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Her father was an Austrian immigrant who owned Blonder Milk \u0026amp; Cream Company, which made Phyllis, her parents, and her older brother Gerald “Jerry” Blonder well known among those living in Port Chester, New York.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e            After graduating from Port Chester High School in 1945, Phyllis attended Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, for nearly two years before meeting her future husband, Jack Irving Freedman (1921-2017), while visiting family in Atlanta, Georgia. Shortly after, Phyllis decided to leave college to move to Atlanta to be with Jack. They married on January 19, 1947, then briefly moved back to Port Chester in 1949. There they had their son, Douglas “Doug” Stuart Freedman in February of 1949. Two months after his birth, they returned to live in Atlanta permanently. There, they had their daughter, Robyn Freedman Spizman Gerson.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e            Once they were living in Atlanta, Phyllis, who was known around town as “The Yankee Girl That Married Jack,” became very active in the local Jewish community. Her husband’s family were already active and dedicated members of Ahavath Achim Synagogue, so Phyllis’ newly formed family had also joined them upon their return.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe Freedman family were members of the Progressive Club and the Standard Club as part of their daily recreational lives. Phyllis was president of Brandeis University National Women’s Committee (1968-1970), a board member the National Women’s Division Chairwoman of the Council of Jewish Federation (c. 1970), and president of Jewish Family \u0026amp; Career Services. Her volunteerism also led her to help conceptualize, organize, and direct the “Israel Expo ‘85” conference which connected the Atlanta Jewish community to Israel. Phyllis died in 2015.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003ePhyllis Blonder Freedman’s interview is shaped by her experiences in community leadership and her dedication to the Jewish community in Atlanta, Georgia. At the start of the interview, Phyllis begins by introducing herself, where she grew up in New York, and her own family. Quickly, she brings up Atlanta and how she met her husband, Jack I. Freedman, which introduces her reasoning for moving to Georgia. She introduces the issues she had with being referred to as a Yankee, her experiences with racism in the South, and how she did not want to challenge their established opinions as an outsider. Phyllis revisits these topics of family, social activities, and being a Northerner in the South throughout the rest of the interview as well.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eNext, the interviewee introduces her family’s activities within the local Jewish community as members of Ahavath Achim synagogue, Rabbi Harry Epstein, and the many organizations that Phyllis was involved with. She discusses being introduced to these groups, working towards leadership, and philanthropic activities they were involved with. During this section, she compares the membership and leaders throughout her time in Atlanta. She discusses prominent women she has worked with in comparison to her work with both David Sarnat and Mike Gettinger. She recalls what organizing Israel Expo ’85 was like and how they were helpful in hosting the event.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhile revisiting the topic of her family, Phyllis details her husband’s family and the times they went to Israel. Wandering through topics, she considers childrearing, women’s liberation, and the influential women she came across. Threads mentioning the Temple bombing, World War II, and reactions to the Holocaust after the war pop up throughout the interview. She ends the interview briefly mentioning her work, holiday celebrations, and how her perspective of being a Jewish person changed throughout her life.\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":["Freedman, Phyllis Blonder, 1928-2015 (personal name)","Freedman, Jack Irving, 1921-2017 (personal name)","Blonder, Pauline Dorothy Janowitz (personal name)","Blonder, Irving (personal name)","Port Chester (Ny.) (geographic)","Blonder Milk \u0026amp; Cream Company (Port Chester, Ny.) (corporate name)","Atlanta (Ga.) (geographic)","New York City (Ny.) (geographic)","Syracuse University – Syracuse, Ny. 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(corporate name)","Epstein, Rabbi Harry Hyman, 1903-2003 (personal name)","Chase, Joy Cecile Garson Howard Kunian, 1924-2016 (personal name)","Marcus, Maxine Lee Bear, 1912-1980 (personal name)","Philanthropy (topical)","Jewish organizations (topical)","Leadership in minority women--United States (topical)","Zionism--Southern States--History--20th century (topical)","Jewish community centers--United States—History (topical)","Atlanta Jewish Community Center (Atlanta, Ga.) (corporate name)","National Council of Jewish Women (corporate name)","Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta (Atlanta, Ga.) (corporate name)","Fundraising (topical)","Gettinger, Max C. Mike, 1911-2000 (personal name)","Sarnat, David L., 1942- (personal name)","Jewish pilgrims and pilgrimages--Israel (topical)","Freedman, Morris, 1889-1987 (personal name)","Freedman, Annie Zion (personal name)","Zion, S. L. 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Her father was an Austrian immigrant who owned Blonder Milk \u0026amp; Cream Company, which made Phyllis, her parents, and her older brother Gerald \u0026ldquo;Jerry\u0026rdquo; Blonder well known among those living in Port Chester, New York.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; After graduating from Port Chester High School in 1945, Phyllis attended Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, for nearly two years before meeting her future husband, Jack Irving Freedman (1921-2017), while visiting family in Atlanta, Georgia. Shortly after, Phyllis decided to leave college to move to Atlanta to be with Jack. They married on January 19, 1947, then briefly moved back to Port Chester in 1949. There they had their son, Douglas \u0026ldquo;Doug\u0026rdquo; Stuart Freedman in February of 1949. Two months after his birth, they returned to live in Atlanta permanently. There, they had their daughter, Robyn Freedman Spizman Gerson.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; Once they were living in Atlanta, Phyllis, who was known around town as \u0026ldquo;The Yankee Girl That Married Jack,\u0026rdquo; became very active in the local Jewish community. Her husband\u0026rsquo;s family were already active and dedicated members of Ahavath Achim Synagogue, so Phyllis\u0026rsquo; newly formed family had also joined them upon their return.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe Freedman family were members of the Progressive Club and the Standard Club as part of their daily recreational lives. Phyllis was president of Brandeis University National Women\u0026rsquo;s Committee (1968-1970), a board member the National Women\u0026rsquo;s Division Chairwoman of the Council of Jewish Federation (c. 1970), and president of Jewish Family \u0026amp; Career Services. Her volunteerism also led her to help conceptualize, organize, and direct the \u0026ldquo;Israel Expo \u0026lsquo;85\u0026rdquo; conference which connected the Atlanta Jewish community to Israel. Phyllis died in 2015.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhyllis Blonder Freedman\u0026rsquo;s interview is shaped by her experiences in community leadership and her dedication to the Jewish community in Atlanta, Georgia. At the start of the interview, Phyllis begins by introducing herself, where she grew up in New York, and her own family. Quickly, she brings up Atlanta and how she met her husband, Jack I. Freedman, which introduces her reasoning for moving to Georgia. She introduces the issues she had with being referred to as a Yankee, her experiences with racism in the South, and how she did not want to challenge their established opinions as an outsider. Phyllis revisits these topics of family, social activities, and being a Northerner in the South throughout the rest of the interview as well.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eNext, the interviewee introduces her family\u0026rsquo;s activities within the local Jewish community as members of Ahavath Achim synagogue, Rabbi Harry Epstein, and the many organizations that Phyllis was involved with. She discusses being introduced to these groups, working towards leadership, and philanthropic activities they were involved with. During this section, she compares the membership and leaders throughout her time in Atlanta. She discusses prominent women she has worked with in comparison to her work with both David Sarnat and Mike Gettinger. She recalls what organizing Israel Expo \u0026rsquo;85 was like and how they were helpful in hosting the event.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhile revisiting the topic of her family, Phyllis details her husband\u0026rsquo;s family and the times they went to Israel. Wandering through topics, she considers childrearing, women\u0026rsquo;s liberation, and the influential women she came across. Threads mentioning the Temple bombing, World War II, and reactions to the Holocaust after the war pop up throughout the interview. She ends the interview briefly mentioning her work, holiday celebrations, and how her perspective of being a Jewish person changed throughout her life.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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I am with Phyllis [Blonder] Freedman who has agreed to be interviewed for . . . the Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Project of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum. Thank you, Phyllis. I'm so glad to have you here today and have you be a part of this project.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=0.0,18.48"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you, I'm delighted.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=18.48,19.75"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I'd like to begin by just having you tell me a little bit about your background. Where you were born and where you're from.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=19.75,27.79"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I'm one of those former Yankees. I was born in New York City, [New York on] January 10, 1928. I lived in Port Chester, New York until I was married. A great small town in New York State in Westchester County, just 45 minutes from New York City. I had a very happy, privileged childhood.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=27.79,57.91"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Were your parents first generation or were they born in . . . Had they immigrated, or were they born in the United States?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=57.91,65.97"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e My mother was born in New York City in 1901.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=65.97,69.53"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e [What was] her name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=69.53,70.43"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Her name was Pauline. \n\n Pauline Dorothy Janowitz [Blonder]. She married my daddy, Irving Blonder, who came to this country when he was a teenager. He came from what he said was Austria . . . That became Poland. He knew how to ride horses in the old country, so he became a milkman in New York City. They delivered milk in a horse and wagon. Then, he decided he wanted to open his own company. He moved from New York City to Port Chester and became Blonder Milk \u0026 Cream Company. That was my daddy's life. I grew up a lucky girl going to school there and being very happy. [I had] lots of friends.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=70.43,121.44"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you go to college up there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=121.44,125.22"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e No. Let me see . . . I graduated from Port Chester High School. That was the only high school in the town. This was a town of 25,000. The next . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=125.22,138.6"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e What year was that . . .?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=138.6,139.32"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I graduated in 1945. The next morning, I left for Syracuse University. I started in the summer. The summer of 1945 was when all the soldiers were coming back after the end of [World War II]. They wanted everybody to start in the summer, so I did. I only went there a year and three quarters because I came down South to visit family and I had a blind date with this older man. Here I is.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=139.32,169.28"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e You came down here to visit family. Can you tell me what family you have?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=169.28,174.71"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I'd be delighted. At the time my grandmother lived here—her name was Rose Janowitz—she moved here with her daughter. There were three daughters living here. My mother was one of four girls. The other three sisters live here in Atlanta, [Georgia]. Florence [Janowitz] Rachelson, Mrs. Sam Rachelson . . . Anna [Janowitz] Fields, Mrs. Larry [Lawrence] Fields, and my aunt, Frances [Janowitz] Ritchkin. They were here, and I came down to visit my grandmother. I was the oldest of six grandchildren. I was very close to her and adored her. She moved here from New York City. They got me a blind date with this older guy . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=174.71,221.19"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e What was his name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=221.19,221.93"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e His name is Jack I.—standing for Irving—Freedman, spelled with a double E. We dated and had a really good time. [We] really hit it off. I went back to school for another few weeks. Then I decided that's ridiculous, and it was over. We got married in January of 1947 . . . January 19, [1947]. I am now . . . As of today, I'm married 61 years to the same man. It's hard to believe. I'm lucky. Here I is. I love Atlanta. We haven't always lived here. We lived here for six months on Sheridan Drive in an apartment . . . My husband had to buy the furniture for it because you couldn't find apartments in Atlanta. Not at that time. My daddy couldn't stand it that his daughter was living down South, so he tried to make a Yankee out of my husband. We moved back to Port Chester and lived there for a year and a half. We both decided [that] as happy as we were there, we really . . . Atlanta was home for him, and I wanted it to be mine. Here I am.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=221.93,301.25"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell me what your reaction was to the South and being a New York girl moving to the South in 1949.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=301.25,311.99"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I have to say that I was called \"The Yankee Girl Who Married Jack.\" I never had a name when I was introduced to someone and that offended me horribly. I couldn't stand that. I liked being Phyllis. That was my name. The “Yankee Girl” became very much a part of the South. I was offended by a lot of the things. The situation was still going on with blacks, really, before the Civil Rights [Movement]. That was 1947. We came back in 1949. It was still the South, the Deep South. I was always called a Yankee Girl. Whenever I met anybody, that was unbelievable to me. Northerners were not moving down to Atlanta as much as they [are now].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=311.99,367.4"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e You said you were offended by some of the things that you saw. First of all, can you describe some of the things that bothered you? Also, did you talk about it with your family or your newfound friends?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=367.4,381.51"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I was offended by the fact that blacks had to go. . . When we went to the Fox Theater . . . they had to go in the back door and go upstairs. We couldn't sit with them. After all, I grew up in the North. One of my friends in high school was an African American—we called them blacks then, we didn't say African American—her name was Iantha Crutchfield. I don't remember a lot of things in my life, but I'll never forget her name. I went to school with blacks, and it . . . I could not . . . It offended me. Everybody had what they called a maid. Everyone was black. We had a wonderful black woman work for us that we loved who stayed with us for over 30 years until she died. She was very much a part of our family. Her name was Mary Billingsley. Truthfully, I didn't talk about it to my friends . . . I would hear them making remarks that I won't even repeat. They were offensive to me. I had never grown up saying schvartze, and my Jewish friends here referred to people as schvartze. It wasn't my makeup. I didn't discuss it with them, I'm truthful. I was not one who was out there carrying a flag or whatever. When I was at college, I did some walking around with signs and things.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=381.51,473.98"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you ever speak of it with your husband?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=473.98,476.41"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, but very lightly. I'll be truthful, I . . . It was a given fact that was here. I won't say I accepted it; I accepted the fact that they were accepting it, but I didn't like it. If that makes sense.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=476.41,494.01"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e No, it does. It makes a lot of sense.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=494.01,498.56"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . When you moved here, did you find the community . . . Besides being called the “Yankee Girl,” did you find them welcoming to you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=498.56,505.4"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, very welcoming! Friendly . . . But they would always say something about a Yankee. That's the truth. When I came back here in 1949 . . . When we moved back, I had just given birth to my son two months previous to that. He was born in February of 1949. His name is Doug, Douglas Stuart Freedman. Doug, we call him. He was born in Port Chester at the United Hospital. When I came back . . . we came back to Atlanta, he was two months old. We lived in Lindmont Apartments. [In] 2378A Lindmont Circle, which no longer exists. It was demolished about a month or two ago, the whole complex. They were . . . among the first apartments that were built in Atlanta after the war. When I say the war, I don't mean 1861, [the American Civil War]. I mean, World War II. We moved into Lindmont. I can't believe they're all gone. I can’t say anymore, \"That's where you lived!\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=505.4,574.61"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e That's great. Who did you meet when you first moved here?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=574.61,578.35"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Before I got married, I used to come down and visit Atlanta. I always felt comfortable in Atlanta. I neglected to say that I did know a few people. Among the first girls I met who became my friends were Anita Maziar Morris. She is still one of my closest friends after all these years. Her husband, Perry B. Morris, who passed away, and my husband were the best of friends. It made it a special relationship. We were married about two weeks apart. Anita was one of my friends. Another one that I met when I first came to Atlanta—when I was about 16—was Virginia [Diamond] Saul. Her maiden name was Virginia Diamond. We are still good friends. I had met a lot of people in those days. I started when I first came here . . . This is kind of silly . . . I got into a group, and we played . . . Back then, we played Canasta every Wednesday. Out of the women that started that game about 59, 58 years ago . . . We are still playing. The same group except one has passed away, Sylvia Siegel, who was my dearest friend . . . I'm still playing . . . Now we play Mahjong. In those days . . . It's okay . . .? Yes, I love this!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=578.35,673.1"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, I love this!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=673.1,673.3"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, I love this! In those days, we put 50 cents a girl in the kitty. I was the treasurer. Who was in the group?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=673.3,678.52"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Who was in the group?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=678.52,679.35"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Who was in the group? Anita Morris . . . At that time, it was Sylvia Siegel. After Sylvia died and Louis [Siegel] remarried, his wife Lorraine [Siegel] took her place in our game. Amy Taratoot—these are still my dearest, closest friends—and Meredith Levy, who was married to Ted Levy. Amy is married to Louis Taratoot. The men were all friends as kids. That's what's so neat about the group. Now Lois [Semel] Blonder, who is my sister-in-law, came into the game only about maybe 45 years ago. We still play Mahjong every Wednesday. After putting in the 50 cents, we got up to $5. Then we bought stocks, and we bought second mortgages. We took trips that were paid for totally by the kitty. Now . . . We've just declared a $3,000 dividend, which each six women got. Next year, when some of the other things that we have invested in come due, we'll each get about another $10,000.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=679.35,752.59"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh my gosh!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=752.59,753.55"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I can't believe that! It sounds nauseating to talk about it, but it's fun that we did it. If anybody hears about it, they can't believe it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=753.55,763.92"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e That's wonderful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=763.92,764.41"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e It took care of trips to Toronto, [Ontario, Canada], a trip to New York. We did different things . . . Went to a spa. Everything came out of the Wednesday Club kitty and I'm still the treasurer.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=764.41,776.42"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e That's what it's called, the Wednesday Club? The Wednesday Club.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=776.42,780.1"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e The Wednesday Club.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=780.1,780.26"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e The Wednesday Club. That's wonderful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=780.26,780.5"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Same women . . . We're really good friends and we've shared very special things together. Some have lost their husbands. We've shared deceased parents, in some cases children. We've shared a lot of things, but we shared a lot of happy things. Children's weddings, bar mitzvahs, bat mitzvahs . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=780.5,803.29"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e When you first arrived here, did you join a synagogue?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=803.29,808.77"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e That's a good question. When you marry someone like Jack Freedman, who was born into the Ahavath Achim Synagogue, and came from a very pious family and was still a member of the synagogue . . . I automatically became a member the synagogue. We are still members of the AA Synagogue, as are our children.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=808.77,833.35"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Rabbi [Harry H.] Epstein was the rabbi?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=833.35,836.35"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Rabbi Epstein was the rabbi.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=836.35,837.48"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e What did you think of him? What were your impressions of him?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=837.48,840.83"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I never felt warmly towards him until his last few years. He was such an authoritarian. My town didn't even really have a synagogue. We met in some kind of room somewhere. There were only 1,500 Jews in the whole town, 500 families. When I came here and . . . this authoritarian rabbi . . . I was a little taken back but had high regard. I loved his wife, Reva [Chashesman Epstein]. She became someone I felt very close to. Eventually, I appreciated Rabbi Epstein very much. He was very much a part of our family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=840.83,883.03"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Were you active in the synagogue?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=883.03,885.41"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I was active in Sisterhood. At one time I was an officer. At the same time, I had become active in what was then called Brandeis University National Women's Committee, the UNWC. I was really going up the ladder in it. I couldn't do it all.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=885.41,906.31"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Why did you choose Brandeis to get active in?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=906.31,910.61"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I admired the women. I had a few friends who were in it, and I thought they were wonderful. Joy Howard-Kunian was president . . . That's one of the years that I became very active. I admired a woman named Maxine [Bear] Marcus and Leah Janus. They were like my mentors. I loved it. I would go up to [the Atlanta Chapter of] Brandeis University. I was in awe of the university. At that time, our chapter . . . we were over 1,000 women. It covered the whole community. It wasn't Sisterhood of the synagogue . . . This was just overall, and I loved it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=910.61,952.13"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you become president of that organization?