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Terry describes what it was like growing up as one of the only Jewish children in Athens, and Bob recounts a similar feeling of not having had a Jewish a community growing up in Atlanta. Together they recall how they met at the University of Georgia, and their life together in Athens, including starting a family, working together at Terry’s family’s business, and experiences of antisemitism throughout their life. They share stories of their family histories, their grandchildren, and the history of the Jewish population in Athens. Bob and Terry discuss their thoughts on intermarriage, peace and conflict in Israel, and Athens 100 years from now. Lastly, Bob recalls a long-lasting dispute over the cemetery land and its use at the Congregation Children of Israel.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)","\u003cp\u003eRobert “Bob” Blumberg was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1928. His mother was from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and his father was from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Bob grew up in the West End neighborhood of Atlanta, and as one of the only Jewish students, regularly faced antisemitism and found himself in fights multiple times a week. Without a Jewish community in his neighborhood, he took the streetcar and travelled an hour and-a-half across town to go to \u003cem\u003echeder\u003c/em\u003e. His family moved to Macon, Georgia in 1941 and Bob graduated from Lanier High School in Macon. He then went to Emory University for a year before transferring to the University of Georgia. After hearing of the problems they were having with their Alpha Epsilon Pi chapter, which he had been a part of at Emory, he went to see if he could help get the chapter off the ground. At the University of Georgia, Bob met Terry Loef. Terry was going out with a member of a different fraternity. Bob and another Alpha Epsilon Pi member flipped a coin to decide who was to go on a date with her. Bob won a date with Terry, and soon after, in 1948, they were married. Bob also met Terry’s father at the University of Georgia, who was the chapter advisor of his fraternity. He began working at his business, the Loef Company. At that time, the company was small, and Bob found himself doing anything and everything that his boss, Terry’s father, did not want to do. After much expansion, the company was sold in 1995. Together Bob and Terry had two children, Sandy, who was born in 1950 and passed away from cancer in 1996, and Jerry who was born in 1952. Bob and Terry became close with their daughter Sandy’s children, and travelled all around the world with them. The couple moved to Sarasota, Florida in the early 2000s where there son Jerry was living, and where they knew their grandchildren would enjoy visiting. Bob passed away in Sarasota in 2022.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eTheresa “Terry” Blumberg (\u003cem\u003enée\u003c/em\u003e Loef) was born in Athens, Georgia in 1929. Her father was born in New York, and her mother came from an Orthodox Jewish family from Bialystok, Russia. Terry was one of the only Jewish children in Athens, where she felt very alone and excluded. Engagement with the Temple provided her some sense of community. Every Friday night, her family had dinner together at home, went to Temple, and then went to the movies together after. Her parents played bridge, and often left the kids at home with their live-in maid, who Terry attributes with having helped raise her. Terry’s mother was very family oriented, so they often had family come to Athens during the holidays. When she got older, Terry would occasionally visit her aunt who lived in Chattanooga, Tennessee to be with other Jewish children. After graduating high school in Athens, she went to the University of Georgia. She joined the sorority Delta Phi Epsilon, which her mother had been in charge of. There, Terry met Bob Blumberg, and after two years of college, in 1948, they were married. After they got married, Terry, along with Bob, began to work at her family’s company, the Loef Company. After her first child Sandy was born in 1950, she quit her job and stayed home with the children. Her second child, Jerry, was born in 1952. Once her children were teenagers, she began working again, until the business was sold in 1995. Terry remained involved in the Temple, and was treasure of the Temple sisterhood for many years, though she never felt totally at home in Athens, and still felt excluded as a Jew. Terry and Bob became very active in the lives of their grandchildren, the children of their daughter Sandy, who passed away from cancer in 1996. They travelled with their grandchildren all over the world. In the early 2000s, Terry and Bob moved to Sarasota, Florida, where their son Jerry was living, and where they knew their grandchildren enjoy visiting. Terry passed away in Sarasota in 2020.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28989"]}},{"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":["Cohn, Sigmund A. (1898-1997) (personal name)","Lewy Cohn, Suzanne (1902-1987) (personal name)","Reid, J. 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Terry describes what it was like growing up as one of the only Jewish children in Athens, and Bob recounts a similar feeling of not having had a Jewish a community growing up in Atlanta. Together they recall how they met at the University of Georgia, and their life together in Athens, including starting a family, working together at Terry\u0026rsquo;s family\u0026rsquo;s business, and experiences of antisemitism throughout their life. They share stories of their family histories, their grandchildren, and the history of the Jewish population in Athens. Bob and Terry discuss their thoughts on intermarriage, peace and conflict in Israel, and Athens 100 years from now. Lastly, Bob recalls a long-lasting dispute over the cemetery land and its use at the Congregation Children of Israel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert \u0026ldquo;Bob\u0026rdquo; Blumberg was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1928. His mother was from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and his father was from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Bob grew up in the West End neighborhood of Atlanta, and as one of the only Jewish students, regularly faced antisemitism and found himself in fights multiple times a week. Without a Jewish community in his neighborhood, he took the streetcar and travelled an hour and-a-half across town to go to \u003cem\u003echeder\u003c/em\u003e. His family moved to Macon, Georgia in 1941 and Bob graduated from Lanier High School in Macon. He then went to Emory University for a year before transferring to the University of Georgia. After hearing of the problems they were having with their Alpha Epsilon Pi chapter, which he had been a part of at Emory, he went to see if he could help get the chapter off the ground. At the University of Georgia, Bob met Terry Loef. Terry was going out with a member of a different fraternity. Bob and another Alpha Epsilon Pi member flipped a coin to decide who was to go on a date with her. Bob won a date with Terry, and soon after, in 1948, they were married. Bob also met Terry\u0026rsquo;s father at the University of Georgia, who was the chapter advisor of his fraternity. He began working at his business, the Loef Company. At that time, the company was small, and Bob found himself doing anything and everything that his boss, Terry\u0026rsquo;s father, did not want to do. After much expansion, the company was sold in 1995. Together Bob and Terry had two children, Sandy, who was born in 1950 and passed away from cancer in 1996, and Jerry who was born in 1952. Bob and Terry became close with their daughter Sandy\u0026rsquo;s children, and travelled all around the world with them. The couple moved to Sarasota, Florida in the early 2000s where there son Jerry was living, and where they knew their grandchildren would enjoy visiting. Bob passed away in Sarasota in 2022.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTheresa \u0026ldquo;Terry\u0026rdquo; Blumberg (\u003cem\u003en\u0026eacute;e\u003c/em\u003e Loef) was born in Athens, Georgia in 1929. Her father was born in New York, and her mother came from an Orthodox Jewish family from Bialystok, Russia. Terry was one of the only Jewish children in Athens, where she felt very alone and excluded. Engagement with the Temple provided her some sense of community. Every Friday night, her family had dinner together at home, went to Temple, and then went to the movies together after. Her parents played bridge, and often left the kids at home with their live-in maid, who Terry attributes with having helped raise her. Terry\u0026rsquo;s mother was very family oriented, so they often had family come to Athens during the holidays. When she got older, Terry would occasionally visit her aunt who lived in Chattanooga, Tennessee to be with other Jewish children. After graduating high school in Athens, she went to the University of Georgia. She joined the sorority Delta Phi Epsilon, which her mother had been in charge of. There, Terry met Bob Blumberg, and after two years of college, in 1948, they were married. After they got married, Terry, along with Bob, began to work at her family\u0026rsquo;s company, the Loef Company. After her first child Sandy was born in 1950, she quit her job and stayed home with the children. Her second child, Jerry, was born in 1952. Once her children were teenagers, she began working again, until the business was sold in 1995. Terry remained involved in the Temple, and was treasure of the Temple sisterhood for many years, though she never felt totally at home in Athens, and still felt excluded as a Jew. Terry and Bob became very active in the lives of their grandchildren, the children of their daughter Sandy, who passed away from cancer in 1996. They travelled with their grandchildren all over the world. In the early 2000s, Terry and Bob moved to Sarasota, Florida, where their son Jerry was living, and where they knew their grandchildren enjoy visiting. Terry passed away in Sarasota in 2020.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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I'm Burt Sparer. I'm talking with\nRobert and Terry Blumberg. It's Thursday, May 2, 2002. Thank you, Bob and Terry,\nfor adding your story to our Temple's legacy. Our purpose is to record the oral\nhistory of Temple members. We are also asking them to express their views, as\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jews 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. It's a\npleasure to be here with both of you.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Thank you.\n\nSPARER: Terry, you're among the more unusual people that I'm interviewing for\nthis program because you were born in Athens [Georgia]. So let's talk about what\nit was like growing up in Athens as a young ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jewish girl who was very much alone,\nI'm sure, in the school and in the general population. Tell us about what it was\nlike growing up in Athens.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: I hated it.\n\nSPARER: That's interesting. Please do go on and tell us why.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: I guess because I was the only Jewish girl. There were so few\nJewish children . . . I was alone in the grades ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"until Sigmund Cohn and his wife\ncame from Germany. They had two daughters, Eva and Marianne. I think Ann was\nmaybe in my class. It was just . . . my mother came from a very Orthodox family.\nIt was just really different . . . living in a small town until I was a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"teenager\n. . . Then I had an aunt that lived in Chattanooga [Tennessee]. I used to go\nthere and I would date the Jewish boys or be with Jewish kids. It was really\nnice. I enjoyed that.\n\nSPARER: That's quite a distance to go for a date, isn't it?\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Yes. I'd go and stay a week with them. Then my grandmother lived in\nBirmingham [Alabama]. We used to visit Birmingham a lot. 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For July Fourth—that was my\nbirthday—we'd have a big picnic and they would ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"come. We'd all be together.