{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/bg2h708f93/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Vrono, Eleanor Rothenberg"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2008-05-09 (creation)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Audio"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eEleanor Rothenberg Vrono interviewed by Marvin Weintraub on May 9, 2008 in Atlanta, Geogia.\u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eEleanor Rothenberg Vrono was born in Atlanta in 1924 to Rose Pfefer and Jack Rothenberg. She had an older sister (Mildred Rothenberg Shteamer, 1921-1997) and a younger brother (Marvin Rothenberg, 1931-2017). Her mother died at age 35, when Eleanor was very young, and her father remarried, later having another son (Herschel Rothenberg, 1944-1964). Her father owned a clothing business called “Jack’s” that sold remainder items at a discount for very little from Sears Roebuck and Company. Eleanor went to Sunday school at Ahavath Achim although she attended public schools, including Girls’ High School. Their family maintained a kosher home. Her grandmother, Mindal (Goldie) Pfefer, who lived with them was very Orthodox. Eleanor did volunteer work in the community. Eleanor attended the Ohio State University and graduated with the business degree. However, she met Harold Vrono, her future husband, in Atlanta while he was attending Emory University. They had a daughter Robin, and two sons, Charles and Don. The Vronos were in the grocery industry and trade, owning Vrono’s Supermarket, which Harold continued. She passed away in 2017 at the age of 92.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eEleanor recalls her childhood in Atlanta and her father, Jack Rothenberg’s, three dry goods businesses (including “Jack’s” and “Wells Fargo”), which prospered even during the Great Depression because his prices were affordable. She recollects some of the people who worked for her father including the future Dr. Irving Greenberg. Eleanor reminisces about her father who loved to play cards at the Jewish Progressive Club, drove a truck around town, and how he shared his success with other less fortunate members of the Jewish community during the Depression by quietly putting $20 bills into their prayer books as they entered the synagogue. Eleanor recollects fondly her grandmother, Mindal Goldie Pfeffer, who lived with the family until her death in 1944. She discusses her family’s involvement in Ahavath Achim, where she went to Sunday school and was eventually married. Eleanor recounts attending the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, where she was a member of the Alpha Epsilon Phi (AEPhi) sorority, and from which she graduated with a business degree, although she never worked as she met and married Harold Vrono, whose family was in the supermarket business, after her graduation. Eleanor also discusses segregation in the community and public schools and the cool relations between the various Jewish cultural and religious groups and the different synagogues they attended. Eleanor spoke about her three children and her grandchildren and their achievements and her friends over the years.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28044"]}},{"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":["Ahavath Achim Synagogue (corporate name)","Atlanta (Ga.) (geographic term)","Great Depression (topical term)","Segregation (topical term)","Jewish Progressive Club (topical term)","Jewish businessmen (topical term)","Israel (geographic term)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eEleanor Rothenberg Vrono interviewed by Marvin Weintraub on May 9, 2008 in Atlanta, Geogia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEleanor Rothenberg Vrono was born in Atlanta in 1924 to Rose Pfefer and Jack Rothenberg. She had an older sister (Mildred Rothenberg Shteamer, 1921-1997) and a younger brother (Marvin Rothenberg, 1931-2017). Her mother died at age 35, when Eleanor was very young, and her father remarried, later having another son (Herschel Rothenberg, 1944-1964). Her father owned a clothing business called “Jack’s” that sold remainder items at a discount for very little from Sears Roebuck and Company. Eleanor went to Sunday school at Ahavath Achim although she attended public schools, including Girls’ High School. Their family maintained a kosher home. Her grandmother, Mindal (Goldie) Pfefer, who lived with them was very Orthodox. Eleanor did volunteer work in the community. Eleanor attended the Ohio State University and graduated with the business degree. However, she met Harold Vrono, her future husband, in Atlanta while he was attending Emory University. They had a daughter Robin, and two sons, Charles and Don. The Vronos were in the grocery industry and trade, owning Vrono’s Supermarket, which Harold continued. She passed away in 2017 at the age of 92.