{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/542j67992m/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Frank, Sherry Zimmerman (2020)"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2020-02-19 (creation)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Video"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eSherry Zimmerman Frank interviewed by Sandra Berman on February 19, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eSherry Zimmerman Frank, the daughter of Esther Horowitz Zimmerman and Jack Haynes Zimmerman, was born in Atlanta in 1942 and grew up in the Morningside area. Her father died when Sherry was eleven years old leaving her mother a widow to raise Sherry and her brother Neil.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSherry’s family attended both Ahavath Achim (AA) and Shearith Israel. She met Leonard Frank when they were both at Grady High School and went on to marry him after college. They had four children: Jacqueline, Laura, Jacob, and Andrew. She attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri and lived in New Jersey and Tennessee while married to Leonard. After they divorced, Sherry returned to the Atlanta area with her four children and began to work within the Jewish community.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSherry served as Executive Director for the Southeast Region of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) for 25 years. She was also President of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), served on the board of Ahavath Achim (AA), and was Vice President of the Epstein School. While at AJC she helped found many groups including the Atlanta Black/Jewish Coalition, ACCESS, and Faith Alliance of Metro Atlanta (FAMA).  \u003cbr\u003eSherry has been involved in the civil rights movement, social justice causes, interfaith relations, and the Soviet Jewry movement. She was active in political campaigns for local, state, and national elections and had a strong connection to Congressman John Lewis. She has dedicated much of her life to combatting all forms of discrimination, preserving Jewish history, building support for Israel, and fighting for equality for all. In 2019 her book, A Passion to Serve: Memoirs of a Jewish Activist, was published, offering a detailed and engaging look at her fifty years of activism and community service.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eThis second interview with Sherry Frank for the Esther and Herbert Taylor Jewish Oral History Project of Atlanta offers an in-depth discussion of many of the topics found in her book A Passion to Serve: Memoirs of a Jewish Activist. The conversation provides a personal look into her fifty years of activism and community service in the Atlanta area.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt includes her involvement with organizations like the Black/Jewish Coalition in Atlanta, the Faith Alliance of Metro Atlanta, the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, ACCESS, and the Tahirih Justice Center. It describes her work on causes including the Soviet Jewry movement, antisemitism, interfaith relations, feminist issues, and fighting Tay-Sachs disease. She also includes stories of her involvement with historical events including the Leo Frank trial, the Deborah Lipstadt/David Irving trial, and the Forsyth County March Against Fear and Intimidation. And she shares stories about her personal relationships with people like John Lewis, Cecil Alexander, Stuart Eizenstat, Imam Plemon El-Amin, Stuart Lewengrub, Wyche Fowler, Rabbi Arnold Goodman, the family of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and many others.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28394"]}},{"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"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eSherry Zimmerman Frank interviewed by Sandra Berman on February 19, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSherry Zimmerman Frank, the daughter of Esther Horowitz Zimmerman and Jack Haynes Zimmerman, was born in Atlanta in 1942 and grew up in the Morningside area. Her father died when Sherry was eleven years old leaving her mother a widow to raise Sherry and her brother Neil.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSherry’s family attended both Ahavath Achim (AA) and Shearith Israel. She met Leonard Frank when they were both at Grady High School and went on to marry him after college. They had four children: Jacqueline, Laura, Jacob, and Andrew. She attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri and lived in New Jersey and Tennessee while married to Leonard. After they divorced, Sherry returned to the Atlanta area with her four children and began to work within the Jewish community.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSherry served as Executive Director for the Southeast Region of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) for 25 years. She was also President of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), served on the board of Ahavath Achim (AA), and was Vice President of the Epstein School. While at AJC she helped found many groups including the Atlanta Black/Jewish Coalition, ACCESS, and Faith Alliance of Metro Atlanta (FAMA).  \u003cbr\u003eSherry has been involved in the civil rights movement, social justice causes, interfaith relations, and the Soviet Jewry movement. She was active in political campaigns for local, state, and national elections and had a strong connection to Congressman John Lewis. She has dedicated much of her life to combatting all forms of discrimination, preserving Jewish history, building support for Israel, and fighting for equality for all. In 2019 her book, A Passion to Serve: Memoirs of a Jewish Activist, was published, offering a detailed and engaging look at her fifty years of activism and community service.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis second interview with Sherry Frank for the Esther and Herbert Taylor Jewish Oral History Project of Atlanta offers an in-depth discussion of many of the topics found in her book A Passion to Serve: Memoirs of a Jewish Activist. The conversation provides a personal look into her fifty years of activism and community service in the Atlanta area.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt includes her involvement with organizations like the Black/Jewish Coalition in Atlanta, the Faith Alliance of Metro Atlanta, the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, ACCESS, and the Tahirih Justice Center. It describes her work on causes including the Soviet Jewry movement, antisemitism, interfaith relations, feminist issues, and fighting Tay-Sachs disease. She also includes stories of her involvement with historical events including the Leo Frank trial, the Deborah Lipstadt/David Irving trial, and the Forsyth County March Against Fear and Intimidation. And she shares stories about her personal relationships with people like John Lewis, Cecil Alexander, Stuart Eizenstat, Imam Plemon El-Amin, Stuart Lewengrub, Wyche Fowler, Rabbi Arnold Goodman, the family of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and many others.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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Thank you, Sherry, so glad you could make it. I know every time\nI say it, it's a mouthful. You've been interviewed before, in fact I read your\nearly interview before, it was a number of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"years ago. So, I'm not going to spend\ntoo much time on your childhood or your very early years. But if you could\nbriefly tell us when and where you were born and the names of your parents.\n\nFRANK: I was born November 11, 1942, my mother's birthday. My mother was Esther\nHorowitz Zimmerman. My father was Jack Zimmerman. My dad was actually a native\nof Atlanta and my mother was from Brooklyn [New York].\n\nBERMAN: And what did your dad do?\n\nFRANK: He was in the insurance business, and when he died, my mother continued,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"took her insurance license and continued.\n\nBERMAN: But there was a store also, Zimmerman's, wasn't there?\n\nFRANK: Zimmernan's was a men's store. My dad's brother Joe Zimmerman ran the\nZimmerman's men's store.\n\nBERMAN: And where was that located?\n\nFRANK: It was in, what's today, the Equitable Building, and right around the\ncorner was Crossroads, not Crossroads . . . I don't know . . .\n\nBERMAN: One of the restaurants?\n\nFRANK: One of the restaurants that people picketed.\n\nBERMAN: Leb's.\n\nFRANK: Leb's. (laughs)\n\nBERMAN: Yes, (laughs), we all know ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about Leb's. How did your upbringing, your\nchildhood here in Atlanta, shape the adult Sherry Frank?\n\nFRANK: You know, it's hard to really imagine how much I was shaped by my\nchildhood. My father died when I was eleven, my brother was eight. My mother\nwent to work selling insurance, kind of following in Dad's footsteps. So, I\nreally didn't have activist role models, in terms of community, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I have very\nlittle of my father's things. But one thing that I have and treasure, is a\nletter that he wrote to offer his services and his secretary's services to\ncreate a home for the Jewish elderly. In this letter--I didn't know about it\nuntil I found it later--in this letter he said that his mother was older and had\nkept kosher and there should be a home for people to live out their lives with\nthat as part of it. And ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I gave it to the [William Breman] Jewish Home, it was\nbefore there was even a Jewish Home. So, I think I had some of my political DNA,\nand community DNA, from Dad. But, he didn't live long enough for me to really\nrole model it. I guess I got my Jewish activism from my teenage years in BBYO.\n\nBERMAN: How so? What chapter were you in and how did that evolve?\n\nFRANK: (laughs) I was in JOJ which was \"Jewels of Judea\" (chuckles) and it was\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"all my friends from high school and we all sat together at lunch at Grady High\nSchool. And we had several ages in it, so, Judy Kogan, and Jody Franco and that\ngroup was one year younger than me and they were in our group. And I ran for\nevery office--lost almost all of them--helped write songs and skits, and was\nevery officer but president, and went to conventions, and just, loved the Jewish part.\n\nBERMAN: Was that the whole AA crowd?\n\nFRANK: It was the whole AA crowd. And I was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Sweetheart\" of a boys group--an AZA\ngroup--so I really, my childhood, teenage childhood, was happy in BBYO and AZA.