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=952.13,955.1"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, I went up the ladder and finally became president. I was on the national nominating committee, and then I went on the national board. I have had some wonderful experience and met incredible women all over the United States because of Brandeis.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=955.1,974.29"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Let me ask you, why do you think a lot of these groups, like Brandeis, Hadassah, Pioneer Women, Mizrahi Women, all of these groups . . . They're not very popular anymore. What do you think the difference is?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=974.29,992.09"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Their memberships have all shrunk.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=992.09,994.58"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=994.58,994.66"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, you're absolutely right. It's mainly because Atlanta has grown so. Geographically, it wasn't as convenient for women to get to. At that time, we went to . . . we had a meeting at the Progressive Club, the Standard Club, or the Mayfair Club. That's where you had your meetings. As people grew further and further out, they kept moving. That's what's really happened more than anything. I think there were other things. Sometimes some of our leadership has lost their way, too. We get too—I won't say imbued with what we're doing, because that's part of the leadership . . . It became too focused. Atlanta was growing so, and it was so important. We needed to do things in the total community, not just one area of it. Does that make sense?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=994.66,1053.28"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, do you think there's any chance for these organizations to kind of make a comeback?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1053.28,1060.69"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e You mean as far as their memberships . . .? They still have their own prestige in their own way. I don't know. I'm not sure that that can happen. In fact, for a while . . . The Brandeis . . . Current women who were wonderful, the great leadership . . . They wanted to cut back on expenses. What they did was they didn't send out invitations; they only sent email. Some of us didn't have email. That took care of a lot of people. Things like that have happened over the years. That has happened in other organizations as well. The [Atlanta Jewish] Community Center . . . That was a place where everybody came. My husband and I were both very active in the Center.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1060.69,1108.29"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Were you active in the National Council of Jewish Women?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1108.29,1110.67"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e No, I was a member. I was a member of almost everything. I was a member, but not . . . No, but some of my closest friends . . . That's how I knew Marilyn [Hockstein] Shubin, who is now one of my dearest friends. We met when she was a council president. That's when I was doing Brandeis and [the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.] Marilyn came in to work in the Federation. That cemented our . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1110.67,1133.5"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I want to get to the Federation in a few minutes, but I wanted to go back to these organizations. Do you think, even in the 1950's and 1960's when you were really becoming active in this, that there was a separation still between . . . Maybe the National Council was more German-Jewish women and Brandeis was made . . .?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1133.5,1153.62"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e There was. A lot of that existed. Yes, it did. I'd really forgotten about that, but that's correct. Not as much in Brandeis. Council was known. Council was older. Don't forget, Brandeis was only as old as the University [National Women's Committee]. Council, at that time, was known to have . . . \"The German-Jewish membership.\" When you got to Hadassah, those were people who were more oriented towards anything Jewish and starting Israel. I think that's what divided some of these areas, but that was definitely the case with most of those organizations.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1153.62,1195.82"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e How did you start getting active in the Federation?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1195.82,1198.55"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I lovingly call it 'The Fed.' I started . . . We used to have a telethon to connect . . . to get people to contribute. I just got active in it. Before I knew it, I was doing a little bit of everything. I cared very much about Israel. I did have knowledge of a lot of people in the community. That was helpful to me, as well as enhanced everything. Federation was everything. It wasn't council's emphasis, Brandeis' emphasis, Hadassah . . . The Fed handled everything, and I liked that. I liked being able to know people from all over the city and all walks of life. That made me happy.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1198.55,1252.56"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e What were your jobs at the Federation?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1252.56,1254.87"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, my jobs. I think I did everything. Forgive me. I don't mean to sound immodest, but I did it all.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1254.87,1261.75"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Was it all with [the National Women's Division of the Council of Jewish Federations of North America]?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1261.75,1265.47"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, it was all Women's Division. We're talking about a long time ago when I started, the Women's Division was women and then the Fed was the Fed. There weren't many women officers, there weren't any. There weren't many women who were . . . They began to sit on the board a little bit, but there was a very distinct separation between men and women. I wasn't too crazy about that. I have been an advocate for women's rights. I love Federation, I still do. I came to a board meeting last week, the first in quite a while for some reason. I was thrilled. I had only known about a third of the people in the room. That meant it was healthy and good. If you don't go to a meeting and see younger people, it's not healthy. That's my attitude.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1265.47,1324.9"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e When were you president of Women's Division?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1324.9,1327.13"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I was hoping you wouldn't ask me dates because I don't remember.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1327.13,1331.49"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Even proximately when . . .?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1331.49,1332.76"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Approximately . . . It must have been early 1970's. I was Brandeis president from 1968 to 1970. It was somewhere in the 1970's.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1332.76,1347.35"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e At that time was . . . Did you work with [Max C.] Mike Gettinger or David Sarnat?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1347.35,1351.46"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I worked with both. I started with Mike and then I worked with David Sarnat. Because of my involvement in Federation, I was asked to serve on the board of what was then called the Council of Jewish Federation's Women's Division. It was a separate Women's Division. I was on that board, and we met in New York City. I ate all that up. It was like I ate up going to Brandeis University, to the campus. Being exposed to so many wonderful women and everything about the organization. I loved the Council of Jewish Federations, and I'd go up to New York. Next thing I knew . . . I ended up the National Chairwoman—which was unbelievable to me—of the Women's Division of Council of Jewish Federations, which was a tremendous honor and very special. For two years, I'd . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1351.46,1409.37"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e What were those two years like?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1409.37,1410.39"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Superb. I met the most wonderful active women in the United States and Israel and North America, really. I worked with a woman named Sue Stevens, who was the director, who is still my friend in New York City. Although, she's no longer involved in it. None of us have gotten any younger. It was so incredible. I was involved with people who were doing the ultimate in their communities. That was very exciting to me. I was very turned on by it. I traveled a lot. I'd go into different cities sometimes to talk for the Council of Jewish Federations . . . That was superb.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1410.39,1455.21"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Was the focus then more domestic or more . . .?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1455.21,1460.33"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e More towards Israel. Israel was a very important part of our lives. Jack and I . . . Jack led a couple of missions to Israel and one he and I did together. We still . . . There are some people in the community now who are involved in the Federation who had . . . who were not . . . They were very young. They come up to me and say, \"I still remember that trip we did to Israel!\" That's what started them. That makes me feel special.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1460.33,1495.1"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I wanted to get a couple of . . . some of your reflections on some of these people. What was Mike Gettinger like?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1495.1,1502.71"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Mike was a wonderful man. I had a wonderful rapport with him. Jack and I were very fond of Mike and Claire [Gettinger]. We knew them . . . We felt they were our friends. Mike, I thought, did an outstanding job. Atlanta was considered an outstanding community. What you have to remember is we didn't have as many Jews at that time as we do now. Our Jewish population has soared, as has the population of Atlanta. I remember driving up Peachtree Road when I would do things for Federation and the population counter—I remember in front of the Darlington [Apartments]—I remember when it hit 1,000,000. I remember when it hit 2,000,000, 3,000,000, 4,000,000, and then broke! Now it's back on again and it's over 5,470,000 or something. Mike tried to grow with the community and help the community grow. I think we did. We grew a lot. David came in and he was different. We were crazy about David, and at that time, his wife Sharon [Sarnat] . . . they were buddies. If you were a part of Federation, you were very close to the people you worked with. We shared some wonderful things.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1502.71,1584.57"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e How would you compare the way Mike oversaw Federation and David Sarnat?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1584.57,1591.86"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I'm really not sure that I can make any distinction. When David came in, Atlanta was so much bigger. David involved a lot more people than Mike did. It was pretty much of a close corporation, now that I think about it, when Mike Gettinger was the director of Federation. It didn't spread out a lot. It involved a lot of people, but at the same time, the leadership was pretty tight. David Sarnat brought in more people. I thought that was very meaningful. They both earned a lot of respect from us at that time, and we earned from them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1591.86,1641.93"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Speaking of being . . . bringing in more people, did you feel that Women's Division was inclusive or exclusive?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1641.93,1651.43"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I felt it was inclusive, but that was maybe my narrowness in thinking. I felt that wherever we met, it could be involved and that was great. I did hear from different people who would say, \"The Women's Division of Federation was a clique. It was a certain group of women.\" That bothered me. I didn't feel that that was right. To me, what's critical is the cohesiveness of the Jewish community. If you don't take part in the Fed, you're not getting it. That leads into everything, and that's where all the other organizations get support from. Not necessarily financial but definitely support.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1651.43,1694.95"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e You brought up something else I want to go back to. It was the missions to Israel. When was the first time you went on a mission to Israel?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1694.95,1702.22"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I could not tell you that. I am sorry.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1702.22,1705.56"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e [In the] 1960's, 1970's?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1705.56,1707.14"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e In the 1970's.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1707.14,1709.71"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Was that your first trip to Israel or had you been there before?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1709.71,1714.16"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . I had gone on a mission . . . before we led a mission. Yes, I had gone on it a couple of times. My husband had gone many times. Those were highlights in our life. We were ecstatic over the experience. The people who came back—all of us—we all felt special. For example, my friends, Ann [Davis] and Jay Davis. Their first mission to Israel . . . They were kids, they're still young, but they were kids. They went with us, and now they are leaders in this community. That makes me feel 10 feet tall. They remember it well, and they've been back many times. We need to go again; we haven't been in a while.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1714.16,1762.47"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Did your husband feel that connection with Israel? I know that there's a story with his family. Didn't his father . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1762.47,1770.32"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e His grandfather.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1770.32,1771.84"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Made one of the first aliyahs there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1771.84,1774.07"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e You have marvelous memory!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1774.07,1775.65"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e From Atlanta.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1775.65,1776.67"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e That's correct.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1776.67,1777.64"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell me about that family member?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1777.64,1779.21"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e His name was Mr. S. L. Zion, my mother-in-law's father. He wanted to go to what was then Palestine. That was his dream. He wanted to be buried in Palestine. I never knew him, but that's what he always said. I don't know the year that he went, but when he went . . . He did go, his children cried and carried on because . . . his daughters didn't want him to go when they took him to the ship, which is how you went in those days . . . He went. He remarried over there, and he is buried there. My husband and I—Jack on his first trip there—went to the cemetery where he's buried. We said, there's his gravestone. It's a real emotional tie.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1779.21,1826.9"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e There's such a connection, then, for . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1826.9,1828.02"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Very special connection. Jack's parents were very posh people. When you asked me about the AA earlier . . . My in-laws moved wherever the AA went. When it was on Washington Street, they lived around the corner. I think everybody in Atlanta says they lived where . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1828.02,1850.58"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e The [Atlanta-Fulton County] Stadium?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1850.58,1850.82"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Where the stadium is now. Jack lived around the corner.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1850.82,1860.2"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Just for the purpose of the tape, Jack's parents' names were . . .?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1860.2,1865.38"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Annie and Morris Freedman. She was Annie Zion [Freedman] and [he was] Morris Freedman. She came from Lithuania, and he came from Russia. They settled . . . He came into the South in Savannah, [Georgia], where he had a brother who was there . . . from Savannah. He opened a dry goods store. I had never heard that expression until I moved down South--dry goods store--I didn't even know what that was! Everybody knows now what a dry good store was. He opened one in Sandersville, Georgia. Then, he came to Atlanta because he wanted his children to have a Jewish life. That's a very important part of our lives. They moved from Washington Street to . . . The synagogue had a temporary building on 10th Street, so they moved to Piedmont [Avenue] and 10th Street. When the AA built on Peachtree Battle Avenue, Annie and Morris Freedman bought a house across the street on the corner of Peachtree Battle [Avenue] and Northside Drive. Our life was very involved in synagogue. Every Friday night, we had dinner with my in-laws. I'm sorry my children don't have that same kind of cook in their mother! My mother-in-law was one of the outstanding bakers in Atlanta. Kosher, of course. Excuse me!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1865.38,1944.36"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Those are great stories!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1944.36,1945.69"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e That's all part of our Jewish experience. It's strong Jewish experience.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1945.69,1953.38"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Who are your children?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1953.38,1955.1"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Who are my children? Is it bragging time?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1955.1,1958.76"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Not yet!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1958.76,1959.74"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I mentioned that our son Doug was born in Port Chester, moved here at two months. He is now married to Genie Freedman, and they live in Atlanta. Doug is one of these people that . . . They used to call him a \"car nut.\" What he is . . . He's a specialist in cars. Particularly . . . Ferrari vintage. He lived in Belgium for a year and a half working with Ferrari people there. He knows people all over the world and cars. He's still a car nut. Our daughter is Robyn [Freedman Spizman Gerson]. A lot of people know Robyn because she's on TV almost every Saturday morning—any Saturday that she wants to be—on Channel 11 NBC. She's super sharp. I taught her everything . . . I like to kid her about that, but whatever, she's teaching me now. She married a wonderful young man named Willie Spizman, who came from San Antonio, Texas. They met at the University of Texas. His parents were survivors of the holocaust. They eventually moved to Atlanta with his younger brother, Dr. Sam Spizman, who was married to Gina Gould here. All these ties have come in. It's been very special. Those are our children . . . and two grandchildren! The best grandson in the world and the best granddaughter in the world. Justin Spizman, who is 27 and an attorney, and Ali Spizman, who is graduating in December of this year. Magna cum laude from University of Georgia! All right, that's all my bragging.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1959.74,2068.47"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e That's wonderful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2068.47,2069.94"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I'm a grandmother!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2069.94,2071.26"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Are they active in the community?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2071.26,2073.21"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e They're not active in the Jewish community. I worry and wonder about that. They're so involved with their . . . She's involved at college. She has been part of Hillel . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2073.21,2086.15"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e No, I'm talking more about your own children.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2086.15,2087.65"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e My own children? No, they're not, and that is a great disappointment to Jack and to me. They belong to . . . I believe Robyn belongs to many Jewish organizations, but she's too busy with her career to give time to volunteerism. She does it in quiet ways. Our son is too involved in traveling with his . . . It's a disappointment, I have to say. That's truthful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2087.65,2114.09"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I think that that has happened in a number of families, which is why you're so happy to see younger people at the Federation.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2114.09,2122.24"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, that's what I said. I get so turned on by it. Betty Ann [Romm] Jacobson is one of my closest friends, and we always talk about it. If we don't see people we don't know, we're not happy. We love seeing the people we worked with, but seeing people . . . We went this past Sunday night to the incredible event at The Temple [Hebrew Benevolent Congregation] for Kristallnacht celebration. It was so unbelievable. Standing room only . . . Every kind of person you can imagine . . . Every age and everything. We were thrilled. Every background.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2122.24,2158.48"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Speaking of Betty, she became Federation's first female President.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2158.48,2164.04"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e That's right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2164.04,2165.04"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e How did that make you all feel? Was that like a real . . . Did you all take pride in that accomplishment of hers?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2165.04,2171.29"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Enormous pride. Betty and I did a lot of things together in campaign. When I was chairwoman of the Women's Division, she came on the year after that. She . . . The Federation was . . . It's such a vital part of her life. We shared things like president of Brandeis, we both were . . . Things like that. When Betty Ann became the first female president, we were out of our minds with joy. Thrilled. Thrilled that it happened to her, and thrilled because it was finally a woman.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2171.29,2207.01"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you think she made a lasting mark on the Federation?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2207.01,2214.47"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I think so. She pulled in a lot of people, too. There were certain programs that she brought in. Yes, I do. It makes me very proud when I walk in the building and I see her picture out there with some of my other buddies.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2214.47,2234.24"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e How do you think Women's Division is different today than it was when you were more active?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2234.24,2240.78"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I'm not sure, other than the fact that it . . . Geographically, Atlanta has grown so that it's very hard to say now where people are or what they're doing in their temples. When I came to Atlanta there were . . . three synagogues . . . three or four. Today there are 37 and they're all pulled in. The women are still doing a lot of the same things, but they have spread out . . . I keep using the word geographically. I think that's what's important. I can't think of really . . . When I say lots of changes . . . it's a lot more focused. We did a little more social, which was acceptable and what was important at the time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2240.78,2295.87"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you have one issue that was really important to you? One particular thing . . . Soviet Jewry, Isr— . . . the Ethiopian community . . . Was there one thing that you really focused on?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2295.87,2310.92"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I don't know if I could say there's one thing, but there is one thing that I did in Atlanta with [Dr. Stanley] Perry Brickman that focused me even more on Israel. That was Israel Expo 1985, which was one of the biggest things that happened in the Jewish community up until that time. That took a lot of work and a lot of focus. If you work with Perry Brickman, it was all a pleasure. He was great. I have 1,000 pictures, because he knows how to take a picture. I can't think of, really, any issues. I'm not . . . I like to think I'm not . . . I'm not aggressive when it comes to things. If I believe in something, I'll go about trying to get it done, but I don't make big waves. It's not my nature and not my style. I can't say . . . Other than the focus of my community. I adore the City of Atlanta and this Jewish community, it's the best. This former Yankee has become . . . I can get real Southern.