{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/7940r9mh21/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Barr, Gertrude Scheer"]},"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":["1998-03-05 (creation)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Audio"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source"]},"value":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum","Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Collection","Savannah Jewish Archives"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eGertrude Scheer Barr was interviewed by C. Robert Friedman on March 5, 1998.\u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eGertrude was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1922 to William Scheer and Dora Gaspin Scheer. Her father William, a poor immigrant himself from Russia, was one of the organizers of the Savannah Workman’s circle. Gertrude graduated as an honors student from the Savannah High School. She met her husband, Irving Barr, while Barr was in Savannah during World War II through the Jewish Educational Alliance. After marrying, they moved up to New York for Barr’s job. However, Gertrude returned to the south to take care of her ill mother, followed later by her husband and they relocated back to Savannah. After returning home, Gertrude became a major part of the Bnai Brith Jacob Synagogue, as a member of the Sisterhood, and the Bnai Brith Jacob women. Her continual passions were for the arts; music and painting in particular. She had three children, all of whom stayed in the Savannah area. Gertrude died in 2015 in Savannah at the age of 92.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eIn this interview, Gertrude describes growing up in a segregated Savannah, and the differences of growing up in a Jewish household in the South. The neighbourhood in which she grew up was part of a segregated neighbourhood on either side, as Gertrude remembers the predominately black church, as well as her doctor. And although the Depression of the 1930’s meant limited food, Gertrude continues to describe her family giving food to those less fortunate, which did not happen in the whole Jewish community.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis interview covers the early Depression years in the Savannah Jewish neighbourhood, and how the Jewish community worked as a banking system. She recalls the education in the Jewish school organized through the Workman’s Circle, as in her time it was taught in Yiddish. She describes the true role of the Workman’s Circle in Savannah, which many thought was a communist group. She remarks on her family in particular being more culturally Jewish than religiously, speaking Yiddish and celebrating the high holidays. Gertrude remembers her father's artistic education of his daughters, as he encouraged his children to read more for a formal education.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGertrude continues to describe her early 20’s in events thrown by the Jewish Educational Alliance, where she met her husband during Rosh Hashanah. She tells that this was common for women of her generation, who met their non-local husbands during World War II. She ends the interview in a short description of how the Jewish community has changed since she was a young adult, specifically how the community began to use Hebrew more so than Yiddish as it was seen as an immigrant language.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/27953"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Subject"]},"value":{"en":["Gertrude Scheer Barr (personal name)","Savannah, Georgia (geographic term)","Workman's Circle (corporate name)","Jewish Educational Alliance (corporate name)","The Great Depression (topical term)","World War II (topical term)","Congregation B'nai B'rith Jacob (corporate name)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eGertrude Scheer Barr was interviewed by C. Robert Friedman on March 5, 1998.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGertrude was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1922 to William Scheer and Dora Gaspin Scheer. Her father William, a poor immigrant himself from Russia, was one of the organizers of the Savannah Workman’s circle. Gertrude graduated as an honors student from the Savannah High School. She met her husband, Irving Barr, while Barr was in Savannah during World War II through the Jewish Educational Alliance. After marrying, they moved up to New York for Barr’s job. However, Gertrude returned to the south to take care of her ill mother, followed later by her husband and they relocated back to Savannah. After returning home, Gertrude became a major part of the Bnai Brith Jacob Synagogue, as a member of the Sisterhood, and the Bnai Brith Jacob women. Her continual passions were for the arts; music and painting in particular. She had three children, all of whom stayed in the Savannah area. Gertrude died in 2015 in Savannah at the age of 92.