{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/bv79s1n294/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Blumenthal, Elaine"]},"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":["2024-02-12 (captured)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Blumenthal, Elaine (Interviewee)","Levine, Esther (Interviewer)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source"]},"value":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum","Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Collection","Jewish Oral History Project of Atlanta"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eElaine Blumenthal was interviewed by Esther Levine on February 12, 2024, in Atlanta, Georgia. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eElaine [Fink] Blumenthal was born in Toledo, Ohio. She was the oldest of four girls born to Abraham and Freda [Fox] Fink. Her parents moved to the United States from Toronto because job opportunities were limited for Jewish doctors in Canada. Elaine grew up in Topeka, Kansas. There was a small Jewish community in Topeka and Elaine was the first bat mitzvah in the city. Elaine was involved in North American Federation for Temple Youth and was interested in studying Judaism from an early age. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eElaine attended the University of Pennsylvania and returned to school again to receive her Master’s Degree in special education from the University of Kansas. She was encouraged by her professor, Doctor Ogden Lindsley, to move to Atlanta, Georgia, and teach autistic children at the first school for special needs children. Shortly after moving to Atlanta, Elaine was introduced by a mutual friend to Jerry Blumenthal. Elaine and Jerry married in 1969. Together they have four children, Matthew, Amanda, Daniel, and Philip. Their oldest son, Matthew, died on July 18, 1995, after a long battle with Muscular Dystrophy. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMatthew’s diagnosis prompted Elaine and Jerry to immerse themselves in the Atlanta Jewish community, enrolling him in the Greenfield Hebrew Academy, where they would eventually establish a program for special needs children in his honor called the Matthew Blumenthal M’silot Program. Elaine served as president of the Parent Teacher Association at the Hebrew Academy. In addition, Elaine has been involved with Temple Sinai, Ahavath Achim Synagogue, Brandeis National University Women's Committee, the National Council of Jewish Women, and the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eElaine and Jerry have dedicated themselves to philanthropic causes and frequently traveled to Israel, volunteering and leading group trips. The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum holds a collection of directories and programs from various academies that Elaine and Jerry Blumenthal donated their time and money to in their lifelong dedication to their community. Elaine continues to be an advocate and dedicate herself to the Atlanta Jewish Community, where she and Jerry live.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eThe interview focuses on how Elaine came to be involved in the Jewish community as an advocate and activist, discussing her early years in Topeka, Kansas, and how she made connections with members of the Atlanta Jewish community. She recalls her early childhood, discussing how her parents moved from Canada to the United States and moved frequently, as her father was in the military. She mentions her grandparents and their lives in Canada. Elaine describes growing up in Topeka and attending school during the era of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. She talks about the small Jewish community in Topeka, being the first bat mitzvah in the city, and being involved in North American Federation for Temple Youth. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eElaine shares her college experience, attending the University of Pennsylvania and graduate school at the University of Kansas. She talks about her professor, Doctor Ogden Lindsley, and her journey to becoming involved in education for special needs children. She details how the school in Atlanta began, and relocating to Atlanta to teach there. Elaine recalls meeting her husband, Jerry, after being introduced by her friend Betsy Cohen Baker. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eElaine talks about getting married and quitting teaching when they began their family. Elaine shares how she became involved with a group of teachers, including Carol Zaban Cooper, who began a preschool called Gateway. Elaine speaks about her son Matthew being diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, prompting their family’s involvement with Greenfield Hebrew Academy and other Jewish organizations. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eElaine is asked to reflect again upon her youth and experiences with antisemitism. Elaine expresses that she was unaware of antisemitism until an antisemitic remark at her high school reunion. She describes the Jewish community in Topeka, her parent’s involvement with the synagogue there, and attending synagogue. She talks about the Jewish social life in Topeka and involvement with NFTY Missouri Valley. Elaine describes the contrast between Jewish life in Topeka and at the University of Pennsylvania. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eElaine details her and Jerry’s involvement with synagogues and organizations in Atlanta, including Temple Sinai and the Hebrew Academy. Elaine recalls meeting Ida Pearle Cuba and becoming involved with Brandeis National University Women's Committee. Elaine mentions other organizations she has been involved with, including the National Council of Jewish Women and Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. Elaine talks about her involvement with Israel, visiting, leading trips, and volunteering with the Israel Defense Forces. Elaine shares her involvement with The Florence Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning, taking classes there. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eElaine discusses the importance of honoring their son Matthew after he passed away, working with the Hebrew Academy to create the Matthew Blumenthal M’silot Program for special needs children. Elaine then talks about the synagogues she and Jerry have been involved with, including Temple Sinai, Ahavath Achim, and Or Hadash. Elaine reminisces about bringing her grandchildren to synagogue and bringing a special bag of toys for them to play with. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eElaine talks about celebrating holidays, particularly Sukkot, building a sukkah to spend time in during Sukkot. Elaine shares how her family transitioned to keeping kosher with Rabbi Marvin Richardson’s encouragement. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eElaine talks about her family, and talks about one of her granddaughters attending Emory School of Medicine and the other becoming involved with a synagogue because of Elaine and Jerry’s example. Elaine is asked about what she would like to pass on to future generations, she mentions the value of being Jewish and serving the community. Elaine expresses an appreciation for Atlanta and for the establishment of Israel during her lifetime. \u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/29273"]}},{"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":["Baker, Betsy Cohen (b. 1938) (personal name)","Blumenthal, Elaine (b. 1942) (personal name)","Blumenthal, Jerry (b. 1938) (personal name)","Cherry, Jim (1911-1980) (personal name)","Cooper, Carol Zaban (personal name)","Cuba, Ida Pearle Miller (1914-1985) (personal name)","Frank, Sherry Zimmerman (b. 1942) (personal name)","Lehrman, Rabbi Richard J. (1938-1979) (personal name)","Levine, Esther Gerson (personal name)","Lindsley, Ogden R. (1922- 2004) (personal name)","Lindsley, Ogden R. 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Her parents moved to the United States from Toronto because job opportunities were limited for Jewish doctors in Canada. Elaine grew up in Topeka, Kansas. There was a small Jewish community in Topeka and Elaine was the first bat mitzvah in the city. Elaine was involved in North American Federation for Temple Youth and was interested in studying Judaism from an early age.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eElaine attended the University of Pennsylvania and returned to school again to receive her Master\u0026rsquo;s Degree in special education from the University of Kansas. She was encouraged by her professor, Doctor Ogden Lindsley, to move to Atlanta, Georgia, and teach autistic children at the first school for special needs children. Shortly after moving to Atlanta, Elaine was introduced by a mutual friend to Jerry Blumenthal. Elaine and Jerry married in 1969. Together they have four children, Matthew, Amanda, Daniel, and Philip. Their oldest son, Matthew, died on July 18, 1995, after a long battle with Muscular Dystrophy.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMatthew\u0026rsquo;s diagnosis prompted Elaine and Jerry to immerse themselves in the Atlanta Jewish community, enrolling him in the Greenfield Hebrew Academy, where they would eventually establish a program for special needs children in his honor called the Matthew Blumenthal M\u0026rsquo;silot Program. Elaine served as president of the Parent Teacher Association at the Hebrew Academy. In addition, Elaine has been involved with Temple Sinai, Ahavath Achim Synagogue, Brandeis National University Women's Committee, the National Council of Jewish Women, and the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eElaine and Jerry have dedicated themselves to philanthropic causes and frequently traveled to Israel, volunteering and leading group trips. The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum holds a collection of directories and programs from various academies that Elaine and Jerry Blumenthal donated their time and money to in their lifelong dedication to their community. Elaine continues to be an advocate and dedicate herself to the Atlanta Jewish Community, where she and Jerry live.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe interview focuses on how Elaine came to be involved in the Jewish community as an advocate and activist, discussing her early years in Topeka, Kansas, and how she made connections with members of the Atlanta Jewish community. She recalls her early childhood, discussing how her parents moved from Canada to the United States and moved frequently, as her father was in the military. She mentions her grandparents and their lives in Canada. Elaine describes growing up in Topeka and attending school during the era of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. She talks about the small Jewish community in Topeka, being the first bat mitzvah in the city, and being involved in North American Federation for Temple Youth.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eElaine shares her college experience, attending the University of Pennsylvania and graduate school at the University of Kansas. She talks about her professor, Doctor Ogden Lindsley, and her journey to becoming involved in education for special needs children. She details how the school in Atlanta began, and relocating to Atlanta to teach there. Elaine recalls meeting her husband, Jerry, after being introduced by her friend Betsy Cohen Baker.