\nMother kept up with all the family. So, more family. We had fun. But other than\nthat, I went to school. I was very happy when I finally got to high school. When\nI went to high school—we only had 11 grades here—so I was happy to get out of\nhigh school to where I would ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"start dating Jewish boys over at the University [of\nGeorgia, Athens]. I would be with the girls that came from Atlanta to go to the\nUniversity of Georgia. I met a lot of nice Jewish girls.\n\nSPARER: There was a Hillel House here at the time, wasn't there?\n\nT. BLUMBERG: I think so. I joined a sorority, the DPhiE's [Delta Phi Epsilon].\nMy mother was, for years, in charge of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DPhiE's. My father was in charge of\nthe AEPi's [Alpha Epsilon Pi]. During the war, they went off campus, but after\nthe war . . . then Daddy helped bring it back on campus. We had two Jewish\nsororities three Jewish fraternities here. The Phi Eps [Phi Epsilon Pi] were\nhere, too, and the TEPs [Tau Epsilon Phi] and the AEPi's. 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The same thing happened with our children.\n\nSPARER: Did you find some ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"comfort in the Temple when you were growing up in Athens?\n\nT. BLUMBERG: When we were growing up, we went to Temple every Friday night. Our\nTemple did not read the Torah every Friday night, so the services started at\neight and they were over at nine o'clock.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Went to [the] movies . . .\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Then, Mom and Daddy and I . . . and then Freddy was born . . . 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Mom and\nDad played a lot of bridge, and so they were always having a bridge game, either\nover at the house or going somewhere else to play ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"bridge. So we were really\nraised by the maid. She lived in with us. I guess that's what we did on Saturday\nnight. I don't remember.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Until you got older.\n\nSPARER: When you got older and while the kids were growing up, perhaps\nafterwards, did you become active in the Temple?\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Yes, yes.\n\nSPARER: Sisterhood?\n\nT. BLUMBERG: I used to make 200 matzo ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"balls every year for Passover. Lela Cohen\n[sp]—the Cohens moved here. Then she lived across the street . . . We used to\nhave a Chinese night at Temple. We made all the eggrolls and all the food.\n\nSPARER: Raised money selling bulbs?\n\nT. BLUMBERG: We raised money selling bulbs—tulip bulbs and daffodil bulbs. I\nwas in charge. 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I was the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Treasurer for years, you know, of\nthe . . .\n\nR. BLUMBERG: . . . of [the] Sisterhood?\n\nT. BLUMBERG: . . . of the Sisterhood. I remember, during the war, every Sunday\nmorning we had the Navy here and then the ASTP . . . the army something.\n\nSPARER: The [Army] Service Training Program.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: That was at the University.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: They would come to the Temple every Sunday morning. We would ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"have,\nI guess, lox and bagels [and] have breakfast for all of the Jewish boys that\nwere here.\n\nSPARER: How nice.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: We met a lot of them. They were real nice boys that would be in the\nservice. Then after we were married, they would still come to the Navy Supply Corps.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: That's when they started the Navy Supply Corps School.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Then we met a lot of nice couples . . . one couple from ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Boston . .\n. I need to call them next time we go to Boston. They were real nice, all of\nthose couples. They would come to Temple and we'd meet them and we'd go out with\nthem. [We] became real friendly with them.\n\nSPARER: In a sense, the Temple served as a kind of focus for the Jewish\ncommunity . . .\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Right, always.\n\nSPARER: . . . to meet a lot of people, including yourselves. Let me turn ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to Bob,\nand we'll come back to the kids a little bit later. Bob, what brought you and\nwhen did you come to Athens?\n\nR. BLUMBERG: I came here in 1946. I graduated high school and went to Emory\n[Emory University] for a year. My brother-in-law—may he rest in peace, Sidney\nGoldberg—was a Supreme Master of AEPi, and I was an AEPi at Emory. The chapter\nwas having a problem over here, and he suggested that I come to Georgia\n[University of Georgia] [to] see if I could help them out. I was there, and met\nHarry, and we really got it going—got ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it off the ground. I joined the\nfraternity. That's what brought me to the University of Georgia. Then I\ngraduated here, obviously, and we got married and stayed here.\n\nSPARER: Tell me a little bit more [about] exactly how the two of you met.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Believe it or not, it was a . . .\n\nSPARER: You can't remember?\n\nT. BLUMBERG: No.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Believe it or not. She mentioned there were two Jewish fraternities\nand she mentioned her father, Harry, was the advisor of the AEPi. We had a\ncompeting fraternity, the TEP's. She had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"met some fellow at the TEP, and she was\neither the TEP sweetheart or she was going with a TEP. Harry was the [chapter\nadvisor] of the AEPi's. Alan Hubbard [sp] and myself—this happened to be one\nsummer—says, \"We've got to get Terry Loef into AEPi.\" So, we flipped a coin and\nwhoever lost had to date her. This is a true story. I lost.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: He lost.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: But then ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I won, and so we were married. We've been married 54 years.\n\nSPARER: That's a good story.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: That's exactly what happened. I roomed with a lot of fellows from\nAtlanta. Adding to what Terry said, there was a very strong Hillel here. When I\njoined—came to the University of Georgia—it was mandatory that every Jewish\nstudent join the Hillel. It cost $1, and we had to join. We met at the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"old\nTemple there on . . .\n\nSPARER: Downtown.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: The downtown Temple . . . that's where we met. [We] had social\nfunctions there. That was before they had the Hillel House here. In fact, we had\nthe Hillel House, [which] I recall, was somewhere on campus. I wasn't active it in.\n\nSPARER: Tell me again, how did you go to work for Harry?\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Actually, we were dating and then—this is another story—my father\nwas in the jewelry business in Macon, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Georgia.\n\nSPARER: Jewelry?\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Jewelry business in Macon, Georgia. I would work down there. In\nfact, I worked there since I was 10, 11 years old. Back in those days . . .\n1942, 1943, 1944, 1945 . . . I went to Macon in 1941. I was born in Atlanta. We\nwent to Macon in 1941. My father opened up a store. I graduated high school—the\nold Lanier High School in Macon. But during that interim period of time there\nwere four military camps there, so in addition to going to school and doing all\nthe kinds of things that I did, I also ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"worked. At that particular period of\nlife, you could sell anything you could buy. It didn't make any difference. But\nthere was a jewelry salesman that came by—I guess I was a senior at the time\nand we had been dating for a year or so—and this fellow offered me a fabulous\njob. I could make all the money there was for a 17, 18 . . . for a young fellow\n. . . I think I was 18 or 19 at that time. I called her up and told her, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"This\nis an opportunity. I'm probably going to hit the road.\" She and I talked, and\nobviously I didn't do that. So I came back to school and graduated. We actually\ngot married . . . we were in a three-week summer session—I finished college in\nthree-and-a-half years—and we got married and took off one week of the\nthree-week session. I still was able to graduate. We got married in 1948.\nProbably some of the things . . . then I got involved . . . got married. I was\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"going to work with my father. Harry had nobody at that time. He had a yokel\nworking for him, but he had no family ties then. Freddy was too young at the\ntime, so he offered me a position. Terry definitely wanted to stay in Athens,\nGeorgia. It was an opportunity. Here's a little background. When I was working\nthere for the first six months—obviously I worked myself into positions that\nHarry didn't want to do—[I] began running part of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"department—an odd\nsituation. But the federal government Labor Relations Board came in—back in\nthose days, I think it was 40 or 50 cents an hour or whatever it was—and they\nwere scrutinizing how much Mr. and Mrs. Loef were paying everybody. Well, they\ngot by with everything. The only person they had to give back wages to for being\nunderpaid was me. That $50 a week didn't go very far. But, all in all, it worked\nout fine.\n\nSPARER: The name of the company was . . .?\n\nR. BLUMBERG: The Loef Company.\n\nSPARER: The Loef Company, right.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: It ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"grew. Opportunities were there. Timing was good. The war . . .\nthe economy was good. Back in those days . . . nothing wrong. It was—I won't\nsay a junkyard—but it was a salvage department. We had cowhides and rags. In\nfact, when I got out of college . . . We used to go up in . . . If you ever\ntrimmed a cowhide, you cut the ears off, cut the knuckles off, and you put salt\nin them and you fold them in a barrel with water and it's brine. So here, I'm a\nkid fresh out of college and I've never dirtied my hands too ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"often, so I was\ncutting up cowhides and fooling with beeswax and grease from restaurants. It was\na real junky, junky business. We got involved in plumbing. We got involved in\nsteel. We got involved in paper. We got involved in anything and everything. It\nwas just one of those flexible businesses that you could do whatever you wanted\nto do and had opportunities.\n\nSPARER: It was collecting scrap.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Collecting scrap and all these other things. 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We had money, we had the wherewithal to do it.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So it grew. Then in 1964, 1965, the federal government decided . . . that was\nwhen Lady Bird [Johnson]—Lyndon Johnson was president—wanted to rid the\ncountry of the blight of junkyards and billboards. They attempted to do it. The\nfirst and only scrap iron entity—or junkyards, as we were called—to be moved\nin all the United States was the Loef ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Company in Athens, Georgia. They were so .\n. . their proposal was so inadequate—they only gave $25,000 for this. We had\n12,000,000 to 15,000,000 pounds of stuff to move. We had big equipment. They\ndidn't know what was going on. Harry and I went to Washington some six times to\ntalk to our senators and congressmen to say, \"It can't be done. This is an\nimpossible situation. There's nobody in Athens [that has] got a crane other than\nus. There's nobody in Atlanta that has a magnetic crane except one scrap yard,\nand they won't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lease it out. How do we move all these zillions of pounds of stuff?\"\n\nSPARER: Move them from where to where?