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn this interview, Gertrude describes growing up in a segregated Savannah, and the differences of growing up in a Jewish household in the South. The neighbourhood in which she grew up was part of a segregated neighbourhood on either side, as Gertrude remembers the predominately black church, as well as her doctor. And although the Depression of the 1930’s meant limited food, Gertrude continues to describe her family giving food to those less fortunate, which did not happen in the whole Jewish community.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis interview covers the early Depression years in the Savannah Jewish neighbourhood, and how the Jewish community worked as a banking system. She recalls the education in the Jewish school organized through the Workman’s Circle, as in her time it was taught in Yiddish. She describes the true role of the Workman’s Circle in Savannah, which many thought was a communist group. She remarks on her family in particular being more culturally Jewish than religiously, speaking Yiddish and celebrating the high holidays. Gertrude remembers her father's artistic education of his daughters, as he encouraged his children to read more for a formal education.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGertrude continues to describe her early 20’s in events thrown by the Jewish Educational Alliance, where she met her husband during Rosh Hashanah. She tells that this was common for women of her generation, who met their non-local husbands during World War II. She ends the interview in a short description of how the Jewish community has changed since she was a young adult, specifically how the community began to use Hebrew more so than Yiddish as it was seen as an immigrant language.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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I recording Gertrude Scheer Barr.\n\nBARR: Well, back, way, back, back, back,-- I can remember when I was a little\ngirl. I had, my best friend was a black girl, believe it or not. I used to go to\nschool, then after school come home a little while, then go to the Workman's\nCircle, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jewish School. And uh, you didn't have too much time in between, but\nafterwards when it let out, I had about an hour and a half, two hours to wait\nuntil my father closed his shop. And we'd all go home together. In the meantime,\nthese people were the nicest black people, and she was my closest friend. And I\nhad Jewish friends, too. But I learned early on that there ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was, there was no\nstigma attached to being black. And I was proud to be her friend, I really was.\nI mean, her mother was a school teacher, black school teacher, her father was a\nblack barber. And they lived with their, they lived with their grandmother and\nanother son. But they were the finest people you wanted to meet.\n\nFRIEDMAN: Well, tell me, do you have any ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"explanation for the freedom with which\nyou related to this woman, given the fact that you were, you were indeed, in\nSavannah, Georgia, at the time and there was segregated facilities and there was\na lot of anti-black feeling. I mean is there anything that you understand helped\nyou to be free to relate to this woman in this way?\n\nBARR: Oh, yes, yes. We lived across the street from black people and there was\nnot just the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"poorest of poor. There was a black doctor on the corner who was a\nfine man, very fine. Incidentally, my nephew, Robert, was taken there often with\nsomething - he swallowed potash one time when we had somebody washing the steps\ngoing upstairs and we ran him over there. And many times he hurt himself but\nthat's beside the point. My ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mother, may she rest in peace, she was a fine woman,\na quiet woman. The people across the street lived so poorly, so poorly. I often,\nand I only went over there to bring her soup when my mother made extra soup,\nshe'd send over - that's how I learned to have a sensitivity to these people.\nThey were so grateful and they were poor as church ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mice but they were fine\npeople. They weren't low, of a lower class. I guess I learned that from her. We\nused to have a lot of blacks coming to the door, begging for food. We had very\nlittle ourselves, but we always shared - if it was nothing but a jelly, jelly\nsandwich on bread and which we used to buy day-old bread, because everybody was\nin the same fix. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was very, they were very bad times, very poor times.\n\nFRIEDMAN: What years are we talking about? When were you born?\n\nBARR: I was born in 1922. Well, I was big enough to go across the street by\nmyself, so it must have been 11, 10 or 11, 9, anywhere from 9 to 11.