\nAnd every single weekend we went to shul at AA Saturday morning, and then to\ndowntown Atlanta to Pyng Ho Chinese Restaurant (chuckles), and walked from\nDavison's to Rich's [department stores]--different names today--and then spent\nSundays at the Community Center playing ball, basketball mostly.\n\nBERMAN: It's interesting ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to me, when I was researching a little bit, that you\ngrew up at the AA, and yet--kind of different--you joined NCJW, National Council\nof Jewish Women. Can you speak to that a little bit.\n\nFRANK: Yes. Well, my family was all beloved to Shearith Israel and in the early\ndays it was called the \"Zimmerman shul\". If you look at the wall of past\npresidents, there are a lot of Zimmermans there. Not my dad, but my cousins and\nuncles. So, we went to Shearith Israel for the High Holidays, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and we went to the\nAA because all my friends were there, and that's where my brother and I were, he\nhad bar mitzvah and I had Confirmation. But, when I got married . . . when\nyou're a Conservative Jew, you're in ZOA, and you're in Hadassah. But when I got\nmarried and we moved to New Jersey, I had a little two-year old and I was\npregnant and I was looking around, where are the young women; and they were at\nNCJW. And I was due to be president of NCJW in Plainfield, New Jersey, and we\nmoved ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"back to Atlanta, and I just went right to NCJW. (chuckles) And, it's\nfunny, my mother-in-law thought she was doing me a favor when I became president\nof NCJW's Atlanta section, and she made me a life-member of Hadassah. (laughs)\nSo, I love Hadassah, but NCJW was my passion. It just simply was where my\nfriends and the young women were active in New Jersey.\n\nBERMAN: When you moved back, was it still sort of . . . what year was that, that\nyou moved back?\n\nFRANK: I moved back in 1968, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"right after the 1967 War, in summer of 1968. And I\nreally didn't know anyone in NCJW, and it was still very separated. When we had\nfundraisers, the very few AA folks I saw were Sylvan Makover, and Gerald Cohen,\nand \"Greenie\" [Dr.] Irving Greenberg from Shearith Israel, but it was mostly\nReform Jews. And it's an interesting story. I applied for the job as Assistant\nDirector at AJC and was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"turned down. I was living in Memphis [Tennessee]. Jackie\nHoward Slutsky told me there was an opening, I applied, I was turned down. Then\nI sold my house and I moved back [to Atlanta] and I went everywhere just trying\nto network to say, \"Hey, I'm back, I'm looking for a job.\" I love Stuart\nLewengrub with the ADL and I happened to be at a meeting, Bayard Rustin was\nspeaking, and I said to Stuart, \"I'm looking for a job\". I love Stuart's quote,\nhe said, \"I hate to send you to the competition, but there's a job at AJC,\" and\nI said \"No, I've already been turned down.\" And ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he said, \"Oh no, they hired some\nyoung person out of college, she didn't last long, she got homesick, she left.\nThe position's open.\" And then I thought, whoa, this time I'm going to find out\nwhat's AJC and who's involved. And I found out every single person I was working\nwith in NCJW--Susie Elson, Spring Asher, Jean Cohen--all these folk's husbands\nwere all the officers of AJC. So, I let it be known that I was applying for that\njob, and the rest is history.\n\nBERMAN: Were the women welcoming to you, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when you joined NCJW?\n\nFRANK: Very, very.\n\nBERMAN: So there wasn't that real . . .\n\nFRANK: No. Except, I can remember one or two times going, I would be invited to\na wedding or a bar mitzvah, and I would be given a kosher plate. I think I was\nthe most Jewish person they knew. But I have a great story in my book about\n[how] I was very passionate about Soviet Jewry, and I volunteered. Back in those\ndays there was a Women's Plea for Soviet Jewry, on December 10th, which is Human\nRights Day, and each women's organization ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"chaired it. So, I jumped in and said,\n\"We'll chair it the first time.\" And there was a real issue of getting press\nabout the Soviet Jewry movement, so we decided to have a soup kitchen in a\ndowntown Atlanta park. [We] had watered-down potato soup, with the idea we'd get\nsome coverage from the page in the paper [The Atlanta Journal and Constitution]\nthat covers food, and we got a huge spread, enormous publicity, and a great\ncrowd, a great event. And some of the older NCJW women called national\n[headquarters] to see if they could rescind their membership. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"True story. They\njust couldn't believe being \"so Jewish\" out in public.\n\nBERMAN: That's amazing and a great story too. Why did the plight of Soviet Jews\nresonate with you so much?\n\nFRANK: Hmm. I think I really caught on to it in NCJW. I remember reading an\naddition for our Passover seder, where we said the \"Matzah of Hope\". For one\nthing, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think that totally changed our Passover seders around the world.\nBecause it's the first time we were allowed to open that old, awful (chuckles)\nkind of \"Manischewitz\" haggadah that you couldn't even pronounce the words, and\nyou laughed as you read around the table. And I realized, you could really make\nit relevant to liberation in our day. So, part of it, I think, was the Matzah of\nHope; part of it was NCJW's work on the whole theme of \"Let My People Go\"; and I\njust got drawn ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in to making a difference and saving a people in my generation.\nAnd it's continued to this day, my passion for immigration and refugee issues.\n\nBERMAN: There was also a section in your book where Maynard Jackson went to the\nSoviet Union and you had some input on . . .\n\nFRANK: Yes . . . one of the things that I've said . . . I did not want my book\nto be biographical, and I really did not . . . when I hit, I don't know, some\nmilestone at AJC--maybe ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"thirteen years, or twenty years--there was a big article\nabout me in The Jewish Times and in it, I was interviewed and I said that I was\ndivorced and my husband had committed suicide. And my kids were just stricken by\nwhy did I have to say that. For me it wasn't shame, it's mental illness, but for\nthem it was just a total embarrassment. So, I was determined when I wrote my\nbook, to just deal with my activism and not be biographical. I really wanted my\ngrandkids to know my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"story of what the world was like when I was active and\nworking. One of the things that totally surprised me, that I'm so proud of in my\nbook, is that it really documents how much support the Jewish community got from\nthe non-Jewish community. And much of it is around Soviet Jewry. John Lewis was\ntold not to raise the issue when he went to Russia with legislators, and the\nspeech he gave his last night there, he gave when he came back--and it's in my\nbook--Maynard [Jackson] interceded on behalf of the Russian Jews, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"professors at\nGeorgia Tech [Georgia Institute of Technology] interceded on scientists that\nwere losing their jobs. So, all through it . . . there's a great story, when the\nEthiopians were released, that one of the African Americans--I forgot his name\nat the moment, it will come to me--wrote an article that basically said, like he\nwas talking to Dr. [Martin Luther] King [Jr.], \"Look, Dr. King, can you believe\nwe're seeing Africans lifted out from slavery to freedom. God bless Israel.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So,\nit really was exciting to be able to document the kind of support we got.\n\nBERMAN: Is there a reason you feel so drawn to the plight of the immigrant?\n\nFRANK: Many people say the reason the Soviet Jewry movement was so successful,\nwas almost to make up for how unable we were to save Jews during the Holocaust.\nThat, this was an opportunity for Jews not to be silent again. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So, I think some\nof those messages resonated with me. But there was so much . . . you know, Jews\nare not a marching group, the Black community marched. So, when we marched for\nSoviet Jewry, it was just so liberating to get out on the street, and after that\nI marched for everything, (chuckles) the [Martin Luther] King Holiday, Women's\nRights, all kinds of things. It was letter writing, it was long-distance phone\ncalls where you could actually talk to people, it was stories. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And also, you\nknew you were making a difference because some Soviet Jews were getting out. And\nthen, the emotional experience of meeting somebody in Russia and then meeting\nthem again in Israel. Or standing on the tarmac and dancing with the Russians as\nthey got off the plane and kissed the ground. (chokes up briefly) To witness\nsomebody's real search for freedom and realizing it, it stays with you.\n\nBERMAN: What I've noticed throughout your tenure at both NCJW ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and AJC, is . . .\nif I could describe one thing, it's your perseverance. You don't give up, even\nif the cause doesn't look winnable, initially. Can you describe . . .\n\nFRANK: Well, I'm passionate about things, and emotional about things. But it's\nfunny, Diana Silverman always says, \"Sherry just doesn't know what she can't do,\n(laughs), ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"she just does it.\"\n\nBERMAN: I love that quote.\n\nFRANK: But, it's interesting, when I was interviewed by Gail Evans about my\nbook, she threw me for a loop and she said, \"Alright, let's start and tell me\nwhy you're so resilient.\" And I thought, I didn't really think of myself as\nresilient. I mention this in my book, imagine being an eleven-year old girl\nsaying kaddish for your father for the first time, and you're in a traditional\nsynagogue and people don't leave, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and everybody's wailing and crying and I'm\ntraumatized by the whole thing. And Rabbi [Sydney] Mossman at Shearith Israel\ngives this amazing sermon about visiting someone in the hospital who was so\njovial and he didn't know what was wrong with the guy. And one day, he sees the\nguy out of his bed and the guy had lost a leg. And he fell and he [Rabbi\nMossman] goes to give him a hand and the guy says, \"It's not what I don't have,\nbut what I have, that picks me up.