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She was the youngest of four children born to Heyman and Bertha Liverant Kanter. She had two older brothers, Gilbert and Walter and one older sister, Nina. Her father owned and operated Rose’s Dress Shop on Broughton Street in Savannah. Harriet’s family was active in Congregation B’nai B’rith Jacob synagogue, and she was a member of the congregation for her entire life.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHarriet graduated from Savannah High School. After high school, she attended Armstrong Junior College and graduated from the University of Georgia in 1946. In July 1946, she married Lawrence “Larry” Konter who she met at Savannah’s Jewish Educational Alliance. She worked with Larry and operated the Konter Supermarkets. In 1961, she and Larry founded Konter Realty which they owned and operated for over 50 years.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eDuring her professional career, she served as the first Jewish woman President of the Georgia Association of Realtors. She was also active in the Savannah Board of Realtors and the National Realtor Association. In 2012, Harriet and Larry were inducted into the Georgia Association of Realtors Hall of Fame. In addition to her professional career, Harriet was active in the Savannah B’nai B’rith Women’s Organization, the Jewish Educational Alliance Women’s Club, the Armstrong Atlantic State University Alumni Association, and the United Jewish Appeal. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHarriet and Larry were married for 49 years. They had three children – Stanley, Sally, and Jerry. They also had six grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren. Larry passed away on November 17, 1995 at 72, and Harriet passed away on October 13, 2019 at age 94.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eHarriet begins the interview by sharing about her parents, siblings and growing up in Savannah, Georgia. She details the Jewish life in Savannah during her youth and how life revolved around the synagogue and Jewish Educational Alliance. She describes the Jewish Educational Alliance and some of the social activities that occurred there. Harriet mentions attending Hebrew school one day a week, but not being bat mitzvah. She recalls not socializing much with the people who attended Congregation Agudath Achim when she was growing up and how many in the Jewish community belonged to Congregation B’nai B’rith Jacob.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHarriet recalls the cost of homes when she was a teenager and that the Jewish community lived on the west side of Savannah. She shares her memories of Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur. She talks about Jewish families that lived above the stores on Broughton Street. Harriet described her memories of the City Market and some of the other businesses that were downtown Savannah. She discusses her memories of Jewish groups and socializing with non-Jewish and other Jewish youth. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eShe recounts the Jewish customs she carried forward from her youth. Harriet details her memories of Tybee Island in her youth and after she was married. She discusses the Jewish businesses staying open until 11:00pm on Saturday nights. She remembers attending parties and dating in her teenager years. She recalls meeting her husband, Larry at the Jewish Educational Alliance (JEA). She mentions some of the Jewish people who lived on the east side of town. Harriet shares her memories of dating on Friday and Saturdays and helping in her parents store.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHarriet reflects on how the Jewish kids thought about themselves and the importance of excelling at school. She discussing going to Armstrong Junior College and later the University of Georgia. She describes what the campus was like during World War II and what an important support the sorority was for her and other women whose boyfriends were serving overseas. She remembers the various dances the JEA held during the war and how women worked in not traditional jobs. Harriet talks about the many Jewish couples in Savannah after the war and various activities that happen at the JEA. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eShe shares some of the Jewish women’s groups she and other women were involved in including Hadassah, B’nai B’rith Women, and the United Jewish Appeal. Harriet discusses working at Candler Hospital and then with her husband. She talks about JEA holiday parties and how the JEA and synagogues had various activities going on. She spoke about the popularity of square dancing. Harriet recalls some of the antisemitism she experienced in her youth and how it impacted Jewish owned businesses. She ends the interview by sharing about her experience as the first Jewish women president of the Georgia Association of Realtors.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Subject"]},"value":{"en":["Konter, Harriet Kanter (1924-2019) (personal name)","Konter, Lawrence “Larry” (1923-1995) (personal name)","Kanter, Heyman “Hyman” (1886-1962) (personal name)","Kanter, Bertha Liverant (1892-1985) (personal name)","Kanter, Gilbert (1915-1976) (personal name)","Greenholtz, Nina Kanter (1917-2005) (personal name)","Kanter, Dr. Walter (1920-2005) (personal name)","Goodman, Beatrice Heyman (1920-2014) (personal name)","Rosenzweig, Ethyl Richman (1918-2012) (personal name)","Rousakis, John (1929-2000) (personal name)","Starrels, Rabbi Solomon (1895-1984) (personal name)","Blumenthal, Samuel (1866-1951) (personal name)","Blumenthal, Fanny Rochlen (1877-1962) (personal name)","Blumenthal, Judith (1907-1984) (personal name)","Konter, Nathalie Fox (1900-1966) (personal name)","Weiss, Nathan (1910-1979) (personal name)","Lasky, Betty Weiss (1936-2019) (personal name)","Shoob, Marvin (1923-2017) (personal name)","Odrezin, Gilbert (1923-2004) (personal name)","Lukin, Doris Goldin (1924-2011) (personal name)","Lukin, Basil (1919-2011) (personal name)","Levy, Maxine “Mickey” Kapner (1927-2006) (personal name)","Udinsky, Sylvia Adler (1929-2014) (personal name)","Lowe, Lillian Heyman (1924-2019) (personal name)","Gretenstein, Frances Solomon (1924-1985) (personal name)","Wexler, Dorothy Levy (1911-1969) (personal name)","Odess, Dorothy Spivak (1912-1984) (personal name)","Gottlieb, Milton “Buster” (1910-1979) (personal name)","Slatus, Rabbi Avigdor (b. 1948) (personal name)","Savannah, Georgia (geographic term)","Tybee Island, Georgia (geographic term)","Isle of Hope, Georgia (geographic term)","Hinesville, Georgia (geographic term)","Jewish Educational Alliance (corporate name)","Congregation B’nai B’rith Jacob (corporate name)","Congregation Agudath Achim (corporate name)","Congregation Mickve Israel (corporate name)","A.A. 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She was the youngest of four children born to Heyman and Bertha Liverant Kanter. She had two older brothers, Gilbert and Walter and one older sister, Nina. Her father owned and operated Rose\u0026rsquo;s Dress Shop on Broughton Street in Savannah. Harriet\u0026rsquo;s family was active in Congregation B\u0026rsquo;nai B\u0026rsquo;rith Jacob synagogue, and she was a member of the congregation for her entire life.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHarriet graduated from Savannah High School. After high school, she attended Armstrong Junior College and graduated from the University of Georgia in 1946. In July 1946, she married Lawrence \u0026ldquo;Larry\u0026rdquo; Konter who she met at Savannah\u0026rsquo;s Jewish Educational Alliance. She worked with Larry and operated the Konter Supermarkets. In 1961, she and Larry founded Konter Realty which they owned and operated for over 50 years.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eDuring her professional career, she served as the first Jewish woman President of the Georgia Association of Realtors. She was also active in the Savannah Board of Realtors and the National Realtor Association. In 2012, Harriet and Larry were inducted into the Georgia Association of Realtors Hall of Fame. In addition to her professional career, Harriet was active in the Savannah B\u0026rsquo;nai B\u0026rsquo;rith Women\u0026rsquo;s Organization, the Jewish Educational Alliance Women\u0026rsquo;s Club, the Armstrong Atlantic State University Alumni Association, and the United Jewish Appeal.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHarriet and Larry were married for 49 years. They had three children \u0026ndash; Stanley, Sally, and Jerry. They also had six grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren. Larry passed away on November 17, 1995 at 72, and Harriet passed away on October 13, 2019 at age 94.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHarriet begins the interview by sharing about her parents, siblings and growing up in Savannah, Georgia. She details the Jewish life in Savannah during her youth and how life revolved around the synagogue and Jewish Educational Alliance. She describes the Jewish Educational Alliance and some of the social activities that occurred there. Harriet mentions attending Hebrew school one day a week, but not being bat mitzvah. 