\n\nFRIEDMAN: Early '30's, late '20's, early '30's.\n\nBARR: Yeah.\n\nFRIEDMAN: Depression.\n\nBARR: But, it was bad times for everybody. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But even then the Jewish population\nwas segregated to wealthy, the medium and the poor.\n\nFRIEDMAN: Is that right?\n\nBARR: Yes, they were. 'Cause I, that's why my friendliest friend was a black\ngirl. We got along fine. We used to write stories, just sit there and write\nstories and see who could write the best story. She'd read mine and I'd read\nhers. There were some wonderful stories, I wish we'd ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"kept them. I wish we'd kept\nthem. She was a very fine girl. I later found out from her mother that she\ncommitted suicide and I feel that the, being black had a lot to do with it,\nbecause she was such a fine girl. The whole family was. Of course, they were\nlooked upon with a frown because of their ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"color, but I never looked at it that\nway. You were black, I'm white, what's the difference? We all bleed the same\nway. Therefore, I've had a feeling for anybody that's held down. Just like, I\nwouldn't buy anything from a China, made in China. I wouldn't buy one. Anything\nmade there, because they, they hold their people ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"down so badly. And other\nplaces, too. I just can't, I can't take it. I just wished I had enough gumption\nand more, I was just young, I wished that I had enough education back then, even\nthough I was so young that I would do something about the problem with the segregation.\n\nFRIEDMAN: Did you feel that, let's talk a little bit about the Jewish community.\nDid you feel ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that there were differences, or did you feel any way that the\nJewish community was frowned upon by the rest of the community?\n\nBARR: I don't think they treated the blacks any too well, I really don't. They\nhad maids--\n\nFRIEDMAN: You mean the Jews?\n\nBARR: Yeah. Jewish people could empathize with them, but they still paid them\nnext to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"nothing for wages, which I didn't. When I was, after I got married.\nEverybody used to fuss at me because I paid the part-time help that I had much\nmore than they did. I said, I can't do it. You know, because of my upbringing.\nSo, I don't think the Jewish people were too much different. Here in Savannah.\n\nFRIEDMAN: How did they treat their own? The Jews and the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jews?\n\nBARR: Oh, they, I think that they took care of one another.\n\nFRIEDMAN: Did they?\n\nBARR: You know, if a businessman needed a little bit of a help financially, he\ngot help. I know my father did.\n\nFRIEDMAN: To whom would they go?\n\nBARR: And he didn't go to the bank all the time. Mr. Hoffman, may he rest in\npeace, he was a very benevolent man and he reached, successful. Of course, he\ncharged a little fee for his money ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but he deserved to. But I think that the\nJews, more or less, just like today they take care of their own.\n\nFRIEDMAN: Let me ask you, you said you used to go to Jewish School - would you\ntalk a little bit about what that was, what kind of school that was, and what\nyou studied.\n\nBARR: Oh, they, everything was Yiddish. There was a smattering of Hebrew, of\ncourse, in your books, but it was mostly Yiddish. 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Did you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"remember that?\n\nBARR: I don't remember.\n\nFRIEDMAN: It's a huge piece and it is commending, it's addressed to Grandma and\nit's commending him, or commending his coming from Eastern Europe and being a\nvery significant part of this community in Savannah and being involved in the\nWorkman's Circle.\n\nBARR: I think I have a very rare, faint collection, recollection of that.\n\nFRIEDMAN: I guess what's important--\n\nBARR: He wasn't the, you know, my father was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"one of the organizers and Mr.\nApplebaum and Mr. Hoffman and oh, quite a number of people that we knew.\n\nFRIEDMAN: Organizers of the Workman's Circle?\n\nBARR: Yeah. All of these are Workman's Circle. We had our affairs, it was our,\nit was a Workman's Circle Peak. The name will tell you what it was. People of\nworkers. And that's why they thought it was a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"communist organization.\n\nFRIEDMAN: Well, as a matter of fact, we know it wasn't, we know it was a\nsocialist organization, but it was not a communist organization.\n\nBARR: It was activist.\n\nFRIEDMAN: We want to get that straight.\n\nBARR: Yes, it was socialism in its finest form. Which I agree with.