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He first arrived in the United States in 1909 and gained his U.S. citizenship around 1920 while living and working in New York City. He returned to Rhodes in 1919 to marry his wife Regina “Reina” Israel before returning to the United States. They had four children together: Louis, Morris, Martha Perlmutter, and Rachel Page. He moved to Atlanta, Georgia in 1928 and established Nass Shoe Repair in the Virginia-Highland area, which he operated for 55 years, retiring at the age of 98. He died January 15, 1997, at the age of 111. He was a long-time member of Congregation Or VeShalom. \u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eMr. Almeleh begins by discussing his upcoming 107th birthday and reflects on how long he has been in the United States after immigrating from Rhodes. He talks about moving to Atlanta with his wife, opening a shoe-repair shop, and starting a family. He speaks at length about Congregation Or VeShalom, Rabbi Cohen, and Rabbi Ichay. He ends by recounting a trip he took to Rhodes in the 1970s and reflects on how the much the island had changed from when he was growing up.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/29184"]}},{"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":["Almeleh, Nissim, 1885-1997 (personal name)","Almeleh, Reina Israel, 1900-1970 (personal name)","Ichay, Robert, 1929-2012 (personal name)","Cohen, Joseph Isaac, 1896-1985 (personal name)","Amato, Menashe, 1885-1958 (personal name)","Shemaria, Bennie, 1893-1973 (personal name)","Congregation Or VeShalom (Atlanta, Ga.) (corporate name)","William Breman Jewish Home (corporate name)","Kahal Kadosh Gadol Synagogue (corporate name)","Rhodes (Greece) (geographic term)","Camp Gordon (DeKalb County, Ga.) (geographic term)","Ponce de Leon Avenue (Atlanta, Ga.) (geographic term)","Highland Avenue (Atlanta, Ga.) (geographic term)","World War I, 1914-1918 (named event)","World War II, 1939-1945 (named event)","Sephardim (topical term)","Jews, Spanish (topical term)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eNissim \"Nass\" Almeleh was interviewed by Herbert R. Karp on January 7, 1992 at the William Breman Jewish Home in Atlanta, Georgia.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNissim \u0026ldquo;Nass\u0026rdquo; Almeleh was born on April 15, 1885 on the island of Rhodes, Greece (then a part of Turkey). He first arrived in the United States in 1909 and gained his U.S. citizenship around 1920 while living and working in New York City. He returned to Rhodes in 1919 to marry his wife Regina \u0026ldquo;Reina\u0026rdquo; Israel before returning to the United States. They had four children together: Louis, Morris, Martha Perlmutter, and Rachel Page. He moved to Atlanta, Georgia in 1928 and established Nass Shoe Repair in the Virginia-Highland area, which he operated for 55 years, retiring at the age of 98. He died January 15, 1997, at the age of 111. He was a long-time member of Congregation Or VeShalom.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Almeleh begins by discussing his upcoming 107th birthday and reflects on how long he has been in the United States after immigrating from Rhodes. He talks about moving to Atlanta with his wife, opening a shoe-repair shop, and starting a family. He speaks at length about Congregation Or VeShalom, Rabbi Cohen, and Rabbi Ichay. He ends by recounting a trip he took to Rhodes in the 1970s and reflects on how the much the island had changed from when he was growing up.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - Almeleh__Nass_lofi.mp3"]},"duration":1493.664,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-thebreman.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/206/740/original/Almeleh__Nass_lofi.mp3?1692978975","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mpeg","duration":1493.664,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Nissim Almeleh [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KARP: . . . at the Jewish Home, and the date is January 7, 1992, and I'm\ntalking to Nass Almeleh. You pronounce your name Al-me-leh'?\n\nALMELEH: Al-me'-leh.\n\nKARP: Al-me'-leh.\n\nALMELEH: Al-me'-leh.\n\nKARP: And you say that in two weeks you'll be how old?\n\nALMELEH: Huh?\n\nKARP: How old will you be in two weeks?\n\nALMELEH: In two weeks?\n\nKARP: You'll be a hundred and . . .\n\nALMELEH: April the 15th.\n\nKARP: April 15, you'll be . . .\n\nALMELEH: Be 107.\n\nKARP: That's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"marvelous. And you're in good health?\n\nALMELEH: Nothing wrong.\n\nKARP: How long have you been in Atlanta?\n\nALMELEH: Since 1909.\n\nKARP: 1909. Where were you born, Mr. Almeleh?\n\nALMELEH: Island of Rhodes.\n\nKARP: In Rhodes. So, it was Turkey previously.\n\nALMELEH: Yes. Now it's Greek. You know, on account of [indistinct].\n\nKARP: But most of the . . .\n\nALMELEH: 1909, I come to United States. I've been in the Army, 1917.\n\nKARP: In the United States Army?\n\nALMELEH: I've been in the Army in 1917.\n\nKARP: Where did you serve?\n\nALMELEH: Huh?\n\nKARP: Where did you serve in the Army? Were you overseas?