\n\nR. BLUMBERG: From here to the new location out in Athena Park. How do you do it?\nHow do you accomplish it? What's the scope of the work? Well, the federal\ngovernment didn't know how to handle it. Then they got the city involved and\nJulius Bishop [sp] involved. The city didn't know how to do it or have any\nmoney. So I proposed to the federal government—to the fellow we were working\nwith, who happened to be Hugh Hodson [sp]. [He] was the local fellow that\nhandled it . . . What we ought to be able to do is take it at the lowest\npossible bid, go ahead and get your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"bids, take the lowest possible bid, and we\nwill move it at that. The government doesn't have to do anything. The government\nwould not let us move it. If we moved it, the only thing they would reimburse us\nfor was the gasoline and the cost of labor. They wouldn't pay us for new\nequipment or anything else. To make a long story short, they put it out on bids.\nI gave them two people to bid in Atlanta. Some big companies in Atlanta bid on\nit. They hired some fellow out of Detroit to handle the bidding. It was a rigged\ndeal. Some fellow out of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Detroit got the bid. They sent down two Italians who\ncould hardly speak English with a Ryder truck and a single little forklift to\nmove this whole . . . They'd never seen it, but they were supposed to move us in\n30 days. In the meantime it took 84 days. I had to sue them [and] they\ncountersued. That's how the Loef got into the new thing, because [of] Urban\nRenewal. When they bought the facility from Harry and Sarah, they only had 'X'\namount of dollars to pay for it. We had to take that same amount of funds and\nbuy something else and build a building. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We literally and figuratively built\nevery building—every stitch of it, we engineering, designed, built it,\nfabricated it, and put it out there.\n\nSPARER: Where was the original facility that you . . . ?\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Where Athens Hardware is now. Harry goes back further than that.\nRight across from that is where the History Village Inn . . . There used to an\nold foundry down there. That's where Harry was at first. Then he got into the\nscrap iron business, because in that old red brick building—you might remember\nit—a man was riding down Thomas Avenue (according to Harry's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"story) in a\nA-Model Ford or whatever it was. [He] failed to make the curve and hit the\nbuilding and demolished his car. [He] didn't have the wherewithal to move it so\nHarry kept the car. Then the next day somebody came and wanted to buy a tire,\nsomebody wanted to buy a generator, somebody wanted to buy the motor, and\nultimately he got into the parts business. That's how we got in that. Then when\nhe got bigger, he moved across the street into that little old three-acre tract\nof land. There was a black church behind us. All the alcoholics were on the road\nright behind. That was what you call \"White's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Alley\"—that's where all the\nliquor was sold. So that's how he moved across the street. Then when I got\nmarried . . . [in] 1948, it was right after the war, things were good, the\neconomy was good. There was room for expansion. People that had knowledge and\nthe wherewithal and the clout to do certain things, you could expand. We did,\nand it was very profitable for us.\n\nSPARER: The rest is history.\n\nR. 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Around ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1966 . . . I\ndon't know . . . I don't remember . . . the kids were teenagers and we had a\nwoman bookkeeper. My mother worked there, and we had a woman bookkeeper. We\ndiscovered she was stealing a lot of money every week. We made this discovery,\nand so they caught ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"her. We had Pinkerton come in and observe her stealing the\nmoney and then they caught her. So I went down to help Mom in the office. It was\na nightmare because this girl had done all the book work and everything.\n\nSPARER: You replaced her, is that right?\n\nT. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I didn't go back to work until they were teenagers. I\nwent down to help Mom, and to learn the business. It was all new from when I had\nworked . . . 16 years before. So I did that. Then I wasn't going to work full\ntime, and we hired some people and I trained them. The minute you get them\ntrained, they'd quit. 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She was busy doing that, and then she went to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"college. So I\nstayed on until 1995. When we closed up, I was still working there.\n\nSPARER: Thank you for those abbreviated stories of your life. They were really\nshort answers to a very long question. Let's talk about the kids. I know the\ntragedy—one of your children died, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but tell us about their early years.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Sandy was born in 1950, in June, and Jerry was born in 1952. We had\na very active Sunday school. There weren't a lot of children in it of the same\nage. It was staggered. We had a carpool. We were in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"carpools with the Rosenthals\nand with Leila [Kahn] and Bobbie Copley [sp] was here and Annette Jay [sp].\n\nR. BLUMBERG: The old Temple.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: This was all at the old Temple.\n\nSPARER: Did they have some of the same antisemitism experiences in school that\nyou did?\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Yes, yes.\n\nSPARER: It hadn't changed.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: No, no. Sandy, she cried so. The SAP's [Sigma Alpha Pi] . . . was\nthe name of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the sorority in high school . . . of course she wasn't asked to join.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: She wanted to leave Athens. She wanted to quit school and go\nsomewhere else. It was devastating.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Yes, because all of her friends were in it.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: She was an honor student and everything else.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: I understand that Michael, Cecil Michael [Cecil Michael Barnet] and\nBobbie [Stephens] Erwin were the originators. They started ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that. They also\nstarted . . .\n\nSPARER: Started what?\n\nT. BLUMBERG: . . . the sorority at the high school, also the Junior League in town.\n\nSPARER: We're started by a Jewish person?\n\nR. BLUMBERG: There's no longer Jewish women allowed in . . .\n\nT. BLUMBERG: I think in their bylaws or something it was that they'd never ask a\nJewish person to belong.\n\nSPARER: But you say the Junior League was started by Jewish . . .\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Cecil Michael.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Yes, Bobbie ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Irwin . . .\n\nR. BLUMBERG: So the story goes.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: . . . and Cecil . . .\n\nSPARER: Two men? These are women?\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Yes, they're women. Max Michael's daughter. She was very, very\nfriendly with Bobbie [Stephens] Erwin. They were the originators of the Junior Assembly.\n\nSPARER: How did the Junior League go from an organization started by two Jewish\nwomen to . . .\n\nR. BLUMBERG: These were not two Jewish women, no.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: One was Jewish and one wasn't.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: One was Jewish and the other ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was a Gentile in town. It's in the\ncharter for Christian women and so forth . . . even today.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: But Cecil was Jewish. Her father, Max Michael, was president of the\nbank here.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: And the Temple.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: They lived in . . . you know the Elks Club? That was their home.\n\nSPARER: Well, did the one woman who was Jewish resent them so?\n\nT. BLUMBERG: No, evidently ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"not.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: We don't know how the charter changed after that, but I can tell\nyou that when they would solicit us for charitable contributions for the new\nLeague, obviously I would . . . the women, who happened to be good friends of\nthe husbands I play with . . . [I] would say, this is in your bylaws. Even the\nwomen were surprised, but they didn't come back and deny it.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: They called and asked us for contributions. We give contributions\nall over town—the Boys' Club, and the Cancer Society, and et cetera. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But when\nthey would solicit us for the Junior League, I didn't give them money. We had\nseveral Jewish doctors in town, and none of their wives was ever asked to belong.\n\nSPARER: Do you know if that's still the case today?\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Yes, as far as I know.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: To my knowledge, there hasn't been a Jewish person—I think there's\nbeen one, supposedly . . . since we've been . . . I've been in town 50-some years.\n\nSPARER: Carol Kurtz was invited, but she told me that . . .\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Really.\n\nSPARER: . . . she would not become the token Jew.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: That wasn't very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"nice.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Jerry had the same problem as far as . . . Jerry was the finest\ngolfer in the city of Athens, representing Athens as well as the state of\nGeorgia in his golfing escapades. He, too, wasn't allowed to go in it. He was\nthe number one person at Athens High. It was just that it existed, but it wasn't\nquite as bad as I had when I was in Atlanta. But even [in] the school that I\nwent to—West End—there were two to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"three (maybe) Jewish people in the whole\nhigh school. I used to get in a fight at least three times a week. I was very\nsensitive because it was \"Blumberg this\" or \"Jew-boy this\" or something like\nthat. Just \"Meet me behind the gym.\" It was prevalent in Atlanta as well.\n\nSPARER: Wasn't there a reasonably large Jewish community in Atlanta?\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Depends on what section of Atlanta. You're talking about 1930s . .\n. 1935. Atlanta today is not what Atlanta was back then.\n\nSPARER: I understand that.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: There might have been two congregations. When I went to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"cheder it\nwas catch the streetcar and go across town an hour-and-a-half just to get to the\n. . . by the time I got there, it was dark and you had to study in the basement\nto go to Hebrew school. So it was not like there was a congregation [in] every\nsection of Atlanta like it is today.\n\nSPARER: Did you live in a neighborhood that had a number of Jewish people?\n\nR. BLUMBERG: No Jewish people.\n\nSPARER: Where in Atlanta?\n\nR. BLUMBERG: West End. It obviously has been taken over many years ago. That's\nwhere our whole family was born—the five of us. But ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"obviously we moved out of\nthere. In a period of time we went to Macon. My sisters were on the other side\nof town—upgraded since then. In that particular section of town—which was a\ngood section of town—it's where it's still quite poor. There weren't any Jewish\nkids over there. There wasn't that big a Jewish population in Atlanta back in\nthose days, and the antisemitism was there.\n\nSPARER: Since you've been adults working in business, raising kids here, with\nthe exception of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Junior League, has there been any overt antisemitism that\nyou've experienced in Athens?