{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/8g8ff3n243/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Benator, Asher (1992)"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["1992-01-26 (captured)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Brickman, Shirley (Interviewer)","Benator, Asher (Interviewee)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Audio"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source"]},"value":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Ester and Herbert Taylor Oral History Collection","William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAsher Benator interviewed by Shirley Brickmen on January 26, 1992, in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eAsher Benator was born in Atlanta on April 2, 1931 to Isaac and Marie Benator. He grew up alongside his brothers Morris, Max, and Johnny and his sister Alice. His and his wife Grace Levy Benator, who he married in 1954, raised three children together: Michael, Michelle, and Sam.  In 1949 Asher was the State of Georgia Golden Gloves boxing champ and graduated from Georgia State in 1956 with a BBA in Accounting and then served as Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. Career wise, he was involved in real estate, hospitality services and stock investments. For over 30 years, Asher and his two brothers and two cousins ran several grocery stores in Atlanta. Asher attended Congregation Or VeShalom and served as one of the past presidents to the synagogue. He was also active in other organizations such as the Bedford Pines Boys Club, Men’s ORT of Atlanta and the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta. \u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eAsher Benator begins the interview by discussing his family’s history and how they came to Atlanta, Georgia. Benator talks about how close the Jewish community was when he was growing up. He reflects on his family and its dynamics. Benator then tells the story of why his name is spelled as “Benator” rather than “Benatar.” He talks about how he and his siblings worked since they were young and details the different jobs he did throughout his youth. Benator details his time at Congregation OrVeshalom and his other Jewish community involvement. He briefly overviews his time in college. He  reminisces on how him and his family celebrated Jewish holidays. Benator details how he met his wife Gracie. He talks about his children and the values he hopes he has instilled in them. Benator discusses his professional career. He goes into his community involvements as an adult. Benator talks about his time as an amateur boxer. He concludes the interview by discussing his children and the ways Atlanta has changed. \u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/29147"]}},{"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":["Isle of Rhodes (geographic term)","Atlanta, Georgia (geographic term)","Asher, Benator (personal name)","Congregation Or VeShalom (corporate name)","Sephardic Judaism (topical term)","Ladino (topical term)","Hebrew School (topical term)","Pesach (topical term)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAsher Benator interviewed by Shirley Brickmen on January 26, 1992, in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsher Benator was born in Atlanta on April 2, 1931 to Isaac and Marie Benator. He grew up alongside his brothers Morris, Max, and Johnny and his sister Alice. His and his wife Grace Levy Benator, who he married in 1954, raised three children together: Michael, Michelle, and Sam. \u0026nbsp;In 1949 Asher was the State of Georgia Golden Gloves boxing champ and graduated from Georgia State in 1956 with a BBA in Accounting and then served as Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. Career wise, he was involved in real estate, hospitality services and stock investments. For over 30 years, Asher and his two brothers and two cousins ran several grocery stores in Atlanta. Asher attended Congregation Or VeShalom and served as one of the past presidents to the synagogue. He was also active in other organizations such as the Bedford Pines Boys Club, Men\u0026rsquo;s ORT of Atlanta and the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsher Benator begins the interview by discussing his family\u0026rsquo;s history and how they came to Atlanta, Georgia. Benator talks about how close the Jewish community was when he was growing up. He reflects on his family and its dynamics. Benator then tells the story of why his name is spelled as \u0026ldquo;Benator\u0026rdquo; rather than \u0026ldquo;Benatar.\u0026rdquo; He talks about how he and his siblings worked since they were young and details the different jobs he did throughout his youth. Benator details his time at Congregation OrVeshalom and his other Jewish community involvement. He briefly overviews his time in college. He \u0026nbsp;reminisces on how him and his family celebrated Jewish holidays. Benator details how he met his wife Gracie. He talks about his children and the values he hopes he has instilled in them. Benator discusses his professional career. He goes into his community involvements as an adult. Benator talks about his time as an amateur boxer. He concludes the interview by discussing his children and the ways Atlanta has changed.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - Benator_Asher_(1).mp3"]},"duration":5302.8,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-thebreman.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/191/937/original/Benator_Asher_%281%29.mp3?1687033193","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mpeg","duration":5302.8,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Benator, Asher [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Brickman: This is Shirley Brickman interviewing Asher Benatar on January the\n26, 1992 for the Jewish Oral History Project of Atlanta, co-sponsored by the\nAmerican Jewish Committee, the Atlanta Jewish Federation and the National\nCouncil of Jewish Women. Asher, if you can come way, way back with me to the\nbeginning of your family history and what you remember. Let's start with just\ntalking about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"your mom and your dad. I would like so much to know their names\nand where they were born and a little bit about them, if you can share that with me.\n\nBenator: My mother was Marie Galanti Benatar. [She] got married. She was born in\nTurkey. Her family consists of, let's see there's [indistinct: 00:57], ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Galanti,\nSinuru Capelouto. We all came to Atlanta [Georgia], migrated from Turkey to\nRhodes to Atlanta. I understand that the Galanti family, some of them went to\nschool in Rhodes, even though they lived in Turkey, which was not uncommon in\nthose days. My father is Isaac Benator. His brother was, his brothers were\nVictor and Abraham. They also ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lived in Atlanta. They lived in the Isle of Rhodes.\n\nBrickman: When did your parents come to America?\n\nBenator: My father was on his way to America . . . I understand that from what\nI've read of the history of Rhodes, the Italians took Rhodes over in 1914. My\nfather was . . . shortly after that, my father left Rhodes to come to America.\nHe was caught in the First World War in France. He stayed in France ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"working in a\nmunitions factory and after the war, continued his trip on to America, to\nAtlanta. His brother Victor was already here, and my mother and father met here\nin Atlanta.\n\nBrickman: Do you know how they met each other?\n\nBenator: I'm sure that they met through Or VeShalom, the synagogue. Even during\nmy growing up and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"during my parent's adult life Or VeShalom or the kehillah we\ncalled it, which I'm sure most of you know is kehillah, which means community.\nThat is the word that the Sephardic's used to designate a synagogue or shul. The\nkehillah was really the, not only the spiritual place of the, but it was also\nthe social, the whole social world of most of the new immigrants back ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"then.\n\nBrickman: Where was that?\n\nBenator: The kehillah, when I remember it, was on Central Avenue. It was a\nhouse. I think the house was purchased in the 1900's. In fact, I was looking at\nthe history of it because I've got to do something with it, but it was the late\n1900's. Okay, actually, the first Sephardic's came to Atlanta in 1906. Isaac\nHassan [sp] was one of the men and Mrs. Rebecca Amiel was one of the first\nladies that came to Atlanta ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"back in . . . Mrs. Amiel and her husband and family\ncame to Atlanta in 1906. At that time, most of the products that came to Atlanta\nwere the Ladino speaking Sephardic, which spoke the Ladino, which is, I guess\nyou would compare it to Yiddish. It is the Spanish version of Yiddish with\nHebrew and Turkish and Arabic words mixed up in it. Ladino has actually been\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"around since the 12th and 13th century. We've got, in fact, I'm afraid that\nwhat's happening because the women are getting out in the world and there's no\nreal need to preserve the language, we are going to lose it just as we are going\nto lose the Yiddish version of it. Very few of our children speak Ladino. Yet,\nwhen my father's time, everybody spoke Ladino because they wanted to speak to\nthe grandparents or the grandmother or somebody.\n\nBrickman: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They don't teach that anywhere?\n\nBenator: There is a, just as there's an effort to try to save Yiddish, the\nlanguage, the Yiddish language, the effort is just not enough to do it. I don't\nthink [so]. I know that there are a number of people in our congregation that\nstill speak Ladino, but it's getting smaller and smaller. Most of the kids know\na few words, just like most of the kids in the Ashkenaz community know a few of\nthe ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiddish words.\n\nBrickman: When this first family came to Atlanta in 1906. What brought them to Atlanta?