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2310.92,2384.51"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I love it. I love Atlanta. I love the Atlanta Jewish community. It's great. When you go . . . As my husband and I did a lot of national things together, people had the greatest impression of Atlanta. People from other cities would say, \"Oh, you live in Atlanta! Do you know . . .?\" They'd name a name, and we knew the name. We were all out there doing the same thing. I can't say I had any particular issue. I'll be truthful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2384.51,2419.87"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e You also mentioned some of the clubs. Which ones were you a member of?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2419.87,2425.04"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e We were a member of the Progressive Club always. From the time I got married, we joined. Then we became a member . . . When the Standard Club moved out on Colonial Drive from . . . Ponce de Leon [Avenue], we became members out there. We have dropped that, and we've come a long way from then. In the early days of Atlanta, the social clubs were very important. As I've been told, Jewish people were not necessarily welcome in a lot of places either. That's why we had our own club. It was great for the kids . . . That's where we went swimming. No one had backyard pools in those days. If you didn't go swim at the Progressive Club with all the kids and see everybody, you weren't a part of things. That's what the clubs were. I certainly don't miss them. My husband's not a great golfer, so golfing wasn't . . . [At] the Standard Club, that's the big impetus. We can think of other things to do with those funds.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2425.04,2497.11"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I don't blame you. Are you still active in the Federation today?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2497.11,2501.09"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I'm an honorary board member, if that means active. No, I have just recently started working in the Breman office. I'm doing mindless things like filing, stuffing envelopes . . . but I love it. I feel like I'm allowing the professionals some extra time by letting me do what I do. I feel very good about doing it. I try to come at least once a week. I'm really not active on committees anymore in the Fed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2501.09,2534.45"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e What do you think of the museum?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2534.45,2536.3"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e What do I think of it? It makes me feel 10 feet tall. I'm so proud of it. If I say to anybody . . . If they say, \"What are you doing now?\" I say, \"I work at the Breman Museum!\" \"Do you?!\" Or else they'll ask me, \"Tell me about it?\" I think it's great. I'm really proud of it. Jack and I feel fortunate that we've been able to give some of our things to the Breman so that they would be in the archive. Things that, maybe one day, someone will say, \"Look at that! That was from way back.\" I'm proud of it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2536.3,2573.01"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I want to talk a little bit about Jack. What did he, what was his line of work, what did he do?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2573.01,2578.37"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e His line of work? That's a very interesting question, Sandy [Katz Berman]. He has been in many different businesses. I didn't mention to you . . . I've left some certain things out. It's okay [Indistinct: 43.12]!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2578.37,2592.44"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e It's okay [Indistinct: 43.12]!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2592.44,2592.68"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e It's okay [Indistinct: 43.12]! I'll try. My brother, [Gerald A.] Jerry Blonder, came to Atlanta. We had cousins we loved who were here and our aunts. My parents eventually followed us here. My brother came and he married a wonderful woman named Lois Semel, who is just the greatest. She had moved down here with her parents from New York. I'm very proud of my brother and what he's done. They've shown enormous interest in the Breman as well as . . . When I walk through the Breman and I see the name Blonder I stop. I love it! Jack has a wonderful . . . he had a wonderful brother . . . ancestor . . . named Eli Freedman, who was married to Ramona Isaacson [Freedman]. Ramona and Lois are now my two sisters-in-law, and we're a very close family. Jack's late sister, Frieda [Freedman] Cohen, who is married to Buster Cohen . . . That's who introduced me. Freida was my aunt's close friend. She and my aunt made the blind date for us. We get very involved with family. Where was I with family? I'm sorry.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2592.68,2675.71"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e We were going to talk about some of the things that Jack did career-wise.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2675.71,2679.29"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Right. That's where I got off on this tangent. He did a lot of things with his brother, Eli. Eli was a C.P.A. [Certified Public Accountant] in his early days but had a lust for business. Entrepreneurial. Whatever Jack found to go into business with, Eli came in, or vice versa. My brother-in-law Eli had us in a few very interesting things. We started out . . . Jack was making plastic toys. He manufactured plastic toys; it was called Gray Shore. That was great. [It] put Jack in the Orient every six months for six weeks at a time, which I wasn't too happy about. I was raising a young child, Robyn, at the time . . . Jack has been in so many other things, different land development . . . We owned the land development at Norris Lake Shores. We spent every Sunday out there selling lakefront lots. Jack started out . . . I didn't mention . . . His daddy's business was Comfort Furniture on Whitehall Street. That's now Peachtree [Street]. Where his daddy's store was is now a parking lot. All that has changed. Whitehall Street . . . I am sure you have had many of your people talk about what it was back in the early days of Jewish Atlanta. That's where my aunt had a business, Southern Merchandise . . . On Whitehall Street, too. That was very much a part of our lives. What else has he been in? He's been in many different businesses but focused on volunteerism.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2679.29,2772.17"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e That's what I was going to ask you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2772.17,2773.59"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Very important. He loved the Center. He's still heartbroken that the Center is now out on Tilly Mill Road instead of Peachtree [Street]. We don't live far from there besides. It's a long way from where we live. He became very active in it and became a president of the center. That was a very important part of our lives, his volunteerism there. Because he traveled a lot . . . he was very active in UJA [United Jewish Appeal], the national board, et cetera, and traveled. We went to a lot of meetings. He was president of Men's ORT [Organization for Rehabilitative Training]. That afforded us another whole area of people. Everything now today is geographical. It's changed. It's changed so much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2773.59,2827.3"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e What did he think about the Center leaving Downtown?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2827.3,2831.14"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e He was heartbroken because of personal reasons, but he thought it was very important. He was very much a part of all of that. He felt that this was where the thrust of the community was going. We were seeing the changes, he knew that, and he was very responsive to it . . . [He was] very helpful and helped with the plans of . . . in the building and construction and everything.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2831.14,2854.86"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you think we need a Downtown presence today?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2854.86,2857.56"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I wish we had it . . . I personally wish we did. I take a Melton [School] course out there every Tuesday morning. I was out there this morning. It takes me 40 minutes to get there, and 40 minutes back. As we say down South, it's a “fair piece.” There are a lot of people that are now moving back into the Midtown area. There is a thrust, is what they tell us from the synagogue and the center, moving back . . . towards the Downtown areas. I think it'd be wonderful if there could be a presence. Our Center is the most staggering, incredible, marvelous facility. Not only . . . The structure is breathtaking, but the programming is so incredible. It touches everyone. Our grandson lives . . . he's now in the Virginia-Highland area, which is very popular with young professionals. He plays basketball at the Center. He doesn't think a thing about driving out there. It doesn't mean a thing to him. Those of us who've been privileged to have had the Center much closer are a little . . . not quite as happy about it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2857.56,2934.45"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes! No, I understand. It's . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2934.45,2935.74"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e That's . . . I'm talking now personally.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2935.74,2938.47"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e When the Center had their financial crisis last year, how did you and your contemporaries . . . Did you feel that you had been . . . I don't know what the word I'm looking for . . . I would imagine because of all the support and all the time and all the energy you gave, and then to have something like that happen. It must have affected all of you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2938.47,2960.16"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e We were all very upset by it, my husband in particular. As a past president, he felt responsibility, having served on the board all these years and everything else. It went into great hands. Jack Halpern and Harry Maziar have done an outstanding job. They've come a long way, baby. It is terrific. It was upsetting. It was also part of the growth of the city. We grew so fast at one point in our Jewish community, as well as the total city, that things were bound to get a little tight. They've come a long way.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2960.16,3004.16"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e If you could just reflect upon your life here in Atlanta and something . . . How would you summarize your last . . . How many years has it been that you've been here?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3004.16,3019.01"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I've been here . . . We're married 61 years. Less a year and a half that we lived in Port Chester . . . 59, 60 years. I feel very lucky to be in Atlanta. I'm lucky that Jack and I have been so blessed. We have each other. Our children are here and our grandchildren. We feel fortunate. I've been so . . . The best part of my life other than my family, which comes first, is the volunteerism that I have played a part in. I feel so good about it, and it has enriched me so. It made a far better person out of me and allowed me to meet and become friendly with so many people. That's important to me. I grew up in a small town, and I had an entity in my town. I was the milkman's daughter. I was the Blonder girl. Those were good things. When I came here, they said, \"He married that Yankee girl.\" I wanted to be me; I wanted to have my own identity. I think I found it. I'm very proud of it. I loved doing what I did. Whatever I did I loved it, it was fun.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3019.01,3096.88"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e When I look at photographs, both Federation photographs from the 1970's. It was [Indistinct: 51.45] . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3096.88,3104.33"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e We all look a little different, too.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3104.33,3106.28"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e You are in so many of them because you were here all the time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3106.28,3109.73"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I loved it. I ate it up. It was just part of my life. I was fortunate that my husband's income allowed me to do a lot of things and be a part of a lot of things. I never really worked. I did a few little things as far as professionally. Salary wise, I should say. I was a tour guide for about 15 years or so and I loved doing that. That was my big professional stint. I felt good about that because I knew this city, and I could talk about it. If I had a Jewish group, I was in my element.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3109.73,3146.72"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you ever, in retrospect, wish you had not volunteered as much, but chosen a career path?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3146.72,3154.82"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Had a career? No, my career path was volunteerism. It's what I loved. I felt I had some leadership qualities that could help enhance whatever I was doing, and I felt good about it. I have . . . total pride in the volunteerism. I have no regrets.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3154.82,3179.33"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you ever regret not raising your children in a small town?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3179.33,3183.97"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e No, I was glad they were in Atlanta. I thought this was . . . This was God's country to me. My town had 500 Jewish families. Here we have what, 5,000? I've forgotten how many thousand Jewish families. I'm so glad. I wanted that to be part of their life. It is. My grandchildren are . . . They're strong Jewish children.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3183.97,3214.93"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Just before we end, I have a few other questions I want to ask you. You came here in 1946?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3214.93,3220.65"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . I came here . . . We were married in January of 1947. I came to live [here] . . . I had been to Atlanta many times before that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3220.65,3232.85"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e It's just a couple of years after [World War II]. As Americans, and as Jewish Americans . . . You had just found out about what had happened to the Jews of Europe. How did that affect you? Do you remember feeling a change? Do you remember feeling . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3232.85,3253.32"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Feeling a change here in Atlanta?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3253.32,3256.16"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e No, change in yourself. How you felt as a Jew.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3256.16,3260.72"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e It did. I think, in a sick way, it enhanced my Judaism and my feeling about the community because of the many people that were lost. I lost family. I never knew my grandparents on my paternal side. When my daddy left as a young man, he left his parents. Aunts and uncles and cousins I never knew. It made me horrified. It added impetus to what I was doing in . . . this Jewish world. That was what was important to me. I did PTA [Parent Teachers' Association] work and I was active in the Margaret Mitchell [Elementary] School, but that wasn't the same as the Jewish community. That was my focus. There were great changes in Atlanta. The city . . . I watched Atlanta grow, too. As I watched the Jewish Community grow, I saw the city grow and change. I feel good that I could leave a little mark on some things that I helped. That makes me feel really good.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3260.72,3329.8"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I think you left more than a little mark. One final question. One of the other big events that you were here to witness was the bombing of The Temple. You were an AA member, but did that affect the entire community as a whole, or did you not feel a particular connection with what happened at The Temple?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3329.8,3354.61"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e When that happened . . . I'm trying to remember what year. That was . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3354.61,3361.68"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e [In] 1958.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3361.68,3361.81"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e [In] 1958. I don't think the Jewish community totally came through for the Center. It affected the Center, I don't think it effected the Jewish people as much as I feel it should have, me included. I mean I was horrified, but that was that. My friend Betty Ann Jacobson showed me the other day; there's a photo of the bombing in The Temple. I looked at it, and I thought, God, I don't even remember passing The Temple and really thinking about that. I don't think that the total Jewish community was as strong as they could have been, me included.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3361.81,3403.56"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Why?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3403.56,3403.64"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I don't know . . . There was still . . . a lot of that . . . That German-Jewish philosophy and the Standard Club and the attitudes with the clubs and everything . . . That was . . . There was a lot of that. Jack and I straddled some of it. A lot of Jewish people . . . They were afraid. They were afraid to even speak out and say too much. I wasn't involved in any way in any kind of protest or anything.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3403.64,3444.43"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e That brings up an interesting point, the fear. Talk about that a little more. Do you think that that was really a big part of it? People wanted to stay under the surface?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3444.43,3456.16"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I think it was. It's just like . . . Jewish people . . . Atlanta Jewry at that time . . . I'm not saying that it was only in Atlanta. It was prevalent in the United States. Atlanta Jewry . . . were fearful of being out in the public. They were fearful of saying . . . they own this, or they do that. They didn't like people to know those things. They were afraid. There was a lot of prejudice in Atlanta. I remember . . . I don't remember when the last time was [that] they burned a cross at the top of Stone Mountain, [Georgia], but that shook me up. The bombing of The Temple . . . I was horrified, but I didn't . . . It wasn't as shattering to me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3456.16,3512.04"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you do any volunteering in the general community?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3512.04,3520.42"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e In the general community? Yes, I've worked with United Way. I've done things over the years . . . PTA-wise. Not really. I was too involved. My life was . . . Other than playing Mahjong on a Wednesday . . . My friends always knew [to] never plan a board meeting for Phyllis on a Wednesday. I'm teasing about that . . . I really was. I was so involved doing community Jewish work. Every committee that led up to a committee to . . . Not just being an officer . . . I worked and I loved it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3520.42,3556.76"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I keep saying one final question, but everything is [Indistinct: 59.19] . . . Israel Expo was a major event.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3556.76,3565.08"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you. I'm most proud of that, of all the things.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3565.08,3568.51"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Can you talk a little bit about that? What was the idea behind it? Let's talk about what was the idea behind Israel Expo and who came up with it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3568.51,3579.69"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Perry Brickman is . . . he's one of the most creative people. He is. I think he'd give up his dental practice in a minute just to be a photographer and a fly on the wall in a lot of places. He really was so creative in ideas. We involved some wonderful people, and they really worked. It was a real community event. It touched the different categories of people or the different synagogues, as many as there were at that time. We . . . I'd have to say Perry was far more the creative person, I have to be truthful about that. I had more time, and I did a little more of the organizing and getting people to do things.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3579.69,3631.51"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Describe what it was like. What was the Expo?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3631.51,3631.91"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e What was the Expo? Gosh, I don't even know how to describe it. We wanted to bring a little bit of Israel to Atlanta. We wanted people here to feel what the country was, and to have an understanding. Modestly, it turned out more spectacularly than I ever dreamed it would be. I didn't expect it to be as super as it was. I don't know how to describe it other than . . . We touched a lot of people's lives. We made people have a feeling about Israel. That was really our goal. I think we kind of accomplished that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3631.91,3682.46"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e It was at the Center?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3682.46,3683.8"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e It was at the Center. The old Center on Peachtree [Street].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3683.8,3688.27"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e How long did it last?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3688.27,3691.44"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I don't remember that. I don't think it lasted long enough. We felt we should have done it longer. I'm sorry . . . I'd have to really look at my papers to recall. One thing that I've done in my life—I'm not proud of it—when I finish something, I'm finished and I move on. I don't necessarily remember dates or details. People talked about it. I still have someone come up to me every so often and say, \"We'll never forget Israel Expo.\" That makes you feel 10 feet tall. Perry, Shirley, Jack, and I enjoyed an experience that we'll never be able to do again.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3691.44,3735.03"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I thank you very much. It was a pleasure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3735.03,3738.82"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Please! Don't thank me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3738.82,3739.52"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I want to make sure we haven't missed anything. Is there any volunteer organization that we didn't touch upon? I don't think . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3739.52,3751.66"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I don't think . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3751.66,3751.82"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I don't think . . . How about holidays? Holidays in the home. Did you . . . Was it something that was very important to the family with . . . Did you all get together for Passover? Was it at your house or . . .?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3751.82,3764.63"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I've had Passover . . . My mother-in-law was this wonderful baker and cook. We had every Friday night dinner . . . Every Friday night, we were there for dinner and went home with bags of cookies that she was famous for. She made a pineapple cookie that people still talk about. No one else in the family ever tried baking. Cooking has never been one of my strong points, to be truthful. Every holiday we are together as a family. My sister-in-law, Lois Blonder, had the first night of Rosh HaShanah, all her family. I can't fit them in anymore; we're in a condo now and my dining room doesn't accommodate it. All her and all my family. Ramona's always been a part of everything. I had the second night, and my children know that on a Jewish holiday they're going to be with their family. That's it. That's a given. Passover . . . I have a Seder; I still have probably more than I should. When we had our home, I had 25 and 30 people. I'm still up to somewhere around 18 or so. Everybody knows . . . [On] a Jewish holiday, they are with Phyllis and Jack Freedman. It's the way it ought to be. I feel like I'll pass that on. My daughter will always do something. Right now, she's doing Thanksgiving, and that's big! I'm hoping that my grandchildren will follow through on the same thing. The Jewish holidays . . . we have them. My husband is a very pious man. He goes to the synagogue. He used to go every morning for minyan. He only goes now two mornings a week, which means he gets up at five to be there for seven.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3764.63,3875.65"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Has he always been that way?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3875.65,3877.91"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e More so in later years, but always. My in-laws were really . . . My father-in-law was one of the rocks at the AA Synagogue. If there was a minyan or . . . a Kaddish . . . [If] anybody needed anything for the holiday . . . or otherwise, Papa was there. He walked . . . He lived across the street. He did that until he was well in his . . . nineties and was very . . . We still miss that house over there. We had free parking . . . across the street from the synagogue. Seriously, the holidays are very important to us as a family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3877.91,3916.36"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Where are your seats, being an old Jewish AA family? Where are they [Indistinct: 1.05.19]?