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Not only was she a lifelong Savannah resident, but she was also a lifelong member of Congregation B’nai B’rith Jacob. Esta grew up in the close-knit Orthodox community in Savannah and met her future husband, Sidney Asher (1917-2006), as a child. Together, along with Sidney’s brother, they opened Sidney’s Shoe Store on Broughton Street, which later became Asher’s Department Store. Esta served as office manager at Asher’s until she and Sidney closed the store and retired in the 1980s. Esta and Sidney Asher had two children, Sheila (1942-1964) and Alan (b. 1948). Sheila and her fiancé were killed in a car accident near Macon, Georgia the weekend before their wedding in 1964. Alan went on to have two children. Esta Applebaum Asher died on April 14, 2011 at the age of 92.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eEsta gives a broad overview of her childhood growing up in Savannah, as well as her religious upbringing and her involvement in the Jewish community as a child, teenager, and adult.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28369"]}},{"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"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eEsta Applebaum Asher interviewed by Toby Hollenberg on August 12, 2008 in Savannah, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEsta Applebaum was born on October 22, 1918 in Savannah, Georgia. She was the daughter of Harry Aaron Applebaum (1894-1957) and Leah Cooper Applebaum (1892-1968), both immigrants from Eastern Europe. She was educated in Savannah public schools and a private business college. Not only was she a lifelong Savannah resident, but she was also a lifelong member of Congregation B’nai B’rith Jacob. Esta grew up in the close-knit Orthodox community in Savannah and met her future husband, Sidney Asher (1917-2006), as a child. Together, along with Sidney’s brother, they opened Sidney’s Shoe Store on Broughton Street, which later became Asher’s Department Store. Esta served as office manager at Asher’s until she and Sidney closed the store and retired in the 1980s. Esta and Sidney Asher had two children, Sheila (1942-1964) and Alan (b. 1948). Sheila and her fiancé were killed in a car accident near Macon, Georgia the weekend before their wedding in 1964. Alan went on to have two children. Esta Applebaum Asher died on April 14, 2011 at the age of 92.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEsta gives a broad overview of her childhood growing up in Savannah, as well as her religious upbringing and her involvement in the Jewish community as a child, teenager, and adult.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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Where did your parents\ncome from? Were they born here, too?\n\nASHER: No. My parents, my husband's mother was from here but his father from in\nPoland, but he died early on. My husband's father ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"died when he was 3 years old.\nI don't think my mother-in-law ever got remarried. She was born in New York. My\nparents came from Poland also. I guess they were from Poland. Whatever they\nsaid, they used to say that they were Bavarian.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Did they speak Yiddish?\n\nASHER: Oh, yes. I can speak it, too. And I can read it. I grew up in Savannah.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Went to school all the way here in Savannah.\n\nHOLLENBERG: What schools did you go to?\n\nASHER: I went to Montgomery Street School at that time.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Where were you living?\n\nASHER: We were living on Hull Street. 112 West Hull Street which they tore down\nto make space for the Civic Center. It was a house with three families. One of\nmy friends who lived there for a time as a little girl, we're still good\nfriends. She's living in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Florida, she was just here visiting.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Oh, who's that?\n\nASHER: Cora Lee Fox. And around this neighborhood there's Ethel Rosenzweig, who\nlives right across the way, Pam Eichholz, Ruth Stein. All of us were, in fact,\nwe went to a luncheon the other day. All of us, not Ruth, but the rest of us\nwere going to be 90.\n\nHOLLENBERG: How exciting.\n\nASHER: It's unusual.\n\nHOLLENBERG: It is and wonderful that you were all here to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"celebrate. ASHER: And\nI grew up at the JEA. From there I went to Chatham Junior High School and\nSavannah High School. Then I went to, it used to be Richards Business College.\nAnd I grew up in Savannah, especially around the JEA with all my friends.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Where was the JEA when you were...\n\nASHER: On Barnard Street. Grew up there. Then my husband and I went together- I\nwent to his ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"bar mitzvah.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Where did you belong? What congregation were you a part of?\n\nASHER: B.B. Jacob.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Did you keep a kosher home? Did your parents keep a kosher home?\n\nASHER: My, I kept a very strictly kosher home. And then I got married. My grand,\nmy mother was very religious. My mother came from a very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"religious family, from\nthe Cooper family, but she, my father wasn't, he already came from a religious\nfamily. He wasn't as religious as she was. But I went to the Workmen's Circle\nJewish School when I was young.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Where was that?\n\nASHER: It used to be on West Broad Street and I went there and I learned to play\n(unintelligible) Jewish and I could write and read...\n\nHOLLENBERG: Was that like a full day school?\n\nASHER: No. It was like an afternoon school. And then I also went to Hebrew\nSchool at the B.B. Jacob. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"From there I met the same friends that we grew up,\nsome of them since we were six years old.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Did you have brothers and sisters?\n\nASHER: There were six of us. My younger brother and I-- My brother had moved to\nCharleston. My oldest brother moved to Charleston. Two of my sisters moved to\nNew York and were married there. One of my sisters lived ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"here. She passed away\neight years ago. So my brother and I made six children.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Is your brother here? Does he still live here?\n\nASHER: Yes. His name is Abram Applebaum. I see him very often.\n\nHOLLENBERG: So what was Jewish life, what was it like growing up?\n\nASHER: It was wonderful because you were always amongst ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"just, very close\nfriends. Not very close because everybody was your friend. You went to the JEA\nand you had so many friends and we used to go have little parties and everybody\nwent together. There wasn't any dating or running around. We used to have\ncookouts and we went on picnics. We went on hikes. Something children wouldn't\neven think of doing right now. They wouldn't walk around the corner. But we used\nto hike from here ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to Thunderbolt all the time.