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEleanor recalls her childhood in Atlanta and her father, Jack Rothenberg’s, three dry goods businesses (including “Jack’s” and “Wells Fargo”), which prospered even during the Great Depression because his prices were affordable. She recollects some of the people who worked for her father including the future Dr. Irving Greenberg. Eleanor reminisces about her father who loved to play cards at the Jewish Progressive Club, drove a truck around town, and how he shared his success with other less fortunate members of the Jewish community during the Depression by quietly putting $20 bills into their prayer books as they entered the synagogue. Eleanor recollects fondly her grandmother, Mindal Goldie Pfeffer, who lived with the family until her death in 1944. She discusses her family’s involvement in Ahavath Achim, where she went to Sunday school and was eventually married. Eleanor recounts attending the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, where she was a member of the Alpha Epsilon Phi (AEPhi) sorority, and from which she graduated with a business degree, although she never worked as she met and married Harold Vrono, whose family was in the supermarket business, after her graduation. Eleanor also discusses segregation in the community and public schools and the cool relations between the various Jewish cultural and religious groups and the different synagogues they attended. Eleanor spoke about her three children and her grandchildren and their achievements and her friends over the years.\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/000/101/385/small/Eleanor_Vrono.png?1619534215","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - Vrono_Eleanor.mp3"]},"duration":3573.96898,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/101/385/small/Eleanor_Vrono.png?1619534215","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-thebreman.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/101/385/original/Vrono_Eleanor.mp3?1610641661","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mp3","duration":3573.96898,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Eleanor Vrono [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: This Marvin Weintraub interviewing Eleanor Vrono today . . . May 9,\n2008. It's for the Jewish Oral History Project of Atlanta, a project of the\nWilliam Jewish Heritage Museum, and the American Jewish Committee, with support\nof the National Council of Jewish Women, Atlanta and the Altanta Jewish\nFederation. Thank you for having me, Eleanor.\n\nVRONO: I'm glad you're here.\n\nWEINTRAUB: It's a pleasure being back here.\n\nVRONO: Thank you.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: You are somewhat familiar with the interview so we'll get right into\nit. Let's start with your background first. [Were you] born in Atlanta?\n\nVRONO: I was born in Atlanta. My grandmother was Mandel [Goldie] Pfeffer.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Spell her name.\n\nVRONO: Mandel . . . M-A-N-D-E-L P-F-E-F-F-E-R. The Pfeffers were a nice family\nhere in Atlanta. But you know what? They're all ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"gone. There was my uncle Harry\nPfeffer . . . my Aunt Pearl and Uncle Harry Pfeffer. My grandmother had six\ndaughters. My mother died early. My mother died when she was 30. She had\npneumonia . . . that was before they had penicillin. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"At 30 years old she died. I\nwas little.\n\nWEINTRAUB: How old were you?\n\nVRONO: I was about six years old, and my brother was really a baby. He was a\nbaby, and my sister was 12 years old.\n\nWEINTRAUB: What year were you born?\n\nVRONO: I was born in 1925.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You did not know your mother ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"then essentially.\n\nVRONO: I have very little . . . I can't remember very much about her. My sister\ndid, she remembers a lot. I remember a few little things about her. I heard,\nafter she died and even up until I was a big girl, when I would go somewhere,\nsomebody would come up to me and say, \"Your mother was so kind to me . . . your\nmother was . . .\" My daddy had a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"dry goods store. I think he was like the\nforerunner of all the discount houses. He would buy up from Sears Roebuck all\nover the country. He would buy their returns for like a nickel over $1 or a dime\nover $1. He would pack all the merchandise . . . his place on Edgewood Avenue .\n. . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he would have all the merchandise out on tables . . . like they do now, but\nthey didn't at that time. He would sell everything really cheap . . . blue jeans\nand underwear and all kinds of . . . anything that Sears had and would send to\nhim. When they had enough returns, they didn't put it back in the store. They\nwould sell him all their returns.\n\nWEINTRAUB: This would have been 1930?\n\nVRONO: Yes. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"During the [Great] Depression he . . . sold them cheap. It was\nJack's on Edgewood Avenue. He was pretty well-known. They could buy cheap and\nthen he opened up another store on Marietta Street, which was called 'Wells\nFargo.' On Edgewood Avenue was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jack's. The one on Marietta Street was Wells\nFargo. Then he opened up another one across the street that was a children's\nstore. You know what, I can't remember the name and that's where I used to work.\nI worked there. What else can I tell you? He would be really busy and . . . so\nmany of the young ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what do you call . . . not the Spanish Jews . . .\n\nWEINTRAUB: . . . Sephardic Jews . . .