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His father was born in Savannah and his mother was born in Detroit, Michigan but came to Savannah with her family so that her father could be the Rabbi at the B’nai Brith Jacob Synagogue (BBJ). Very early in his life, Alan moved to Miami. He lived there a very short time and moved back to Savannah. The family owned a bakery and even though Alan’s main business was a delicatessen he helped in the bakery. Growing up, Alan spent a lot of time at the Jewish Educational Alliance and the B’nai Brith Jacob synagogue. He participated in the youth groups, sports and Hebrew school and made many friendships. After Alan got married, he and his wife opened a store. Not only was it a bakery, but a delicatessen and fancy food store. It was extremely popular but too large, it soon closed and he went to work for M\u0026amp;M supermarkets. He was the Director of Food Services and went into the catering business. When the supermarket chain decided to go out of the catering business, he left them and stayed in the catering business himself. He did more than cater – Alan made kosher TV dinners for hospitals and hotels that needed the specialized food. He kashered kitchens at large hotels to cater conferences in Savannah and Hilton Head Island, although the majority of his cooking was done in the kitchen at the BBJ. Alan was also responsible for catering for local prisons and military. He passed away at the age of 74 in 2003.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eMr. Gottleib speaks of his life in Savannah, Georgia. He tells about his family, who they are and what brought them to Savannah. His family were pioneers in the kosher food business in Savannah. He tells of his place within the family business and how he came upon the profession he had for the majority of his life. Alan speaks about Jewish life in Savannah during his life.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28009"]}},{"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":["Gottlieb, Alan D., 1928-2003 (personal name)","Jewish businessmen (topical term)","catering (topical term)","Savannah, Ga (geographic term)","Congregation B'nai B'rith Jacob (corporate name)","Jewish Educational Alliance (corporate name)","kosher food (topical term)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAlan Gottlieb interviewed by Harriet Meyerhoff on June 3, 1999 in Savannah, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlan David Gottlieb was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1928. His father was born in Savannah and his mother was born in Detroit, Michigan but came to Savannah with her family so that her father could be the Rabbi at the B’nai Brith Jacob Synagogue (BBJ). Very early in his life, Alan moved to Miami. He lived there a very short time and moved back to Savannah. The family owned a bakery and even though Alan’s main business was a delicatessen he helped in the bakery. Growing up, Alan spent a lot of time at the Jewish Educational Alliance and the B’nai Brith Jacob synagogue. He participated in the youth groups, sports and Hebrew school and made many friendships. After Alan got married, he and his wife opened a store. Not only was it a bakery, but a delicatessen and fancy food store. It was extremely popular but too large, it soon closed and he went to work for M\u0026amp;M supermarkets. He was the Director of Food Services and went into the catering business. When the supermarket chain decided to go out of the catering business, he left them and stayed in the catering business himself. He did more than cater – Alan made kosher TV dinners for hospitals and hotels that needed the specialized food. He kashered kitchens at large hotels to cater conferences in Savannah and Hilton Head Island, although the majority of his cooking was done in the kitchen at the BBJ. Alan was also responsible for catering for local prisons and military. He passed away at the age of 74 in 2003.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Gottleib speaks of his life in Savannah, Georgia. He tells about his family, who they are and what brought them to Savannah. His family were pioneers in the kosher food business in Savannah. He tells of his place within the family business and how he came upon the profession he had for the majority of his life. Alan speaks about Jewish life in Savannah during his life.\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/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/097/942/small/Gottlieb__Alan.jpg?1619289276","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - Gottlieb_Alan.mp3"]},"duration":3603.85306,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/097/942/small/Gottlieb__Alan.jpg?1619289276","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-thebreman.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/097/942/original/Gottlieb_Alan.mp3?1611843627","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mp3","duration":3603.85306,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Alan Gottlieb [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Today is June 3, 1999, and I am interviewing Alan Gottlieb. Alan,\nlet's start back from the early day when were you born?\n\nGOTTLIEB: I was born in Savannah on August the 27th, 1928. My father was born in\nSavannah, I think it was like January the 26th, 1898. My mother was born, not in\nSavannah, she was born in Detroit, I think she was born ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in Detroit, Michigan,\nwhere her father was the Rabbi of a Shul there and then my mother, my\ngrandfather came here to be the Rabbi at the B.B. Jacob. His name was Rabbi\nCharles Blumenthal. His Hebrew name was Zalman Mendel, I'm not sure what his\nfather's name was. Anyway--\n\nMEYERHOFF: What were your parents' names?\n\nGOTTLIEB: My mother's name was Lillie Leah Blumenthal. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Her father was Rabbi\nBlumenthal. My father was Joseph, Joe Gottlieb. His mother and father - my\nfather's mother and father were Isidore Gottlieb, his Hebrew name was Isser.\nIsser Gottlieb. And my grandmother's name, her father was the chazen at the B.B.\nJacob Synagogue from around 1910 ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and they came to Savannah, and I suppose my\ngrandfather, Isser Gottlieb, met Jennie Gottlieb. Her name was Shenna Chiah Bos,\nher father's name was Bos. Let me see if I can think of her father's name.\nAvraham David. I was named after him. And my name is Alan David and his name was\nAvraham David. That's my Hebrew name, I was named after him. So ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he was, his name\nwas Avraham David Hurwitz was his last name. My grandmother's name was Jennie\nHurwitz, she married Isadore Gottlieb, I'm not sure when. Obviously, my father\nwas born, in the 1880's they were married because my grandmother, I understand,\nwas 13 when she came to Savannah. She lived here all her life and she died here,\nin 19 I think it was 1963. All right, so we covered ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my Grandma Gottlieb and her father and mother, now we\ngo to my mother, her father was Rabbi Blumenthal. He came here with his whole\nfamily around 1913 and he had several children. Most of them got married here in\nSavannah. When he left here to go to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Waco, Texas, to take another position, his\nchildren were left in Savannah because they had married Savannah people and the\nfamilies have been here all those years.\n\nMEYERHOFF: What do you think it was like for a Rabbi at that time to go to Waco, Texas?