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Really?\n\nASHER: That's right. We would have a little club that was called The Grace\nAgular Club of the JEA.\n\nHOLLENBERG: The Grace Agular Club?\n\nASHER: Of the JEA. Yeah. Most of them, I think all five of us, married boys that\nwe grew up with. That we went to school with and we grew up with them.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Who was the Rabbi at ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the B.B. Jacob when you grew up?\n\nASHER: We had Rabbi Rosen, well, there were so many of them at that time. I\nremember Rabbi Rosen being here and I remember Rabbi Rosen married me. Then\nthere was Rabbi Rosenberg and there were more Rabbis.\n\nHOLLENBERG: When did you get married? What year?\n\nASHER: That was 1940.\n\nHOLLENBERG: What's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"your anniversary?\n\nASHER: June the 22nd. I was married 65 years when my husband passed away.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Kinda hard after you had so many years together.\n\nASHER: I lived downtown on Huntingdon Street when we got married and I couldn't\nwait to get off Huntingdon Street because I was ...\n\nHOLLENBERG: --So where did you move to after Huntingdon Street?\n\nASHER: 53rd Street. We lived there and then I moved to Sylvan Terrace where most\nof the Jewish ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"people lived at one time. We couldn't wait to get downtown where\neverybody used to ride downtown.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Isn't that funny. Yeah.\n\nASHER: I grew up on Hull Street which really is right downtown because my father\nwas a tailor and he had his store on Bull Street, Bull and Perry Street. It was\na number of places now. There used to be a drug ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"store there right next to him\n... not Solomons Drug Store, it was actually on Charlton Street. On Sunday\nafternoon, we all went to the JEA and they had, you know, we went to our clubs\nand all the young people met there and it was really nice. All of us.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Now did you all go to the park? Was that still active?\n\nASHER: Well, she was there before my, a little bit before my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"time. She was there\nwith my brother, my oldest brother.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Yeah. Talking about Ceil Kelly.\n\nASHER: She used to, she knew him. I can remember a little bit about her but I\ndon't remember too much.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Okay. So you were talking about the shop on Broughton.\n\nASHER: We were in business for about, over 50 years on Broughton Street.\n\nHOLLENBERG: You and your husband?\n\nASHER: And his brother, my brother-in-law.\n\nHOLLENBERG: And his brother. And what was the name of the store?\n\nASHER: Asher's.\n\nHOLLENBERG: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Asher's. That makes sense.\n\nASHER: We had a ladies' and children's shop but we started with a small\nso-called Sunday shoe store and then we moved further down on Broughton Street\nand we opened Asher's. My brother-in-law and his wife and Sidney and I went and\nhis mother went in our business.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Did you work in the business?\n\nASHER: Well, I worked there the whole time. I always worked with them. I had\ngood health. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I went to work in the store with him. And I worked 'til we closed it.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Which was when? When did you close the shop?\n\nASHER: Let me see, about 25 years ago. Then we stayed downtown. My husband's\nbrother passed away and he had cancer and he passed away and it was too big a\nbusiness for Sidney to undertake because he had Parkinson's at that time. So we\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"just opened an office downtown. Then we stayed downtown until about, say about,\nsix years ago when he was unable to...\n\nHOLLENBERG: What did you do in the office?\n\nASHER: We had another little business along with it. So we stayed downtown and\ntook care of that. We had an office on State and Congress. We used to go every\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"morning and stayed 'til about 1:00. Gave us something to do.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Definitely.\n\nASHER: Because we certainly couldn't retire. He was, he just wasn't able to sit\nstill after working all those years.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Right. And how many children do you have?\n\nASHER: I have two. I had. My daughter passed away at the age of 22. She and her\nfiancé were coming home to get married and were killed in an automobile accident.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Oh, how tragic.\n\nASHER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"...God gives you strength and you can just keep going.\n\nHOLLENBERG: That's true.\n\nASHER: And I had one son, Alan. And a daughter-in-law who is just like a daughter.\n\nHOLLENBERG: And grandchildren? You have two grand...\n\nASHER: I have two grandchildren. I have Zachary and Shannon and they're both\nmarried. Shannon has two children.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Great-grandchildren.\n\nASHER: Her husband's name is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Scott... They have two children which is Matchlie\nand Reese.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Tell me about raising your children in Savannah and then...\n\nASHER: It was a wonderful raising, of course, they also had little crowds of\nboys and girls all through school. It was just wonderful. It really was. And\nthen they had things at the JEA. That's where we spent all our time and the most\nof the time that they spent theirs, too.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Now, when they were growing up had the JEA moved out here already?\n\nASHER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah, the JEA, I was just thinking when my child grew up, she was always,\nstill at the, we were still downtown. Alan, I can't remember, I think Alan was,\nI think we had already had this JEA opened when...because, no we didn't have it\nuntil after he was born, until it was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"time for, the JEA.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Well, I think it's been here about 50 years.\n\nASHER: And Alan is 60. So he went to the one downtown, too. They both went\ndowntown. We used to, Rita, where, when you went to day camp did you start off downtown?\n\nRITA: Yeah.\n\nASHER: They went downtown on Barnard Street.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Okay. So you grew up here, too?