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She discusses the Jewish businesses staying open until 11:00pm on Saturday nights. She remembers attending parties and dating in her teenager years. She recalls meeting her husband, Larry at the Jewish Educational Alliance (JEA). She mentions some of the Jewish people who lived on the east side of town. Harriet shares her memories of dating on Friday and Saturdays and helping in her parents store.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHarriet reflects on how the Jewish kids thought about themselves and the importance of excelling at school. She discussing going to Armstrong Junior College and later the University of Georgia. She describes what the campus was like during World War II and what an important support the sorority was for her and other women whose boyfriends were serving overseas. She remembers the various dances the JEA held during the war and how women worked in not traditional jobs. 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Harriet, since you are a native, let's get started. Who were your parents?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=0.0,10.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKONTER:\u003c/strong\u003e Let me start by saying I am Harriet Kanter Konter, so you can get that. My parents were Hyman and Bertha Kanter and they . . . I can't remember what year I wasn't born then, but my father ran a dress store on Broughton Street my entire lifetime. They got married in New York, came to Savannah [Georgia] and were part of the Savannah community long before I was born because I have . . . a sister and two brothers that are older than me, so that my life really started on West 38th Street to be exact, 308 West 38th Street, and that's where most of the Jewish community lived. They lived from 39th to about 41st Street, no, from 39th back to about 34th Street.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=10.0,74.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e What time frame are you talking about?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=74.0,76.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKONTER:\u003c/strong\u003e I'm talking about in 19 . . . let's see I've got to go back a long ways to figure out. But it would be in the 1930's. Most of the Jewish people lived in that area, and they lived from like Bull Street to West Broad, which is now Martin Luther King Boulevard, so that as we grew up, all of our friends lived . . . Now, we had some people that lived on the east side, but very few. That was because their business took them there and that's why. I'm married to Larry Konter, and he did live on the west side. He was one of the people that . . . Our life was really around the Jewish community. The JEA [Jewish Educational Alliance] was downtown. The BB [B'nai B'rith] Jacob Synagogue was downtown as we grew up. The AA [Agudath Achim] what developed into the AA was a little tiny synagogue on Montgomery Street where the BB Jacob was down the street about two blocks. It was just a little small building and they had very few members at that time. The majority of the people belonged to the BB Jacob Synagogue. Our age group and everybody that came before us and after us spent their lives basically at the JEA, which was on Charlton Street. Down the street from that, you could walk down to Solomons Drugstore. That was a big deal because you could get a Coca-Cola at that time for a nickel, put a little cherry in it and that made it really uptown. But our activities basically were done between the synagogue and the Jewish community, between the synagogue and the JEA.  The JEA had all kinds of activities. I don't know how many people have been around that building, but the main floor, the lower level had a kindergarten in it. Then behind that was a so-called health club, and then on the next level where you went upstairs was like a reading room on one side. I'm trying to visualize it, a reading room on one side and a kind of sitting room on the other side and it had an office. Then they had some rooms on that level where you could have club meetings and get together. Then the next level was the basketball, the auditorium, and the health center . . . What did they call it? You have to stop the tape; I've got to remember. [tape stops and resumes] The gym and the social ballroom were all in one big room with a stage in it. At that time, at our ages of 11, 12, 13 and up, they had a dramatic club. You had some other clubs in the building [phone rings, tape stops and resumes] Anyway, as I said, and I can remember back that the first show we put on, Bea Heyman Goodman was our director. I can't remember the name of it when I was trying to remember, but boys and girls participate. Then that was the place we had our dances. Everything that you did socially as a Jewish group was done at the JEA. It was not uncommon for us to be very safe in this town. We would walk from West 38th Street downtown to the BB Jacob Synagogue and across to the JEA. At that time, let me divert a few minutes and say that boys went to Hebrew school, girls did not, but girls had a Hebrew school class at the BB Jacob on Friday afternoon. I always remembered that the teacher would take off his coat, his tie, and then undue his shirt because he had to put up with the girls on Friday afternoon. We never had a bat mitzvah in those days, only had bar mitzvahs and so they made the boys go four days a week. But the girls only went on Friday afternoon. That's the reason that was opened. That was a place that everybody . . . The public school ended at 2:00, so you had time to get downtown. We did not have carpools. We rode buses. It was safe. You got on the bus and went downtown, and they had little tickets that you used that took you. I think they were like, who knows, $10 a book and you got 20 rides. That's the way we also went after public school as we grew up. You walked to your public school, which my dad had bought this house directly across the street from 38th Street School because he was running the store on Broughton Street, which was known as the Rose Dress Shop. At that time, he didn't want to have to worry about having to worry about the children going to school, so he bought this house. The end of . . . I'll say that on 38th Street, West 38th Street, the end of town basically was Victory Drive. It went as far as like 41st Street and Ardsley Park came along after that. But we can only remember that Victory Drive was like the end of town. You never had to worry about whether we were safe or not. The town was small, the Jewish community was smaller, and it was very much a part of your lifestyle. We didn't get diverted. Every kid I know of stayed home for every holiday that was Jewish. If you went, that was a big disgrace. If it was Purim or Sukkot or anything that was not of great importance, you stayed home, and the school system understood that. You do go to synagogue. You were expected to go. Your parents were highly involved with you and synagogue and with you and the JEA community, because Jewish community then was Jewish community. We didn't do a lot in the secular community as we do now. There wasn't a lot of volunteer work in the secular community. They didn't expect it of you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=76.0,492.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you also socialize with people from the AA?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=492.0,496.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKONTER:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, but there were very few . . . that was like a socialist place, a socialist synagogue. Those people were really the working people. I think we got a workmen's credit union and that developed from those people who . . . generally ran stores on West Broad Street. They were tailors, they were shoemakers, and they were little, leaned a little towards communism. They believed that this country was good, but they thought you should share with everybody as socialism does. There were very few young kids that went there. It was mostly some of the old people that came from Europe.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=496.0,548.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Where was the shul at that time?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=548.0,551.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKONTER:\u003c/strong\u003e It was on Montgomery Street, probably from Broughton Street to three blocks past where the BB Jacob is, which was a block off of Broughton Street on the right hand side at that time. Some building is probably there now, but it was a little small synagogue. Now, it could have been something else before that, that's what I remember as a child. The same people who now belong to the AA synagogue did not belong to that synagogue. They belonged, everybody belonged basically, to the BB Jacob. There were a few, and there was very little Hebrew school. It was a little tiny Hebrew school where they taught, and some of the people that went there could probably tell you much more about it than I could. I can only remember that everybody I knew went to the BB. But there was . . . you came to the JEA, and everybody was together. We did not have any big to do. Synagogues did not provide activities for the young people in those days. Everything went to the JEA.