\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Let me tell you what Leroy Michael told me when I joined the\ncountry club. There were only six Jews who were members of the country club at\nthe time. Leroy was one of them . . . [he] wasn't very active. Leroy came up to\nme and said, \"Bob, this is their club. You just don't do anything. You're\nprivileged to be out here, but just stay out of it.\" I guess after I'd been out\nthere and I became a fairly decent ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"golfer—real active in the men's association\nand playing with all the fellows out there—one of the yokels in town came up to\nme and said, \"Bob, we're going to put you up for the Board.\" I said, \"That's\nfine.\" He said, \"We need a Jew on the Board.\" I said, \"What?\" He said, \"We need\na Jew on the Board.\" I said, \"You know what—if you want me for what I am and\nwhat I can do to assist this organization, fine. If you want me because I'm\nJewish, just drop my name out of this altogether.\" He did. So that's what you\nhave. You can't change it. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It's here.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: I've always felt . . . I've always felt . . . I've always been real\nlow key, not pushy, [held] back. I just . . . we have a few friends, Bob has met\npeople on the golf course, and we're friendly with three or four couples, and\nthat's about it. And [we] never asked to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"join the other group. They are, what is\nthe name of that group Paul belongs to?\n\nR. BLUMBERG: The City Club.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: The City Club! They don't have Jews.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: You know that?\n\nSPARER: I never heard of the City Club.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: The City Club is a private organization for Christians only. They\nplay golf, they have social functions and you do not . . . there's no Jewish\npeople allowed because . . . that's a men's group in town that exists today.\nThere has never been a Jewish fellow member there.\n\nSPARER: These are business people?\n\nR. BLUMBERG: And ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it's university.\n\nSPARER: And university.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: City Club.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: That Paul Broun belongs to it. So does Bob Owens.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Some of my best friends.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: I didn't even know him.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: But you don't even . . .\n\nT. BLUMBERG:But you don't know.\n\nSPARER: This is turning the old bigoted phrase around, \"some of my best friends\nare Christians.\"\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Yes. So, I've never felt at home, you know? Really. [I've] just\nbeen real ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"quiet. My mother told me always, \"Don't brag, don't push yourself.\nJust be very quiet.\" And so, I've always been that way.\n\nSPARER: Let me, let's not stay on the subject too much longer. But I do want to\nask another question about it. Would you say that this degree of antisemitism is\nsomething that's kind of built into the culture and peculiar to this part of the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"South? Or is this a kind of deliberate, mean kind of antisemitism that comes\nfrom individual families?\n\nR. BLUMBERG: If it's anything, in my opinion, it's individual. As I don't think\n. . . Athens is somewhat different from South Georgia, and other corners of\nGeorgia, and different in Atlanta as well. At least you get the University, you\nget some from the higher level of education . . . is higher here. But we didn't\nsense it as a fact that we were excluded from too many things. We've ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"been\nincluded in it.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: I've always sensed it.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Well, we feel it in the sense that . . . maybe that's a better\nchoice of words. But we just didn't push ourselves to try to get into those\nthings, however. I don't feel it's as prevalent here. I'll tell you one thing,\nthat way after I got out of college, this editorial . . . I'm sure you were in\nAthens . . . this only happened ten years ago, when this fellow Smith came . . .\nthat thing, that [was] published in Red \u0026 Black about . . . Do you remember\nthat? Well, I took position. I called the ADL [Anti-Defamation League] and\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"called in and I even challenged him on a video. A real son of a bitch . . . had\nthe lawyers and everything go after him. They denied it. But, it was there, that\n. . . something that happened. But I don't think universally there are that many\nproblems in Athens. I don't know what the kids are experiencing today. I don't\nhave it, I don't feel it today because of my group. But is it there? I really\ndon't know.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: I think it's ignorance.\n\nSPARER: I sense that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"your experiences are somewhat stronger than many of the\npeople that I've interviewed thus far who came to Athens . . .\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Later on.\n\nSPARER: . . . 20, 30 years ago, even, where some of them say they feel it in a\nsubtle, subtle way, quietly, in the sense that being invited to join some clubs,\nbut nothing overt that's interfered with their routine living. And the Jewish\ncommunity has grown larger, more people find more diverse friends. Well, let's\nget away from ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"this a little bit. Have you two looked into your roots? Have you\nsearched out your genealogies? If you have, what did you find?\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Well, my father's brother-in-law did a family tree, but it stopped\nin the 1940s and 1950s, something like that. And it hasn't gone any[where] since\nthen. [I've] got three sisters, and I've lost one brother, and I haven't done\nanything since then.\n\nSPARER: Were your parents were born in this country?\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Both ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mine were. My mother was from . . .\n\nT. BLUMBERG: My mother wasn't.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Her mother wasn't.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Daddy was born in New York and Mother was born in Russia, Bialystok\n[Russia], I think. I found a picture of my grandmother and her parents, and all\nthe children. The oldest sister was not in the picture because—this was taken\nin Europe, of course—because ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"she had come to the United States and met a man\nand got married. I guess he was a peddler, but somehow, he wound up in\nBirmingham, Alabama and opened a department store. When it closed, it was the\nlargest single family-owned department store in the United States. It made a\nlot, a lot of money . . .\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Pizitz.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Pizitz Department ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Store in Birmingham, Alabama.\n\nSPARER: Spell it for us.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: P-I-Z-I-T-Z.\n\nSPARER: Okay.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Uncle Lewis and Aunt Minnie, one by one, brought over her brothers\nand sisters. My grandmother did not come at first because her parents—my great\ngrandfather—all he did was go to synagogue and read the Torah, or whatever\nthey do there all day ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"long. I think my grandmother . . . they had a chicory\nfactory, and she ran the chicory factory. Well, they didn't want to come to the\nUnited States, so my grandmother wouldn't leave them. Finally, finally, they\ntalked him into coming, and they all moved to New York. Then my grandmother was\nsupposed to go on to Birmingham, but the grandfather didn't want to go to\nBirmingham because he was right next door to the synagogue ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in New York. So\nfinally, after she got pregnant, and couldn't come, my mother went with my uncle\nand lived in Birmingham with them in their big home, until my grandparents came\nto Birmingham. Then they moved to Birmingham, and that's where my mother grew up.\n\nSPARER: Let me ask . . .\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Okay.\n\nSPARER: Bob, where were your grandparents ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"from? Do you know? Eastern Europe?\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Yes.\n\nSPARER: Okay.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: My sister would know . . . but I've never even met them. I never\nmet my grandparents. My mother was born and raised up in Minneapolis, Minnesota.\nHer family was in the produce business. They used to supply all the goods on the\nboat that came down the Mississippi. They were very, very wealthy folks at the\ntime. My father was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The story similar to my\nparents is something almost similar to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"her parents—my mother and father never\nmet. They communicated between aunts and uncles. After a period of time, she was\ncoming to Atlanta to meet her future husband. My father met her on the train.\nThe next day they got married. Her mother and father [had] a similar situation.\nShe was going with somebody else, and they had communicated some, or had met on\noccasions. She was going somewhere to be engaged, and hadn't met her . . .\n\nT. BLUMBERG: She was going to New York . . .\n\nR. BLUMBERG: . . . going and they met her . . .\n\nT. BLUMBERG: . . . and Daddy ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"found out about it and wrote her a something and .\n. .\n\nR. BLUMBERG: They met and got married.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: He went to Atlanta and met her on the train—where the train\nstopped in Atlanta—and talked her into marrying him instead of the guy in New\nYork. So, she went on to New York and had a good time. Then they got married.\nThey met, when . . . two or three years earlier . . .\n\nR. BLUMBERG: They had met before.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: . . . in Chattanooga at a dance.\n\nSPARER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Let's talk about your children. Where is your son now?\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Okay. Jerry's in Sarasota, Florida.\n\nSPARER: Oh, that's why you're moving to Sarasota.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: So we're moving to Sarasota. When we call the grandchildren, they\nlive in Boston and we say, \"Had you rather visit us in Georgia or in Florida?\"\nand they screamed, \"Florida!\"\n\nSPARER: And your grandchildren were adopted by your . . .\n\nT. BLUMBERG: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They were adopted. When Sandy and Steve got married, they got\nmarried in 1982 and . . .\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Three weeks after Harry died.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Yes, Daddy died, and three weeks later they got married in Boston\nbecause she had been living there for good many years. All of her friends were\nup there. She really didn't have any friends in Athens, Georgia. She went to\nBlue Star, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Camp Blue Star in Hendersonville [North Carolina] when she was\ngrowing up. We let her go up there to be and meet Jewish children. She met a lot\nof kids from Miami. She met a lot of kids from Atlanta, from Chattanooga. If she\nwas alive . . . she would . . . Her best friends were the girls that she met\nthere. Then she went to University of Georgia for two ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"years. Then she visited\nColorado one summer and decided she loved it out there. So, she went her junior\nand senior year to Boulder [University of Colorado, Boulder] and graduated from there.\n\nSPARER: At the University of Colorado?