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His family belonged to the Ahavath Achim Orthodox congregation. His father owned a grocery store in Atlanta. Meyer earned money selling newspapers as a youth during World War I. Meyer later worked as a traveling salesman before becoming a successful insurance salesman. He married Roslyn Stone (1912-2006) in 1930. They had three children and several grandchildren. Meyer Balser died on March 5, 2004.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eMeyer Balser talks about growing up in Atlanta, Georgia, during the Great Depression.  He mentions the need to work several jobs.  He talks about working three jobs.  He describes Atlanta streets and neighborhoods during the 1930s.  He recalls taking the streetcar while on dates.  He talks about Rich’s Department Store issuing scrip during the Depression.  He describes it as a cornerstone of the community and city.  He talks about buying his first suit at Pollock \u0026amp; Berg and remembers wearing knickers.  He talks about his brothers being bar mitzvahed.  He reflects on not being interested in his bar mitzvah because he wanted to work instead. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe talks about his father working six days a week and his mother raising seven children.  He talks about his family growing up and the need for togetherness.  He remembers celebrating Jewish holidays as a community.  He mentions that his mother’s hamantashen was the best in the world.  He describes himself as a lover.  He talks about meeting his wife and his love for her.  He discusses dating and their marriage of more than 60 years.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeyer talks about the need for community charity.  He discusses the importance of giving to the Jewish community and being involved in organizations.  He discusses leaders in the Jewish community who have influenced him the most and who have helped build a strong community.  He talks about the many Jewish organizations and charities that began during the 1930s to help the earliest immigrants.  He recalls Atlanta notable families who had contributed to these organizations. \u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/27952"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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Meyer later worked as a traveling salesman before becoming a successful insurance salesman. He married Roslyn Stone (1912-2006) in 1930. They had three children and several grandchildren. Meyer Balser died on March 5, 2004.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMeyer Balser talks about growing up in Atlanta, Georgia, during the Great Depression.  He mentions the need to work several jobs.  He talks about working three jobs.  He describes Atlanta streets and neighborhoods during the 1930s.  He recalls taking the streetcar while on dates.  He talks about Rich’s Department Store issuing scrip during the Depression.  He describes it as a cornerstone of the community and city.  He talks about buying his first suit at Pollock \u0026amp; Berg and remembers wearing knickers.  He talks about his brothers being bar mitzvahed.  He reflects on not being interested in his bar mitzvah because he wanted to work instead. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe talks about his father working six days a week and his mother raising seven children.  He talks about his family growing up and the need for togetherness.  He remembers celebrating Jewish holidays as a community.  He mentions that his mother’s hamantashen was the best in the world.  He describes himself as a lover.  He talks about meeting his wife and his love for her.  He discusses dating and their marriage of more than 60 years.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeyer talks about the need for community charity.  He discusses the importance of giving to the Jewish community and being involved in organizations.  He discusses leaders in the Jewish community who have influenced him the most and who have helped build a strong community.  He talks about the many Jewish organizations and charities that began during the 1930s to help the earliest immigrants.  He recalls Atlanta notable families who had contributed to these organizations. \u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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I will be interviewing this afternoon Mr. Meyer Balser. I really appreciate your meeting with me this afternoon. I've been looking forward to doing this for a long time. One of the first questions I'd like to know is where were your parents born and what were their names?\n\nBALSER: My father was born in Russia. My mother was also born in Russia but near Germany. At that time, it was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Fredericksburg. Papa was near Riga. It has a\ndifferent name now, of course. Papa came over in 1890. My mother came over in 1892 to marry my father here in Atlanta, Georgia.\n\nBRICKMAN: Give me the full name, please, of your dad and your mother.\n\nBALSER: My father's name was Joseph Balser. My mother's name was [Esther] Mollie Seligman.\n\nBRICKMAN: Did they know ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"each other in Europe?\n\nBALSER: Evidently not. Back in those days, the marriages were being made. Then later on, her two sisters came over.\n\nBRICKMAN: Track it for me, if you would. Your dad came to the [United] States a little ahead of your mother.\n\nBALSER: My daddy came a long time before my mother. He had family in Virginia and New York. He went there and then came to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Atlanta because his sister was living here and had a child.\n\nBRICKMAN: What was her name?\n\nBALSER: Her name was Rachel Goldberg. She was married to Joseph Goldberg. She was the mother of Nessie [Goldberg] Rich. Nessie's mother was a Balser.\n\nBRICKMAN: Now I understand. When he came to Atlanta, what did he do for a living when he first came here?\n\nBALSER: The family, like all of them, put him in a little grocery store.\n\nBRICKMAN: Do you remember where that was?\n\nBALSER: Yes. Papa's first ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"grocery store was on Mangum Street. Somewhere back of the old [Atlanta] Terminal Station. He had a house there. Two or three of the children were born there. From there, he moved to Auburn Avenue, Auburn and Fourth Street, just two blocks from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s church [Ebenezer Baptist Church]. I was born there. My two brothers and a sister was born there. I'm one of seven children.\n\nBRICKMAN: Did he stay in that same kind of business when he moved?\n\nBALSER: No. He ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"finally went into... a little later on, he and his brother-in-law, Nessie Rich's father, opened up a wholesale grocery called Balser and Goldberg. Later on, Meyer Rich married Nessie. My papa sold out to Meyer. It became Goldberg and Rich. Then Mr. [I. J.] Paradies married Goldberg's niece and he bought out Goldberg, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so it became Paradies and Rich.\n\nBRICKMAN: You said that you were one of seven children?\n\nBALSER: Yes.\n\nBRICKMAN: Name the children in the order in which they were born.\n\nBALSER: My sister was married to Julius Wender. They had two children, Bob\nWender and a sister Joyce Wender. They all were living here. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Joyce's husband was Henry...\n\nBRICKMAN: Harris?\n\nBALSER: Henry Harris. They had four children. Henry died some years ago. My next sister was Anne. She never got married. She was very active nationally in the Red Cross and several organizations in New York. Jewish organizations. Next was my brother, Sam. He married Lena Bluestein from ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Darien, Georgia. They had two children. One of them is Arnold Balser, and the other is Paul Hyman's wife.\n\nBRICKMAN: Joan?\n\nBALSER: Joan. Then there was Jake. Jake is a bachelor. He's still living. He\nlives at the [Jewish] Tower. He is now 87 years old. Between he and I, is my\nbrother Abe. He never got married, except finally later in life he got married.\nThey didn't live together long. There was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"me and my sister, Helen, who is a\nRotenstreich living in Birmingham [Alabama], married to Isador Rotenstreich.\nThey have two children. Along the line, I think that the one who had the most\nchildren in the family was Joyce and Henry Harris. They had four. All the rest\nof us, the most we ever had was three.\n\nBRICKMAN: What do you remember most about your childhood until you were about eight or nine years old?\n\nBALSER: We were at the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"store. In those days, the streetcar only ran from Five\nPoints to Boulevard. Papa's store faced the double track of the streetcar. All\nthe conductors and motormen used to stop there and come into the store. While\none went up the Boulevard, since there was only about five or six blocks difference, the other one coming back towards Peachtree [Street] would give him room on the double track. It was the only double track at that time. I was only about three years old when we ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"moved from there to Fair Street. The back end of our property touched the back end. We had several houses that we rented to colored people. All I had to do was jump over the fence. The back end of our property touched the back end of the Jewish Educational Alliance. I lived on Fair Street right in the middle of the block between Capital [Avenue] and Fraser [Street]. All our neighbors were Jewish on both side of the street.\n\nBRICKMAN: How did ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you spend your time when you were about five, six, seven? What do you remember about that?\n\nBALSER: I remember going to the Jewish Educational Alliance. We spent most of our time right around the corner at the Jewish Educational Alliance. We were all kids there. Incidentally, the Jewish Educational Alliance was built by the Reform Jews in the city of Atlanta, who had all of the money in those days. They\nwere the richest people. They came here years before 1890. They built the Jewish Educational Alliance to teach the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"immigrants who came over... they were\nimmigrants in those days, not refugees... to teach them how to speak English.\nNot only did they build the building, but in back of the building, there was a very large house. In that house was the first free service as far as doctors and dentists were concerned. They operated on tonsils and adenoids there for free\nand also dental work. I've forgotten the name of the doctor and dentist. But ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in\nback of that was a Jewish family by the name of Katz. I don't know whether you\nknow Israel Katz or Dennis Katz? Their father was in charge of maintenance of\nboth buildings. They lived in that house when we were kids. Dennis and I grew up as friends all our lives. He died about seven years ago.\n\nBRICKMAN: Tell me if I'm right or wrong. Could that have been the Morris Hirsch Clinic?