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=551.0,622.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e What were the homes like? Who was living in the homes around the JEA square on Barnard?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=622.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKONTER:\u003c/strong\u003e Charlton Street. Let me tell you first that around there, all the doctors used the basements for their practices and most of the people had already . . . When I came along and I was born in 1924, and as I grew up, when I came along, people had already moved out. Even as I was a teenager, a young teenager, I can remember they moved to 52nd Street and somebody paid $3,500 for a home. They thought that was outrageous. Who would ever hear of that? Or $6,000, you got a brick home, and they had to be the wealthiest people in town. Those are the people that lived on 49th, 50th, 52nd Street. We were already out of my childhood time when everybody lived on the west side, by then people were going to the east  side. But as I grew up as a teenager, it was not uncommon for us to walk from 38th Street to . . . what we called the big park that is now the Forsyth Park and play tennis or do something, then turn around and walk back. We just walked everywhere. Junior high was where the library is and across from that, I don't know what they call it now. You walked to school. Now when we went to Savannah High, which was the only high school in town. The bus came down the street and you walked up to the corner and caught the . . . It was the public bus, not school buses, and you used these tickets that I said earlier that you used. But the Jewish community, not like some of the things like when Rosh HaShanah came, we could walk downtown because we didn't ride. We could walk downtown six times in that one day, and I'll tell you how. I can always remember the girls walked in these little flat shoes and hid these dress up shoes because everybody dressed up then, it was very important, behind a house downtown and changed their shoes because you didn't carry it into the synagogue. But my daddy and my family was Orthodox and they did keep a kosher home. All the friends I knew at that time kept kosher homes. He would say, along with most of the other parents, that if you bought a ticket to the movies before Rosh HaShanah, then you could walk downtown and go to the movies in the afternoon. That's what I'm talking about now 14, 15 year olds. We would then walk home from synagogue. We had the Rosh HaShanah meal and then we would meet and walk down Bull Street, all these kids down Bull Street, all the way to Broughton Street, where that's the only place there were theaters and have our tickets in advance and go to the movies, then walk back home. We thought nothing of it, and so four times we would walk. In those days, everybody did go to synagogue for the late service at 6:00. Everybody walked downtown nobody even thought of not. I can remember when Yom Kippur came and when my parents got older, they would rent a hotel room, and that was very common. The Savannah Hotel, so that they could go walk to synagogue.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=630.0,848.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Where was the Savannah Hotel?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=848.0,849.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKONTER:\u003c/strong\u003e On Bull and Broughton. Right off Broughton was the Savannah Hotel. It's where the First City Club is now, that building was the Savannah Hotel. In fact, interesting enough, the First City Club is where I got married, but it was called the Gold Room. That was the Savannah Hotel. Now, the DeSoto was exactly where it is now at Broughton Street, I mean at Bull Street. But people would rent rooms in the Savannah Hotel. It was Yom Kippur, and they didn't eat. They would spend the night downtown the night before and stay the whole time until Yom Kippur was over. All these people . . . understand that the Jewish community were the owners of the retail stores. Everybody knew each other from West Broad to East Broad because everybody was running stores. Their life was around that, and that's the reason the synagogue was downtown. That's the reason the JEA was where it was on Charlton Street, because there were people that lived all around that and they had lots of, before my time, they had lots of children. I can remember families . . . like Ethyl Rosenzweig's family, they lived in that area. I never remember that because when I came along, they were already moving southside. But where I lived, the Slotins and the Rabhans and all the people that you remember the names in town, everybody lived on that west area of town so that all the kids played with each other very close by. Anyway . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=849.0,957.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell me what it was like with the Jewish families living above the stores on Broughton Street.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=957.0,962.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKONTER:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay, see that was before my time. My mother used to tell . . . she loved to tell this story, that she lived over the dairy, which was . . . and I don't know the name of the dairy, but it was at . . . my sister, Nanna would remember, at the corner right off of Broughton and Montgomery Street. She said she remembers the story, one time my brother Walter, she looked out of the window from upstairs and she saw him hanging from this tree, and standing at the bottom was Billy [indistinct: possibly 'Cohen']. She was so aggravated, she ran downstairs, beat the fool out of Billy, while Walter fell out of the tree. He was younger than Billy. We laugh about it because we said in today's time, can't you see that happening. Somebody's going to fall out [and] beat the fool out of somebody. His mother didn't care, she thought he deserved it. That was the kind of lifestyle they had. Everything was around their businesses, around the area. My mother used to say that she would take my brothers and sisters to . . . At one time, she said she lived across from the park downtown, the burial park, whatever that's called. I can't remember.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=962.0,1034.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Colonial Cemetery.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=1034.0,1037.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKONTER:\u003c/strong\u003e Colonial Cemetery. She used to take the children in there to play. Now, everybody had a maid. I don't know of anybody that didn't. Some had two or three because they were inexpensive. That was the lifestyle. The wives went to business as well as the husbands. They needed to have somebody so that everybody in those days had help at home. Different kind of help than we have today, but they all had help.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=1037.0,1066.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Where was the kosher butcher?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=1066.0,1069.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKONTER:\u003c/strong\u003e I'll tell you, because it's interesting. The kosher butcher was at City Market, the one that we tore down. Also, the chicken lady, and I can only remember her name is Fanny, but she was the chicken lady. I could always remember my mother sending me to pick up stuff that she had to pick up because, like I said, almost everybody kept kosher. I used to hate to go there because, they used to kill those chickens, and it was bloody and messy. I thought the place was the worst place I'd ever been. Now, today, I'd say, why didn't we leave it there? It would have been a great attribute. But everything took place downtown. You didn't think of shopping or doing anything southside, there was nothing out here. Until I became, I guess, 15, 16 years old . . . we got a theater on Bull Street. It was called the Victory Theater, and it was on Bull and about 40th Street. John Rousakis, the ex-mayor, his daddy ran a store . . . a soda shop. That's what they used to call those, I was trying to remember, called Paul's. You could go to the movies for about a quarter, and then you went to Paul's and got a drink and something with it for about another quarter and your date walked you there, so he had a big investment of $0.50 in you, but that was when I got to be 14, 15 and the boys weren't driving yet. But that's the first time the southside had anything that was commercial because there was nothing commercial along that area. Now, let's see if I can . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=1069.0,1174.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e You were lucky to find your husband in Savannah. Now, what about socializing out of town? They didn't have the conventions that are common today.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=1174.0,1184.