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eElaine talks about getting married and quitting teaching when they began their family. Elaine shares how she became involved with a group of teachers, including Carol Zaban Cooper, who began a preschool called Gateway. Elaine speaks about her son Matthew being diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, prompting their family\u0026rsquo;s involvement with Greenfield Hebrew Academy and other Jewish organizations.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eElaine is asked to reflect again upon her youth and experiences with antisemitism. Elaine expresses that she was unaware of antisemitism until an antisemitic remark at her high school reunion. She describes the Jewish community in Topeka, her parent\u0026rsquo;s involvement with the synagogue there, and attending synagogue. She talks about the Jewish social life in Topeka and involvement with NFTY Missouri Valley. Elaine describes the contrast between Jewish life in Topeka and at the University of Pennsylvania.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eElaine details her and Jerry\u0026rsquo;s involvement with synagogues and organizations in Atlanta, including Temple Sinai and the Hebrew Academy. Elaine recalls meeting Ida Pearle Cuba and becoming involved with Brandeis National University Women's Committee. Elaine mentions other organizations she has been involved with, including the National Council of Jewish Women and Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. Elaine talks about her involvement with Israel, visiting, leading trips, and volunteering with the Israel Defense Forces. Elaine shares her involvement with The Florence Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning, taking classes there.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eElaine discusses the importance of honoring their son Matthew after he passed away, working with the Hebrew Academy to create the Matthew Blumenthal M\u0026rsquo;silot Program for special needs children. Elaine then talks about the synagogues she and Jerry have been involved with, including Temple Sinai, Ahavath Achim, and Or Hadash. Elaine reminisces about bringing her grandchildren to synagogue and bringing a special bag of toys for them to play with.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eElaine talks about celebrating holidays, particularly Sukkot, building a sukkah to spend time in during Sukkot. Elaine shares how her family transitioned to keeping kosher with Rabbi Marvin Richardson\u0026rsquo;s encouragement.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eElaine talks about her family, and talks about one of her granddaughters attending Emory School of Medicine and the other becoming involved with a synagogue because of Elaine and Jerry\u0026rsquo;s example. Elaine is asked about what she would like to pass on to future generations, she mentions the value of being Jewish and serving the community. 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My name is Esther Levine. Today is February 12, 2024, and I would\nlike to thank Elaine Blumenthal for participating in the Esther and Herbert\nTaylor Oral History Project of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum. Hello, Elaine.\n\nBLUMENTHAL: Hello, Esther.\n\nLEVINE: It's a pleasure to have you with us.\n\nBLUMENTHAL: Thank you.\n\nLEVINE: I just want to say, before we start out, that you are the perfect\nexample of a person who was not raised in Atlanta, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nhad really no ties to Atlanta, who have come in and made a tremendous impact on\nour community.\n\nBLUMENTHAL: Thank you.\n\nLEVINE: I just want to start by asking you where and when you were born.\n\nBLUMENTHAL: I was born June 2, 1942, in Toledo, Ohio. My father was in the\nservice. I am the oldest of four girls who were born in five and a half years,\nno two in the same state. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLEVINE: Wow.\n\nBLUMENTHAL: Can you imagine?\n\nLEVINE: No.\n\nBLUMENTHAL: At the end of the war, my father was stationed in Kansas City\n[Missouri] and moved to Topeka [Kansas] because there was a position open for\nhim as a pathologist.\n\nLEVINE: Do you want to tell us, maybe go back to your parents and grandparents\nand their story?\n\nBLUMENTHAL: My parents were Canadian. My grandparents were immigrants, except\nfor my mother's mother, who claimed she was not. Although ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nwhen we looked on the records, she was, they were from Eastern Europe, Poland\nand Russia. My father's father died when my grandmother was pregnant with him,\nand she spoke no English and she could not read or write. She had another child\nat the time, an older girl. The story is that they were in Montreal, and she\nwould put him ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nand his sister in a wheelbarrow and walk around Toronto selling clothes that she\nhad knit. My father grew up there, went to college there, went to medical school\nthere. My mother didn't go to college because in those years they could afford\nto send the boys to school. They came to the United States because my father was\nstudying medicine at the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nUniversity of Toronto in Canada. All the hospitals had quotas on the number of\nJews they would take, he felt if he came to the States, he had a much better\nchance. That's what they did, and he went to Ohio, which was where I was born.