\n\nALMELEH: When President Wilson.\n\nKARP: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Did you go to Europe or did you stay in the United States?\n\nALMELEH: No, no. Stayed in Camp Gordon.\n\nKARP: In Camp Gordon? [How long have you been] in Atlanta?\n\nALMELEH: Long time. How long now, how many years now?\n\nKARP: Well, now it's been - 1919, 1920, so it's been over seventy years.\n\nALMELEH: Over seventy.\n\nKARP: Yeah, over seventy years. Seventy, seventy-five years. And you moved . . .\n\nALMELEH: In 1920, I went to Europe, got married over there and come back . . . 1909.\n\nKARP: And why did you - you came right to Atlanta, or where did you . . . when\nyou came from . . .\n\nALMELEH: New York.\n\nKARP: New York, and then to Atlanta.\n\nALMELEH: I had been over there, my sister. I had a sister over there, five\nbrothers. I got a brother who . . . Atlantic crossing at that time, before me\n[in] 1909. Before me, he moved from there to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"New York. But now, how many years\nnow? I'm a hundred and -- be 107 year. How many years now in the\nUnited States?\n\nKARP: You were here since 1909, so you've been here eighty-two years.\n\nALMELEH: Eighty-two years.\n\nKARP: That's marvelous.\n\nALMELEH: It's nice. Isn't that nice?\n\nKARP: Now, you came here as a young man.\n\nALMELEH: Yes.\n\nKARP: Why did you come to Atlanta?\n\nALMELEH: Why'd I come?\n\nKARP: Why did you come to Atlanta?\n\nALMELEH: Oh, I had a cousin over here. Uncle. My wife, she had an uncle over\nhere, Ben Shemaria, you know. He passed away now.\n\nKARP: Shumario?\n\nALMELEH: Shemaria, Ben Shemaria. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He passed away. My wife, she wanted to come to\nAtlanta. She didn't want to live in New York on account of Puerto Ricans, too\nmany. Too many Puerto Ricans there.\n\nKARP: Even in 1909?\n\nALMELEH: Huh?\n\nKARP: Even in 1909?\n\nALMELEH: 1909, United States, in New York.\n\nKARP: Were you married then?\n\nALMELEH: I was married in 1920.\n\nKARP: You married in 1920.\n\nALMELEH: 1920.\n\nKARP: So, you came to Atlanta when, in . . .\n\nALMELEH: 1920.\n\nKARP: You came to Atlanta in 1920.\n\nALMELEH: Yes. Got married and come right back.\n\nKARP: Oh, I see. All right. So let me get this straight now: you were in New\nYork in 1909. You stayed in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"New York from 1909 until 1920. Now, the Army sent\nyou to Atlanta? The Army . . .\n\nALMELEH: Yeah.\n\nKARP: . . . sent you to Camp Gordon?\n\nALMELEH: Yes, yes.\n\nKARP: So that's why you came to Atlanta? And between 1909 and the time you went\ninto the Army, what did you do? Did you work in New York?\n\nALMELEH: Sent me to Camp Gordon, you know.\n\nKARP: I know. Before Camp Gordon?\n\nALMELEH: Before Gordon, after the wedding, went to Isle of Rhodes.\n\nKARP: No, before . . .\n\nALMELEH: Got married over there.\n\nKARP: Yeah, but before Gordon, when you still lived in New ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"York, what kind of\nwork did you do?\n\nALMELEH: Sell things in the picture show, in the movies.\n\nKARP: You sold tickets?\n\nALMELEH: In the movies, sell candy.\n\nKARP: Oh, you sold candy in the movies?\n\nALMELEH: Yeah.\n\nKARP: Where? In Brooklyn or . . .\n\nALMELEH: In the movie pictures, movie pictures, sell candy because I can make a\ngood living. I made good living in New York at that time. My wife, she wanted to\ncome to Atlanta because I had an uncle, uncle here, Ben Shemaria, you know. My\nwife, she come, I come. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In the end, I come.\n\nKARP: All right, so you went back to Rhodes. You married your wife in Rhodes.\n\nALMELEH: When my wife passed away, two years later, I went to Rhodes just to\nvisit over there.\n\nKARP: Yeah.\n\nALMELEH: Went to Israel, to Israel, Tel Aviv, Israel. Went to Tel Aviv, Israel.\n\nKARP: All right. Now let's go back to 1920.\n\nALMELEH: Yeah.\n\nKARP: 1920, you married.\n\nALMELEH: I married in 1920.\n\nKARP: Yeah, but where?\n\n ALMELEH: 1919.\n\nKARP: Where?\n\nALMELEH: Island of Rhodes.\n\nKARP: Now what was your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wife's name, your first wife?\n\nALMELEH: First wife?\n\nKARP: What was her name?\n\nALMELEH: Name? Regina. Regina Israel, Reina Israel.\n\nKARP: So, you came back to Atlanta.\n\nALMELEH: I miss her so much.\n\nKARP: An Eshet Chayil. Your wife was a jewel of a woman.\n\nALMELEH: Oh, jewel. Had four children.\n\nKARP: You had four children.\n\nALMELEH: Two boys and two girls.\n\nKARP: What [were] their names?\n\nALMELEH: My children?\n\nKARP: Yeah.\n\nALMELEH: One is Louis, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Louis Almeleh. He was in the Army, twenty-three years in\nthe Army, twenty-three years in the Army. He was overseas. And the other one,\nMorris. Morris had been twenty years in the Navy, twenty years in the Navy.\n\nKARP: Did you have any daughters?\n\nALMELEH: Huh?\n\nKARP: Did you have any daughters?\n\nALMELEH: Two girls and two boys, that's all.\n\nKARP: What were the daughters' names?