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKONTER:\u003c/strong\u003e No, but let me say this. They had when I was a teenager, they had AZA [Aleph Zadik Aleph]. They did not have BBG [B'nai B'rith Girls], and the AZA boys did have conventions, and the girls would house the girls that came in. I was lucky . . . but it was very common to date everyone. There were a lot of Jewish teenagers, I guess, more than today. You really didn't think about going out with somebody that wasn't Jewish. It just didn't fit your lifestyle. That doesn't mean that we didn't socialize at school, and we didn't get together and study. It doesn't mean that we were snobby, but we really thought we were better than everybody else. I always like to say that the Ardsley Park crew in Savannah, in our day, that was the classy people, and the Jews mingled together. At Savannah High, there were two places that were courtyards, and we always use to say that the Ardsley Park people and the Jewish people went one courtyard, and the rest of the schools was in the other courtyard because we were friendly with those people. But we never thought of dating them and they never thought of dating us. It was an entirely different world than it is now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=1184.0,1262.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Now let me ask you, you went to school, I'm sure, with Temple members, but you didn't socialize with Temple members.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=1262.0,1267.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKONTER:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh yes, we did. We socialized with Temple members, but they kind of were a little away from themselves. There were not as many people with . . . younger teenagers as members of the Temple. The Temple people were at that time, had descended from Germany. They were mostly German people . . . They wanted a tremendous amount of reform. They've come back a long way to traditionalism now, compared to what it was in our day. It used to be a standard kind of expression, used to say . . . let's see, the BB Jacob is Orthodox and they lean a little toward Conservatism and the Conservatives at the AA lean a little toward Orthodoxism, and then they finish it by saying, but the Temple people, they're goyim them all together. That used to be a standard joke. It's not like that today. It's changed a lot. But those people had an attitude to my parents that were different than today's members of that Temple. They came from Germany. They felt like they were more educated than the people who came from Europe. They thought they had a much better background and . . . my parents would probably say they were stuck up. They really didn't want to mingle with the people that came from Europe. That was a different class, and so that made it very hard for the children to get together, and they didn't. In those days, they had Rabbi Starrels, who apologized if a child wanted to get bar mitzvahed. They did not allow a bar mitzvah at the Temple, had a confirmation, but you could not have a bar mitzvah. That kind of made the kids feel uncomfortable, including the kids at the Temple who felt like they were getting cheated. But yet when we became teenagers, we did date and I dated some boys from the Temple. There was some dating there between the Temple and the Orthodox Conservative Jews at that time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=1267.0,1413.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Let me ask you, going back to your younger days, living at home, were there any particular customs or celebrations, religious celebrations you can remember that you don't do now, or most people don't do now?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=1413.0,1427.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKONTER:\u003c/strong\u003e No, I probably follow everything my mother did, and I hope my kids follow that. We're not certainly as religious as they were. But first of all, let me say that you had dinner in the middle of the day, and you had supper at night because everybody came home at 2:00. Everybody had a large meal in the middle of the day because that's when the maids were there and that's when they took care of it. Your parents came home from the store, and you had a big meal. Then at nighttime, we have what we called milchiks . . . sour cream and that type of thing. Not like we lived today. Sunday dinner in the middle of the day was a big deal. There were two other things, every Wednesday afternoon, every store in the city of Savannah closed up and that was the day you went to Tybee. That was a big deal because all the Jewish kids, you went there on Wednesday afternoon and Sunday. Now, if somebody was lucky, they could rent something for a month at the beach. But very few people owned anything, they did after a while. But when I came along, you had to go to Tybee on Wednesday afternoon because your friends were going to be right there on 18th Street sitting on that boardwalk waiting for you to come. Then you went every Sunday and the parents took you. After a while they acquired little places down there and rented. I can remember, as a kid, my parents stayed on the back river where all the Kaminskys were at that time and Mr. Blumenthal, who ran the ten cent store on the corner of West Broad and Broughton. I could tell you a story because it gets to be pretty cute. Mrs. Blumenthal was very aristocratic woman, and the Blumenthal's then, they’re the people that were Judy Blumenthal's parents and some of the Blumenthals that have given back to the community and have left here. But anyway, they ran the ten cent store, and she couldn't drive, so she had a chauffeur. As a kid, I used to always say, \"When I grow up, I'm having a chauffeur and a car like that.\" But she used to take all her friends wherever they had to go, and she had a chauffeur, so that was a big deal. They had a man, who made candy in the window, and he used to make taffy and spin it. As kids, we used to stand in front of that window and watch him at the ten cent store make this candy. That was just probably the most exciting thing in our lives at the particular time. It was an entirely different lifestyle. It was a slow moving lifestyle. You went home to dinner, and they closed the stores on Wednesday afternoon. I don't mean one store, all the stores.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=1427.0,1605.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e I've got a question about the Jewish families living at the beach in the summer. What about the Orthodox families? Did they have Friday night and Saturday [service]?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=1605.0,1613.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKONTER:\u003c/strong\u003e They had a service generally at the Rabhans, if I remember correctly. I don't know whether the Garfunkels were down there in those days. But the Rabhans always had a Saturday morning service, and they had something on Friday night. When the people then began to live and most everybody at the beach lived on 17th [and] 18th that end of the beach. The south end of the beach didn't have any. Now, after I got married, we owned a house on Seventh and Butler. That was like being away from the world. But eventually it moved to Tenth Street and then everybody, all the Jewish people met on Tenth Street and sat on Tenth Street. That came along after I got married. But in the early days, they did have a service down at the beach, but only for like Saturday morning, Friday night, and that was it, because you had to drive, and it took much longer. We had a small road, two way road and cars didn't go as fast and it took longer in those days.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=1613.0,1685.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e In the days of segregation and the nurses taking the children to the beach, what did they do?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=1685.0,1693.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKONTER:\u003c/strong\u003e We can go even further than when my children came along. It was a wonderful life at the beach when I was married. The nice thing about the beaches you had generally, I stayed with my mother-in-law, and she left her cook in town to cook for the men and I brought mind out to sleep. She slept out there. We would take the children to the beach and then, like 12:00, she'd come pick up the children and she would bath them and she would feed them. Then we'd come and we would all have lunch together. Then the kids would . . . She'd already had the children down to nap, and then we'd go to play mahjong or bridge or whatever we played. Then we took them to the boardwalk and every maid, and their children and they used to [dress] them and be really . . . would meet at the boardwalk. Nobody ever worried that it wasn't safe. Then in the evenings you came back and most of those maids lived at the beach. They did run a bus where they could go back and forth, but most everybody had a maid that lived at the beach. We didn't know what a good life we had until life changed as we grew up. That was the kind of lifestyle, and the Jewish people always seemed to meet somewhere and do things together.  