\n\nGOTTLIEB: It was very tough. Very tough. I think the congregations didn't have\nmoney to pay the rabbis. I remember my mother, when she would talk about it, she\nwould cry. She would ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"say her father had to go and ask them to please pay him. He\nhad a big family and it was difficult. Any way, he went to Dallas, Texas, and he\nwas like a pioneer in Dallas, Texas. He made a big name for himself in Dallas.\nRight now, I have a son who lives in Dallas, Jerald Gottlieb, married to Sarah\nBlumenthal Gottlieb, Herbie and Esther Blumenthal's daughter, and they live in\nDallas and every now and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"then somebody will come up to my son, Jerald, and say,\nthey'll mention my grandfather's name. They'll say he married us or he conducted\nmy bar mitzvah or whatever. His name was always coming up in conversation. I was\nin Dallas and they have a Jewish Archives in the community center in Dallas and\nthey have a big picture of him on the wall. We're very impressed by that.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Okay. Well, let's get back to Savannah.\n\nGOTTLIEB: Yeah, to Savannah, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"okay, sure. Okay, so let's see. When my grandfather\nand grandmother got married, I think it was in 1887, they decided to open a\nbakery. I don't know why. My grandfather was not a baker, but he had previously\nowned a barroom, a bar, where they sold liquor in Savannah. That was the first\nthing he did when he was here, when he, after he opened up a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"business. He, for\nsome reason, decided to open up a bakery, became a Jewish bakery, a kosher\nbakery. I don't know how that came about, but I guess there was a need for that\nand he probably saw the need and the people probably demanded Jewish stuff and\nhe gave it to them. I understand there are people living here right now that\nremember when he used to ride around, he would deliver the bread ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in a horse and\nbuggy. He had a horse and buggy and he would take it out, the horse knew the\nroute. The horse walked up and down the streets downtown around Congress Street\nand State Street where all the Jewish people were living in those days, that was\nbefore 1900. He would ring a bell, he had a big bell, a big brass bell. He would\nring the bell and everybody would come out to buy bread. He used to sell it ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"five\nloaves for a dime. Interesting. It wasn't much, but people, I had people tell me\nthat he was a very charitable man. They said everybody had bread whether they\nhad money or not. He had bread for everybody. He would, he sold tickets five for\na dime and you'd pay him with a little blue ticket. I remember the ticket. 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And it seems that of those\nbakeries, Gottlieb's was the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"one that survived over the years and stayed in\nbusiness here until, I don't know, until about 1990 or so, something like that.\nI mean, as my memory, as I collect my memory. I think they went out; they closed\ntheir doors in about 1990. It was operated by my grandfather's sons, Irving\nGottlieb, he was the main ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"thrust in that business. Sadie Gottlieb was a sister\nof Irving's and Elliott Gottlieb was another brother. It was a very\nfamily-oriented business. The whole family worked in there. My father, who owned\na delicatessen and he was not in the bakery, he would go down to the bakery\nevery morning, 4:00 or 5:00 in the morning, to help them put rolls in bags and\nbread, slice bread and put it in bags ready for the days business. 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I\nwas born in 1928, so in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1934 I was six years old. I recall going with my father\ndown to the Merchant \u0026 Minis Steamship Company. It was a boat that came to\nSavannah from New York twice a week and you could, a lot of people would buy\ntickets on that boat, it was like a, a cruise, the first cruise. It was a, it\nwas a freighter. I remember Irving Gottlieb and Dera Gottlieb, they went to New\nYork ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"from Savannah on their honeymoon on that boat. They took the boat to New\nYork, the boat back. My father and mother did the same. That's how, and they had\nrefrigerators, big walk-in coolers on that ship and you could receive a\nrefrigerated shipment of cheese, meat, delicatessen meats, fresh meats, and\nstuff like that. So, that's how we got it here. We didn't have, today we have\nrefrigerated trucks ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"coming from New York, Chicago and all points North and West\nand we get two shipments a week of refrigerated or frozen, our choice, food\ndelivered from New York or Chicago to Savannah, right to our door in Savannah,\nthey bring it to us. That's how we get it now and it came on the boat at that time.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Where was his first deli?\n\nGOTTLIEB: When he opened up his store, the first store he had in Savannah was on\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"34th and Bull. Let's see that would have been the Northeast corner of Bull and\n34th. That was directly across the street from the Sacred Heart Church and, at\nthat time, there was a school called the Benedictine Military School and it went\nthrough high school and the boys all, a lot of Jewish boys ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"went to that school.\nMany, many Jewish boys went to that school. Graduated from BC. We called it BC\nBenedictine, Benedictine, I don't know what the C was for. Benedictine College,\nI think, or something like that. I think they called it Benedictine College. It\nwas the high school. I attended Richard Arnold Junior High School which was\nright on the Southeast corner of Bull ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and 34th. It was a junior high school\nwhich later became sort of a vocational school. It's still standing. They use it\nfor something today. This is 1999 and it's still being used, I believe. It\nhasn't been torn down.\n\nMEYERHOFF: How did you get to school in those days?\n\nGOTTLIEB: Well, when I, I remember my father and mother lived in Miami, Florida,\nwhen I started ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"school, I came here in the second grade. I remember the first day\nI went to school in Savannah, I went to 37th Street School. 37th and Habersham\nbetween Lincoln Street and Habersham. It's still there. They use it, I think\nSCAD bought that school. It's being used right now. It's an old school. That was\nthe first school I attended. The first day I remember my Aunt Sadie Gottlieb\nwalked me to school and she must have given me some ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"instructions but I always\nremember I walked home during recess. When recess came, I came home and she had\nto take me back to school, because I didn't know what I was supposed to do.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Then you must have lived in that neighborhood.\n\nGOTTLIEB: My grandmother lived on 32nd and Abercorn Street. In those days there\nwas a streetcar that came down Abercorn Street.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Around six, before you moved there, where did your parents live?