\n\nVRONO: . . . the Sephardic Jews. The girls worked for him on Saturdays. They\nwere paid . . . they used to make the sale, and they would get a receipt of how\nmuch it was. At the end of the night, we would add up the receipts and they\nwould get a certain percentage. That's what they were paid. They would make $5\nmaybe ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"$4. Forty or 50 years ago, that was a lot of money. It wasn't a lot of\nmoney, but it was good that they worked. You know who worked for him? Dr. Irving\nGreenberg. He was very prominent in the city. He worked his way through college\nand medical school working for my daddy like that. There was so many I can't\nthink of their names, that worked with him on Saturdays.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: Can you tell me a little bit about Dr. Greenberg? Remember what he did?\n\nVRONO: He was a surgeon and he was one of the first Jewish surgeons in Atlanta\ntoo . . . that I can think of. He was very prominent and he was very . . . with\nthe Jewish people.\n\nWEINTRAUB: What type of surgery? Do you remember?\n\nVRONO: I don't remember. You never heard of him? You know him . . . 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Then we'll go back to the beginning.\n\nVRONO: I don't know, it was maybe 25 years ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ago. He used to drive a panel truck .\n. . he was this Jewish man when he went in his truck . . . in those days, it\nwasn't like it is now. No Jewish person drove a truck! He would drive that truck\nall over. He would go over to the [Jewish] Progressive Club and play cards. You\ndon't want to hear about it? Am I talking too much?\n\nWEINTRAUB: No press on.\n\nVRONO: He would go to the Progressive Club. He loved to play cards, and he loved\nto ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"drink and he loved people and he was very generous. He didn't believe in the\n[Jewish] Welfare Fund, but he gave. He told me one time about when he would go\nto Shearith Israel and give out the books . . . he knew people that needed\nmoney. It was during the Depression then, and he would put a $20 bill in the\nbook that he would hand to them. They would, \"Oh, look I found a $20 bill!\" He\nwas very generous. But he didn't believe in . . . whatever . . . 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Her name was\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Esther. We were never close to her, because my mother's sisters resented the\nfact that he got married. We were never close. She had two boys.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You have two [step-brothers]?\n\nVRONO: No. One was . . . the youngest was killed in an airplane. He was taking\nairplane lessons and he crashed. The youngest boy. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The oldest boy is in New\nYork. We don't see much of him.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Really two separate families then?\n\nVRONO: It really was.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Do you know how your mother and father met initially?\n\nVRONO: Gosh, I don't know. I got a letter that my daddy wrote to my mother when\nshe was pregnant. He was in New York getting ready to open up his stores here.\nHe had two brothers. I've got the letter . . . if they want it.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: Were your parents native Atlantans?\n\nVRONO: No. They were not born in Atlanta.\n\nWEINTRAUB: [Were they] born in the United States?\n\nVRONO: No, they were born in Poland. I don't remember how they met. I don't\nknow, and I never asked where they met.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: But both of them ended up in Atlanta some way?\n\nVRONO: Yes, my grandmother was here. She had a big house on . . . Hunter Street.\n\nWEINTRAUB: What street?\n\nVRONO: Hunter Street. With her six daughters, she lived in that house. I don't\nknow how my mother and daddy met, but they did.\n\nWEINTRAUB: This was your grandmother on your mother's side?\n\nVRONO: This is my grandmother on my mother's side. She was Pfeffer . . . Mandel\n[Goldie] Pfeffer. 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I know they are buried in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"heroes'\ngraves, because when we went over there, we saw it. I never knew them. My\ndaddy's sister was Gussie [Rothenberg] Hurwitz. She was here in Atlanta. That's\nwhy my daddy came to Atlanta because his sister was here. They owned Barney's\nDepartment Store, which was a dry goods store on Edgewood Avenue. There's so\nmany people ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that would remember. . . . old people. I don't know if they're\nliving or not. It's a shame because if they go, they forget. They don't remember\nmy daddy. He was a character here.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Tell me what made him a character?\n\nVRONO: What made him a character? He drove that truck. He loved his . . . vodka.\nIt was something he loved to drink. Some kind of alcohol and he ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"loved it. He was\nalways singing, and he was always joking. He was a character, and like I said he\nwas just very . . . he would give just out of his pockets . . . to anybody.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Three stores?\n\nVRONO: Yes.\n\nWEINTRAUB: I guess he managed one personally?\n\nVRONO: No, he never stayed in his stores.\n\nWEINTRAUB: He had three managers? 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I know it moved to 10th Street.