Not necessarily just your friends, it was just kind of a meeting of getting together and being together as I grew up. It was not uncommon for the stores on Broughton Street to stay open until 11:00, and I love to tell the story that Nat Weiss had a store next door to us, and that's Betty Weiss Lasky's parents.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=1693.0,1799.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e [Tape one], side two.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=1799.0,1802.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKONTER:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . It was not uncommon for the stores to stay open until I was saying that next door was Nat's Men’s and Boys’ Shop. People didn't have a lot of cars then, in fact, every family had one car. There was no such thing as two cars. Most people and they had what they called bicycle boys, and they came on their bicycles. I can remember that as a kid that everybody stayed open because they got paid on Saturday night, and then at they would come to Broughton Street to buy their clothes, particularly the men next door. Their bicycles looked like some of the wild cars of today. They had these things that were all over them. But our parents let us stay downtown to that hour. They didn't want to send you home; you didn't have anybody to be at home with. We would sit, they'd parked cars in front . . . of the stores. We as kids, which we were like 11, 12, we would sit around and talk in the car and that was a big thing to stay up to 11:00. Meanwhile, life moves on, and Larry and I went together. Let me tell you that the dating in those days, like when you were 12 or 13, we would have a party. Larry used to say whenever the girls wanted to find the boys, they'd have any excuse to have a party. The party consisted of your parents dropping you off at one of the girls houses and we had a party. Nobody could drive, so if it was Valentine's Day or whatever reason we wanted to have. Our big deal was we walked around the block together and that became a big party date. Then when we got a little older and we were getting close to 15 and 16, we used to have a party and if you wanted to date some fellas, then you would arrange for the three or four people who were giving the party to send him an invitation that said, \"Your date is . . .\" Now if he didn't want to take that date, he was stuck because he couldn't come to the party because he knew that that girl was asking for him. That was the kind of parties we started with. I have to tell you that Larry and I probably had our first date together, we walked around the corner. Then as time moved on and . . . the boys didn't drive; we would go to a place called Leopold's that was on the corner of where the Kroger’s is now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=1802.0,1962.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Habersham and Gwinnett.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=1962.0,1963.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKONTER:\u003c/strong\u003e Gwinnett, I couldn't remember. Habersham and Gwinnett, and it was not uncommon to walk there. Your parents took you to wherever the party was, and then afterwards you walked there, and they bought you a soda or a sundae, and everybody went. That was like the after party. Also, they always had, on special occasions, bonfires downtown in the parks, and that was to have a date and go to a bonfire. It was really a big deal. Then, long before we drove, we used to have parties at Isle of Hope and you took the street car. In fact, I was dating not Larry at the time, but somebody else, [I] got angry and went home on the streetcar by myself. I always remember that [as] my kids grew up, I said, \"Take your mad money with you.\" Remember that you went on that streetcar by yourself, he was furious.  He couldn't believe I did it. My mother was a little perturbed too when I went on the street by myself. But anyway, then as we began to, the boys would drive. Today our kids have got cars. They didn't have cars, they had to borrow Daddy's car and that had to be a special occasion, and they were very, very careful. But double dating was very popular, and they did have AZA. AZA had all kinds of affairs that the girls went to. Then the Armstrong College was on the corner of Bull and Park. Is that Park Avenue? But anyway, on that corner where the . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=1963.0,2067.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Gaston and Bull.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=2067.0,2068.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKONTER:\u003c/strong\u003e It's Gaston and Bull, and that was Armstrong College. They used to rent, they had a Gamble building, not where it is now, but behind it. They had an auditorium there and they would rent that out so that we would have dances in the afternoon, called tea dances, before I went to college. This was still in my teen years, and we would rent that place out and they would have dances in the afternoon and then they would have dances at night. We had chaperones and the parents came, no different than today. But Larry and I . . . were involved at the JEA. That's where we met. That's where we saw him. Everybody went to high school, the same high school. There were no private schools. Everybody went to Savannah High, so every Jewish kid of that age knew each other. Then . . . when they allowed you to walk from the Savannah High to Waters Avenue, there was a drugstore on that corner during lunch time that was . . . You'd really grown up and became very big. But we had the dramatic club and the boys participated as well as girls. I'm not sure the boys loved it, but the boys were able to be with the girls and that was the JEA, so that basically our social life were at home and at the JEA. Then of course when the boys were able to drive and go out and although Larry lived on the east side, he was part of the group, so to speak, and he lived on the east side . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=2068.0,2168.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . What do you call the east side? Where did he . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=2168.0,2169.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKONTER:\u003c/strong\u003e The east side would be anywhere from Bull Street, the opposite way. The west side is cut in half between Bull. But they lived . . . Marvin Shoob, who became Judge Shoob and Gilbert Odrezin, and the people that are around, they lived on that side of town and it was in the 900, 800, 900, 1000, 1100 block which was close to Waters Avenue, three or four blocks before you got to Waters Avenue, a block past it. That's because, like Larry's folks ran a little small grocery store on that side of town, and that was the logical place. In fact, interesting enough, I really didn't know his mother and father until somebody arranged for me to meet his mother somewhere because they went to the BB Jacob. But they were not my parents age level, they were younger, and so they didn't socialize with them. I knew all the people that were children of my parents' [friends]. But anyway, Larry kind of thought he was dating steady when he called you once every six weeks. It was fine, we dated, there was no such thing as girls went somewhere, boys went somewhere. You dated, if you didn't have a date, man, you didn't let anybody know, you stayed home, but you didn't let anybody know. It was not common for girls to ask guys to go out or go anywhere unless it was some big special occasion. But Friday nights and Saturday nights were the nights you dated, and you went to school all week long. Now, that doesn't mean that boys and girls didn't study together and didn't get together and they didn't see each other sometimes in the afternoons. But remember one thing, all of us kids worked for our parents. Now, that doesn't mean we went to work every day. But when you came home from school, if they were busy in their stores, you went downtown. Not only that, your friends worked. If their parents didn't have it . . . all my girlfriends worked for my mama and daddy in the Rose Dress Shop when they were busy at Christmas or when we were out of school. Somebody said the other day, I think they got paid $2 a day. That was a big deal because that gave them some money and they fed them lunch and that was a great thing. We really . . . didn't know we had a bad life. We thought we had a great life. We didn't have air conditioning, and we didn't have central heat, and we had one bathroom with four or five kids in it. But we lived a good life, and our parents always made us think we were as good or better than everybody else. We didn't have any dumb children at school, Jewish children. There was a reason for that because our parents said education is what you need, and you will study. You got this opportunity and we would be embarrassed to not be in the better class. They had more Jewish kids that made honor roll and did everything. I'm not saying that isn't so today, but it was much more important in those days than it is today. [tape stops and resumes] Let me say that when we graduated from high school, then in that whole group of Jewish students and kids that are graduating from high school, girls did not go to college. Boys were expected to go to college. That was what Jewish parents expected of them. They really couldn't afford to send . . . Armstrong was not around yet. We didn't have a college here. I shouldn't say that. Armstrong was in existence when I got out of school, but before that I think it came in 1936. In those days, nobody, no girl went to college. But of my graduating class, and we had about 20, 25 girls, I think six or eight of us went off to school and the rest of us, the rest of that crowd, went to business school or went to work. Not only that, they were afraid to go off to school when I went off to school. But remember now, I . . . graduated in 1942 from Savannah High. I did go to Armstrong for one year because my brother was in med school and my dad didn't think it was a smart idea and financially to send us both off to college at one time. But those were very . . . Armstrong was downtown. We had a lot of Jewish kids that went there, and we liked it. It was a very comfortable type of going to college. But then the war years came, and when I went off to [the University of] Georgia in . . . 