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Growing up, Amster moved around a lot before settling in Athens, Georgia. Amster and his wife, Michelle, have one daughter together, Sarah. He pursued his higher education at Cornell University, where he completed a Bachelor of Arts, Master of Science, and a Doctor of Philosophy. He is currently a professor at the University of Georgia. He is also the head of the department of chemistry in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the university. Amster specializes in mass spectrometry and focuses on the intersectionality of biology and chemistry. Outside of being a professor, Amster is a religious teacher at his congregation.  \u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eJon Amster starts the interview by discussing his professional work as a professor and chemist at the University of Georgia. Amster talks about his daughter and her involvement at congregation. He discusses his dad’s efforts to make a family tree for the Amster family. Amster goes on to reflect on his upbringing and how he moved around the United States often. He shares his concerns on environmental issues. He discusses his upbringing and reflects on his Jewish heritage. Amster relates this to his experience with anti-Semitism growing up. He talks about other issues important to him and about his feelings on the Israel-Palestine conflict. He recounts some of the people who have had an influence on him over the years. Amster concludes by discussing what he thinks the future of Athens and the University of Georgia will be like. \u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28952"]}},{"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":["University of Georgia (corporate name)","Athens, Georgia (geographic term)","Civil Rights Movement (chronological term)","Analytical Chemist (topical term)","Chemistry Professor (topical term)","Environmental Conservation (topical term)","Integration (topical term)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eJon Amster interviewed by Burt Sparer on January 21st, 2002 in Athens, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJonathan \u0026ldquo;Jon\u0026rdquo; Amster is an American chemist born in 1955. Growing up, Amster moved around a lot before settling in Athens, Georgia. Amster and his wife, Michelle, have one daughter together, Sarah. He pursued his higher education at Cornell University, where he completed a Bachelor of Arts, Master of Science, and a Doctor of Philosophy. He is currently a professor at the University of Georgia. He is also the head of the department of chemistry in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the university. Amster specializes in mass spectrometry and focuses on the intersectionality of biology and chemistry. Outside of being a professor, Amster is a religious teacher at his congregation. \u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJon Amster starts the interview by discussing his professional work as a professor and chemist at the University of Georgia. Amster talks about his daughter and her involvement at congregation. He discusses his dad\u0026rsquo;s efforts to make a family tree for the Amster family. Amster goes on to reflect on his upbringing and how he moved around the United States often. He shares his concerns on environmental issues. He discusses his upbringing and reflects on his Jewish heritage. Amster relates this to his experience with anti-Semitism growing up. He talks about other issues important to him and about his feelings on the Israel-Palestine conflict. He recounts some of the people who have had an influence on him over the years. Amster concludes by discussing what he thinks the future of Athens and the University of Georgia will be like.\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/82087/file/170274","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - Amster__Jon_T1_S1.mp3"]},"duration":3377.58041,"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/82087/file/170274/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-thebreman.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/170/274/original/Amster__Jon_T1_S1.mp3?1667191593","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mp3","duration":3377.58041,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Amster, Jon [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SPARER: This tape is part of the Congregation Children of Israel Heritage\nProgram, organized in 2001, the Jewish year of 5762. I'm Burt Sparer. I'm\ntalking with Jon Amster. It's Monday, January 21, 2002. Thank you, Jon, for\nadding your story to our temple heritage. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Our purpose is to record the oral\nhistory of temple members. We are also asking them to express their views as\nJews in our time on important issues that future generations of Jews in Athens,\nGeorgia can know their heritage and add their own stories to it. I'd like to\nstart by asking you, what brought you to Athens, when did you come here and what\ndid you do after you got here, Jon?\n\nAMSTER: That's pretty simple. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"came here in July 1988. I was hired by the\nUniversity of Georgia into a faculty position in the Department of Chemistry. I\njust finished my graduate work in a postdoctoral stint of a year and a half, and\nthis was my first academic position. That's what brought me here.\n\nSPARER: That's the short answer. Let's dig a little bit. Tell me about some of\nthe things that you've ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"done since you've been here, aside from your academic\ncareer and perhaps some of the things within your academic career as well.\n\nAMSTER: Okay. The academic career sort of has followed the normal route. I came\nhere as an assistant professor, and I was hired, mostly to do research and to\nteach. I built up a laboratory and a research ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"group and got tenure. In 1993, [I]\nbecame an associate professor and about five years later was promoted again to a\nfull professor. That's sort of the standard, the standard academic routine.