\n\nALMELEH: My daughters' names; one is Rachel and the other one is Martha. And we\nhad Louis and Morris. Good boys.\n\nKARP: Yes. Now, when you came back to Atlanta after you married your wife.\n\nALMELEH: We come with my wife, together.\n\nKARP: Yeah. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What kind of work did you do here?\n\nALMELEH: Shoe repairing.\n\nKARP: Where?\n\nALMELEH: Ponce de Leon [Avenue].\n\nKARP: Ponce de Leon.\n\nALMELEH: And then I moved to Highland Avenue. Shoe repairing. I learned the shoe\nrepairing [indistinct].\n\nKARP: Now, when you first came to Atlanta, how many Sephardic were here?\n\nALMELEH: How many Jewish?\n\nKARP: Sephardic.\n\nALMELEH: Sephardic?\n\nKARP: Yeah.\n\nALMELEH: Many, many.\n\nKARP: So [the] Francos were here?\n\nALMELEH: We had almost, about forty families, forty families. Now we have nothing.\n\nKARP: And most . . .\n\nALMELEH: Now, nobody now.\n\nKARP: Now most of the families lived where, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Central Avenue?\n\nALMELEH: Huh?\n\nKARP: Where did you live in Atlanta, Central Avenue?\n\nALMELEH: Central Avenue, yes. Woodward Avenue.\n\nKARP: Yes. Who was the rabbi then?\n\nALMELEH: It was the shul over there on Central Avenue, you remember?\n\nKARP: Yeah, sure.\n\nALMELEH: The shul on Central Avenue?\n\nKARP: Who was the rabbi?\n\nALMELEH: I lived across the street from the shul [indistinct].\n\nKARP: I see. Who was the rabbi?\n\nALMELEH: Rabbi?\n\nKARP: The first rabbi?\n\nALMELEH: The first rabbi was Rabbi Cohen.\n\nKARP: Rabbi Cohen. Rabbi Cohen was here when you came?\n\nALMELEH: Yes, Rabbi Cohen, yes.\n\nKARP: Marvelous person.\n\nALMELEH: Was a good man. He was very good. I was together with the Rabbi Cohen.\nTogether, you know, to bring me ideas. Rabbi Cohen. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I miss him. You can't get no\nmore like him.\n\nKARP: Well, Rabbi Ichay is a good man too.\n\nALMELEH: Ichay. The same, like Rabbi Cohen. If you see Rabbi Ichay, give him my best.\n\nKARP: I certainly will. And I'll tell him that you want . . .\n\nALMELEH: Tell him you talk with me . . . when you . . .\n\nKARP: I'll make a point to see him soon.\n\nALMELEH: Soon. Say I like [him] so much, very good rabbi.\n\nKARP: Alright. I'll certainly tell him.\n\nALMELEH: Sometime when my son come here, you know . . . he lives in [indistinct]\n. . . to Or VeShalom, Rabbi Ichay so glad to see me there. I\n\nmiss it too much.\n\nKARP: Now, you still speak ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ladino?\n\nALMELEH: Huh?\n\nKARP: Can you speak Ladino still?\n\nALMELEH: Oh, speak in Spanish?\n\nKARP: Ladino?\n\nALMELEH: Ladino . . . Spanish and English, that's all.\n\nKARP: Ivrit? Hebrew?\n\nALMELEH: Hebrew?\n\nKARP: Yeah.\n\nALMELEH: Not much anymore.\n\nKARP: Now, tell me, in the 1920's, when you first came, your shoe . . . your\nshoe shop was on Ponce de Leon?\n\nALMELEH: No, it wasn't a shoe shop. I was working for some Greek hat cleaners,\nyou know.\n\nKARP: Hat cleaners.\n\nALMELEH: They give me twenty dollars a week. Twenty dollars a week, that's to\nwork, on Marietta Street.\n\nKARP: On Marietta Street.\n\nALMELEH: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes. I used to work over there. He'd give me twenty dollars a week. To\nmake a good living, you know, twenty dollars. Twenty dollars a week at that time\nwas good money.\n\nKARP: It was very good money, sure.\n\nALMELEH: And then, little by little, the Greek closed up their business. I went\nand learned shoe repairing from somebody.\n\nKARP: Who taught you?\n\nALMELEH: It was Menashe Amato. He passed away now.\n\nKARP: Amato.\n\nALMELEH: Amato. You remember Amato?\n\nKARP: Sure. I know Jake Amato.\n\nALMELEH: Jake Amato. You remember them?\n\nKARP: Sure, I know Jake.\n\nALMELEH: He [taught] me shoe repairing. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Shoe repairing, hat cleaning . . . make\ngood money. You remember those people?\n\nKARP: And where was your first . . . ?\n\nALMELEH: [indistinct] Amato, you remember?\n\nKARP: Amato, yes.\n\nALMELEH: Amato. He had a son, David. The son, David Amato.\n\nKARP: David Amato and his daughter. David Amato's daughter is Lucy Amato.\n\nALMELEH: Daughter. You remember his daughter too? They living?\n\nKARP: Lucy Amato is living. Lucy Amato lives in Savannah.\n\nALMELEH: David Amato? You don't know?\n\nKARP: No. Where was your shop - your first shop?\n\nALMELEH: First shop? Ponce de Leon.\n\nKARP: Where on Ponce de Leon?\n\nALMELEH: Ponce de Leon.\n\nKARP: Where on Ponce de Leon?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ALMELEH: Ponce de Leon, between - I don't know the street. I don't know the\nstreet now [indistinct]. I think it was . . .\n\nKARP: So, it was on Ponce de Leon.\n\nALMELEH: Ponce de Leon, Parkway Drive.\n\nKARP: Oh, I see.\n\nALMELEH: Between Parkway Drive.\n\nKARP: So that was a fancy neighborhood.\n\nALMELEH: Yeah. Had a shoe shop over there. I didn't know, but I learned and then\nwhen I learned, I make a lot of money. I make good business.\n\nKARP: And the synagogue was still on . . .