\n\nWEINTRAUB: This was well before 10th Street.\n\nVRONO: But then he was also at 10th Street . . . in the end, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he would go there\nto play. We used to go there a lot . . . that's where we would go when we were young.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Tenth Street?\n\nVRONO: Yes. Then, when my kids . . . when I got married and I had children, we\nused to go to the other one, the big one, what was that? The newest one.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Standard Club?\n\nVRONO: No, we didn't go there.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Mayfair?\n\nVRONO: No. The Progressive Club . . .\n\nWEINTRAUB: . . . you mean when it moved ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"further out . . .\n\nVRONO: . . . further out. I used to take my children there. They used to go\nthere all the time. Papa Jack would be up there playing poker. He loved it. He\nwas very outgoing.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You had a good relationship with these clubs, the last one, the\ncontinuation of the Progressive Club. That was the last Progressive Club in\nexistence, was it not? It went out. I remember seeing . . . 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We\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"also were married . . . the Ahavath Achim moved the year that we married . . .\nbuilt a new synagogue. That was 60 years ago. So we had to get married at the\ntemporary one that the AA [Ahavath Achim] built, moved into and it was on 10th\nStreet, I think. That's where we got married in that . . .\n\nWEINTRAUB: What year was that?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"VRONO: That was 1948. They had just built the new AA synagogue, but it wasn't\nready yet and so we had to get married in the little [unintelligible: 15:00]\nthing that they used while they were building the new AA.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You're talking about the AA which is now on Peachtree Battle. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's\nthe one that was being built?\n\nVRONO: Yes, that was the one that was being built. Both families belonged to the\nAA. When we got married, we were married in that temporary AA building on 10th\nStreet. Sixty years ago.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Nineteen forty-eight. How did you meet Harold?\n\nVRONO: I was off at college. I went to Ohio State [University--Columbus, Ohio].\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Who was she? It wasn't his aunt. His aunt's best friend worked for my daddy. In\nfact, she managed the children's store. What was her name? Evelyn Morris was her\nname. She was a good friend of Harold's aunt and Sylvia Peel. You know them?\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sylvia told her about her nephew Harold and Evelyn talked about me, that she\nworked with my daddy. He called Harold. They told him to call. He called and we\nstarted dating. He was going to Emory [University--Atlanta, Georgia]. We lived\nright across the street on North Decatur Road from Emory. He would go to class\nand park and then come to see me. 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He would say . . . that's the one who lives\nfrom ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"California . . . he got real excited over the Kentucky Derby when the horse fell.\n\nWEINTRAUB: I bet.\n\nVRONO: He knew the vet that was there.\n\nWEINTRAUB: That's good background . . . 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As each ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"girl got\nolder they went to work . . . my Aunt Pearl got a job . . . my Aunt Sarah got a\njob. Aunt Pearl got married. They just all started helping . . . they grew up\nwithout a daddy, without a father.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Yes. 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There were\na lot of Jewish people on Washington Street.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You went to the Washington Street Sunday school?\n\nVRONO: Yes. To the AA Sunday school. Across the street from where I lived was\nanother Jewish family. Then across on the other side of that was the Hebrew\nOrphans' Home on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Washington Street. Did you know that?\n\nWEINTRAUB: Yes.\n\nVRONO: The Hebrew Orphans' Home was there. We never saw any of the kids that\nlived there, never. My grandmother lived like two blocks away. I used to walk to\nher house all the time. The Princess Apartments was there. That's where all the\nJewish people lived, too. There were a lot of Jewish people and I had a lot of\nJewish friends growing up.\n\nWEINTRAUB: It wasn't any trouble to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"walk to Sunday school?\n\nVRONO: No. I must have walked . . . yes, I did walk to Sunday school.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You got a good education?\n\nVRONO: A Jewish education? I never did learn Hebrew. I never learned Jewish. My\ndaddy didn't believe in girls being bat mitzvahed, or any of that. But I got a\ngood Jewish education. 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I'll call you and tell you,\n\nWEINTRAUB: Not at two in the morning. Now again for the tape . . . Washington\nStreet had both the AA and the Shearith Israel synagogues within a block or two?