\n\nBALSER: It is the Morris Hirsch Clinic that I'm referring to. Morris Hirsch is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"not the Hirsch that made the money in Coca-Cola. I think it was a brother [Harold Hirsch] of his or some member of his family. Later on, that became the Ben Massell [Dental] Clinic.\n\nBRICKMAN: Meyer, do you remember the name of the elementary school that you went to?\n\nBALSER: Yes. I went to Crew Street School. I went only for a short while at Fair\nStreet, then was changed to Crew Street School. I went all the way through.\nIn those days we had seven years of grammar school ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and four years of high school. All our friends that we played around the Alliance with went to the same\nschool. We all lived in the same area, Capital Avenue, Washington Street,\nWoodward Avenue. All the streets around. Fair Street was from one end... eight\nor ten blocks was nothing but Jewish people. The Lichtensteins lived almost on\nFair Street. It was an angle street. They lived on Trinity Avenue, right at Capital. 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Down on Capital Avenue from one ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"end of the city to the other on Capital Avenue. The Zabans living there. The Cohens living there. The Pollocks lived there. Mary Dwoskin is a Hyman. She lived on, it was Capital Avenue and Richardson Street. Ellen Galanty. Is her name Ellen? What's her first name? ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n\nBRICKMAN: Fannie?\n\nBALSER: Fannie Galanty. The Hymans had a large family also. My cousins, the\nHirsch's, as I told you, my mother came over and then one of her sisters came\nover to marry a Hirsch, and they lived there. They had about eight or nine children. The Hirschs were Sophie Srochi's family.\n\nBRICKMAN: What date were you born on? What's your birthday?\n\nBALSER: I was born April 5, 1908.\n\nBRICKMAN: In which ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hospital?\n\nBALSER: No hospital. You were born at home.\n\nBRICKMAN: Like a midwife?\n\nBALSER: You had a midwife. All of us were born by a midwife. We were all raised by a mammy.\n\nBRICKMAN: Do you remember the names of any?\n\nBALSER: No, I don't remember her name. We moved when I was only three years old. We moved close to the Jewish... to Fair Street. That was 1911. The building had just been completed at that time. 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After Hexter left, a lady by the name of Ida Goldstein, you know as Ida Levitas, and her sister, Rose, Ida ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"became the director there. Then she was followed by Ed [Edward M.] Kahn. It was mainly after Ed Kahn came. The\nwhole city blossomed when Ed came to the city.\n\nBRICKMAN: What do you remember about holidays when you were young?\n\nBALSER: It was very, very important. Today when you come in, you've got a family that's more Americanized. You've got generation after generation after\ngeneration. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Evidently, they must have printed two newspapers for every [unintelligible] in those days. You must realize, when my father came here, it was just a hand full of Orthodox Jews. Not me, but my brothers, J.B. Jacobs's father taught my three brothers Hebrew. They lived on Butler Street right near Gilmer [Street]. The synagogue was just a block up. I think it was on Piedmont [Avenue] and Gilmer. Later on, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it moved one place and then another place, and then another. The Standard Club, incidentally, the Jewish Educational Alliance were almost face to face, but they were three blocks apart. One was on Capital Avenue between Woodward and Fraser. The Standard Club was on Washington\nStreet exactly half a block from where the Ahavath Achim [Synagogue] moved when they moved to the other part of town.\n\nBRICKMAN: If all of the other boys in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"family were bar mitzvahed and you were one of the youngest, did your father or mother object to the fact?\n\nBALSER: I just hated to go to shul. I figured I was the only one. When my father\ndied, I said Kaddish. I was the only one who knew what I was talking about. I\nread it in English every day just like the rest of them. They were reading in Hebrew, and I was reading in English.\n\nBRICKMAN: Do you remember anything about any particular holiday? Rosh Ha-Shanah. Yom Kippur.\n\nBALSER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"At Purim with the [unintelligible]. In those days we spinned the, whatever you call it, the dreidel. Also, we had a game. You had a board. You\nrolled and if you were not hit, you gathered all the nuts. And hamantashen, my\nmother made the best in the whole world.\n\nBRICKMAN: Did everyone get together to celebrate in one home?\n\nBALSER: No, just families because everybody had large families. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My Aunt Lottie\nwho was a Hirsch, I think she had nine children. The youngest one of her sisters\nwas Sarah, who married Oscar Rich. She was married overseas in Russia and\nbrought to Atlanta because, naturally, her sisters were here. Mama came alone,\nand then the two sisters followed.\n\nBRICKMAN: When your mother came to the United ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"States, do you think there was a shidduch made?\n\nBALSER: I'm sure it was a shidduch. I'm saying that because he [my father] didn't know anybody.\n\nBRICKMAN: How old were your parents when they got married?\n\nBALSER: I don't have any idea. Papa was... they were very young. When papa died, he was 64. He died in 1928. Mama died about 46 years ago. So, they had to get married very young. My oldest sister, Jenny, would probably had been the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"same age as Nessie Rich, about 98. Anne would have been a couple of years younger. Sam would have been a couple of years younger. You get down to Jake. He will be 88 next birthday.\n\nBRICKMAN: The name Balser. Was it always Balser?\n\nBALSER: It was Balser always. After my father came and passed away, there was a family named Nissenbaum that used to live in Atlanta. He was a shoemaker. I had a brother, Abe, that lived in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Miami [Florida]. The local people from Atlanta that lived in Miami used to play pinochle together. Abe was one of the pinochle players playing with Mr. Nissenbaum. [Merrill Lynch ?] from Atlanta moved down and several other families, and they used to get together and play pinochle. Mr. Nissenbaum was fixing shoes in his window. He was in Miami, and my brother, Abe, lived on Miami Beach. There was a fellow looking in, and the fellow looked Jewish. Mr. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nissenbaum thought he knew him, so he motioned him to come in. They got to talking and asked what his name was. He said, \"Joe Balser.\" When my father left the pogroms, one after another... you saw Fiddler on the Roof. My father lived through that period. He wrote letters at first. They received them. He kept writing letters and never were returned to him, but they never heard from him. From one state, to another state, to another province, to another town, they were ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"driven out. Evidently, this man was born after my father died, and he was named in memory of my father. This man, you can imagine, looked exactly like my father and he's fixing a pair of shoes. Mr. Nissenbaum is fixing the shoes. He motioned to the gentleman to come in. He asked him his name. His name is Joe Balser. He said, \"You look so much like Joe Balser that used to live in Atlanta.\" He said, \"Abe Balser lives here. You've got to get together with him.\" So, we find the family. His brothers ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and one sister were found living in Los Angeles. They were living in Rochester, New York. They lived in Syracuse, New York, and all that area there. They finally came down to visit us. There was a terrible accident and a couple of them were killed, and we lost track of all of them. We haven't heard from the Balsers in years.\n\nBRICKMAN: Do you know who the first family member was to immigrate to the United States before your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"father?\n\nBALSER: I think my Aunt Rachel, Nessie's mother.\n\nBRICKMAN: Do you know about what period of time it was?\n\nBALSER: It would have to be maybe in the 1880s because she was already living in Atlanta, and she had a child. I think her child's name was Jenny Andrews. Jenny Goldberg married an Andrews. They have about eight or nine kids.\n\nBRICKMAN: Most of your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"family lived in this area?\n\nBALSER: All of them lived in this area that I knew of.\n\nBRICKMAN: You and your wife were married when?\n\nBALSER: Roz [Roslyn Stone] and I went together all our lives. I was 16 and she\nwas 13 when we first dated. I got married. Should I tell you my age when I got married?\n\nBRICKMAN: It's up to you.\n\nBALSER: No. Well, we will be married 60 years on June ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1.\n\nBRICKMAN: Where did you meet Roz?\n\nBALSER: We always went with girls to dances. Roz was a much younger group. She has several sisters, one younger and one [unintelligible]. Roz and I took a\nwalk. I went with a girl in Chattanooga [Tennessee]. I was age 16. I already had\na Chattanooga girl. Roz was telling me how ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wonderful this girl was and everything. I said, \"Well, gee she's a smart girl.\" We started going together and we broke up once for about six or eight months, and we've been going together ever since. As I said, we've been married 60 years.\n\nBRICKMAN: I want to step back just a little bit. There's one question I forgot to ask you. What did your grandparents do for a living? Do you remember?\n\nBALSER: I have no idea what they did. They were like most of the people over\nthere. 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As a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"kid, I was not permitted to step foot in the Standard Club, to give you some idea.\n\nBRICKMAN: Why?\n\nBALSER: It was only for Reform Jews. In those days, we were forced to do something. There were several different clubs when I was growing up. There was the Eagle Social Club and one or two others that my brothers and their friends were in. I was a mascot at one of them. They go out camping ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and without any equipment out in Piney Woods, which was where Girls High School was. In those days, it was nothing but woods. You must realize that even when the [Jewish] Progressive Club was built in 1938, the new one, rather, was built in 1939 and 1940, we only had maybe 12,000 or 15,000 Jews in the city of Atlanta. It was not a huge city back in those days. As a matter of fact, we were the same size as Birmingham. Chattanooga ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was almost as big as we were, maybe 60,000 or 70,000 more in Atlanta than Chattanooga. Our basketball team for the Progressive Club always played [unintelligible] from Chattanooga and the YMHA [Young Men's Hebrew Association] from Birmingham and Savannah [Georgia] Jewish Educational Alliance. We all played. We had a great basketball team. We had national champions. When I went to high school, I played for Commercial High [School]. 