\n\nALMELEH: Synagogue was over there, you know, Or VeShalom.\n\nKARP: It was on Central Avenue.\n\nALMELEH: At that time.\n\nKARP: The synagogue move to Highland Avenue.\n\nALMELEH: It was . . . There was the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Central Avenue one. And then it went to . .\n. what's the name of . . .\n\nKARP: Highland Avenue.\n\nALMELEH: Highland Avenue. Highland Avenue now. And they moved now two, three\ntimes I see them move.\n\nKARP: Did your daughters marry Sephardic?\n\nALMELEH: Huh?\n\nKARP: Did your daughters . . . ?\n\nALMELEH: Married? Yes.\n\nKARP: Did they marry Sephardic?\n\nALMELEH: Yes.\n\nKARP: Sephardic? And where do they live now?\n\nALMELEH: One live in Montgomery, Alabama. The other one lives in . . . my\ndaughter lives here. And one boy in California, and the other boy in Virginia.\nVirginia and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"California, Montgomery, Alabama, and Atlanta.\n\nKARP: How many grandchildren do you have?\n\nALMELEH: Two girls and two boys.\n\nKARP: No, grandchildren.\n\nALMELEH: Grandchildren?\n\nKARP: Yeah.\n\nALMELEH: Grandchildren, eleven. And five I got great grandchildren. Eleven\ngrandchildren, and great grandchildren, five.\n\nKARP: Now --\n\nALMELEH: Figured out that much.\n\nKARP: That's marvelous.\n\nALMELEH: Thank you God that I'm living at my age. Still, I feel good.\n\nKARP: Well, you've seen a lot of changes in Atlanta.\n\nALMELEH: My sons . . .\n\nKARP: No, you . . .\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ALMELEH: One in California, the other one over there. He was working for the\nArmy, you know, Post Office. The Post Office. Now [he] is retired, you know. And\nthe other one, it was twenty years in the Army. He was in the Pacific. Now, he's\nretired. He [gets a] good pension, good pension and everything. Thank God it's\nall right.\n\nKARP: Mr. Almeleh, Atlanta has changed since you came here. Atlanta is not the\nsame city now, is it?\n\nALMELEH: Same thing . . . When I come to Atlanta . . .\n\nKARP: Yeah.\n\nALMELEH: I like it.\n\nKARP: But how about now?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ALMELEH: I like it. I love it. Of course, you know, I'm now a senior, stay here\nin the Jewish Home. Thank God, I stay in the Jewish Home. You know, when you're\nold, 107 years old, where you got to go? Thank God, they take good care. They\ntake good care. I like it. Thank God, I live - I feel in good shape.\n\nKARP: Now, how long . . . when did Mrs. Almeleh die?\n\nALMELEH: Retire?\n\nKARP: When did your wife, your first wife die?\n\nALMELEH: First wife? First wife ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"died . . . couldn't say too much.\n\nKARP: When did she die?\n\nALMELEH: She died in . . . in Florida.\n\nKARP: When?\n\nALMELEH: First wife.\n\nKARP: How old was she?\n\nALMELEH: She was nineteen years old. Oh, see, it was . . . there was a time . .\n. it wouldn't have stayed long together. It was about two months, three months,\nthat's all. We can't get along together, so, she was good lady but [we] couldn't\nget along together.\n\nKARP: Your first wife?\n\nALMELEH: First wife, yes.\n\nKARP: Wife from Rhodes?\n\nALMELEH: That's all.\n\nKARP: Two months?\n\nALMELEH: About three months. She liked somebody else, moved with somebody. . .\n\nKARP: And then you remarried? You married again?\n\nALMELEH: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When I get married again? 1920. 1920. I went to Europe. I went to\nEurope. When I get finished with the Army, I went to Europe and got married over there.\n\nKARP: So that was your second wife?\n\nALMELEH: Second wife, Regina.\n\nKARP: Regina. And when did she die?\n\nALMELEH: She died in 1919. No, she died in 1969.\n\nKARP: I see. Now, your four children, Regina was the mother of the four children?\n\nALMELEH: Four children.\n\nKARP: Regina?\n\nALMELEH: Regina, yes. The other one, Regina, before the one, it was three months\nmarried. She didn't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"want me. She got a cousin who married her. I was glad, I was\nvery glad, too. I was very satisfied with my [second wife]. . . she was very\nincredible. Thank God, four children, two girls and two boys, beautiful children.\n\nKARP: Now, when did your business . . . When did you move your business to\nHighland Avenue?\n\nALMELEH: When to move to Highland Avenue?\n\nKARP: Your business, your shop?\n\nALMELEH: My shop was on Ponce de Leon.\n\nKARP: Yeah, but after Ponce de Leon?\n\nALMELEH: After Ponce de Leon, Highland Avenue.\n\nKARP: Highland Avenue. When ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"did you move to Highland Avenue?\n\nALMELEH: I don't know . . . [indistinct] From Ponce de Leon, we had a fire, my\nshop fire . . .\n\nKARP: I see.\n\nALMELEH: I moved to Highland Avenue.\n\nKARP: So that's why you moved?\n\nALMELEH: You remember the day with the fire on Ponce de Leon, the [indistinct]?\nHad a fire over there. Then I moved to Highland Avenue. I bought a shoe shop\nfrom somebody together. It was an Italian fellow, [indistinct] shoe repairing\nshop. He sold to me the shop.