\n\nBenator: That I'm not sure of. I do know that after we had a contingent of maybe\na half a dozen or so, they would bring their brothers and sisters and their\nfriends and that would continue to grow. I do know that Mrs. Amiel was very\nhelpful, from what I understand, in helping the newcomers get settled. 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Now, these youngsters were not ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"really escaping, they were\nnot being persecuted in Rhodes, but there was just no opportunities for work or\nfor anything in Rhodes. The parents, with their blessing, set them to the new\ncountry. Now you've got to remember, these kids did not, at the time they were\nkids, did not know English, did not really have anything to come to accept that\nAmerica was the land of opportunity. That's what they would come to, to find a\nplace to build a life for themselves.\n\nBrickman: Did the rest of your mother's family ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"follow?\n\nBenator: A lot of them came with her or had come earlier. I'm sure there's some,\nmy uncle, I understand my Aunt Sinuru had an uncle. My Aunt Sinuru with Uncle\nGabriel had gone through South America and work their way back up to Atlanta\nexcept they settled in Tallahassee, Florida. They were the only ones that\nsettled in Tallahassee, Florida. Once their children grown, they moved to\nAtlanta. That's Ike Capelouto's father.\n\nBrickman: How do you spell that aunt's name?\n\nBenator: Sinuru. 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I had on the other side of\nmy family, my father, Victor Benator, my father was married his . . . his sister\nwas also Astrea Alhadeff, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"which was Uncle Solomon Alhadeff, which had a very\nlarge family. I had on both sides of my family; they were quite large. I had a\nlot of aunts and uncles, so that's wonderful but it also presents problems.\n\nBrickman: Why is that?\n\nBenator: When you're a young kid, you can't do anything that you're not supposed\nto do because if you do, back in those days, somebody would see you doing it.\nI'll tell you a true story that happened when I must have been about seven or\neight. I don't know exactly the age. I was on Pryor and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"those of you that don't\nknow Pryor Street, it's about, it was about four blocks from my house on Central\nAvenue. I saw, I wanted to get across the street, and I saw a streetcar coming.\nI knew I could make it. I ran across the street from the streetcar. When I got\nhome and then about three or four minutes later, Uncle [indistinct: 08:17] walks\ninto the house. He calls me over to him. He said, \"Don't you ever run in front\nof a streetcar like that again?\" He says, \"I saw you and I thought you were\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"going to get hurt. Don't you ever do that again.\" He turned around and walked\nback to his house, which is five blocks away. This is a man just getting off\nwork. He felt so strong, strong enough about it to come and walk to my house and\nwalk back just to tell me at the time not to do it.\n\nBrickman: You had a very, it sounds like to me, a close family relationship. Did\neveryone live close to each other?\n\nBenator: We lived within six, eight, five, six, seven blocks. Talking about\nclose family relationship, it was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"very usual that at least two or three nights a\nweek we would visit [indistinct: 09:05] or go visit one of the other relatives\nat night. A couple of nights a week somebody would be over our house. Back in\nthose days, it was unusual that you didn't have that. If the adults didn't spend\nfour or five or six nights a week talking to each other, playing cards, talking\nto kids, be outside playing or fighting or what have you. Playing mostly. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Close.\nAbsolutely. It was close. We were very fortunate. That is, I think, like the\nJewish community, our family is the same way. We live a long way from each other\nnow. Thank goodness most of my family live in Atlanta.\n\nBrickman: You're . . . going back to your early childhood. Tell me a little bit\nabout where you lived and where you went to school, if you can.\n\nBenator: Okay. I lived on Central Avenue. 488 Central Avenue, which is between\nRichardson and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Alice Street. The synagogue, the [indistinct: 10:03] at least was\non Alice Street, which was three blocks, four, three, about three and a half\nblocks. Closer to the city hall, which was only a couple of blocks from the city\nhall at that time. That, by the way, mayor, is one of the intersections of the\nexpressway where the synagogue was. We went to synagogue there. I went to\ngrammar school at [indistinct: 10:27, possibly \"Formwalt\"] Grammar School and\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"talking about [indistinct: 10:32, possible \"Formwalt School\"]. The memories I\nhave at [indistinct: 10:34, possible \"Formwalt\"]. Leon Smith [sp] and a few of\nthe other was a close friend of mine. Also, the Partillo's had a house two\nblocks down and they had outdoor train sets that was in their backyard. That was\nreally fabulous. We always go over there and play,\n\nBrickman: Which Patillofamily?\n\nBenator: I don't know for sure, but it was the Patillo's. 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Let's get back to grammar ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"school.\n\nBrickman: Did you have a favorite subject in grammar school?\n\nBenator: Your math was always my favorite subject. I didn't have to study for\nmath. English wasn't quite well for me. I remember my homeroom teacher, Mrs. . .\n. I'll come back to that a little bit. In fact, we went over a house and the\nonly time I ever went to Marietta [Georgia] when I was a kid that I remember was\nwhen she took her homeroom class at our house ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on a Saturday. Back in those days,\nvery few Jews went out to Marietta. It was really neat to because it was a place\nwe didn't go to. I remember when I was very little mama, my mother had made some\nTurkish dance clothes for the girls, and she taught, for one of the PTA\n[Parent-Teacher Association] programs. She taught the kids to do the Turkish\ndance. My mother used to love to dance, and she sang the songs and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"taught them\nto do the Turkish dance. Mama, it was a while before Mama really learned\nEnglish. She actually, she didn't learn English until later. In fact, when Alex\ngot married to Nathan Spielberg, she had to communicate. Alex learned how to\nwrite Ladino in Hebrew so that she could communicate with my mother. My mother\ncould write and read and write Hebrew and read and write Ladino and had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"written\nin Hebrew letters. That's how they communicated first. Then mama learned how to\nwrite in English. She learned and she communicated.\n\nBrickman: That's probably not uncommon then. Did you communicate with your\nmother in Ladino?\n\nBenator: Very little, but mostly it was English. In fact, I learned a little bit\nof Latino from my mother, but I really learned Ladino from my first business\npartner who happened to be Martha Galanti, who had just come over from the\nisland, of course, which was right next to the Island ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of Rhodes. Of course, the\nCEO of one of the Greek islands, one of the Italians, they changed hands over\nthere all the time. He . . . that's a story about how he escaped the Nazis and\nwent out in the Army but that's getting away from the family anyway.\n\nBrickman: Go back to your mother, if you would. First of all, did she ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"come from\na large family? Do you remember her parents?\n\nBenator: No. Her parents were, did not come over here. They were in Turkey.\n\nBrickman: Did they ever come?\n\nBenator: No, they never came. You've got to remember, neither did my father.\nThat was one of the things that we as children missed. We didn't see our\ngrandparents. We heard of; we learned a lot about them. In fact, the parents,\nour parents would communicate with them. In fact, when the children were born,\nthey would call them and tell them that they were ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"expecting the child. If it's\ngoing to be a this one, we're going to name it this, and so on and so forth. In\nfact, as you know, the Sephardic, the first male is named after the grandparent.\nThe first female is normally named after the husband's grandmother. Then the\nsecond male is named after the wife's father and same thing with the mother.\n\nBrickman: Did you communicate? Did they ever come for a visit here? Did you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ever\nmeet them?\n\nBenator: We never met our grandparents.\n\nBrickman: What happened to them?\n\nBenator: They died of old age. I mean, it was . . . I guess that's one of the\nlosses that we as children of immigrant families. Few of the parents did come\nhere. In fact, Grace's grandmother, my wife's grandmother, came here, in fact,\nlived with my mother-in-law for a number of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"years. We, you would say that we\nmissed having grandparents, but we had so many aunts and uncles that were very\nclose that really, we still had a full plate.\n\nBrickman: When your mother and father were here, what sort of lifestyle did they\nhave? What kind of business were they involved in, and did your mom work or was\nshe home?\n\nBenator: My mother was at home as the women back in those days didn't work no\nmatter what type of economy we had in the back in those days. If ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you remember,\nit was right at the beginning of the good times was ending and the Depression\nwas coming. My father was a shoe repairman. He had a shoe shop. In fact, at one\ntime, I think he had two shoe shops. He contracted Parkinson's at an early age\nin his early thirties. I think. In fact, that's a story in itself. He had to\nquit work in the late thirties and . . . We ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"do different things than we did on.\n\nBrickman: Did you work at an early age?