\nWhere did you grow up?\n\nGOTTLIEB: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was born in Savannah. Sometime in my early youth my parents probably\nmoved, moved to Miami, they moved to Miami, Florida. We had some relatives down\nthere that evidently told my father and mother that it was a good opportunity to\ngo to Miami and open up a business. So, they opened up a little grocery store in\nthe black neighborhood of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Miami, I remember it well. Before long, they found out\nthey had a man working for them who was stealing stuff from them. Any way they\nwent broke and they had to come back to Savannah in 19--, I think it was 1934, I\nguess, yeah. It was in 1934 they came back to Savannah. So I started, I went to\nthe second grade in Savannah. Mrs. Eiler was the teacher. She died ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"not too long ago.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Alan, what was it like for Jewish children in your era? Obviously,\nyou stayed home for the holidays?\n\nGOTTLIEB: Yes.\n\nMEYERHOFF: How was that accepted by the teachers?\n\nGOTTLIEB: I don't remember any incidents. I do remember other students calling\nus Jew Baby or Jew, making slurring remarks like that, I remember that very\nwell. They used to say, there is that Jew baby or something. Something of that\nnature. That's the only ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"thing that I remember that was discriminatory. Nothing\nfrom the teachers, they were very nice to me. I was very close to the teachers.\n\nMEYERHOFF: But I guess there was no recognition of Jewish holidays or being Jewish\n\nGOTTLIEB: We took off, of course, for the Jewish holidays and I think it was\naccepted. Very well accepted. I never heard any arguments about it or any\nconversation about why we weren't there. We just weren't there.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Now what about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"life in the B.B. Jacob in the early days as you can remember?\n\nGOTTLIEB: It was, it was fairly normal. We went to Hebrew School in the old B.B.\nJacob on Montgomery, a block South of Montgomery Street, a block on Broughton\nStreet. It was on Montgomery and State Street. If the building is still there\nit's been sold to a church, I believe it's being used by a church now. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We went\nto Hebrew School in the B.B. Jacob there. They had classrooms downstairs and it\nwas very comfortable. I mean, we never had any problems. We went to shul. My\nGrandmother Jennie Gottlieb, she encouraged me to go to shul every Shabbos, in\nfact she used to leave money in my father's store. She would give him money\nevery week and that was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to encourage me to go to shul on Shabbos, she encouraged\nme to do that. It was very enjoyable. I enjoyed the Hebrew School. I had a\nteacher who I called him Mr. Geffen. He taught me everything I know about how to\ndaven and about going to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"shul and what you do in shul. He was my favorite\nteacher. I had him for years. They didn't have a whole staff as they do now.\nHarry Slotin, Alan Gottlieb, Gerald Pollack, there was about three or four of us\nin this class. We were like the incorrigibles, I guess, so they put us in a\nclass together. Also, there was a boy named Rocky Seigel. His uncle was Louie\nSeigel. He had a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"store on East Broad Street.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Is Rocky also Melvin Seigel?\n\nGOTTLIEB: Melvin Seigel's brother, younger brother, he died when he was about\n18, I think, this boy died. Melvin died early, too. Melvin was married to Mickey.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Then you grew up in the old B.B. Jacob and the new B.B. Jacob. Can you-\n\nGOTTLIEB: Well, I was already married when, about the time that we started with\nthe new B.B. Jacob.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Can you think of anything that was done in the old shul ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that maybe\nwe, of another generation, don't, aren't aware of?\n\nGOTTLIEB: No, I don't think so. I think we're doing a fine job. I think they're\neducating the children better than we were ever educated. We have a wonderful\nleadership, a wonderful Rabbi, and wonderful teachers. I think it's helping the\nwhole com-, Jewish community. I don't think we, I think we missed something in\nmy day maybe. But we're not missing anything now. I think we're doing a good job.\n\nMEYERHOFF: What can you say about the JEA downtown?\n\nGOTTLIEB: Well, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on Barnard and Charlton Street was the old JEA and I don't\nremember when I used to, when I started going there, at a very early age. We\nwent to, what we called gym class every afternoon. Jerry Eisenberg was the coach\nand he was in charge of the gym class and the athletics at the JEA. He was a\nmarvelous person. He taught school in Savannah High School for years and then he\ndied suddenly of a stroke. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I remember his funeral well. He was a wonderful man.\nHe was in charge of the athletic program. We went to gym like three days a week,\nMonday, Wednesday and Friday. We played all sports in the gym on the second\nfloor at the JEA on Barnard and Charlton Street. We played a most unusual game -\nindoor softball. We played, in the gym, softball. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The outfield was the stage.\nTwo guys would stand on the stage and that was the outfield. We became very good\nat playing indoor softball. Nobody could beat us. Nobody, no athletic team in\ntown could beat the Jewish team on the indoor course, because that was our home\ngrounds and we just knew how to play, play the balls off the walls and so forth.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Why didn't the Jewish boys utilize the square outside? The park?\n\nGOTTLIEB: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I don't know. It was never a consideration. We never thought about it.\nIt was like a, the square, you couldn't drive through the square. It was, had a\nfire path down the middle of the square. We never thought about going inside.\nThe only thing we thought we were missing in the JEA was a swimming pool. 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Go home at 11:00 ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"from the JEA. We were there all day long, every\nday, and there were all kind of activities there and AZA and BBG were big\nactivities for us. Our lives centered around those two clubs. The girls BBG and\nthe boys AZA. And that's where our social life was. We, that's where we met the\ngirls, AZA and BBG meetings on Sunday. That's where we debated and we had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AZA\nball teams, basketball teams and Sanford Wexler, he was wonderful, he was the\nAZA advisor and the AZA debating coach. I remember I used to love to debate. We\nwould debate against AZA in Atlanta, Charleston - we had a wonderful time.\nSanford Wexler was our basketball coach and he was our debating ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"coach and he was\nour advisor, the AZA advisor. He had a great influence on a lot of young Jewish\nboys. He was a, Sanford - he did a wonderful job. He shaped a lot of youth,\nSavannah, Jewish youth. He shaped their characters. He did a lot for them.