\n\nRITA: Right. Did you tell her about your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"father?\n\nASHER: My father?\n\nRITA: Yeah.\n\nASHER: My father was a tailor on Bull Street. My mother was, helped him along\nwith it.\n\nRITA: He started Workmen's Circle.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Okay. Started it?\n\nASHER: He was one, yeah, he was one of the beginners of the Workmen's Circle. He\nwas a big, he worked very hard for them.\n\nHOLLENBERG: And what did the Workmen's Circle do? Was it a social or a political organization?\n\nASHER: All I know, I went to the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Workmen's Circle Jewish School, you know, that\nthey had here. They started, at that time, they even started the Workmen's\nCircle and they had a loan business.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Oh, yeah, they have like a credit union or something.\n\nASHER: A credit union. . . he and a few of the other men, Mr. Hoffman, Mr.\nScheer, I can't remember too many more of them. 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We don't have a B'nai B'rith Women anymore, but they\nsent me a 50-year, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when I was a 50-year member of B'nai B'rith. But we don't\nhave one here anymore. I was very active in all the organizations. I was in the\nB.B. Jacob Sisterhood.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Can you remember any of the specific projects or things you worked on?\n\nASHER: Well, it's been, yeah, I helped with a lot of things. First of all, that\nwas almost when we started help for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Israel. We started the UJA. I worked with\nthat when I was able. You know, I was young and I could do a lot of things.\nAnything that they pulled and asked me I was always happy to help.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Very active in the community.\n\nASHER: And I wasn't ever an officer. That I didn't take.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Well, you were working full time then.\n\nASHER: I was working full time.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Plus raising a family.\n\nASHER: There might have been in, there ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"must have been something years ago in\nB'nai B'rith that I can't remember, but I just think I was some kind of officer.\nThe Sisterhood, we helped with everything and also Hadassah. We used to have a\nYoung Judea. They don't have that. I think it was just women, wasn't it when it\nstarted with just women?\n\nRITA: I don't know.\n\nASHER: A younger ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"group of women. I think it was called the Young Judea. The kids\nnow have the Young Judea, don't they? Or do they have something else?\n\nHOLLENBERG: They might.\n\nASHER: I don't remember exactly. I have to look up the census for today... I\nasked Miriam Stein, she lives over there. What was the name of the organization.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Did you travel at all? Did you go together on the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"groups of other\nJewish kids?\n\nASHER: Well, we went to those days, we really couldn't afford to go to camps and\nall the way the kids went now. Of course, my children went to Blue Star but I\ndidn't. But we worked. We got to the age where you started to help and you went\nto work. I was just trying to think of, I can just remember going in and now--\nwhat the name of the, it was something to do about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hadassah but it was a younger\ngroup than Hadassah. Young unmarried girls growing up and then from there you\nwent into Hadassah.\n\nHOLLENBERG: I see. Was it like a junior Hadassah? Or something like that?\n\nASHER: I don't call it junior Hadassah. I thought it was, I have to ask her just\nwhat it was called and if she, I don't know whether she remembers or not. She'll\nbe going upstairs in just a minute now. I'll call her.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Okay. Now when you were younger did groups of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"teenagers from here\nget together with any of the other synagogues, like in Charleston or...?\n\nASHER: Oh, yeah. Used to have......I think it was, I can't remember what youth\ngroup it was with that we went. It must have been Young Judea at that time. We\nwould go to Charleston, they'd come here and we went to Jacksonville,\nCharleston, and Savannah. I don't remember going anywhere else. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I used to go\nsometimes with my father to Workmen's Circle....we went different places, you\nknow, with him. They had the young groups go there, you know, younger children.\n\nHOLLENBERG: My husband's grandfather was involved with Workmen's Circle in New York.\n\nASHER: Yeah, well, my father used to go to New York quite often. He was on some\nkind of committee when he was... I can't remember, see, it's been a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"long time ago.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Well, you're doing great. You certainly have a lot of wonderful memories.\n\nASHER: Because he was the financial secretary or the secretary of Workmen's\nCircle from the Southern Region. So he used to go to New York quite often to\nmeet a few of the big shots.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Did you do any traveling personally? Like on a...\n\nASHER: Oh, yeah, I went with my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"husband. We traveled. First of all, we went,\nwhen we went into business we used to go to Atlanta to buy. And New York we went\nthree or four times a year. We went to Israel. I went to London ... Greece. When\n[Sidney] was able we went to all the islands. When he was able to get away we\nused to go on a vacation. 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I can remember going to Tybee on the train.\n\nHOLLENBERG: I heard about that.\n\nASHER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When they had a train. My mother used to bundle us all up and my father\nand they'd take us down. Early morning. You had to get there early to get a\nplace on the train to go.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Where did the train leave from?\n\nASHER: On East Broad Street downtown. Randolph and East Broad, somewhere around\nin that section. I'm just trying to think of...\n\nHOLLENBERG: Would you go just for the day then?\n\nASHER: They would take it in the morning and then we'd ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"take the train, it must\nhave been in the evening and come home because nobody had air conditioning or\nanything. If it was nice, you'd sit up on the pavilion. They'd bring enough food\nfor everybody in town to eat. My mother was a wonderful cook and she would cook\nenough for everybody. Had it packed and ready. She'd get up around 4 or 5 in the\nmorning and fix it so we could go. We, my aunts had places down there and when I\nwas little I would go down and stay with them. But they ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"rented also.