\n\nKARP: What was his name, the Italian?\n\nALMELEH: The Italian, I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"don't know the name. But see, that's a life.\n\nKARP: Now, but your health is good?\n\nALMELEH: Huh?\n\nKARP: Your health is good? Your health . . . you are healthy?\n\nALMELEH: Good. Very good.\n\nKARP: You take any medicine?\n\nALMELEH: No. Take care of kidney, kidneys. We're going over there every two\nmonths. Every two months, three months, going to doctor. You know, doctor of\nkidney trouble. [indistinct]\n\nKARP: Now, tell me more about Rabbi Cohen.\n\nALMELEH: Rabbi Cohen?\n\nKARP: Tell me about him. What kind of a person was he?\n\nALMELEH: Beautiful man. Very good man. An educated man. Used to tell you\neverything, the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"story. Anything he said, I wanted to hear it. I ask the Rabbi,\nRabbi Cohen, Rabbi Cohen, [indistinct] tell me everything. Rabbi Cohen.\nEverybody misses Rabbi Cohen, everybody. All the people miss Rabbi Cohen. But\nthat's the way it goes. We expect not all the same thing.\n\nKARP: No, I liked Rabbi Cohen also.\n\nALMELEH: Thank God I live today, I don't know tomorrow. At my age, we don't\nknow. Thank God, we're living today good.\n\nKARP: Do people ask you how you lived to be 106, 107?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ALMELEH: Many.\n\nKARP: So what do you tell them when they ask you?\n\nALMELEH: Many ask me, and I told them everything they . . . many people, they\nknow, they're very glad to see me. The paper, television . . .\n\nKARP: Now . . .\n\nALMELEH: Take a story from me. Take a story.\n\nKARP: Mr. Almeleh . . .\n\nALMELEH: Jewish Federation very good, very good for me. They do everything for\nme good, Jewish Federation. Thank God, too.\n\nKARP: Yes. Did you remarry after your wife died? Did you marry a third time?\n\nALMELEH: First time, died, no more.\n\nKARP: And no more after that?\n\nALMELEH: No more. No more, single. Been now since ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1929, I think . . .\n\nKARP: Nineteen-sixty-nine you told me.\n\nALMELEH: Since that time, no more. Single. [indistinct] married.\n\nKARP: When did you retire from the shoe shop business?\n\nALMELEH: The shoe shop repair . . . figure up, be about six months now, six,\nseven months. Not long was it.\n\nKARP: Six months?\n\nALMELEH: Six months ago. More than six months. About six years.\n\nKARP: Six years.\n\nALMELEH: [indistinct] The shop, I give it away for [indistinct]. I don't need it\nno more, [indistinct]. I got my children to take care of me.\n\nKARP: Now, how do you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"stay busy here?\n\nALMELEH: Huh?\n\nKARP: How do you stay busy here? What do you do here every day?\n\nALMELEH: Here? Nothing. See the paper and magazine, that's all. Like everybody\nhere, you know. Many, the same thing. Sit down over there, take the magazine,\nread the paper, go on down, out, going down the stairs, like everybody. Many\npeople the same, don't do nothing. Sit and lie there all day.\n\nKARP: You go to synagogue?\n\nALMELEH: What, synagogue downstairs?\n\nKARP: Yeah.\n\nALMELEH: Down the stairs, synagogue. Every Friday night and Saturday morning. I\ndon't miss it.\n\nKARP: You still ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"daven?\n\nALMELEH: Yes. They call me up for Sefer Torah every Saturday.\n\nKARP: Great.\n\nALMELEH: Yeah. They got a good fellow. He's not rabbi, you know.\n\nKARP: Yeah.\n\nALMELEH: Chazzan, not rabbi, chazzan.\n\nKARP: A chazzan.\n\nALMELEH: Chazzan. No rabbi. But every Saturday, Friday night and Saturday\nmorning. They call me to Sefer Torah. Very nice. I feel good for that. I\nappreciate it. They call me up for Sefer Torah.\n\nKARP: It makes you feel better.\n\nALMELEH: Huh?\n\nKARP: It makes you feel better.\n\nALMELEH: Always. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Isn't that nice?\n\nKARP: Yes, very nice.\n\nALMELEH: I'm very happy. That's why I live good. Today, I'm living. I don't know\ntomorrow. That's all.\n\nKARP: Tell me about your friends. You had a lot of friends.\n\nALMELEH: My friends here?\n\nKARP: Yeah.\n\nALMELEH: Everybody's friends here.\n\nKARP: But I mean earlier, when you had a shop on Ponce de Leon and you had a\nshop on Highland. Who were your customers?\n\nALMELEH: When I finish with the shoe repairing shop?\n\nKARP: No. When you were in the shoe repair business, who were your customers?\n\nALMELEH: When I learn it?\n\nKARP: Yeah.\n\nALMELEH: I tell you, in 1920, something, 1920.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KARP: But who were your customers?\n\nALMELEH: What?\n\nKARP: Who were your customers? Who came into your shop?\n\nALMELEH: Yeah.\n\nKARP: Who? Who came into your shop? Who were your customers?\n\nALMELEH: Many, many people. I don't know their name. Many people.\n\nKARP: Jews ?\n\nALMELEH: Jews.\n\nKARP: Non-Jews?