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Finally, the Jewish ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Progressive Club had a great basketball team. They would hike over from Pryor and... not Richardson [Street]... just a couple blocks this side of Richardson. [They] would hike over every night to practice there.\n\nBRICKMAN: And if it rained?\n\nBALSER: If it rained, they still came over in cars. They played all their games\non that court. My school, which was Commercial High, that was on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Pryor right at\nTrinity. Our home court was the Jewish Educational Alliance court. I made all-prep school three years in a row and all-Southern prep my last year. Then I played for Progressive Club. Later on, I managed the ball club.\n\nBRICKMAN: When you were in high school, were there any particular subjects that you liked more than others?\n\nBALSER: Yes, mathematics.\n\nBRICKMAN: Always?\n\nBALSER: Always mathematics.\n\nBRICKMAN: Did you have any favorite teachers in high school that you remember?\n\nBALSER: No, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"not in high school. I had a couple in... well, a Jewish woman by the name of Annie [Teitelbaum] Wise was principal of our high school. Roslyn went to the same school but she was much younger than I was.\n\nBRICKMAN: Were there any members of your family in the armed services at any time?\n\nBALSER: Yes. My brother, Abe, was in the armed services. The others were too old.\n\nBRICKMAN: During World War II?\n\nBALSER: Yes.\n\nBRICKMAN: Where was he stationed?\n\nBALSER: He was in Africa. He was a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"cook. As a matter of fact, one of the boys,\nHyman Leff, from Atlanta came in late one evening, the soldiers came in, the\nship came in and all of them were hungry. Abe had to cook for them. Jockey. His\nname was Hyman. We call him Jockey Leff. [He] was one of the boys who came in.\n\nBRICKMAN: Can you remember anything in particular about your father or mother\nthat's special to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you? The kind of person they were. Their personality.\n\nBALSER: My father would open a grocery store at seven o'clock in the morning and\ncome home at eight o'clock at night. I saw very little of my father except on\nSundays. On Sunday, my father had... you had to be home and you made biscuits every Sunday morning in a wood stove. Mama was one of the organizers of the AA [Ahavath Achim] Sisterhood, she and Mrs. Mendel and that crowd of women. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We're going back two generations now. But back in those days, you ate together, you slept together. I spoke recently to a graduating class at University of Georgia Insurance Group and they were talking about how tough it is living in a dormitory. I said, \"Don't tell me about a dormitory. I was born in a dormitory.\" We had seven kids and three or four bedrooms. I mean one big bedroom. You get used to those things. You ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"have to realize these people were struggling. The dollar in those days, I guess, was equal to $10, $12, or $15 today. You bought houses for little or nothing. We bought the Progressive Club property in 1938, thirty-six acres of land, for only $15,000. If you can imagine, thirty-six acres of land. If we had that acreage today, it would be worth a minimum of $50 or $60 million. 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You sold them during the advertising campaign for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"50 cents. We were given the first 50 sets for us. We had to sell them. It was our allowance for traveling. We kept it pretty close to 50 because if we waited until next week, we would have extras. My brother, Sam, carried a route, and my brother, Jake, carried a route. I was a newsboy. I was a newsboy from the time I was about 9 until maybe 12 or 13.\n\nBRICKMAN: Who influenced you to take up that particular ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"kind of job or did you\njust... ?\n\nBALSER: No. I just went out and hustled for myself. Everybody had to hustle for\nthemselves. If you're one of seven you got to stay alive. The oldest fellow got the suit and drop it down. I was too small. I got all the rags. My first long pants suit, I was a newsboy. I bought it from Pollock \u0026 Berg.\n\nBRICKMAN: By yourself?\n\nBALSER: By myself. I paid half down. It was very expensive in those days, very\nexpensive. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm not going to tell you who sold it to me because he later had a business in town. I bought the suit and I came home. I got two beatings in my life from my father. My father said, \"It's a beautiful suit. Where did you get it?\" My first long pants suit.\n\nBRICKMAN: How old were you?\n\nBALSER: I was every bit of 15. First time I went out with Roz, I wore knickers.\nYou wore pants and long black socks, stockings, and button shoes. High-top button shoes. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Some of them strung all the way. Others had eyes and you string\nthem. There was no such thing as long pants. You had to be of age before you\nwore long pants.\n\nBRICKMAN: What was the proper age?\n\nBALSER: The proper age in those days was about 16.\n\nBRICKMAN: So you bought this suit...\n\nBALSER: I bought this suit, and Papa said, \"Where did you get it?\" I said,\n\"Pollock \u0026 Berg.\" \"How much did you pay for it?\" I told him, and I thought he\nwas going to have a stroke. He said, \"You paid it all down?\" I said, \"No. I paid\nhalf and the other... \" Papa closed his grocery store. Beat me half to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"death that night and said, \"Unless you can pay for something, you don't buy it.\" Took me back to the store and threatened to sue them for selling a minor. Gave them the suit back and took me down on Whitehall Street and replaced it. They sold suits for like $12 or $15. They fitted me for the suit. There were folds in my pants. I said, \"Papa, I can't go around in this. It doesn't fit me. It's got loops in it.\" \"Don't worry,\" he said, \"you'll grow into them.\" No such thing as cutting off cloth in those ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"days. You folded it over. You wore them over just like that. But when you're a kid and you're one of seven and you're the last one... I was the last boy. My sister, Helen, was younger than me, but you had to struggle. You had to get out and hustle. I sold newspapers. I sold everything humanly possible to make a buck. I even picked up coal during the war years. We were right at the Southern Railway. At the Capitol was Hunter Street [now known as Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive], and the railroad was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"right beyond Hunter Street. We used to go by and pick up coal and put it in coffee sacks and sell it for whatever we could, 25 or 50 cents. You couldn't load it up. We would run away. They would catch us picking up coal and they would run us away, but they never locked us out.\n\nBRICKMAN: So you created your own jobs?\n\nBALSER: I had to.\n\nBRICKMAN: With the money that you were making selling papers, was that all for you or did that have to be shared?\n\nBALSER: No. That was all for me. I bought my clothes with it.\n\nBRICKMAN: Meyer, tell me ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"this. You married Roz. What year was that and what were you doing then for a living?\n\nBALSER: Then, I probably had the best job in the city of Atlanta. Klein's [Rapid] Shoe Repair out of New York had a shoe shop right at Five Points on Peachtree Street right at Walton [Street]. Walton faced Peachtree. I was the manager there when I got married. I was assistant manager, and then I became manager. 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The next ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"guy would sew them up. The next guy would do so forth. Come right down the line just like a regular shoe factory.\n\nBRICKMAN: How did you get that job?\n\nBALSER: A friend of mine had the job and was leaving to go traveling. [He] suggested to the manager, his name was Levi, Dan Levi [sp], that I was the man he should have. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They'd take it to Rich's Department Store, and they would redeem the scrip for cash.\n\nBRICKMAN: What is scrip?\n\nBALSER: Scrip was just a piece of paper telling you that the city of Atlanta\nowes you so much money. It was a regular certificate that they gave to the\nteachers. The only way that you could cash it when the banks were closed was to go to Rich's. There was a tremendous article written either in the Saturday\nEvening Post, in those days, or the Liberty Magazine. \"The Store that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Married\nthe City,\" talking about Rich's and [Frank] Neely [longtime General Manager of Rich's].\n\nBRICKMAN: Do you remember Rich's? Tell me about it.\n\nBALSER: Let me give you one better than that. At night when I was very anxious\nto get married, I had three jobs. Max Mendel, who was the secretary at the Progressive Club, was ill. They cleaned it up. I only had to go to school from\n11 to 2 o'clock. I'd get there at 7 o'clock in the morning and meet the board there and clean up. Then I would close the place up. I go to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"school, and then in the afternoon, I would keep books for Klein Shoe Repair and work on Saturday. I\nfinally went to work every night at 6 o'clock until closing at Royal Cigar [Company] Store. Mr. [Abraham] Schwartz. We've got a memorial named after him. The Schwartz Award.\n\nBRICKMAN Abe Schwartz?\n\nBALSER: The Abe Schwartz Award. He owned the Royal Cigar Store. I worked for him. I was about 18 or ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"19 years old, I guess. The only day I got off was every\nother Sunday. I was in love with Roz. I spent most of the nights with Roz.\n\nBRICKMAN: That's difficult. Three jobs.\n\nBALSER: Not only that, but many nights I would go over to Roslyn's after that.\nThat only lasted about a year, though. It was too hard, the three jobs.\n\nBRICKMAN: You got married. Tell me about the children in your family. Who are\nthey and when were they born?\n\nBALSER: Jack was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"born in 1934. We were married four years when Jack was born. Ronnie is 51. Ellen [Hyman] is 45. Jack has three children. Ronnie has three children. Ronnie is divorced and married to Barbara [Bernstein Balser] now. Barbara has three children. They actually have six together. Ellen has two. Ellen has two daughters and each of the other three have two boys and a girl. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n\nBRICKMAN: Where do your children live?\n\nBALSER: All of them live in Atlanta, all of my children. Barbara's children, two\nof them live away from here, and one lives here. My children all live here, except my daughter's children. She and her husband and children live in Houston, Texas. I would see them on the campus from time to time.\n\nBRICKMAN: Meyer, do you feel that you were given certain values growing up from your parents that made a difference in your life?