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He was raised in Bulawayo in an Orthodox Jewish family with Lithuanian heritage, in a predominately Jewish neighborhood. As a child, he was a member of the Zionist youth movement \u003cem\u003eBetar\u003c/em\u003e. His parents travelled often, and he spent considerable time with their servant, who would tell him stories of Moses on walks after school. Melvyn was drafted in to the Rhodesian Army, and later did \u003cem\u003ealiya\u003c/em\u003e to Israel, spending almost two years in Israel in \u003cem\u003eulpan\u003c/em\u003e in the \u003cem\u003ekibbutz\u003c/em\u003e Ramat HaKovesh. There, he got a job at a rubber factory, producing parts for the military. After two years in Israel, he returned home to Bulawayo to work in the family business. He spent a year in London apprenticing at a branch of the business in London, and was then sent to the United States. When he left the United States and return to Rhodesia, the war in the country was escalating. He was required to return to the military, and fought in the Zimbabwe War of Liberation for almost three years on the side of the illegal government of Rhodesia, run by Ian Smith. Eventually, pretending to have a bad stomach, he was discharged from the army, and taken back to Bulawayo. From there, due to the mishandling of paperwork, he was able to go the United States as a tourist, where he eventually received his Green Card. When he arrived in the United States he settled in Charlotte, North Carolina. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eOn a trip to Port Elizabeth, South Africa where his father was living at the time, Melvyn was set up with Caryl. He had previously been married, and had two children from that marriage, Daniel and Michelle Berzack. Melvyn and Caryl dated for about three weeks before he returned to the United States. Deciding they were too old for long distance, he told Caryl to come to the United States. She met him in Charlotte and after a year, they were married. Together they have one child, Jessica Berzack. After living in Charlotte, Melvyn and his family moved to Jefferson, North Carolina. They later settled in Jackson County, Georgia on a farm, where they were both active in the Congregation Children of Israel in the nearby Athens, Georgia. Melvyn served as the president of the congregation. \u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eCaryl Berzack was born to a Dutch mother and Irish father, and raised Irish Catholic on a large dairy farm in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Growing up, she went to Catholic boarding school, only coming home two weekends out of the semester. After she finished high school, she worked for Anglo American, a mining company, in the Free State, a providence in South Africa. She worked in public relations, organizing functions, visitors and events happening within the gold mines in the Free State. After a few years, she returned home to Port Elizabeth. There, she was set up on a blind date with Melvyn Berzack on one of his visits from the United States to South Africa. He was the first Jew she had ever met. They dated for about three weeks before he flew back to the United States. Deciding they were too old for long distance, Melvyn invited Caryl to come to the United States. Having never left South Africa, she met him Charlotte, North Carolina, and after a year, they were married.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Caryl met Melvyn, he had custody of his two children, which she raised as her own. After three unsuccessful pregnancies, pregnant once again, Caryl told herself that if she could have just one healthy child, she would commit the child to religion. Melvyn did not intend to convert to Christianity, so Caryl decided to convert to Judaism. When her daughter Jessica was born, she began the conversion process. Originally just for her daughter, through the process, she found her own love of the Judaism. After Charlotte, Caryl and her family moved to Jefferson North Carolina, and later settled in Jackson County, Georgia on a farm. Having grown up on a farm, Caryl had a great love of horses, and often went for trail rides, and fox hunts on horseback. She was an active member of the Congregation Children of Israel in nearby Athens, Georgia, and ran the Sunday and Hebrew School programs.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eIn this interview, Melvyn and Caryl Berzack reflect on their lives growing up in different parts of Africa, their family together, and Jewish faith. Melvyn shares his story of growing up in the Orthodox tradition, being drafted into the Rhodesian army, fighting in the Zimbabwe War of Liberation, and working for the family business. Caryl describes growing up in a Catholic family on a farm, and working in gold mines. She tells the story of how she met Melvyn, and explains her conversion to Judaism. Together they discuss settling in Jackson County, Georgia, and their involvement in Congregation Children of Israel in the nearby Athens, Georgia. They recall the role Judaism played in their lives, their relationship and their family, discussing moments of antisemitism, acceptance, thoughts on peace in Israel, and future generations of Jews. \u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28978"]}},{"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":["Smith, Ian Douglas (1919-2007) (personal name)","Mugabe, Robert Gabriel (1924-2019) (personal name)","Jabotinsky, Vladimir (1880-1940) (personal name)","Congregation Children of Israel (corporate name)","Ramat HaKovesh (corporate name)","Anglo American plc (corporate name)","Marine Corps (corporate name)","Kushi Institute (corporate name)","Athens, Georgia (geographic term)","Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (geographic term)","Israel (geographic term)","Charlotte, North Carolina (geographic term)","Port Elizabeth, South Africa (geographic term)","Rhodesia (geographic term)","Jefferson, North Carolina (geographic term)","Lithuania (geographic term)","England (geographic term)","Ireland (geographic term)","The Netherlands (geographic term)","Jackson County, Georgia (geographic term)","Palestine (geographic term)","The Jordan River (geographic term)","The Free State (geographic term)","Judaism (topical term)","Zionism (topical term)","Betar (topical term)","Habonim (topical term)","Aliyah (topical term)","Rhodesian Bush War, 1966-1980 (topical term)","Emigration (topical term)","Catholicism (topical term)","Conversion to Judaism (topical term)","Bar Mitzvah (topical term)","Bat Mitzvah (topical term)","Genealogy (topical term)","The Holocaust (topical term)","Irish Catholic (topical term)","Herut (topical term)","Afrikaans (topical term)","Zionism (topical term)","American Life (topical term)","Manufacturing (topical term)","Sewn Trade Industries (topical term)","Jewish Pride (topical term)","Intermarriage (topical term)","Assimilation (topical term)","The Jewish Population (topical term)","Antisemitism (topical term)","American Support of Israel (topical term)","Orthodox Judaism (topical term)","Conservative Judaism (topical term)","Reform Judaism (topical term)","Chabad (topical term)","Judaic History (topical term)","Future Generations of Jews (topical term)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCarolyn and Melvyn Berzack were interviewed by Burt Sparer on Februray 29, 2004 in Athens, Georgia.