\n\nLEVINE: How did you happen to come to Atlanta?\n\nBLUMENTHAL: We were . . . it's a long story. We were living in Topeka, Kansas at\nthe time, and I want to say that I grew ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nup in Topeka. In 1954, Brown v. Board of Education was my grade school, among\nother grade schools in the city. I had a real history of real liberal\nconnections to the American community. In 1955, I was the first bat mitzvah in\nthe history of the city. They gave me a certificate that said ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nbar mitzvah on it, and they changed the 'R' to an 'S', because in those years .\n. .\n\nLEVINE: It was bas.\n\nBLUMENTHAL: We had a bas mitzvah, not a bat mitzvah. I was active in NFTY [North\nAmerican Federation for Temple Youth] because I was one of six Jews in the city\nmy age. Every year, the schoolteachers would say, \"Elaine will tell us what the\nJewish Christmas is. Elaine will tell us what the Jewish Easter was.\" I got very\ninterested in studying Judaism very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nearly, and became a vice president of MVFTY, which is the Missouri Valley\nFederation of Temple Youth. I was very involved in the Jewish community and when\nI came here, it was obvious that I was going to do that. I came to Atlanta . . .\n\nLEVINE: I think I jumped the gun, and I want to go back because you were telling\nus, and I don't want to skip over it . . . Let's go back, you grew up in Topeka ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nand, high school, and so forth. Then tell us about college and what happened\nbefore you came to Atlanta.\n\nBLUMENTHAL: In 1960, I went to the University of Pennsylvania, where the cutest\nboy from the Jewish camp I had gone to went. [I] graduated in 1964 with a degree\nin art history. There was really . . . I couldn't see any future in it, I told ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nmy folks I wanted to go to graduate school, and I went at the University of\nKansas in education. They were starting programs for special education. My\nprofessor, Doctor Og Lindsley, was one of the pioneers in doing research for how\nto teach autistic kids and I was fortunate to have him . . . there was a woman\nin Atlanta, who ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ncontacted him and said, \"I have an autistic son and I have no idea what to do\nwith him.\" Doctor Lindsley said, \"I will call you every Sunday morning,\" because\nit was cheaper in those years to call on Sundays, \"and I will work with you over\nthe phone and teach you how to teach autistic kids.\" He did it, and he said to\nher when her son turned five, \"If you will start public school classes for\nautistic kids, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nI will send you a teacher.\" I did not know a soul here, but when he said,\n\"There's an opportunity for you to make a difference,\" I came.\n\nLEVINE: May I interrupt you?\n\nBLUMENTHAL: Sure.\n\nLEVINE: And ask you to tell the story about how she was able to start a public\nschool class for autistic children.\n\nBLUMENTHAL: Chris Griffith, who was just an extraordinary woman. Every Sunday I think, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nLester Maddox, who at that point was governor of the state, had an open house\nand you could come and ask him anything. She went to him, and she said, \"The\nLord sent me to you.\" She was not that kind of woman, but she knew how to reach\nhim. \"The Lord said, you are going to start the first public school classes in\nthe country for autistic kids.\" Lester said, \"You are right.\" Jim Cherry, who\nwas the head of special education in those years, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ninterviewed me and said, \"Definitely, we'll hire you.\" That was 1968. I came. I\nhad met somebody from Atlanta, Betsy Baker, who had family in Topeka. Of the 100\nJewish families, she was related to one. She took me under her wing when I got\nhere, she got me an apartment on the Buford Highway, which ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nwas where all single Jewish lived. She said, \"I know two single Jewish guys. One\nworks for Rich's and one's a doctor.\" It was easy! I said, \"I'll meet the\ndoctor.\" I started teaching on a Monday, met Jerry on Friday.\n\nLEVINE: There's so many ways we can go here, but do you want to talk ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nabout your teaching and the school, Gateway, and of course, your life with\nmeeting Jerry?\n\nBLUMENTHAL: The school that I taught at was called South DeKalb Children's\nCenter. Jerry and I dated from the minute we saw each other until December . . .\nuntil New Year's Eve of 1968 and he proposed. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nWe got married in 1969, in February. I taught that whole year, at South DeKalb\nChildren's Center, the autistic kids. But in 1969, I got pregnant. In those\nyears, if you were pregnant, you couldn't teach, even kids with special needs. I\nreally only taught for a year.\n\nLEVINE: Then ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nyou started Gateway?\n\nBLUMENTHAL: There was a group of us who taught special ed who were all retiring\nabout the same time because we were all starting our families. One was Carol\nCooper, who's Carol Zaban Cooper, who's a real leader in the community. 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I said, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n\"When he asks, 'why me, God?' The answer should come from someone Jewish.