\n\nBALSER: Oh yes. Back in those days, if you had anything at all, you sacrificed\nit. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In 1938, we built the Progressive Club. That was during the war years. Even\nbefore that, years and years and years, you didn't know what it meant not to\nhave somebody over to your house. That's when the Jewish Social Service, the\nhobos and the tramps that came through, you gave them money. You fed them. You gave them enough to stay overnight, a night or two, and have them go elsewhere. They were being pushed around. Nobody took hold of them and said, \"Stay here. We're going to get you a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"job.\" The refugees that came in. The immigrants. Yes. They came to the people. It was a free loan society in those days. You gave $5 or $10 a year to free loan. Today, it takes thousands of dollars, but in those days it didn't. The family would make the free loan. They'd take them and become peddlers. Sell this or sell that. Open up a little grocery store. That was the life, as a kid, as I grew up. I mean, nobody had money. No one. As a matter of fact, it was Morris Lichtenstein, an Orthodox Jew, that was looked upon as the outstanding ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"person. He and the Reform Jews got along just absolutely wonderful. Jack Lichtenstein, you know the family well. There were three or four children. Let's see, the Lichtenstein family had Jack, who was the youngest, about my age. Then there was Ben. There was the oldest brother, who was Morris. They had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"one daughter, who was married to Abner Hirsch. That was Marshall Hirsch's father. They owned Fulton Paper Company. Jack went in to Atlanta Paper Company. Aaron went in the life insurance business because his father was in it. Ben was a traveler. Ben just didn't know what he wanted to do. He finally went to work for National Service [Industries].\n\nBRICKMAN: All of this is family?\n\nBALSER: Yes.\n\nBRICKMAN: Do you have a family ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"circle?\n\nBALSER: We did when my sister was living, way back in the Progressive Club days. You'd be surprised when you look at our family tree. You've seen it. It reaches out to all. As a matter of fact, Bert Parks one year came down to entertain the family. First cousins, second, third cousins. We had 250 people. Rosalie [Hirsch] Alterman ran the whole show, she and my sister, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Anne.\n\nBRICKMAN: I meant to ask you before what your Hebrew name was.\n\nBALSER: Meyer.\n\nBRICKMAN: Do you know whom you are named after?\n\nBALSER: No, I don't, but I think it was after my father's family. Someone in my\nfather's family. But, as I told you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"before, I saw very little of my father. I spent my whole... parents was Mama. But on Sunday, I told you, I must tell you this story about Papa. I started telling you earlier. Papa, it was Sunday, you had to be there for breakfast. You couldn't get up at 7 o'clock and leave. He used to open up the store every day. He played cards until 12 o'clock at night. That was his only enjoyment. He never saw a show in his life. My father never saw a show. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But Sunday morning breakfast you had to be down stairs in time to eat your breakfast. You can imagine? There's nine of us. There's no maid on Sunday. Papa would make the biscuits, and he would use yeast to make it rise. The biscuits were thick, maybe three inches. I would mash it down this way. (Meyer demonstrates) Crush it with my hand. My father, every week would say the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nsame thing (Meyer speaks using his father's accent) \"Why don't you sit on it. (Meyer and interviewer laugh)\n\nBALSER: But most of my life was not with my father. It was with my mother.\n\nBRICKMAN: Tell me about your mother.\n\nBALSER: My mother was like all the Jewish mothers in those days. They were put on pedestals. If I would open my mouth and say anything not allowed to my\nmother, if my father was there, he would look at me as if he could kill me. We\nhad great respect. Not only I, but all that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"group of people that came over in the 1890s to America. But Mama was special. And I know that her friends were very special to her. Mama was very beautiful and dressed to kill. As I told you earlier, she was one of those women who was responsible for the Sisterhood. Not only that, but when it comes to Purim. You have a Purim ball at the Jewish Educational Alliance. Irving Goldstein and I would be those who would put the\nCoca-Colas in a tub, in a wash tub. 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She had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mrs. Goldstein, Irving and Marvin's mother, the Srochis, and\nthat whole crowd of women. There were so many women. The Lichtensteins. You could go all up and down the street. There were gangs of those ladies. They were the ones who were responsible for the beginning of everything. In those days, there was no organized charity. 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Took his ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"two little girls. One was three and\none was five. They are, today, outstanding people in the State of Israel. One\nwas married to Belkin [sp], who was in the Haganah, who was later in the service for the government. People like that. Back in those days, they would tell\neveryone, their children, their mother died from the fever. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nothing but swamp\nland when he went there. When you realize, you go there and you realize that he was part of that, that's the group that made the sacrifices. Today, one of my\ncousins, practically my age, maybe a year older, she is very, very poor. She was\nin Haganah. She gets a widow's salary. Her husband died when he was a colonel in the army and died in the service of Israel. She ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"has her own problems, as far as health is concerned, but from eight to six [o'clock] every day, she goes to the hospital to help. If you listen to her everything is beautiful. Everything is\nwonderful. The other sister was in charge of what is known, it's like the USO\n[United Service Organization] Army camps. But in those days it was the English\nthat was in Cyprus. She was in charge of all the camps. She found out who was\nthe richest Jew and married him. His name was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Edelstein [sp]. Her first name is\nRose. They live in Leeds, England. They have a home, also, in Israel. So, she\nspends a lot of time in Israel. They're both not very well today. Now you're going back to age, maybe 85 and 88, the children. Their father died, I don't know how old he was, but they were grown when their father died.\n\nBRICKMAN: If I could go back to Mama for just a minute. Mama had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"seven children. That takes a lot of time, I'm sure, but what did she do in her free time?\n\nBALSER: Well, exactly that. I told you, it was always social affairs. Mama went\nto parties. I don't know if she played cards in those days. I don't remember. She was always busy doing something. Always with groups of two or three other women getting together. Always around the synagogue. Always doing something to help. Just as I told you about the parties, the Purim ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"parties and things of that nature.\n\nBRICKMAN: What qualities did your mother have that you admired the most?\n\nBALSER: My mother, just like many mothers in those days, not only mine, but\nperhaps I was special. Remember, I was her youngest boy, and I didn't have a\nsister until maybe three or four years later. If any preference was given to anyone, it was given to me. What I admire most about mother is that she was\nalways doing for someone. I'll give you a concrete example of what I'm talking\nabout. [Unintelligible] ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lived next door, and she was a widow. You know them, so\nI won't mention the last name. She was getting married, and she had no money and no clothes. My mother took one of my oldest sister's dresses and dressed her up with the shoes and the stockings and gave her an affair. It wasn't anything big. She made the desserts for the table. She made the drinks, whatever was there. The people were widows and had no money. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The mere fact that they had enough to live on was the amazing thing because she was an only child and her mother. You know the family. I'm not going to mention the name. All along the streets, someone was [unintelligible]. Zimmermans were on the first corner. Browns were there. We were there. Hirsches were across the street. The Shermans were across the street. Up the next corner was the Hoffmans, Wenders, Zimmermans, and all of them, were from Fair Street and Hunter Street. The Shearith Israel, in those days, was on Hunter ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Street. Roslyns's grandfather was a shammash at the AA.\n\nBRICKMAN: What was his name, Meyer?\n\nBALSER: Robinson.\n\nBRICKMAN: Did Mom have a lot of friends?\n\nBALSER: My mother had a world of friends. She played cards in those days. They played cards just like they do today. I don't know what kind of cards they\nplayed, but Mama had worlds of friends. Mrs. Mendel, Mrs. Srochi, Mrs. Hirsch.\nAll the Lichtensteins. You know, the same group of fellows that came over ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"together, but Mama was special. Mama was prissy. Mama loved to get dressed. Mama had to look... just like my wife. She has to look good at all times. Even when she went to bed, she had to look pretty.\n\nBRICKMAN: Meyer, what about the transportation in the early days? Everyone\ndidn't have a car, did they?\n\nBALSER: Nobody had a car. When I dated Roz, we rode the streetcars and went to town. Many nights after I worked. Ten o'clock, I go by ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Roz maybe 20 minutes, and I would walk home from there. She lived on Washington and Glen, and I lived on Fair at Capital. That's a hell of a long walk.\n\nBRICKMAN: How long is that walk?\n\nBALSER: I guess about a mile and a half. Two miles.\n\nBRICKMAN: That's pretty impressive. You remember going back and forth on a\nstreetcar. When did people start getting a car?\n\nBALSER: We didn't have cars in those days. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Roz and I, many times went to town on the streetcar. Go to the show. Occasionally, if somebody had a car, we'd go. Most of the time we'd walk and shop. If Roslyn liked something in the window, and I was already working, the next day she had it.\n\nBRICKMAN: How much was a show in those days?\n\nBALSER: What was it, Roz? Fifteen cents? A quarter?\n\nBRICKMAN: I'm going to move, Meyer, from the early days and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"your life with all\nthe jobs that you had up to the time that you went into the insurance business. How did you choose that? What changed your mind about what you were doing?