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMelvyn Berzack was born in Bulawayo, in what was then Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1950. He was raised in Bulawayo in an Orthodox Jewish family with Lithuanian heritage, in a predominately Jewish neighborhood. As a child, he was a member of the Zionist youth movement \u003cem\u003eBetar\u003c/em\u003e. His parents travelled often, and he spent considerable time with their servant, who would tell him stories of Moses on walks after school. Melvyn was drafted in to the Rhodesian Army, and later did \u003cem\u003ealiya\u003c/em\u003e to Israel, spending almost two years in Israel in \u003cem\u003eulpan\u003c/em\u003e in the \u003cem\u003ekibbutz\u003c/em\u003e Ramat HaKovesh. There, he got a job at a rubber factory, producing parts for the military. After two years in Israel, he returned home to Bulawayo to work in the family business. He spent a year in London apprenticing at a branch of the business in London, and was then sent to the United States. When he left the United States and return to Rhodesia, the war in the country was escalating. He was required to return to the military, and fought in the Zimbabwe War of Liberation for almost three years on the side of the illegal government of Rhodesia, run by Ian Smith. Eventually, pretending to have a bad stomach, he was discharged from the army, and taken back to Bulawayo. From there, due to the mishandling of paperwork, he was able to go the United States as a tourist, where he eventually received his Green Card. When he arrived in the United States he settled in Charlotte, North Carolina.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eOn a trip to Port Elizabeth, South Africa where his father was living at the time, Melvyn was set up with Caryl. He had previously been married, and had two children from that marriage, Daniel and Michelle Berzack. Melvyn and Caryl dated for about three weeks before he returned to the United States. Deciding they were too old for long distance, he told Caryl to come to the United States. She met him in Charlotte and after a year, they were married. Together they have one child, Jessica Berzack. After living in Charlotte, Melvyn and his family moved to Jefferson, North Carolina. They later settled in Jackson County, Georgia on a farm, where they were both active in the Congregation Children of Israel in the nearby Athens, Georgia. Melvyn served as the president of the congregation.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCaryl Berzack was born to a Dutch mother and Irish father, and raised Irish Catholic on a large dairy farm in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Growing up, she went to Catholic boarding school, only coming home two weekends out of the semester. After she finished high school, she worked for Anglo American, a mining company, in the Free State, a providence in South Africa. She worked in public relations, organizing functions, visitors and events happening within the gold mines in the Free State. After a few years, she returned home to Port Elizabeth. There, she was set up on a blind date with Melvyn Berzack on one of his visits from the United States to South Africa. He was the first Jew she had ever met. They dated for about three weeks before he flew back to the United States. Deciding they were too old for long distance, Melvyn invited Caryl to come to the United States. Having never left South Africa, she met him Charlotte, North Carolina, and after a year, they were married.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Caryl met Melvyn, he had custody of his two children, which she raised as her own. After three unsuccessful pregnancies, pregnant once again, Caryl told herself that if she could have just one healthy child, she would commit the child to religion. Melvyn did not intend to convert to Christianity, so Caryl decided to convert to Judaism. When her daughter Jessica was born, she began the conversion process. Originally just for her daughter, through the process, she found her own love of the Judaism. After Charlotte, Caryl and her family moved to Jefferson North Carolina, and later settled in Jackson County, Georgia on a farm. Having grown up on a farm, Caryl had a great love of horses, and often went for trail rides, and fox hunts on horseback. She was an active member of the Congregation Children of Israel in nearby Athens, Georgia, and ran the Sunday and Hebrew School programs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn this interview, Melvyn and Caryl Berzack reflect on their lives growing up in different parts of Africa, their family together, and Jewish faith. Melvyn shares his story of growing up in the Orthodox tradition, being drafted into the Rhodesian army, fighting in the Zimbabwe War of Liberation, and working for the family business. Caryl describes growing up in a Catholic family on a farm, and working in gold mines. She tells the story of how she met Melvyn, and explains her conversion to Judaism. Together they discuss settling in Jackson County, Georgia, and their involvement in Congregation Children of Israel in the nearby Athens, Georgia. They recall the role Judaism played in their lives, their relationship and their family, discussing moments of antisemitism, acceptance, thoughts on peace in Israel, and future generations of Jews.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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I'm Burt Sparer. I'm interviewing Caryl\nand Melvyn Berzack. Today is February 29, 2004. Thank you, Caryl and Mel, for\nadding your story to our temple's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"legacy. Our purpose is to record the oral\nhistory of temple members. We are also asking them to express their views as\nJews in our time on important issues so that future generations of Jews in\nAthens, Georgia, can know their heritage, and add their own stories to it. I'd\nlike to start by asking both of you what brought you to Athens? When did you get\nhere and what did you do after you got here? I'm sure that's quite ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a story. Mel,\nlet's start with you.\n\nM. BERZACK: What got us to Athens? We actually live about 40 miles from Athens,\nbut we moved of late from Charlotte, North Carolina. We had farm animals there,\nso when we moved to work in Atlanta, we located in the outskirts of Atlanta, and\nbought more farmland to have our animals. The reason we come to Athens is\nbecause it's the closest ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"synagogue to where we live.\n\nSPARER: Caryl do you want to add something briefly to that, because I'll start\nyou over again about your origins. Go ahead. Anything at all?\n\nC. BERZACK: No.\n\nSPARER: All right. Well, let's go back to the beginning.\n\nM. BERZACK: Okay.\n\nSPARER: Where were you raised? Where did you go to school? How did you finally\ncome to Athens?\n\nM. BERZACK: Okay. I was born in Bulawayo [in] what was then Rhodesia.\n\nSPARER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Would you spell that for the tape please?\n\nM. BERZACK: B-U-L-A-W-A-Y-O. Today the country is referred to as. . . is known as\nZimbabwe. I was brought up there, went to school there, and came to the United\nStates in 1977. I was born in 1950, so I was 27 years old. I think we are going\nto talk about the history of my upbringing, so I can talk more about that then.\n\nSPARER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, you can talk about it right now because this is a good time to\nlook at it all together.\n\nM. BERZACK: [audio cuts out 2.35, resumes at 2:36]. . . unique and probably one\nthat we were very fortunate to experience. We were brought up, I was raised as\nan Orthodox Jew. The white population of Zimbabwe was at its peak, 300,000,\nBulawayo 50,000. Six million blacks.\n\nSPARER: You did say 300,000?\n\nM. BERZACK: Total white population.\n\nSPARER: Go ahead.\n\nM. BERZACK: The Jewish population represented ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about one percent of the\npopulation. Our Orthodox congregation in Bulawayo was approximately 300 families.\n\nSPARER: The city that you just mentioned, would you spell that?\n\nM. BERZACK: I did already.\n\nSPARER: Oh, alright.\n\nM. BERZACK: Yes. We never, we were never very nationalistic. We were brought up\nin a very Zionistic way. 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BERZACK: My family had a business which. . . and my family lived throughout\nAfrican Rhodesia, and I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"could sometimes call my. . . we had an uncle who we\naffectionately [audio cuts out at 6.34, resumes at 6.37]. My father and his four\nbrothers in their business, had a business which was growing, and [was] very\nsuccessful throughout Africa, Rhodesia, the Congo. I had. . . I was the second of\nthe 18 of our second generation to leave the business, to not go into the\nbusiness after school, and went on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"aliyah. So after two years of living in\nIsrael, a cousin of mine arrived in Israel and convinced me that I should think\nagain, and go into the family business. I agreed to give it a try, and went to\nthe. . .and spent a year in London apprenticing at the branch of the business in\nLondon. They, in turn sent me to America for a year on a course. 