\n\nVRONO: Two or three blocks, yes. My daddy belonged to both. He belonged to the\nShearith Israel and he belonged to the AA, because that's where we went to\nSunday school. That was more social than the Shearith Israel. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He also belonged\nto the other one. What's the other synagogue--the Spanish synagogue?\n\nWEINTRAUB: [Or VeShalom.] He belonged to all three of them?\n\nVRONO: He did.\n\nWEINTRAUB: But he did not belong to the Temple?\n\nVRONO: No, he didn't belong to the Temple.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Just the three of them.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"VRONO: He went to the Shearith Israel. That was his thing. We . . . the children\n. . . went to the AA.\n\nWEINTRAUB: What was the religious affiliation? Was [there] a difference between\nShearith Israel and the AA? Were they Orthodox, Conservative, Reform?\n\nVRONO: I think they both were [Orthodox]. I think the Shearith Israel may have\nbeen a little more Orthodox than the AA at that time. The AA was Orthodox. My\ngrandmother belonged to the AA. She was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"very Orthodox. She wore a sheitel. She\nhad a sheitel and she belonged to the AA. My daddy belonged. He belonged but he\nwent to the Shearith Israel. He was very active at the Shearith Israel. I tell\npeople he used to get out the books during the Depression, he knew some people\nwere having it tough.\n\nWEINTRAUB: We never have used the full name. What was the whole name of the AA?\n\nVRONO: Ahavath Achim. 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When we had the bar mitzvah, my\ndaddy wasn't going to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sit back . . . he came to the AA for Chuck's bar mitzvah\nand Rabbi Epstein . . . boy, you had to be quiet, you had to be [unintelligible:\n28:17] But my daddy didn't pay any attention, he just walked up there, stood up\nat the front and he davened and did his thing. Rabbi Epstein didn't say a word.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Your daddy was used to a more Orthodox congregation.\n\nVRONO: Yes, he really was, but this was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Orthodox.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Interesting. What's your relationship to the Jewish community now . .\n. through the years?\n\nVRONO: I don't really like to go . . . but I belong to . . . I belong to\neverything. When I was younger, I worked at the [William Breman] Jewish Home a\nlot. 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All three of them went to . . . their\ngrandpa would have been very happy, very proud of them.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Then Marian [sp] had children. What else?\n\nWEINTRAUB: One you said is in California, two are still in Atlanta?\n\nVRONO: My middle grandson just got engaged.\n\nWEINTRAUB: How about your background in school?\n\nVRONO: My background? I was always a very good student. I was. I went to Girls'\nHigh ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I went to Hoke Smith. Where did I go to elementary school? I can see\nthe school . . .\n\nWEINTRAUB: You went to Girls' High and Hoke Smith?\n\nVRONO: Wasn't Hoke Smith the in-between?\n\nWEINTRAUB: No, Hoke Smith was also a high school.\n\nVRONO: No. I'm trying to think. 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They had a big . . . didn't he\ntell you . . .\n\nWEINTRAUB: Yes, but this tape doesn't tell me.\n\nVRONO: He worked with his daddy and then they built this big supermarket,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Vrono's Supermarket . . . He never worked for my daddy.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Just for this recording, if you want that background. It's also on\nHarold Vrono's tape.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"VRONO: Do you know we didn't talk about my grandmother enough . . . my bubbe?\nShe was a wonderful person and she used to wear a sheitel. I don't think anybody\n. . . well they do . . . the real, real . . . she was real, real religious. She\nraised those six girls and when my mother died she came to live with us. She\nraised my brother and she had a tough life. She was something, my bubbe.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: Did she work outside the home?\n\nVRONO: No, she couldn't. She had all those girls.\n\nWEINTRAUB: I thought you said she came here and opened a grocery store.\n\nVRONO: No, she didn't open a grocery store. She had like a table until her\ndaughters were old enough, they all went to work and they got married, and they\nhelped her. They bought her the house on Washington Street. They were good to her.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Good. That's a pretty interesting background.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"VRONO: What else can I tell you? I think of things . . .\n\nWEINTRAUB: You say you went to Israel. Was that on a vacation or was it because\nof some organization?\n\nVRONO: No, we went to Israel for my grandson's bar mitzvah. Twice we went to\nIsrael. 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But one died. One\ndoesn't go anymore and one is a vegetable. But the four of us still play.\n\nWEINTRAUB: For 55 years?\n\nVRONO: Five-five years. We are playing Wednesday . . .\n\nWEINTRAUB: . . . every Wednesday . . .