\n\nHOLLENBERG: What were the, was summer pretty tough here then, without air conditioning?\n\nASHER: It was. You didn't think about it. You didn't really think about it.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Your body became accustomed to it and it was just hot and you just...\n\nASHER: I really never thought about hot, to tell the truth. Even when I went to\nwork, I was like a bookkeeper and they didn't have air-conditioning, but we had\nfans and you didn't think how hot it is. Now, you won't go out of the house if\nyou don't have air ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"conditioning.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Isn't that funny. Yeah. I've gotten so used to it being cooler that\nwe can't tolerate the heat.\n\nASHER: Did you remember the name of the organization?\n\nHOLLENBERG: Sure. That's a good idea.\n\nASHER: Jake. Let's call him back.\n\nHOLLENBERG: The club was called Junior Hadassah. Well, it seems to me there was,\nthat I read about, you know, the name Junior Hadassah somewhere.\n\nASHER: It must have been called junior, because it was not, I called, Young\nJudea, so it might have been Junior Hadassah.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Was Young Judea maybe the youth group from the Temple? Synagogue?\nOr... ASHER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"No. The Young Judea was here. The Grace Agular Club might have been\nsomething to do with the Young Judea. I don't remember, at that time. We just\npicked a name from the Bible. Something we called the group. But anyway, we were\nall members of the Junior Hadassah. We went on conventions. We had a wonderful time.\n\nHOLLENBERG: You had a very active life, it sounds, you know...\n\nASHER: We had a wonderful life here.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Savannah was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"just a great community to grow up in it sounded like.\n\nASHER: . . . says she's 87. I have a friend over here who I think is 85. Ethel's\n90. I'll be 90. Thelma Rosen lives across the street, but she's a little younger\nthan we are.\n\nHOLLENBERG: So do you go, you say you play mahjongg? Where do you play? At the...\n\nASHER: At the, I go back to play at Buckingham, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with some of the friends from\nBuckingham. Ruth Stein who lives in this building, she picks me up, because I\nhave to have somebody to take me now. They help her put this in the car and then\nI feel so bad 'cause she's not so young and she's got to pick this up when we\nget there. But if somebody sees us they bring it.\n\nHOLLENBERG: And do you do anything at the JEA now? Are you involved?\n\nASHER: No. I hardly ever ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"go there because I don't go out too much at night and\nit's very difficult. Ethel's very active. She keeps going. She keeps running. I\ndon't know where she gets the strength. If you can walk, you can do a lot of things.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Right. I know they have those senior lunches every Thursday and Monday.\n\nASHER: Oh, we play on Thursdays. We used to go in the evening when I was at\nBuckingham. If something especially comes up to do... Now, Thelma and Miriam\nhelped on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that. Thelma Rosen and Miriam Stein. They help with that. They go\nevery Thursday. They say that in the summertime it's not as good as when the\nchildren go back to school. They enjoy it better. Because they have different\ncooks and they - in the summertime I think they must make a salad and things\nlike that and I like.....They ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"said the food's very good then....\n\nHOLLENBERG: They have different programs. In fact, this Thursday I'm going to be\nspeaking with Jane Kahn. Do you know Jane Kahn?\n\nASHER: Yeah. I know Jane. She...\n\nHOLLENBERG: We're going to be talking about our trip to Cuba.\n\nASHER: You have been there, too? You went recently?\n\nHOLLENBERG: Yeah. In February.\n\nASHER: Oh. Well, we, I went there over...\n\nHOLLENBERG: You went to Cuba?\n\nASHER: When it was Cuba, it was really the nightclubs and all the beautiful\nthere. It was really something. We stayed at the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nationale.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Oh, we stayed there.\n\nASHER: Is that where you stayed? How does it look now?\n\nHOLLENBERG: Gorgeous.\n\nASHER: It's still beautiful?\n\nHOLLENBERG: It's beautiful.\n\nASHER: I'll never forget when I first went there I said to them, they had this\nbig room there, I don't know if they still have, she said \"That's the fur room.\"\nThey had a .... that really wealthy people used to come. You didn't need the\nfurs there.\n\nHOLLENBERG: You stored your furs?\n\nASHER: You stored your furs.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Yeah. It's still beautiful but only for tourists. Locals aren't\nallowed to go there.\n\nASHER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We went by boat and then we stayed at the hotel. We just went there. In\nthose days they didn't have the pretty boats like they have now.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Did you see any of the Jewish community when you were in Cuba?\n\nASHER: No. I really didn't. We just went to...\n\nHOLLENBERG: --For a vacation.\n\nASHER: We met with another couple from Miami, coming back we hit a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"storm. I was\nsick for a week in Miami. I couldn't lift my head up I was so dizzy from...We\nreally had a wonderful time there. And when you called a cab then, they stayed\nwith you all night. They didn't leave you. We didn't know about it, of course,\nwhen we went there. When you hired a cab, you hired them for the evening. So he\ntook us to wonderful places that we probably would have never seen.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Yeah. Now, what about Savannah now? I mean, it's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"changed an awful\nlot since you grew up. What do you think about Savannah these days?\n\nASHER: You were never afraid to go anywhere years ago. You walked. Nobody had a\ncar. We used to walk. Especially growing up, no one had cars.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Right. Do you remember when your family got their first car?\n\nASHER: Well, my father had a, we had a car but my father didn't drive. He used\nto have to get a driver to drive us. I don't know ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"who used to take us to Daffin\nPark, you know, to go swimming at the pool there. I can remember that he never\ndrove. He was afraid to drive. He had a driver.\n\nHOLLENBERG: ...drive?\n\nASHER: I drove. I started driving when my son Alan was 16. I had meningitis when\nhe was, I think he was 12 weeks old. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"would never sleep at night, I was just\nstanding over him all night to make sure he was all right after I brought him\nhome from the hospital.