\n\nBenator: Oh, yeah. We all worked. All the brothers worked in some area. I\nremember having at the age of 12, I had a couple of paper routes. One of them\nwas in Max's name, and one of them was in Morris's name because I was too young\nto have a paper route. The manager knew it, but he didn't care. Especially since\nI always paid more money than the other boys. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I used to get more subscriptions\nthan the other kids, so he overlooks the fact that I wasn't supposed to have the\npaper route.\n\nBrickman: I really failed to ask you a little bit about your immediate family,\nabout your brothers and sisters, who are they and where are they?\n\nBenator: I've got three brothers, Morris, Max and Johnny, and that's the age of\ntheir, that's in order of their age. My sister Alice, Alice is married to Nathan\nSpielberg, who was from ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Atlanta. Nathan graduated from Commercial High School\nand then went on to Emory [University], graduated from Emory and got his\ndoctorate at Ohio State [University] in Physics. His, Nathan's brothers are Jack\nand Sol Spielberg of Atlanta. Alice has lived in New York when Nathan was\nworking for Philips, and then after the space contract ran out with Philips, he\nwanted to teach. 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Six or seven years ago, he wrote to the Weitzman Institute and told\nthem that he had this equipment from Philips, and he also had some programs ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and\nthings and were they interested. They said yes. He got a year sabbatical from\nKent and went over there and set up this program and the research work that\nthey're doing. Every Christmas and every holiday and every summer break, he goes\nto Israel and spends time there and does research. I also have three brothers.\nThey live in Atlanta. Morris is the oldest and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he has five children. In fact,\nhe's has one that's getting married. Marilyn is getting married in a couple,\nthree weeks. They, all of his children live in Atlanta also. My other brother,\nMax, is married to Sylvia Levy, live from Atlanta. Let's see, they have three\nchildren and Marie lives in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Atlanta with her husband, Tim, and their children.\nRichard lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife and two children and excuse me.\nDonald lives in Columbus, Ohio, and Richard lives in St. Petersburg with two\nchildren. My youngest brother, Johnny, is married to Leslie Shetzen. Johnny, by\nthe way, intermarried.\n\nBrickman: Explain that one.\n\nBenator: I'll explain ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that. That's a joke, really. Leslie is Ashkenazi, as we .\n. . there, you'll find out that most of our children are all married, all\nmarried to Ashkenazi and so-called intermarried. Leslie and Johnny have two\nchildren. They're both away at college. In fact, Andrew is in England right now,\nand Elizabeth is in Washington, D.C. Max, Morris and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Max and I are partners in\nour business. Jonny is also a partner in that business, but he has a business\nthat . . . Tara Art Materials. My son Michael is a junior partner there with\nhim. That's my brothers and sisters as far as Grace and my and our . . . Grace,\nmyself, our children, we have Michael, Michelle and Sam. They're all ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"married.\nMichael has two children. Michelle and Craig. Michael is married to Carol Cohen,\nwhose parents, Lou and Baron Cohen [sp], live in Atlanta. Michelle is married to\nCraig Rich, whose parents are Shirley and Arnold Rich. Believe me, for\n[indistinct: 21:19], I've taught them to say [indistinct: 21:23, possible\n\"Conseudros\"] you won't find anywhere. They all live in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Atlanta. They both have\ntwo sets of two children each.\n\nBrickman: That's a very big family. Does everyone get together on the holidays\nor does each one go his or her own way?\n\nBenator: On the holidays? Okay, so the first day of Pesach we have our family\nand the Consuedros [sp] over our house. The second day of Pesach, we go over to\nShirley and Arnold's, and they usually invite our immediate family to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"their\nhouse. The Sunday in between Pesach and Pesach, the Benator's, we, a number of\nyears ago, I can't remember how many years ago we found that there were so many\n[indistinct: 22:13, possibly \"Machetanem and Conseudros\"] that we were all\nhaving problems getting together. We decided that we would have a Sunday lunch\nfor Pesach, and we had it anywhere from Chastain Park. We've had it at . . . and\nnow what we do is we rotate it ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at the houses of mostly the children, and we do\ngo back to the parents. There's a rotation. In fact, I think this place, our\nnext place, we might be going to Donald in Columbus, Ohio, because usually the\nkids, Richard and Donald, who are out of town, try to come into Atlanta for that\nSunday because all of the neighbors get together. We all get together.\n\nBrickman: How many people are you talking about?\n\nBenator: We're talking in the fifties.\n\nBrickman: Oh, how nice.\n\nBenator: Usually, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it's not only the Benator's, but whoever house it is, they\ninvite their parents. Say it's Michelle's house, the Rich's will be invited.\nIt's Michael's house, the Cohen's will be invited. I'm not sure where they were,\nbut we can't invite all the Conseudros because then it would get . . . it would\nbe . . . . Oh, if it's at Marie's house, whoever's house, say, one of the other\nchildren, whoever's parents, they are also invited. We have taken family\npictures that have come out real well. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Remember in the fifties and the kids\nplay, we do say the Kiddush and we do spend a few minutes talking about the fact\nthat it is Pesach. It's not really, we don't say the Seder as we do on the first\ntwo nights, but we do . . . it is everybody brings one part and usually there's\nvarious meals made with matzah and that type of thing.\n\nBrickman: As your name is, I know it is Benator. Was that the way it always ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was?\n\nBenator: No, actually, our name the Benator's, the only Benator's that we've\never been able to find, we changed our name. At least one of my cousin's changed\nour name.\n\nBrickman: When was that?\n\nBenator: But it must have been 40 something years ago. Our real name is Benatar.\nIn fact, my father's marriage certificate says Benatar, B-E-N-A-T-A-R. We\nchanged it to Benator. The reason for that is I guess one of the reasons is\nbecause of the Sephardic tradition of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"naming after the grandparents. There was\ntwo or three more Benatar's at the time and my cousin, that's what, that's the\nstory that I've heard. I've heard a couple of variations of the story. I've\nheard that because they used to get their Morris bank accounts mixed up and\ntheir riches accounts mixed up. That was before the days of giving everybody\nnumbers and stuff as well as named. Morris got my father, Isaac and his daddy,\nVictor, to change ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the name to Benator. How did we do it? We didn't go to the\ncourthouse and have it changed. We just start writing O-R. No. That's absolutely\nthat that's. Because of that, everybody knows we're Benator's. In fact, we, I\ntried to find other Benator's. Grew up never finding. Benator, yes. They're in\nFrance and they're in England and Israel. Many Benatar's Israel. There you'll\nfind some in Tunisia and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Morocco. Pat Benatar, by the way, is not Jewish. But\nLeo, a cousin of ours went behind stage, when she was at one of her productions.\nOne of her shows and talk to her for a few minutes. She was married to a Benatar\nfrom Morocco. She liked the name and did not change it when she got a divorce.\nThat's how we have the Pat Benatar. It is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of the same family name. Friends.\nthere's some lawyers and a judge that is Benatar. [indistinct: 26:10]\n\nBrickman: How many, who in the family change? Your brother, your dad?\n\nBenator: All of my father's children and all of my Uncle Victor's children. My\nfather's children, of course. Morris, Alice and Max, myself, and Johnny. Uncle\nVictor with Josiah, Morris, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Josiah, Ralph, Emily and Alice. Those, if you come\nacross a Benator it's from that two people. From those people. As far as we know\nat this time.\n\nBrickman: When your parents came to America, how do you think they met each\nother, or do you know . . . ?\n\nBenator: I don't know for sure. I understand that they were either introduced or\nthey saw each other at one of the synagogue functions. I would . . .\n\nBrickman: What year did they get married?\n\nBenator: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"19 . . . I should know this. 1922, I think.\n\nBrickman: Asher, when you were very young, you remember that you were living on\nCentral Avenue. Do you remember what the house looked like? The neighborhood.\n\nBenator: It was an older part of Atlanta at the time. It was not what you would\ncall upper middle class or even, I would guess you would call low, middle,\nmiddle class, low to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"middle class economics status of the neighborhood. There\nwas mostly working people. I know that the Boys Club, the Atlanta Boys Club, had\nboth the old Progressive Club on Pryor Street. There was a Progressive Club with\nan indoor swimming pool on Pryor Street, and we Sephardic Kids in the\nneighborhood use the Boys Club ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"quite a bit. For whatever reason, we didn't start\nusing the Alliance until up in the middle forties, and then I'll go into that a\nlittle bit later on because I think it's interesting. They had formed the\nSephardic Kids, Or VeShalom kids that formed an LOT Club back in 1932, and I\nthink they formed the LAP club in 1934, 1935.