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It was amazing how the, primarily the white\npopulation. . . although ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in our army there were a lot of blacks fighting side by\nside with us.\n\nSPARER: What happened to the factory after the country settled down?\n\nM. BERZACK: After, the country changed hands and was taken over by the current\nMugabe regime. They [had] basically caused, nationalized most of industry,\nunionized most of industry. Most of that industry is now gone. It had to close\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"down. It was not affordable.\n\nSPARER: Very briefly, what happened to your family?\n\nM. BERZACK: My brother, one brother, and parents are now living in South Africa,\nand I have another brother and sister living in England.\n\nSPARER: Please go on.\n\nM. BERZACK: I don't know where to end. Doing my time was actually. . . Probably an\ninteresting story [is] that I was actually in the war zone, you know, in the\nwar. I had put application in to come to the United ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"States. It was very\ndifficult to get a meeting with the consul in Johannesburg because there was no\nconsulate in Rhodesia, because it was an illegal country. I had filed my forms,\ngot my meeting date. I had to go AWOL [Absent With Out Leave] from the war zone,\npretend to have a bad stomach, get taken back to the back line to my hometown of\nBulawayo, got on an airplane. This is all. . . if I'd been caught, I would have\ngone to jail for a long time. [I] went to Johannesburg and sat waiting for this\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Joseph Segars. I'll never forget his name.\n\nSPARER: Joseph who?\n\nM. BERZACK: S-E-G-A-R-S. Long story short, as I had my meeting, he still didn't\ngive me my, papers. They used to, he used to talk to me about what was going on\nin Rhodesia. He knew I was in the army there, although it was not. . . I had to. . . I\nillegally had a South African address, got a British passport. Long story short\nis he finally, after seeing me three further times, gave me permission to come\nto the United States as a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"tourist. I came here and I lived illegally in the\nUnited States for almost three years, and had a lawyer, an attorney firm in\nWashington starting to process my papers. I'm making this a very short story.\nThey wanted to deport me because I was illegal. What saved me and what allowed\nme today to be a citizen of the United States was [that] Mr. Joseph Segars had\nillegally, as far as the State Department was concerned, given me a visa to come\nto the United States. It is against the law to have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a tourist visa to come to\nthe United States after your paperwork for a Green Card is accepted. Because of\nall the other stuff that was going on, he messed up, thankfully. And that. . . and I\nnever even went to the deportation hearings. They gave me my Green Card.\n\nSPARER: And the first place that you settled in the United States was. . .?\n\nM. BERZACK: Charlotte, North Carolina.\n\nSPARER: Let me interrupt a very fascinating story. I've heard fascinating\nstories from other people but ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm totally absorbed in your story, and we're sort\nof limited in time. I'm going to ask Caryl to tell her story with a lead off\nabout how you two met.\n\nC. BERZACK: As Mel had mentioned earlier, his parents had moved to South Africa.\nI was born and raised in South Africa and in all honesty never. . . I don't think\nthat I can recall that I'd ever met a Jewish person ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"before. I was raised as a\nCatholic and went to a Catholic boarding school, but a friend of mine knew Mel's\nparents and organized for us to go on a blind date on one of Mel's visits from\nAmerica back to South Africa. We went on date for about three weeks. He flew\nback to the United States, and after about a month, we decided that we were both\ntoo old for long distance dating ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"romance. He told me to come on over. So I went\nto my mother and asked her what I should do. And my mother said, you have two\nchoices. You are to go, and this could be the love of your life, and you'll stay\nin America or you'll go, and you'll come home after you visited there, but you\nneed to go and find out. I had never left South Africa, [I] got on a plane and\ntold everyone I was going to South America, and arrived in Charlotte, North\nCarolina. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We got married after a year, and I've been here ever since.\n\nSPARER: And you're smiling about it still.\n\nC. BERZACK: Nineteen years later.\n\nSPARER: Still smiling.\n\nC. BERZACK: Still smiling.\n\nSPARER: Tell us a little bit about where you were raised, where you went to\nschool and what you did before you left South Africa.\n\nC. BERZACK: I grew up on a dairy farm. My father had a very large dairy farm on\nthe coast in South Africa right down on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a little town called Port Elizabeth. I\ngrew up there and as I said earlier, went to boarding school, which was very\ncommon in the country. All the children went to boarding school. We would stay\nthere the whole semester and just go home for two weekends out of every\nsemester. After I finished high school, I went to the gold mines in the Free\nState and worked for Anglo American. I was [in] a dummy program that they\nstarted. They'd never had a public relations ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"person on the gold mine, and had\ndecided that this was something they would try. I was the test kid. I did it for\nabout seven years and it was fascinating. I organized all the functions, all the\nvisitors, anything and everything that was happening on any of the Anglo\nAmerican gold mines within the Free State. I was responsible for organizing,\ncoordinating. I did that for a couple of years. Like with any job like that, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you\nget very burned out after a few years. I returned back to my hometown of Port\nElizabeth. That's where Mel's father was at that time. As I said, I've been\nraised as a Catholic all my life. When I first met Mel and found out he was\nJewish, I ran home to my sister and said what does it mean that he's Jewish? She\ntold me to read the Exodus.\n\nSPARER: Did you convert to Judaism or did you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"remain Catholic?\n\nC. BERZACK: When I met Mel, Mel had custody of two of his two children, and when\nI say his, they're very much ours. I pretty much raised both of his children\nbeside my own. I didn't convert, and I'm very sorry that I did not convert\nearlier with the older two. With our current daughter, Jessica, who's 12, she\nwas my fourth pregnancy. They had told [me] that I would not ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"carry a pregnancy\nanymore. When I had her, during the time of my pregnancy, I promised God that if\nI could just have one healthy child, that I would commit this child to a\nreligion. When Mel and I talked about it, he just went. . . he could not convert to\nChristianity. So I spoke to Rabbi Gross and I started the conversion program,\nthinking I was doing it for Jessica. But the more involved I got in the\nreligion, the more I came to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"realize it is the most fabulous religion that\nyou're in.\n\nSPARER: That's quite a story Caryl. Mel, I take it you were married before you\nmet Caryl then?