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3916.36,3920.57"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e They're there. We've got a whole line.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3920.57,3923.3"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Papa would never want . . . They tried to get . . . They bought seats. They tried to give him seats close up. That wasn't what Papa wanted. He didn't want any kind of attention or recognition. What are we, row J? We're over on the right-hand side. We have about 12 seats, but we're there! Those are our seats. I kind of . . . I thought it was revolting when they had reserved seats. When I first came here, I couldn't believe that. I mean come on! Now I like it very much, I know I'm going to be there with my children and grandchildren.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3923.3,3957.86"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e That's [Indistinct: 1.05.59] . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3957.86,3960.64"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . My grandson now has his . . . a wonderful Jewish girlfriend. We'll see what happens! That's the next big thing on the agenda.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3960.64,3972.5"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Is . . . At the AA . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3972.5,3979.11"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/201","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e That's all right. My father-in-law . . . Mom and Papa's home was strictly kosher. I have to say . . . I kept strictly kosher up until just a few years ago. I still do kosher, but it's not strictly kosher. That was a very important part of my husband's life and his background. One as much mine. My mother didn't keep a kosher home. I've loved . . . It also enriched my life. It enriched my children's life too. When it comes to a Jewish holiday . . . It's important to them and that's what I want.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3979.11,4018.86"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I remember my question.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4018.86,4020.75"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay, good!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4020.75,4021.61"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/204","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e A lot of folks are . . . people are . . . AA members have realized that the synagogue has shrunk in size . . . maybe stature, as the . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4021.61,4035.52"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/205","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e You're absolutely correct.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4035.52,4038.97"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/206","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e What do you attribute that to?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4038.97,4041.89"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e What do I attribute it to? I keep using the word geographically. The Jewish community has spread out all over. I have a cousin who lives in Alpharetta, [Georgia]. I understand that they're not going to be driving in every Friday night or for the holidays. Families have moved . . . I have friends who are at the AA whose children are no longer with them. It was a matter of convenience. I hate to put it that way. I don't think religion should just be on a convenience basis. That's the important thing. The seats are a put-off to a lot of people. If they did away with them, I'd say, fine, okay. I have to say I enjoy them. I like knowing it's there. If I come in 20 minutes late, I could go right to my seat, and it's there. I'm with my family. I think those are . . . They're the two of the most important things . . . The Epstein School moved away. It's not right there at the AA anymore . . . Families are sending their children there, but it's not close to the synagogue. All of those things are contributing factors.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4041.89,4118.67"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e What about the rabbi?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4118.67,4119.79"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Rabbi [Arnold M.] Goodman brought in a lot of people . . . who were very devoted to Rabbi Goodman. I don't think there will ever again be the feeling that people had with Rabbi Epstein about that . . . He was their rabbi, period. I don't think that . . . I don't know if that's ever going to exist again. I don't think my children have any feelings about it. My husband does, because he goes there. I can't say that I like my Rabbi very much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4119.79,4156.71"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Who is the rabbi there now?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4156.71,4158.06"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e With an S. Help me . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4158.06,4168.04"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Sandler.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4168.04,4168.15"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Sandler, thank you . . . Rabbi Neil Sandler. I like him very much. I liked the fact that he knows me, and we can say hello and smile. He is gaining in his strength as a rabbi. At the same time, I don't think there'll ever be any situation like there was with Rabbi Epstein or Goodman. Goodman had devout followers. When our wonderful rabbis . . . The couple . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4168.15,4199.62"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/214","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e From our team?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4199.62,4199.91"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e [Rabbi Analia Bortz] and [Rabbi Mario Karpuj]. I call them by their first name. We had a nice relationship. When they moved away, too . . . a lot of people left. All of those factors added up to the shrinking. They say they're getting new members again. That's where I first heard it . . . that people were moving back towards Midtown and staying. For a while, people were leaving the Northeast area, the Morningside area. They were leaving it. They were all moving elsewhere . . . Strong again. That's the way . . . All those are factors in helping build the synagogue back up.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4199.91,4241.94"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you very much. It was an extreme pleasure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4241.94,4248.84"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you want to talk at all about your brother?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4248.84,4253.39"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Are you kidding? Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4253.39,4256.36"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/219","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I had the pleasure of interviewing him.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4256.36,4258.38"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/220","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e You did? Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4258.38,4259.35"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/221","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4259.35,4259.43"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/222","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. God! Thank you for giving me that [Indistinct: 1.11.02]. My brother . . . I miss him to this day. He's a super guy. He was the rottenest little kid that ever walked. We fought like cats and dogs. We absolutely had the greatest love for each other. He was very special. We shared a lot of things. I'm most proud of what he accomplished in this community. He built the first apartments out there on the Buford Highway. That's where all the young people were moving at that time . . . Those of us who knew Atlanta in those years. What were they? The 1940's or . . . the 1960's . . . Everybody knew him.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4259.43,4305.72"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/223","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e He mentioned them. I remember . . . [Indistinct: 1.11.46]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4305.72,4307.94"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/224","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e He was very proud of that, but he really did . . . My brother is a very important part of my life. He has a fabulous family here. His children and grandchildren are super. The smartest thing he ever did in the world was marry Lois. I adore her. My brother was very special. He was . . . rotten. He was such a . . . My children were never that bad. I don't know how my parents survived us. We were terrible. We were three and a half years apart to the day. My birthday is January 10, and his was July 10. We shared . . . We were terrible. As terrible as we were, that's how wonderful we ended up being. It breaks my heart when I hear of families . . . somebody doesn't speak to somebody. We're a very close family. My brother was a wonderful son. That helped get my parents here to Atlanta. We shared some wonderful things, and I miss him. I can't talk to anybody about Port Chester anymore. He remembered every schoolteacher we had, first grade, second grade . . . You name the grade, and he'd tell . . . Port Chester was a small town. It was one high school, maybe four or five elementary schools. That's what the town was. He knew that town backwards and forwards.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4307.94,4395.83"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/225","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e He did talk a lot about the town. The milk business, the interview . . . [Indistinct: 1.13.19] It was a lot of fun.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4395.83,4397.88"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/226","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e We both have . . . We both had very strong feelings about growing up there. He grew up there playing basketball. Everybody knew he was the other Blonder kid. It was nice growing up that way. We like saying . . . This kid—not money wise—is a Woodruff in Atlanta. It was name recognition. We felt good about who we were and what we were. I miss him very much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4397.88,4428.01"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/227","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I think everybody in the community does.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4428.01,4429.64"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/228","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Anybody who knew him was crazy about him. He loved people. He shaved his head for a long time to make himself look that way . . . That's where I get my thin hair, too!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4429.64,4445.3"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/229","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e He was a super guy. Thank you for mentioning him . . . [He's] very special to me. Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4445.3,4452.69"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/230","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4452.69,4454.62"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/89059/annotation/231","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you. I thank you! Thank you. This was a privilege.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4454.62,4460.12"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Freedman, Phyllis Blonder [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/232","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e It is November 11, 2008. I am with Phyllis [Blonder] Freedman who has agreed to be interviewed for . . . the Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Project of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum. Thank you, Phyllis. I'm so glad to have you here today and have you be a part of this project.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=0.0,18.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/233","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you, I'm delighted.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=18.0,20.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/234","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I'd like to begin by just having you tell me a little bit about your background. Where you were born and where you're from.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=20.0,27.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/235","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I'm one of those former Yankees. I was born in New York City, [New York on] January 10, 1928. I lived in Port Chester, New York until I was married. A great small town in New York State in Westchester County, just 45 minutes from New York City. I had a very happy, privileged childhood.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=27.0,58.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/236","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Were your parents first generation or were they born in . . . Had they immigrated, or were they born in the United States?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=58.0,66.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/237","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e My mother was born in New York City in 1901.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=66.0,68.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/238","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e [What was] her name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=68.0,70.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/239","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Her name was Pauline. \n\n Pauline Dorothy Janowitz [Blonder]. She married my daddy, Irving Blonder, who came to this country when he was a teenager. He came from what he said was Austria . . . That became Poland. He knew how to ride horses in the old country, so he became a milkman in New York City. They delivered milk in a horse and wagon. Then, he decided he wanted to open his own company. He moved from New York City to Port Chester and became Blonder Milk \u0026 Cream Company. That was my daddy's life. I grew up a lucky girl going to school there and being very happy. [I had] lots of friends.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=70.0,122.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/240","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you go to college up there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=122.0,126.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/241","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e No. Let me see . . . I graduated from Port Chester High School. That was the only high school in the town. This was a town of 25,000. The next . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=126.0,136.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/242","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e What year was that . . .?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=136.0,139.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/243","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I graduated in 1945. The next morning, I left for Syracuse University. I started in the summer. The summer of 1945 was when all the soldiers were coming back after the end of [World War II]. They wanted everybody to start in the summer, so I did. I only went there a year and three quarters because I came down South to visit family and I had a blind date with this older man. Here I is.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=139.0,170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/244","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e You came down here to visit family. Can you tell me what family you have?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=170.0,175.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/245","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I'd be delighted. At the time my grandmother lived here—her name was Rose Janowitz—she moved here with her daughter. There were three daughters living here. My mother was one of four girls. The other three sisters live here in Atlanta, [Georgia]. Florence [Janowitz] Rachelson, Mrs. Sam Rachelson . . . Anna [Janowitz] Fields, Mrs. Larry [Lawrence] Fields, and my aunt, Frances [Janowitz] Ritchkin. They were here, and I came down to visit my grandmother. I was the oldest of six grandchildren. I was very close to her and adored her. She moved here from New York City. They got me a blind date with this older guy . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=175.0,220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/246","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e What was his name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=220.0,221.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/247","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e His name is Jack I.—standing for Irving—Freedman, spelled with a double E. We dated and had a really good time. [We] really hit it off. I went back to school for another few weeks. Then I decided that's ridiculous, and it was over. We got married in January of 1947 . . . January 19, [1947]. I am now . . . As of today, I'm married 61 years to the same man. It's hard to believe. I'm lucky. Here I is. I love Atlanta. We haven't always lived here. We lived here for six months on Sheridan Drive in an apartment . . . My husband had to buy the furniture for it because you couldn't find apartments in Atlanta. Not at that time. My daddy couldn't stand it that his daughter was living down South, so he tried to make a Yankee out of my husband. We moved back to Port Chester and lived there for a year and a half. We both decided [that] as happy as we were there, we really . . . Atlanta was home for him, and I wanted it to be mine. Here I am.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=221.0,301.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/248","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell me what your reaction was to the South and being a New York girl moving to the South in 1949.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=301.0,311.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/249","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I have to say that I was called \"The Yankee Girl Who Married Jack.\" I never had a name when I was introduced to someone and that offended me horribly. I couldn't stand that. I liked being Phyllis. That was my name. The “Yankee Girl” became very much a part of the South. I was offended by a lot of the things. The situation was still going on with blacks, really, before the Civil Rights [Movement]. That was 1947. We came back in 1949. It was still the South, the Deep South. I was always called a Yankee Girl. Whenever I met anybody, that was unbelievable to me. Northerners were not moving down to Atlanta as much as they [are now].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=311.0,367.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/250","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e You said you were offended by some of the things that you saw. First of all, can you describe some of the things that bothered you? Also, did you talk about it with your family or your newfound friends?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=367.0,382.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/251","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I was offended by the fact that blacks had to go. . . When we went to the Fox Theater . . . they had to go in the back door and go upstairs. We couldn't sit with them. After all, I grew up in the North. One of my friends in high school was an African American—we called them blacks then, we didn't say African American—her name was Iantha Crutchfield. I don't remember a lot of things in my life, but I'll never forget her name. I went to school with blacks, and it . . . I could not . . . It offended me. Everybody had what they called a maid. Everyone was black. We had a wonderful black woman work for us that we loved who stayed with us for over 30 years until she died. She was very much a part of our family. Her name was Mary Billingsley. Truthfully, I didn't talk about it to my friends . . . I would hear them making remarks that I won't even repeat. They were offensive to me. I had never grown up saying schvartze,  and my Jewish friends here referred to people as schvartze. It wasn't my makeup. I didn't discuss it with them, I'm truthful. I was not one who was out there carrying a flag or whatever. When I was at college, I did some walking around with signs and things.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=382.0,474.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/252","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you ever speak of it with your husband?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=474.0,478.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/253","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, but very lightly. I'll be truthful, I . . . It was a given fact that was here. I won't say I accepted it; I accepted the fact that they were accepting it, but I didn't like it. If that makes sense.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=478.0,494.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/254","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e No, it does. It makes a lot of sense.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=494.0,498.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/255","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . When you moved here, did you find the community . . . Besides being called the “Yankee Girl,” did you find them welcoming to you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=498.0,505.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/256","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, very welcoming! Friendly . . . But they would always say something about a Yankee. That's the truth. When I came back here in 1949 . . . When we moved back, I had just given birth to my son two months previous to that. He was born in February of 1949. His name is Doug, Douglas Stuart Freedman. Doug, we call him. He was born in Port Chester at the United Hospital. When I came back . . . we came back to Atlanta, he was two months old. We lived in Lindmont Apartments. [In] 2378A Lindmont Circle, which no longer exists. It was demolished about a month or two ago, the whole complex. They were . . . among the first apartments that were built in Atlanta after the war. When I say the war, I don't mean 1861, [the American Civil War]. I mean, World War II. We moved into Lindmont. I can't believe they're all gone. I can’t say anymore, \"That's where you lived!\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=505.0,576.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/257","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e That's great. Who did you meet when you first moved here?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=576.0,579.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/258","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Before I got married, I used to come down and visit Atlanta. I always felt comfortable in Atlanta. I neglected to say that I did know a few people. Among the first girls I met who became my friends were Anita Maziar Morris. She is still one of my closest friends after all these years. Her husband, Perry B. Morris, who passed away, and my husband were the best of friends. It made it a special relationship. We were married about two weeks apart. Anita was one of my friends. Another one that I met when I first came to Atlanta—when I was about 16—was Virginia [Diamond] Saul. Her maiden name was Virginia Diamond. We are still good friends. I had met a lot of people in those days. I started when I first came here . . . This is kind of silly . . . I got into a group, and we played . . . Back then, we played Canasta every Wednesday. Out of the women that started that game about 59, 58 years ago . . . We are still playing. The same group except one has passed away, Sylvia Siegel, who was my dearest friend . . . I'm still playing . . . Now we play Mahjong. In those days . . . It's okay . . .? Yes, I love this!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=579.0,672.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/259","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, I love this!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=672.0,672.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/260","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, I love this! In those days, we put 50 cents a girl in the kitty. I was the treasurer. Who was in the group?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=672.0,678.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/261","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Who was in the group?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=678.0,678.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/262","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Who was in the group? Anita Morris . . . At that time, it was Sylvia Siegel. After Sylvia died and Louis [Siegel] remarried, his wife Lorraine [Siegel] took her place in our game. Amy Taratoot—these are still my dearest, closest friends—and Meredith Levy, who was married to Ted Levy. Amy is married to Louis Taratoot. The men were all friends as kids. That's what's so neat about the group. Now Lois [Semel] Blonder, who is my sister-in-law, came into the game only about maybe 45 years ago. We still play Mahjong every Wednesday. After putting in the 50 cents, we got up to $5. Then we bought stocks, and we bought second mortgages. We took trips that were paid for totally by the kitty. Now . . . We've just declared a $3,000 dividend, which each six women got. Next year, when some of the other things that we have invested in come due, we'll each get about another $10,000.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=678.0,752.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/263","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh my gosh!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=752.0,754.