1943, then we already were getting ready, we already were called to war and there were no boys on the campus. But then the government brought what they called ASTP [Army Specialized Training Program], which was the army part of sending students to college and they had V-12, which was the Navy part, and the University of Georgia had those people on the campus. But they were doing two years in one, and they weren't allowed out except on Saturday night. They were never allowed out. The fraternities all closed down. The sororities were in existence and that was the place to be, and it probably saved my life because Larry and I got engaged and he went overseas. If my kids ask me that today, I'd kill them, as they came along. But this was war days, and my folks were very upset that I wanted to get engaged because who knew whether that boy was coming back or not. We did lose some in Savannah, but he was overseas two and a half years while I was in college. It was a good thing I lived in a sorority house where I had companionship. There were very few Jewish boys on the campus. The only ones we got to talk to and know were the ones that were coming from out of town and going to those schools. I can remember Doris Goldin Lukin, who's married to Basil Lukin, and we were at Georgia and she was in law school at the time. There were things called v-mail, and you wrote letters, thin pieces of paper, and she would write a regular letter and v-mailed to Basil, who was overseas, he got three Purple Hearts at the time, and do them both at the same time because she wasn't sure he was going to give either one of them. That's the kind of thing girls did in the sorority house in those days is you lived for getting letters. There was no telephone. That was no way to get in touch with them.  I guess we were pretty foolish that we were serious with somebody. But I graduated in . . . June of 1946, on June 14th, and I got married on July 14th because Larry came, and everybody else did. Then we had the babies that became the . . . Boomer babies of today. But everybody, when the war was over . . . you were waiting to get married and that was your lifestyle. Now before that, and when we were like 16 and in high school, we did have army here, and it was not uncommon for the JEA to plan a program, and we went out to the base, which was here, and it was the Army Air Force base here. Then we went to Hinesville [Georgia], and our parents, our mothers chaperoned us, and they had these big dances. They did have lots of dances at the JEA at that time for the Army people that were stationed here that were Jewish. I remember during . . . those times we had people who did, I can't remember, Mickey Levy, Mickey Kapner [at the] time was her name, a group of her and Sylvia Udinsky, who was Sylvia Adler at the time, they did the spotting of airplanes and they . . . trained them how to do that kind of thing. That was the time that women suddenly went into the shipyards and worked and did men's work that they never had done before. I was still young, and I just thought that was remarkable that any woman would do that. That was the time that . . . once everybody got married, there were just crowds of Jewish people that were young couples married. Now we're getting those people back . . . After that, we had a loss of our people. But I can tell you that right now, I've got people who I grew up with that are still living in Savannah and we still are friends. We were friends like Lillian Heyman Lowe. She and I, we laugh about it, we were little kids and we sat on the corner of Jefferson and 38th Street. She lived on one side. I lived on the 300 block. She lived on the 200 block. We weren't allowed to cross the street, so we sat on that corner, there was no traffic and talked to each other. Now we're still friends, so that it was not uncommon for the community to stay. Interesting enough, Larry and I, there was not much difference I guess between us, but most of the people married what we call the guys in the next crowd and that was a big deal because when we were growing up, it was one crowd that was a year and a half older then us, and then we came along. But we just thought those girls were so sophisticated, so classy. They also had a club at the Alliance. They had age group clubs at the Alliance, and as you grew, you usually moved along with the same group of people so that . . . it was a really good lifestyle. We didn't know we had a bad lifestyle. We thought we were pretty good, and we only had good memories. I don't remember anybody mentally having problems in those days, parents or kids, and maybe they did, but I was never involved in it. We were very content and happy and busy with our lives and trying to accomplish something. Now we get into the married stage and I got involved. Hadassah was there and B'nai B'rith Women was here, and of course, all the Sisterhoods of the synagogues and the JEA had a women's club which most all the young people belonged to. I'll tell you a real cute story. My mother took me to the Hebrew Women's Aid when I came back because she just thought that was an organization I needed to be involved in. I had come from being president of [the] sorority, and I thought I knew all of Robert's Rules of Order and everything was great. She took me to this meeting that Mrs. Garfunkel had been president at the time for 36 years, I think, and the same Mrs. Blumenthal was the treasurer and that was the age group that was there. They asked for a treasurer's report. Now, I understand that those ladies did work and still do in the secrecy of what's going on and nobody knows what they've got. This woman, Mrs. Blumenthal, stood up and I was a nice, smart, young college graduate, and I thought I knew everything. They asked her for a treasurer’s report. She stood up and she said, \"Don't worry about it. Everything's okay.\" With that, she sat down. I just thought that was the worst thing I ever heard in my life. \"What kind of treasurer's report . . .\" My mother said, \"Don't worry about it. Everything's okay.\" That was the kind of days that we had, and I probably . . . we got involved in the JEA because we'd been born in the JEA. That was where we were, and the women's club was very important at that time. I can remember that Francis Gretenstein and I, alav ha-sholom [Peace be upon her]. We did the last spaghetti supper in the old building before we moved to the new building. I don't know how we took that on. We were pretty youngly married, but we were part of that, and the women's club was big, and we had those women's club variety shows and everybody got involved in that from getting the stuff together. But that was our life, and we knew that. Then I was always a member of Hadassah, but Zionism wasn't in my blood at that time. I didn't feel that strongly. But B'nai B'rith Women came along and that did things in the United States. I just thought that was something I wanted to be involved in. They had B'nai B'rith Men at that time also. I can remember that one year I chaired the booth at the fairgrounds and the Cadillac Affair, which you paid $50, and you had a chance to win. As the chairman of ways and means, I must have been out of my mind because I could remember we were in the supermarket business at that time. Larry and I would go out to the fairgrounds every night at about 11:00 and pick up the money and take it to the store and put it in the safe. Now, we had young children, but we . . . had some live in help and we were able to do those kind of things. Our supermarket made the potatoes, the French fries. We actually had a machine in the supermarket. Now you buy them frozen, but we couldn't get them. We made every French fry that we have sold out there. Now, that was . . . probably the most organized group, and I'm going back to Dot Levy Wexler and Dot Odess and those ladies. They did what the United Jewish Appeal, what do we call it now, whatever it is, we did the organization that they now do, because we had a chairman of the week, we had a chairman of the day, we had a chairman of the hour. I would say that we involved 200 Jewish women in that week of working out at the fairgrounds. It was the place to be and the place to do and everybody worked, and that was the kind of organization. Locally you got involved with the region and I did serve on the region and still I was probably, I was the working wife that everybody thought, if somebody went to work as a working wife, my God, her husband couldn't afford to support her. But I had a degree in dietetics, and I worked one summer in Candler Hospital. Then I had a husband that said in small print, he said, \"I don't want my wife to work,\" and the little print, it said, \"For anybody else but me.