\n\nALMELEH: In Highland Avenue, well, it's Jewish over there too. Lot of Jewish\ncome in. I do work for Jewish people. They know me. We were . . . whatever I\nmake, I got nothing. All give to my daughter. I make a good money, too. I make a\ngood money, shoe repairing business. But, I got nothing. I used to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"have a good\nmoney, too. When I retire everything, people said, \"You don't need nothing no\nmore. Give it to your daughter.\" So, I give it to my daughter. In the bank,\neverybody told me in the bank, \"You know, you don't need no more.\" Here, okay,\ntake it. [Indistinct] like that.\n\nKARP: Now, in World War . . . in the Second World War, in World War II . . .\n\nALMELEH: World War II.\n\nKARP: The Second World War, you were not in the service?\n\nALMELEH: No, no.\n\nKARP: No, you were too old then.\n\nALMELEH: Sent me to Camp Gordon.\n\nKARP: No, First, that's . . . but Second World War.\n\nALMELEH: Second World War?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KARP: 1941, 1942, 1943.\n\nALMELEH: In the First World War?\n\nKARP: Second World War.\n\nALMELEH: Second World War? With Hitler.\n\nKARP: With Hitler. But your sons were in the service?\n\nALMELEH: My sons served. Two sons. Twenty-three years one, and the other one\ntwenty years in the Navy. Two sons, they serve and they get pension now. It was\nin Pacific. One in Pacific, two in the Pacific. I was in Camp Gordon\n[indistinct]. That's the life.\n\nKARP: And then, the synagogue was on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Highland Avenue then. Or VeShalom was on\nHighland Avenue.\n\nALMELEH: Or VeShalom moved further Highland Avenue.\n\nKARP: And now?\n\nALMELEH: And then gone to . . . now it's . . . I don't know the street.\n\nKARP: North Druid Hills.\n\nALMELEH: What's the name?\n\nKARP: North Druid Hills.\n\nALMELEH: That's all, I don't know. I know all Highland Avenue, that's all.\nHighland, that's where I went and everything. When it was . . . Central Avenue.\nYou remember Central Avenue?\n\nKARP: Oh sure.\n\nALMELEH: Central, and then Highland Avenue. And then now this one, the three,\nthree shuls. I nearly miss it too. Every Saturday, I still go to the shul. I\ndon't miss it. When it's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Central Avenue, and when Highland Avenue . . . since my\nwife passed away, I can't go no more. Wanted to move into here, this way.\n[Indistinct] Oh, thank God, we're [indistinct]. Nothing wrong.\n\nKARP: Now, tell me about Rabbi Ichay\n\nALMELEH: Who, Rabbi Icahy? Very good . . . He like me so much. Every time he\nleave me, when I go sometime, when my son come from Virginia, he take me to the\nshul on Saturday. That's the only one chance I got to go to shul. Rabbi Ichay,\nthe moment he [sees] me in the shul, they call me [indistinct] . . .You ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"know,\nwhat's the name of the shammash that were there? The shammash, you know the\nshammash? What's the . . .\n\nKARP: I don't know who's the shammash there.\n\nALMELEH: Every time I've gone over there sometime . . .\n\nKARP: You enjoy going there?\n\nALMELEH: Huh?\n\nKARP: You enjoy going there very much? [interview pauses; then resumes]\n\nALMELEH: Today, very soon be 107 years old. I don't know\ntomorrow. So far.\n\nKARP: Well, you seem very happy.\n\nALMELEH: Huh?\n\nKARP: You are happy.\n\nALMELEH: Very. Very. Then I good?\n\nKARP: Yeah.\n\nALMELEH: Thank God, I [am] living, so far. I don't know. Every day when I get\nup, thank God I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"living. That's what I do. I say [indistinct] the bracha\nwhen I wash my face. That's the only thing I got [indistinct]. \n\nKARP: Keeps you going.\n\nALMELEH: Huh?\n\nKARP: It keeps you going.\n\nALMELEH: That's all. I'm glad you know Rabbi Ichay.\n\nKARP: I know him. I'll tell him that I saw you.\n\nALMELEH: Isaac, you remember Isaac Franco? Isaac Franco.\n\nKARP: Next time . . . I'm going to come back, and next time when I come back . . .\n\nALMELEH: How's Jackie Franco? You see Jack Franco sometime? They say Isaac is\nsick. Somebody told me he's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sick.\n\nKARP: I don't know whether he is or not.\n\nALMELEH: . . . Only one. Used to be full of families from Island of Rhodes. Now\nwe got nobody.\n\nKARP: There are a lot of families . . .\n\nALMELEH: [In] 1919, there was about forty families from Rhodes in Or VeShalom.\nNow there are only . . . only Isaac Franco, that's all. Everybody's gone. Isaac\nFranco, [indistinct], was very good friend with me.\n\nKARP: Now who were some of your other . . .\n\nALMELEH: Who?\n\nKARP: Who were some of your other friends?\n\nALMELEH: Oh, the Jewish friends? I forget the name.\n\nKARP: You forget some things, but some things you remember.\n\nALMELEH: There are many things I forget all about. Old age, that's the life.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, it's all well, I feel good here. I enjoy here. The Or VeShalom, I mean the\n. . .\n\nKARP: Synagogue? Well, let me come back maybe next week, and I'll bring Joe\nFranco with me. Joe Franco.\n\nALMELEH: Joe Franco.\n\nKARP: I'll bring him back. I'll bring him here to see you.