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/264","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I can't believe that! It sounds nauseating to talk about it, but it's fun that we did it. If anybody hears about it, they can't believe it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=754.0,763.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/265","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e That's wonderful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=763.0,764.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/266","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e It took care of trips to Toronto, [Ontario, Canada], a trip to New York. We did different things . . . Went to a spa. Everything came out of the Wednesday Club kitty and I'm still the treasurer.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=764.0,776.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/267","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e That's what it's called, the Wednesday Club? The Wednesday Club.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=776.0,778.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/268","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e The Wednesday Club.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=778.0,778.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/269","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e The Wednesday Club. That's wonderful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=778.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/270","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Same women . . . We're really good friends and we've shared very special things together. Some have lost their husbands. We've shared deceased parents, in some cases children. We've shared a lot of things, but we shared a lot of happy things. Children's weddings, bar mitzvahs, bat mitzvahs . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=780.0,804.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/271","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e When you first arrived here, did you join a synagogue?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=804.0,808.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/272","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e That's a good question. When you marry someone like Jack Freedman, who was born into the Ahavath Achim Synagogue, and came from a very pious family and was still a member of the synagogue . . . I automatically became a member the synagogue. We are still members of the AA Synagogue, as are our children.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=808.0,833.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/273","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Rabbi [Harry H.] Epstein was the rabbi?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=833.0,835.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/274","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Rabbi Epstein was the rabbi.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=835.0,837.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/275","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e What did you think of him? What were your impressions of him?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=837.0,841.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/276","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I never felt warmly towards him until his last few years. He was such an authoritarian. My town didn't even really have a synagogue. We met in some kind of room somewhere. There were only 1,500 Jews in the whole town, 500 families. When I came here and . . . this authoritarian rabbi . . . I was a little taken back but had high regard. I loved his wife, Reva [Chashesman Epstein]. She became someone I felt very close to. Eventually, I appreciated Rabbi Epstein very much. He was very much a part of our family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=841.0,883.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/277","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Were you active in the synagogue?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=883.0,885.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/278","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I was active in Sisterhood. At one time I was an officer. At the same time, I had become active in what was then called Brandeis University National Women's Committee, the UNWC. I was really going up the ladder in it. I couldn't do it all.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=885.0,906.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/279","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Why did you choose Brandeis to get active in?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=906.0,909.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/280","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I admired the women. I had a few friends who were in it, and I thought they were wonderful. Joy Howard-Kunian was president . . . That's one of the years that I became very active. I admired a woman named Maxine [Bear] Marcus and Leah Janus. They were like my mentors. I loved it. I would go up to [the Atlanta Chapter of] Brandeis University. I was in awe of the university. At that time, our chapter . . . we were over 1,000 women. It covered the whole community. It wasn't Sisterhood of the synagogue . . . This was just overall, and I loved it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=909.0,952.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/281","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you become president of that organization?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=952.0,955.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/282","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, I went up the ladder and finally became president. I was on the national nominating committee, and then I went on the national board. I have had some wonderful experience and met incredible women all over the United States because of Brandeis.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=955.0,974.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/283","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Let me ask you, why do you think a lot of these groups, like Brandeis, Hadassah, Pioneer Women, Mizrahi Women, all of these groups . . . They're not very popular anymore. What do you think the difference is?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=974.0,992.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/284","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Their memberships have all shrunk.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=992.0,994.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/285","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=994.0,995.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/286","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, you're absolutely right. It's mainly because Atlanta has grown so. Geographically, it wasn't as convenient for women to get to. At that time, we went to . . . we had a meeting at the Progressive Club, the Standard Club, or the Mayfair Club. That's where you had your meetings. As people grew further and further out, they kept moving. That's what's really happened more than anything. I think there were other things. Sometimes some of our leadership has lost their way, too. We get too—I won't say imbued with what we're doing, because that's part of the leadership . . . It became too focused. Atlanta was growing so, and it was so important. We needed to do things in the total community, not just one area of it. Does that make sense?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=995.0,1053.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/287","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, do you think there's any chance for these organizations to kind of make a comeback?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1053.0,1061.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/288","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e You mean as far as their memberships . . .? They still have their own prestige in their own way. I don't know. I'm not sure that that can happen. In fact, for a while . . . The Brandeis . . . Current women who were wonderful, the great leadership . . . They wanted to cut back on expenses. What they did was they didn't send out invitations; they only sent email. Some of us didn't have email. That took care of a lot of people. Things like that have happened over the years. That has happened in other organizations as well. The [Atlanta Jewish] Community Center . . . That was a place where everybody came. My husband and I were both very active in the Center.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1061.0,1108.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/289","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Were you active in the National Council of Jewish Women?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1108.0,1111.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/290","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e No, I was a member. I was a member of almost everything. I was a member, but not . . . No, but some of my closest friends . . . That's how I knew Marilyn [Hockstein] Shubin, who is now one of my dearest friends. We met when she was a council president. That's when I was doing Brandeis and [the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.] Marilyn came in to work in the Federation. That cemented our . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1111.0,1133.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/291","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I want to get to the Federation in a few minutes, but I wanted to go back to these organizations. Do you think, even in the 1950's and 1960's when you were really becoming active in this, that there was a separation still between . . . Maybe the National Council was more German-Jewish women and Brandeis was made . . .?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1133.0,1153.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/292","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e There was. A lot of that existed. Yes, it did. I'd really forgotten about that, but that's correct. Not as much in Brandeis. Council was known. Council was older. Don't forget, Brandeis was only as old as the University [National Women's Committee]. Council, at that time, was known to have . . . \"The German-Jewish membership.\" When you got to Hadassah, those were people who were more oriented towards anything Jewish and starting Israel. I think that's what divided some of these areas, but that was definitely the case with most of those organizations.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1153.0,1195.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/293","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e How did you start getting active in the Federation?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1195.0,1199.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/294","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I lovingly call it 'The Fed.' I started . . . We used to have a telethon to connect . . . to get people to contribute. I just got active in it. Before I knew it, I was doing a little bit of everything. I cared very much about Israel. I did have knowledge of a lot of people in the community. That was helpful to me, as well as enhanced everything. Federation was everything. It wasn't council's emphasis, Brandeis' emphasis, Hadassah . . . The Fed handled everything, and I liked that. I liked being able to know people from all over the city and all walks of life. That made me happy.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1199.0,1252.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/295","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e What were your jobs at the Federation?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1252.0,1255.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/296","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, my jobs. I think I did everything. Forgive me. I don't mean to sound immodest, but I did it all.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1255.0,1263.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/297","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Was it all with [the National Women's Division of the Council of Jewish Federations of North America]?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1263.0,1265.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/298","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, it was all Women's Division. We're talking about a long time ago when I started, the Women's Division was women and then the Fed was the Fed. There weren't many women officers, there weren't any. There weren't many women who were . . . They began to sit on the board a little bit, but there was a very distinct separation between men and women. I wasn't too crazy about that. I have been an advocate for women's rights. I love Federation, I still do. I came to a board meeting last week, the first in quite a while for some reason. I was thrilled. I had only known about a third of the people in the room. That meant it was healthy and good. If you don't go to a meeting and see younger people, it's not healthy. That's my attitude.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1265.0,1324.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/299","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e When were you president of Women's Division?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1324.0,1327.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/300","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I was hoping you wouldn't ask me dates because I don't remember.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1327.0,1331.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/301","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Even proximately when . . .?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1331.0,1335.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/302","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Approximately . . . It must have been early 1970's. I was Brandeis president from 1968 to 1970. It was somewhere in the 1970's.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1335.0,1347.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/303","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e At that time was . . . Did you work with [Max C.] Mike Gettinger or David Sarnat?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1347.0,1351.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/304","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I worked with both. I started with Mike and then I worked with David Sarnat. Because of my involvement in Federation, I was asked to serve on the board of what was then called the Council of Jewish Federation's Women's Division. It was a separate Women's Division. I was on that board, and we met in New York City. I ate all that up. It was like I ate up going to Brandeis University, to the campus. Being exposed to so many wonderful women and everything about the organization. I loved the Council of Jewish Federations, and I'd go up to New York. Next thing I knew . . . I ended up the National Chairwoman—which was unbelievable to me—of the Women's Division of Council of Jewish Federations, which was a tremendous honor and very special. For two years, I'd . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1351.0,1408.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/305","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e What were those two years like?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1408.0,1411.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/306","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Superb. I met the most wonderful active women in the United States and Israel and North America, really. I worked with a woman named Sue Stevens, who was the director, who is still my friend in New York City. Although, she's no longer involved in it. None of us have gotten any younger. It was so incredible. I was involved with people who were doing the ultimate in their communities. That was very exciting to me. I was very turned on by it. I traveled a lot. I'd go into different cities sometimes to talk for the Council of Jewish Federations . . . That was superb.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1411.0,1456.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/307","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Was the focus then more domestic or more . . .?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1456.0,1460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/308","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e More towards Israel. Israel was a very important part of our lives. Jack and I . . . Jack led a couple of missions to Israel and one he and I did together. We still . . . There are some people in the community now who are involved in the Federation who had . . . who were not . . . They were very young. They come up to me and say, \"I still remember that trip we did to Israel!\" That's what started them. That makes me feel special.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1460.0,1494.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/309","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I wanted to get a couple of . . . some of your reflections on some of these people. What was Mike Gettinger like?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1494.0,1503.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/310","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Mike was a wonderful man. I had a wonderful rapport with him. Jack and I were very fond of Mike and Claire [Gettinger]. We knew them . . . We felt they were our friends. Mike, I thought, did an outstanding job. Atlanta was considered an outstanding community. What you have to remember is we didn't have as many Jews at that time as we do now. Our Jewish population has soared, as has the population of Atlanta. I remember driving up Peachtree Road when I would do things for Federation and the population counter—I remember in front of the Darlington [Apartments]—I remember when it hit 1,000,000. I remember when it hit 2,000,000, 3,000,000, 4,000,000, and then broke! Now it's back on again and it's over 5,470,000 or something. Mike tried to grow with the community and help the community grow. I think we did. We grew a lot. David came in and he was different. We were crazy about David, and at that time, his wife Sharon [Sarnat] . . . they were buddies. If you were a part of Federation, you were very close to the people you worked with. We shared some wonderful things.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1503.0,1585.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/311","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e How would you compare the way Mike oversaw Federation and David Sarnat?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1585.0,1594.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/312","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I'm really not sure that I can make any distinction. When David came in, Atlanta was so much bigger. David involved a lot more people than Mike did. It was pretty much of a close corporation, now that I think about it, when Mike Gettinger was the director of Federation. It didn't spread out a lot. It involved a lot of people, but at the same time, the leadership was pretty tight. David Sarnat brought in more people. I thought that was very meaningful. They both earned a lot of respect from us at that time, and we earned from them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1594.0,1642.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/313","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Speaking of being . . . bringing in more people, did you feel that Women's Division was inclusive or exclusive?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1642.0,1651.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/314","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I felt it was inclusive, but that was maybe my narrowness in thinking. I felt that wherever we met, it could be involved and that was great. I did hear from different people who would say, \"The Women's Division of Federation was a clique. It was a certain group of women.\" That bothered me. I didn't feel that that was right. To me, what's critical is the cohesiveness of the Jewish community. If you don't take part in the Fed, you're not getting it. That leads into everything, and that's where all the other organizations get support from. Not necessarily financial but definitely support.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1651.0,1694.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/315","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e You brought up something else I want to go back to. It was the missions to Israel. When was the first time you went on a mission to Israel?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1694.0,1702.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/316","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I could not tell you that. I am sorry.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1702.0,1705.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/317","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e [In the] 1960's, 1970's?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1705.0,1706.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/318","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e In the 1970's.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1706.0,1708.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/319","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Was that your first trip to Israel or had you been there before?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1708.0,1714.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/320","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . I had gone on a mission . . . before we led a mission. Yes, I had gone on it a couple of times. My husband had gone many times. Those were highlights in our life. We were ecstatic over the experience. The people who came back—all of us—we all felt special. For example, my friends, Ann [Davis] and Jay Davis. Their first mission to Israel . . . They were kids, they're still young, but they were kids. They went with us, and now they are leaders in this community. That makes me feel 10 feet tall. They remember it well, and they've been back many times. We need to go again; we haven't been in a while.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1714.0,1762.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/321","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Did your husband feel that connection with Israel? I know that there's a story with his family. Didn't his father . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1762.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/322","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e His grandfather.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1770.0,1772.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/323","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Made one of the first aliyahs there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1772.0,1774.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/324","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e You have marvelous memory!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1774.0,1775.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/325","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e From Atlanta.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1775.0,1776.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/326","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e That's correct.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1776.0,1777.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/327","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell me about that family member?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1777.0,1778.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/328","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e His name was Mr. S. L. Zion, my mother-in-law's father. He wanted to go to what was then Palestine. That was his dream. He wanted to be buried in Palestine. I never knew him, but that's what he always said. I don't know the year that he went, but when he went . . . He did go, his children cried and carried on because . . . his daughters didn't want him to go when they took him to the ship, which is how you went in those days . . . He went. He remarried over there, and he is buried there. My husband and I—Jack on his first trip there—went to the cemetery where he's buried. We said, there's his gravestone. It's a real emotional tie.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1778.0,1825.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/329","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e There's such a connection, then, for . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1825.0,1828.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/330","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Very special connection. Jack's parents were very posh people. When you asked me about the AA earlier . . . My in-laws moved wherever the AA went. When it was on Washington Street, they lived around the corner. I think everybody in Atlanta says they lived where . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1828.0,1850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/331","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e The [Atlanta-Fulton County] Stadium?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1850.0,1853.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/332","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . Where the stadium is now. Jack lived around the corner.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1853.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/333","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Just for the purpose of the tape, Jack's parents' names were . . .?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1860.0,1865.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/334","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Annie and Morris Freedman. She was Annie Zion [Freedman] and [he was] Morris Freedman. She came from Lithuania, and he came from Russia. They settled . . . He came into the South in Savannah, [Georgia], where he had a brother who was there . . . from Savannah. He opened a dry goods store. I had never heard that expression until I moved down South--dry goods store--I didn't even know what that was! Everybody knows now what a dry good store was. He opened one in Sandersville, Georgia. Then, he came to Atlanta because he wanted his children to have a Jewish life. That's a very important part of our lives. They moved from Washington Street to . . . The synagogue had a temporary building on 10th Street, so they moved to Piedmont [Avenue] and 10th Street. When the AA built on Peachtree Battle Avenue, Annie and Morris Freedman bought a house across the street on the corner of Peachtree Battle [Avenue] and Northside Drive. Our life was very involved in synagogue. Every Friday night, we had dinner with my in-laws. I'm sorry my children don't have that same kind of cook in their mother! My mother-in-law was one of the outstanding bakers in Atlanta. Kosher, of course. Excuse me!