\" That's kind of my motto, my slogan. I don't\nlook at what I don't have, I just look ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at what I do have and it keeps me going.\n\nBERMAN: Your years at NCJW were . . . there were so many issues that you got\ninvolved in. Can you discuss some of the ones that were the most meaningful to\nyou? And I especially am interested in the Tay-Sachs issue.\n\nFRANK: We had a very interesting . . . and also, Fran Eizenstat was my Vice\nPresident when I was President, and we go back a long way, Stuart [Eizenstat]\nand I all through childhood. So, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we really were passionate about Soviet Jewry\ntogether, and Fran and Stuart took that to the White House and [it] was impacted\nby President [Jimmy] Carter really caring about that issue as well. NCJW\nnationally was doing Tay-Sachs screenings around the country, and we jumped\nright in and said we would do it also. They gave us a list of things you needed;\nnurses to draw blood, a committee, PR [public relations], and all the rest. But\none thing you needed was a doctor, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so that if a high-risk couple was found an\namniocentesis could be done. And we were basically blackmailed in Atlanta. We\nwere told by the doctor that he would not do an amniocentesis unless we created\nthe lab here. That didn't happen in the other cities. Tay-Sachs was such a new\nform of genetic disease--this was before all of these JScreens--so that everyone\nwho did the screenings around the country froze their blood, sent it to\nBaltimore [Maryland] where there was a facility ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to do the diagnosis. So, we were\nin a bind and we didn't know what to do and Fran Eisenstadt--as I said, was my\nVice President--and she went home and told Stuart, and he called President\nCarter, (chuckles) and we got emergency health funds from the State of Georgia\nand we created the lab at Emory. So, all these folks doing all these tests, and\nnobody gets married today without doing the genetic tests, we were the first and\nwe created the lab, and I'm really proud of that. And then, Atlanta is such a\ngrowth city, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ten years later we did a second screening and then we called Joe\nFrank Harris, because this doctor at Emory asked us for more things he needed\nfor the lab. And Joe Frank Harris and March of Dimes gave us extra money and we\ndid the second screening and advanced the lab.\n\nBERMAN: I think it's an amazing legacy because of all the couples this\ninitiative has helped. It's amazing, some of the horrible outcomes that have\nbeen avoided ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because of this testing.\n\nFRANK: Right. And during those years at NCJW, we worked on the Equal Rights\nAmendment, we worked on reproductive choice, some things don't change (chuckles)\nthey stay the same for fifty years. Nationally, we participated in juvenile\njustice studies and childcare studies, and these issues are still significant\nissues today.\n\nBERMAN: Is there one issue that--I'm just talking about NCJW--that, in looking\nback, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"is the most meaningful?\n\nFRANK: I would say there's two; the whole opportunity to really be a feminist in\nall the aspects of the women's agenda, and the second would be the Soviet Jewry.\nBut also, I have to add, my first trip to Israel was with NCJW, and that also\nobviously had a lasting impact.\n\nBERMAN: There is a quote that you mention in your book about being a\nfeminist--and right now I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"cannot find it here--but, were you always a feminist?\n\nFRANK: Yes, but within . . . for me I wasn't a bra-burning radical feminist. For\nme, it was a feminist within my Jewish community too. I always loved rabbis, and\nI loved the day that there were female rabbis. So, I would say, equal rights,\nand equal pay, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and an equal voice, have all been important to me.\n\nBERMAN: Did it bother you, when you were growing, that there were no aliyahs for\nwomen at Shearith Israel?\n\nFRANK: I don't think I even realized it, I think I was so totally unaware. I\nsay, today, in a different world I probably would have studied to be a rabbi,\nbut there were no women rabbis.\n\nBERMAN: Why is your Judaism so important to you?\n\nFRANK: I always say, \"I'm a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jew,\" as one of my most important parts of my\nidentity. And when I'm out in the community I always quote something Jewish or\nalways want them to know that there's a Jew present. Part of it's the whole\nsocial justice agenda. The liturgy, the language, the values, speak to me. I\nlike to go to synagogue. I enjoyed hearing, the years that I grew up, listening\nto Rabbi [Harry H.] Epstein, his erudite sermons. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And even now, thinking about\nhis wife [Reva Chashesman Epstein] and her charm and her beauty. But then, I\nrelated so much to Rabbi [Arnold M.] Goodman, his activism and enjoyed being in\nhis home having [Goodman's wife] Rae work on committees, so, I've seen the whole\ntransformation. I used to love to listen to Cantor Goodfriend sing, \"Now I don't\nwant performance, I want to sing along with the guitarist.\" I love how Judaism\nhas moved to more ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"inclusion and more women and more spirituality. And one of my\nfavorite things to do is to write new haggadahs and to bring in all the women's\nand feminist and activist things that we did. We did a women's seder last year.\nIt was our second with NCJW, but it was totally fascinating and fabulous and\npeople there brought home the haggadahs and used the women's haggadahs instead\nof their own in their seders.\n\nBERMAN: What was it about Rabbi Goodman, why do you consider him one of your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mentors?\n\nFRANK: I loved his activism. Rabbi Goodman was able to bring The New York Times\n[newspaper] editorial page and the Torah together every Saturday, and for me, it\nwas a total \"ah ha\" moment. And we partnered so much. I felt very capable with\nwhat we did in the American Jewish Committee, but there were times you needed\nthe theology of a clergy, and Rabbi Goodman was my partner in so much. He was\ninvolved in the Black community, he was viewed as the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rabbi at Spelman\n[College], so we shared that together. We talked a lot, and when he left, Rabbi\n[Alvin] Sugarman and Rabbi [Philip M.] Krantz really played active roles in AJC\nwith me, because there are times you need that theological [perspective].\n\nBERMAN: It sounds like, community-wise, The Temple might have been a better fit\nfor you, with all their community activism. Did you ever think of going . . .\n\nFRANK: Well, Rabbi Goodman (chuckles) pushed me and I started the community\naction ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"program at the synagogue, and we created a shelter, one year. So, we did\nsome social justice stuff. He encouraged me to wear a tallit--which I love--and\nI have my story about that in my book. But, even today I'm a Conservative Jew at\nheart. When there was a lot of tension at the AA, and even when Rabbi Goodman\nleft, I've looked at The Temple and Temple Sinai, and I love the rabbis, my\nfriends are there. But the Reform ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"service doesn't speak to me the way the\nConservative does.\n\nBERMAN: Is that why you helped to found Or Hadash?\n\nFRANK: One day, I was really exhausted at my office and I thought, \"Oh, I just\nwant to go home and sleep.\" It was a Friday night, and [Rabbis] Analia [Bortz]\nand Mario [Karpuj] had been brought in, and I was on the board of AA, and we\nwere encouraged to come and hear this new rabbi. And Analia was covering her\neyes and doing the blessings of the candles and singing, and tears just started\nrolling down ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my face. There was some spirit, a kind of soul in her that touched\nmy soul, and I've just been drawn to Analia and Mario with such a passion. They\nfulfilled all of my . . .\n\nBERMAN: . . . spiritual . . .\n\nFRANK: . . . spiritual needs. They really, in many ways, re-invented ritual and\nobservance, and everything for me. And activism.\n\nBERMAN: You mentioned how you got the job at AJC, the year was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1980?\n\nFRANK: So, I came in as Assistant Director in September, and in January I knew\nthat my boss, Bill Gralnick was going to go to run this Florida section, and he\nwas going to be leaving. No one knew and he said, \"I want to stay through the\nschool year.\" And Marilyn Shubin had just left--people don't know this\nstory--Women's Division and was going on to run the campaign. And everybody said\nto me, \"You should be the Women's Chair, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you should go to Federation.\" And I had\nshared lots of things at Federation, and I went, and I interviewed for the job,\nbecause I thought, if I was a man (chuckles) I'd at least find out what the\nsalary was. And I left and said I'm not applying. I don't want to work with\nwomen only, I don't want to do fundraising only, I don't want to give up all the\nsocial justice stuff. I mean, my first day at AJC (chuckles) I said, \"Oh my God,\nI've found a home\".\n\nBERMAN: Tell me why.\n\nFRANK: Well, I used to say in the early ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"years, it's some of the same people;\nsmart, intellectual people who care about their Jewish identity, but care about\nbeing a voice in the community. And I used to say that NCJW did the service\nprojects and AJC did the advocacy and the study. But it was on the same issues,\nso it was the very perfect move for me. And I moved onto the AJC position while\nI was on the NCJW national board, did lots of joint programs together on the\ndomestic ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"agenda particularly, and some of the Israeli agenda. But it was\ninteresting because when Bill left in May, I'd only been there for seven or\neight months, and AJC said to me, we're just going to let you manage the chapter\nover the summer, then we'll move to hire a director. I wasn't even looking for\nthe director's position. I was newly divorced, four kids my youngest was just\ntwo or three, I just was happy to have a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"job. But the women in AJC began to call\nme and say the directors were looking to see what AJC's going to do with your\nposition and whether they're really going to put a woman in the position or not.