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Was there Hebrew School or just religious school?\n\nGOTTLIEB: No, we had Hebrew School. We called it Hebrew School.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Now that was in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"downstairs of the--\n\nGOTTLIEB: When I started Hebrew School, it was in the downstairs of the B.B.\nJacob shul on Montgomery, a block off of Broughton Street. Montgomery and State\nStreet. Then Mr. Sam Blumenthal, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Blumenthal died and they left\na piece of property on the corner of Hall and Abercorn, what corner? The--\n\nMEYERHOFF: Southwest?\n\nGOTTLIEB: Yeah. 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They called it, the\nJEA, of course, the Jewish Educational, Educational is the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"middle name,\nAlliance. I think we were committed; the community was committed to having the\nschools in the JEA where the middle name was Jewish Educational Alliance. The\nB.B. Jacob was built, the new B.B. Jacob was built without one single classroom.\nThey did not put a classroom in that building because they were committed to the\neducational process taking place in the Alliance. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's the evolution of the schools.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Did boys from the AA attend that same Hebrew School? Or was it just\nB.B. Jacob?\n\nGOTTLIEB: I don't think so. I never, I never remembered, you know, it was\ninteresting - we used to, the AZA, we used to go and have an AZA Shabbos at the\nAA, Agudath Achim Synagogue, and we would have it at the B.B. Jacob. In those\ndays, when I was a teenager, there was no difference whatsoever in the davening\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of the, at the B.B. Jacob and Agudath Achim. I think, they were not considered,\nthey didn't call themselves conservative at the time. It happened later that\nthey became a part of the conservative movement. We davened out of the same\nsiddur, the services were identical, there was no difference between the B.B.\nJacob and the AA as far as, if you went to shul, you didn't know the difference.\nI think in the AA they always sat, the women and the men could sit together.\nWhat happened was, if you wanted to sit apart, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"way up on the third floor they\nhad a little balcony where the women could climb up to that third floor and sit\napart from the men. That was the first thing I remember about that.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Alan, in the old shul, in the fall, what did they do about air\ncirculation in that old shul?\n\nGOTTLIEB: The old shul was very hot. I remember, I do remember once the Rabbi\nannouncing from the pulpit on Yom Kippur, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he was thanking the Movsovitz Company,\nor Izzy Movsovitz, for donating the ice. Somehow, they were using huge amounts\nof ice to circulate cool air in the building. He thanked Mr. Movsovitz for\ndonating, buying the ice whatever it was.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Could you explain how that might have been done?\n\nGOTTLIEB: How they could have cooled the place? 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I do recall the Rabbi thanking Mr. Movsovitz for the donation of the ice.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Now, who, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was it your family in those days who were active with the\ncatering? Who eventually did that?\n\nGOTTLIEB: I heard stories about that. In the early years of the B.B. Jacob and\nwhen my grandfather and grandmother had opened up the bakery, I heard people\ntalk about the fact that they would do the cooking for weddings and then they\nwould take the food into the JEA where the parties were held. That was the\nplace, they would ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"go into the gym at the JEA. My grandmother would prepare, she\nwould cook the food for these weddings, chickens and whatever. I had a lot of\npeople tell me, I had Louis Black, well, Harold Black told me that my\ngrandfather and grandmother catered his father and mother's wedding. He told me\nthat after they were married for fifty years. I was doing the 50th anniversary.\nHe said, we found a good thing and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we're sticking with it. We still got the\nGottliebs -- so they did cook food in the bakery ovens. They were the only ovens\nthat were big enough to do that in Savannah and be kosher. So, they would cook\nin the bakery and take it up to the JEA and serve it.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Well, Alan, how do you think they preserved the dairy products that\nneeded to be cooled?\n\nGOTTLIEB: Well, they had refrigerators and iceboxes. I remember in the bakery\nthey used to have a great big, it was an icebox, it was literally an icebox\nbecause ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the ice company would come every day and put big blocks of ice in, like\n300 pound blocks of ice, there was a place to put the ice and it would cool the\nbox down. It had, the cold water would run out through a series of pipes that\nwent through the refrigerator and it cooled it. That's how they did it. I never\nremember any problems with, I never remember problems ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with refrigeration. I\nmean, there are always problems with refrigeration when they break but, as a\ngeneral rule, everything was well protected. The equipment was okay.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Well, since your, since the Gottlieb family was so significant in\nSavannah, why don't you get back to your father and the different locations of\nhis deli and how all of the Gottlieb family grew. The business.\n\nGOTTLIEB: Well, what happened was, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think I already said, his first deli,\ndelicatessen, it was a small store, a little small store, it was the site of a\nformer filling station, gas station. It was a real, it must have been 1,000\nsquare feet it was a little small place. I remember it well. They started this\nkosher business. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They used to be across the street, I told you, from two schools\n- from BC and from the Richard Arnold. And then their next move, from there they\nmoved to Whitaker and Duffy Street. Duffy and Whitaker. They stayed there.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Alan, tell me, you know, about Lucy.\n\nGOTTLIEB: Okay. In 1950 I married Lucy, I met Lucy at the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"University of Georgia.\nWe were both attending the University of Georgia in Athens. We got married in\nAugust, August the 28th, 1950, the day after my 22nd birthday. That was the last\ntime I celebrated my birthday. It was my anniversary after that. No, we still\ncelebrate everything. We moved to Savannah and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I went into business with my\nfather and my mother and their store was on Whitaker and Duffy Street and it was\na good location at the time because Whitaker Street was a one-way street going\nfrom Broughton Street to the south part of town and you had to go down, no, you\ndidn't have to, but most people came home from business driving down Whitaker\nStreet and they could stop at our delicatessen and get ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"something to take home to\neat. They would order orders on the phone and pick them up on the way or\nwhatever. So, it was a good location at the time.