\n\nBrickman: Do those letters stand for anything in particular?\n\nBenator: It was Light of Torah ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and LAP was of Light and Peace, which is what Or\nVeShalom stands for. Now, The LAP club, both of them. Both of the clubs fell by\nthe wayside during the war because most of the kids went to war. The LOT club\nand the LAP Club in the thirties comprised of Jack Amato, Jim Eric Getty, Jack\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Shamariah, Morris Amato, who had a beautiful voice. I think that's just, that's\nwhat it was. He passed away, but he had a beautiful voice. Probably saw,\n[indistinct: 29:10] was in that group and a number of other Sephardic youngsters\nthat were born here. Probably Benny and Isaac Delaney were in that group.\n\nBrickman: Was there any sports in the . . . ?\n\nBenator: There were sports the boys played. We used to play football on Alice\nStreet, which was a cobbled ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"street, a cobblestone street, because that was the\nstreet that the cars wouldn't come very much. We played on that little house on\nthe street next to my Uncle [indistinct: 29:38] or next to Mr. Dave Misrach\n[sp], who had an ice cream parlor on the corner of Alice and Central Avenue.\nThat was an empty lot next door to him. We played pitch baseball or football or\nwhat have you. We also played ball and went swimming at the Boys ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Club, at the\nAtlanta Boys Club. I said that we came from a lower middle income. It might have\nbeen actually a lower income neighborhood. The, at the Boys Club, nobody wore\nswimming trunks back in those days. A few years ago, I was at one of the Boys\nClub meetings and I asked the director, who is the man in charge, who used to be\nat the Boys Club back then, why didn't they wear swim trunks and [he] said\nnobody had money to buy swimming trunks back in those days. The Boys ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Club.\n\nBrickman: What they wear?\n\nBenator: They didn't wear [anything], they were in their buff. The boys would\ngo, I don't know nobody there but boys. I mean, they go take off their clothes\nand go swimming in the indoor swimming pool. It was, let's see, what else did we\ndo back in those days? Okay. I told you. I went to grammar school at\n[indistinct: 30:48, possibly \"Formwalt\"]. From [indistinct: 30:50, possibly\n\"Formwalt\"], I went to a junior high school, Hoke Smith High School. That was,\nseventh, eighth and ninth grade. What can I tell you about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Smith? It was up in\nSummerhill back on Hill Street. It was a fairly large school. There were a\nnumber of Jewish kids there. Lana Avenue. We had a lot of espionage. Washington\nState, Capitol Avenue, a lot of kids that lived on Central Avenue and Pryor\nStreet and some, a few that lived on Washington Street. We went there. My\nrecollections of Smith High was that it ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was a good school. I remember that\nduring the lunch period, you stayed together with your friends and quite often\nthere's a couple of gangs there, and every once in a while, there'd be some\nfights and little kid fights. I used to get in a lot of fights. I would run away\nand I . . . was very little at the time. I must have weighed maybe 80 pounds, 70\npounds, and I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wouldn't back off of anybody. I used to spend a lot of time in the\nprincipal's office, but it was never my fault. I don't ever remember starting a\nfight. I don't think tongue in cheek. I really don't. All I know is I spent a\nlot of time in the principal's office, but I made good grades, very decent\ngrades. In fact, I remember this . . . let me think here. My math teacher takes\nme home to mama because I fidgeted ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"all the time. I wouldn't stay still. She told\nmy mother I was making A's, but I couldn't stay still, and I need to learn to,\nnot to, when I did my work to sit still and not disrupt the class.\n\nBrickman: I guess she expected mama to just control that.\n\nBenator: I guess to a degree, but I didn't like the fact that she . . . I didn't\nespecially like the fact she brought me home. I think I tried to behave better\nafter that.\n\nBrickman: Were you working in grade school at all or in high school at all?\n\nBenator: I worked at Uncle Nasser's [sp] ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"store.\n\nBrickman: Doing what?\n\nBenator: Just waiting on customers, cleaning up, doing everything that needed to\nbe done.\n\nBrickman: What kind of store did he . . . ?\n\nBenator: He had a delicatessen on Auburn Avenue. In fact, they talk about Sweet\nAuburn Day. I remember Auburn Avenue when the Herndon Hotel was the hotel where\nthe blacks came, when they came into town, or the Butler, where was where they\nstayed. Most of the young people, they wouldn't realize that it was, that\nsegregation had such a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"tremendous impact on the whole community. In fact, I tell\nthe story, and I don't think I've ever told this to Shirley. When I was 17, I\nwas going to skip a little time. Uncle Nas and Uncle Rav had a party to go to\none afternoon. I think was a Thursday afternoon. It must have been a bar mitzvah\nparty. They both wanted to go, and they asked me, could I watch the store for a\nlittle while. I said yes. The help was there. Waitresses and cooks and what have\nyou. I went there and these four men ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"came in and they sat down, and they were\nthree blacks and one white, and they ordered four sandwiches and four bottles of\nbeer. I'm not sure whether I waited on [something] with them, but I had to go\nover there and tell them that I couldn't serve the white man a beer because it\nwas a for-colored only license and they left. The man who I thought was white\nsaid, \"I'm not white, I'm black.\" He was evidently a light skinned ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"black. I'm\nnot sure. I think it was one of the top officials, the NAACP [National\nAssociation for the Advancement of Colored People] that in town, for it might\nhave been Hook or one of the other one, I'm not sure. It was one of the top\nofficials who was very light skinned, and they laughed about it. When you tell\nthat story to young people, they don't realize that the that the segregation had\nreversed part of the acts as well.\n\nBrickman: How long did you work there?\n\nBenator: I worked at Uncle Nasser's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"from the time I was a little over ten until\nI was maybe 15, 16, 17.\n\nBrickman: On a regular basis at that young age?\n\nBenator: During the summer, probably on a regular basis. Also in between that\ntime, I also had paper routes. I sold chewing gum, I sold football colors every\nfootball season, and that was a very lucrative business. In fact, we could make\nas much in a week as a grown man could make and work as much on a Saturday as a\ngrown man can make in a week in those days.\n\nBrickman: Who sponsored ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that?\n\nBenator: Actually, we, in fact, Morris, Max, myself, Johnny, when he got old, we\nall did it more or less to help the family. Support the family.\n\nBrickman: You bought your own things?\n\nBenator: We bought, well, at first, we used to work for somebody, but that was a\nvery short time. We bought them from Philadelphia, Cioffi was the company and I\nthink they're still in business. I'm not sure, but I remember they spell it\nC-I-O-F-F-I. In Philadelphia we would ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"order our colors maybe three or four weeks\nin advance cause it takes a couple of weeks to get here. Then you had to have\ntime to make them, put them together. They come with the buttons, and you cut\nthe ribbon and you put the little football order to the football player or what\nhave you. You'd order the pillars the and you'd order the sticks, the canes that\ngo with them. Back in those days, the canes became very hard to get. We had to\nsort of save those. Christmas, we sold shopping bags.\n\nBrickman: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How did you find it to really get involved in this kind of business?\n\nBenator: You did whatever was available that you thought you could make a buck\nat or a dime or a quarter.\n\nBrickman: If you ordered up these things ahead of time, you would have to\nestimate what you thought you needed as far as business for that weekend.\n\nBenator: Sometimes you'd have leftovers sock, in fact, leftover stock, which\nbecame valuable during the war because in the forties, when you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"couldn't or they\ndidn't, they wouldn't let metal go into football colors. You would, what we did\nwas we went to a printing company and had them print bright things, and we would\npaste them over the old colors that we couldn't sell.\n\nBrickman: You had business sense a long time back.\n\nBenator: I guess it just comes naturally. You do what you have to do.\n\nBrickman: Did the brothers do that as a group?\n\nBenator: Oh, yeah. We did this [as] a group.\n\nBrickman: Where did you sell it?\n\nBenator: We sold it downtown in the morning before the game. Then at the game\nwe'd go to the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"stadium. Whether it was in Atlanta or Montgomery [Alabama] or New\nOrleans [Louisiana] or Athens [Georgia] or Auburn, Alabama. Auburn, Alabama use\nto have one game a year, which was their homecoming and . . . it was . . . I\nalways remember that little city as one of the prettiest little towns you'll\never walk.\n\nBrickman: You'd go there to sell to.\n\nBenator: We'd go there. We'd catch a bus there. [We'd] get there about seven,\neight in the morning, and usually it'd be too early to sell so we'd leave the\nbus, the football ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"board as you call it, and your colors in the locker and then\nyou'd just walk. Go eat breakfast or walk around the town. Auburn was one of the\nprettiest towns. Athens we used to go to. We'd go to New Orleans . . .