\n\nM. BERZACK: Yes, yes.\n\nSPARER: Well, I think I got the middle sized story from both of you, and I am\nquite grateful for your summing up your lives in a very brief way. I would like\nto move on and ask you something about your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"kids. You've already explained quite\na bit. I take it they've all got a Jewish education? Where are they now and what\ndo they do?\n\nM. BERZACK: Yes, they're all, my two. . . we have three children, Daniel, who was\nbar mitzvahed. At that time, we went through a Conservative synagogue in\nCharlotte, and he ended up his education in Jefferson, North Carolina, where he\ngraduated, only Jew the school. He was very proud ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about it and kept to Judaism.\nHe went on to North Georgia College, where he got a Bachelor of Science degree,\nfour year degree, and during the. . . we're very proud of him because where other\nkids would go off on the summer, to do, to have holidays, he went to Marine\nCorps boot camp one summer. Then, the following two summers went to officer\ncandidate school for the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia. [He] graduated from\ncollege and became an ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"officer in the Marine Corps on the same day. It was\nwonderful because Caryl and I got to pin his bars on. He went to the basic\nschool, six months officer school in Quantico, went on to flight school,\ngraduated top of his class.\n\nSPARER: Wow.\n\nM. BERZACK:Today [he] is an F-18 jet pilot in the United States Marine Corps,\njust been deployed to Japan, where he's stationed for the next six months. In\nfact, he called us last night from Thailand, where he's been doing some combined\nexercises with the Thai ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"air force.\n\nSPARER: And your other kids. . . ?\n\nM. BERZACK: My daughter Michelle went to a Jewish day school and eventually went\non to be bat mitzvahed as well, and also graduated from Jefferson High. [She]\nalso went to North Georgia College, not military, B.S.E. graduate. [She] spent\nthe last couple of years in India and unfortunately, has Crohn's disease. As a\nresult [she] has become very interested in macrobiotic cooking and is in the\nprocess of spending one ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"year at the Kushi Institute up in western Massachusetts.\n\nSPARER: Would you spell Kushi please.\n\nM. BERZACK: K-U-S-H-I. She is, unfortunately, she's home because she broke her\narm, but she'll be going right back and she intends to make that into a career.\nIt's food for good health. Then my, our third daughter, Jessica, is 12 years old\nand is very much a part of the synagogue and Jewish life ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"here in Athens.\n\nSPARER: You don't have grandchildren yet I take it.\n\nM. BERZACK: No.\n\nSPARER: You're smiling when you nod your head. Okay.\n\nC. BERZACK: Sorry, back. . . Daniel is married. Our son, he is married. We have a\ndaughter in law and her name is Audrey. But at this point, no, no grandchildren\nand not much thought of them yet.\n\nSPARER: May I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ask, is she Jewish?\n\nC. BERZACK: No, she is not. She's not.\n\nSPARER: Interesting. We'll come back to this question and make space later.\nChildren we think about in terms of the future. Let's reverse the direction and\ntalk a little bit about roots, genealogy. Have either of you traced your\ngenealogical roots and what have you found?\n\nM. BERZACK: We've got back to Lithuania. That's about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"as far back, great\ngrandparents. I don't know the name off the top of my head, but we do have a\nsynopsis of a book that's been written by individuals who were in the particular\nshtetl that my great grandparents were in. We know my grandparents were from\nthere because they're actually mentioned as survivors. The bulk of them died in\nthe Holocaust. My grandparents left and went to England in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"late Teens, 1918,\nI believe. My father was the last of five brothers, and he was born in England.\n\nSPARER: You're speaking 1918?\n\nM. BERZACK: Correct.\n\nSPARER: Okay, born in England. . .\n\nM. BERZACK: Yes. His mother had an asthmatic problem and the doctor suggested\nshe find a warm climate. So that's how they got to South Africa.\n\nSPARER: Caryl?\n\nC. BERZACK: I am Irish Catholic descent on my father's side. His great\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"grandparents were from Ireland. He was born in South Africa. My mother is Dutch\nand came out to South Africa when she was six years old also, funny enough, for\nher mother's health reasons. She needed to get to a drier climate. At home, we\ngrew up speaking a mixture of both languages, English and in a language called\nAfrikaans, which is a derivative of German and Dutch.\n\nSPARER: I'm going to ask you to express ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"yourself in Afrikaans by saying what a\npretty day this is in Athens, and we had this lovely Purim festival.\n\nC. BERZACK: I would tell you, [Afrikaans sentence: 21.42].\n\nSPARER: That's about twice as long as what I said. I'm going to ask my Dutch\nfriend if she understands it. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, thank you for those stories. Let's get back\nto the present. Quite apart from anything Jewish, what are some of your concerns\nabout being. . . about American life, about things going on today, perhaps in the\nUnited States? Anything in particular?\n\nM. BERZACK: I think my biggest concern is that there's a trend in this country\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that we're on a fast track to downhill, in that we're allowing our manufacturing\nto leave the shores of the United States. If you go back through history from\nalmost the beginning of time, every dynasty that's been, they've allowed\nmanufacturing to leave their country, and relied on either slaves or other\ncountries to bring goods ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in. It's been the beginning of the end of the dynasty,\nand I'm afraid that that's where we're at. It concerns me a great deal.\n\nSPARER: I failed to ask you to tell us what the business is that you're in.\n\nM. BERZACK: Well, I'm in a business in particular that's left the shores of this\nland. I have a little business and we sell equipment to what we call the sewn\ntrade industries. In other words, anything that is to do ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with cutting of\nmaterial, as in making apparel.\n\nSPARER: You said sound trade?\n\nM. BERZACK: Sewn, S-E-W-N. Sewn products, anything to do with manufacturing of\nmaterial products such as apparel, furniture, aerospace, boats, carpets and so\non, and we sell cutting equipment.\n\nSPARER: You're describing a current issue ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"now that I think everybody's concerned\nwith. Let me turn to you, Caryl, and ask you what's on your mind.\n\nC. BERZACK: I just personally thank God every day for living in this country. I\nthink coming from a country like South Africa and Mel coming from Zimbabwe,\nwhere there is so much political unrest and there's so much crime, it is\nabsolutely wonderful for me to bring up children in a country where whatever\nthey want to do, whatever they want to achieve or to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"become, they have the\nopportunity to do that in this country. I think every American should leave this\ncountry, go to third world country to appreciate the beauty and the privileges\nthat they have in this country.\n\nSPARER: That's well said. Thank you for making that clear.\n\nC. BERZACK: I feel very strongly about that.\n\nSPARER: Thanks. Well, let's turn to another subject. Is there something special\nthat you've done or participated in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that makes you particularly proud of your\nJewish heritage? Mel, go ahead.