\" We\nwent to both the Epstein School and the Hebrew Academy. The Epstein School had\nsteps and the Hebrew Academy did not, so we started him at the Hebrew Academy,\nand that turned our lives around.\n\nLEVINE: I'm thinking, I do want to get back a little bit to before you came to Atlanta. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nI want to talk about, were you aware of antisemitism when you were growing up\nand segregation? I know the segregation part is because you were really in the\nschool where Brown v. Board of Education . . . maybe we can just talk about,\nwere you aware of antisemitism?\n\nBLUMENTHAL: I wasn't. 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Because you were a Jew.\"\nI was totally oblivious to it, but I knew that there was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nanti-Catholic sentiment.\n\nLEVINE: You were active in the Topeka Jewish community. With a new start, your\nmom started the youth group. There was a synagogue. How big was the Jewish community?\n\nBLUMENTHAL: There were about 100 families at the synagogue. There was a mental\nhospital, Menninger's, that was in Topeka and Menninger's attracted a lot of\nJewish psychiatrists. 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But we had conclaves all over that part of . . .\nall over the Missouri Valley, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nand we'd go to those and meet lots of Jewish kids.\n\nLEVINE: Then you went to Penn, which must have been a tremendous number of\nJewish . . .\n\nBLUMENTHAL: It was unbelievable. Penn had seven Jewish fraternities and four\nsororities . . . and they were strictly Jewish. 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But in 1960, they opened ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthe first women's dorm. There were women from all over the country that came.\n\nLEVINE: Let's get back to your life in Atlanta. You met Jerry the first week,\nyou were married very quickly.\n\nBLUMENTHAL: In those years, you didn't live with somebody if you weren't married\nto him.\n\nLEVINE: Right. You're very involved in the community, I'd like for you to tell\nus about the various congregations, day schools, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nand synagogues that you, and you and Jerry, have been involved in.\n\nBLUMENTHAL: We joined Temple Sinai as soon as we got married. Jerry's parents\nwere members of The Temple, but The Temple was really much more Reform than I\nwas used to. Although our temple in Topeka was Reform. 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I\neventually became chairman of the book festival, having been involved with books\nfor Brandeis it made sense.\n\nLEVINE: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n Federation.\n\nBLUMENTHAL: I was. . . Federation was and still is my real love because it\nbrings the whole community together. I got active in Federation, I started with\nYoung Matrons, we were called. 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In 1973,\nJerry and I went to Israel for the first time, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nand that really clinched it . . . Right after the war, we were the first group\nto go after the war.\n\nLEVINE: Then you've done other trips to Israel.\n\nBLUMENTHAL: We've done a lot of trips to Israel, and we have led trips to\nIsrael, and we have gone there and stayed just as tourists. We even talked about\nmoving there, but they said we don't need doctors. They didn't in those years. 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Can you talk . . .\n\nBLUMENTHAL: The Jewish Community Center has ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\na program called . . . What is it?\n\nLEVINE: [Florence] Melton [School of Adult Jewish Learning]?\n\nBLUMENTHAL: Yes. I have taken classes there for years, up until Covid and during\nCovid I took classes on Zoom . . . 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It was extremely successful teaching Jewish\nkids who were at the day school, which is not an easy place to be because you\nhave to . . . it's a dual language program, but people who ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ncame as teachers were extraordinary. It made a difference to a lot, a lot of\npeople and it brought the community together. Rabbi [Laurence] Rosenthal's\nchildren went there from the A.A. [Ahavath Achim], as well as kids from the\nOrthodox community and the Reform community.\n\nLEVINE: I want to get back to the synagogues that you have been involved with and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthat they have profited by your being there.\n\nBLUMENTHAL: Thank you. Jerry believes . . . one of the prayers we say is that\nyou should be on time for synagogue, so we are there. If they start at 9:15, we\nare there at 9:15. 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We got there just as\nthe Torah service started, because ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nit took a little while to dress them and get them ready.\n\nLEVINE: I'm glad you brought that up, I would love for you to talk about holiday\ncelebrations, shabbat, and Sukkot in your home.\n\nBLUMENTHAL: In, I guess, 1971, we started building a sukkah because Rabbi\n[Richard] Lehrman, alav ha-shalom [Hebrew: peace be upon him], at Temple Sinai,\ntold us that we should all build ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\na sukkah. There was a group of us, and we did, we built a sukkah, and we have\nhad a sukkah every year since then. We were living in East Cobb and Jerry says,\nwe had the first sukkah ever in East Cobb, which we may have had. This year is\nthe first year, this coming year, we won't have one because we're going to be\nmoving to a senior community . . . We gave ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nit to another family. But we have had sukkahs . . . We celebrate the holidays at\nour house and the kids come or we go there. We have gone to Ramah Darom several\ntimes for Passover but Rabbi [Marvin] Richardson, alav ha-shalom, told me that\nhe felt we should kosher our house. 