\n\nSPARER: Is there some specific research that you've led the way in?\n\nAMSTER: Yeah, I'm a chemist, an analytical chemist, and I specialize in an ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"area\ncalled mass spectrometry. It's an area that, I guess bioanalytical importance\nties in sort of with the interface between biology and chemistry. My students\nare, sort of, some fall in somewhere between the technical side of science,\nchemistry and then the biological end of things. Anyway, that's what's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"kept me\nbusy on the in the research end of things. I've been active, I guess, also in\nthe national scene. [I'm] involved with my professional society, American\nSociety for Mass Spectrometry and participated and been a member of the Board of\ndirectors and participated in the development of programs, teaching programs at\nour national meeting. I guess I've been involved in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"teaching both here at the\nuniversity and then on the national side as well.\n\nSPARER: I know that quite apart from an academic career, you're pretty busy in\nthe community. Of course, you're a member of the board of trustees of the\ncongregation. Tell us a little bit about those kinds of activities that you're performing.\n\nAMSTER: At the temple? Okay. I guess it's actually my second stint with the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"temple board and the board, that's right. We, I was just a normal rank and file\nmember of the congregation since, I guess, we didn't join right away. We joined\na couple of years after we moved to Athens, and I served as secretary on the\nboard of trustees. I filled in for somebody who was actually elected to the\nposition, but then had to resign. They scrambled around and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"asked me to fill in\nfor them. I think actually I was stood in the election and lost, but because the\nperson who won had a resigned and I ended up in the position after I guess maybe\na year into their term. I did that for a year and a half. Then I went back to\njust being a civilian at the temple. Then ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"more recently, I got recruited to be a\nmember service member at large and the board of trustees.\n\nSPARER: Is it a gratifying function to carry out?\n\nAMSTER: Oh, yes, it is. Yeah, I do. It's been a great way to find out about how\ntemple life works, how, you know, who is responsible for making all the things\nthat that happen there actually happen. I have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"enjoyed it. A lot of wonderful\npeople in there.\n\nSPARER: Anything else in the community that you've been busy at? You've got a\nfull schedule just with the academic career and I know the temple . . .\n\nAMSTER: Yeah, like most academicians, we don't have a whole lot of time for\nother pursuits.\n\nSPARER: Tell us about your children.\n\nAMSTER: Okay. There's only one of them to tell you about. 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She's\nbeen a great student her whole life, and she's pretty active in lots of things.\nFor instance, she's in the theater and she acts at this children's theater group\nacross the street from Albert Elementary now at this ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"little playhouse. She's\nbeen in one play there and she's got another role coming up very soon.\n\nSPARER: Is she going to the Sunday school curriculum at the temple?\n\nAMSTER: Yes, she is. She's been there since Tots for Torah. That's where like\nthe nursery school age.\n\nSPARER: Pretty young age to start with. I know that Michelle also is employed by\nthe University of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Georgia. What is her position there?\n\nAMSTER: Michelle does computer graphics support for bio and AG [Agricultural]\nEngineering. College of Bio and AG Engineering.\n\nSPARER: Does that mean from time to time, on your own time you to get together\nand do some fine research on it at Homestead here instead of it at the university?\n\nAMSTER: No, I don't think we try to overlap in our in our work careers very\nmuch. 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My dad retired from his career ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"maybe ten\nyears ago. A little bit less than that. In his retirement, as one of the things\nthat he's done, is spent a bit of time trying to build up a family tree for the\nAmster family. He's worked at it pretty hard he's traveled around the United\nStates, been to Salt Lake City [Utah] to check the Mormon archives. He's, every\ntime he goes to, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he travels to another city, opens up the phone book and\nsearches out ambassadors. Now, you can do it over the Internet, and he's\ncontacted a lot of people that way. Actually, he's put together quite a bit of\ninformation about the Amster.\n\nSPARER: He wants to do a revision of the Amster name.\n\nAMSTER: It is, we've been told that it derives from a period of time when we\nlived in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Amsterdam [Netherlands]. My family came through Spain downstairs.\nBefore they probably came out of Middle East, North Africa, I think, and came to\nToledo, Spain, and were there for 100 years or so until Jews were expelled from\nSpain, and they moved up to the Netherlands. 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Clearly when they lived in Spain, they probably just ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"stuck to the Semitic\ntradition and with no last name.\n\nSPARER: What a fascinating background and truly worth digging into.\n\nAMSTER: Yeah, although I have to add that I've traveled to the Netherlands quite\na bit and the Dutch claim that Amster is not a Dutch name. They say, \"Oh, that\nsounds German.\"\n\nSPARER: So, what? What did your dad do during his ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"life?