\n\nM. BERZACK: I'm not quite sure I understand the question. I've done, throughout\nmy life, I've always been pretty much in leadership in the Judaea, in my Judaic\nlife, from, you know, from the Zionist youth movement I was in, to the synagogue\nin Rhodesia, to the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"synagogue in. . . I was on the board of the day school in\nCharlotte and did, I mean, I've done many. . . I've always kept. . . stayed\nin. . . wherever I can, in contributing to Jewish life. I don't know if that's the\nanswer you're looking for.\n\nSPARER: I think that's more than an answer. That puts you in a position of\nsaying everything you've done, really, and [everything] you're quite proud of as\na Jew. 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When I first started here in the temple,\nit was a very miss matched school run predominantly by students with very little\nlaw and order, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and direction in it. I think in eight years, half the teachers\nthat work in our program have been here as long as I have, which is eight years.\nI just think for such a small congregation. . . Currently, we have five kids that\nhave graduated through our program that are back in our program teaching. I just\nthink for such a small congregation, I, as the leader of the school, have done\nsomething right that it has come to the level that it is at right ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"now. And I\nfeel very proud about that.\n\nSPARER: And you should. Considering the size of the Sunday school, it has grown\nsignificantly since the time that we joined the temple. I think part of that is\ndue to your efforts, and I congratulate you, and thank you. Well, my next\nquestion deals with intermarriage. As you know, a lot of Jews especially,\nbelieve that the process of assimilation of Jews into ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the general population\nwill gradually, if it continues, reduce the Jewish population in this country to\na very insignificant number. I wondered how you feel about that.\n\nM. BERZACK: Well, I think not only in this country, but in the world. I mean,\nstatistically, we as far as we know, there are 25 million practicing Jews in the\nworld today, which is such a small little dot in terms of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"world population.\nWe're also the only group of people that it is losing population, so it is of\ngreat concern. I think that we, as committed Jews and Jews that are practicing,\nneed to do everything we possibly can to reverse that trend. I'm not quite sure\nhow we're going to do it.\n\nSPARER: Let me pick up with Caryl then. You're a good response to that by virtue\nof marrying a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jew and converting.\n\nC. BERZACK: Well, if I had to have, if I was able to turn back the clock, I\nwould definitely have converted when my older two were younger. I think it's\ncritical that both parents are Jewish. I see it in our religious school where we\nhave a lot of children that are coming from mixed marriages, and the emphasis on\nthe Judaism is not where it should be.\n\nSPARER: I'm going to turn the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"tape over and ask you to continue.\n\nC. BERZACK: Okay. As I was saying, I see it in the school. We have a large\nnumber of our students that come from a home where one parent is not Jewish. I\ncan definitely see that they're not practicing Judaism in the home, and it's not\nas important for them to come to the synagogue. So as far as assimilation goes,\nI think it's happened. I would strongly encourage any mixed marriage or\ninterfaith marriage that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"one of the partners does make the commitment to\nconfirm, to convert. I think it's critical.\n\nSPARER: Do you feel that if that does not happen, that there's some compensation\nin the agreement to have the children raised as Jews?\n\nC. BERZACK: I see a lot of our children here that are being raised as Jews\nbecause predominately the father is Jewish, the mother may not be, and she's\ndoing this for the sake of the father. However, those same children are going\nhome and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"having Christmas and Easter, and it's very hard for us to try and\nexplain to children about Hanukkah and Passover when they have to make a\ndecision to come to the model seder or to go to an Easter egg hunt. We see a lot\nof this. I know for myself, that our daughter Jessica would not be as strongly\nin tune with her Judaism if I had not converted. I think she's a prime example\nof that. We have great concerns with our son because he's married a non-Jewish\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"girl, and as much as we love her, it's raised many family discussions.\n\nSPARER: How does he feel about his own future?\n\nC. BERZACK: He, at this point, [and] his wife feel that they will bring the\nchildren up in both religions, and Mel and I have tried to explain to them that\nwe have seen that this does not work, and that one is better than both. We just\nkeep praying that, you know, as he gets a little older, a little wiser, he'll\nmake the right decision.\n\nSPARER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The issue that you raised is shared by any number of families that I've\ntalked to in making these oral histories. So it's fairly commonplace even within\nour own congregation. Thanks for that very clear explanation. The question I\nwould ask you next, you really discussed at some length, particularly in the\nstory of your background. But let me be more ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"specific, or let you be more\nspecific if there's a particular way you want to express the antisemitism that\nyou may have experienced through the years. I'll ask you to add to that, if\nyou've experienced any in Athens since you've been here.\n\nM. BERZACK: Well, growing up through school bloody Jew was a common retort\nfrom. . . and the odd fistfight. I've had the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"odd fistfight over it in school. In\nthe army I was subjected to it a lot more. I was the only Jew in my company and\n[there were] a lot of derogatory statements made about Jew boy. I was always the\none that was called upon to hold the money when the time came, because the\nperception was that if you're a Jew, you could control money. That's the way it\nwas. It never really affected ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"me. I mean, it was, I don't know how much\ntime. . . but it was interesting that we went. . . there's a Rhodesian worldwide\norganization, and a few years ago, in Helen, Georgia, we went to one of the\ngatherings. It's ex Rhodesians from all over that come together and have a\nweekend together. I was busy chatting with this guy, Zangle [sp], who I, he\ndidn't remember me, but I remembered him from school. You'll have to excuse my\ncold. And sure enough, he started referring to the bloody Jews, and I didn't. . . I\njust walked ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"away from [it] and I thought all these years are gone by, and he\nstill carries that huge chip on his shoulder.\n\nSPARER: Was it a chip on his shoulder or simply a way of saying something that\nwas part of the vocabulary of the day, but he didn't really mean it?\n\nM. BERZACK: No, it was a chip on his shoulder. I think there was a lot of the. . . I\nmean, the Jews. . . there was envy, and he hadn't done too well here. He knew of a\nlot of Jews that had done very well, and I gathered that. You know, [in] Kumalo,\nthe suburb we ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lived in, it was always the Jews, the Jew boys in Kumalo.\n\nSPARER: Spell the suburb.\n\nM. BERZACK: K-U-M-A-L-O.\n\nSPARER: Thank you.\n\nM. BERZACK: Kumalo. There's lots of instances. I don't think it's necessary to\ngo through all of them, but coming to America in the South, and I've spent most\nof my life in America traveling around the South, calling on factories and\ndealing a lot with mechanics. . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"There's a common terminology to Jew somebody, and\nI usually correct them when I feel that it's fitting. But aside from that, I've\nnever personally experienced any blatant anti-Semitism. I think [to] the\ncontrary. We live in Jackson County [Georgia], and most of our neighborhood have\nnever experienced Jews before. We invited them, for example, when the rabbi came\nto put the mezuzah on our door, and they was standing there crying in tears.\nThey told us they never realized that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jews just practiced religion kind of like\nthey do. They, I think they had envisioned this horned money mongering person,\nbut we were very well accepted. We never experienced any antisemitism at all.\nJessica goes to school. She's the only Jew her school. They're very\naccommodating to us, perhaps a little bit over so.\n\nSPARER: That's a wonderful ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"experience here. Caryl, would you like to add\nsomething to that? Alright, well, we have talked about your military service,\nand I don't think it's necessary to answer that specific question. So I'll ask\nyou the big question. Do you think that Israel will achieve peace in our time?\nAnd if it does what will it take to do it?\n\nM. BERZACK: Well, I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"think one would have to determine the definition of peace.\nMy answer is no, categorically no. I think that, what would it take to do it?\nUnfortunately, there is a. . . it's very political. Having grown up personally in a\nZionist youth movement that was Betar, the founder was Ze'ev Vladimir Jabotinsky. . .\n\nSPARER: You'll have to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"spell that for us.\n\nM. BERZACK: Well, I just spell his last name. Jabotinsky, J-A-B-O-T-I-N-S-K-Y.\n\nSPARER: Thank you.\n\nM. BERZACK: Who's also the predecessor to the Herut Party, H-E-R-U-T. Basically\nI was brought, and many like me, to believe [Hebrew phrase: 36.18], which in\nEnglish means, you don't have to write [it], was both sides of the Jordan. The\nJews were contracted by God, were the only people who had a contract with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"God\nfor land, and it's [on] both sides of the Jordan. I think that's probably one of\nthe issues that's going to prevent peace, because there are so many Jews, as we\nknow, that that believe in the settlements on the other side. So from a Jewish\nstandpoint, it's going to be difficult. From an Arab standpoint, I don't think\nit's in their interest to have peace. I think that, I think that the Arabs, it's\na personal opinion, but I think that without the Jewish influence amongst Arabs,\nthey would be at war with each other, as they proved ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"time and again. The Jews\nare almost a catalyst for them, of unification. I think that there's always\ngoing to be one branch of them that's going to have a problem with one aspect of\nthe peace process as we have seen time and time again. So I don't envisage peace\nin my lifetime. I do see, I do envisage a more peaceful time than what we have\nright ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"now. As the time when I lived in Israel, one didn't have to worry about\nbeing on a bus or sitting in a cafe. So I think that will come very soon. I\nthink we're quite soon away from that. But there'll always be that lurking\ndanger. We'll always have to be on our guard.\n\nSPARER: So you see this continuing into the indefinite future?\n\nM. BERZACK: I do. I almost. . . as I tell my. . 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Do they express their points ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of view about the\nwar in Israel?\n\nM. BERZACK: Absolutely. I think on the whole, most of my contemporaries who I\ndiscuss this with—and not for my own sake—but they seem to favor the Israeli\nside. I have had recent discussions where there's questioning about how much\nmoney is being given by the Americans to Israel and why it's necessary.\nSometimes one has to explain that in greater detail, more time than we have\ntoday. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But, I think on the whole, I think that the average educated American is\nsupportive of the Israeli cause. It doesn't take a lot to convince them that\nthere's definitely a strong need for Israel to be.\n\nSPARER: Have you talked to fundamentalist Christians who are strongly in support\nof Israel?\n\nM. BERZACK: No, not really. Not any, no.\n\nSPARER: All right. Caryl, is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there something that you would add to. . . ?\n\nC. BERZACK: No, because I do agree with Mel, that I do think that I don't\nforesee that we will ever see a real peace there, ever. That is why, as far as\nhaving the discussion with people, I really find that a lot of Americans, and I\nreally don't mean it in a nasty way, seem to be very unconcerned with anything\nbeyond the borders of the United States. I've never had a discussion ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with\nanybody really that bothered to even find out about it so.\n\nSPARER: Really?\n\nC. BERZACK: I don't think that Americans as a whole concentrate too much on what\nhappens without their border.\n\nSPARER: Well, in a way, I'm surprised because it's such an important subject for\nme as well as for you, and yet I'm not surprised because that's I think the way\nit is. I think your right. Well, let me turn to something more familiar and I'll\nask my next question, which is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to ask you, who has been particularly influential\nin your lives or perhaps, if not people, then some event that might have\ninfluenced the course of your life? People or events.\n\nM. BERZACK: I recently wrote a poem about an uncle that lived in Bulawayo, my\nmother's brother Joe Barnett [sp]. I think that looking back now, he probably\nhad ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"tremendous amount of influence on my life.\n\nSPARER: How so?\n\nM. BERZACK: I despise city life. I've always been a country bumpkin, so to\nspeak, and always had. . .\n\nSPARER: Excuse me, but you don't sound like a country bumpkin. Do go on.\n\nC. BERZACK: Gentleman farmer.\n\nM. BERZACK: Yeah, I've always had aspirations of being a farmer, and I love\nbeing in the country. I'm at. . . I enjoy more than anything being. . . hiking up in\nthe mountains and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that type of thing, and I think he brought that on me as a\nyoung man. I used to spend Sundays with him just going on long, long walks and\ngoing to an area outside Bulawayo where we would be in the wild, so to speak. He\nalso, I think I'm quite liberal in my thinking, and he was extremely liberal. In\nfact, most of, a lot of my mother's family were imprisoned in South Africa as\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"communists. So I think that probably he as an individual. . . and I should mention\none other. I'd like to mention one other person and his name was Government, as\nin, the Government. Government Nkomo. N-K-O-M-O. He was. . . we had servants\ngrowing up, we had three or four servants always. They used to live on our premises.\n\nSPARER: Excuse me. Government is the name of the person?\n\nM. BERZACK: Yes, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"yes.\n\nSPARER: Go ahead.\n\nM. BERZACK: Government was. . . he came to work for us when he was a very young man,\nand all through my childhood, he was our main servant. He was [what] we called\nthe house man. My parents traveled a lot, so I think that he. . . I remember at one\npoint, I think, I always remember he used to tell me when I got back from school\nto take my shoes off and socks off, and I'd walk outside with him, and he'd tell\nme about Moses walking on the holy ground. This was an African servant. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So, you\nknow, a lot of little things. I think that, I think about him often that he had\nan effect on me in that way.