\n\nFRIEDMAN: Yeah. Well, tell me did growing up as a Jewish woman within that small\ngroup of the Workman's Circle, 'cause there weren't a lot of members were there?\n\nBARR: Well, a good ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"many. We had our meetings and our classes above a store, that\nwas, the entrance was in a lane--\n\nFRIEDMAN: Perry Lane.\n\nBARR: Yeah. No, no, it was --\n\nFRIEDMAN: Mr. Center's, Mr. Center's store on Perry Lane and West Broad.\n\nBARR: Right, right, that's right, that's right. There was a little stage there\nand we had desks. It was a regular school. I graduated from there. 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We had a big class, I can't remember all of them.\n\nFRIEDMAN: Well, let me ask you - did you feel, did you feel, how did you feel\nabout, the way I want to put it, I'm not sure - did you feel that somehow being\npart of the Workman's Circle was not being part of the general Jewish community?\nI ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mean there was a\n\nBARR: Yes.\n\nFRIEDMAN: There was a. How--\n\nBARR: Yes, yes, I felt that way. Don't forget we were, the organization was made\nup of workers. Laborers, a lot of them, not so many had stores, or they had a\nstore they worked themselves. You know, it was bad times then. 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Most of the\npeople that were members of the Workman's Circle lived in the poorer sections.\nBeing a shoemaker on West Broad Street - I mean that was not a, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it wasn't\nanything to be ashamed of but it wasn't anything to boast about either. My\nfather looked like he should have been a banker.\n\nFRIEDMAN: He may have looked that way but he was certainly not alone on West\nBroad Street. 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You know, that they could bomb Pearl Harbor, you know, they,\nwhat would, why couldn't they just bomb Savannah, you know, and I immediately\npicked ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"myself up out of the movie and we ran home. But I remember that vividly -\nit was so vivid in my mind. I was already, let's see, I was about 20, no, I was\nabout 18-19 years old. But Broughton Street held everything. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That was\nour big outing. Then I remember on the corner of where we lived, there was next\ndoor to us, the Langes. They had a grocery store and they lived above the\ngrocery store. They were German. I used to shuck beans for her, for a nickel. 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Passover, we knew that the gefilte fish that Mama used to\nmake. We were very Jewish, my parents. Although they didn't go to synagogue much.\n\nFRIEDMAN: I know.\n\nBARR: But, we knew the smells - hamantashen, it was just, every holiday and we\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"knew that the holidays where we fast, we didn't eat. It was very Jewish, very\nJewish, I can remember that. Not much Hebrew, you know. Just Yiddish. In fact,\nmy father's sister married a German, her second husband was a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"German, and her\nfirst husband was Jewish and the German husband was so much better to her. But\nmy father didn't speak to her for thirty years because she married outside our\nreligion. And we wouldn't think of going out with a Gentile. I mean, it was not\neven mentioned. We just knew that we weren't supposed to go with them. And in\nschool I was called ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Jewbaby\" all the time.\n\nFRIEDMAN: Were you?\n\nBARR: I was about, I think there was, Deborah Bernstein was not in my class but\nin that age group and she was in a, you know, you were in different classes. She\nalso was, had to put up with that. But I was the only one in my class. 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The finest orchestra\nfrom all over the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"world.\n\nFRIEDMAN: Who brought these people, do you remember?\n\nBARR: There was a, I can't think of the name, this man always brought down, he\nwas in charge of it--\n\nFRIEDMAN: Was it at the Civic Center?\n\nBARR: The Civic Center, in the auditorium, at that time. The one that was so\nsmall, but we used to pack the rafters.\n\nFRIEDMAN: Well, I remember it was a Mr. Alnutt and the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Alnutt Music Store on\nBroughton Street that I somehow connected with that.\n\nBARR: Oh.\n\nFRIEDMAN: When I was growing up.\n\nBARR: It wasn't on Broughton Street, the Civic Center--\n\nFRIEDMAN: No. The Civic Center wasn't on Broughton Street, the man who was\npartly responsible for it, I think it was Mr. Alnutt.\n\nBARR: I can't think of his name. I can just see his picture, but I can't think--\n\nFRIEDMAN: It wasn't Mr. Alnutt? It wasn't Alnutt Music Company?\n\nBARR: No.\n\nFRIEDMAN: Do you remember that?