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1865.0,1944.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/335","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Those are great stories!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1944.0,1946.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/336","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e That's all part of our Jewish experience. It's strong Jewish experience.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1946.0,1952.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/337","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Who are your children?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1952.0,1955.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/338","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Who are my children? Is it bragging time?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1955.0,1958.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/339","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Not yet!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1958.0,1960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/340","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I mentioned that our son Doug was born in Port Chester, moved here at two months. He is now married to Genie Freedman, and they live in Atlanta. Doug is one of these people that . . . They used to call him a \"car nut.\" What he is . . . He's a specialist in cars. Particularly . . . Ferrari vintage. He lived in Belgium for a year and a half working with Ferrari people there. He knows people all over the world and cars. He's still a car nut. Our daughter is Robyn [Freedman Spizman Gerson]. A lot of people know Robyn because she's on TV almost every Saturday morning—any Saturday that she wants to be—on Channel 11 NBC. She's super sharp. I taught her everything . . . I like to kid her about that, but whatever, she's teaching me now. She married a wonderful young man named Willie Spizman, who came from San Antonio, Texas. They met at the University of Texas. His parents were survivors of the holocaust. They eventually moved to Atlanta with his younger brother, Dr. Sam Spizman, who was married to Gina Gould here. All these ties have come in. It's been very special. Those are our children . . . and two grandchildren! The best grandson in the world and the best granddaughter in the world. Justin Spizman, who is 27 and an attorney, and Ali Spizman, who is graduating in December of this year. Magna cum laude from University of Georgia! All right, that's all my bragging.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1960.0,2068.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/341","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e That's wonderful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2068.0,2069.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/342","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I'm a grandmother!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2069.0,2071.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/343","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Are they active in the community?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2071.0,2073.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/344","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e They're not active in the Jewish community. I worry and wonder about that. They're so involved with their . . . She's involved at college. She has been part of Hillel . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2073.0,2086.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/345","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e No, I'm talking more about your own children.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2086.0,2087.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/346","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e My own children? No, they're not, and that is a great disappointment to Jack and to me. They belong to . . . I believe Robyn belongs to many Jewish organizations, but she's too busy with her career to give time to volunteerism. She does it in quiet ways. Our son is too involved in traveling with his . . . It's a disappointment, I have to say. That's truthful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2087.0,2114.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/347","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I think that that has happened in a number of families, which is why you're so happy to see younger people at the Federation.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2114.0,2122.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/348","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, that's what I said. I get so turned on by it. Betty Ann [Romm] Jacobson is one of my closest friends, and we always talk about it. If we don't see people we don't know, we're not happy. We love seeing the people we worked with, but seeing people . . . We went this past Sunday night to the incredible event at The Temple [Hebrew Benevolent Congregation] for Kristallnacht celebration. It was so unbelievable. Standing room only . . . Every kind of person you can imagine . . . Every age and everything. We were thrilled. Every background.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2122.0,2158.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/349","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Speaking of Betty, she became Federation's first female President.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2158.0,2164.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/350","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e That's right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2164.0,2165.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/351","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e How did that make you all feel? Was that like a real . . . Did you all take pride in that accomplishment of hers?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2165.0,2171.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/352","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Enormous pride. Betty and I did a lot of things together in campaign. When I was chairwoman of the Women's Division, she came on the year after that. She . . . The Federation was . . . It's such a vital part of her life. We shared things like president of Brandeis, we both were . . . Things like that. When Betty Ann became the first female president, we were out of our minds with joy. Thrilled. Thrilled that it happened to her, and thrilled because it was finally a woman.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2171.0,2207.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/353","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you think she made a lasting mark on the Federation?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2207.0,2212.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/354","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I think so. She pulled in a lot of people, too. There were certain programs that she brought in. Yes, I do. It makes me very proud when I walk in the building and I see her picture out there with some of my other buddies.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2212.0,2234.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/355","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e How do you think Women's Division is different today than it was when you were more active?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2234.0,2241.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/356","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I'm not sure, other than the fact that it . . . Geographically, Atlanta has grown so that it's very hard to say now where people are or what they're doing in their temples. When I came to Atlanta there were . . . three synagogues . . . three or four. Today there are 37 and they're all pulled in. The women are still doing a lot of the same things, but they have spread out . . . I keep using the word geographically. I think that's what's important. I can't think of really . . . When I say lots of changes . . . it's a lot more focused. We did a little more social, which was acceptable and what was important at the time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2241.0,2295.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/357","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you have one issue that was really important to you? One particular thing . . . Soviet Jewry, Isr— . . . the Ethiopian community . . . Was there one thing that you really focused on?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2295.0,2312.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/358","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I don't know if I could say there's one thing, but there is one thing that I did in Atlanta with [Dr. Stanley] Perry Brickman that focused me even more on Israel. That was Israel Expo 1985, which was one of the biggest things that happened in the Jewish community up until that time. That took a lot of work and a lot of focus. If you work with Perry Brickman, it was all a pleasure. He was great. I have 1,000 pictures, because he knows how to take a picture. I can't think of, really, any issues. I'm not . . . I like to think I'm not . . . I'm not aggressive when it comes to things. If I believe in something, I'll go about trying to get it done, but I don't make big waves. It's not my nature and not my style. I can't say . . . Other than the focus of my community. I adore the City of Atlanta and this Jewish community, it's the best. This former Yankee has become . . . I can get real Southern.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2312.0,2387.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/359","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I love it. I love Atlanta. I love the Atlanta Jewish community. It's great. When you go . . . As my husband and I did a lot of national things together, people had the greatest impression of Atlanta. People from other cities would say, \"Oh, you live in Atlanta! Do you know . . .?\" They'd name a name, and we knew the name. We were all out there doing the same thing. I can't say I had any particular issue. I'll be truthful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2387.0,2419.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/360","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e You also mentioned some of the clubs. Which ones were you a member of?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2419.0,2425.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/361","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e We were a member of the Progressive Club always. From the time I got married, we joined. Then we became a member . . . When the Standard Club moved out on Colonial Drive from . . . Ponce de Leon [Avenue], we became members out there. We have dropped that, and we've come a long way from then. In the early days of Atlanta, the social clubs were very important. As I've been told, Jewish people were not necessarily welcome in a lot of places either. That's why we had our own club. It was great for the kids . . . That's where we went swimming. No one had backyard pools in those days. If you didn't go swim at the Progressive Club with all the kids and see everybody, you weren't a part of things. That's what the clubs were. I certainly don't miss them. My husband's not a great golfer, so golfing wasn't . . . [At] the Standard Club, that's the big impetus. We can think of other things to do with those funds.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2425.0,2498.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/362","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I don't blame you. Are you still active in the Federation today?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2498.0,2501.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/363","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I'm an honorary board member, if that means active. No, I have just recently started working in the Breman office. I'm doing mindless things like filing, stuffing envelopes . . . but I love it. I feel like I'm allowing the professionals some extra time by letting me do what I do. I feel very good about doing it. I try to come at least once a week. I'm really not active on committees anymore in the Fed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2501.0,2534.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/364","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e What do you think of the museum?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2534.0,2536.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/365","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e What do I think of it? It makes me feel 10 feet tall. I'm so proud of it. If I say to anybody . . . If they say, \"What are you doing now?\" I say, \"I work at the Breman Museum!\" \"Do you?!\" Or else they'll ask me, \"Tell me about it?\" I think it's great. I'm really proud of it. Jack and I feel fortunate that we've been able to give some of our things to the Breman so that they would be in the archive. Things that, maybe one day, someone will say, \"Look at that! That was from way back.\" I'm proud of it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2536.0,2572.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/366","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I want to talk a little bit about Jack. What did he, what was his line of work, what did he do?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2572.0,2578.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/367","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e His line of work? That's a very interesting question, Sandy [Katz Berman]. He has been in many different businesses. I didn't mention to you . . . I've left some certain things out. It's okay [Indistinct: 43.12]!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2578.0,2592.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/368","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e It's okay [Indistinct: 43.12]!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2592.0,2592.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/369","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e It's okay [Indistinct: 43.12]! I'll try. My brother, [Gerald A.] Jerry Blonder, came to Atlanta. We had cousins we loved who were here and our aunts. My parents eventually followed us here. My brother came and he married a wonderful woman named Lois Semel, who is just the greatest. She had moved down here with her parents from New York. I'm very proud of my brother and what he's done. They've shown enormous interest in the Breman as well as . . . When I walk through the Breman and I see the name Blonder I stop. I love it! Jack has a wonderful . . . he had a wonderful brother . . . ancestor . . . named Eli Freedman, who was married to Ramona Isaacson [Freedman]. Ramona and Lois are now my two sisters-in-law, and we're a very close family. Jack's late sister, Frieda [Freedman] Cohen, who is married to Buster Cohen . . . That's who introduced me. Freida was my aunt's close friend. She and my aunt made the blind date for us. We get very involved with family. Where was I with family? I'm sorry.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2592.0,2672.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/370","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e We were going to talk about some of the things that Jack did career-wise.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2672.0,2679.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/371","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Right. That's where I got off on this tangent. He did a lot of things with his brother, Eli. Eli was a C.P.A. [Certified Public Accountant] in his early days but had a lust for business. Entrepreneurial. Whatever Jack found to go into business with, Eli came in, or vice versa. My brother-in-law Eli had us in a few very interesting things. We started out . . . Jack was making plastic toys. He manufactured plastic toys; it was called Gray Shore. That was great. [It] put Jack in the Orient every six months for six weeks at a time, which I wasn't too happy about. I was raising a young child, Robyn, at the time . . . Jack has been in so many other things, different land development . . . We owned the land development at Norris Lake Shores. We spent every Sunday out there selling lakefront lots. Jack started out . . . I didn't mention . . . His daddy's business was Comfort Furniture on Whitehall Street. That's now Peachtree [Street]. Where his daddy's store was is now a parking lot. All that has changed. Whitehall Street . . . I am sure you have had many of your people talk about what it was back in the early days of Jewish Atlanta. That's where my aunt had a business, Southern Merchandise . . . On Whitehall Street, too. That was very much a part of our lives. What else has he been in? He's been in many different businesses but focused on volunteerism.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2679.0,2772.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/372","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e That's what I was going to ask you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2772.0,2774.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/373","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Very important. He loved the Center. He's still heartbroken that the Center is now out on Tilly Mill Road instead of Peachtree [Street]. We don't live far from there besides. It's a long way from where we live. He became very active in it and became a president of the center. That was a very important part of our lives, his volunteerism there. Because he traveled a lot . . . he was very active in UJA [United Jewish Appeal], the national board, et cetera, and traveled. We went to a lot of meetings. He was president of Men's ORT [Organization for Rehabilitative Training]. That afforded us another whole area of people. Everything now today is geographical. It's changed. It's changed so much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2774.0,2827.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/374","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e What did he think about the Center leaving Downtown?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2827.0,2831.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/375","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e He was heartbroken because of personal reasons, but he thought it was very important. He was very much a part of all of that. He felt that this was where the thrust of the community was going. We were seeing the changes, he knew that, and he was very responsive to it . . . [He was] very helpful and helped with the plans of . . . in the building and construction and everything.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2831.0,2855.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/376","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you think we need a Downtown presence today?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2855.0,2859.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/377","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I wish we had it . . . I personally wish we did. I take a Melton [School] course out there every Tuesday morning. I was out there this morning. It takes me 40 minutes to get there, and 40 minutes back. As we say down South, it's a “fair piece.” There are a lot of people that are now moving back into the Midtown area. There is a thrust, is what they tell us from the synagogue and the center, moving back . . . towards the Downtown areas. I think it'd be wonderful if there could be a presence. Our Center is the most staggering, incredible, marvelous facility. Not only . . . The structure is breathtaking, but the programming is so incredible. It touches everyone. Our grandson lives . . . he's now in the Virginia-Highland area, which is very popular with young professionals. He plays basketball at the Center. He doesn't think a thing about driving out there. It doesn't mean a thing to him. Those of us who've been privileged to have had the Center much closer are a little . . . not quite as happy about it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2859.0,2934.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/378","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes! No, I understand. It's . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2934.0,2935.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/379","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e That's . . . I'm talking now personally.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2935.0,2938.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/380","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e When the Center had their financial crisis last year, how did you and your contemporaries . . . Did you feel that you had been . . . I don't know what the word I'm looking for . . . I would imagine because of all the support and all the time and all the energy you gave, and then to have something like that happen. It must have affected all of you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2938.0,2960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/381","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e We were all very upset by it, my husband in particular. As a past president, he felt responsibility, having served on the board all these years and everything else. It went into great hands. Jack Halpern and Harry Maziar have done an outstanding job. They've come a long way, baby. It is terrific. It was upsetting. It was also part of the growth of the city. We grew so fast at one point in our Jewish community, as well as the total city, that things were bound to get a little tight. They've come a long way.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2960.0,3005.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/382","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e If you could just reflect upon your life here in Atlanta and something . . . How would you summarize your last . . . How many years has it been that you've been here?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3005.0,3019.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/383","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I've been here . . . We're married 61 years. Less a year and a half that we lived in Port Chester . . . 59, 60 years. I feel very lucky to be in Atlanta. I'm lucky that Jack and I have been so blessed. We have each other. Our children are here and our grandchildren. We feel fortunate. I've been so . . . The best part of my life other than my family, which comes first, is the volunteerism that I have played a part in. I feel so good about it, and it has enriched me so. It made a far better person out of me and allowed me to meet and become friendly with so many people. That's important to me. I grew up in a small town, and I had an entity in my town. I was the milkman's daughter. I was the Blonder girl. Those were good things. When I came here, they said, \"He married that Yankee girl.\" I wanted to be me; I wanted to have my own identity. I think I found it. I'm very proud of it. I loved doing what I did. Whatever I did I loved it, it was fun.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3019.0,3097.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/384","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e When I look at photographs, both Federation photographs from the 1970's. It was [Indistinct: 51.45] . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3097.0,3104.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/385","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e We all look a little different, too.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3104.0,3105.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/386","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e You are in so many of them because you were here all the time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3105.0,3109.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/387","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I loved it. I ate it up. It was just part of my life. I was fortunate that my husband's income allowed me to do a lot of things and be a part of a lot of things. I never really worked. I did a few little things as far as professionally. Salary wise, I should say. I was a tour guide for about 15 years or so and I loved doing that. That was my big professional stint. I felt good about that because I knew this city, and I could talk about it. If I had a Jewish group, I was in my element.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3109.0,3148.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/388","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you ever, in retrospect, wish you had not volunteered as much, but chosen a career path?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3148.0,3157.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/389","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Had a career? No, my career path was volunteerism. It's what I loved. I felt I had some leadership qualities that could help enhance whatever I was doing, and I felt good about it. I have . . . total pride in the volunteerism. I have no regrets.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3157.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/390","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you ever regret not raising your children in a small town?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3180.0,3184.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/391","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e No, I was glad they were in Atlanta. I thought this was . . . This was God's country to me. My town had 500 Jewish families. Here we have what, 5,000? I've forgotten how many thousand Jewish families. I'm so glad. I wanted that to be part of their life. It is. My grandchildren are . . . They're strong Jewish children.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3184.0,3214.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/392","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Just before we end, I have a few other questions I want to ask you. You came here in 1946?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3214.0,3222.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/393","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . I came here . . . We were married in January of 1947. I came to live [here] . . . I had been to Atlanta many times before that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3222.0,3233.