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Where was he born? What hospital?\n\nASHER: He was born at St. Joseph.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Was the Telfair Women's Hospital still the hospital or...\n\nASHER: My daughter was born, the one that passed away, she was born in the Telfair.\n\nHOLLENBERG: The one on Drayton or where is it?\n\nASHER: The one ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"downtown on Drayton Street. It was on Drayton Street. St. Joseph\nwas also downtown.\n\nHOLLENBERG: And was Memorial there, too? Or that didn't...\n\nASHER: We didn't have Memorial. We had the Savannah Hospital and we had the St.\nJoseph Hospital and the Telfair.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Where was the Oglethorpe Hospital?\n\nASHER: It was on East Duffy Street. I think it was Duffy ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Street. I never was in\nthe hospital. I only was in the Telfair.\n\nHOLLENBERG: So now the complex, all the medical facilities we have now are quite\namazing. In going out, you had a chance, I guess you have, see how far spread\nout Savannah is. I mean, when you were growing up it was probably Victory Drive\nwas considered the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"country.\n\nASHER: Well we used to know Victory Drive because we went to Tybee, you know,\nthrough Victory Drive. And then we had the Daffin Park where all the Jewish kids\nused to go because we didn't have any swimming pools anywhere. We had Jewish\nboys were the life guards out there. It was real nice. 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Or things you\nweren't allowed to do?\n\nASHER: At that time, I'm just wondering now, I imagine there might have been.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Nothing that you personally came up with.\n\nASHER: Nothing that I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"probably wouldn't want to go to or could afford to go to,\nI guess, in those days.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Did you interact a lot though with the non-Jewish community?\n\nASHER: We grew up mostly with the Jewish community. We went to school with\neverybody. Had some very good friends.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Now what about the interaction between the kids from the B.B. Jacob\nand the AA and the Temple? Everybody mix and mingle or?\n\nASHER: The Temple never came to the JEA at that time.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Oh, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"really?\n\nASHER: Ask (unintelligible), she'll tell you. She wasn't allowed to go to the\nJEA when she was growing up. It's a funny world, isn't it. They didn't mix with\nus. Until we got to high school and then they kind of mixed. When we really grew\nup. They just ... children and AA children and the B.B. Jacob children. 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My house from there was right there.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Is that where, and where was...[Speaking about Agudath Achim]\n\nASHER: ...went somewhere else before but I don't remember it being across from\nthere on Montgomery Street...\n\nHOLLENBERG: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Were they on Drayton Street at one point?\n\nASHER: That's where it was. That's where it was, Drayton Street and they moved\nup. One of my friends was the first one to get married there.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Dr. Bodziner's aunt was one of the first ones to get married at the A.A.\n\nASHER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"(unintelligible)\n\nHOLLENBERG: And then you went--?\n\nASHER: That was on Drayton Street.\n\nHOLLENBERG: So that must have been far out then, when they moved out to, that\nseemed like a far away, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"far, when they moved from Montgomery Street all the way\nout to Drayton and...\n\nASHER: By then we had moved to Gaston Street. We lived around the park.\n\nHOLLENBERG: And the park was a very active place for the kids?\n\nASHER: The kids, when mine were little, I lived on Huntingdon Street when my\noldest one, we would walk to the park in the morning and everybody lived around\nthere would bring their children to the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"park. I got married in the B.B. Jacob\ndowntown. I think they had just moved to Drayton Street.\n\nHOLLENBERG: The AA, yeah.\n\nASHER: (unintelligible)\n\nHOLLENBERG: Well, when you were a young married, life was still almost the way\nit was when you were a kid, everyone still was around each other, socialized together.\n\nASHER: ...that's the way, about 65, 60 ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"years we had nothing but--When we first\ngot married, that's when I learned how to play. Jeannette Lipsitz was one of the\nplayers. Adele Sutker, we all played together.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Well, as a newcomer to Savannah I find Savannah being the most\nwonderful ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"place to live.\n\nASHER: It was.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Even now, I said, I think it's wonderful.\n\nASHER: (unintelligible)\n\nHOLLENBERG: Do you know how your parents happened to come to Savannah?\n\nASHER: My mother's brother was here. And my father's family was all up North.\nSome were in Springfield, Massachusetts, or some were in New York. His sister\nlived in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"New York. The others lived in Springfield, Mass. My mother had a\nbrother here. The Coopers, some of the Coopers came first and my mother was a Cooper.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Is that C-O-O-P-E-R?\n\nASHER: C-O-O-P-E-R. My mother wanted to, she came, she wanted to come where her\nfamily was.\n\nHOLLENBERG: You don't know how they happened to choose Savannah, do ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you?\n\nASHER: My uncle was already here. Might have come because somebody else was\nhere. Sidney's father didn't have any family here that we know of. They really\nneeded a tailor in Savannah so he came to Savannah.\n\nHOLLENBERG: So you knew his parents. 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She had a regular\nticket and they had steerage but she wouldn't leave them by themselves so she\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"stayed down with them. It was a terrible trip.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Oh, I can imagine. We can't imagine I don't think.\n\nASHER: My father came first. He stopped in New York and he went to Cooper Union.\nLearned how to speak English and talking and things like that and he came on to\nSavannah. She came later.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Very interesting, yeah. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We know a lot of your family history.\n\nASHER: Yeah. I've tried to remember some of it. I used to keep it all together\nespecially on holidays the family here. I always had at least 30 or 40. My\nmother always did.