\n\nBARR: No. This is, this is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"from New York.\n\nFRIEDMAN: Oh, Sol Hurock?\n\nBARR: Yes. Sol Hurock.\n\nFRIEDMAN: Sure. Hurock.\n\nBARR: I couldn't, I could see his face but I couldn't remember until you\nmentioned it. But he used to bring down these beautiful artists and orchestra,\nand operettas, operas, and we had quite a bit of that down here. Not half as,\nnot enough as far as I was concerned. 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He said, \"Don't\nread up here, read up here, down here, and then work yourself up.\" He said,\n\"Because you won't like to read if you read above your mentality.\"\n\nFRIEDMAN: Who said this?\n\nBARR: That's my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"father. He said, \"Read here first and then go up the ladder\nuntil you go up, up, up.\" And he was right. He was right.\n\nFRIEDMAN: But he himself was not formally educated?\n\nBARR: No. He is in a way, yes, because he and, the school teacher that I talked\nabout, the black lady that taught school - my best friend's mother - used to, he\nused to pay her to come in every afternoon after school and give ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"him a couple of\nhours of tutoring. He had a desk in the back and he would sit there with her and\nshe would teach him. Could you imagine that?\n\nFRIEDMAN: Um, hm. Yes, I can.\n\nBARR: He was so smart. He was so smart. He was, it's really sad, because, you\nknow, in Russia ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they weren't allowed to go to colleges or to schools. They were\ntaught by their parents and then when they were old enough, they were farmed out\nto learn a trade and he, of course, was farmed out to learn the shoemaking and\nwhat did he know when he came here? He had to do what he was taught. He didn't\nhave any formal education, as you said, so that's why ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he was a shoemaker instead\nof a banker or lawyer or some other profession.\n\nFRIEDMAN: You finished high school here?\n\nBARR: Oh, yes, I graduated high school. I was an honor student. I wanted so much\n- I hated secretarial work. I hated bookkeeping, but that's what I had to do. I\ngot a job when I was going to school, when I was in high school. 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Offer a little bit of money, little bit of money. This was during\nthe war years, too. I worked there for a good while and after he closed the shop\non Broughton Street, I'd go to the JEA where they had dances for the soldiers.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'd dance a little bit and then go home. A crowd of us would go home. That's our\nsocial life when the war was on. That's how I met my husband.\n\nFRIEDMAN: He's not a Savannahian?\n\nBARR: Through the JEA. He was a New Yorker. Anyhow, and what else can I tell you?\n\nFRIEDMAN: Well, you left Savannah for a while, didn't you? 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I don't know.\n\nFRIEDMAN: You were saying, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"maybe it's the climate that keeps people in Savannah,\nbut then you added, and then when people left --\n\nBARR: You know, it's strange that the girls that I used to go around with, all\nmarried soldiers because of the war. They married soldiers that were outside of\nSavannah and they moved, we lost track of one another because they no longer\nlived in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Savannah. But after years and years and years of being away, most of\nthem came back.\n\nFRIEDMAN: Is that right?\n\nBARR: Isn't that strange? I was surprised that it happened. But you know, you\nhad different lives then. You're not close again like you used to be when you're\nyoung and when you went around together. 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I\nwonder what it was that prompted them to come back after living all over the\nworld, I guess.\n\nFRIEDMAN: But these women ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"tended to be women that were native Savannahians and\nyou grew up with?\n\nBARR: Right. They were, I remember, I didn't mention Elizabeth Blair. She\nmarried a boy from, not from Savannah. None of us married men from Savannah,\ncome to think of it. 'Cause all the young men were in the service and they were\nstationed at different places. 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On Rosh\nHashanah they always tried to have the soldier boys in to have dinner with the\nfamilies, a Jewish family so they wouldn't feel so lonely. We had a slew of\nrelatives back then when I was single and they asked my mother to take some\nsoldiers. She says, \"I have, I can squeeze one ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in.\" And he happened to be my\nhusband. I didn't think much of him at the time. But, naturally, my family, your\nfather and somebody else started arguing about a word, the meaning of a word.