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/394","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e It's just a couple of years after [World War II]. As Americans, and as Jewish Americans . . . You had just found out about what had happened to the Jews of Europe. How did that affect you? Do you remember feeling a change? Do you remember feeling . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3233.0,3254.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/395","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Feeling a change here in Atlanta?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3254.0,3256.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/396","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e No, change in yourself. How you felt as a Jew.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3256.0,3262.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/397","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e It did. I think, in a sick way, it enhanced my Judaism and my feeling about the community because of the many people that were lost. I lost family. I never knew my grandparents on my paternal side. When my daddy left as a young man, he left his parents. Aunts and uncles and cousins I never knew. It made me horrified. It added impetus to what I was doing in . . . this Jewish world. That was what was important to me. I did PTA [Parent Teachers' Association] work and I was active in the Margaret Mitchell [Elementary] School, but that wasn't the same as the Jewish community. That was my focus. There were great changes in Atlanta. The city . . . I watched Atlanta grow, too. As I watched the Jewish Community grow, I saw the city grow and change. I feel good that I could leave a little mark on some things that I helped. That makes me feel really good.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3262.0,3329.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/398","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I think you left more than a little mark. One final question. One of the other big events that you were here to witness was the bombing of The Temple. You were an AA member, but did that affect the entire community as a whole, or did you not feel a particular connection with what happened at The Temple?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3329.0,3353.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/399","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e When that happened . . . I'm trying to remember what year. That was . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3353.0,3359.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/400","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e [In] 1958.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3359.0,6958.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/401","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e [In] 1958. I don't think the Jewish community totally came through for the Center. It affected the Center, I don't think it effected the Jewish people as much as I feel it should have, me included. I mean I was horrified, but that was that. My friend Betty Ann Jacobson showed me the other day; there's a photo of the bombing in The Temple. I looked at it, and I thought, God, I don't even remember passing The Temple and really thinking about that. I don't think that the total Jewish community was as strong as they could have been, me included.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=6958.0,7003.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/402","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Why?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7003.0,7004.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/403","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I don't know . . . There was still . . . a lot of that . . . That German-Jewish philosophy and the Standard Club and the attitudes with the clubs and everything . . . That was . . . There was a lot of that. Jack and I straddled some of it. A lot of Jewish people . . . They were afraid. They were afraid to even speak out and say too much. I wasn't involved in any way in any kind of protest or anything.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7004.0,7044.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/404","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e That brings up an interesting point, the fear. Talk about that a little more. Do you think that that was really a big part of it? People wanted to stay under the surface?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7044.0,7056.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/405","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I think it was. It's just like . . . Jewish people . . . Atlanta Jewry at that time . . . I'm not saying that it was only in Atlanta. It was prevalent in the United States. Atlanta Jewry . . . were fearful of being out in the public. They were fearful of saying . . . they own this, or they do that. They didn't like people to know those things. They were afraid. There was a lot of prejudice in Atlanta. I remember . . . I don't remember when the last time was [that] they burned a cross at the top of Stone Mountain, [Georgia], but that shook me up. The bombing of The Temple . . . I was horrified, but I didn't . . . It wasn't as shattering to me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7056.0,7113.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/406","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you do any volunteering in the general community?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7113.0,7117.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/407","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e In the general community? Yes, I've worked with United Way. I've done things over the years . . . PTA-wise. Not really. I was too involved. My life was . . . Other than playing Mahjong on a Wednesday . . . My friends always knew [to] never plan a board meeting for Phyllis on a Wednesday. I'm teasing about that . . . I really was. I was so involved doing community Jewish work. Every committee that led up to a committee to . . . Not just being an officer . . . I worked and I loved it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7117.0,7156.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/408","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I keep saying one final question, but everything is [Indistinct: 59.19] . . . Israel Expo was a major event.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7156.0,7165.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/409","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you. I'm most proud of that, of all the things.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7165.0,7168.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/410","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN :\u003c/strong\u003e Can you talk a little bit about that? What was the idea behind it? Let's talk about what was the idea behind Israel Expo and who came up with it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7168.0,7180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/411","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Perry Brickman is . . . he's one of the most creative people. He is. I think he'd give up his dental practice in a minute just to be a photographer and a fly on the wall in a lot of places. He really was so creative in ideas. We involved some wonderful people, and they really worked. It was a real community event. It touched the different categories of people or the different synagogues, as many as there were at that time. We . . . I'd have to say Perry was far more the creative person, I have to be truthful about that. I had more time, and I did a little more of the organizing and getting people to do things.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7180.0,7234.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/412","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Describe what it was like. What was the Expo?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7234.0,7238.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/413","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e What was the Expo? Gosh, I don't even know how to describe it. We wanted to bring a little bit of Israel to Atlanta. We wanted people here to feel what the country was, and to have an understanding. Modestly, it turned out more spectacularly than I ever dreamed it would be. I didn't expect it to be as super as it was. I don't know how to describe it other than . . . We touched a lot of people's lives. We made people have a feeling about Israel. That was really our goal. I think we kind of accomplished that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7238.0,7282.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/414","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e It was at the Center?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7282.0,7284.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/415","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e It was at the Center. The old Center on Peachtree [Street].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7284.0,7287.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/416","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e How long did it last?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7287.0,7290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/417","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I don't remember that. I don't think it lasted long enough. We felt we should have done it longer. I'm sorry . . . I'd have to really look at my papers to recall. One thing that I've done in my life—I'm not proud of it—when I finish something, I'm finished and I move on. I don't necessarily remember dates or details. People talked about it. I still have someone come up to me every so often and say, \"We'll never forget Israel Expo.\" That makes you feel 10 feet tall. Perry, Shirley, Jack, and I enjoyed an experience that we'll never be able to do again.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7290.0,7335.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/418","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I thank you very much. It was a pleasure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7335.0,7339.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/419","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Please! Don't thank me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7339.0,7340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/420","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I want to make sure we haven't missed anything. Is there any volunteer organization that we didn't touch upon? I don't think . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7340.0,7351.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/421","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I don't think . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7351.0,7351.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/422","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I don't think . . . How about holidays? Holidays in the home. Did you . . . Was it something that was very important to the family with . . . Did you all get together for Passover? Was it at your house or . . .?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7351.0,7364.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/423","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I've had Passover . . . My mother-in-law was this wonderful baker and cook. We had every Friday night dinner . . . Every Friday night, we were there for dinner and went home with bags of cookies that she was famous for. She made a pineapple cookie that people still talk about. No one else in the family ever tried baking. Cooking has never been one of my strong points, to be truthful. Every holiday we are together as a family. My sister-in-law, Lois Blonder, had the first night of Rosh HaShanah, all her family. I can't fit them in anymore; we're in a condo now and my dining room doesn't accommodate it. All her and all my family. Ramona's always been a part of everything. I had the second night, and my children know that on a Jewish holiday they're going to be with their family. That's it. That's a given. Passover . . . I have a Seder; I still have probably more than I should. When we had our home, I had 25 and 30 people. I'm still up to somewhere around 18 or so. Everybody knows . . . [On] a Jewish holiday, they are with Phyllis and Jack Freedman. It's the way it ought to be. I feel like I'll pass that on. My daughter will always do something. Right now, she's doing Thanksgiving, and that's big! I'm hoping that my grandchildren will follow through on the same thing. The Jewish holidays . . . we have them. My husband is a very pious man. He goes to the synagogue. He used to go every morning for minyan. He only goes now two mornings a week, which means he gets up at five to be there for seven.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7364.0,7476.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/424","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Has he always been that way?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7476.0,7478.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/425","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e More so in later years, but always. My in-laws were really . . . My father-in-law was one of the rocks at the AA Synagogue. If there was a minyan or . . . a Kaddish . . . [If] anybody needed anything for the holiday . . . or otherwise, Papa was there. He walked . . . He lived across the street. He did that until he was well in his . . . nineties and was very . . . We still miss that house over there. We had free parking . . . across the street from the synagogue. Seriously, the holidays are very important to us as a family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7478.0,7516.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/426","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Where are your seats, being an old Jewish AA family? Where are they [Indistinct: 1.05.19]?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7516.0,7520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/427","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e They're there. We've got a whole line.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7520.0,7523.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/428","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Papa would never want . . . They tried to get . . . They bought seats. They tried to give him seats close up. That wasn't what Papa wanted. He didn't want any kind of attention or recognition. What are we, row J? We're over on the right-hand side. We have about 12 seats, but we're there! Those are our seats. I kind of . . . I thought it was revolting when they had reserved seats. When I first came here, I couldn't believe that. I mean come on! Now I like it very much, I know I'm going to be there with my children and grandchildren.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7523.0,7559.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/429","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e That's [Indistinct: 1.05.59] . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7559.0,7560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/430","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e . . . My grandson now has his . . . a wonderful Jewish girlfriend. We'll see what happens! That's the next big thing on the agenda.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7560.0,7572.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/431","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Is . . . At the AA . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7572.0,7579.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/432","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e That's all right. My father-in-law . . . Mom and Papa's home was strictly kosher. I have to say . . . I kept strictly kosher up until just a few years ago. I still do kosher, but it's not strictly kosher. That was a very important part of my husband's life and his background. One as much mine. My mother didn't keep a kosher home. I've loved . . . It also enriched my life. It enriched my children's life too. When it comes to a Jewish holiday . . . It's important to them and that's what I want.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7579.0,7619.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/433","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I remember my question.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7619.0,7620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/434","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay, good!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7620.0,7621.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/435","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e A lot of folks are . . . people are . . . AA members have realized that the synagogue has shrunk in size . . . maybe stature, as the . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7621.0,7635.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/436","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e You're absolutely correct.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7635.0,7637.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/437","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e What do you attribute that to?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7637.0,7640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/438","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e What do I attribute it to? I keep using the word geographically. The Jewish community has spread out all over. I have a cousin who lives in Alpharetta, [Georgia]. I understand that they're not going to be driving in every Friday night or for the holidays. Families have moved . . . I have friends who are at the AA whose children are no longer with them. It was a matter of convenience. I hate to put it that way. I don't think religion should just be on a convenience basis. That's the important thing. The seats are a put-off to a lot of people. If they did away with them, I'd say, fine, okay. I have to say I enjoy them. I like knowing it's there. If I come in 20 minutes late, I could go right to my seat, and it's there. I'm with my family. I think those are . . . They're the two of the most important things . . . The Epstein School moved away. It's not right there at the AA anymore . . . Families are sending their children there, but it's not close to the synagogue. All of those things are contributing factors.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7640.0,7718.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/439","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e What about the rabbi?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7718.0,7724.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/440","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Rabbi [Arnold M.] Goodman brought in a lot of people . . . who were very devoted to Rabbi Goodman. I don't think there will ever again be the feeling that people had with Rabbi Epstein about that . . . He was their rabbi, period. I don't think that . . . I don't know if that's ever going to exist again. I don't think my children have any feelings about it. My husband does, because he goes there. I can't say that I like my Rabbi very much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7724.0,7756.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/441","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Who is the rabbi there now?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7756.0,7758.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/442","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e With an S. Help me . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7758.0,7765.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/443","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Sandler.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7765.0,7766.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/444","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Sandler, thank you . . . Rabbi Neil Sandler. I like him very much. I liked the fact that he knows me, and we can say hello and smile. He is gaining in his strength as a rabbi. At the same time, I don't think there'll ever be any situation like there was with Rabbi Epstein or Goodman. Goodman had devout followers. When our wonderful rabbis . . . The couple . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7766.0,7799.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/445","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e From our team?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7799.0,7801.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/446","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e [Rabbi Analia Bortz] and [Rabbi Mario Karpuj]. I call them by their first name. We had a nice relationship. When they moved away, too . . . a lot of people left. All of those factors added up to the shrinking. They say they're getting new members again. That's where I first heard it . . . that people were moving back towards Midtown and staying. For a while, people were leaving the Northeast area, the Morningside area. They were leaving it. They were all moving elsewhere . . . Strong again. That's the way . . . All those are factors in helping build the synagogue back up.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7801.0,7842.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/447","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you very much. It was an extreme pleasure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7842.0,7849.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/448","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you want to talk at all about your brother?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7849.0,7854.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/449","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Are you kidding? Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7854.0,7856.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/450","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I had the pleasure of interviewing him.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7856.0,7858.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/451","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e You did? Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7858.0,7859.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/452","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7859.0,7859.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/453","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. God! Thank you for giving me that [Indistinct: 1.11.02]. My brother . . . I miss him to this day. He's a super guy. He was the rottenest little kid that ever walked. We fought like cats and dogs. We absolutely had the greatest love for each other. He was very special. We shared a lot of things. I'm most proud of what he accomplished in this community. He built the first apartments out there on the Buford Highway. That's where all the young people were moving at that time . . . Those of us who knew Atlanta in those years. What were they? The 1940's or . . . the 1960's . . . Everybody knew him.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7859.0,7905.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/454","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e He mentioned them. I remember . . . [Indistinct: 1.11.46]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7905.0,7907.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/455","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e He was very proud of that, but he really did . . . My brother is a very important part of my life. He has a fabulous family here. His children and grandchildren are super. The smartest thing he ever did in the world was marry Lois. I adore her. My brother was very special. He was . . . rotten. He was such a . . . My children were never that bad. I don't know how my parents survived us. We were terrible. We were three and a half years apart to the day. My birthday is January 10, and his was July 10. We shared . . . We were terrible. As terrible as we were, that's how wonderful we ended up being. It breaks my heart when I hear of families . . . somebody doesn't speak to somebody. We're a very close family. My brother was a wonderful son. That helped get my parents here to Atlanta. We shared some wonderful things, and I miss him. I can't talk to anybody about Port Chester anymore. He remembered every schoolteacher we had, first grade, second grade . . . You name the grade, and he'd tell . . . Port Chester was a small town. It was one high school, maybe four or five elementary schools. That's what the town was. He knew that town backwards and forwards.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7907.0,7995.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/456","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e He did talk a lot about the town. The milk business, the interview . . . [Indistinct: 1.13.19] It was a lot of fun.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7995.0,7999.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/457","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e We both have . . . We both had very strong feelings about growing up there. He grew up there playing basketball. Everybody knew he was the other Blonder kid. It was nice growing up that way. We like saying . . . This kid—not money wise—is a Woodruff in Atlanta. It was name recognition. We felt good about who we were and what we were. I miss him very much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7999.0,8027.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/458","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e I think everybody in the community does.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=8027.0,8029.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/459","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Anybody who knew him was crazy about him. He loved people. He shaved his head for a long time to make himself look that way . . . That's where I get my thin hair, too!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=8029.0,8044.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/460","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e He was a super guy. Thank you for mentioning him . . . [He's] very special to me. Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=8044.0,8052.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/461","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eBERMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=8052.0,8052.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/transcript/85238/annotation/462","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eFREEDMAN:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you. I thank you! Thank you. This was a privilege.