\n\nBALSER: I mentioned the fact that I was in the shoe repair business. Came the\ndepression in 1931. I saw the handwriting on the wall. I was already married.\nWhen I got married, I had enough money to buy my wife a ring and pay cash for\neverything. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mark Firestone was with Metropolitan Life. I told Mark I thought maybe I wanted to change my job because I could see the handwriting. You can't pay $1,500 a month and pay for all the shoemakers. I had six or seven shoemakers and pay for the upkeep. You weren't taking in as much money as you were spending, much less a profit. So, I resigned and went to work for the Metropolitan Life Insurance [Company]. 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Ponce De Leon, which was a very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=3090.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"fine area in the city of Atlanta in those days, and Kirkwood. You would be surprised at the people paying $3.50 and $4 a week for nothing that you couldn't borrow a cash value. But the Metropolitan, the book that you collect from had $500. People that bought insurance 25 years before, lapsed that policy and cashed it in. I didn't get paid on the business that I wrote. I got paid on the increase that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you made. So, if you lost, a fellow surrendered $5. I had to write $5 a week policy to different people to equal as much to break even. Anything over that, you get 24 times that over the next 13-week period. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=3180.0,3210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Everything, the weekly stuff, as far as the monthly stuff, the disability policy and life insurance. I was with a fellow named McCarnegie [sp]. Can you cut that off a minute? (Brief pause in recording)\n\nBALSER: I was with Metropolitan. Piedmont district was the name of my district.\nIt was the Rhodes-Haverty Building. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Now it comes to a contest. Each group of\neight had an assistant manager. We must have had 30 to 35 people working there. We had four or five managers. One of them was an uneducated guy who I helped write his letters. An ignoramus. All of a sudden, we were fighting Piedmont District for the prizes that Metropolitan was giving against the Stone Mountain district, whose manager was Jewish, named ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=3240.0,3270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Margolis [sp]. This Mr. Gray, or whatever his name was, gets up and makes the most inspiring speech that you've ever heard in your life. He says, \"If we don't do another damn thing in the world, let's beat that damn Jew.\" I don't say anything. I pick my book up. I go in to see Mr. McCarnegie. I said, \"Mr. McCarnegie, I want to see you. Let me\ntell you something, when we fight Piedmont district against Stone Mountain district, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm going to be for Piedmont district, but when we fight Piedmont district against a damn Jew, I'm going to go fight with the damn Jew. I'm going to ask for a transfer or I'm leaving.\" He said, \"Don't get excited.\" It just so happened that Oscar Dwoskin and Harry Dwoskin and I all bought our insurance from Hyman Morris, who was then with Massachusetts Mutual. They were right across the street from me. I knew everybody there but I had never seen Harry I. Davis in my life. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=3300.0,3330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When I was with Metropolitan, I was going up to Mass Mutual to change the beneficiary on Oscar Dwoskin's policy for him. He had just gotten married. [Unintelligible] who I knew because I had been paying my premiums there. My insurance was with them. I was there twice a month. She says, \"How do you like the business?\" She keeps saying the same thing over and over. I said, \"I love it but I don't like the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=3330.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"business of thinking that you're a thief when you work for them and taking off of the book. I work on a debit and I have to balance that book every day.\" She says, \"Harry Davis wants to see you.\" I had never seen Harry Davis in my life. He came out and hugged me like I was his long lost son, and I became like his long lost son. I went to work for him for $135 a month, $125. It didn't get to a $135 until Jack was born.\n\nBRICKMAN: What year was that?\n\nBALSER: It was 1931. I left a job ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=3360.0,3390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"making $500 or $600 a month.\n\nBRICKMAN: You dropped way down and chose to do that?\n\nBALSER: Yes.\n\nBRICKMAN: Were you comfortable in your new position?\n\nBALSER: You must realize, I came right in the middle of the depression. I went\nto work in 1931. Everybody was out of a job. Everybody was out of a job. You\nstruggled to make it. You write a lot of business, but you can't keep any on the\nbooks because the next month, the person I wrote, his ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=3390.0,3420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"uncle, his aunt, his brother, or somebody was going into the business. It was hell for three years. I\ncouldn't work for anybody but Harry Davis the first three years. Then it got better and better and better and better.\n\nBRICKMAN: Where did you and Roz live when you first got married?\n\nBALSER: When we first got married, we lived... my brother Sam built a house. He had six months lease, so we lived there. It was on St. Charles Avenue right near the park [Piedmont Park] on Piedmont. Ninety percent of the Jews lived in that whole ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=3420.0,3450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"area back in those days.\n\nBRICKMAN: Was it in a house?\n\nBALSER: It was an apartment. We never had a house until we bought one on Johnson Road years later. From there, we went right around the corner on Piedmont Avenue where the number one golf course was right next door to where we were. From there, we moved several different times. We finally moved over on Washington Street. A new apartment went ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=3450.0,3480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there. Then Roslyn's father and mother... father went broke in his business. Maybe a period of four, five, or six years. Father went broke. Didn't tell us anything about it. Luke and I were helping. Everybody lived together. If you had a dollar you had to help the family. We were right in the middle of the depression. The wind up is, Papa goes broke. He doesn't say anything about cancelling insurance. Insurance lapses. Insurance on the house. He's been living there 45-50 years. The ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=3480.0,3510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"G-d-damned house burned down. So, we moved all my furniture in and stayed with Papa and Mama. You just lived together. Togetherness that you don't have today. It was a tremendous sacrifice. Instead of us living alone, we just add a few dollars. Luke added a few dollars. We had enough for the whole family to live on.\n\nBRICKMAN: You were very young doing all this.\n\nBALSER: Yes. I got married at 22 in 1930. This is 1931, 1932, 1933, and 1934.\n\nBRICKMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=3510.0,3540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Any children at that time?\n\nBALSER: Jack was born. I was making $135 a month.\n\nBRICKMAN: Tell me a little bit about Jack.\n\nBALSER: Jack was growing up. Jack was very, very smart. Always. Jack was always a marvelous scholar and a good boy. Even to this day, he is probably as sweet a child as any daddy could have. He just loves Roz. I mean, he's in love with her.\n\nBRICKMAN: What about your next son?\n\nBALSER: Ronnie was entirely different. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=3540.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"If he had to make 100 on an exam, he'd\nmake 100. If he could get by making 64, he'd make 64. Me and the Dean of Men at the University of Pennsylvania, we started out... I'll call him Mr. whatever his\nname was. Mr. Clary [sp]. We ended up \"Dear Meyer\" and \"Dear Charles.\" Every month it was something else with Ronnie. Jack was on the Dean's list all the way through. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=3570.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ronnie just got through. Ronnie was in the Wharton School [of the University of Pennsylvania]. Jack was in the Wharton School. Ronnie took his in insurance, and he's probably the most successful in the city and probably as good as anyone in the country today. Of course, Barbara had a lot to do with it. They, together, organized and built what they have, different than what I saw\naltogether. It's a different world.\n\nBRICKMAN: And then there was another child?\n\nBALSER: Yes [Ellen]. This is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=3600.0,3630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"our angel. I mean, this is our heart. Like any father and mother, it's a girl. Nobody in the world is blessed with a better child. She knows every move that we make. We know every move that she makes. We know everything that her children do. She shares everything with us. I guarantee that Roz calls her... they call a minimum of three times a day. They speak at least two or three times every day. And sometimes four or five when it's not necessary. She ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=3630.0,3660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"knows exactly what... we both know exactly what Ellen is doing every day of her life. We know what the children are doing. We know what her husband [Dr. Barry Hyman] is doing. Just as if they were right next door to us.\n\nBRICKMAN: Meyer, are there any of your qualities, your wife's qualities, that you see in some of the children?\n\nBALSER: I see more in Ellen than any of them.\n\nBRICKMAN: Is she like you? Like Roz?\n\nBALSER: She's like both of us. I really think, Roslyn isn't going to like ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=3660.0,3690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it, but I think she's more like me than she is like her because...\n\n(interruption in recording)\n\nBRICKMAN: Meyer, you were telling me about Ellen and how you think she's a lot like you. In what respect?\n\nBALSER: She's a very giving person. She's a very caring person. She has more\nfriends as a stranger, not being born and raised there. She has probably 30 or\n40 girlfriends and all are just wonderful. I'll tell you how ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=3690.0,3720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wonderful it is. When their friends' kids are bar mitzvahed, we're included in the affairs. As a matter of fact, right before I got sick last month... I was in Houston when I got sick. Part of affairs that we went to was the bar mitzvah of one of her friends. All of her activities, we're involved with, whether it's a wedding or anything else. We go down just as if she lived in Atlanta. The only thing is, we don't see her quite as much as we did. She and Roslyn get together twice a year as you probably know. They go to New York. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=3720.0,3750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They go on a shopping trip. It's nice. They're together an awful lot. We see each other at least four or five times a year.\n\nBRICKMAN: When you were growing up and there were seven children in the family, there was a cohesiveness that you mentioned to me, a real togetherness for family. Did you feel that same cohesiveness when your children were growing up in your house?\n\nBALSER: Even more so.\n\nBRICKMAN: Why?\n\nBALSER: Much more so. You learn from your parents. You take the good, and if\nthere is anything ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=3750.0,3780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"bad, you eliminate it if possible. More so with Roslyn than with me. Roslyn is the most wonderful mother in the whole world. I was the one who was out making a living. I was the one who was out working at night to make\na living. I was the one who went to meetings at night. There were no daytime\nmeetings in those days. Everybody had to work for a living. It was only in the\nlast 10 years that you had meetings in the afternoon, or 15 years. Everything\nhad to be done after work. You work all day, and you come home and you go to a meeting. Not only Federation, but the Jewish ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=3780.0,3810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Home. Anything. You had to work at night. Not only in one. You had to work. I chaired the Community Chest fund. I was co-chairman of the vision in 1956. I was chairman of the Red Cross Drive in 1956. Back in those days, not only Jewish things, I think it's very important that you... my associate was a Christian. He lost a son. When he died, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=3810.0,3840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it was like Roslyn and I lost one of our own. It's an intimacy there that he's like a\nson. He belongs to the Holy Innocents' [Episcopal Church]. Each year since he\ndied, we set up a trust fund for that boy. Each year, we give money to that church so they can send a kid to camp in memory of his son. We have a fund\nthere. I give them money to send the kids to camp. We don't have to touch the\nmoney so it can build up so they can really do something later. You don't only\ndo it ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=3840.0,3870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for Jewish life. You do it. You live in a community, and you have to give to everyone. For example, one of my friends is tremendously interested in the\nCamp Sunshine. As you know, that's a camp for cancer kids who don't have much longer to live. If you have a heart, and it costs a lot of money to send a kid\nto that particular kind of camp. I just started last year because it was the first time I ever knew anything about it. This young ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=3870.0,3900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"man that's going to build a Camp Sunshine, and I'm going to help him build it. I'm going to call old friends of mine. Through life, you do the same thing. Everything in this world that you have. I think I chaired the Federation drive three different times. I think I'm the oldest chairman still alive. In 1934, I don't know the year, but I happened to be in there the other day. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=3900.0,3930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I chaired, as far as activities, longer than anybody in the city.\n\nBRICKMAN: Why did you start volunteer work?\n\nBALSER: I saw what my mother did. I mean, we were a giving family. I've always shared everything I ever had. It started with Roslyn's folks. We had to share even very little. A few dollars. It didn't amount to a whole lot, but when that\nfire came to my father-in-law's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=3930.0,3960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"house, what were they going to do? There were\ntwo children still in the house. Edna [Stone Brown] was not married. Irving was\na kid. Mama and Papa and their grandmother. We lived in one room. We had to fix up the electricity and move our furniture in there, a few settees and this and\nthat. But you have to learn to sacrifice in your life regardless of who it is. It isn't me, it's thousands in the city of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=3960.0,3990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Atlanta. The reason you've got one of the finest cities in the world is the fact that you have giving and caring people here.\n\nBRICKMAN: Were some of the people who are giving and caring, did they grow up with you?\n\nBALSER: A lot of these people grew up... again, the influx of people in the last\n15 years. They're hidden people. They're not the same type of people. I mean,\nyou say that they are Jews. I don't claim them as Jews. They don't belong to a\nsynagogue. They don't give of themselves. They don't give up ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=3990.0,4020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"anything. In Jewish life, you're supposed to sacrifice. If you've got bread and a person comes to your house, you've got to give them half of that bread, if it even comes to that point.\n\nBRICKMAN: What do you think has made people so different today?\n\nBALSER: Caring. You've got people that came from all over America. They weren't brought up like you and I and he. They were brought up entirely different. Why don't they come to the front? You think about it. The only community ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=4020.0,4050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"building that has been built in the last five years is the new Jewish Community Center. What happened to the thousands of people that's come in here? You don't build educational centers. You don't build Jewish community centers. You don't build homes for the aged. They have nothing to do with it. You don't build a Jewish Tower. Incidentally, we're getting another Jewish Tower. It won't be anything as big as what we're getting. Where are the present buildings? You need retirement ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=4050.0,4080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"homes for older people. You need a home for the aged and the people with Alzheimer's. You've got the Russian Jews coming down. Do you realize that of the 200 Russian Jews that came, 8 of them are in the Jewish home right now. You've got to build, and you've got to care. You've got to realize that you've got to make sacrifices. Right now, Atlanta's going on a drive for $6.5 million for the Russian Jews. You've got to give something. Whatever you have to sacrifice, you've got to give. Be it ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=4080.0,4110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that or anything else, there's 100 things. Rabbi [Harry H.] Epstein is going to be honored by ORT [Organization for\nRehabilitation through Training]. That's a very important thing in my life because he's done a magnificent job for this city. It's things like that. You've got to be able to share. You don't have to give the maximum. Give as much as you can. Sometimes a person gives you $100, and it's much better than the guy who gives you $10,000. The $100 guy has to struggle to pay it. The $10,000 guy can\nwrite you a check. You never must say to the guy, \"Give me more ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=4110.0,4140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"money.\" I have a grandson that said to me, \"Dad, I went over to Jerry Horowitz's house, and I love what they're doing. For $1,500, I can go to Israel, and I'd love to go to\nIsrael.\" I said, \"Are you asking me to give you the $1,500?\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=4140.0,4170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I knew he hadn't\ngot a nickel to his name. I said, \"Why do you want to go?\" [He said] \"I believe\nin what they're doing.\" I said, \"You've got to be true to yourself.\" If $750 is fair, and you give, it has to be $750. You go call Jerry Horowitz and you tell Jerry Horowitz that you won't get a job until this year. You give $750 this year, David, they'll expect you to increase it next year. Once you're at a level, you can't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=4170.0,4200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"cut back. You've got to keep thinking higher. You've got to level with people. You tell Jerry Horowitz that you would like to go, and your grandfather is going to give you the money to go. Next year you won't be able to give him $750, but you'll do the best you can. You haven't even got a job yet. He called Jerry, and Jerry said, \"Your grandfather told you to tell me that.\" He said, \"Yes.\" You've got to be true to yourself. You can't kid nobody. I chaired for many years of collection. What ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=4200.0,4230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"good is a guy who gives you $1,000? Next year gives you $1,200? The next year gives you $1,500? In three years, he's going to owe you $3,700. Isn't it better to give you $500 or put him back on the books? Make a settlement with him. You lost the customer. Talk with this man. Bring him into the fold. You've lost him altogether. Rich's runs sales. Run a sale. A customer hasn't come in to see you in years. You must be willing to give you somebody's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=4230.0,4260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[unintelligible]. It's an inability to pay. He should have never given you $1,000. He would have been much better to give you $200 or $300 and pay it.\n\nBRICKMAN: What volunteer work have you done that you've gotten the biggest\npleasure from?\n\nBALSER: Of all of them?\n\nBRICKMAN: Yes.\n\nBALSER: Jewish Community Center.\n\nBRICKMAN: Tell me why.\n\nBALSER: And the AA. When you are a certain age, as you grow older your\nactivities change. You are thinking when you were ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=4260.0,4290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"young, \"What can we do for the youngsters in the community?\" What do you do? It's the Jewish Community Center. It's the finest thing that's happened to this city for a long time. You wait for years and years and years and you finally accomplish. It's only a dream, and a dream only comes true if you work hard enough. As you grow older, your sights change. I'll be 82 soon. For the last seven or eight years, thank God I've got people like you to come into the fold. I feel like Federation ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=4290.0,4320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"has a whole city\nthat they can draw from. We've got a handful of people. We've got hundreds while they have thousands. What am I to do? Jewish Community Center is wonderful and very important to me. The Jewish Home is tremendously important to me. The Jewish Tower is tremendously important to me. As you get older, you change. \"What can we do for the elderly?\" in addition to, \"What can we do for the younger people?