\nAnd they were arguing, well, they had a few drinks and it was almost ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a fist\nfight. So I took this young soldier, I said, \"Let's go sit outside\". I was\nembarrassed. So we sat on the swing outside and we were swinging. After that was\nover, he brought my mother, see, that was a pair, I don't know what happened to,\noh, yeah, there's the other one. 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I'd say, \"What you\ndoing here?\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He said, \"I'm visiting your mother.\" He always was visiting and\nlike your mother. He came every time he was off and he'd come there and sit with\nMama. Mama used to laugh, \"He's sitting waiting for you.\" He started courting\nme. I wasn't in, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I wasn't too enamored of him at the beginning, a New Yorker. I\ndidn't know from New Yorkers. That's how I met him. Through the JEA. A lot of\ngirls met their, their future husbands through them. Through dances and things\nlike that. Otherwise they would never have had a chance to meet ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"boys from New\nYork and other parts of the country. Most of them married, the girls in my\ngroup, most of them married soldiers. I guess it had, the war had some good\neffect. It got rid of a lot of old maids.\n\nFRIEDMAN: That's true. Old maids at 24, that's a joke. Today it's a joke. Let me\nask you, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what do you, what has happened to the Workman's Circle and that whole\nculture and community?\n\nBARR: Well, all the older people, you know, they get old and they die off and\nthe younger ones weren't too interested in keeping the ball rolling, so to\nspeak. So they had less and less people coming to the meetings, so it was just\nno sense in trying to keep it going. Then they, the times changed. 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Now Hebrew came into action and B.B.Jacob got very popular and the other\nshuls, too. It was no sense in keeping it up when you couldn't have enough, a\nhandful of people. So when the oldtimers ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"passed away, it just passed away with\nthem. Hebrew took over. That's why it was no longer available. The Yiddish\nlanguage was frowned upon really.\n\nFRIEDMAN: Well, it was the language of immigrants.\n\nBARR: Until the Lubavitch started. The Lubavitch movement because they speak\nnothing but ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiddish. I remember my father saying when I was protesting, I said,\n\"I have no time for myself. I have two schools to go to. I have homework to do,\nboth schools. I go to bed late. I don't have time for anything. I have to help\nmy mother in the house. It's just not fair.\" He says, \"Let me tell you\nsomething, daughter, no matter ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/transcript/21953/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"where you go in the whole world, you'll always\nfind one person who will speak Yiddish. So don't tell me you don't want to go.\"\nI couldn't tell him anyhow. 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Started by Eastern European Jewish immigrants, it is now also called the Workers Circle, with the motto “to create a more beautiful and better world for all.”\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/annotation_set/358/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The time of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in about 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s or early 1940s. It was the longest, most widespread, and deepest depression of the twentieth century.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/annotation_set/358/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eYiddish is a language combining a German dialect with words from Hebrew and other modern languages. Originally spoken in central and eastern Europe before the Holocaust, it is now mainly spoken in the United States, Israel, and parts of Western Russia.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/annotation_set/358/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Savannah Jewish Federation (SJF) is the local affiliate of the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) covering coastal Georgia (Savannah and Brunswick) and the southern part of the South Carolina lowcountry (Hilton Head Island and Bluffton). Previously known as the Savannah Jewish Council, it is dedicated to preserving and enriching Jewish life in the area, while also keeping identification with the State of Israel\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29469/file/97160/annotation_set/358/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Jewish Educational Alliance (JEA) is the name of Savannah, Georgia's Jewish Community Center. 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