\n\nAMSTER: He was into plastics manufacturing. He really was a manager of factories\nand involved with plastic manufacturing. It caused him to move around a lot. My\nfamily actually started in the Northeast and traveled around the United States\nquite a bit, including living in the Deep South then and now in the Northeast\nand in the Midwest ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"various points during my childhood.\n\nSPARER: You recall quite a bit of the scenery in different places where you lived.\n\nAMSTER: Oh, yeah.\n\nSPARER: You must have gone to several elementary and high school high schools\nduring your time.\n\nAMSTER: Yeah, about eight or ten.\n\nSPARER: It's sort of like an army brat.\n\nAMSTER: Yeah, that's the first thing people say when they find out all the\nplaces I lived. Where's your dad? In the army?\n\nSPARER: Do you think it was all to your advantage or as compared to perhaps\ngrowing ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"up in the same place?\n\nAMSTER: There's advantages to both. When we were, when we were moving, when I\nwas younger, I thought it was great. I always liked the idea of going somewhere\nnew. When I got to be in junior high school and high school, I really didn't\nlike the idea at all and thought, gosh, when I grow up, I'm not going to move my\nkids around.\n\nSPARER: Here you are.\n\nAMSTER: Here I am. My daughter's lived in Athens her whole life. So far, I'm\nholding true to my promise.\n\nSPARER: I think that's wonderful. Stick around. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We need you. One question that\nI'd like to ask you is about issues that are important to you in American life\nat large, not necessarily as well as you do, but as a citizen of the United\nStates. What are the issues of importance for you?\n\nAMSTER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh, gosh, where do you start? There's so many there's so many of them in\nthe political arena, perhaps, or in the environmental movements. Yeah . . .\n\nSPARER: I know some pet projects that's a concern to me.\n\nAMSTER: I mean, I have lots of political opinions, but they don't necessarily\ntranslate into activism. I guess I'm sort of your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"classic knee jerk liberal. I\nguess I fall on the liberal side of most political arguments. I mean,\nenvironment is certainly, environmental issues are pretty important to me. In\nfact, about the only organizations that I give to, a group send me unsolicited\nrequests for money. The only ones I really ever pay attention to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"are usually the\nenvironmental ones, you know, Nature Conservancy, for instance. I guess that\nthat sort of factors into some of my decisions in life, like to live in a small\ntown versus a big city, and be, live as I do close to work so that I can walk to\nwork or ride a bicycle to work instead of having to be a prisoner of my car.\n\nSPARER: Do you have some dire, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"pessimistic opinions about what might happen to\nthe warming cycle of the Earth if we don't do something about it? Are there any\nlarge global issues that appear in your face about the future that you question?\nWhat are we going to do about it?\n\nAMSTER: As a scientist, I think I'm trying to look at data and you look at data\nand it's clear that there is global warming. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"There's evidence for it and you\nhave to really have your head in the sand not to see the science of it. It is\nvery aggravating to me that there are things there are policies that we could\nhave to try to ameliorate that. 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First of all, hurt our marriage. My\nwife is, was born, was raised as a Catholic. We're an example of a mixed\nmarriage, although my wife is undergoing conversion training right now. I guess\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that's in a way that's sort of the answer to the question. I don't believe that\nit necessarily leads to assimilation. It actually can lead to reverse\nassimilation. I guess I have a real problem with that sort of thinking. I guess\nmy basic philosophy is that fundamentalists, any kind of religion is a bad\nthing, whether it's fundamentalist Christian, fundamentalist Islam or\nfundamentalist Jewish. 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In 1963, my family moved to a little\ntown in Mississippi called Lewisville, which is about 65 miles north west of\nMeridian, Mississippi and only about 12 or 15 miles from Philadelphia,\nMississippi, which now a lot of people are familiar with ever since the movie\nMississippi Burning, I guess Then and we lived there for four ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"years at 1967 and\nmoved to Anderson, South Carolina, not too far from here, and lived there for\ntwo years and then moved to Westport, Connecticut, and was, I guess, 11th grade\nI moved to that's still New York is outside of Binghamton. 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I did a lot of my high\nschool . . . and high school years and college years in the Northeast and\nsurrounded by people from up there who had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"this view of Southerners that was\nbased on just sort of the things that you see on TV and in the movies and\nwhatever, you know?\n\nSPARER: [indistinct: 26:11].\n\nAMSTER: Sure. You know that slow, dumb crackers and it's actually, it's\ninteresting. 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I told my friends from the Northeast that the South went\nthrough this period of self-examination in the 1960s and were forced to come to\ngrips with, with where they stood on issues of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"race. That involves mostly black\nand white, but I think it involves tolerance in general. They had a realize,\nthey were forced to realize that they needed to move forward. I think people in\nother parts of the United States were kind of smug about this and didn't realize\nthat these ugly things exist in their communities, and they never rooted them\nout. 