\n\nBrickman: Did you have any competition?\n\nBenator: Oh yeah. Lots of other people did that. There were a number of Jewish\nkids that did it. Let's see. Yeah. There were a few non-Jewish kids.\n\nBrickman: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That was a good way to make some money.\n\nBenator: It'd make some money. It's something that you could do and still go to\nschool and do it.\n\nBrickman: So you did that? It's weekend work.\n\nBenator: Weekend work. We went out of town sometimes when I was in high school.\nSometimes I would have to leave school at say, 12 or 1 or 2 O' clock and then go\ncatch a bus or whatever I was doing.\n\nBrickman: Did you ever go alone, or did you go with brothers all the time?\n\nBenator: Normally we always went with somebody else. Once in a while, there\nmight be two goods ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"games and we would split up. Which split up? I mean, back in\nthose days, we had no fear of. . . I wouldn't think of letting a 12 year,\n15-year-old grandchild . . .\n\nBrickman: Did you ever spend the night?\n\nBenator: Oh, yeah. We spent the night in a few places, but normally it's more\nthan one of us when we spent the night. In New Orleans, we'd go down after the\nSugar Bowl. We spent a couple of nights.\n\nBrickman: You mentioned to me that you were . . . you had the football sales.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What others, and you tell me about your paper route. What other work did you do?\nThat sounds to me like you created your own jobs.\n\nBenator: We sold chewing gum on weekends sometimes. We'd walk through, we'd go\nto this tobacco house and buy three or four, five boxes of chewing gum. I think\nif I remember right, it was 57 cent a box of 20. Some of the boxes had an extra\none or two as promotions to try. We were doing, we would go to the offices.\nNormally City Hall used to be open on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Saturday mornings back in those days. We'd\nwalk through the city halls selling chewing gum for a nickel a pack, which was 5\nsticks for a nickel. We would sell perhaps six boxes of chewing gum and we'd\nmake a few dollars a day.\n\nBrickman: No license? Just wondering . . .\n\nBenator: No. We didn't. When we saw football colors, they made us buy a license.\nIn most city for $4 to buy a license for either a month or a day or what have\nyou ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in most cities.\n\nBrickman: What did you do with the money that you made?\n\nBenator: That was to support the family. That was all the brothers, gave what we\nmade. That went to the family to help support us. We kept a few nickels and\ndimes, of course, or what have you, but we always, all of us, always worked. I\nmean, it was not something that was different. It was not something that was . .\n. it was just a normal way of life for us. I mean, it was what had to be done,\nwhat had to be ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"done and we did it.\n\nBrickman: How long did you live on Central Avenue?\n\nBenator: We lived on Central Avenue until we moved on to Rent Place, which was\nright before I got married, which was right at 1948, 1949 or 1950, right in that\narea. We moved to the Rent Place. My mother and father moved over there.\nActually, they say that they think that they lived on Central 351 of course.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When I bought my first car in 1951, we were still on Central Avenue. We must\nhave moved into Rent Place in 1952.\n\nBrickman: Do you remember what you paid for that car?\n\nBenator: $1800 for the brand-new Chevrolet. I didn't know how to drive.\n\nBrickman: Why did you buy a car?\n\nBenator: I had been in business for two years and I was tired of riding the\nstreetcar to [indistinct: 41:50] Harris Street at 6:00 in the morning first and\nriding home at 7:30 at night.\n\nBrickman: What business were you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in?\n\nBenator: I had, just skipping ahead, but I had gone to, I had gotten out of high\nschool. I was going to Oglethorpe [University] for a year. I had a scholarship\nfor the first year. When it was over, they called me into my office and told me\nthey had arranged a loan for the rest of the three years. I said, \"How much\nwould I owe when I got out?\" They told me it'd be roughly $3,000 for the three\nadditional years with schoolbooks. I said, \"Thank you very much. Let me think\nabout it.\" I walked out and I said to myself, \"Those people ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"must be crazy.\n$3,000\" I didn't have that much money in the world. I went to Georgia State\n[University] and while I was at Georgia State, I was working with, Benny Galaney\n[sp], asked me to run the store. He had a store on Butler Harris Street.\n\nBrickman: What kind of store?\n\nBenator: It's a grocery store with a meat department and a small produce\ndepartment. Morris Galaney [sp], who was my former, who was a, who had come\nfrom, of course. He became my partner later on. I was [indistinct: 42:55]. We\nwere both, I would come to work about 12:00, 12:30, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1:00 right after my three\nclasses at Georgia State. I'd walk from there to Butler Street because there's\nno way to catch a bus or a streetcar. At that time, it would have been too much,\ntoo far out of the way. I'd walked in and as soon as I would get there Bennie\nwould leave and Morris and I would close up at 7:00. Anyway, Bennie was going,\nand his brothers were getting ready to open up Blair Village Supermarket and we\nknew about it. We knew that the store we were working at was for sale. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He came\nand told us that he thinks he had a buyer and he's ready to sell it. He said,\n\"By the way, would you like to buy it?\" Morris and I looked at each other and\nMorris went to his uncle, he borrowed a few dollars. I went to my mother, who\nhad some money saved up from Max's money, and we put down on it. Morris and I\nbought the store of about, I guess I was 19.\n\nBrickman: Did you know how to run a business like that?\n\nBenator: We had been running it for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"him. I mean, we just continued to. We\nlearned how. We did the buying and everything else. I mean, we did the ordering\nthat we thought we needed. We just, it's a lot simpler than it seems to be.\nOpening a business today seems a lot more complicated than it was to us at that\ntime. I actually quit school back at that time, but I started back later at\nGeorgia State. Finally finished. Georgia State took me years to finish it, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I\nhad two kids in the meantime, but I did finish. That was in the fifties, forties.\n\nBrickman: How long did you stay in that store?\n\nBenator: I was in that store until 1953. The expressway took it. I went and\nbought Louis Silver Board Store [sp] on Fourth Street. I graduated from school\nin 1955 and went on to the Army for six months. When I came back, Morris kept\nthe store, and I went with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"another partner into a supermarket partnership.\n\nBrickman: Morris kept it on his own?\n\nBenator: Then he eventually sold it, closed it.\n\nBrickman: How long did you stay in the next place?\n\nBenator: 27 years. We had a couple of other stores in between. We had some other investments.\n\nBrickman: You really knew the business at that point.\n\nBenator: At that point, well, we were. It's just a business. We operate the\nbusiness. 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Friday night and Saturdays we ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"would go to [indistinct: 46:00]\nfor services. We were only two or three blocks and the rabbi always walked right\npast our house. It was unreal that we didn't go.\n\nBrickman: You didn't have a choice.\n\nBenator: We really didn't have a choice, but the fact is that was what we did.\nIt was just the thing that was going to be. During the summer we would go to\nHebrew school, I think from 8:00 to 11:00. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm not sure exactly the time, but it\nwas every morning, five days a week. I remember we went there before the rabbi\ngets there and we were supposed to say the [indistinct: 46:40, possibly \"minha\"]\nservices. Of course, the rabbi knew that we were playing and only when he got\nthere that we'd start really doing the services. Somebody would always be\nlooking out to see if he's coming.\n\nBrickman: How old were you when you started this?\n\nBenator: I think I was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"five or six. It must have been very young because the\nrabbi had, he taught all ages. There might have been 37, 30, 35, 40 children in\nthe classroom but they were different classes and different ages throughout.\n\nBrickman: What did he do, just wander through?\n\nBenator: He'd teach one group, go to another and give them lessons. I mean, you\ngot to remember that this was a . . . new immigrants, most of them just getting\nstarted, are very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"poor. Poor is not a good word because poor denotes\neconomically poor. God bless right back. He did a, he was a Sunday school\nteacher, Hebrew school teacher. He had volunteers to help him with Sunday\nschool. He did all the Hebrew teaching. He did the services. He visited the\nsick. He did everything and . . .\n\nBrickman: Did you have a close relationship with him?\n\nBenator: Rabbi Cohen, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I would say if there was a man that anybody loved, it was\nloved and respected was Rabbi Cohen. I think that we were very fortunate to have\nhad a man like him as he was with us 37 years. Or VeShalom was very lucky to\nhave had him in my career.\n\nBrickman: Did everyone live close together during all that?\n\nBenator: Yeah, we was. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In the neighborhood was Central Avenue, Pryor Street,\nWashington Street, maybe a few on Capitol Avenue. I mean, nowhere was it walking\ndistance at somebody's house. Everybody got to know each other. In fact, I\nremember on Sunday mornings, Uncle Ralph Galanti was one of the first that had a\ncar Uncle Ralph, Uncle Nas had a car, and he would have eight, ten, 12 children\nin his car. Taking them ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"home.