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Oh, really? For which holidays? Every holiday or just...\n\nASHER: I don't know. We still have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"20 or 25 for Passover.\n\nHOLLENBERG: The tradition continues. Nice to pass that along to the children and\nthe grandchildren and the great-grandchildren.\n\nASHER: I had some help. Worked for us ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for 35 years.\n\nHOLLENBERG: She's part of the family.\n\nASHER: She's a real cook. My mother taught her how to make everything.\n\nHOLLENBERG: All the Jewish dishes?\n\nASHER: Jewish dishes.\n\nHOLLENBERG: What were some of the favorite dishes that you remember? What was\nthe family...\n\nASHER: My mother used to make kishka. She made knishes. They all remember her\nknishes. 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She could make anything the old-fashioned ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"way. Prunes\nand sweet potatoes with a piece of meat in there. And then we had kneydlach on\ntop. The old-fashioned way. She always made every ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"year.\n\nHOLLENBERG: I've seen it with pineapple. Have you ever seen it with pineapple?\n\nASHER: They don't use pineapple. They used brown sugar, I think. I got the\nrecipe out of a Hadassah magazine. They said it wasn't bad, but it wasn't like Mama's.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Well, the meat gave it a different flavor, a totally different flavor.\n\nASHER: They'll be happy to have it this week.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Well--\n\nASHER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We grew up with all the traditions... My father used to sing a lot of\nJewish songs.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Do you still get to speak Yiddish with anybody?\n\nASHER: My brother came and I understand it real well.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Do you ever speak it? Do you ever have a chance to?\n\nASHER: If somebody asked me a question, I may answer it. I have a pretty good\nmemory, you know, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but I just, I think...\n\nHOLLENBERG: Yeah, not enough opportunity.\n\nASHER: I went to the Yiddish Club at the Alliance when my husband was living.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Well, that must have been fun.\n\nASHER: It was really (unintelligible).\n\nHOLLENBERG: Did he speak Yiddish also?\n\nASHER: He understood, but he didn't speak it like I did or read it. I can still\nread it.\n\nHOLLENBERG: How wonderful.\n\nASHER: I can read the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hebrew.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Sure.\n\nASHER: I can keep up with everything in shul. My mother spoke to us in Yiddish\nand we answered her in English.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Did she speak English?\n\nASHER: Yes, she could speak ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"English and Polish and Russian. When they didn't\nwant us to know anything they spoke in Russian.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Right. Never knew enough of it to be able to really ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"converse.\n\nASHER: My youngest brother spoke it. He could write--\n\nHOLLENBERG: --that no one else could understand.\n\nASHER: My father--\n\nHOLLENBERG: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where was your brother stationed? Was he overseas?\n\nASHER: He was overseas. He was in the Navy so he was (unintelligible).\n\nHOLLENBERG: Well, is there anything else you can think of?\n\nASHER: Unless you want to know something, ask me something that I can remember, questions\n\nthat you have.\n\nHOLLENBERG: What were the houses like? Did you live in a single-family house or\nan apartment?\n\nASHER: We ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lived on, there was three floors. You had the steps. One family lived\non the first floor. We lived on the second floor. And another family lived on\nthe third.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Was that typical of what a lot of your friends lived in?\n\nASHER: A lot of them lived in their own houses or they lived in things like that.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Like that.\n\nASHER: Apartments.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Were there apartment buildings the way we know apartment buildings now?\n\nASHER: Not the way we know them now.\n\nHOLLENBERG: It would just be like multi-family houses?\n\nASHER: Yes. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You use the same entrance on the same high stoop, porches. I always\ntalked to my friend because she was there and we went up in the evening - they\nprobably were supposed to go in the house, you know, we went to visit and . . .\nwhich was about 2 or 3 blocks from us and we were coming home and it had gotten\ndark and so we had gotten across the square but was in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"middle and somebody\njumped out and hollered \"Boo!\" Scared us. I could run real fast when I was young\nand I started running and she said, \"You're not going to leave me.\" And I had on\na pair of knit gloves. She was talking about that when she was here the other\nday. She said, \"You're not going to leave me.\" She grabbed that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"glove and she\nwas pulling it. I was screaming \"Mama\" by the time we got home, my mother was\nthere with a--\n\nHOLLENBERG: Do you know who it was? Did you ever find out who it was?\n\nASHER: We never went back to find out who it was. But we didn't--\n\nHOLLENBERG: Stay on the main street, don't go over the square.\n\nASHER: Children around the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"neighborhood waiting for Passover to be over and then\ngo on downtown to Kress's to get bags of candy and wait until it got dark so we\ncould eat the candy. Little things like that makes you laugh.\n\nHOLLENBERG: What do you remember about integration, the beginnings of that, of\nintegration? Were you married already? No. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sure you would have been.\n\nASHER: I had riot experiences when I went to New York, when we used to go to New\nYork. And I was coming back from my sister's house and I was, we went by\nColumbia University so they shook my bus. I was petrified. But I got back to the\nhotel, I was white as a sheet. I was shaking all over.\n\nHOLLENBERG: But ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"things were pretty quiet here in Savannah, I understand.\n\nASHER: ...affecting our business, you know, they would come in and threaten you,\nyou know. They'd say, \"big shots,\" in the black. They wouldn't let you come\ndowntown to buy. We went through it here, but not like there. We didn't have\nthose marches. We had a few of them but not like that. My worst one was in New York.