\nAnd I was oblivious to that, (chuckles) I was just happy to have a job that I\nreally loved. And my boss came down two times over the summer. I just thought\nthat was normal, meeting with leaders. But the first time--and we were always\ndowntown at a downtown club--the first time as we parked, as we came into the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"parking lot Derwood McCallister was there, gave me a hug and a kiss. He was\neditor of the editorial page [Atlanta Journal and Constitution] and I had known\nhim for years. And the next time, Wyche Fowler was there, a senator, and I'd had\na fundraiser for him in my house for City Council President. And my boss said,\n\"Did you stage this?\" (laughs) \"What's going on here?\" And when [Eugene] Gene\nDuBow left that day, he said, \"You've got the job.\" So, I didn't know he was\ncoming in just to ask the lay leaders. And he said, \"Just go hire yourself an\nassistant.\" (chuckles) ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So that was a funny set of circumstances.\n\nBERMAN: That is great. So, when you first started there, you got involved with\nthe Voting Rights Act? Isn't that one of the first initiatives . . .\n\nFRANK: Well, no. When I came in 1980 AJC had a very big Jewish agenda, Jewish\nCommunal Affairs department. And I began to do lots of programming around Jewish\nfamily, and single parenting, and inter-marriage and whatever. And in 1982 at a\nstaff ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"retreat I was at, Hyman Bookbinder our Washington representative said to\nme, \"This is the anniversary of the renewal of the Voting Rights Act, it's up\nfor renewal. You ought to put Blacks and Jews together on it.\" So, I did. But it\nwas interesting because my boss, Bill Gralnick, said to me \"I want you to find\nan issue and put your name on it. Because our agenda's so broad, zero in on\nsomething. He gave me three choices. One was Black-Jewish, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"one was energy--we\nwere just beginning, in 1980, to talk about energy influence, energy\nindependence--and the other was Arab influence. And if you look back at 1980, it\nwas a time when Arab countries were beginning to fund Middle East studies\nprograms at universities. So, he gave me those three areas to delve into and\nthere was no question for me. I'd been involved in Black-Jewish relations even\nin direct service projects within NCJW, and my background of working at my Uncle\nJoe's [Joe Zimmerman] store, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so it was a natural. What was amazing was when we\nhad our meeting and brought fifteen or twenty Blacks and fifteen or twenty Jews\ntogether and John Lewis spoke, everybody said yes to coming to the meeting and\nthere was so much chemistry in the room, they said, \"Let's formalize this.\" So,\nthe coalition started at that first meeting, on the spot, with folks saying to\nCecil Alexander who had introduced John Lewis, \"Will you co-chair it?\" and the\nrest is history.\n\nBERMAN: But you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"knew John Lewis before . . .\n\nFRANK: Not really. The person I knew was Andy Young.\n\nBERMAN: OK.\n\nFRANK: Because Stuart had worked on Andrew Young's campaign, and I had\nvolunteered to help. Stuart had me working, driving people to the polls from\n7:00 in the morning until 7:00 at night in Perry Homes, which isn't anymore,\nit's now Atlantic Station (chuckles). That was the first housing project in\nAmerica. So, it was really Andy Young that I got my start with. And John was new\nto me.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"BERMAN: What's your relationship with him like?\n\nFRANK: I know, it's something, he's my brother. When Lillian was sick--his\nwife--I went to visit her in the hospital in the nursing home--she was addicted\nto chocolate--(chuckles) I baked chocolate brownies and stuff for her and I'm\nsending John cookies and things. I talked to him after the opening night of the\nfilm festival [Atlanta Jewish Film Festival] and said, \"John, when you came on\nthe screen, everybody clapped,\" and he said, \"Oh, I wish I was there.\" So, I\ntalk to him regularly.\n\nBERMAN: How did your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"relationship evolve?\n\nFRANK: Well, you know, I like people. (chuckles) And I get close to the people I\nwork with. I don't want to just solicit them for their money or solicit them for\nthe role they're going to play. I really want to like them and have them be my\nfriends. So, when I started working with John, I really got to like him. And\nthen Lillian--his wife--was part of the [Atlanta Black/Jewish] Coalition, and I\ngot to know her. And when we talked, we realized--they only have one ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"child--but\ntheir child, John Miles, and my fourth child--my young child--Drew [Andrew],\nwere both born on the same day. And when the boys were eight, Lillian and I did\na birthday party together for them. So, we had a long-going relationship, and\nthat friendship is much more personal than some of my other relationships. But\nstill, I feel so many people I work with are part of my extended family.\n\nBERMAN: You mentioned a few minutes ago, Cecil Alexander, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"who I adored as well.\nCan you tell me a little bit . . . you mentioned him as one of your mentors as well.\n\nFRANK: Yes, Cecil was a mentor in Black-Jewish relations and he just cared so\nmuch about the issue, was so generous with his time and introducing me to\npeople. And I really liked his wife Hermie, and she died in a tragic accident.\nAnd then, his second wife [Helen Eisemann] was (chuckles) a past-president of\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AJC. So, we did things at their home and he was terrific. But, the other two\npeople who were wonderful mentors, three people: Ted Fisher, who brought me into\nthe whole community relations world; Lucinda Bunnen, who was so tied to the\nBlack community, her funeral was in Spelman's chapel; and Elliot Goldstein who\nis a man of very few words, very quiet, but who's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"really wise council was . . .\nAnd Bill also said to me, \"Find some area and put your name on it,\" and I gave\nthat advice to Judy Marx and she did it with the film festival. And Bill said,\n\"Find some advisors and listen to them, really listen to them.\" And when I was\npresident of Or Hadash, I did the same, and one of the people who was a great\nadvisor was Michael Kay. I said, \"You don't have to come too much, you don't\nhave to meet with me often. But, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"two or three times in the build (chuckles),\nwhen we didn't have enough money to build a kitchen or hire some folks; Michael\nKay and then Andy Kauss were very helpful. I've always found the right people to\ngive me good advice.\n\nBERMAN: How has the Black-Jewish Coalition evolved over the years?\n\nFRANK: Well, like everything, it has its peaks and it has its valleys. I think\nthe world changed after 9/11. The workforce was cut, people were working longer\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hours, Atlanta began to spread out. We did everything at the King Center or at\nthe Woodruff United Way [Robert W. Woodruff Volunteer Center] building. We did\neverything at lunchtime, you can't get from Stone Mountain or Alpharetta [metro\nAtlanta suburbs] in Atlanta traffic (chuckles) to do lunchtime meetings. So,\nthere's been an ebb and a flow, we used to meet all the time. Even our\nBlack-Jewish Sisters Group that's now 25 years old--we traveled to Harlem [New\nYork] and to Israel together and to the Washington Holocaust Museum [United\nStates Holocaust Memorial Museum]--we used to meet quarterly and we'd go to the\ntheater together and go to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"movies together. And now, we really work hard to make\nsure every December we have dinner together. So, they're not meeting as often.\nThere are some things that are fabulous, every other year they do a Young\nLeaders Retreat, and that group of thirty or forty people really develop the\nkind of relationships that I developed. But, I think we have a safety net, I\ndon't think anything is going to tear our community apart because there are\nthose long-standing relations. But, they're not meeting as often as they ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"used to.\n\nBERMAN: It almost seems like we need it more now than ever.\n\nFRANK: We do, and they're doing different things. The American Jewish Committee\ncreated the Congressional Black-Jewish Caucus, which is really significant. And\nin fact, I hope this film \"Shared Legacies\" will be taken to every community\nwhere a congress member is Black or Jewish and will show it to the Congress. But\nthere are still people meeting. I'm going to a meeting next week that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[Reverend\nDr.] Gerald Durley is going to be part of--a Black minister--along with\n[Reverend Dr.] Joanna Adams and some other White ministers. Because the\nChristians have said, \"We want to make a statement on antisemitism the way you\ndid your big rally a month ago. We want to sit with you and we want to respond\nin a way that's our voice.\" So, that's when longtime relationships come to fruition.\n\nBERMAN: Speaking of antisemitism, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you wrote in your book about facing up to the\nKlan and the Klan activities. And I was really intrigued by the courage that you\nall had, to go to Forsyth County . . .\n\nFRANK: It was scary.\n\nBERMAN: And again, I just want to say--and I will offer you to use the word\nperseverance when you answer because I need a great sound bite with this--the\nperseverance you had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to, even in the face of real danger, you all went to\nForsyth County and stood your ground.\n\nFRANK: It was a March Against Fear and Intimidation, and we were determined to\nmake a stand against fear and intimidation. One of the things I love about the\nAJC is . . . David Harris used to say, \"We're in it for the long run,\" and he\nuses as an example some twenty times they went ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to Japan to break the\nArab-Japanese boycott of Israel. We're in Black-Jewish relations for the long\nhaul. It was perseverance, it was something we valued, and we weren't just going\nto respond when [Louis] Farrakhan came to town, but we were going to be in it\nfor a long time. And I've always said, if this country isn't safe for Jews it\nwon't be safe for Blacks, and if it's not safe for Blacks it won't be safe for\nJews. So, that kind of determination to stay the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"course on the issues that you\ncare deeply about. You know, my book now, the chapter that deals with\nantisemitism is totally out of date because the world has changed since I\npublished. What's happened since [Donald] Trump came into office and the\nincreased hate crimes and the terrible attacks on synagogues. I was looking at\n[how] things were better (chuckles). We were dealing a little with BDS, but all\nof that has escalated. A chapter on antisemitism ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I would write differently, but\nthat's why books have their dates.