\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Yes. She moved to Boston from there, and lived there. She became\nvery active in the young Jewish community there. She went on several trips to\nIsrael, [unintelligible: 41.30]. She led some ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"trips, and she met her future\nhusband on a trip to Israel. They got married and then they tried to have\nchildren and she couldn't have children. So, they adopted.\n\nSPARER: And today, those children are . . .\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Those children [are] Harrison and Andrew. Harrison is 14. He was\nbar mitzvahed last year and Andrew is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ten.\n\nSPARER: Getting a Jewish education too?\n\nT. BLUMBERG: They both went to Solomon Shechter, the Jewish school. In fact,\nwe're going up in June. Harrison is graduating the eighth grade up there.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: He's been bar mitzvahed. Yokel children, they're not Jewish children.\n\nSPARER: What's the name of that school again?\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Solomon Schechter.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Solomon Schechter.\n\nSPARER: Schechter?\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Schechter.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: S-C-H-E-C-H-T-E-R.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Solomon Schechter. Andrew was in the school, and Harrison. He's\ngraduating. It only goes to the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"eighth grade. He's graduating in June. We've\nbeen invited up for the graduation.\n\nSPARER: Obviously you're very close to them.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Yes, oh yes.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: We were in Florida for a month, and each one was down there for a\nweek. We took each one to Disneyland. We went to Ecuador in December with the\nkids, and then we went on to Lima [Peru], down to Machu Picchu. [With] the kids\nwe've been to . . . and the year before that we went to Jamaica, and the year\nbefore that, we traveled to Africa.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: We took them to Africa.\n\nSPARER: You took them to Israel too?\n\nR. BLUMBERG: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They have not been to Israel yet.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: No. Harrison was supposed to go to Israel . . .\n\nR. BLUMBERG: A couple weeks ago.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: . . . for his graduation at school. They take the kids to see . . .\nthe eighth graders . . . Do you know where they went? They came to Georgia. They\ncame to the mountains, Clayton [Georgia]. Is there a Jewish camp in Clayton? I\nthink they stayed there, and then they went to Atlanta and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"stayed at the\nRadisson. They went to the Coca-Cola Company, and the Jimmy Carter thing, and to\nthe Cyclorama, and the CNN building, and the Stone Mountain. They had a\nwonderful time. They did that instead of going to Israel.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: He's a smart kid. He travels in the summertime, or during his off\nseason. He might take a two or three week camping overnight and never stay in a\nhotel. Good kid. Both are good ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"children. One of them is smaller, more agile. The\nolder one, Harrison . . . he's content within himself. But he's not a good\nathlete. He's a big boy. He's 14 years old with the size 11 shoe.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: He was eight when his momma died. So, he knew his momma real well.\nOur son in law has remarried. It's been difficult on the children and on her,\ntoo, I guess.\n\nSPARER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bob, while I was turning the tape over, we were talking about some of\nthe history of Athens, particularly in terms of the Jewish merchants. Give us a\nsummary of what you were saying and what it was . . . and who was who then.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: A lot of smart people know more about it than I do. In doing some\nof the history that I got involved with when we developed the history of the\ntemple before . . . Herb did that. I know what the Michael family, and the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosenthals . . . back in the old days, the Jewish merchants in Athens were the\nvery prominent people in town. There was the Michael family, the Omuntz [sp]\nfamily, the Jewels, [unintelligible: 45.12], Henry Rosenthal and Al Bush, the\nJewish merchants downtown.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: The Bowleys [sp].\n\nR. BLUMBERG: The Bowleys. Sidney Bowley, who has changed his affiliation.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: The Lessers [sp].\n\nR. BLUMBERG: And with the Lessers . . . So, anyhow, the Michael family, that I\ndo know something about. The 1922 Athens . . . downtown Athens burned, the\nwooden ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"buildings. It was dirt streets . . . burnt down. Clayton Street and Broad\nStreet where the current Park Plaza building is today, that you might have\nremembered as Davis and Paxson, or Macy's, or the Michael Building—it still has\nthe name Michael Building. Well, if you look downtown in Athens, you will see\nbuildings with names on them. You'll see the Morris Building, you will see the\nMichael Building. You will see the Lesser Building—his name is on it. But\nanyhow, in the old ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"days, the boys put the names on the buildings. You might not\neven know but over near Springdale, there's a gate right there and his name, Old\nLevy 1890 is [on] an iron gate. It's got a lot of coats of paint on it. I walk\nover there.\n\nSPARER: I see that.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: The gate is still there. But anyhow, back in those days, the Levys\nand even the Meyer sisters, and Meyer families . . . They were very prominent in\nthis town and well respected, [and] obviously built up the old temple. Jake\nJewel ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"got in politics. Max Michael was head of the bank. They were the people\nthat had an influence in the community. But anyhow, the Michael family had this\nbuilding and it burned down, and they selected the top architect in the state of Georgia.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Was it Neel?\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Yes. Neel Reid. He built this building in Athens. This was his\nacre. This is an acre. This is his most famous building. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We ended up buying it\nfrom the family. There were seven sisters and brothers involved, and they were\nscattered from Spain to New York to California. It took quite a few lawyers to\nput it together, but they wanted to dissolve the ownership of real estate in\nAthens. So Freddie and I ended up buying it and rebuilt it, and we just sold it\na couple of years ago. But the old Michael family [members] were the merchants\nin town, as were the Morrises and so forth.\n\nSPARER: Who were those seven members around ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the world? What do they own?\n\nR. BLUMBERG: The brothers. This family is the owner of the building, the family\nthat owned the building was . . .\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Simon brothers.\n\nSPARER: And what did Neel Reid do?\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Neel Reid built the building in 1922 . . .\n\nT. BLUMBERG: He designed it.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: For the Michaels, Leroy and David Michael.\n\nSPARER: I see.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: He was the architect.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Leroy and David Michael had family, and they all had a piece of the\nbusiness, a piece of the ownership of the building. In order to resolve the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"estate—because in the estate you had to get permission from all of them—they\nall had to agree to sell it at an agreed price. That took a lot of legal. We\nended up buying it from them, and then we ended up buying the Morris building\nright behind it, which is these three buildings. It comes up Jackson Street and\nonto Broad Street. We sold both buildings just a year or so ago. We ended up . .\n. only last year we knew the history of it. When ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we rebuilt that building, we\nhad to meet all the historical codes, [we] call them a hysterical group or\nwhatever you'll call it. We've been involved with that one hysterical group in\nAthens who did not want us to build a hotel there. But anyhow, so we built it\nand . . .\n\nT. BLUMBERG: There were two brothers that inherited it. Their sons, David and\nLeroy, ran the business when the fathers ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"died. They did not marry Jewish women.\nThey married Christian women.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: But all those sisters ended up owning the . . . it was in the estate.\n\nSPARER: Let's get away from that a little bit now and branch out into some more\ngeneralized questions—some about things Jewish and some not. Let's talk about\nintermarriage for a minute. Many Jews ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"feel that we're reaching a crisis in this\ncountry because of the rate of intermarriages between Jews and Gentiles. The\nrabbi feels that this is a bit of a crisis now. How do you feel about\nintermarriage? Do you have any feelings at all about it?\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Well, up to 15 years ago, I objected to it. Since our son has not\nbeen married yet, he can marry anything black, white, green, Christian, as long\nas we can get some ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2970.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"grandchildren. But that's going to be tough right now. Our\ndaughter, although we were raising . . . the kids [were] raised in Athens, in a\nsomewhat religious Jewish atmosphere. Our son, even today is single. When we\nobserve the holidays, he's probably more religious than we are, and he has\nforced himself to become it. Sandy, when she married Steve—they elected to have\na kosher home. They did not have it in Athens, Georgia.\n\nSPARER: Was Steve Jewish?\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Steve is Jewish, oh sure. And his ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mother, you might know her as\n[unintelligible: 50.32] or anyhow. Cynthia Shulman was head of Brandeis in\nfundraising. She was the only woman in 84 years [who] became a president of an\nall-men's organization up in Boston. Very, very wealthy, not wealthy, very, very\nbrilliant woman.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: All she's ever done is raise money for charity.\n\nSPARER: How do you spell her last name?\n\nR. BLUMBERG: S-H-U-L-M-A-N. No C in it. Very, very good family. Steve had three\n. . . two brothers. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They're close and we're close. Steve's new wife has taken us\nin, and we have taken her in. We're very fortunate, and we have to count our\nblessings that we have a great relationship with him.\n\nSPARER: What does your son do for a living?\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Jerry is in Sarasota, and he has a partner who's a tax attorney.\nThey are in the development business and buy tracts of land and build houses.\nThey're building about 100 houses right now in Sarasota. We've got ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3060.0,3090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"some\nbuildings down there, Terry and I, and Jerry. We own some buildings. We own some\nother real estate down there. So, it's also a natural reason that we're moving\ntoo. But he's in the real estate business and doing quite well.\n\nSPARER: Let me ask you another kind of question. Here's the question which I've\nasked everybody that we're interviewing on tape—their opinions as to whether\nyou think Israel will achieve peace with her Arab neighbors in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3090.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"our lifetime, and\nwhat would it take to get there?