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Was the bakery business--\n\nGOTTLIEB: The bakery, the bakery was not, the bakery was already on the Bull\nStreet, between 33rd and 34th and Bull, right on Bull Street. The bakery was\nthere, had been there for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"many years because they had bought that property years\nago, years previous to that. They were there. We wanted to be, we moved from\nwhere we were, we wanted to get close to the bakery because everybody went to\nthe bakery, it was a big attraction. You know, everybody had to have bread and\ncakes and stuff like that and so we opened a store on the corner of 33rd ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and\nBull Street. It was an old house and we remodeled it, made a beautiful little\nstore out of it and we stayed there for a few years. After that we bought a\npiece of property on, a block away on 32nd and Bull Street. My wife and I, Lucy\nand I were very ambitious, we wanted to build a new store, so we talked to Eric\nMeyerhoff. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and Gunn Meyerhoff. They built us an 8,000 square foot, beautiful\nmagnificent facility, which is still standing. It's empty today. It was the last\nword in delicatessen and fancy foods. We had every fancy food you could think\nof. We had a magnificent assortment of cheeses; it was a great place. It was\nright across from the bakery, too. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We enjoyed a lot of nice business there in\nthat store. Two years later, I think it was, no, it was more than that. Two\nyears later we, it doubled the size of that store. We enlarged it. Apparently,\nit became too large. The overhead was bigger than what we were taking in and we\nhad to close that store. So, we closed that store. It was a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wonderful store. We\nhad a world-famous Sunday morning brunch in that store. People would come from\nall over the country and tell us they had read about it. We were selling it too\ncheap. Five dollars whitefish, lox, cream cheese, blintzes, anything you could\nthink of that you wanted on a brunch for $5, all you could eat. People came from\neverywhere to eat that brunch. Anyway, we eventually closed that store and I went to work for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the M\u0026M\nSupermarkets. Norton Melaver, Millie Melaver, and so forth. Annie Melaver,\nNorton's mother. I became Director of Food Services there and they wanted to go\ninto the catering business. So they did. And so we did. We went into the\ncatering business out of a supermarket. They took Murray, my son Murray\nGottlieb, and I into ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"their business and we became, we were, found ourselves in\ncharge of all the delis, four deli departments in four different stores in the\nM\u0026M chain. We stayed there a while and then they decided, M\u0026M decided that the\ncatering business was too much personal attention. They were accustomed to\ndealing in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"great volume and self-service and not so much charging and delivering\nand not so much personal service as we gave in our business. Even though we\nincreased the business in those deli departments tremendously and received a\nnice bonus for doing it the first year, eventually they decided, the Melavers\ndecided that they would like to discontinue this specialized business ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of\ncatering. So, I went back into the catering business on my own and I've been in\nit ever since. I think that was in 1979. I believe that was. This is 1999, so\nI'm still catering.\n\nMEYERHOFF: But, Alan, tell me what else you do that maybe other people don't\nrealize. For instance, I learned that you do the kosher meals, prepare meals for\npeople, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"patients in the hospital.\n\nGOTTLIEB: Yeah, we do. It became apparent that there were a lot of, there is\nsome demand for kosher food, we have a lot of, well, first of all, as you\nmentioned, we've, for many years we have been making kosher meals like tv\ndinners in kosher, in foil packages that we wrap and label. We provide them to\nall the local ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hospitals and even some hospitals in Charleston, SC, also. It's\nsort of like airline meals that everybody is familiar with. Anybody who goes to\nthe hospital and requires kosher food has the opportunity to been ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"part of our business. Another part of the business is, we are constantly being called by the big\nhotels in Savannah and in Hilton Head. They have people who come in and request\nkosher food. They call the hospitals; the hotels call us and we even customize\nthose meals. People say what they want, they want brisket of beef or all chicken\nor no salt or whatever they want, special things. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It's a good service we provide\nbecause it, the hotels love it because they can give the customers what they\nrequest and they don't have to turn away the business because they can't provide\nkosher food. On several occasions we have even gone to Hilton Head and catered\nin the Hyatt Hotel, in the Hyatt Hotel in the kitchen there. We would kasher the\nkitchen, kasher the stoves with the cooperation of the Hyatt Hotel and we would\nkasher dishes and silverware ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and we've catered conventions at the Hyatt. We did\nseveral, we did two big conventions for over 100 people in the Hyatt - one for\nthe National Federation of Jewish, National Council of Jewish Federations. We\ndid a convention there, a 3-day convention there. When we got through, they gave\nus a standing ovation, which we were thrilled with. 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I remember an interesting thing -- I was saying Kaddish for my mother at the\ntime, I didn't want to miss saying Kaddish, and I told them that we would have\nto have a minyan, I needed to say Kaddish for my mother and the guy I was\ndealing with from the National Council said he also was saying Kaddish and he\nwanted to have a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"minyan and it was a very unusual thing to find, every morning\nout in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel, a group of men davening with tallis and\ntefillin right in the, I said I never thought I would be standing in the lobby\nof the Hilton Hotel in Hilton Head, Hyatt Hotel, davening, but we did. We\nmanaged to do it. It was a very unusual thing. Anyway, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we also have people that call us from far away, different towns, and\nrequest us to ship kosher food to them. We have had occasion that we ship kosher\nfood to other countries. We had some people from Chicago were going on a trip,\nthey asked Rabbi Slatus and Rucky Slatus, Rucky is from Chicago, and she told\nthem that we could do it and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we did it. We shipped food to them where they went,\nwherever they went.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Alan--.\n\nGOTTLIEB: Yes.\n\nMEYERHOFF: What procedure is that?\n\nGOTTLIEB: What do you mean?\n\nMEYERHOFF: How is that done?