\n\nALMELEH: Joe Franco, I see in Rhodes in 19 . . . I see in Rhodes. Joe Franco, I\nsee him and we go and visit over in Rhodes. I went over there, Rhodes, 1973.\n1973, I went to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rhodes, from there we go to Tel Aviv, Israel. Tel Aviv, Israel,\nI went over there.\n\nKARP: 1973?\n\nALMELEH: I went to Paris, France. I had a brother over there. I went to see my\nbrother. From Paris, France, I went to Rhodes, because I was born over there.\nNobody was there.\n\nKARP: Nobody?\n\nALMELEH: Nobody there, no family. Only one family. Only one family they come\nfrom Smyrna, Constantinople. Only one family. Used to be many families over in\nRhodes. All the houses on Rhodes were Jewish. Now all Greeks. I got over there\nin ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1973. 1973, I say, My God, I almost cried to see that no Jewish.\n\nKARP: Did you see your house?\n\nALMELEH: Yeah, my [indistinct].\n\nKARP: The house was there?\n\nALMELEH: They bombed, they tear down. I seen there my father's house, you know.\nWe see my house, all pieces down the stairs. They bombed it. Didn't fix it. I\nsaid, my God. I was born over there.\n\nEverything Jewish [indistinct], all Greek people. Only one family, Jewish, come,\nfrom Smyrna, Costantinopoli, I don't know, they come over there. Only one\nfamily. Used to be 100 families over there.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KARP: Maybe more than 100.\n\nALMELEH: Maybe more. No one. I say, I went to my house, I say, my God. This is [indistinct].\n\nKARP: Mr. Almeleh, where was your family before Rhodes?\n\nALMELEH: My family?\n\nKARP: Before Rhodes?\n\nALMELEH: Before Rhodes?\n\nKARP: Came from Turkey or from Greece? Before Rhodes.\n\nALMELEH: Before Rhodes?\n\nKARP: From Africa or from Greece? Did your family come from Greece or from\nTurkey before Rhodes?\n\nALMELEH: No, from Rhodes. Turkey.\n\nKARP: From Turkey.\n\nALMELEH: Turkey.\n\nKARP: Turkey to Rhodes.\n\nALMELEH: Yes, Turkey to Rhodes. Rhodes was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/transcript/49122/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Turkey. Was Turkey. It was a separate\nsection, you know. Turkey separate section, Greek separate section, Jewish\nseparate section. Every one of these, separate section. Three sections, you\nknow, Turkish, Greek, Jewish. They separate. Everyone is separate. Rhodes was\nthe best country in the world. It was maybe 600 years ago, 600\nyears ago, Rhodes. They come from Spain, you know, from Spain. People come from\nSpain. People come from Russia. 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The next time I come back, I will bring Joe Franco with me.\n\nALMELEH: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=1470.0,1500.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/annotation_set/1105","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/annotation_set/1105/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eA nursing home in Atlanta providing short and long-term dementia, Alzheimer’s, and nursing care. Formerly the Jewish Home, it first opened in 1951 at 260 14th Street, NW, on land that had been donated by real estate developer Ben J. Massell. The Home’s growth called for a larger, updated facility, leading to the construction of a new building at 3150 Howell Mill Road, NW. The second Jewish Home opened on February 16, 1971. In 1991, it was renamed the William Breman Jewish Home to honor and recognize its third president, Bill Breman, as the prime motivator of the modern-day facility. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/annotation_set/1105/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRhodes is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, off the southwest coast of Turkey. It is the largest island of the Dodecanese archipelago and serves as the capital of the Greek Islands. In the 19th century the island was populated by ethnic groups from the surrounding nations, including jews, whose presence goes back 2,300 years. Under Ottoman rule, they generally did fairly well, but discrimination and bigotry occasionally arose.  At its peak in the 1920s, the Jewish community was one-third of the town’s total population. In the 1940s, there were about 2000 jews of various ethnic backgrounds. The Nazis deported and killed most of the community during the Holocaust. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/annotation_set/1105/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThomas Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) was the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921. He was a Democrat.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/annotation_set/1105/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eFord Gordon, formerly known as Camp Gordon, is a United States Army installation established at its current location in October 1941. The original Camp Gordon opened in July 1917, becoming a training site and home of the famous 82nd Division. The camp was in operation until the sale of real estate and buildings was ordered in 1920. It was abandoned in September 1921. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/annotation_set/1105/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBennie Shemaria (July 2, 1893-December 28, 1973) immigrated to the United States from Rhodes in 1909. He helped start Sephardic Congregation Or VeShalom and opened a full-service shoe business, Bennie’s Shoes, which his family still operates. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/annotation_set/1105/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eTel Aviv, Israel is located on the Mediterranean coast. It is considered the economic and technological center of Israel. 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The adjective “Sephardic” and corresponding nouns Sephardi (singular) and Sephardim (plural) are derived from the Hebrew word Sepharad, which refers to Spain. Historically, the vernacular language of Sephardic Jews was Ladino, a Romance language derived from Old Spanish, incorporating elements from the old Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula, Hebrew, Aramaic, and in the lands receiving those who were exiled, Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, Greek, Bulgarian, and Serbo-Croatian vocabulary.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/annotation_set/1105/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eShul 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/105958/file/206740#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/annotation_set/1105/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRabbi Joseph Isaac Cohen (1896-1985) was born in Constantinople (now Istanbul), Turkey. He was trained for the rabbinate in Turkey and accepted his first pulpit in Havana, Cuba in 1920. In 1934 he moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where he was installed as the rabbi of Congregation Or VeShalom, a Sephardic synagogue. Rabbi Cohen officially retired in 1969, but remained active at both the synagogue and in the community until his death.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/annotation_set/1105/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRabbi Robert Ichay (1929-2012) led Or VeShalom for 33 years. Upon retirement in 2002, he was named Rabbi Emeritus. While leading Or VeShalom, Rabbi Ichay helped grow the congregation to more than 500 families, up from less than 200. He also helped lead the congregation into a new building in 1971, less than two years after he arrived in 1969. He was born in Tunisia and educated in England and Zimbabwe.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/105958/file/206740/annotation_set/1105/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eCongregation Or VeShalom was established in Atlanta, Georgia by refugees of the Ottoman Empire, namely from Turkey and the Isle of Rhodes. The Sephardic congregation began in 1920 and was based at Central and Woodward Avenues until 1948 when it moved to a larger building on North Highland Road. Or VeShalom’s current synagogue is located on North Druid Hills Road. 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It is hand-written by a pious scribe in the original Hebrew and must meet extremely strict standards of production. Torah scrolls are routinely read aloud in all synagogues and are a core representation of Judaism itself. 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Most countries fought in the years 1939–1945 but some started fighting in 1937. Most of the world's countries, including all the great powers, fought as part of two military alliances: the Allies and the Axis Powers. World War II was the largest and deadliest conflict in all of history. It involved more countries, cost more money, involved more people, and killed more people than any other war in history. Between 50 to 85 million people died. The majority were civilians. 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During Ottoman rule, many expelled Sephardim settled there, particularly in the city of Rhodes, where they built many synagogues (there were six, including Kahal Shalom, in La Juderia, at one time). The Kahal Shalom Synagogue was constructed in 1577 (5338 in the Hebrew calendar) and has been in use ever since. It was the only one of the four synagogues in La Juderia at the time to survive the bombing during World War II. 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It actually replaced an existing Jewish synagogue that was built earlier but destroyed by cannon balls during the conflict of 1480. It is understood that this synagogue was attended by the Greek speaking Romaniot Jews. Subsequent to the arrival of the large number of Sephardic Jews in the 1500's the synagogue eventually utilized the Judeo-Spanish (\"Ladino\") language and rituals. Although heavily damaged in 1944 during World War II bombings, the structural walls of the Kehila Grande synagogue remained standing for several more years. During the next thirty years, the walls collapsed and the area filled with rubble. 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Now there are only . . . only Isaac Franco, that's all. Everybody's gone. 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