\n\nSPARER: You're a composite of curious things.\n\nM. BERZACK: There you go.\n\nSPARER: Caryl, what about you?\n\nC. BERZACK: Obviously, for me, a very big thing in my life was my conversion to Judaism.\n\nSPARER: I'm sorry, I couldn't quite hear you.\n\nC. BERZACK: Sorry, a very big thing for me was my conversion to Judaism. [It]\nwas a very big thing. I think it was very influential in our lives where we went\nfrom, not really practicing any religion ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to it really becoming a complete family\nevent. Mel teaches in the Sunday School. He's president in the temple. I'm here\nall the time, and we never had that before. So I think the cohesiveness that\nthat brought back in our family was tremendous. I give Rabbi Griffin a lot of\ncredit for that. He knew when I was into the conversion that I was doing it for\nmy child and not for myself. Over ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the time of the learning, the year, the two\nyears, he taught me to have a great love and respect for the religion, [and] I\nrealized that I actually ended up doing this more for me than for my child. For\nMel and [me], it's been wonderful. He never stopped reading Judaic books,\nhistory. He's studying it all the time, and these are things that we never did\nbefore I converted. So from that standpoint, I think that that was a very\ninfluential thing in my life.\n\nSPARER: It's wonderful listening to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you. I wish I heard that from more people\nwho converted. One of the questions that one of the folks that helped me form\nthis questionnaire wanted to ask is how you would compare your temple\naffiliation here with that which you experienced elsewhere. Mel, you've been in\nthe thick of your Judaic relationships all through your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"life. Is there something\nexceptional about your feeling of activity here in this temple?\n\nM. BERZACK: Yes, and [I'm being] preemptive by saying that, in fairness, the\nother two affiliations I've had have been much larger. In the Orthodox\ntraditional shul, synagogue, that I grew up in and later on became a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"board\nmember in Bulawayo, there was never, it was never. . . I'm losing the word, but it\nwasn't as warm and inclusive as this is by any means. One [of the ways], was\nmost people would judge by their degree of. . . is religiosity the correct word? So\nI think that, and I don't think it was. . . I think that it was much stricter and\nmuch more ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"formalized. I think very similarly, at the temple in Charlotte that I\nwas a member of, which was a Conservative synagogue, was also much bigger, much,\nmuch more formal and much less. . . We didn't have the. . . Maybe because of what Caryl\ndescribed a little bit, a little earlier, we just didn't have the inclusiveness.\nHere I, and maybe it's because of my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"presidency here and being on the board, I\nknow everybody here and I think that makes the big difference.\n\nSPARER: Well, you're quite the exception. We've had a tremendous growth of\nmembership in this congregation.\n\nM. BERZACK: Right.\n\nSPARER: You pretty well know all the people that have come in.\n\nM. BERZACK:Yes, because I've been on the board and been a part of their approval\nof membership and dealt with them.\n\nSPARER: I think the rabbi has even confessed that he doesn't know everybody anymore.\n\nM. BERZACK: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"There's probably. . . I mean, not personally, but I guess the bottom\nline is that this is. . . I think that this experience has certainly been the best\nfor me of the three that I've been a part of in the past.\n\nSPARER: Very interesting. Yes, Caryl, can you make any comparison? You haven't\nbeen in a. . .\n\nC. BERZACK: No, I haven't. This is all I've ever known, so I cannot. . . I have\nbeen to a few Chabad. . .\n\nSPARER: A few what?\n\nC. BERZACK: Chabad, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"C-H-A-B-A-D, services with Mel in the past which is where\nthere's total segregation between the men and the women and it's definitely not\nfor me.\n\nSPARER: I can't imagine sitting somewhere else in the temple.\n\nC. BERZACK: So this is all I've ever known.\n\nSPARER: You've already talked about living in Jackson County, which is only\nwhere you happen to live a few miles away, maybe half an ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hour from the temple\nitself by car. But you live on a farm, and we really haven't mentioned that to\nthis point. I am going to ask you, why a farm?\n\nM. BERZACK: Well, because we, Caryl, is actually the one who's the big horse\nrider. So since we've known each other, we've owned horses. We were determined\nto continue to do that. We still have horses. In fact, there's some outside here\nright ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"now. So when we moved here, that's why we live on a farm. That's the\nreason. We have right now, we have horses, we have emus, we have sheep. We have. . .\n\nSPARER: For that for the purposes of those listening 100 years from now, tell us\nwhat those animals are.\n\nM. BERZACK: Emu is an Australian. . .it's a large bird, Australian bird, like an ostrich.\n\nSPARER: And how do you spell it?\n\nM. BERZACK: E-M-U. Originally [we] got into that because it was going to be the\nnew the new food of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"America, but it never materialized.\n\nSPARER: How many do you have?\n\nM. BERZACK: We [are] just down to four now. We had about 40 at one stage.\n\nSPARER: And the others?\n\nM. BERZACK: We have two sheep. These are just basically pets. We have two\nminiature donkeys, chickens, and then the usual dogs and cats that. . .\n\nSPARER: Who takes care of all these animals?\n\nM. BERZACK: Interesting. That could be a whole other side of a tape. We have a\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"man who actually moved here with us from Charlotte, who lives on our property.\nHe's like, the caretaker [who] helps us take care of all this stuff.\n\nSPARER: I see. Does he live on the farm?\n\nM. BERZACK: Yes. He has a mobile home that he lives in.\n\nSPARER: Oh, that's very nice.\n\nM. BERZACK: That's his life. He has no driver's license, and that's his life.\n\nSPARER: In other words, he's stuck with you.\n\nM. BERZACK: Yes, well, Caryl would say we're stuck with him.\n\nSPARER: Well Caryl, since this is all your fault, do you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2970.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"still love the life of\nliving on a farm with your horses?\n\nC. BERZACK: Yes, I do. I absolutely love it. What is really interesting is when\nwe first moved into the area, and [then] we came to temple here, the very first\nperson I met is Shelly Cohen, who's one of our congregants, who lived 10 minutes\naway from us and rides horses. And Debbie and David, Niger, who were also\nmembers of our temple and have since passed away. [Debbie] was also a big horse\nrider and also lived 10 minutes away. So we always used to laugh ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and say the\nthree Jewish woman used to go horseback riding every Thursday. It was just quite\namazing. They arrived within our little community. There were all three of us\nJewish women that went horseback riding.\n\nSPARER: Do you ride bareback?\n\nC. BERZACK: I used to, but I'm getting a little older and my bones are a little\nmore fragile, so I'm a little more cautious these days.\n\nSPARER: Have you ridden in, what is the term equest. . .in the exhibition riding?\n\nC. BERZACK: I used to do ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a bit of that, but not. . .I used to enjoy going out fox\nhunting on horseback. I used to enjoy the hunt and jumpers, what we call, which\nis the jumping side of riding.\n\nSPARER: This was in South Africa?\n\nC. BERZACK: No, here.\n\nSPARER: Oh, here.\n\nC. BERZACK: Yes. But I've stepped back a lot, and do a lot of trail riding these days.