\n\nBrickman: You told me that you bought a car before you learned how to drive.\n\nBenator: Right. I had been in business about a year and a half, two years, and I\nhad bought a Chevrolet. I think if I remember right now, I played 1800 dollars\nfor it. This was back in 1951. It was a black Chevrolet. In fact, it was during\nthe Korean War, and it was scarce. They didn't even, it wasn't even wash, the\nman said, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he didn't have a, hadn't had a chance to wash it. I said, \"Bring it\non.\" Anyway, he brought it to me that Saturday. That Saturday night we closed up\nat 11:30. I drove the car home. I still don't know how I got it home, but I got\nit almost home and I finally had to park at about two blocks from the house.\n\nBrickman: Why?\n\nBenator: Because I couldn't remember how to, I couldn't . . . I had to . . .\nThat Sunday, and a few days later I learned how to drive. It took me a few years\nprobably before I learned. It took me a few months ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=2970.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at least to learn how to\ndrive. We talked about early Hebrew school. There is the, well, I don't know\nwhether I should even put this on tape, but I had laid out of Hebrew one day and\nI was coming down Alice Street, which is a hill, and Max was, I was on Max's\nbicycle. I was on the crossbar and Max was riding down the hill and I see Rabbi\nCohen at the corner at Mr. [indistinct: 50:27] ice cream parlor. I said, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Max,\nmove your hand.\" At this point I gotta jump off. I jumped off and ran between\nIsaac Alhadeff's and fence and there is this radio aerial stuck across and it\nhit me across the face, and I still got the car. I'm lucky it didn't do\nanything. I got up, it knocked me on my back. I got up after a couple of minutes\nand I went inside to Aunt Mary's house, and she washed it off and I looked at it\nand we decided we would go on over to Grady. Max and I caught the streetcar to\nGrady. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"This was before my bar mitzvah. We caught the streetcar to Grady; I got\ntwo or three stitches, and I came back home and then I told my mother what\nhappened. We weren't angels. What I'm trying to tell you is we weren't angels.\nWe would skip Hebrew school once in a while and do other things, but most of\nthem would go to Hebrew school. I remember that there was a big group of kids my\nage and a little bit older than me, and we would do things ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=3060.0,3090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that . . . I remember\ngoing out to Oglethorpe with BB guns and just shooting at the trees and today\nI'd be scared to death to let my grandkids go out with BB guns and what have\nyou. In the forties, Sam Penso was one of the [indistinct: 51:49] that had\nmarried into the congregation, and he decided that our age group of boys needed\nto be ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=3090.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"involved in the Jewish community. He made us, and he was instrumental in\nreinitiating the L.A.P. Club, the Light and Peace Club. If I'm not mistaken this\nmust have been in 1945, 1946, [or] 1947. Anyway, we joined the club and we got\ninvolved with the basketball tournament and what have you. I remember that the\nL.A.P. club lasted for about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"four years until we got too old for it. Our younger\nbrothers did not continue the L.A.P. Club. They started joining the DSI, the AZA\n[Aleph Zadik Aleph], whatever, and all the various other clubs.\n\nBrickman: You were in D.C.?\n\nBenator: No, Johnny was in D.C.\n\nBrickman: Okay.\n\nBenator: My younger brother Johnny joined DSI. All the support, I would say\nalmost 95 percent of the Sephardic kids that were in a club that was my age\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"belonged to LAP. It wasn't until later that we integrated the Jewish community,\nand I say that . . . in other words, we rarely got involved in the Jewish\ncommunity until in the forties. Once we did get involved in the various clubs,\nit wasn't, it was a total mix. I mean everybody joined whatever club, the one\nwho their friends were.\n\nBrickman: LAP was not a part of the Jewish Educational Alliance and the\nstructure there?\n\nBenator: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=3180.0,3210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"No, it was a Sephardic Club made up of Or VeShalom kids. We later\nbecame, joined, we later joined in the basketball tournament and the various\nother things.\n\nBrickman: Where did you meet?\n\nBenator: Of different people's houses and the synagogue. Talking about the\nsynagogue, this was an old house. At one point, the health department, condemned\nit for school use until we did some work on it and got what it was. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We used the\nAA Synagogue [Ahavath Achim] for classes at the Sunday school when they were\nusing 10th Street. There was a time that we used The Lions also. There was a\ntime we used the AA Synagogue. There are. Many people, a number of people that\nhelped Or VeShalom in the early days, Silba Maco was one, Anne Carson was one.\n\nBrickman: How did they ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=3240.0,3270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"help?\n\nBenator: They were, one who, I'm not sure, who was instrumental when we bought a\npiece of property. Another was instrumental when we had a natural need that they\nwere able to do some good.\n\nBrickman: Make contributions and . . . ?\n\nBenator: Make contributions, were there to lend support or what happened. I\nremember, in fact, Silba Maco I heard what Silba Maco of his father had done,\nThomas Maco had done ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"before. When I was present back home, coming up one day he\nsaid actually we had this donation through a, he had left some money in his will\nto Or VeShalom. He asked me to write a letter. I remember writing a letter to\nThomas Maco thanking him for . . . Silver. I wrote a letter to Silver. Thanking\nhim for his dad's donation to Or VeShalom.\n\nBrickman: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=3300.0,3330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Johnny was in DSI?\n\nBenator: Johnny was in DSI.\n\nBrickman: That was your youngest brother?\n\nBenator: Oldest brother.\n\nBrickman: Okay. At this point, you're already working.\n\nBenator: I am in business now. Johnny is going to school. In fact, he worked at\nthe grocery store and that's where he learned that he didn't work in the grocery\nbusiness. He went to work for the bus company for a number of years. Then, Ford,\nanother co-employee, asked him to join him in this business that he was doing,\nand he went into the art supply ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=3330.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"business. A lot of things that we did. It wasn't\nthings that we really planned to do; it was things that . . .\n\nBrickman: Things that happened.\n\nBenator: . . . just happened and we were there the time and . . .\n\nBrickman: How long did your parents . . . were you lucky enough to have your\nparents here?\n\nBenator: My mother passed away in 1962. My father passed away in 1971. He passed\nnine years ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=3360.0,3390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"later. She had had a heart attack. It was sort of unexpected. She was\nin a remote place. My mother really was . . . a remarkable people. My mother\nwas, she was in charge of [indistinct: 56:52]. If there was an argument in the\ncommunity, usually my mother was a mediator. She would go and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=3390.0,3420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"work out the\nproblems, if possible, [indistinct: 57:03]. In the forties, when we started\ngetting a few new immigrants, especially from Greece and because the families\nthat really didn't have other families here, usually Mama was the one that would\ntake them to the clinics or to the doctors or to show them where to take the\nEnglish lessons or what have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=3420.0,3450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you.\n\nBrickman: Did she learn English after . . . ?\n\nBenator: Oh, she learned English. she wasn't fluent in it. She was more fluent\nin Latino and Hebrew writing. She learned to write, learned to read.\n\nBrickman: She sounds like an unusual kind of woman capable of doing lots of life.\n\nBenator: She was. In fact, the kids, if you ask any of the Sephardic kids, most\nof them will tell you, they would stop by Aunt Maddie's [sp] house [indistinct:\n57:54] on the way home from synagogue. She'd always have [indistinct: 57:59]\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=3450.0,3480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there for the kids.\n\nBrickman: She had her own community center.\n\nBenator: No, we were right on the way for most of them. They would walk back by\nour house, go and see. We were just three blocks from and most of the kids lived\nup for the street, Pryor or Washington.\n\nBrickman: Asher, what do you remember about holidays growing up? You talk to me\nabout Pesach. What about the . . .\n\nBenator: Holidays? No matter what on Pesach and Rosh Hashanah. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=3480.0,3510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Every year on\nRosh Hashanah, there was always something new to wear, whether it be\nunderclothes or shirt or jacket. Mama would make sure that we had something new\nto wear for Pesach or for Rosh Hashanah. There was no question about whether you\nwent to [indistinct: 58:49] on the holidays. You weren't, we always went to the\n[indistinct: 58:55] on the Pesach, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=3510.0,3540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and all the\nvarious holidays. I guess that was, I said it before, the synagogue wasn't just\nthe religious aspect. There's also social. I guess that was, it was not only\nreligious, but it's part of the social life structure also.