\n\nVRONO: . . . every Wednesday.\n\nWEINTRAUB: That explains ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"why you couldn't see me Wednesday.\n\nVRONO: That's right. Wednesday is canasta day . . . we meet every Wednesday.\nIt's probably more than 55 years now because we're going to be married 60\n[years] . . . it may be closer to 58. We started when our children were . . .\nbefore we even had children.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Do you meet in each other's homes?\n\nVRONO: In each other's homes, right. We used to serve lunch. We used to have\nfancy lunches. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We had more. One died, and one . . . [Patsy's] just a vegetable.\nIt's just the four of us, we are still at it.\n\nWEINTRAUB: That's a long relationship! Amazing, four ladies that have stayed\ntogether for so long. Still friends.\n\nVRONO: Still friends, except one of them gets on my nerves . . .\n\nWEINTRAUB: Only one? You're lucky.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"VRONO: But we're meeting this Wednesday. One, Sherry, has a place in Florida\nnow, so she's not here during the summer, but she's back, and we're playing Wednesday.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Any ideas what should go on in this country or Israel?\n\nVRONO: Any ideas. I hate to think of what this country is coming to. Don't you?\n\nWEINTRAUB: I'm not supposed to make comments.\n\nVRONO: I'm not a politician. I don't talk politics with anybody. 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Many Jewish ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"families in that area?\n\nVRONO: No. There were no Jewish families there. We didn't live there too long. I\ndidn't anyway. I got married from there.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Young.\n\nVRONO: Not young, I was through with college. Not really young. I had finished\ncollege when I got married so I didn't live there too long. We lived at 801\nWashington Street. We lived in a four-apartment place that my daddy owned. 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The [Henry] Banks lived in the other, and we lived in the other.\nThere were four Jewish families in the apartment house, and we had a good time.\nI was young ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"then, but on North Decatur Road . . . I didn't live there too long\nbecause I went to college and then I got married. It was kind of late when we\nmoved there.\n\nWEINTRAUB: What do you think about the changes in Atlanta?\n\nVRONO: Unbelievable. Unbelievable.\n\nWEINTRAUB: The Jewish and the non-Jewish.\n\nVRONO: The Jewish . . . I cannot . . . I know nobody. There was a time when I\nwould go to any gathering and I would know everybody there. 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Very much.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Do you think for the better?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"VRONO: No.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Why?\n\nVRONO: I liked it when it was small and everybody knew each other, we\n[unintelligible: 46:00] each other. It's so big. There's so many synagogues now.\nWe had two and then three the whole time I was growing up.\n\nWEINTRAUB: The other one that you mention was Shearith Israel.\n\nVRONO: Shearith Israel was. . .\n\nWEINTRAUB: No, the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Spanish synagogue [Or VeShalom] . . . or something.\n\nVRONO: The Spanish synagogue, it wasn't here, I don't think.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You know that the Jewish people were divided into three pieces.\n\nVRONO: You know that. Somebody told you all that?\n\nWEINTRAUB: How are they divided here?\n\nVRONO: When I grew up, the Temple people had nothing to do with us. We were\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[Ashkenazi]. The Temple people had nothing to do with us. Then we would have\nnothing to do with the Spanish people [Sephardim]. When I grew up, you just\ndidn't. I remember the first person that married a Spanish boy . . . her parents\nhad a fit.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Did they disown her?\n\nVRONO: I don't know if they disowned her or not, but it was definitely . . . it\nwas a real, real ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"difference.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You knew of four synagogues when you were growing up?\n\nVRONO: I knew two synagogues . . .\n\nWEINTRAUB: There were four.\n\nVRONO: I never knew of the other two.\n\nWEINTRAUB: The Temple.\n\nVRONO: I never had to go to the Temple. I wasn't Reform.\n\nWEINTRAUB: All right. Interesting.\n\nVRONO: We never went to the Temple. They wouldn't let us in the Temple. It was\nvery, very divided. The Spanish shul, I never ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"went there either.\n\nWEINTRAUB: It's interesting that you think of it having only had two synagogues here.\n\nVRONO: That's right. There were only two. I don't think the Spanish one was here\nthat early.\n\nWEINTRAUB: It was here at the time.\n\nVRONO: I don't remember it at all. I remember the Temple because they used to\nhave different things, but I never would go. I wasn't invited to the Temple. The\nSpanish people weren't invited to us . . . it was definitely three very strong .\n. . isn't that amazing?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: Yes.