\n\nBERMAN: What happened in Forsyth County, can you describe that?\n\nFRANK: Well, there are several things that were really interesting. First of\nall, Hosea Williams and a group of folks went down to Forsyth County because it\nwas a primarily White county. It was a week or two before the Martin Luther King\nholiday was supposed to be enacted, and they were literally attacked. They ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"left\nin fear, and they decided they were going to go back and create a March Against\nFear and Intimidation. I had never been part of actually creating a march, and\nall of a sudden I was--for the week before we went to Forsyth County--sitting on\ndesks at SCLC dealing with renting Port-a-Potties, and writing speeches. And one\nof the people said to me \"Can you get somebody who was in Mississippi, or\nsomebody who did voting rights. We want a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jew to speak who has been part of the\nmovement.\" So, I called AJC and I said, I need someone, and they put Jim Rudin\non the phone, a rabbi, and he did do voter stuff in Mississippi. And this is a\nWednesday, and I said, \"Can you be down here Saturday?\". And there were people\nwho said you shouldn't march on shabbas, and we went back to Heschel's, \"I pray\nwith my feet,\" when I marched on Saturday. But Jim said he would come, and the\nreporter in the newspaper who was going to cover that aspect ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of the story said,\n\"There's so many people coming, I need Jim to tell me what flight he's on and I\nwant to get him at the airport and go with him so I can find him.\" So, Jim spoke\nat the march and they marched together. But, it was so scary and Lillian Lewis,\nJohn told Lillian she couldn't go, she stayed home. Steve Selig went, Lois Frank\nwent, I went, but it was scary because we rode buses and then we got off where\nwe walked. And as we walked, on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"all sides of us were Klansmen. And what was so\nawful was these terrible signs about \"They should have killed all the Kings\" and\n\"Goddamn the niggers\" and all this kind of stuff. And I'm thinking, Coretta\n[Scott King] and her kids are seeing these signs. And I'd never seen a Klansman\nin a robe, but there were children along the way in robes, all of that was so\nfrightening. And at the end of the march it was already dark in Forsyth County\nand the buses were leaving and I thought, oh my God, where am I going to go,\nwhat bus am I going to get on? And Tim McDonald was on a bus--Tim McDonald, I\nlove him but he's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hard on Israel (chuckles)--and Tim said, \"Oh my God, there's\nSherry. Don't leave her in Forsyth County, come on and get on the bus!\" And I\nstood half the way back. But it was traumatic, it was scary, but we had to do\nit, and we were so much a part of it. I don't want to miss a moment of history.\n\nBERMAN: I don't think you have (laughing) in the last fifty years. Can you tell\nme, we talked a little about the Black-Jewish Coalition, but another ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"major\nprogram that you developed was ACCESS. Tell me how that came to pass and what\nthat stands for . . .\n\nFRANK: So, again, at one of our national meetings . . . I love the fact that AJC\nhad a Jewish agenda. Most defense agencies deal with antisemitism and Israel\n(chuckles) and human rights. But, Yehuda Rosenman really understood that part of\ndefense was defending Judaism ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and educating Jews and keeping Jews within the\nfold, and I really resonated with that agenda. At a staff meeting he said, \"You\nknow, all of our kids,\"--AJC was doing tons of studies--\"all of our Jewish kids\nare getting a disproportionate number of degrees compared to the rest of the\nworld.\" So, these educated Jews would resonate with our kind of intellectual\nview of things--we're not a theology--but our trends analysis. 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Chuck Wolf volunteered to be\nour ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"liaison and we did training sessions in his offices. So, the young people\nliked the kind of people they were meeting with. So, we created a steering\ncommittee and they said, \"The Federation has Young Professionals, Temple has a\nYoung Professionals, (chuckles) we're not all Young Professionals, we need a\nname.\" So, we had a little contest and they came up with ACCESS because they saw\nit as a verb, the way to access the Jewish and the general community. And I've\noften said I think part of our success is our name, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it separated us from the\nrest. We immediately brought these folks in with our powerful folks. I remember\nthere was a time when there was really a scam on Wall Street about people doing\nthings that weren't right. And Spring and Tom Asher hosted that meeting, so we\nwere in Tom Asher's home, a successful stock broker, and someone who taught\nethics at Kennesaw [State University] spoke. So, people cared about their own\nprofession ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"as well as their own Jewish identity. We did a series on \"Jews in\nPolitics, Business, and the Arts\", so that if they had any of those interests\nthey could see, even if it was token, where Jews had broken into that scene. So,\nyoung educated folks building their careers could meet with people who they\nthought were really significant. And then we started that annual program with\nentrepreneurs, so that people like Bernie Marcus and many others could say,\n\"Yes, I've made a lot of money, but I'm determined to give back to the\ncommunity.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So, there were things we did right, the name, the entrepreneurs\nprogram, the fact that our members were so supportive of it. And I have to say,\nat my staff meetings, people laughed at me and said, \"Why bother, you can't get\nany money out of them,\" because there's always this push for money. And I said,\n\"But when they have money (chuckles) they're going to give to the university or\nthe museum, and not to us, so . . . but it takes a lot of time.\"\n\nBERMAN: And have a lot of those young people from the early years been ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"active in\nthe AJC today?\n\nFRANK: Well, Kent Alexander and Elise Eplan went on from being president of one\nto president of the other. You look at that starting board, Joel Arogeti,\npresident of the [Jewish Community] Center. And I remember when Lois Blonder's\ndaughter Leslie [Leslie Blonder Isenberg] first went on the [William Breman]\nJewish Home Board and we said, \"We've done it, we have really trained these\npeople to take their role in the community.\" So, I would say the film festival,\nACCESS, and the Black-Jewish Coalition ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"are the things I've left as a legacy,\nthat I'm really proud of.\n\nBERMAN: The film festival [Atlanta Jewish Film Festival] is now considered the\nlargest in the world, is it the world?\n\nFRANK: It's so exciting, yes.\n\nBERMAN: Tell me, what was the germ for that idea?\n\nFRANK: Interestingly, we realized early on--God knows why--that films are a\ngreat source of education; you've shared an experience and then you can talk\nabout it and there's enough that deals with Judaism. So, we would, three or four\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"times a year, just a DVR in a box and talk about it, have someone talk about it,\nfrom an educator to Rabbi [Ilan] Feldman at the Orthodox synagogue [Congregation\nBeth Jacob]. And it grew. It grew to the point that we didn't have room for it.\nWe started doing it with The Temple because then we could get a bigger space.\nAnd Cookie Shapiro began to be a total pain in the neck, going to California\nsaying we should do a film festival. I was working 24/7 because of ACCESS and\nthe rest, and I said, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"If we're going to do a film festival you go raise the\nmoney to hire someone,\" and she did. And we hired Candy Berman and she helped us\nrun it the first time, and the rest is history. Judy Marx laughs that our\nopening week should have been the tenth year of a festival; we were in four\nlocations, ten films, it wasn't like just start with two nights. We started with\nstrobe lights and the red carpet. And also, even to this day, we did cutting\nedge stuff. Back in 1980 there was a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"film about two lesbian women in the\nOrthodox community and we were scared to show it and we did. And we were at\nWoodruff Auditorium so there wasn't a film coming afterwards. The line to get in\nwas so big we showed it twice that night. So, there are things about multiple\nplaces, cutting edge issues, that just grew. And then, it's a perfect divorce\nbetween AJC and the film festival. Dov Wilker and Kenny Blank were on each\nother's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"boards, there's so much cooperation.\n\nBERMAN: That's wonderful. These are true legacies, I have to say. One other\nlegacy that you have that is very close to my heart is that you started the Oral\nHistory Project.\n\nFRANK: That was interesting. When I came on to AJC it was our eightieth\nanniversary nationally, and there were three eightieth anniversary programs and\none of them was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"an oral history panel. And at AJC national conventions, one of\nthe highlights are always oral history panels, and there were famous Hollywood\nstars and whatever. And in 1980 there was this wake-up call, or 1981, that hey,\nthe only women in the collections were wives of, or daughters of, famous people.