\" I was a working mother and wife from six months after I got married. But I had the freedom to do what I wanted. I played bridge and I played mahjong and did some [of that]. But most of the women did not work, so they had plenty of time for organizations. They were looking for things, and most of those women, not my age group, but above me, had not had that college education. Now, as they came along, they suddenly had a profession, and they wanted to use it. But it was not common for a wife to work in those days. They had plenty of time to give to the organization . . . Oh, the tape's still running.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=2169.0,3163.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e There were so many different activities, parties, names some that the . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=3163.0,3168.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKONTER:\u003c/strong\u003e Let me tell you, the JEA always, I can remember that we used to rush our backs out at the supermarket because they always had a Thanksgiving dance. We always had a New Year's Eve dance. That didn't mean my age group. I can remember Buster Gottlieb sitting in the middle of the floor on New Year's Eve to have all the girls come kiss him. He was probably 40 years older than me. Mickey Levy, Mickey Kapner's mother and daddy used to have this table, and I remember somebody had a birthday and they were always there so that everybody went to the JEA . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=3168.0,3208.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . There were Yom Kippur parties.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=3208.0,3209.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKONTER:\u003c/strong\u003e That's what I was going to say. Then they had parties, Yom Kippur and break the fast. I always like to say when my kids came along, they had a thing called the, instead of the Super Bowl, they had the Rosh HaShanah bowl behind the JEA. They allowed them to do that, and they played touch football. It got to be a big thing. Every kid, when they left synagogue and after they went home and had their dinner, they went over to the JEA that afternoon and that was permissible. The building was close, but they had what they called the Rosh HaShanah bowl so that there were all kinds of activities that you did not just with your crowd. The Temple had the Harmonie Club, which had a building on their own. But . . . in those days, whoever was a member of that, were members of the Temple. It changed over the years. But you were basically a member of the Temple, and they, I believe they black bald people, I never knew. But they voted you in and you really had to be a Reform Jew at the time to be a member of that. They had people who cooked and kept things, and they had parties up there and did things like that. But between the synagogue and the JEA there was always something going on. We had concerts and we had people coming and I don't know, I guess you were born. Most of the people were not foreigners unless they brought home a wife or husband that was not local, but the JEA was your life. They had basketball tournaments, that was the biggest thing. You didn't miss that. The JEA played citywide and that was a very exciting time . . .  and then you had a party afterwards. We did a lot of that. In my younger day, we square danced, and we used to square dance at the JEA and we had more Jewish square dancers in town then every were. Then I can remember that we had the Derenne Street store. The supermarket was on Derenne Street, and you used to wake people up and tell them to come in their pajamas, and we did it at the supermarket. We cleared the whole front of the supermarket and opened it up at 2:00 in the morning and square danced. That was not only the Jewish square dancers, but the other people that we had gotten friendly with and danced with. But the JEA had probably the largest amount of people square dancing at the JEA. It was a great place to come. It was open to the public and we had lots of non-Jews. It was a great relationship, but the JEA had their own club and their own caller, and we had every age group square dancing . . . The center and the place was used. Now, you have a dance and . . . if you get 30 people on New Year's Eve, you've done well. It's a different lifestyle.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=3209.0,3397.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e At what point can you think where the city, the non-Jewish crowd, became more antisemitic?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=3397.0,3405.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKONTER:\u003c/strong\u003e They were antisemitic when I was a kid. I told you, I lived on . . . West 38th Street. I lived in the middle of the block, and I remember there were some Catholic people that lived on the corner and the little girls were my good friends. Now understand, I'm like first, second grade, and they were my good friends. Their name were O'Gill, so they were Catholic. I can remember, I guess their father must have been a policeman. I know he was red faced, but they used to run up and down the street and say, \"Damn Jew, damn Jew,\" in front of my house. Now, they only knew that I'm sure that's what their parents said, \"Those damn Jews live down the street.\" They didn't know what that meant. I know that one of those children became a priest, when we grew up. But . . . you were very conscious of it at that stage. I believe that we . . . didn't assimilate. There's a big difference today. They didn't want us, and we really didn't want them. We wanted them as friends, but we didn't want them as social friends. We would go to school with them, and we would come after school and study with them. But when it came time to party or do their things, you just didn't do that. That was because it was antisemitic feelings there. But they brought with them, I'm not blaming them, but . . . that came from their parents.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=3405.0,3493.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e With a very typically Jewish sounding name as Kanter were there problems with the business through the years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=3493.0,3501.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eKONTER:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh yes. People changed their name and movie stars changed their name and people that did things like that. That's why they didn't call the store Kanter’s. They called it the Rose Dress Shop, or they called it the Kay's Dress Shop. Now there were some, and people used to get upset because when Rosh HaShanah came and everybody kept two days in those days, every store on Broughton Street was closed and every supermarket was closed, and every grocery store was closed. People said, \"They run the town. These people are wealthy people. They run the town.\" They resented, and the students were smart in class, and they used to say, \"You see those Jews. They know how to be the head of the classes.\" But we were never really the officers. We . . . were successful and making the honor roll and doing that. But we became a lowly officer. But very seldom do you became the president of that class or the president of that school because you were Jewish. I understand, I think there's still . . . When I became president the Georgia Association of Realtors, not only was I the first woman president, I was the first Jewish woman. Larry and I never denied that. Rabbi Slatus once said when Larry passed away, we were probably the best people that were able to get involved because we had very close and still do non-Jewish friends. But they understood we were Jewish, and we understood what they were, and we had a relationship that was excellent. But to this day, I still think that people point out just like, \"You're the first black woman. You're the first Jewish woman.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=3501.0,3610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/transcript/73939/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMEYERHOFF:\u003c/strong\u003e Have you ever asked anyone not to say when you're giving . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=3610.0,18017.5"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/annotation_set/1698","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/annotation_set/1698/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eHeyman “Hyman” Kanter (1886-1962) immigrated from Russia in 1907. In 1914, he married his wife, Bertha Liverant in New York City. They moved to Savannah, Georgia where he operated the Rose Dress Shop. He and Bertha had four children – Gilbert, Nina, Walter, and Harriet. He was a member of Congregation B’nai B’rith.