\n\nSPARER: Where did you do fox hunting?\n\nC. BERZACK: There's a fox hunt club just outside of Commerce, Georgia.\n\nSPARER: You're kidding.\n\nC. BERZACK: No, very, very big fox hunt club even with the English regalia, with\nthe hounds and the hound ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=3060.0,3090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"masters.\n\nSPARER: Is this licensed by the state of Georgia?\n\nC. BERZACK: Yes. I don't know whether the British would approve of it.\n\nSPARER: Wow, this is something I never knew.\n\nC. BERZACK: Yes. It's right outside Commerce, Georgia.\n\nSPARER: Well, I'm coming to the end of our second side, and I'm going to ask you\na couple of funny questions. Not funny, funny, but strange. If you could sit ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=3090.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in\na room watching people listening to your tape 100 years from now, what would you\nlike to know about what they're saying? Then I'll ask you what you would like to\ntell them. What would you like to know about people listening to this or their thoughts?\n\nM. BERZACK: Probably my most curious thoughts seeing as I won't be there to hear\nit would be what. . . is to know how life is for them at ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that time by comparison to\nwhat they've heard, listening to our oral history.\n\nSPARER: What would you tell them?\n\nM. BERZACK: I honestly don't know what I'd tell them. I'm not. . . I tried to think\nabout it quickly, but I don't have it. I don't know what I'd tell them.\n\nSPARER: Caryl, any thoughts?\n\nC. BERZACK: I would think that the people that would be listening to these tapes\nwould obviously be somebody who's very interested in Judaic history, and the\npeople of the time. So I would find it admirable ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that they're taking the time\nand effort to research this, and I would tell them to do the same thing for\ntheir generation.\n\nSPARER: [Do] you think that this would be a very valuable service for Judaism to. . .\n\nC. BERZACK: Absolutely.\n\nSPARER: [for] its survival?\n\nC. BERZACK: Absolutely. I think it is amazing that people could come back\nperhaps our great, great, great, great grandchildren, could come back and hear\nand read what life was like for us, where we ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=3180.0,3210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"originated from. I think so many of\nus have lost that information from the generations that came before us, so it's\nlovely to see that we'll be able to pass it down.\n\nSPARER: Is there anything that you've expressed on these tapes, this tape that\nyour kids don't know? Would they be interested in listening to the tape?\n\nC. BERZACK: That they don't know?\n\nSPARER: That they haven't heard before?\n\nC. BERZACK: Probably more of what Caryl had to say than what I had to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"say,\nespecially her heartfelt retorts. I think they probably wouldn't have known that\nabout that kind of stuff. But I think historically we've tried to keep them in\nthe mix.\n\nSPARER: You know, I've made almost 40 oral histories, and I can't think of\nanyone more absorbing and fascinating than the story you've told, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=3240.0,3270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/transcript/40595/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"truly. I\nwonder, you know, a 100 or 500 years from now how this will sound to people\nlistening to these tapes or reading your transcription in an archive somewhere.\nI think you've done us a great service by expressing yourselves, and I have\nsimply enjoyed this thoroughly. I want to thank you for taking the time, and\ngiving us your thoughts on tape.\n\nM. BERZACK: Thank you for taking the time.\n\nC. BERZACK: Thank you. It's a great service you do for the temple.\n\nSPARER: Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=3270.0,3300.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/annotation_set/912","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/annotation_set/912/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eCongregation Children of Israel (Athens, Georgia) was established in 1872. The first synagogue was at the corner of Hancock Avenue and Jackson Streets, where it remained for the next 84 years. In 1968 a new building was dedicated on Dudley Drive. It also purchased parcels of land for a cemetery in 1983 adjacent to Oconee Hills Cemetery. Today it is a Reform congregation. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/annotation_set/912/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBulawayo is located in the southwest of Zimbabwe, and is the second largest city in Zimbabwe.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/annotation_set/912/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRhodesia was an unrecognized state in southern Africa from 1965 to 1979, equivalent in territory to what is now Zimbabwe. It was one of two independent states in Africa governed by a white minority of European descent. The other was South Africa. 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Mel, you've been in the thick of your Judaic relationships all through your life. Is there something exceptional about your feeling of activity here in this temple?","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2688.0,2876.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/index/51897/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Athens, Georgia","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Chabad","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Congregation Children of Israel","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Conservative Judaism","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"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/82326/file/170550#t=2688.0,2876.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/index/51897/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Living on a Farm in Jackson County","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2876.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/index/51897/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You've already talked about living in Jackson County, which is only where you happen to live a few miles away, maybe half an hour from the temple itself by car. But you live on a farm, and we really haven't mentioned that to this point. I am going to ask you, why a farm?","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2876.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/index/51897/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jackson County, Georgia","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Farm","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Fox Hunting","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Horseback Riding","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=2876.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/index/51897/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"One Hundred Years From Now","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=3120.0,3300.06807"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/index/51897/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"If you could sit in a room watching people listening to your tape 100 years from now, what would you like to know about what they're saying? Then I'll ask you what you would like to tell them. What would you like to know about people listening to this or their thoughts?","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=3120.0,3300.06807"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550/index/51897/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Judaic history","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Judaism","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Future Generations of Jews","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82326/file/170550#t=3120.0,3300.06807"}]}]}]}