\n\nVRONO: Now it's all together . . . now it's all like one . . . but it was very\nstrong when I was growing up.\n\nWEINTRAUB: The fact that we're now together is for the better.\n\nVRONO: Absolutely. Absolutely. There such a strong dividing. This is for the better.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Let me go back for a moment. You went to Girls' High. I'm assuming\nthat was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"segregated . . . not only boys and girls, but black and white.\n\nVRONO: It was girls.\n\nWEINTRAUB: But also black and white?\n\nVRONO: No, I don't think there were any blacks.\n\nWEINTRAUB: That's right.\n\nVRONO: There were not blacks to Girls' High. I don't know if there were blacks\nat Boys' High either. I don't know. I don't think so.\n\nWEINTRAUB: It was a segregated system at the time.\n\nVRONO: Absolutely.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Not only girls and boys . . . but black and white.\n\nVRONO: Absolutely. It was very segregated. 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That was terrible.\nThat was one incident that my kids remember.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Any other exciting ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"things?\n\nVRONO: I can't think of anything. You know what . . . it's been a good, good\ntime. We've had a good time. We've have a good . . . what do you call it . . . a\ntrip, or whatever it is, we've had a good . . . The only thing was that I lost\nmy mother when I was little. That was hard. Everything else has been good. We've\nhad a good 60 years . . . we're going to be married. 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We have a lot to be happy [for].\n\nWEINTRAUB: With that, we'll say ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=3060.0,3090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"thank you again. We've talked 52 minutes.\n\nVRONO: I was afraid I wasn't going to remember anything. I don't remember street names.\n\nWEINTRAUB: I'm trying to think of the name of that Spanish synagogue and I can't\nthink of it! [NB: Or VeShalom]\n\nVRONO: I can't think of it.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You and I are truly the only people who know where that orphanage was\nbecause I mention it sometimes and then ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=3090.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"total blank. My aunt lived right across\nthe street from it.\n\nVRONO: Who was your aunt? What was her name?\n\nWEINTRAUB: May Karlosh [sp]. She ran a grocery store.\n\nVRONO: I know right across there was all Jewish people that lived across.\n\nWEINTRAUB: There was housing . . . there were homes there. This grocery store\nwas on Capitol [Avenue].\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"VRONO: It's sad today that nobody remembers my daddy, because everybody knew\nhim. It was just . . . but now they're all dead.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You can refresh their memory.\n\nVRONO: He was a real character.\n\nWEINTRAUB: They remember Jacks's store though.\n\nVRONO: Jack's on Edgewood. Wells Fargo was even bigger than Jack's . . . it was\non Marietta Street. There was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"oodles of Jewish girls that worked there. On\nSaturdays they used to come to work. Maybe there would be 10 or 12 of them\nworking and they worked on commission. Everything they sold they got a ticket\nfor it and we would add it up.\n\nWEINTRAUB: That's the first time I've heard of them working on commission.\n\nVRONO: The worked on commission. We added it up at night. I forgot how much they\nwould get. It was 5 percent or 10 percent . . . 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People used to come and sometimes\nwe would have to shut the door ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because it was so crowded on the inside. We would\nhave to shut the door until some people went out. That is the kind of business\nhe did. Things were hard and he had cheap stuff. He got it cheap.\n\nWEINTRAUB: It's been fun.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=3240.0,3270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/transcript/22434/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[General discussion about tape]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=3270.0,3300.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/annotation_set/433","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Eleanor Vrono [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/annotation_set/433/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAlternatively spelled ‘Mindal.’\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/annotation_set/433/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eEleanor’s father was Jack Rothenberg.  Her mother was probably named ‘Rose.’\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/annotation_set/433/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The time of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in about 1929 and lasted until the late 1930’s or early 1940’s. It was the longest, most widespread, and deepest depression of the twentieth century.