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=10.0,74.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/annotation_set/1698/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBertha Liverant Kanter (1892-1985) was born in Poland and later immigrated to the United States. She met her husband Hyman Kanter in New York City, and they married in 1914. They later moved to Savannah, Georgia, where Hyman operated the Rose Dress Shop. She was a member of Congregation B’nai B’rith. She and Hyman had four children – Gilbert, Nina, Walter, and Harriet.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=10.0,74.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/annotation_set/1698/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBroughton Street is a prominent street in Savannah, Georgia. Originally, the street was only known as Broughton Street, but the addresses are now split between West Broughton Street and East Broughton Street. The street is named for Thomas Broughton, a former lieutenant-governor of South Carolina. The street is located entirely within Savannah’s Historic District.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=10.0,74.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/annotation_set/1698/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eSavannah is the oldest city in the state of Georgia. It is a coastal city, separated from Charleston, South Carolina by the Savannah River. The city and the colony of Georgia was founded in 1733 when General James Oglethorpe and settlers arrived. During the Revolutionary War the city was the southernmost commercial port and during the Civil War it was the sixth most populous city in the Confederacy. City officials negotiated a peaceful surrender of the city in 1864, saving the city from destruction by General Sherman’s army. The city is known for its historic district with its 22 parklike squares, which was based on a design known as the Oglethorpe Plan.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=10.0,74.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/annotation_set/1698/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eNina Kanter Greenholtz (1917-2005) was a Savannah, Georgia native and second child born to Hyman and Bertha Liverant Kanter. She was married to Lester Greenholtz for 55 years and they had a son and daughter. Nina and Lester owned and operated Kay’s Dress Shop on Broughton Street in Savannah. She was a member of the Jewish Educational Alliance and other civic organizations.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=10.0,74.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/annotation_set/1698/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eGilbert Kanter (1915-1976) was a Savannah, Georgia native and oldest child of Hyman and Bertha Liverant Kanter. He was married to Esther Levin in 1937 and they had a son and daughter. He was a member of Congregation B’nai B’rith. \u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDr. Walter Kanter (1920-2005) was a Savannah, Georgia native and third child of Hyman and Bertha Liverant Kanter. He worked as a doctor in Savannah for 40 years. He was a member of the American Medical Association, American College of Surgeons, the Southern Medical Society, and the Southeastern Surgical Congress. In 1945, he married Genevieve “Jean” Pomerantz and they had one daughter and two sons. He attended Congregation B’nai B’rith Jacob. \u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=10.0,74.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/annotation_set/1698/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eA sukkah, succah, sukkot, sukkos, or sukkoth, is a temporary hut constructed for use during the week-long Jewish festival of Sukkot. It is topped with branches and often well decorated with autumnal, harvest or Judaic themes. It is common for Jews to eat, sleep, and otherwise spend time in the sukkah. In Judaism, Sukkot is considered a joyous occasion and the sukkah itself symbolizes the fragility and transience of life and one's dependence on God.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=76.0,492.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/annotation_set/1698/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003ePurim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people in the ancient Persian Empire from destruction in the wake of a plot by Haman, a story recorded in the Biblical Book of Esther. According to the Book of Esther, Haman planned to kill all the Jews, but Mordecai and his adopted daughter Queen Esther foiled his plans. The day of deliverance became a day of feasting and rejoicing. Some of the customs of Purim include drinking wine, wearing masks and costumes, and public celebration.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=76.0,492.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/annotation_set/1698/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eArdsley Park is a neighborhood in Savannah, Georgia. It is part of two planned subdivisions that were laid out from 1909 to 1910 by Savannahians Harry Lay Lattimore and William Lattimore. The neighborhood was developed during a time of great growth for the city. It was laid out in a strict grid with one-acre landscaped parks placed at regular intervals. 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The road originally was a series of unpaved roads that connected the western edge of Savannah to the small fishing village of Warsaw which, after 1921, was incorporated as the town of Thunderbolt.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=76.0,492.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/annotation_set/1698/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eLawrence “Larry” Konter (1923-1995) was a Savannah, Georgia native and son of Morris and Nathalie Fox Konter. He served in the Army during World War II. In 1946, he married Harriet Kanter and they had one daughter and two sons. He was President of Konter Realty Company, Residential Equities, Inc. and Vice-President of Konter Management Company in Savannah. 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He celebrates the bar mitzvah by being called up to the reading of the Torah 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/140490/file/259833#t=76.0,492.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/annotation_set/1698/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eA bat mitzvah [Hebrew: daughter of commandments] is a rite of passage for Jewish girls aged 12 years and one day according to her Hebrew birthday. Many girls have their bat mitzvah around age 13, the same as boys who have their bar mitzvah at that age. The bat mitzvah girl is now duty bound to keep the commandments. 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She was a member of Congregation of B’nai B’rith Jacob, active in Hadassah, and served several terms on the Jewish Educational Alliance board. She worked for a bookkeeper and enjoyed playing bridge, mahjong and knitting. She was married to Abe Goodman.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=76.0,492.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/annotation_set/1698/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eCoca-Cola or Coke is a carbonated soft drink manufactured by the Coca-Cola Company. It was created in the late 19th century as an alcohol-free or temperance drink by John Stith Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia. 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It covers more then 30 acres in the city’s historic district. The land for the park was donated in the 1840s by William Brown Hodgson and named for statesman and the 33rd Georgia governor John Forsyth. The park’s iconic fountain was installed in 1858 and has become a symbol of the city.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=630.0,848.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/annotation_set/1698/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eSavannah High School was originally located at Washington Ave between East and West Atlantic Avenues. The original building was built by the Works Progress Administration on the site of a planned luxury hotel. 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The tradition is that on Rosh HaShanah, G-d sits in judgment on humanity. Then the fate of every living creature is inscribed in the Book of Life or the Book of Death. 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Food that may be consumed is deemed kosher, from the Ashkenazi pronunciation of the Hebrew term kashér, meaning \"fit\" (in this context, \"fit for consumption\"). In colloquial English, kosher often means \"legitimate,\" \"acceptable,\" \"permissible,\" \"genuine,\" or \"authentic.\"\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833#t=630.0,848.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140490/file/259833/annotation_set/1698/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eYom Kippur [Hebrew: “day of atonement”] The most sacred day of the Jewish year. Yom Kippur is a 25-hour fast day. Most of the day is spent in prayer, reciting yizkor for deceased relatives, confessing sins, requesting divine forgiveness, and listening to Torah readings and sermons. 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