\" Usually the younger ones can take better care of themselves than the older ones can.\n\nBRICKMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=4320.0,4350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But you have been involved in volunteer work for many, many, many years. I'm wondering, are you involved right now in something?\n\nBALSER: In something?\n\nBRICKMAN: In several things probably.\n\nBALSER: We'll start with the Jewish Home. Yes. Once you are president of the\nJewish Home, you are president for life. You're a part of maybe five or eight\npeople who are there every day. Yes, I'm president of the Jewish Tower. We ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=4350.0,4380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"have about 600 people on the waiting list, and every day I get a call, \"You've got to get my sister in. You've got to get my aunt in. You've got to get my grandmother in.\" What are you going to do? Anything in the Jewish life, I'm interested in. Federation, I've been involved for years. I help. I'll give you an example. I give you a sales call. This year, Steve Selig is doing as great a job as anybody in the world. He's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=4380.0,4410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"been a Jew. He's a Jew today, but a year ago he wasn't a Jew. Since he's been brought into the fold, he'll bring in people in his element. Roger Kahn. I'm like a father to Roger. Roger is like a son. Roger calls me to see a man. Steve was to see a person. Why they would see this person, I would never understand. Steve should not waste his time on a guy like this. He said, \"Will you go see Mr. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=4410.0,4440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so and so with me?\" \"Yes, I'll go see him. Be happy to.\" We have an 8:30 appointment. At eight o'clock, we meet at Dunkin Diner on Roswell Road. I'm going with him to make the call, right? We go in and meet the guy. Not too far, and he sits there. He wants me to go with him. Finally, I said to this guy, \"I don't know why I'm here. You know as much about this business as I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=4440.0,4470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"do. We sit on two or three boards together. I am shocked when I find out what you gave. I'm in a state of shock right now.\"... \"I don't like this. I don't like that. This is not right. That's not right.\" I said, \"Look, you are 100 percent right, but we've come for $10,000. You give $2,500 [unintelligible], but we want you to give $10,000.\" I shocked him. He recovered very rapidly. I said, \"Let me ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=4470.0,4500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"explain something to you about Federation. Federation is the mother and father of the community. What you're telling me, you don't like the children. The children are the recipients. Seventy children. You can't argue with your father and mother because you don't like something. That's fine. You don't have to like [it]. There's dozen of those things that I don't like, but I'm not going to hurt my father and mother. I'm giving it to the people who are giving it to the other people. It's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=4500.0,4530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"got to be done through an organized community. The father and the mother are the only ones who can organize. Children cannot organize the community. The children are recipients of their parents. What did you do? Did your father and mother send you to school? We're talking about Federation. I'm not interested in the Jewish Home.\" I didn't say Jewish Home. I mentioned two or three that he mentioned. I said, \"Forget it. Forget that. Let's talk ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=4530.0,4560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about where the money goes and who adjusts that money. People from all walks of life. There may be hundreds of people that don't like the part that you like. You've got to have an organization that can handle that. The Jewish Federation is the father and mother of the community, and I want $10,000.\" He kept arguing and arguing. Mind you, he's up to $2,500. Finally, I asked for $600 a month. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=4560.0,4590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I finally settled with him for $600 a month. No, no, no, $300 a month - $3,600 since he's been here for 20 years. He built it up to $2,500. I got $1,100 increases. But you have to understand the merchandise you're selling. People don't understand. When I chaired the Community Chest drive, we had the opening meeting at the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=4590.0,4620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Biltmore Hotel for 1,500 people.\n\nBRICKMAN: What year was that? Do you remember that?\n\nBALSER: It was 1956. I chaired with Billy Stern. Billy Stern at that time was\nassistant president of Trust Company of Georgia. He rose to be chairman of the\nboard. He died last year. Wonderful human being. I'm giving the talk to 1,500\npeople. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=4620.0,4650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"have a dollar bill, big circular silver dollar, in big letters where the money goes to. One piece of that was 15 percent goes to the children.\nChildren welfare. I had that cut out. I said, \"Forget the other 85 cents. I'm\nonly going to talk about this 15 cents and where this 15 cents goes to. Where\ndoes the 15 cents go? It goes to help the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=4650.0,4680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"children. Home for the friendless.\nThere's nobody here who don't like children.\" I got a bottle of milk, a quart of\nmilk, and a loaf of bread. I'm picking out people that I know. I said, \"Charlie,\nlook, the worst thing I could do is to ask you to take care of a child for a\nyear. Next year, you can give it to somebody else. Another month, give him to\nsomebody else. The worst thing in the world. So, let's all keep these children\nin organized institutions where they belong. Let's help feed them.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=4680.0,4710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I said, \"I\ndon't want you to buy a kid a single piece of clothes. I don't want you to buy\nhis shoes. I don't want you to buy his socks. I don't want you to take him to\nshul. All I want you to do is give him a loaf of bread and a bottle of milk. Just keep the child alive. That's all.\" I'm talking to people giving $5, $10, or $25 a year. I said, \"If you can't do that,\" and I stretched it out, \"Let's break it in half.\" Do you have any idea how much money we're ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=4710.0,4740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"talking about in those days? A loaf of bread and a quart of milk in 1956. You're talking about $300 a month.\n\nBRICKMAN: Did you get it?\n\nBALSER: Regardless, we had a very successful campaign. Yes, but that's not the most important thing. Some lady in that audience who was working with\nresidential... we're in charge of all the residents in this city, called on my mother-in-law. Roslyn's mother. She ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=4740.0,4770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"made it her business to find out my name. She said, \"This is the nicest man I ever heard in my life.\" She gives my Mama the same story as I gave her. Nobody could give you a story. They leave a card and you sign the G-d damned card. That's solicitation? I give as much money as a\nwhole office gives. There's 70 people in there. I don't give a huge amount of\nmoney. My mother ain't got a pot to wee wee in. She goes to the back, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=4770.0,4800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and she\nsays, \"Here's $5. That's my son you're talking to.\" What can repay you? Suppose I don't do it? Mama don't have that pleasure. Somehow or another, the good Lord takes care of you. If you don't do it, you don't do it. You do it because it's the right thing to do. Don't be a phony. Don't give $10,000 if you can only\nafford $2,000. I have never owed in my life Federation or anybody ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=4800.0,4830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"else. It's always cash. I pay a yearly thing.\n\nBRICKMAN: Did you take all of these qualities and all of these things you're\nsharing with me today and share that with your children?\n\nBALSER: Yes. My children. [Do] you know what Ronnie has done this year? Ronnie also gave $80,000 for my 80th birthday. 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After that, they were through it, and I was in charge of building the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=4890.0,4920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"building. The architect came to me. He said, \"We've got to do this and do that.\" I said, \"Find me money where we can do it. We got $920,000 to spend, and that's all we're spending.\" I built with $921,000. The only change we made at the last moment, we decided to put a hardwood floor in that big room on the second floor [where] you turn off at the stairwell, and\nputting the regular thing down. We put hardwood because we started thinking of\ndance and ballet studio. That's the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=4920.0,4950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"only change... not the only change we made.\nWe made many changes. We had to build a wall and so forth. Find me where we can pick it up. We can't spend any more.\n\nBRICKMAN: The people who laid the groundwork for you and you followed in their footsteps, don't you think there will be people following in yours because\nyou've set an example?\n\nBALSER: I hope so. I'll be terribly disappointed if my own don't do it.\n\nBRICKMAN: With all of your community involvement, the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=4950.0,4980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jewish community as well as the general community, can you remember one thing that was the most impressionable?\n\nBALSER: Yes.\n\nBRICKMAN: With your volunteer work.\n\nBALSER: Yes. I don't know whether you call this volunteer work or not. 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I want\nto talk to you about buying some life insurance.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=5070.0,5100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I said, \"Sure.\" She starts off\nby saying, \"Let me tell you the reason I called on you. I had a friend that lived in Savannah, Georgia. She called you and your wife. You were lovely enough\nto take her in and you took her around. She said if I ever needed a friend in\nthe city of Atlanta to call you, and I need a friend right now. Let me tell you what happened. My daughter is at the University of Georgia, and I promised ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=5100.0,5130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"her that if she made good marks and made the Dean's list, I would give her the jewelry of her choice.