\n\nGOTTLIEB: Well, we prepare the food, they told us what they wanted, we prepared\nthe food, we had to go through Customs, it was complicated, it was not easy.\nThey didn't want to do it, the government didn't want to do it, you know, the\nHealth Department. They didn't want to.\n\nMEYERHOFF: How was that kept refrigerated?\n\nGOTTLIEB: Oh, we shipped it in dry ice. It came in in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"perfect condition. It came\nin in good condition. We never had a problem with anything like that. The food\nwas in good shape when they got it. Of course, we sent it to Hawaii one time,\nthat's in the United States now. We sent it to some other place, I forgot\nexactly where we sent it. But any way they wrote us a letter, they said\neverything was perfect and this guy said, he said in the note, I don't know why\nyou're not world famous. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He was so nice about it. They appreciated the fact that\nthey were able to get kosher food and get, we sent fancy stuff then. I mean\nstuffed chicken breasts, rib steaks, ribeye roasts and things like that. They\nwanted to eat, they were on vacation, they wanted to eat the finest that was available.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Alan, is there any food that you prepare today that is the same\nrecipe that was your parents or grandparents?\n\nGOTTLIEB: Yeah, I think ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my mother and my grandmother had a tremendous influence\non the way I cook. Definitely. My mother was a wonderful cook and my Grandmother\nGottlieb, Jenny Gottlieb, was a wonderful cook. I used to see, I used to watch\nher cook. She was a great cook and I learned a lot from them, believe it or not,\njust standing watching.\n\nMEYERHOFF: What do you fix today that are theirs?\n\nGOTTLIEB: Stuffed breasts, stuffed veal brisket is one of my favorite things ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and\nit is one of the nicest things we do. You, veal brisket is a nice tasty piece of\nmeat and you put a pocket in it - you cut a pocket in between the rib, the ribs\nand the skin and then you put, you fill it with stuffing, whatever you want to\nstuff with. You can, lot of people stuff it with potato bagel or a bread\ndressing, a cornbread dressing. Cornbread dressing is very good ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to stuff it\nwith. It cooks a long time. It gets very tender and it's very tasty. That's one\nof the nicest things. And also, brisket of beef is a good thing and sweet and\nsour stuffed cabbage very popular, especially for Passover, we make hundreds of\nthem. Very good thing for Passover. People love it. A lot of people don't make\nthose kinds of specialties any more. Matzo balls, we sell a lot of Matzo balls\nfor Passover. 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We also serviced Memphis, Tennessee, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they loved it. They\nbought thousands of dollars' worth of kosher Passover foods. We would ship 38 -\n40 cases, big boxes of Passover food on a refrigerated truck, a frozen truck.\nThey would pick it up here and deliver it in Memphis in a week.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Alan, for your large affairs, is all of the preparation done in the\nkitchen of the B.B. Jacob?\n\nGOTTLIEB: Not necessarily. If we are having a big banquet here in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"JEA, we'll\ncook the food in the JEA. If we're having it in the Agudath Achim, most of the\ntime we will prepare the food in the Agudath Achim. We do prepare a lot of food,\nwe use the B.B. Jacob as a commissary. We rent the kitchen on a daily basis as\nwe need it, which is almost daily. There are a lot of social functions going on\nin the B.B. Jacob. We have been fortunate enough to cater ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"most of them. There\nare other caterers who do come into all the facilities and prepare food, but\nwe've been very fortunate. We've had, certainly, more than our share of the parties.\n\nMEYERHOFF: For a large affair, how many people do you hire? How many people are\nworking on a function? Not serving, but preparing?\n\nGOTTLIEB: Well, preparing, we have a sort of a skeleton crew, a basic crew that\nhelp us every day. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Five or six people work in the kitchen every day. Then when\nit comes time for the party, we have people that we call in to help serve, like\na wait staff, waiters and so forth. We have had sometimes as many as 75 waiters\non a large banquet. That's about how we do it. We are not limited, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"interestingly\nenough, we are not limited to strictly, to only kosher catering. One of our best\ncustomers, through the years, has been the Hibernian Society, which is an\nIrish-Catholic organization that celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a banquet for\n900 to 1,000 people every year. They usually have that at the Alee Temple and we\nprepare everything at the Alee Temple for that, course they are not eating\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"kosher food. We prepare everything at the Alee Temple, we work for two or three\ndays in advance and then we have around 75 people come in to help us serve it.\nWe've been doing that; we've done it over 20 times in the last 25 years. We've\nhad it almost every year. It's out on bid every year. They seem to like to come\nback to us. We've been doing it so many times. We've done it over 25 times, I'm sure.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Back in the early days, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"how did they prepare, they could not have\nprepared days in advance because there was not very much refrigeration.\n\nGOTTLIEB: Not that good refrigeration.\n\nMEYERHOFF: How did they operate in the earlier days?\n\nGOTTLIEB: Who? Do you mean before my time?\n\nMEYERHOFF: In the deli-\n\nGOTTLIEB: Before my time?\n\nMEYERHOFF: Yeah.\n\nGOTTLIEB: I guess, you know, necessity is the mother of invention, yeah. I guess\nthey made do, they did what they had to do. They were able to keep it cool\nsomehow. I guess, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I never heard a discussion about that. In my day, we always\nhad good refrigeration, no problem we had refrigerated trucks, frozen trucks\ncoming from New York bringing things to us. We never had a problem. I don't\nrecall any problems. I never heard my parents talk about any problems. You know, I'd like, speaking of my parents, I'd like to give an interesting sort\nof a story I guess you could call it. I've thought about it a lot. We all know\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in this day and time that the grocery stores, the supermarkets have all gone big\ninto the kosher business, to the specialty food business. I wanted to tell you\nabout the way it used to be. When I was a little boy, I remember my parents\npreparing for the Passover season in the business. What they would do, every\nyear we would get in our Passover ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"merchandise. We would get in tremendous\namounts, we were really pioneers in the kosher business in Savannah because\nthere was no other place to get it. If they hadn't done it, I don't know where\nthe food would have come from, Atlanta, I guess. They would keep records from\nyear to year what people bought for Passover. People would come in and they\nwould come in and sit down, it was like an interview, with my father or my\nmother or my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Uncle Leon Gottlieb, my father's brother, he used to help us\nbecause he didn't have a business, he liked to shoot pool. He could come in and\nhelp us whenever we needed help. He would come in. They would sit down, people\nwould come in and my mother and father, they would take out, they had a\nloose-leaf notebook, they would use a page for each order. They would put the\nperson's name on the top of the page and they would write the order on the rest\nof the page. There would be almost a page of things. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They would show people the\nnew items they had, people would remember what they wanted, people would have\nbills from last year and also, we would have a copy of last year's order. For\neverybody. I probably still got those things somewhere. We would have, if you\ncame in, Mrs. Meyerhoff came in, we would say let's look at your last order. You\nhad 10 pounds of matzo, 5 pounds of matzo meal, 3 pounds of this, a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"jar of\ngefilte fish, we would write it down and they would do that all day long. Even\ninto the evening people would come. I recall the Garfunkel family used to come.\nBenny Garfunkel, his father Charlie Garfunkel, a couple of the older women,\nmostly in that family the men always bought the food. I remember them coming in\nand placing a great big order and then we would, what we would do with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=2970.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"these\norders, we'd write them all down and at night we would stay there until 12:00 at\nnight filling orders. Putting the stuff in boxes and then the next day we would\ndeliver. I remember delivering big boxes of Passover food to the Garfunkel\nfamily. They lived on Hall Street. Going up the back steps to the second floor\nwith these huge boxes of matzo and Passover things. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's the way it happened. It's interesting how the people today are satisfied to walk in and talk to\nnobody and take it off the shelf, put it in their buggy, check it through and\npay cash. With us, we delivered it. We had to deliver it in our own truck and we\nhad to charge it, maybe they'd take two or three months to pay us. We'd have to\npay right away but they could wait three months to pay us. It's interesting to\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"me, which was the point I was making, that in those days the people demanded so\nmuch personal attention for their Passover orders. Now it's self -service, cash\nand carry, take it home with you and that's the way they like it. It's\ninteresting how that is an evolution of the way that business went.\n\nMEYERHOFF: But it was also a time when doctors came to the house to treat patients.\n\nGOTTLIEB: I know that. Absolutely. When I was a little boy the doctor, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=3060.0,3090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'd have\nfever, they'd call the doctor, he'd come. He'd come listen to my little heart.\nThat's right.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Well, Alan, I think you've got a big heart to begin with. Tell me, do\nyou remember--\n\nGOTTLIEB: That's so sweet of you to say that.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Do you remember anything about City Market and the Jewish--\n\nGOTTLIEB: Not much, not much, I, my daddy would take me down there sometime. You\ncould drive right into the market, it's a pity that building is not still\nstanding. It would be ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=3090.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"fantastic. Any way, you could drive into the City Market,\nhe would drive in there and we'd get out of the car and walk around. I do\nremember my mother in the days before we sold meat, calling up the kosher\nbutcher in the Market, it was Sam Friedman, Uncle Friedman, and the sister was\nBertha Friedman. I remember my mother saying, (Bertha, what you got today?( You\nknow, I'd hear them talking on the telephone about she wanted some veal chops\nand this and that and the other. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"All I remember about that is going down there\nand walking around. I saw the Movsovitz, I remember them being there. Meddin\nBrothers was in there, in the City Market downstairs. Movsovitz Produce. I\nremember going in all those places and then walking around upstairs where they\nhad kosher chickens. Sam Karsman was in there. That was Lee Rosenzweig's\ngrandmother and grandfather. Peter Movsovitz's father and mother had a chicken\nplace in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Alan, did you do any work with the prisons here?\n\nGOTTLIEB: No. I really haven't had any requests from any local prisons. I'll\ntell you an interesting thing. My son Murray Gottlieb has operated a kosher\nrestaurant and delicatessen, kosher store in Memphis, Tennessee, there seems to\nbe, he's had several ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=3180.0,3210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"requests for, some prison in Tennessee requested 2,000\nkosher meals for a prison. 2,000 kosher meals they were going to need for\nPassover. It seems that there are a lot of Jewish people in prisons and there\nare also, those meals needed by black Muslims whose dietary laws are similar to\nthe laws of Kashrut. 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He always\nused to joke about the fact that his mother used to send him hot meals on the\ntrain ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"from Savannah to Tybee to Fort Screven. I remember he told a funny story -\nhe said when the war was over in 1917, 16 or 17, when World War I was over, he\ntold, he told, he wanted to get out of the army as soon as he could, he wanted\nto come home and get married to my mother. So, he told the sergeant I got to get\nout of this army and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=3300.0,3330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"if you let me go, I'll send you, the family had a bakery.\nHe said I'll send you cakes and pastries like you never saw before. I got to get\nout soon. The guy let him out and he sent him stuff, too.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Alan, I remember back in the 60's you catered a big Passover service\nat the JEA on Abercorn for the Parris Island and other military--\n\nGOTTLIEB: Yeah, we used to do that. 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They would, I don't know who\nit was, the United, I don't know who it was that requested this service, but we\nwould, they would bring a couple of hundred soldiers who were stationed ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=3360.0,3390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in\nnearby camps here, Hunter Field, Fort Stewart, Parris Island -- any way, they\nwanted to have a breakfast and we would serve, you know, typical food for\nbreaking the fast. We would have pickled herring and toast and eggs and whatever\nthey wanted. Usually we served what we would serve to them what, generally, we\nserved to ourselves. We would have a couple of hundred people here breaking the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=3390.0,3420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"fast in the JEA. That was in the 19, let's see, 1940s, maybe early 50. It had to\nbe in the early 50s I was already married. So, it was in the 50s. We had a lot\nof troops stationed in Savannah. There were 40,000 troops stationed around here\nand a lot of them were Jewish.