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=8052.0,8057.5"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2283","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2283/annotation/463","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003ePhyllis Blonder Freedman (1928-2015) was a native of Port Chester, New York. She attended Syracuse University and moved to Atlanta, Georgia in the late 1940’s after marrying her husband, Jack “Honey” Freedman. She was president of the Atlanta Chapter of Brandeis University National Women’s Committee, the National Women’s Division Chairwoman of the Council of Jewish Federation, and president of Jewish Family \u0026amp; Career Services. She and her husband also received the Distinguished Service Award of B’nai B’rith. 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The collection originated in the 1970s due to an oral history project conducted by the Atlanta Jewish Federation and the Atlanta chapters of the National Council of Jewish Women.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=0.0,18.48"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2283/annotation/465","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in Atlanta celebrates and commemorates Jewish history, culture, and art through events and museum spaces. The Breman also contains the Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History, which houses thousands of manuscripts, oral histories, and photograph collections, related to southern Jewish history and the Holocaust.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=0.0,18.48"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2283/annotation/466","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003e“Yankee” or \"Yank\" has several meanings, all referring to people from the United States. 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The Confederacy, often called the “South,” grew to include 11 states, and although they claimed 13 states and additional western territories, the Confederacy was never diplomatically recognized by a foreign country. The states that did not declare secession were known as the “Union” or the “North.” The war had its origin in the issue of slavery. 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The final service in the Washington Street building was held in 1958 to make way for construction of the Downtown Connector (the concurrent section of Interstate 75 and Interstate 85 through Atlanta). The synagogue moved to its current location on Peachtree Battle Avenue in 1958. As of 2022, Ahavath Achim is the largest Conservative synagogue in the Atlanta area, and its current Senior Rabbi is Laurence Rosenthal.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=808.77,833.35"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2283/annotation/493","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRabbi Harry Hyman Epstein (1903-2003) served as rabbi of Ahavath Achim Synagogue in Atlanta, Georgia from 1928 to 1982, when he became rabbi emeritus. 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She was involved in many social and political organizations such as the Coalition for Women in International Development, and numerous committees of the United Nations, the League of Women Voters, the United Way, the Georgia Department of Human Resources, the Atlanta Jewish Federation, Jewish Family Services, the Hebrew Academy, and the Atlanta Public Schools. She was also a founding member of the Brandeis University Women’s National Committee and a leader in the Zionist Organization of America, Hadassah, and the National Council of Jewish Women. Additionally, Leah was president of the local chapter and the Overseas Education Fund of the League of Women Voters and appointed a committee member on Atlanta’s Ethics Committee. 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It operates approximately 250-day care centers in Israel and provides funding for technological and agricultural high schools, a women’s shelter, legal aid bureaus, educational scholarships, women’s rights centers and women’s health centers. It is also a powerful voice in advocating for equal rights, religious freedom and world peace. During the 1930s Pioneer Women changed its name to Na’amat, an acronym for Nashim Ovdot U'Mitnadvot (Hebrew: Working and Volunteering Women.). 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In 1940 the club opened a larger facility at 1050 Techwood Drive in Midtown with three swimming pools, tennis, and softball. In 1976 the club moved north to 1160 Moore’s Mill Road near Interstate 75. The property was eventually sold to the YMCA as the club faced financial challenges. The Carl E. Sanders Family YMCA at Buckhead, which stands on the former site of the Progressive Club, opened in 1996.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=994.66,1053.28"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2283/annotation/504","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Standard Club is a Jewish social club that started as the “Concordia Association” in 1867 in Downtown Atlanta. In 1905, it was reorganized as the “Standard Club” and moved into the former mansion of William C. Sanders near the site of Center Parc Credit Union Stadium (formerly Turner Field). In the late 1920s the club moved to Ponce de Leon Avenue in Midtown Atlanta. Later, the club moved to what is now the Lenox Park business park and was located there until 1983. In the 1980s, the club moved to its present location in Johns Creek in Atlanta’s northern suburbs.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=994.66,1053.28"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2283/annotation/505","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Atlanta Jewish Community Center was officially founded in 1910, as the Jewish Educational Alliance. 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In 1967, the Jewish Community Council merged into the Atlanta Jewish Federation along with the Atlanta Federation for Jewish Social Service and the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund. The Council became a department of the Atlanta Jewish Federation (now the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta) called Community Relations and Internal Jewish Affairs (later changed to the Community Relations Committee). 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After the Holocaust, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (the “Joint,” or JDC), the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), and other philanthropic organizations that later merged to form the JFNA worked together to support Jewish survivors. Refugees from displaced persons camps in Germany, Austria, and Italy received funds to help them resettle in places like the United States or Palestine and create new lives.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=1261.75,1265.47"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2283/annotation/512","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eDavid I. Sarnat (1942- ) was hired to be executive director of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta in 1978. He succeeded Max C. (Mike) Gettinger who retired. 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The Nazis used the shooting as antisemitic propaganda fervor, claiming that Grynszpan was part of a wider Jewish conspiracy. When Vom Rath died two days later, the Nazis used the incidence to fuel violent pogroms. On November 8 and 9, 1938, the Nazis started a state-sponsored nationwide pogrom. Across the country (and in Austria) Jewish synagogues, homes and businesses were looted and burned, Jews were attacked on the streets and 91 were killed. Thousands of Jewish men were sent to concentration camps for several weeks and released only when they agreed to leave the country as soon as possible. The Jews were made to pay for the damages to their premises. The pogrom was called “Kristallnacht,” which means “Night of Broken Glass,” because of all the damage done to Jewish shop windows. Thousands of German Jews and close to 6,000 Austrian Jews were arrested after Kristallnacht and deported to the Dachau or Buchenwald concentration camps in Germany. 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After World War II, ORT was very active in the DP camps, opening schools with rehabilitation programs in 78 camps. The purpose of the schools was to train and prepare DPs (displaced persons) for resettlement in industrialized countries such as the United States, Canada, and Australia as well as Israel, which had a significant need for highly trained manpower. Some 85,000 Jews were trained in new profession and provided with the tools they needed to rebuild their lives. In 2003 Israel was the area of ORT's largest operation, with 90,000 students educated or trained at ORT’s 159 schools, colleges and institutions, educating 25 percent of Israel’s hi-tech workforce. In 2006 ORT Israel withdrew from World ORT. World ORT continues to work in Israel under the name of Kadima Mada (Educating for Life). In December 1946, the first ORT trade school in Austria was opened in Vienna. By the end of 1947, additional schools were open in Ebelsberg, Steyr, Wels, Salzburg, Hofgastein, Hallein, Linz, and Bindermilch. The schools conducted programs in 50 trades ranging from dressmaking to technical chemistry, optics and building trades. English and Hebrew language courses were also held. ORT’s Central School in Salzburg was the first post-war vocational training establishment in Austria. It opened in February 1947 and had 350 students by mid-1947. An annex to the main ORT school in Salzburg opened in 1948 in the Beth Bialik transit camp in Salzburg and another school was located in the Riedenburg camp. As emigration progressed, ORT schools in Austria began closing down. The Salzburg school was transferred to Hallein, a DP camp twenty miles from Salzburg, in 1947. It remained open until 1954. Rabbi Harry H. 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It is named after the intersection of Virginia Avenue and North Highland Avenue, the heart of its trendy retail district at the center of the neighborhood. The neighborhood is famous for its bungalows and other historic houses from the 1910s to the 1930s. It has become a destination for people across Atlanta with its eclectic mix of restaurants, bars, and shops as well as for the Summerfest festival, annual Tour of Homes and other events.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2857.56,2934.45"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2283/annotation/548","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eHarry Maziar (1934- ) was a prominent Atlanta businessman. He was President of Zep Manufacturing Company, which was a leader in the specialty chemical industry, and was Chairman of the Chemical Division of National Service Industries. He was president and co-chairman of the Board of Governors at the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta, president of the Jewish Vocational Service (now Jewish Family and Career Services), a board member of the William Breman Jewish Home, Ahavath Achim Synagogue, the Jewish Community Centers of America, and chair of the Southeast Regional Council for Birthright Israel.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=2960.16,3004.16"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2283/annotation/549","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Parent Teacher Association (PTA) is a national organization with affiliations in local schools throughout the United States composed of parents, teachers and staff, and devoted to the educational success of children and the promotion of parent involvement in schools.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3260.72,3329.8"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2283/annotation/550","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eMargaret Mitchell Elementary School was an Atlanta Public Schools elementary school located on Margaret Mitchell Drive in the Margaret Mitchell neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. 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Rabbi Jacob Rothschild was an outspoken advocate of civil rights and integration, and friend of Martin Luther King Jr. Five men associated with the National States’ Rights Party, a white separatist group, were tried and acquitted in the bombing.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3329.8,3354.61"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2283/annotation/552","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003e“Cross burning” or “cross lighting” is a practice widely associated with the Ku Klux Klan, although the historical practice long predates the Klan’s inception. In the early twentieth century, the Klan burned crosses on hillsides or near the homes of those they wish to intimidate. The first instance of a cross being burned in the United States was on November 25, 1915, when a group led by William J. Simmons burned a cross on top of Stone Mountain, Georgia, inaugurated a revival of the Klan.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3456.16,3512.04"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2283/annotation/553","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe communist government that came to power in the 1917 Russian Revolution followed an unofficial policy of state atheism. Officially, it did not outlaw religion in the Soviet Union. However, religion was seen as a threat to the socialist state and, especially after Joseph Stalin came to power, it began making efforts to eliminate religious institutions. Atheism was propagated in schools, religious institutions had their property confiscated, and believers were harassed. During the Great Purge of the 1930s, religious leaders were among the hundreds of thousands of people jailed and executed as political enemies. While the Russian Revolution had replaced the centuries-old official antisemitism of the Tzars, deeply ingrained antisemitic attitudes made Jews suspects of potential opposition. 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Its predecessor organization was founded in Denver, Colorado in 1887, and it became known as the United Way in 1963.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3520.42,3556.76"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2283/annotation/557","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eIsrael, a Middle Eastern country on the Mediterranean Sea, is regarded by Jews, Christians, and Muslims as the biblical Holy Land. Its most sacred sites are in Jerusalem. 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A minyan is needed in Jewish communal prayer for certain components of the regular daily or Shabbat services, reading from the Torah and haftarah portions in synagogue, and saying Kaddish, among other things. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3877.91,3916.36"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2283/annotation/562","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eKaddish [Hebrew: holy] is a hymn of praises to God found in the Jewish prayer service that is recited aloud while standing. The central theme of the Kaddish is the magnification and sanctification of God's name. Along with the Shema and Amidah, the Kaddish is one of the most important and central elements in the Jewish liturgy. Mourner's Kaddish is said at all prayer services and certain other occasions. Following the death of a parent, child, spouse, or sibling it is customary to recite the Mourner's Kaddish in the presence of a congregation daily for 30 days, or 11 months in the case of a parent, and then at every anniversary of the death. It is important to note that the Mourner's Kaddish does not mention death at all, but instead praises God.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=3877.91,3916.36"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2283/annotation/563","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eKashrut is a set of dietary laws dealing with the foods that Jews are permitted to eat and how those foods must be prepared according to Jewish law. 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/162124/file/294523#t=3979.11,4018.86"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2283/annotation/564","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAlpharetta is a city in northern Fulton County, Georgia as a part of the Atlanta, Georgia metropolitan area. The area had forcibly removed the indigenous stewards of the land, the Cherokee, to make room for settlers in the area during the 1830’s as a result of the Indian Removal Act that set off the Trail of Tears.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4041.89,4118.67"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2283/annotation/565","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRabbi Arnold M. Goodman served as senior rabbi of Ahavath Achim in Atlanta, Georgia from 1982 to 2002. He came to Atlanta from Minnesota where he had served as rabbi of Adath Jeshurun in Minnetonka since 1966. He currently serves as its senior rabbinic scholar. Upon his retirement, the synagogue honored them by designating its adult education program as Beit Aharon: The Rabbi Arnold and Rae Goodman Learning Institute for Adult Studies.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4119.79,4156.71"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2283/annotation/566","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eMidtown Atlanta, or Midtown for short, refers to the commercial and residential neighborhood between Downtown and Buckhead in Atlanta, Georgia. The area runs down Peachtree Street between North Avenue and 17th Street. Midtown is host to high-rise office buildings, condominiums, hotels, and high-end retail along Peachtree Street. It is also home to the Fox Theatre, Woodruff Arts Center, the High Museum of Art, the Center for Puppetry Arts, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and the Museum of Design Atlanta. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4199.91,4241.94"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2283/annotation/567","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRabbi Analia Bortz (1967- ) is a Latin American rabbi and bioethicist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She became the first female Latin American rabbi when she was ordained in Jerusalem at the Seminario Rabinico Latinamericano in 1994. 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After World War II, residents of heavily Jewish Washington-Rawson and Summerhill neighborhoods south of the State Capitol relocated to northeast Atlanta including Morningside when those old Jewish neighborhoods were demolished to make way for the Downtown Connector freeway and Turner Field.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4199.91,4241.94"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2283/annotation/569","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBuford Highway, sometimes called BuHi, is a major roadway that connects three metro Atlanta counties. It stretches north from Midtown Atlanta to the Dekalb-Gwinnett County line. The Buford Highway also refers to the community around the roadway (also known as the Buford Highway Corridor and DeKalb International Corridor), which spans along either side of a stretch of Georgia State Route 13 (SR 13) in DeKalb County. Buford Highway is an ethnically diverse, linear community made up of apartment complexes, suburban neighborhoods, and shopping centers.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=4259.43,4305.72"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2052","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2052/annotation/570","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003ePhyllis Blonder Freedman (1928-2015) was a native of Port Chester, New York. She attended Syracuse University and moved to Atlanta, Georgia in the late 1940’s after marrying her husband, Jack “Honey” Freedman. She was president of the Atlanta Chapter of Brandeis University National Women’s Committee, the National Women’s Division Chairwoman of the Council of Jewish Federation, and president of Jewish Family \u0026amp; Career Services. She and her husband also received the Distinguished Service Award of B’nai B’rith. 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The Confederacy, often called the “South,” grew to include 11 states, and although they claimed 13 states and additional western territories, the Confederacy was never diplomatically recognized by a foreign country. The states that did not declare secession were known as the “Union” or the “North.” The war had its origin in the issue of slavery. 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The Nazis used the shooting as antisemitic propaganda fervor, claiming that Grynszpan was part of a wider Jewish conspiracy. When Vom Rath died two days later, the Nazis used the incidence to fuel violent pogroms. On November 8 and 9, 1938, the Nazis started a state-sponsored nationwide pogrom. Across the country (and in Austria) Jewish synagogues, homes and businesses were looted and burned, Jews were attacked on the streets and 91 were killed. Thousands of Jewish men were sent to concentration camps for several weeks and released only when they agreed to leave the country as soon as possible. The Jews were made to pay for the damages to their premises. The pogrom was called “Kristallnacht,” which means “Night of Broken Glass,” because of all the damage done to Jewish shop windows. Thousands of German Jews and close to 6,000 Austrian Jews were arrested after Kristallnacht and deported to the Dachau or Buchenwald concentration camps in Germany. 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After Lenin’s death in 1924, Joseph Stalin came to power. Under his rule the country saw rapid industrialization and forced collectivization, which resulted in economic growth but also famine that killed millions. Stalin also conducted the Great Purge, which removed actual and perceived opponents. After the World War II, the Cold War began with the Eastern Bloc of the Soviet Union confronting the Western Bloc, which was led by the United States and eventually NATO. In the late 1980s, the Soviet Union’s last leader Mikhail Gorbachev sought to implement various reforms. Additionally various Soviet satellite countries overthrew their Marxist-Leninist regimes. 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After World War II, ORT was very active in the DP camps, opening schools with rehabilitation programs in 78 camps. The purpose of the schools was to train and prepare DPs (displaced persons) for resettlement in industrialized countries such as the United States, Canada, and Australia as well as Israel, which had a significant need for highly trained manpower. Some 85,000 Jews were trained in new profession and provided with the tools they needed to rebuild their lives. In 2003 Israel was the area of ORT's largest operation, with 90,000 students educated or trained at ORT’s 159 schools, colleges and institutions, educating 25 percent of Israel’s hi-tech workforce. In 2006 ORT Israel withdrew from World ORT. World ORT continues to work in Israel under the name of Kadima Mada (Educating for Life). In December 1946, the first ORT trade school in Austria was opened in Vienna. 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He was President of Zep Manufacturing Company, which was a leader in the specialty chemical industry, and was Chairman of the Chemical Division of National Service Industries. 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The network spans more than 40 countries and territories and 6 continents. It serves 61 million people across the globe, fueled by 2.9 million volunteers and 8.3 million donors. Its predecessor organization was founded in Denver, Colorado in 1887, and it became known as the United Way in 1963.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7117.0,7156.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2052/annotation/668","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003ePesach [Hebrew: Passover] is the celebration of Israel’s liberation from Egyptian bondage. The holiday lasts for eight days. Unleavened bread, matzo, is eaten in memory of the unleavened bread prepared by the Israelites during their hasty flight from Egypt, when they had not time to wait for the dough to rise. On the first two nights of Passover, the seder, the central event of the holiday, is celebrated.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7351.0,7364.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2052/annotation/669","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRosh HaShanah [Hebrew: head of the year] begins the cycle of High Holy Days. It introduces the Ten Days of Penitence, when Jews examine their souls and take stock of their actions. On the tenth day is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. 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. Prayer and repentance before the sealing of the books on Yom Kippur may revoke these decisions.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7364.0,7476.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2052/annotation/670","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eSeder [Hebrew: order] is a Jewish ritual feast that marks the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Passover. It is conducted on the evening of the fifteenth day of Nisan in the Hebrew calendar throughout the world. Some communities hold seder on both the first two nights of Passover. The seder incorporates prayers, candle lighting, and traditional foods symbolizing the slavery of the Jews and the exodus from Egypt. It is one of the most colorful and joyous occasions in Jewish life.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7364.0,7476.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2052/annotation/671","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eA minyan refers to the quorum of 10 Jewish adults required for certain religious obligation. While traditionally only males counted toward the quorum, in many non-Orthodox streams of Judaism adult females count in the minyan. A minyan is needed in Jewish communal prayer for certain components of the regular daily or Shabbat services, reading from the Torah and haftarah portions in synagogue, and saying Kaddish, among other things. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7364.0,7476.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2052/annotation/672","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eKaddish [Hebrew: holy] is a hymn of praises to God found in the Jewish prayer service that is recited aloud while standing. The central theme of the Kaddish is the magnification and sanctification of God's name. Along with the Shema and Amidah, the Kaddish is one of the most important and central elements in the Jewish liturgy. Mourner's Kaddish is said at all prayer services and certain other occasions. Following the death of a parent, child, spouse, or sibling it is customary to recite the Mourner's Kaddish in the presence of a congregation daily for 30 days, or 11 months in the case of a parent, and then at every anniversary of the death. It is important to note that the Mourner's Kaddish does not mention death at all, but instead praises God.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7478.0,7516.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2052/annotation/673","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAlpharetta is a city in northern Fulton County, