business as well. It meant a great deal to me\nto get out of Waynesboro and go to Atlanta.\n\nLISA: How did you get there?\n\nRHEA: By car. 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I must have.\n\nLISA: In your lifetime, what do you think is the biggest change that's taken\nplace? So many changes have taken place in this century. You've lived the entire\ncentury, more or less. What do you think was one of the biggest?\n\nRHEA: There was no change. I'm trying to think. We made no great moves. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We lived\nin Waynesboro.\n\nLISA: For 40 years.\n\nRHEA: We moved to Augusta. I'm trying to think when we moved to Augusta.\n\nLISA: Did you ever move to Augusta? I thought you lived one year in Statesboro\n[Georgia] or --\n\nRHEA: Yes, something like that.\n\nLISA: I've never been to Statesboro.\n\nRHEA: Statesboro. We had a store there. Somehow we didn't make a go of it or we\ndidn't like Statesboro. I had cousins there that did very well and it was a\nbetter town than Waynesboro. We regretted that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/transcript/56154/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we had to move away.\n\nLISA: But you moved --\n\nRHEA: They had a college there, the women's college --","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=2220.0,2250.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/annotation_set/1154","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/annotation_set/1154/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Yiddish term for town, “\u003cem\u003eshtetl\u003c/em\u003e” commonly refers to small towns or villages in pre–World War II Eastern andCentral Europe with a significant Jewishpresence that were primarily Yiddish speaking.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/annotation_set/1154/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAround the time of the family’s immigration to the United States, a wave of political and social unrest was occurringin the Russia Empire. The Russian Revolution of 1905, also known as the First Russian Revolution, included workerstrikes, peasant unrest, and military mutinies. It coincided with a series of violent pogroms that saw many Jewsemigrate. The First Russian Revolution did not overthrow the Tsarist autocracy or eliminate the restrictions placed onthe Jewish population of the Pale of Settlement, but it did give rise to Russia's first democratically elected parliamentand resulted in some improved opportunities for Jews within the Russian Empire.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/annotation_set/1154/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSS Stantendamwas\u003c/em\u003e a 10,322 ton ocean liner for the Holland America Line, launched in 1898. 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In 1874, it was made compulsory for a period of 6 years full-time plus 9 in the reserve.Families with only one son were exempted from conscription.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/107139/file/208012/annotation_set/1154/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Russo-Japanese Warwas fought between the Empire of Japan and theRussianEmpire during 1904 and 1905. 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I was a little girl, about seven years old. I remember the horse and wagon. We got up into the carriage and I said to my mother, “Oh, I want to look back at my house one more time.” I shall never forget it. I don't know how long we traveled to cross the border. 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Did you start school?\nRHEA: Immediately, I started school. 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Now, I'd like her to tell me all about how she met my grandfather, Poppy Sam, fell in love, and happened to marry him, if she can.\nRHEA: Sure, I can. 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