\" She's in business with her husband. They had a big business, and he didn't want to give her that much for it. She said, \"I don't want to ever have to go to my husband for anything. I'm a partner in this business. I want three $25,000 policies, and I want my children to be the owner of each one of the three policies. I'm going to put up a trust\"... and so forth. 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I don't call on people that I know they aren't charitable because ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=5160.0,5190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they're not caring people. Never once have I ever sold anybody.\n\nBRICKMAN: Would you do anything any differently than you've done if you had it to do over?\n\nBALSER: Yes. I'm going to tell you the same thing that they interviewed me for\nabout my career at MassMutual [Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company]. Yes, but it has no relation to what we're talking about. I would have married my wife sooner.\n\nBRICKMAN: Is there anything that you would like your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=5190.0,5220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/transcript/21623/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"children to remember you by?\n\nBALSER: Yes. I'd like them to remember some of the accomplishments and try to follow in my footsteps. Just one of them. I don't want them to do a lot.\n\nBRICKMAN: This has been a very pleasant afternoon. I thank you so much for\nsharing your time and your beautiful story with us.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=5220.0,5250.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/annotation_set/346","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/annotation_set/346/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Jewish Tower is a 200-apartment independent living facility located on the same campus as the William Breman Jewish Home and the Zaban Tower, although it is run separately from the Jewish Home and the Zaban Tower. The Jewish Tower was established in 1978.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/annotation_set/346/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003e“Five Points” refers to the downtown area of Atlanta, considered by many to be the center of town. It was the central hub of Atlanta until the 1960s, when the economic and demographic center shifted north toward the suburbs. It was recently revitalized, mostly due to Georgia State University having a large presence in the area.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/annotation_set/346/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Jewish Educational Alliance (JEA) operated from 1910 to 1948 on the site where the Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium was located. The JEA was once the hub of Jewish life in Atlanta. Families congregated there for social, educational, sports and cultural programs. The JEA ran camps and held classes to help some new residents learn to read and write English. For newcomers, it became a refuge, with programs to help them acclimate to a new home. The JEA stayed at that site until the late 1940s, when it evolved into the Atlanta Jewish Community Center and moved to Peachtree Street. It stayed there until 1998, when the building was sold and the center moved to Dunwoody. In 2000, it was renamed the “Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta.”\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/annotation_set/346/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eReform Judaism is a division within Judaism, especially in North America and the United Kingdom. Historically it began in the 19th century. In general, the Reform movement maintains that Judaism and Jewish traditions should be modernized and compatible with participation in Western culture. While the Torah remains the law, in Reform Judaism women are included (mixed seating, bat mitzvah, and women rabbis), music is allowed in the services and most of the service is in English.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/annotation_set/346/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1915, philanthropist Morris Hirsch established the Morris Hirsch Clinic to provide outpatient medical services to those unable to afford care. A dental program was added to the clinic in 1929. In 1956, the dental clinic moved to Pryor Street and was renamed the Ben Massell Dental Clinic. The brothers Irving and Marvin Goldstein, both dentists, supported a volunteer dental force that served 6,000 patients each year. The Ben Massell Dental Clinic is still in existence today, and is located on 14th Street in Midtown Atlanta.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/annotation_set/346/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eHarold D. Hirsch (1881-1930) was a well-known attorney who was active in philanthropic organizations in the Atlanta area. He received his undergraduate degree in 1901 from the University of Georgia, where he also played football. He later earned a law degree from Columbia University and became one of Atlanta's most prominent lawyers, helping Coca-Cola trademark its signature logo and bottle design in a number of copyright infringement cases. He was also involved in the creation of the law school at Emory University and one of the founding members of the faculty. Hirsch was very involved in philanthropic endeavors, particularly those in the Jewish community. He was a member of the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation (the Temple), the Federation of Jewish Charities, the United Jewish Charities, and the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith. He helped found The Atlanta Committee for German-Jewish Relief and served as chairman of the organization.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/annotation_set/346/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBenjamin (Ben) J. Massell, Sr. (1886-1962) was a civic and community leader in both the Jewish and general communities of Atlanta. In the early 1900s, he and his two brothers, Sam and Levi, founded the Massell Realty Company, which had a hand in the development and sale of several landmark properties in Atlanta. Civic leader Ivan Allen, Sr., was known to say, “Sherman burned Atlanta and Ben Massell built it back.” Ben Massell was the uncle of former Atlanta mayor Samuel A. Massell, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/annotation_set/346/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Atlanta Jewish Community Council was created in 1945 when a committee of 20, appointed by the president of the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund, met to consider how the adult Jewish organizations in the community could be coordinated to participate more effectively in the community service. In 1967, the Jewish Community Council merged into the Atlanta Jewish Federation along with the Atlanta Federation for Jewish Social Service and the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund. The Council became a department of the Atlanta Jewish Federation (now the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta) called Community Relations and Internal Jewish Affairs (later changed to the Community Relations Committee). By 2009, the Council became an independent entity, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Atlanta.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/annotation_set/346/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta raises funds, which are dispersed throughout the Jewish community. Services also include caring for Jews in need locally and around the world, community outreach, leadership development, and educational opportunities. It is part of the Jewish Federation of North America (JFNA).\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/annotation_set/346/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eEdward M. Kahn (1895-1984) was an immigrant from Bialystok, Poland. He became a leader in Atlanta’s Jewish community and served as executive director of several organizations including the Jewish Educational Alliance (presently, Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta), the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund, and the Atlanta Federation of Jewish Social Service (presently, Atlanta Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta), an earlier incarnation of the current Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta and the Morris Hirsch Clinic (presently, Ben Massell Dental Clinic). Mr. Kahn also became Executive Secretary of the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund and of the Atlanta Jewish Community Council. He held these various positions until his retirement in 1964. Kahn was prominent in both local and national social work organizations as well as in Jewish organizations such as B’nai B’rith, the Jewish Children’s Bureau, the Jewish Home, and the Atlanta Bureau of Jewish Education. He also worked with the Southern Israelite newspaper as a writer and adviser.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/annotation_set/346/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eHebrew for “son of commandments.” A rite of passage for Jewish boys aged 13 years and one day. At that time, a Jewish boy is considered a responsible adult for most religious purposes. 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\u003c/em\u003e quorum 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/29468/file/97159#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/annotation_set/346/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShul\u003c/em\u003e is a Yiddish word for synagogue that is derived from a German word meaning “school,” and emphasizes the synagogue's role as a place of study.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/annotation_set/346/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eOrthodox Judaism is a traditional branch of Judaism that strictly follows the written \u003cem\u003eTorah\u003c/em\u003e and the oral law concerning prayer, dress, food, sex, family relations, social behavior, the Sabbath day, holidays, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/annotation_set/346/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Standard Club is a Jewish social club that started as the “Concordia Association” in 1867 in Downtown Atlanta. In 1905, it was reorganized as the “Standard Club” and moved into the former mansion of William C. Sanders near the site of Center Parc Credit Union Stadium (formerly Turner Field). In the late 1920s the club moved to Ponce de Leon Avenue in Midtown Atlanta. Later, the club moved to what is now the Lenox Park business park and was located there until 1983. In the 1980s, the club moved to its present location in Johns Creek in Atlanta’s northern suburbs.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29468/file/97159/annotation_set/346/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAhavath Achim Synagogue was founded as an Orthodox congregation in 1887 in a small room on Gilmer Street. 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My mother was also born in Russia but near Germany. At that time, it was Fredericksburg. Papa was near Riga. It has a different name now, of course. Papa came over in 1890. 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