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Our youngest son, Philip, has been president of his\nday school ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nin Fairfax, Virginia. His children all went through . . . the grade school\nthere. We feel like we have a real legacy, and we are grateful.\n\nLEVINE: What values do you hold and what do you want to pass on to future generations?\n\nBLUMENTHAL: I'd really like my kids to understand the values of being Jewish ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/transcript/65483/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nand the community that we build. We're really there for one another. I'd like\nthem to have the opportunity to live in a community like I live in, Atlanta's\njust extraordinary. The black-Jewish community has acted together for years,\nwhich I think is very valuable, but so has the Christian community. 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She was born and raised in Columbus, Georgia. Esther was elected Vice President of the Columbus United Synagogue Youth Chapter. She attended Columbus High School and Brandeis University. Her family owned Gerson Department Store. She founded the Atlanta Jewish Book Festival and the Esther G. Levine Community Read honors her contributions. She is married to Doctor Michael Levine, and together they had three children, Elisa, Joshua, and Shira. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/annotation_set/1302/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in Atlanta celebrates and commemorates Jewish history, culture, and art through events and museum spaces. The Breman also contains the Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History, which houses thousands of manuscripts, oral histories, and photograph collections, related to southern Jewish history and the Holocaust.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/annotation_set/1302/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eToledo is a city in Lucas County, Ohio on Lake Erie. Toledo is the fourth-most populous city in Ohio, after Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati. 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It involved more countries, cost more money, involved more people, and killed more people than any other war in history. Between 50 to 85 million people died. The majority were civilians. It included massacres, the deliberate genocide of the Holocaust, strategic bombing, starvation, disease, and the only use of nuclear weapons against civilians in history.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/annotation_set/1302/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eKansas City, Missouri is the largest city in Missouri. The city sits on Missouri's western edge, straddling the border with Kansas. The city is known for its barbecue and jazz heritage.  It is home to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, National WWI Museum and Memorial, and the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/annotation_set/1302/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eTopeka is the capital city of Kansas in Shawnee County. The city was one of the Free-State towns founded by Eastern antislavery men immediately after the passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Bill. In 1857, Topeka was chartered as a city. The city is well known for the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which overturned Plessy v. 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The university was the birthplace of insulin and stem cell research, the first artificial cardiac pacemaker, and the site of the first successful lung transplant and nerve transplant. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/annotation_set/1302/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrown v. Board of Education of Topeka \u003c/em\u003e(1954) was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for Black and white students unconstitutional. 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He is now duty-bound to keep the commandments, he puts on \u003cem\u003etefillin\u003c/em\u003e, and may be counted to the \u003cem\u003eminyan quorum\u003c/em\u003e for public worship. He celebrates the \u003cem\u003ebar mitzvah\u003c/em\u003e by being called up to the reading of the \u003cem\u003eTorah\u003c/em\u003e in the synagogue, usually on the next available Sabbath after his Hebrew birthday. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/125808/file/233329/annotation_set/1302/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eNorth American Federation for Temple Youth, now known as the NFTY: The Reform Jewish Youth Movement, is the organized movement of Reform Judaism in North America. It was founded in 1939 as a program of the National Federation of Temple Youth and was meant to encourage college students to get involved in synagogue life. In 1953, NFTY began a summer camp at their facility in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. Today NFTY is funded and supported by the Union for Reform Judaism. It exists to supplement and support Reform youth groups at the synagogue level. 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