\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Yes, I guess you have to quantify what is peace. I mean, is it a\npermanent peace where people intermingle, and they go freely the about their\nways? That'll never happen. There's too much animosity. Will there be some type\nof resolution of what is currently existent? Absolutely. Yes, and I think that\nthe Arab countries have gotten smart enough and realize there will be financial\nopportunities for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"them by having some kind of settlement and settled situation\nover there. Yes, they will help bring it about. Will it ever be the kind of\npeace that we enjoy in the United States? No. But will there be peace of some\nkind between the neighbors? Yes.\n\nSPARER: In our lifetime?\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Yes.\n\nSPARER: All right. Terry, anything you want to add?\n\nT. BLUMBERG: I think . . . years ago when we were in Israel, we went to a store\nor something, and the Arabs were running the store, and they got ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"along very well\nwith the Jewish people. There were a lot of them that were good friends, and\nthey lived next door to one another. But today, with the fanatics over there,\nit's just very difficult. I feel so bad for them because they've lost all of\ntheir tourism and everything. I don't know, they're such fanatic ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3180.0,3210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"people, these Arabs.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Will there be peace in your time was the question?\n\nT. BLUMBERG: I know, I just . . . I hope so.\n\nSPARER: I'm sure we all do.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: But I . . . with such crazy people, I don't see how it could be. I\nhonestly don't. They can't control those people because they told them that\nthey're going to be martyrs.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: But it can't keep on going like it's going. There will be a resolution\nof some kind.\n\nSPARER: Let's hope ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Unless they get a strong leader that will put his foot down and\nsay, \"Stop this business,\" but we don't know who that could be.\n\nSPARER: We probably could talk about this for a long time and not come to the resolution.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Right.\n\nSPARER: Your comment is more hopeful than many of the others that I've\ninterviewed. Let me ask each of you, has there been a person or persons in your\nlives that have been very influential in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3240.0,3270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"guiding and directing the course of\nyour lives?\n\nT. BLUMBERG: You mean people that live here in Athens or . . . ?\n\nSPARER: People you know, parents?\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Well, my parents, of course.\n\nSPARER: How so?\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Well, they directed my life . . .\n\nR. BLUMBERG: They instilled values, is what he's talking about.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Yes. I've always known that I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was Jewish and they made me feel\nproud that I was Jewish. I wasn't always happy with where we lived. I think if\nwe had been in a large city, I would have been much happier because I would have\nhad some friends. Whereas living here in Athens . . .\n\nSPARER: You realized you had . . .\n\nT. BLUMBERG: I had a few ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3300.0,3330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"friends, but then Sandy got sick and taking care of Mom\n. . . It seems like I've been nursing people all my life and taking care of\npeople. I'd kind of dropped from the temple. I didn't see anyone. I didn't have\ntime because we spent practically eight years in Boston and then Mom . . . Dad\nhad died. I was taking care of Mother, taking care of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3330.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sandy, trying to work. But\nI think if I had lived in a larger city where I would have had neighbors, maybe\nthat were Jewish, known a lot of Jewish people and . . .\n\nR. BLUMBERG: It would have been different?\n\nT. BLUMBERG: It would have been different.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: See, my situation was different. To answer your question, [who] was\nsomeone [that] influenced my life? Terry was [from] a small ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3360.0,3390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"family, [from] a\nsmall town, one brother, mother and father worked all the time. Mine was\nsomewhat different. There were five of us. In 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932,\nthings were different in the Depression. So the values were instilled, or\naccepted, or just there because it took the family unit to make things happen.\nWe were small kids, but my brother had to go to work. My father was working and\nthere were periods of time ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3390.0,3420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when . . . Although we were at one point very\nwealthy, back in those days when stuff hit the fan, it just hit the fan and\naffected everybody. We survived. My mother and my father, before they got\nmarried, had quite a few stores in South Georgia. My mother . . . we had\nchauffeurs and butlers, but to answer your question, who instills values,\nbecause of that situation, because of the timing, because of the need for the\nfamily to work as a unit, you gave. If you went out and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3420.0,3450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you earned $0.30, $0.28\nwent to the family, and you might have kept a little for yourself. I used to go\nout and work and earn enough money to take my sisters to the movie. When I was\nselling coat hangers or cutting grass, you did it because it was the right thing\nto do. So those things were done. My father was working, so my mother was a\ndisciplinarian, and she was the dominating fact within our family. But there\nwere responsibilities, whether you were five years old or 15 ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3450.0,3480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"years old—the\nfamily came first. So, the values were there. I personally didn't run across\nanybody that has . . . to set up a pedestal that I would mimic or emulate. I\nreally think I'm a self-taught man. I've had difficult times. We've had good\ntimes, we've had bad times. The same thing in business and otherwise. But I\nprided myself on my ability to do certain things that I think might be, as good\nor better than others—not necessarily intellectually—but things ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3480.0,3510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that I have\naccomplished, and that I can look in the mirror and say, you're a nice fellow no\nmatter what anybody says to me. It's not an ego trip. It's just self-confidence.\n\nSPARER: That's a great statement. I wouldn't try to top that. Don't say anything\nmore because that really is as good as it comes. Let me end up with a high sigh\nkind of question. Let's say ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3510.0,3540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it's 100 years from now and you're still sitting\naround this table, and you've joined a group of people who just finished\nlistening to your tape. What would you like to say to them about . . . What\nwould you be curious to ask them? What to say to them? Any thoughts on . . .?\n\nT. BLUMBERG: I would be curious to know 100 years from now how different things\nare, or whether they are different, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3540.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"or whether it's the same thing over and over again.\n\nSPARER: Right here in Athens.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Right here in Athens.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Or the world.\n\nSPARER: What would you ask them Bob? What would you say to them?\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Well, obviously, if I were there, I'd know what was happening, so I\nwouldn't have to ask them a couple of questions.\n\nSPARER: Well, let's say you just landed in a time capsule . . .\n\nT. BLUMBERG: You came back.\n\nSPARER: You wouldn't know, you didn't know what happened.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: What did I miss?\n\nSPARER: What did you miss?\n\nR. BLUMBERG: How did you get from here to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3570.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"here?\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Tell me what's happened since I've been gone.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Bring you up to date after hundred years in the next 30 minutes.\n\nSPARER: Well.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: I wonder if the Ku Klux Klan will still be around.\n\nSPARER: I think it's pretty well gone by now.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: I don't know. I think they're still around.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: They exist, token things.\n\nSPARER: I've known you a long time without really knowing you. In this last hour\nand a half, I think I've gotten to know ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3600.0,3630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you a little bit, and I absolutely,\nthoroughly enjoyed it.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Same here. Thank you very much.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: I want to tell you something.\n\nSPARER: Yes?\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Jerry's partner's wife said . . . We were in Sarasota—we stayed\nthere this summer for three and a half months in our condo—trying it out. In\nthe mail I got this piece of newspaper Carolyn sent me. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3630.0,3660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She thought I would be\ninterested in it. It was about . . . they were writing about . . . it was in the\nFood Section. They were writing about \"Brunswick Stew.\" She was talking about\ndifferent recipes. She says, \"If anybody's interested in Brunswick Stew, please\nget in touch with me.\" So, this man writes her. His name is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3660.0,3690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mike Cutler. He says\nhe grew up in Athens, Georgia, and he loved [the] Poss's Brunswick Stew . . .\nthat Posses had a restaurant here [in Athens] and they made the best Brunswick\nStew. His father, Mr. Cutler, had a meat market on Broad Street . . .\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Hyman.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Hyman Cutler. He said when he was . . . during the war, he was\nstationed in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3690.0,3720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"England, and his father sent him a case of Poss's Brunswick Stew.\nHe just loved it. So they said, \"Does anybody have any other stories?\" I got the\nphone book out and I looked it up and I called Mike Cutler. He's in his early\neighties. He had a younger brother named Phil ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3720.0,3750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cutler (Philip), and a sister . .\n. I think she was the middle one . . . Mina. Now I think Philip was nearer my\nage. Of course, he was older than me. But we had a nice long conversation.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: We had lunch at his house.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: His grandchildren were there, so I says, \"I'll call you in a couple\nof weeks.\" So I called them. I think we came home and then we went back. I don't\nremember. Anyway, they invited us ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3750.0,3780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"over for lunch, so we went over there, and we\nhad a delightful visit. He and his wife . . . his sister has died . . . I\nremember her, Mina . . . and, of course, his parents. I walk right by his\nparents' graves when I go up to visit all of our family up at the cemetery here.