\n\nHOLLENBERG: In New ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"York. Yeah.\n\nASHER: I never will forget that.\n\nHOLLENBERG: I can imagine.\n\nASHER: I thought they were going to turn the bus over. But that was part of it.\nThis has been a very great day.\n\nHOLLENBERG: Well, it has been today. Well, this has been very interesting for me.\n\nASHER: Would you like something to drink?\n\nHOLLENBERG: I'm fine. No. I'm going off to another meeting shortly, so... But,\nit's just been delightful ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/transcript/21676/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=2790.0,2820.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/annotation_set/313","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/annotation_set/313/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Savannah Civic Center is a multi-purpose facility located in Savannah, Georgia, in Savannah Historic District. Built in 1974, the facility consists of four venues; the Martin Luther King Arena, Johnny Mercer Theatre, West \u0026amp; East Promenades and the Civic Center Grand Ballroom. Throughout the years, the center has hosted various concerts, conventions, exhibits, high school and college graduations, trade shows, theatre, ballet and comedy.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/annotation_set/313/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Jewish Educational Alliance (“JEA” or “The Alliance”) was chartered August 2, 1912 to meet the leisure and Americanization needs of the Jewish community in Savannah. It was originally located on the corner of Barnard and Charlton Streets, and in 1955 a new building opened on the corner of Abercorn Street and DeRenne Avenue, where it still stands as the center of Savannah’s Jewish community. The building includes a gym, pool, preschool, and day camp.  The JEA is Savannah’s Jewish Community Center, and is a member of the Jewish Community Centers Association of North America.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/annotation_set/313/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eCongregation B'nai B'rith Jacob (originally “Kahal Kadosh B’nai B’rith Jacob,” or “Congregation of the Children of the Divine Covenant of Jacob,” also known as “B.B.J.” and “B.B. Jacob”), the orthodox synagogue in Savannah, Georgia, was established in 1861 by a group of eastern European Jews who desired to start their own synagogue patterned after the Ashkenazi tradition. At the time of its establishment, the only synagogue in Savannah was Temple Mickve Israel of the Spanish-Portuguese Sephardic tradition. The name for Congregation B.B.J. probably originated from the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith (I.O.B.B.), a Masonic-inspired fraternal organization for Jews.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/annotation_set/313/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Arbeiter Ring (Workmen's Circle) is a Yiddish language-oriented American-Jewish organization committed to social justice, Jewish community and Ashkenazi culture.  It provides old age homes for its aging members, as well as schools, camps, affordable health insurance and programs of concerts, lectures and holiday celebrations.  It was founded in 1900 and was strongly socialist politically.  It has moved more to the right on the American political spectrum in modern times.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/annotation_set/313/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThunderbolt is a town located in Chatham County, Georgia, approximately five miles southeast of downtown Savannah. As of the 2010 census, the town had a total population of 2,668. It is part of the Savannah Metropolitan Statistical Area. Thunderbolt runs along the western shore of the Wilmington River (a tidal river that is part of the U.S. Intracoastal Waterway). The town is important to Georgia's shrimping industry, with scores of docks for shrimping trawlers. The town's picturesque atmosphere and seafood restaurants draw many local visitors.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/annotation_set/313/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eNathan N. Rosen (ca. 1905-1990) served as Rabbi at Congregation B’nai B’rith Jacob in Savannah, Georgia for an unknown amount of time.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/annotation_set/313/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eCecile Kelly Arenson (1908-2006)\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/annotation_set/313/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBroughton Street is a major commercial district in downtown Savannah, Georgia. it has been home to various retail establishments since the late 1700s. It is generally considered to be Georgia’s first shopping district. From the 1870s until the 1970s, many of the stores on the street were owned and operated by Jewish merchants and closed on Saturdays and Jewish holidays. The area experienced significant decline after the “white flight” to the suburbs in the 1950s and subsequent development of the Oglethorpe Mall in 1969. Since approximately 2010, the area has been experiencing a resurgence as more people are moving back into the historic homes of downtown, more tourists come to visit Savannah, and more developers restore vacant buildings. Broughton Street is now known for its high-end retail shops and restaurants as well as its well-preserved architecture.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/annotation_set/313/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eSidney Asher (1917-2006) was Esta Asher’s husband. He owned Sidney Shoe Store, which later became Asher’s Department Store.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/annotation_set/313/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRita H. Asher (b. 1949) is Esta Asher’s daughter-in-law, wife of Esta’s son Alan.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/annotation_set/313/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eB’nai B’rith Women was founded in San Francisco, California in 1909. It was originally a social organization designed to attract young, single adult members with parties, picnics and dances.  As women emerged into the public sphere it expanded into cultural activities, philanthropy and community service.  Their announced aims are to perpetuate Jewish culture, enrich their communities and ensure the religious survival of their sons and daughters.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/annotation_set/313/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eHadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, is a volunteer organization founded in 1912 by Henrietta Szold, with more than 300,000 members and supporters worldwide. It supports health care and medical research, education and youth programs in Israel, and advocacy, education, and leadership development in the United States. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/annotation_set/313/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe United Jewish Appeal (UJA) was a Jewish philanthropic umbrella organization that collected and distributed funds to Jewish organizations in their community and around the country.  