\n\nMEYERHOFF: And there's somewhere in the 60s I remember you did something. There\nwere a lot more Jewish men in the military at that time.\n\nGOTTLIEB: Yeah, there were lots, hundreds, hundreds. It's amazing. There were a\nlot of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=3420.0,3450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jewish boys stationed here. Interesting. In this community, in Savannah,\nyou will find many people who live here now who were stationed here and they met\nSavannah girls, married them and stayed here and they're still here. They're old\nmen now. Older than me. Older than 70.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Can you think of anything else that you'd like to add?\n\nGOTTLIEB: Well, I like to think that my family has been a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=3450.0,3480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"pioneer in the kosher\nfood business in Savannah. I like to think that we did some good for the\ncommunity over the years. That we provided a service that was necessary and was\nneeded and I am sure it was appreciated. We appreciate the opportunity to\ncontinue doing this work. We're still doing it. My son Murray is back in\nbusiness with me. We're working together and having a good time doing it.\nWorking hard.\n\nMEYERHOFF: For the record, name your children.\n\nGOTTLIEB: I have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=3480.0,3510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"two boys and a girl. Murray, who just moved here. Murray\nGottlieb. I have a daughter. Well, I have a son in Dallas, Texas, Jerald\nGottlieb. He's married to Herbie Blumenthal and Esther Blumenthal's daughter,\nSarah, used to be Sarah Blumenthal Gottlieb. Murray just moved here from\nMemphis, he's married to Deborah, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=3510.0,3540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"she was Deborah Posner, now she's Deborah\nPosner Gottlieb. They have two little boys, Judah and Govey, Gabriel Gottlieb\nand Judah Yahudah Gottlieb. My daughter, Nachomah who was before she was started\nusing her Hebrew name of Nachomah, her English name is Karen Gottlieb, I almost\nforget it myself. Karen and she's known as Nahomah. 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He's in Yeshiva in\nJerusalem ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=3570.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/transcript/22041/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in Yeshiva Kotel. It's by the wall.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=3600.0,3630.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/annotation_set/412","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Alan Gottlieb [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/annotation_set/412/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBBJ (Congregation Bnai Brith Jacob) Savannah’s Orthodox Synagogue established in 1861, originally located at the intersection of Montgomery and State Streets. It moved to its current location on Abercorn in Midtown in 1962. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/annotation_set/412/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eChazzen (Cantor) is the official in charge of music or chants and leads liturgical prayer and chanting in the synagogue.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/annotation_set/412/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eYiddish word for synagogue. It is derived from a german word meaning “school” and emphasizes the synagogue’s role as a place for study.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/annotation_set/412/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eYiddish word for Sabbath. The Jewish day of rest and is observed on Saturdays. Shabbat observance entails refraining from work activities, often with great rigor and engaging in restful activities in honor of the day. Shabbat begins on Friday night and is ushered in by lighting candles and reciting a blessing. It is closed the following evening with the recitation of the Havdalah blessing.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/annotation_set/412/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eJEA Is Savannah, Georgia’s Jewish Community Center. A Jewish community center (JCC) is a general recreational, social, and fraternal organization serving Jewish communities in the United States and Canada, as well as in the former Soviet Union, Latin America, Europe, and Israel. The JEA was once the hub of Jewish life in Savannah. Families congregated there for social, educational, sports and cultural programs. The JEA ran camps and held classes to help some new residents learn to read and write English.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/annotation_set/412/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAZA (Aleph Zadik Aleph) The Grand Order of the Aleph Zadik Aleph (AZA) is an international youth-led fraternal organization for Jewish teenagers, founded in 1924.It currently exists as the male wing of B’nai B’rith Youth Organization, an independent non-profit organization. AZA’s sister organization, for teenage girls, is the B’nai B’rith Girls (BBG).\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/annotation_set/412/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eB’nai B’rith girls or BBG is the female order of the B’nai B’rith Youth Organization, a youth movement that grew out of B’nai B’rith International. BBG was founded in 1944 for teenage girls. Chapters of girls soon sprung up throughout the United States and Canada. Today, it is an international sorority. 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In 1950 I married Lucy, I met Lucy at the University of Georgia.  We were both attending the University of Georgia in Athens.  We got married in August, August the 28th, 1950, the day after my 22nd birthday.  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In those days they sent the soldiers to the camp to be stationed as close to home as possible.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=3299.0,3506.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/index/47233/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"catering","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Fort Screven","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"High Holy Days","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"military service","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tybee Island","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"World War I","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=3299.0,3506.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/index/47233/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Children","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=3506.0,3638.98775"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/index/47233/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"For the record, name your children.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=3506.0,3638.98775"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942/index/47233/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"children","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rabbi Sved Cohen","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeshiva Kotel","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29976/file/97942#t=3506.0,3638.98775"}]}]}]}