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There\nwere plenty of others ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"now. Were you in the military by chance?\n\nAMSTER: No.\n\nSPARER: Here's one of those big questions that everybody talks about these days.\nDo you think Israel will achieve peace with the Arab neighbors in our lifetime?\nWhat do you think they'll have to do to achieve that?\n\nAMSTER: I think they will. I guess I hope they will. I think they will. I don't\nthink that they have any choice but to do it. 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If so, in what way?\nSometimes people respond to this by saying, \"Well, yes, my parents were\nimportant in my life.\" Of course, they were, and I'm sure they were in your\nlife, but [indistinct: 33:18] or others, perhaps teachers.\n\nAMSTER: Of course, there are, I guess, lots of events that are ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"important. I\nguess help me become the person I am, I guess, and brought me here to this\nplace. I don't have a particular event I can point to, I guess, but right off\nthe top of my head . . .\n\nSPARER: Who's some of the people that have influenced you, of course, over the\ntimes of the years and bring you here.\n\nAMSTER: Outside of my parents . . .\n\nSPARER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Of course, you talk about them, and they know all this stuff.\n\nAMSTER: Let's stop the tape for the second. Okay, Burt, instead of answering\nthat question. 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Although my birthdays on\nHalloween, we postpone my bar mitzvah until Thanksgiving so that we could have a\nperiod of time where people could come for an extended stay.\n\nSPARER: Did ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you make any friends among your peers during the period you were\nstudying for? Was that among the other kids at the temple in Greenville, or . . .\n\nAMSTER: I had friends at the temple and Greenville. 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They definitely\nthought we were the poor relations coming from this little, tiny town in the\nmiddle of nowhere.\n\nSPARER: I dare say that your experience is perhaps not unique, at least unusual\namong the members of our temple here today, because I don't think many of the\nfolks here had the had occasion to grow up in small towns, particularly in the\nsouth, as most of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"towns and particularly during the civil rights movement\nperiod and lived through that kind of cultural change in our society. You have\nwith you, your kind of a walking historical dialog in a way where others came\nfrom far away and mostly, I suspect, in the Northeast and other parts of the\nUnited States, although we do have some folks who grew up right here in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Athens\nand in Atlanta.\n\nAMSTER: In Atlanta, yes, I've met some of them. I find it quite interesting to\nmeet some of the native Georgians who live here in our, in Athens.\n\nSPARER: They do have some stories, too. Did you grow fond of or even have a\nchance to grow fond of the rabbis that you came in contact with?\n\nAMSTER: Yes, our rabbi.\n\nSPARER: No, I mean the ones who really and . . . the one in Greenville.\n\nAMSTER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I, as a youngster, I didn't really know the rabbi that well. In fact, a\nlot of my training for my bar mitzvah began after we left Meridian. I guess\nthat's where I would have had contact with really there. Then, the rabbi in\nAnderson was the circuit rabbi, so he wasn't around really to help me very much.\nOne thing I can say about hat background, though, is we had a struggle for\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"whatever Jewish education I could get. At times I feel like my Jewish education\nwas pretty sparse. There's just a lot of things that I didn't know that a lot of\nJewish kids that I met grew up in in large Jewish communities, sort of take for\ngranted that everybody knows these things. 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I'll let you say ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it, I\npresume she enjoyed it very much.\n\nAMSTER: Yes, she does. She does.\n\nSPARER: Jon. I'm out of formal questions in our questionnaire, but I'm\nfascinated with some of your thoughts. I kind of want to ask you something about\nAthens as a place, but you've been in large cities and small cities. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You read\nmuch these days about urban congestion, as in Atlanta? How do you feel about\nphysically being in the geography called hazardous area? Is it a comfortable\nplace to be?\n\nAMSTER: Yeah, it's easier to get around. Yes, at the present, it is about what\ndevelops, but it's an easy place to get around. Of course, we've chosen to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"live\nin five points. We're in that part of town where we can walk. We can walk\ndowntown; we can walk to the university. We live across the street, practically\nfrom the temple. We can walk there, and my daughter can walk to school and back.\nI mean, that's something that's unheard of in lots of suburbs and cities these\ndays. I think it's just a wonderful thing to be able to do.\n\nSPARER: As a citizen of Athens, how do you, what do you see as its direction?\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where do you see this direction going and how do you see its growth changing the\ndynamics of life in Athens at all in the future? Look at it ten years from now,\nwhat do you see?\n\nAMSTER: It's, I think it's hard to predict exactly how it's going to develop. 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I'd like to think that\nit will always retain a small-town character as long as I'm living here.\n\nSPARER: You really don't think, then that will ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"become part of the regional\nsprawl emerging out of Atlanta going in this direction, just sort of be subsumed\nby it and cover it up.