\n\nBrickman: Do you feel like you have transferred that feeling to your family?\n\nBenator: I hope I have. I don't know that I've been as successful as ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=3540.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"our parents\nwere. I know that on Pesach we all get together. On Rosh Hashanah we all get to\nalways get together. [indistinct: 59:36] children always come to life. The other\nholidays they do . . . we try. We go to, I've recently learned to really enjoy\ngoing to synagogue on Saturday morning. I go to [indistinct: 59:50] Saturday\nmornings and I hope and try to encourage the grandkids to come. Like all\ngrandkids today, there's 16,000 things to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=3570.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"do. They do know that they do come\nonce in a while and it's fun and they enjoy it. They know that I enjoy it.\n\nBrickman: What special foods can you tell me about that are so special to your family?\n\nBenator: The Sephardic foods that we grew up with, bourekas, the boyus,\n[indistinct: 1:00:09, sounds like \"resha\"] the . . . and baklava, the Spanish\nrice, which ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=3600.0,3630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"is . . . thee sort of standard in . . . maybe the [indistinct:\n1:00:34, sounds like \"ketez\"]. Actually, the food that our parents made, and we\ngrew up with they've been carried down. Some of the kids do know how to make\nthem and they have, they've kept that part. Some of it, not all of it.\n\nBrickman: I know Gracie is capable of doing this. 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He came back, he says, \"I got to tell you a\nstory.\" He said, \"I was here when the Germans ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=3840.0,3870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"came.\" You got to remember, this\nwas in 1944 and the war was almost over. Just a few months later, he said, \"The\nGermans came over and nothing took place that was out of the ordinary.\" They\ndidn't ask if they were Jews. They didn't do anything. It seemed like they were\ngoing to bother the Jews and then all of a sudden, they told all the Jews to\ncome to the room and to bring their valuables that they can carry. They put them\nin the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=3870.0,3900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"square, what they call the modest square. They kept them there three days\nand three nights. They couldn't, they wouldn't let them move anything.\n\nBrickman: Food?\n\nBenator: I guess they fed them. I'm not sure. They must have. They had machine\nguns around and wouldn't let them move. The boat came and they put them on the\nboat and took them over. Took them to the, to one of the concentration camps.\nThere were a number that survived and the ones that survived went to various\nplaces, very few came back to Rhodes.\n\nBrickman: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=3900.0,3930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When you went for a visit, was the purpose just to see your roots?\n\nBenator: Yeah. We went to Grace's grandmother's house. We saw the house.\n\nBrickman: Still there?\n\nBenator: It's still there. In fact, we went, a Greek family was living in it. We\nwent in it and her mother had described the tile on the floor. The room, there\nwas very small rooms. We went to the calleja ancha, which in Ladino means the\nbig street, the calleja ancha, one person ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=3930.0,3960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"could walk and touch both sides of the building.\n\nBrickman: It was narrow, very narrow.\n\nBenator: We saw the Alhadeff Street, and which was . . .\n\nBrickman: Named after that family.\n\nBenator: Named after, they were the bankers in that community. There wasn't that\nmuch wealth in that community back in those days. Some of the families did, most\nof them were just regular workers and . . .\n\nBrickman: Do you feel like you've ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=3960.0,3990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"given some of the same values to your children\nthat you got from your parents? Or is it a completely different life?\n\nBenator: No, no, I think I think they have some of the same values. I don't know\nwhat I've given them, will they been able to help them with themselves. I think,\neach kid develops their own. The parents can show them what they think is\nimportant, but it's the kids that decide what they want to do. Thankfully. I\nthink that they have developed some of those. I think they ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=3990.0,4020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"want to be involved\nin the Sephardic and Jewish traditions. I would hope that anyway. I think they\nare. I feel they do. In fact, they spend a lot of time coming to the synagogue.\nThey get involved and making sure that the children study Hebrew and go to\nSunday school or what have you.\n\nBrickman: Do you have any friends today who were friends of yours when you were\ngrowing up?\n\nBenator: Oh, yes. There are ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=4020.0,4050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"many, many of the friends that I have today were the\nfriends that were growing up. Mostly the Sephardic kids and some of the\nAshkenazi kids that . . . I've met. In fact, very few of the non-Jewish kids do\nI socialize with, that I grew up with. Yet, we will see each other at various\nplaces in. We get to reminisce on certain topics.\n\nBrickman: I know your involvement in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=4050.0,4080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"community, and I want you to share some\ninformation with me if you can today. How did you get involved and what turned\nyou on to the things that you dedicate so much of your time to?\n\nBenator: I guess I was involved in the synagogue at the earliest age. Various\npositions, executive director, which is taking care of the building. Not\nexecutive director, taking care of the maintenance ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=4080.0,4110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of the building, that type of\nthing. Then vice president and secretary and treasurer and then various jobs\nlike that and then President. I was President back in 1971. I was also through\nthe business, I became involved with the YMCA that was in the neighborhood, the\nButler Street YMCA. I was on the northwest branch committee for 10, 12 years. I\nalso represented the northwest branch when the main YMCA did ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=4110.0,4140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"their constitution\nrevision. I was, when I was working at the store on Boulevard the JCs came to me\nand asked me to be president of Boys Club, the Town Boys Club, which they were\nstarting, and I was president for three years. That's the Bedford Pines Boys\nClub and . . . a little bit with that. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=4140.0,4170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm now on the . . . I was, I used to\nserve on the main Butler Y[MCA] board of two years ago. I'm serving on that.\n\nBrickman: You're doing things for kids that they did for you.\n\nBenator: I once told the directors, the boys club that I was well, I had a debt\nto pay and well, I don't think it's a debt to pay as much it is the fact that .\n. . I don't know how effective I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=4170.0,4200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"am, but at least I'm trying to do some pay, pay\nback some of what work. I was fortunate that I had a lot, there were a lot of\nthings available for us that we participate in. I want to make sure there's some\navailable to some other kids.\n\nBrickman: How did you get involved with your work at the community center?\n\nBenator: I guess the first thing, one of the things I was involved with, the\nIsrael Program's Committee when I was asked to chair rep.\n\nBrickman: What year was that? I remember when . . .\n\nBenator: It was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=4200.0,4230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"prior to the . . . prior to the expo.\n\nBrickman: That was 1985.\n\nBenator: It must have been 1982, 1983 when we had our first full year. I think I\ngot involved with that and what happens is when you do get involved in things\njust like that, you meet other people, and they get involved and . . . I think\nHerb Mendel [sp], Herb and Marlene Mendel were destined ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=4230.0,4260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to serve on one of the\ncommittees at the time. They did a fantastic job, by the way. They really went\ninto it. Marlene and Herb went at it wholeheartedly. You know how important\nthey've been to the community? Herb is president of [Congregation] Beth Jacob\nduring that building commit thing; the building remodeled at the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=4260.0,4290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"synagogue. I\nthink he's been asked to serve another year as president. Marlene has done\nfantastic in whatever she's done. They were instrumental in making sure that\nIsrael Program Committee reached the total Jewish community center. Not only\ntowards Jewish community, but towards Jewish Center Programs too. You asked me\nwhat other work I had done. I was president at the synagogue, the [indistinct:\n01:11:56] back in 1970, 1971, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=4290.0,4320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'll never forget that. That Summer, we had\nsold our building, didn't have a place, and we used the Hebrew Academy, which\nwas on North Druid Hill, for services. I guess I got involved through the work,\nsynagogue. I got involved with the Zaban building community at the community\ncenter. That's probably when I got involved. I used to serve on that. When they\nwere building the building at ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=4320.0,4350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zaban. Let's see . . . Men's ORT [Association for\nthe Promotion of Skilled Trades] I got involved with a little bit before that. I\ndid serve as president of Men's ORT that was . . . JVS, JFS. I haven't been\ninvolved with that much, but I served on the nominating committee for a number\nof years.