UJA existed from 1939 until it was folded into the United Jewish Communities, which was formed from the 1999 merger of United Jewish Appeal (UJA), Council of Jewish Federations and United Israel Appeal, Inc.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/annotation_set/313/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eYoung Judaea is a peer-led Zionist youth movement founded in 1909.  Its programs include youth clubs, conventions, summer camps and Israel programs that provide experiential programming through which Jewish youth and young adults build meaningful relationships with their peers, emphasize social action, and develop a lifelong commitment to Jewish life, the Jewish people, and Israel.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/annotation_set/313/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBlue Star Camps is a Jewish summer camp located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, near the town of Hendersonville.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/annotation_set/313/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eTybee Island is a small barrier island (and coterminous city of the same name) off the coast of Savannah, Georgia. The easternmost point in the state, it is a suburb of Savannah and a popular tourist destination.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/annotation_set/313/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eDaffin Park is Savannah’s largest public park, at 77 square acres.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/annotation_set/313/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eSt. Joseph’s/Candler is a large hospital system in Savannah, Georgia, consisting of Candler Hospital (Georgia’s first hospital, chartered in 1804), and St. Joseph’s Hospital (founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1875), as well as smaller centers such as the Mary Telfair Women’s Hospital, the Heart Hospital, and other specialty health care providers.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/annotation_set/313/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eTelfair Hospital for Females was founded in Savannah, Georgia in 1884. Funding for the hospital was provided by the will of Mary Telfair (1791-1875), a prominent philanthropist in Savannah, also benefactor of the Telfair Museums. The hospital merged with Candler General Hospital in 1960, and the resulting institution (after subsequent mergers) is now known as St. Joseph’s/Candler. 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It is owned by the Hospital Corporation of America and is home to the region’s only Level-1 Trauma Center, the region’s only children’s hospital, and the Savannah Campus of the Mercer University School of Medicine.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/annotation_set/313/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eCongregation Agudath Achim was founded in 1903 as “Congregation Agoodath Ahhim,” an orthodox synagogue. It became the first conservative Jewish congregation in Georgia when it joined the United Synagogue of America (now United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism) in 1947. As of 2017, the current synagogue is located at 9 Lee Boulevard, and it is led by Rabbi Steven Henkin.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/annotation_set/313/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eCongregation Mickve Israel, also known as “The Temple,” in Savannah, Georgia is one the oldest congregations in the United States.  Sephardic immigrants from London who arrived in the new colony in 1733 originally organized it. The original synagogue was granted a charter in 1799 by General James Edward Oglethorpe, who established the colony of Georgia for England in 1732.  In the late nineteenth century it began to shift to Reform Judaism.   The current building was consecrated in 1858.  The actual synagogue building was built on a plot of land given to the congregation by the city of Savannah.  The cemetery, however, was established in 1733 on a plot of land given to the congregation by James Oglethorpe in the name of King George III.  As of 2017, the congregation is led by Rabbi Robert Haas, and is affiliated with the Union for Reform Judaism.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/annotation_set/313/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eForsyth Park is a large city park established in the 1840s that occupies 30 acres in the historic district of Savannah, Georgia. The park is bordered by Gaston Street to the north, Drayton Street to the east, Park Avenue to the south and Whitaker Street to the west. It contains walking paths, a café, a children's play area, a Fragrant Garden for the blind, a large fountain, tennis courts, basketball courts, areas for soccer and Frisbee, and home field for Savannah Shamrocks Rugby Club. From time to time, there are concerts held at Forsyth for the benefit of the public.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/annotation_set/313/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eKishka refers to various types of sausage or stuffed intestine with a filling made from a combination of meat and meal, often a grain. The dish is popular across Eastern Europe as well as with immigrant communities from those areas. It is also eaten by Ashkenazi Jews who prepare their version according to kashrut dietary laws. The name itself is Slavic in origin, and literally means \"gut\" or \"intestine.”\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/annotation_set/313/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eA knish is Eastern European snack food consisting of a filling covered with dough that is either baked, grilled, or deep fried. Knishes can be purchased from street vendors in urban areas with a large Jewish population, sometimes at a hot dog stand or from a butcher shop. It was made popular in North America by Eastern European immigrants from the Pale of Settlement (mainly from present-day Belarus, Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine). In most Eastern European traditional versions, the filling is made entirely of mashed potato, ground meat, sauerkraut, onions, or cheese. Other varieties of fillings include sweet potatoes, black beans, fruit, broccoli, tofu, or spinach.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/annotation_set/313/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eTzimmes is a traditional Ashkenazi Jewish sweet stew typically made from carrots and dried fruits such as prunes or raisins, often combined with other root vegetables (usually yams). Some cooks add chunks of meat (usually beef flank or brisket). The dish is cooked slowly over low heat and flavored with honey or sugar and sometimes cinnamon or other spices.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/35130/file/104085/annotation_set/313/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eKugel is a baked pudding or casserole, most commonly made from egg noodles or potato. 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