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/annotation_set/433/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eSephardic Jews are the Jews of Spain, Portugal, North Africa and the Middle East and their descendants. The adjective “Sephardic” and corresponding nouns Sephardi (singular) and Sephardim (plural) are derived from the Hebrew word ‘Sepharad,’ which refers to Spain. Historically, the vernacular language of Sephardic Jews was Ladino, a Romance language derived from Old Spanish, incorporating elements from the old Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula, Hebrew, Aramaic, and in the lands receiving those who were exiled, Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, Greek, Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian vocabulary.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/annotation_set/433/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Jewish Progressive Club was a Jewish social organization that was established in 1913 by Russian Jews who felt unwelcome at the Standard Club, where German Jews were predominant. At first the club was located in a rented house until a new club was built on Pryor Street including a swimming pool and a gym. In 1940 the club opened a larger facility at 1050 Techwood Drive in Midtown with three swimming pools, tennis and softball. In 1976 the club moved north to 1160 Moore’s Mill Road near Interstate 75. The property was eventually sold as the club faced financial challenges and the Carl E. Sanders Family YMCA at Buckhead opened in 1996.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/annotation_set/433/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eFounded in 1904, Shearith Israel began as a congregation that met in the homes of congregants until 1906 when they began using a Methodist church on Hunter Street. After World War II, Rabbi Tobias Geffen moved the congregation to University Drive, where it became the first synagogue in DeKalb County. In the 1960’s, they removed the barrier between the men’s and women’s sections in the sanctuary, and officially became affiliated with the Conservative movement in 2002.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/annotation_set/433/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Standard Club is a Jewish social club that started as the Concordia Association in 1867 in Downtown Atlanta. In 1905, it was reorganized as the ‘Standard Club’ and moved into the former mansion of William C. Sanders near where Turner Field is now located.  In the late 1920’s the club moved to Ponce de Leon Avenue in Midtown Atlanta.  Later, the club moved to what is now the Lenox Park business park and was located there until 1983. In the 1980’s, the club moved to its present location in Johns Creek in Atlanta’s northern suburbs. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/annotation_set/433/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAhavath Achim was founded in 1887 in a small room on Gilmer Street. In 1920 they moved to a permanent building at the corner of Piedmont and Gilmer Street. The final service in that building was held in 1958 to make way for construction of the Downtown Connector (the concurrent section of Interstate 75 and Interstate 85 through Atlanta). The synagogue moved to its current location on Peachtree Battle Avenue in 1958.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/annotation_set/433/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Wise brothers, Sam and Isaac, survived the Holocaust.  Sam married Ida Baron and Isaac married Rachel Lager, both of whom were survivors.  Marsha is the daughter of Sam and Ida.  The Breman Museum holds oral histories for all four.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/annotation_set/433/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBubbe is a Yiddish nickname for ‘Grandma.’\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/annotation_set/433/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eHebrew for ‘platform.’ The bimah is a raised structure in the synagogue from which the Torah is read and from which prayers are led.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/annotation_set/433/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eHebrew for ‘daughter of commandment.’  A rite of passage for Jewish girls aged 12 years and one day according to her Hebrew birthday.  Many girls have their bat mitzvah around age 13, the same as boys who have their bar mitzvah at that age.  She is now duty bound to keep the commandments.  Synagogue ceremonies are held for bat mitzvah girls in Reform and Conservative communities, but it has not won the universal approval of Orthodox rabbis. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/annotation_set/433/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Hebrew Orphans’ Home was located at 478 Washington Street in Atlanta.  The residence facility was open from 1876 to 1930. It was originally called the Hebrew Orphans’ Asylum. In 1901, the name was changed to the Hebrew Orphans’ Home. The service began to be used to place foster children in homes.  In 1988, the organization’s mission changed and it became the Jewish Educational Loan Fund (JELF) with the goal of providing low-interest post-secondary education loans for Jewish students.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32581/file/101385/annotation_set/433/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eKosher/Kashrut is the set of Jewish dietary laws. Food that may be consumed according to halakhah (Jewish law) is termed ‘kosher’ in English. 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