\n\nBrickman: Were you doing all of these things while you were working up to the\npresidency of the community center all at the same ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=4350.0,4380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"time?\n\nBenator: Not really. Some of the things overlapped each other, but I didn't\nreally have all that many things to do. One of the reasons I was able to do\nthis, Grace supported the extremely well. I mean, without her support, without\nher care, without her feeling that it was worthwhile, it would have been\nimpossible. Even this morning, I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=4380.0,4410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was supposed to be with Grace, but I'll meet\nher in a few minutes anyway.\n\nBrickman: Asher, have you ever been involved politically?\n\nBenator: I have been involved a little bit politically. Stanley wanted me to be\non a, to go to a Republican committee meeting, which I did in the neighborhood,\nbecause he felt that there was a need for a Jewish representation. Ben Jones. I\nknow Ben Jones, a congressman, personally, really a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=4410.0,4440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"cousin used to work with his\nwife in the media. [Herb Zeltson [sp], Alan saw me at a ball game [and] came\nover and introduced me to his wife and then later on to Ben. I've got to know\nBen and his wife very well. [indistinct: 01:14:22] I have supported in the past\nbeen involved in some of the some of the APEC [Asia-Pacific Economic\nCooperation] ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=4440.0,4470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"meetings and that type of thing. I feel it's important that Jewish\npeople should be involved in political and what controls this country, and\nthat's what controls this country effectively. I don't question that, but at\nleast I'm involved where I can.\n\nBrickman: Do you have any hobbies? Do you have time for any hobbies?\n\nBenator: Yeah, I play backgammon with my brothers for the last few years and . . .\n\nBrickman: Regularly?\n\nBenator: On ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=4470.0,4500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Shabbat, at the services we play backgammon.\n\nBrickman: At who's home?\n\nBenator: Different ones. Sometimes, Max, sometimes Johnny, sometimes me. It's a\nvery serious game. Johnny tries to beat us with vindictiveness and a couple of\nmonths ago I asked him, \"Why?\" He said, \"Don't you remember?\" He said, \"Y'all\nwouldn't let me go with the Empire Theatre with y'all because I was too little\nback then.\" He says, \"I've never forgotten it and I'm going to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=4500.0,4530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"take it out now.\"\n\nBrickman: You just mentioned something that brings back memories. When you was\nyoung, what movies were around you? I mean, was that your entertainment?\n\nBenator: The Rialto, the Loew's Grand, the Roxy, the Paramount were all movies\nthat we grew up with. It was nothing for us to walk to the Paramount.\n\nBrickman: How far was that?\n\nBenator: It's on the south side of Atlanta, right where the stadium is. The\nLoew's was across the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=4530.0,4560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"street from where the Carnegie Library of the main county\nlibrary downtown is where Georgia-Pacific Building Loews Grande was, where the\nGeorgia-Pacific Building is. The Paramount was next door to it, and the Roxy was\non the other side of what Davison's, which is now called Macy's. That is, we\nwould walk there and then walk back and we'd walk through Underground Atlanta.\nIn fact, talking about walking back through ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=4560.0,4590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Underground Atlanta, when we were\nkids and delivering and selling newspapers. We used to play football on the\nrailroad tracks in Underground Atlanta. It wasn't that much traffic at the\ntrains at the time. While we were waiting for the papers to come out, we got\nthere 30 minutes, 40 minutes early. We would get up a game of football or\nbaseball or what had, softball.\n\nBrickman: Asher, were there ever any family vacations?\n\nBenator: I used to go down to Tallahassee, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=4590.0,4620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Florida, and visit Aunt Sinuru. My\nmemories of that was that I was little enough to go into the house and get the\neggs the chickens used to lay under the egg house.\n\nBrickman: How did you get to Tallahassee?\n\nBenator: On the bus.\n\nBrickman: How old were you?\n\nBenator: Eight, nine, seven, ten.\n\nBrickman: How much time did you spend visiting there?\n\nBenator: I don't remember right. Couple of weeks. A week, two weeks. 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We took, by the way, we took two of\nthe grandchildren, Grace and I took two of the grandchildren when they were six\nand three to Disney World without the parents for a day.\n\nBrickman: That's an ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=4800.0,4830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"accomplishment.\n\nBenator: That was an accomplishment. We had a lot of fun, but that was an accomplishment.\n\nBrickman: Now as you're busy, you're working. What are you doing? Are you\nworking full time?\n\nBenator: I work full time but thank God my business is such that I can sort of\nset my own schedule. I'm involved with Federation, so I'm still involved\nsomewhat with the community center. 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If you want, to give an example, I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=4950.0,4980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"got\ninto a lot of fights in high school, but some of my best friends came out of\nthose fights.\n\nBrickman: Did you ever when you were growing up, did you have in your mind what\nyou hoped to be as far as . . . ?\n\nBenator: Not really. Not that I remember. I still remember that when I got out\nof high school, I didn't know what I was going to be, and I hadn't even thought\nabout it. Going into business was just something that happened. 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Back in\nthose days, if you were in the neighborhood, you had just as much problems as if\nyou were a Jew.\n\nBrickman: Did you ever have any specific problems with antisemitism growing up?\n\nBenator: I mean, there were, in high school, there were kids that would pick on\nJew boys, I mean, they ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=5100.0,5130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"would do the same thing with somebody in another club or\nanother. At least I didn't feel that it was antisemitism. It probably, it could\nvery well have been it just didn't hit me as being antisemitic.\n\nBrickman: I see you as a very involved and busy person who always has to be\ndoing something to make it better than what it was. Is there anything that you\nwould hope to do that you can think of for the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=5130.0,5160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"future that would really satisfy\nyou? What would that be like?\n\nBenator: What I want to see is a community [that] serve more of a Jewish\npopulation. When I say serve more of our Jewish population, that doesn't\npreclude it from doing the job in half [indistinct: 01:26:24] and Weinstein\nCenter or some other areas where I feel that's our responsibility as ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=5160.0,5190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"well. I\ndidn't just get from the Jewish community, I got from a total community. I think\nwe should give back to the community. I think that's the responsibility of every\nJew. When we look out and say that we have to make sure that the Jews are taken\ncare of, we have to do a little bit better there. I'd like to see that.\n\nBrickman: I'd like to see it happen too. I really would\n\nBenator: You will because we got no choice.\n\nBrickman: You're going to be involved doing it, in that . . .\n\nBenator: No, not that. Not that I will be. We, the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=5190.0,5220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"whole community has no\nchoice. We've got to make sure that the community center is not just a community\ncenter. It's the community. I mean, what other organization do we have that's\ngoing to provide, that's going to be able to reach those people that are being\nreached today. We've got to move those people. I don't ever want . . . it could\nbe where my kids can't get involved in Jewish life and without, the center and\nwithout, would it . . . If it's not called a center or whatever it is that\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937#t=5220.0,5250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/95624/file/191937/transcript/44795/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"provides that service, we need something like that, and it can't just be the\nschools and it can't just be the Jewish family services. You've got to have\nthose things that reach out to the cultural, to the sports, to the social aspect.\n\nBrickman: That's going to happen, I'm sure.\n\nBenator: I don't, we talk about the fact we like to sit on this firm footing\nright now. The fact that . . . and when I say that I'm not saying that we don't\nprovide services. 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