\nSo I told him, \"I pass by and visit all the time . . . when I'm in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3780.0,3810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Athens.\" They\nwere delightful. They were getting ready to move to a retirement home because\ntheir house was big and it was too much for them to take care of. He was a buyer\nfor Macy's in New York when he came out of the service and met his wife. Philip\nis a furniture procurer or something. He never married, Philip didn't. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3810.0,3840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was\nmost interesting. Then, Longboat Key [Florida]—where we're moving to—puts out\na newspaper. In the newspaper . . . once a week they put out this Long Boat Key\nthing . . . I was reading and the synagogue on Long Boat Key, they were saying\nthat Rabbi [Michael] Eisenstat . . . I think is his name . . . is on vacation\nfor the month of August, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3840.0,3870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but Rabbi Sandy [Sanford] Saperstein (emeritus) is\ntaking over for him. I said to Bob, \"Sandy Saperstein . . . he was our rabbi in\nAthens when I was a child.\" We went to the . . . we didn't come home for the\nholidays. We stayed down there and we went to the synagogue. So I asked this man\nwho was showing us where to sit, \"Was Rabbi Saperstein there, I would like to\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3870.0,3900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"see him.\" When the rabbi came in—the services still hadn't started—he directed\nhim over and I recognized him. I know I was just this high. Whenever a rabbi got\nout of rabbinical school, this was always their first pulpit. They would come\nhere, stay one or two or three years, and then they would get a better job.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Hillel. We had joint Hillel then.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: It was joint at ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3900.0,3930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that time. He remembered my parents, the Bushes,\nthe Rosenthals, [and] Max Michael.\n\nSPARER: You had a real reunion.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Yes. It was really interesting.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: He had an interesting story when he was a rabbi here. He's rather a\nradical man, and always had that reputation. He was telling us the story [about\nhow] Max ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3930.0,3960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael was the President [of the Temple], and the Jewish people in\nAthens were kind of subdued. They didn't get involved in all that kind of thing.\nThe old Dudley family, who dominated . . . when I went to school here, the\nDudleys were the mayor, the chief of police—they were the family in town . . .\nthey controlled Chicopee Mills. They wouldn't let any other industry in town\nuntil we got a different fellow that was mayor. Anyhow, the old Dudley family .\n. . there was a bunch of blacks that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3960.0,3990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"were getting up to strike the mill. That\njust wasn't heard of. So this Rabbi Saperstein, [who] was the young 21-year-old\nrabbi in town, got a group of students and went down there to view what was\nhappening, according to his story. Nothing happened that much. Then when he came\nback, Max Michael called from his office. He says, \"Rabbi . . . I understand you\nwere there at the commotion down there by the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3990.0,4020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mill.\" He says, \"Yes.\" He [Max\nMichaels] said, \"That's just not allowed for you to do those kinds of things in\na small town. Being Jewish, we just do not get in that. You are not allowed to\ndo anything with that.\" He was repeating that story.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Yes, he remembered that.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: He remembered that incident.\n\nSPARER: I was ready to say thank you and it's been a lovely time. I enjoyed the\nstory, and it reminds me, since we've been talking about the synagogue that,\nBob, I didn't ask you the one question that was heavy on my mind when I came to\nyour ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=4020.0,4050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"house. It was about the policies that our Temple had—and perhaps still\nhas—about our cemetery. You were the Committee Chair for our cemetery for many,\nmany years. I wish, for the record, you would simply summarize what the conflict\nwas about and where it stands, so far as you know, at this point. This is about\nburying ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=4050.0,4080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"people in our cemetery who are not Jewish.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: It seems that some of our good Athenians and the people that had\nbeen involved in Temple must have had a change of heart. They [went] from Reform\nJews to Orthodox, to sum it up in simple form. We had a cemetery. I was the\nCemetery Chairman for many years. There's a lot of stories [of] how we acquired\nthe land and where it went. I challenged the city fathers because I thought our\nland went further. As you know—just a little side ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=4080.0,4110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"issue—they built the\nswimming pool at the end of our cemetery down there. I went to the mayor and the\ncouncil and everybody else and told them that land was ours. It turns out—when\nI got through with all these plots and the surveys and everything—it turns out\nthey were correct.\n\nSPARER: For the record, this was a conflict that we had with a large property development.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: That's right. Then they built the swimming pool at the end.\n\nSPARER: Right.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: I thought our property went to the river. Typically, in the old\ndays when you bought ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=4110.0,4140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"land you bought to the center of the river. Each person\nowned half. I thought we did, because there was no flood plain. So I went to the\ncity fathers and the attorneys and everything. As it turned out the plot\nindicated where our property lines were, but I challenged it. But all that\nperiod of time we had for reserve, a section of land above the then-existing\ncemetery. We had about 20 or 30 or 40 plots left in there. Some of our ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=4140.0,4170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"local\npeople, including a relative, became ultra-Jewish. All of sudden they don't want\nto be buried with anybody else except Jews. As it turns out, we have . . .\naccording to them, you can't be married into them . . . to make a long story\nshort, there were three other people who were buried down there who were\nnon-Jewish and they [were] accepted. It made no sense to me [refusing to bury\nnon-Jews]. They even built upon their theory—Nardi [Cristal] and that little\nclique that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=4170.0,4200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"got together—and wanted to make it happen that if a husband married\na non-Jewish person or vice versa, they couldn't be buried side-by-side. It\ndidn't even make sense. That was what existed [at] our Temple [that spouses\ncould be buried side-by-side even if one was not Jewish] and what had existed in\nour cemetery for hundreds of years. What was their justification for change?\nThey didn't have to be buried next to those people. This is a Reform\ncongregation. This is not an Orthodox congregation. In our bylaws it says that a\nhusband and wife can be buried next to each other if they're spouses. These\nkinds of things could ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=4200.0,4230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"happen. Since I was in charge of the cemetery for all\nthose years, I knew exactly what it cost to maintain the thing. So when they\ndecided to upgrade and wanted to vote on the adjacent property, it doubled or\ntripled our cost. When they said there were no longer graves available . . .\nthere were ample graves available. We were burying one or two, at the most, a\nyear, so with 20 graves we had 10 or 15 years to go before it would even begin\nto fill. But my opposition ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=4230.0,4260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was what they believed to be—what they wanted to\nbelieve to be—the facts and [what] actually were the facts . . . that we are a\nReform congregation and you do permit . . . the Reform Movement recognizes and\nagrees that husband and wife can be buried side-by-side, whether they accepted\nJudaism or not. As it turns out, there's one person buried in the cemetery who\nnever accepted Judaism, but she's buried next to her husband. We're a Reform\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=4260.0,4290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"congregation. We allowed it to happen.\n\nSPARER: As it stands today . . . is that the way it stands today?\n\nR. BLUMBERG: I can't tell you what they did. I really lost . . . There was a\nlarge letter-writing campaign, me on one side, and Freddy and Nardi on the\nother. It almost split our congregation. There were quite a few people that\nsided with me. There were quite a few people that sided with him. When it came\nfor a vote, they voted that we ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=4290.0,4320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"were going to leave the cemetery as it was. Nardi\nsays, \"That's not right.\" So he said, \"We're going to call for a different\nvote.\" So they called for a different vote. It came up and it went the other way.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: They went out and got all the proxies.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: They went out and got all the proxies. Then came the third vote.\nThat's when Nardi said, \"I guess it's going to be two out of three.\" I mean, you\ndidn't accept the first one. So they maneuvered—he and Freddy and there's some\nothers that wanted it to be that way—and they manipulated and made it happen.\nThey almost split the congregation.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: We owned that land.\n\nSPARER: How did the third vote ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=4320.0,4350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"come out?\n\nR. BLUMBERG: The way it is currently . . . allowed it to happen that the people\nwho wanted to be buried in the upper section, just Jews alone—just Jews alone\ncould be buried in the upper section. So if your situation . . . isn't Dot?\n\nSPARER: Dot's Jewish.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Dot's Jewish.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: I thought maybe . . . anyhow. If today a married couple, one is and\none is not, they cannot be buried in the other section. That becomes an Orthodox\nsection. Here's the Reform section. We're a Reform congregation.\n\nSPARER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=4350.0,4380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So we have two sections.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: We have two methodologies of being buried, and one uniform Reform congregation.\n\nSPARER: And two geographic pieces of land.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Adjacent pieces of land . . .\n\nSPARER: One allowing . . .\n\nR. BLUMBERG: . . . continuous, with a wall in between . . .\n\nSPARER: . . . allowing only Jews and the other one allowing . . .\n\nR. BLUMBERG: . . . with one congregation governing both pieces of land—one\nReform congregation, I might add, that controls the cemetery.