\n\nAMSTER: It's getting closer, but it still has a long way to go before it can go\nround here. [indistinct: 47:33] Yeah, I will, so I know it's worth.\n\nSPARER: Tell me, too. How do you see the University of Georgia's future and what\nkind of a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"university might it become that it's not now either in your field or otherwise?\n\nAMSTER:  In the 13 and a half years I've been here, it's gone from\nbeing, I wouldn't call it second rate, but a school where I don't think that\nacademics was at the top of the agenda, the one where we're that's become a\nreally important issue and where the administration's really concerned with the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"academic ranking of the university. Of course, a lot of credit has to go to\nformer Governor Zell Miller for establishing the HOPE scholarship, which is\nreally improve the quality of the undergraduates that, you know, go to the state\nuniversity. He's managed to keep a lot of the really good students who might\nhave gone elsewhere here in Georgia. I appreciate that money. I hope that's\ngoing to continue. I think it probably will.\n\nSPARER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Do you think the university will become part\nof a research project of some size, given the given the relationship between\nGeorgia Tech, Emory [University] and the university here, that we might create a\nkind of research park somewhere along the geography between.\n\nAMSTER: The two big cities. I don't see that happening. I don't see anything\nlike that happening ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"right now. I don't. Emory doesn't really have any interest\nin establishing any sort of research collaborations with the state universities\nor . . .\n\nSPARER: Georgia State and Georgia Tech.\n\nAMSTER: Georgia Tech being an engineering school and us being more arts and\nsciences, that reduces the amount of overlap there is for those kinds of\ncollaborations. Maybe there's some colleagues, especially in the physical\nsciences. 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You could add to this\ntape yourself, for family purposes.\n\nAMSTER: One thing I thought maybe we might want to touch on, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"just for the sake\nof for the sake of interest of people who might listen to this at least 50 or\n100 years is what is it what is it like being a Jew living here in the New\nSouth, living in Athens, the year 2000? It's as I said, it's quite different\nliving here than it now than it was 40 years ago, 35, 40 years ago and in\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mississippi. I imagine what it was like here in the sixties. I think that the\nJewish community is fairly well accepted here in Athens. Yet we're still a real\nminority here in town. 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I think that probably her\nbiggest peeve with living in a town where there are so few Jews is sort of,\nespecially when you go through the Christmas season, as we just have, that's\nwhere the overwhelming Christmas nest that's all around you and how people tend\nto forget that there are other people who have other sorts of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=3090.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"celebrations. I\nwish I could fast forward 50 years and see if it's going to be any different. Is\nthe Jewish population here are going to grow? Will we ever become a bigger\nfraction of the population? Will people have more of an understanding of what\nwe're about? 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Just for the record, your daughter's\nschool principal is a member of the temple.\n\nAMSTER: That's right.\n\nSPARER: There is a, despite some of the Bible belt mentality that that does\nexist and in all of Georgia and surrounds us to some extent, in varying ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"degrees,\nreally, around Athens, there is a very significant effort during the Christmas\nperiod to highlight the Hanukkah story. Not that there is necessarily comparable\nkinds of stories, but nevertheless, obviously there is an effort to make the\nJewish population feel comfortable in the face of this overwhelming Christmas\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=3180.0,3210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"tree event. I find that that's an admirable effort, as you say, to accept people\nof whatever faith and whatever differences they may have. What is the African\nAmerican celebration?\n\nAMSTER: Kwanzaa.\n\nSPARER: Kwanzaa.\n\nAMSTER: Yeah, that falls at the same time.\n\nSPARER: At the same time. 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I do hope that people in 50 years from now, 100\nyears from now, perhaps further away, will have a look at these tapes as a kind\nof time capsule of history in our time and add to it as generations to see this\nand keep this thing up. Who knows, a thousand years from now, we ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/transcript/40422/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"might they\nmight be able to find out something of their heritage. It would be utterly\nwonderful. I'm going to ask you if we may have a family photo to add to our file\nwith the tape, we'll be a part of. I'd like to get your comment on whether you\nthink others in the temple would enjoy doing this as well.\n\nAMSTER: Oh, yes. 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I thank you and I thank you for\ncontributing to our oral history.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274#t=3360.0,3390.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/index/51884","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Amster, Jon [Index]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/82087/file/170274/index/51884/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lifestyle in Athens, Georgia 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