\nAnd that we should collect women's histories. So, we began a Women of\nAchievement Collection and did fabulous panels, and brought NCJW in, and then\nalong the way the Federation came in and all along it always was a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"beautiful\npartnership. And Judith Taylor, first Lucinda Bunnen and then Judith, was chair\nof our advisory committee, and the Taylor [family] money helped us transcribe\nthe tapes. But, it was a fabulous partnership, each group had two co-chairs and\nthe chairs met and Ronnie van Gelder and then Sunny Stern staffed it. And I\nremember ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[Edward] Ed Krick's wife Gertrude called me one day. We always knew age\nwas an imperative, get the old folks in, but Gertrude called me one day and\nsaid, \"Sherry, I want to tell you something very private,\" and I said okay and\nshe said, \"Ed has a serious diagnosis, will you make sure he gets his oral\nhistory.\" And I would read the obit page and say, Oh, my God I hope we got that\nperson's history. So, I was really very proud.\n\nBERMAN: Well, to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"your credit, it all started then and it's still growing strong\nand going strong, as evidenced by this meeting today. But, I have to say, it's\nquite a legacy for you because so many historians have used these oral histories\nand they're using these oral histories to write history. It's really a wonderful\nlegacy on your part. So, we talked a little bit about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"perseverance and how you\njust keep, you seem to not give up. And one of the initiatives that I remember,\nwhen I, I don't think I had been in Atlanta that long, were the problems at both\nAgnes Scott [College] and [The] Westminster [Schools] with hiring Jewish\nfaculty. And I thought, you never gave up, you just kept going until you\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"solicited change.\n\nFRANK: Yes. You know, it takes good people. I can't do it all. But, we were\nhonoring Mary Gellerstedt one year at our corporate dinner and a lawyer came\nover to our office. [He was] David Meltz and he said I deal with education\nissues and there's someone who has not been granted tenure at Agnes Scott. He\nhas a great resume and we're going to probably take out a law suit against the\nuniversity and you're honoring ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mary Gellerstedt and her husband Larry\n[Gellerstedt]'s chairman of the board of Agnes Scott, you might want to let him\nknow. And we did, and Larry was totally appalled and said, keep this out of the\npress and I'm going to stay on this until it's resolved. So, it wasn't just us,\nit was AJC doing our work quietly behind the scenes and not being a shrill voice\nand just getting accolades because we're exposing this discrimination, but\nreally working to eliminate it. And then, the history is, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"years later, I get\nthis fabulous letter from a professor who said it's been my pleasure to monitor\nthis situation. I've never found one day of discrimination or antisemitism, I'm\nproud to tell you I've been granted tenure and asked to be chairman of a\ndepartment. So, it was just like, yay! And it was some years later that AJC\nhonored Larry Gellerstedt Jr. and we could tell him about this story, it's the\nonly mother/son people. But, when I was writing my book, Miles Alexander said ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to\nme, \"You know Sherry, any letter you wrote or you wrote on your lay leadership's\nbehalf on your AJC stationary you own. But anything that came to you, you don't,\nand you need a big insurance policy against any kind of suits, and liability.\nAnd then you need everybody's permission, so go find this professor, from a long\ntime ago. But I tracked him down at the University of Colorado and I called him\nand said, remember me, I'm Sherry Frank and I'm writing my book. And he said,\nabsolutely use my letter. And Wyche Fowler was another one, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"go track him down\nand he was all over, he was a lawyer in Washington, he was an ambassador to\nSaudi Arabia, he was everywhere, now he's at University of Texas, and Elise\nEplan's dad got me a phone number. And Wyche said, \"Of course, use anything you\nwant.\" But, that was also a challenge in my book, getting everyone's permission.\n\nBERMAN: So, what happened at Westminster? How was the AJC involved with that?\n\nFRANK: Westminster was an issue of discrimination that we knew for a long time,\nthat they didn't have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=2970.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jewish faculty.\n\nBERMAN: And this is Westminster . . .\n\nFRANK: Westminster Schools. So, we began to write letters and say, look at our\nday schools, you don't need to be Jewish to teach math or science and we have\nplenty of non-Jews and it's time that Westminster opened up. (laughs) Albert\nEinstein couldn't have taught at Westminster. But we had alumni, our ACCESS\nmembers, who were upset with the school that was publicity out there. One of the\nthings I wanted to do ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in my book, in telling that story, was really cover it\nfrom the newspaper. Because the newspaper and people like Jim Kennedy, who\nreally were righteous Christians about that, who really said, I don't want to be\nin on a board that discriminates. And colleges began not coming to the\nuniversity to interview them for potential students, so it was hurting their\nstudents. So, we wrote letters, we urged our members to write letters to raise\ntheir ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"voice. We wrote some op-eds in the paper. But it really was a community\ngroundswell about this fabulous school that had a really discriminatory policy\nyou couldn't justify in the modern age. So, I think our work is not my success\nbut the community's success. And people respected us, we had credibility.\n\nBERMAN: Was it sometimes hard to pick the project you would . . . you couldn't\ndo it all. You tried, but . . .\n\nFRANK: Well, some of it ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3060.0,3090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"came from National, there were national issues, just\nlike NCJW and Tay-Sachs. And national organizations were involved in Soviet\nJewry. But, Ethiopia is a fabulous example of, David Harris said, \"There are\nJews in Ethiopia and we have a member, we have a woman who is really working on\nthis issue, she's been to Ethiopia multiple times. We've given her a desk in our\noffice at National and that's really how the Soviet Jewry movement started.\nJerry Goodman had a desk at AJC ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3090.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and they said bring her to your community. So,\nthis is an example of a combination of my passion and the agency's direction. We\nbrought Barbara Ribakove Gordon to Atlanta, had a program at the Temple where\nshe told us stories, she showed us slides. I knew one of the things that was\nhappening was people were going blind because of bugs in their eyes. And I came\nhome and called Steve Kutner--Jeanney and Steve are friends--and I don't know\nwhat your first appointment is in the morning, but cancel it. You've got to be\nat my office. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Because, often I'd have a speaker at night and then the next day\nfor anyone who couldn't come. Steve came, heard her story, and the rest is\nhistory. He said, where do you want me, when do you want me, and he started his\nmissions to Ethiopia.\n\nBERMAN: Project Vision, right?\n\nFRANK: Project Vision.\n\nBERMAN: So, sometimes things just fall in your lap, sometimes you hear about\nsomething, but sometimes . . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what I'm trying to get to is, what happened with\nthe Leo Frank case and how that fell onto your desk.\n\nFRANK: Well that's a great story. Bill Gralnick my boss, was really ahead . . .\nfirst of all, we really staffed the region. I didn't really want to staff the\nregion, I said to National, and they let me do it, \"There's so much to do in\nAtlanta. To go to Memphis and Nashville and Chattanooga [all in Tennessee] where\nthey don't really want you and all you're doing is raising money and they don't\nwant you to take away from their synagogues and sisterhoods. Let me just respond\nto the growth of Atlanta.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3180.0,3210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But Bill loved that. And Bill had a real eye for the\nmedia and so he convinced the guy [John Lawrence Seigenthaler] who ran the\nNashville Tennessean [newspaper]--he later went on to run USA Today\n[newspaper]--that there were paramilitary camps all through Tennessee and he\nshould do a story. And so, he did. And he did it by bringing a journalist [Jerry\nThompson] in who came drunk to work for weeks, and he sent him off to be detoxed\nand that was a whole secret kind of play [a cover]. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And he also created Jerry\nThompson's--the journalist who came in drunk--his cover that he grew up in\nBirmingham [Alabama], and an elementary school that had burned down, so that if\nthe Klan looked for him they couldn't find a story. So, Jerry was in the Klan\nfor 18 months, came out, had security around the clock. And one of his security\nguards one night, as they were sitting drinking beer around the fire said, \"My\ncousin has a story to tell before he goes to his Jesus.\" [dies] This is a direct\nquote. And Jerry Thompson said, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3240.0,3270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"What's the story?\" and it turns out this cousin\nwas Alonzo Mann, this little office boy who worked in the office and so Jerry\nThompson calls Seigenthaler, the editor of the Nashville Tennessean and says, \"I\nhave my next story, it's an Atlanta story,\" and Seigenthaler said, (laughs) \"We\ndon't sell many Nashville Tennesseans in Atlanta,\" and he said, \"It's a Leo\nFrank story,\" and Seigenthaler said, \"You have a blank check.\" Now, Bill\nGralnick had left (laughs) ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I was the director and Jerry Thompson and another\nstaff member were in and out of our office for months, researching the Leo Frank\ncase. We knew when the Leo Frank story was going to be released from the\nTennessean and I called Vida Goldgar at the Southern Israelite and I called\nStuart Lewengrub at the ADL and said, \"My board thinks we're meeting on Monday\nfor a board meeting, but we're not. Read up on the Leo Frank story and come to\nmy board meeting. And Jerry Thompson was in on Monday after the story broke the\nnews on Sunday. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3300.0,3330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And as a result of this new information, AJC, ADL, and\nFederation CRC [Community Relations Committee] all worked for the pardon,\nposthumous pardon. And Alonzo Mann was in my office, that was just really\namazing, to actually meet him.\n\nBERMAN: Were you disappointed that the pardon really only addressed that the\nState failed to protect Leo Frank?\n\nFRANK: Right. Yes, I was. But you can't find him guilty or innocent because you\ncan't retry it. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3330.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I think the fact that justice wasn't served and there was\nall of this judicial change afterwards for me was enough. They're still making\nso much out of it and I don't totally know why. I just guess for me I try and\npick by battles. I mean, I don't like the statues at Stone Mountain, but I care\nmuch more about voting rights and . . . So, continuing to raise this story, I\ndon't quite see why, but you know . . .\n\nBERMAN: I agree, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3360.0,3390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it's . . .\n\nFRANK: But, you know, I always look for ways to do more. I guess I have a\npassion for that. And now with NCJW I was determined to do something with\nimmigrants. Because we have the largest number of refugees in the world today.\nAnd it's so hard to do anything because the agencies that would be dealing with\nresettlement have no folks to resettle. And we've found one, the Tahirih Justice\nCenter and we know there are abused ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3390.0,3420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"women that are part of their clientele and\nthat we really don't have the skills to meet their needs. But before I came here\nI was brought a trunk full of personal hygiene supplies and diapers and things\nthat our members are collecting.\n\nBERMAN: And where is this, I'm sorry . . .\n\nFRANK: Tahirih Justice Center is a national agency. A newer one. They have nine,\nfive, or eight officers around the country. There's one here, it's been here two\nor three years and they're mostly attracting lawyers to do work on immigration.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3420.0,3450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But we've been looking, is there some piece of what you're doing that we can\ncontribute to and so we are now collecting the personal hygiene items they need.\nI'm learning that girls are not going to school when they have their period,\nbecause they don't have tampons and personal hygiene supplies. I can't believe,\nwe're not a third world, but this is happening in poor schools all over Atlanta.\nSo, we're starting to collect those things. And if you talk to young women,\nthey're doing ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3450.0,3480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"period parties. I said, what's a period party? They're gathering\nthese supplies and putting them in packages to bring to the nurses' clinic. So,\nthere's still work to be done everywhere you look.\n\nBERMAN: Are you frustrated that . . .\n\nFRANK: No, I'm motivated. (smiling) Because it gives my life purpose. (laughs)\nI'm still busy doing things. I can't wait to get to the NCJW office to see what\nI can do next.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3480.0,3510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"BERMAN: You mentioned earlier you can label yourself, probably, as a feminist.\nHow was that with four young children and working fulltime? How did you manage?\n\nFRANK: I think you do what you have to do. I don't think my kids had an easy\nchildhood, and they were latchkey kids. They did come home from school sometimes\nand I wasn't there. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3510.0,3540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Whenever my kids were sick, most of the time my mother\n[Esther Horowitz Zimmerman] brought them to the pediatrician and made chicken\nsoup. If I worked late she spent the night; she was a widow. But they went to\nschool and worked their way through school and worked on scholarships. But,\nthey're strong today. And when I wasn't at work I was totally with my family, so\nI don't think they were deprived of family. I just think, at the moment, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3540.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you do\nwhat you have to do. You aren't measuring, what's missing in this picture? And\npart of it was, I was single, so I had the time to work and time to give to my children.\n\nBERMAN: Was the community helpful, the Jewish community? Did you find the\norganized Jewish community was at all helpful?\n\nFRANK: Yes. I remember (chuckles) Bill Breman asking me, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3570.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Has the synagogue\nhelped you?\" and I started to cry. My first child went to [University of]\nGeorgia, and because we lived in Tennessee and weren't back in Georgia, we\ncouldn't get any of the student loans for college. So, Jacque started school in\nthe summer, I paid out-of-state fees the first year, but by the second year,\nthey got the loans from the agencies. Marty Kogan, I'll never forget, called and\nsaid, \"Your kids are enrolled in Epstein School, we'll worry about what you pay\nnext year.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3600.0,3630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So, I did have that kind of support.\n\nBERMAN: That's wonderful. After 9/11, there was a lot of anti-Muslim feeling\nthroughout the country, and there was some in Atlanta too. That inspired you to\nget to work again, didn't it?\n\nFRANK: Well, we were already doing work with Faith Alliance of Metro Atlanta\n(FAMA), and there were good Muslims at the table, particularly Plemon El-Amin,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3630.0,3660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Imam Plemon El-Amin. I remember, 9/11 happened on Tuesday, by Wednesday or\nThursday, Rabbi Goodman and the whole group of us were already planning an\ninterfaith service, which we did. But, Friday, for Jumu'ah, which is the big\nMuslim prayer at noon--I think it was Rabbi Richardson and I went to the\nmosque--to the Masjid [of Al-Islam] of Plemon El-Amin. And there was a press\nconference there and I spoke. And I spoke, and I've often spoken ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3660.0,3690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about, how I\nfelt in Atlanta as a child when The Temple was bombed, even though it wasn't my\nsynagogue. We were traumatized. You're traumatized when you place of worship is\nattacked, the whole community. And I said, we can understand how all of you\nfeel. And by Friday, every mosque in Atlanta had been threatened. So, it was\nreally meaningful to speak there. But, I loved the women watching who were\nthinking, \"Ah, a woman's speaking!\" (laughs) That was a feminist moment, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3690.0,3720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"back\nthen. But, it brought the community together. The Imams were speaking everywhere\nbecause people of good will really wanted to reach out a hand and also to\nunderstand Islam. They didn't think every Imam was a terrorist.\n\nBERMAN: You spent a lot of time bringing not only the Black-Jewish Coalition,\nBlacks and Jews together, but also other ethnicities. Can you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3720.0,3750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"discuss that a\nlittle bit, how that evolved?\n\nFRANK: I love working in the interfaith arena, and AJC has a fabulous track\nrecord. We were the only Jewish presence at Vatican Council Two, so every ten\nyears we did a celebratory of Nostra Aetate and discussions on how the deicide\ncharge against Jews was removed and how liturgy was changed. So, that was very\nexciting working with one Catholic Archbishop after another, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3750.0,3780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when a new one\nwould come, when an Israeli consul would come, we would invite the Jewish\ncommunity leadership to meet this new Archbishop and this new Consul General.\nThen, through the Faith Alliance of Metro Atlanta--which met for years at our\noffice--we then created this World Pilgrims and we began to travel the world\ntogether, Christians, Jews, and Muslims, and walk in each other's sacred spaces.\nAnd it just develops very strong relations. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3780.0,3810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Going through my materials, I saw\nthis fabulous letter from [Rev.] Gerald Durley--a Black Protestant minister, a\nBaptist minister--just a sweet sad letter on the death of [Yitzhak] Rabin. And I\nthought, \"Oh wow, I don't even remember that,\" but you develop strong\nrelationships. And people in good will really want to work together and build\nbridges. And Atlanta has a fabulous community for that. Atlanta's a unique\nplace. Even the Muslim community, because ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3810.0,3840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when you deal with African American\nMuslims you're not dealing with Middle East Muslims. Their agenda is much more\nthe Quran than Israel. So, it's an easier relationship to build.\n\nBERMAN: One of the other things that amazed me--because I did not know this\nbefore I saw it in your book--was that AJC got involved with the Deborah\nLipstadt - David Irving trial. I did not know that, and I was very intrigued.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3840.0,3870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"FRANK: That was fun, when I saw Deborah Lipstadt--when I went to a book signing\nat the Menkins [Linda and David]--I said, \"It really made me nervous writing\nabout observing your trial.\" And she said, \"Do you want me to read it and proof\nit?\" (laughs) and I said, \"No, I don't want to change it at this point.\" That\nchapter, you'll note, I kept quoting JTA because I kept following it through\nJewish Telegraph Agency. But, I knew about the trial, and I knew that David\nHarris was asked to chair the national campaign.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3870.0,3900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"BERMAN: Could you describe for the tape what this is all about?\n\nFRANK: Deborah Lipstadt wrote a book on Holocaust denial and said that David\nIrving was a Holocaust denier; and he took her to court. When you go to court in\nEngland, you're guilty and you have to prove your innocence, it's the opposite\nof American court. So, there had to be an enormous amount of money raised for\nher defense and I think the whole Jewish world wanted to help her. But--I don't\nknow why, for some reason, I guess ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3900.0,3930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Harris' stature--David, the National\nDirector of AJC, was asked to coordinate the campaign, to chair it. And AJC gave\nthe first $50,000 of the defense. All of us on staff gave our little part, I\nfelt so proud about that check. So, $3,000,000 was raised. It was kept a secret\nbecause her defense didn't want anyone to know [because] it would be like a\nSamson and Delilah huge disparity. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3930.0,3960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was determined to go to the trial because I\nthought, this is the trial of our century, it's like the Eichmann Trials or the\nNeuremburg Trials. But, before Deborah left for her month in London, she was\nvery close to Joe and Felicia Weber and they had a dinner and they asked me. And\nalong the way, we had several board meetings where we would get updates that\nwere confidential. So, I saw her off when she left, and when she came back,\nLinda and David Menkin had a reception for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3960.0,3990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"her and invited me also. So, that was\nexciting. I did go to the trial and I was told that the people line up around\nthe block so go early, and stand in line to get a seat. And as I was standing in\nline, Deborah came into the trial, took my hand and said, \"Come sit.\" And when I\nlooked at the little gallery it was just amazing who was there. Authors, heads\nof the World Jewish Congress, these famous people, and her faculty from Emory\ncame to observe the trial. At one point, she passed our little ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=3990.0,4020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"area where we\nwere sitting, to go to the bathroom, and she said, \"Welcome to the theater of\nthe absurd,\" and I used that as the title of my speech when I spoke when I got\nback. But, it was amazing to see the physical courtroom, to watch David Irving\ndefend himself and to be in the room with him. It was really quite amazing, it\nwas one of those moments when I was . . . I mean, I traveled the world with AJC\nand went places I never would have as a single parent, visiting with refuseniks\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=4020.0,4050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in Russia, going to meet Jordan's king, and observing this trial, it was pretty\nexciting. (chuckles)\n\nBERMAN: You've been a witness to history, you really have. How do you see\nAtlanta today? You were born in Atlanta, what do you see the future of the\nJewish community here, Black-Jewish relations . . .\n\nFRANK: I think it's a fabulous community. I think you always see so much\nprogress and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=4050.0,4080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"innovation and openness. I think you see it today with Eric Robbins\nchanging Federation dramatically. I think you see it as the birthplace of the\nCivil Rights Movement with relations, business, and family. We've tried to\ninterview Martin Luther King III for this film, Shared Legacy, but he . . .\nwasn't forthcoming, he was rambling. So, the filmmakers said to me, \"Sit in my\nseat and interview him.\" I said, \"Martin, what are your memories ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=4080.0,4110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of Dr. Marvin\nGoldstein?\" All of a sudden, \"Oh, he was my dentist, folks stayed there when the\nfuneral happened at the Americana Motor Hotel, we went to Blue Star . . .\" it\nwas all of a sudden, all of these relationships. The city is built with\nrelationships of progress and partnerships and open to innovation. And I think\nyou see it. We have an opening now at our synagogue because Analia and Mario are\nmoving, making aliyah from ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=4110.0,4140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Congregation Or Hadash and people are scared and sad\nand whatever--and I love Analia Bortz and Mario Karpuj--but I said, change is\nexciting. (smiling) With Atlanta's day schools and Atlanta's growing Jewish\ncommunity, rabbis are going to want to come to this city. Seniors are coming to\nthis city because their kids are here. So, I think it's a wonderful, open place.\n\nBERMAN: I'm glad you mentioned Martin Luther King, III, because I want to talk a\nlittle bit ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=4140.0,4170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about--before we finish up--your relationship with the King family.\nYou have quite a relationship.\n\nFRANK: Right. Well, in our days in Black-Jewish relations, we either met at The\nKing Center or we met at the Woodruff United Way building, I don't know what\nit's called today. [Robert W. Woodruff Volunteer Center]. But, Coretta was in\nour meetings often, and I sat at the table when we planned the King Holiday, and\nwe would say what ministers should be . . . (laughs) Andrew Young used to say,\n\"Ah, nothing's as boring as a White man preaching,\" and I would say, \"But, you\nhaven't seen [Rabbi Emeritus] Alvin Sugarman when he goes to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=4170.0,4200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[Rev.] Walter\nKimbrough's church and he gets this, spirit. And also, you haven't heard Rabbi\nViven preach, because he could preach.\" But, she would always ask me who could\nread a Jewish text at the interfaith service. And I'd always try to give her the\nname of the new, youngest rabbi in town because I thought they would enjoy being\nin that setting. But, over time, relationships grow and so, I happened to say,\n\"In two weeks I'm going to the Soviet Union,\" and Coretta ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=4200.0,4230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"said, \"Stop by my\noffice before you leave,\" and I said \"Sure.\" She'd never done that before. She\ngave me three books of her life with Dr. King [\"My Life with Martin Luther King,\nJr.\"], continuing the work after his death and she autographed them. And she\nsaid, \"I want you to give them to three women whose husbands are in prison who\nare continuing their activism in their absence.\" So, I gave them to a woman in\nMoscow and in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) and in Riga, and they all knew her\nstory. And then, when [Louis] Farrakhan ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=4230.0,4260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was saying all this horrible stuff about\nJews are a gutter religion and Israel's an outlawed state, we were going to do a\npress conference and I asked her to speak, and she said she would. And the press\nwas there and she's still writing and I'm thinking \"oy\" this is never going to\nhappen. And she said, \"You know . . .\"--and I tell this story a lot--\"I don't\nhave any problem denouncing the antisemitism, but my Christian values don't let\nme denounce the man.\" And when I talk to kids, which I do, at the King Center, I\nsay when your child does something bad, it's not ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=4260.0,4290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that he's a bad kid, but what\nhe did was bad. What she taught me in that moment was, you can understand every\nhuman being has qualities--some more than others, with Farrakhan--but, all we\ncared about was her denouncing the antisemitism. So, when I was asked to speak\nat her funeral, I was overwhelmed. And it was one of the reasons I wrote the\nbook. I wanted my grandkids, one day, to read that speech.\n\nBERMAN: Family is very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=4290.0,4320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"important to you, isn't it?\n\nFRANK: I have eleven grandkids . . .\n\nBERMAN: What are their ages?\n\nFRANK: . . . the youngest is now 12 and the oldest is 25. When I spoke about my\nbook at a Grandparents Luncheon at The Davis Academy, it was about telling your\ngrandchildren your stories. So, everybody had lunch and we all introduced\nourselves and told what grades our grandkids were in. And then Rabbi Micah\nLapidus said, and now we have a special guest, and I'm thinking I was the\nspecial guest, and in comes ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=4320.0,4350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my 12-year old grandson to introduce me (laughs)\nwhich was just the highlight of my writing my book. It was so sweet.\n\nBERMAN: That's wonderful. Well, it's five [o'clock] and the [Breman] museum's\ngoing to be shutting us down soon, but what have I missed? What do you feel is\nyour greatest accomplishment, besides children and grandchildren?\n\nFRANK: Well, I'll tell you. When I applied for the job and was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=4350.0,4380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"getting it at\nAJC, I came to meet Mike Gettinger at Federation. In those days, Jewish\nprofessionals saw the world through Jewish texts. And I said to Mike, \"Oh my\nGod, I feel like overnight I need a degree in Middle East history and\ncomparative religions,\" and Mike said, \"Study your own Jewish texts, that's who\nyou are. You need to be who you are in the community.\" And I tell people all the\ntime, just know who you are. Be a proud Jew and take it out into the community\nwith all your social justice ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=4380.0,4410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/transcript/24461/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and everything that rings your bell.\n\nBERMAN: Well, with that, I'd like to thank you very much. It's been a wonderful\nopportunity for The Breman and for me, and I'm glad you gave us the time to do\nthis. Thank you.\n\nFRANK: Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967#t=4410.0,4440.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/annotation_set/439","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Frank_Sherry [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/39499/file/110967/annotation_set/439/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eLeb’s Restaurant was a New York-style delicatessen on the corner of Luckie and Forsyth Streets in downtown Atlanta. Like all restaurants in downtown in the 1960s, Leb’s was White-only. 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