\n\nSPARER: Interesting. Right ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=4380.0,4410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"now, the statistics are such that about out of the\nslightly over a 150 households . . . families . . . that belong to the Temple,\nthere are about 40 to 45 mixed marriages.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Mixed marriages.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: But according to that new rule that they came up with, they can't\nbe buried there, side by side, except in the old section.\n\nSPARER: The old section. How much space do we have left?\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Like I said, as I recall, it must be 20, 25 left. But ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=4410.0,4440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that doesn't\nmean there's an open area. There's one here, there's two there, there might be\nthree or four there.\n\nSPARER: I see.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: I had four because when I was 25 . . . I was president of the\ncongregation at one time . . . well, even prior to that . . . I bought four\nplots and still own the four plots—well, I don't own them. I pay special care\nfor Terry, myself, Sandy and Jerry. So I should be giving them up because\nthey're the age . . . I don't have the rights to them, although I pay for them\nwith the others. 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Well, Dot\nLink . . . they were the old Link family, like the Luntzes and the Links and the\nMichaels—the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=4470.0,4500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"old families in Athens.\n\nWell, she thought that there was some land there. As it turns out 25, 35 years\nago when the family . . . there was a grave next to where her mother and father\nwere buried.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Her father died first.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: They were one of those dues-paying members. Her husband was a good\nfriend of Harry's and Sarah's. He was a doctor in Macon—Goldman, Sidney\nGoldman. Oh, he was in retail. But anyway, to make a long story short . . .\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Sidney was a lawyer.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Sidney called me . . . that's not even important . . . and said,\n\"Bob, my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=4500.0,4530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wife's mother died in [unintelligible: 1.15.33] and there's a space in\nAthens. We want to bury her there.\" I said, \"I don't think we can do this. She's\nno longer a member. But for 'X' amount of dollars—I forget what it was—I'll\nask the Board, since this plot is not going to be used for anybody else.\" He\nsaid, \"That's fine, Bob. You do it.\" So I did, and I gave him a price. They sent\nthe body up here to be buried. I said, \"Now look, my family knows your family.\nYou ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=4530.0,4560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"tell me it's going to be paid for, that's fine. I trust you. But normally we\nmake people pay in advance.\" They didn't and I allowed it to happen. She got\nburied. I wrote him—this was the next day. I called him. I said, \"I didn't get\nthe money [and] that's part of our routine, our procedure. You pay in advance.\"\nHe said, \"My wife handled it and she doesn't want to pay.\" So after a lot of\nlitigation . . . the whole story, I said \"You've got 24 hours. If I don't get\nthat money in 24 hours, I'm going to dig her up and send her to your house.\" We\ngot the money. It just ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=4560.0,4590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"came to that point. That's what you had to . . . it was\nkind of rough back then. But anyhow, I took care of building the wall . . . that\nwooden wall went in. It was part of what you did. You had a responsibility, you\naccepted, and you did it. Just like you do.\n\nSPARER: A lot of responsibility. Thank you for those comments. I'm not sure that\nit still straightens everything out in my mind. It gives me a start point. Like\nI started to say a bit ago, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=4590.0,4620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I've just thoroughly enjoyed the evening. I thank\nyou for taking the time and adding your story.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Sorry it took us so long to get together. It's been a little\ndifficult around here.\n\nSPARER: You're in the process of moving. You're moving next week. I can\nunderstand the many things that you have to do.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: We've been away so much. We've just had a joyous trip to Florida\nwith the grandchildren. It was wonderful.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Thank you for giving your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=4620.0,4650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"time to the Temple and for the future. I\nnever will forget when we built this other Temple, we took the cornerstone—the\nstuff in the corner—and that was part of what we put in the cornerstone of this\nbuilding. We were involved in building this Temple, as well, when the federal\ngovernment . . .\n\nT. BLUMBERG: When Urban Renewal took over . . . when the Loef Company was taken\nover . . . Also, when our children ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=4650.0,4680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"grew up, Burt, we went to Temple every Friday\nnight with the children, and they dressed up. Sandy had these beautiful little\ndresses on, and Jerry always wore pants, and a jacket, and a tie.\n\nSPARER: We're lucky to have blue jeans on students these days.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: I know. I have a good friend here who's Catholic, Joan Vaughn. I\ndon't know if you know Joan. She and Paul Broun are real good friends. He would\ntake ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=4680.0,4710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"her out to dinner. We've all been friends for a long time—and Senator\n[Paul] Broun. She was raised . . . she and Dick Pepitone [sp] . . . I don't know\nif you know Dick . . . they were raised in New York, and their next door\nneighbors were Jewish. They're Italian.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: And Catholic.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: And Catholic, of course, but still very tolerant people. We are\ngood friends you know. She is one of my real good ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=4710.0,4740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"friends.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Let's talk about dress . . . what you started, you talked about\ndress. When they go to the services, they get dressed up.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Yes. I said to Joan, \"We went to Temple and . . . they don't wear\njackets . . .\" She said, \"It's the same thing as the Catholic center. But the\npriest says that as long as they come, it doesn't matter what they wear. Just\nlet them come ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=4740.0,4770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/transcript/40745/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there. They're happy to see them.\" I said, \"Well, I guess the\nrabbi feels the same way.\"\n\nR. BLUMBERG: He might be a pedophile, you don't know. [Editorial note: the\ncomment was said with laughter, as a joke.]\n\nT. BLUMBERG: Yes. Oh, God.\n\nSPARER: Terry, Bob, it's been a wonderful evening. Thank you so very much.\n\nT. BLUMBERG: You're welcome.\n\nR. BLUMBERG: Thank you.\n\nSPARER: It's been a joy.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=4770.0,4800.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/annotation_set/932","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/annotation_set/932/annotation/161","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. 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Do you have any feelings at all about it?","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2980.0,3107.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/index/51934/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Intermarriage","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kosher","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=2980.0,3107.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/index/51934/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Thoughts on Peace and Conflict in Israel","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3107.0,3262.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/index/51934/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Here's the question which I've asked everybody that we're interviewing on tape, their opinions as to whether you think Israel will achieve peace with her Arab neighbors in our lifetime, and what would it take to get there?","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3107.0,3262.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/index/51934/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arab-Israeli Conflict","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Israel","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Palestine","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3107.0,3262.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/index/51934/annotation/219","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Influential People and Events","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3262.0,3540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/index/51934/annotation/220","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Let me ask each of you, has there been a person or persons in your lives that have been very influential in guiding and directing the course of your lives?","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3262.0,3540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/index/51934/annotation/221","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Great Depression","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Judaism","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3262.0,3540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/index/51934/annotation/222","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/80053/file/167807#t=3540.0,3636.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/index/51934/annotation/223","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Let's say it's 100 years from now and you're still sitting around this table, and you've joined a group of people who just finished listening to your tape. 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What to say to them?","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3540.0,3636.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/index/51934/annotation/224","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ku-Klux-Klan","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3540.0,3636.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/index/51934/annotation/225","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Stories from Terry and Bob","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3636.0,4061.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/index/51934/annotation/226","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I want to tell you something.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3636.0,4061.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/index/51934/annotation/227","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Longboat Key, Florida","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=3636.0,4061.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/index/51934/annotation/228","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The Cemetery at Congregation Children of Israel","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=4061.0,4618.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807/index/51934/annotation/229","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You were the Committee Chair for our cemetery for many, many years. 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I thank you for taking the time and adding your story.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/80053/file/167807#t=4618.0,4787.51347"}]}]}]}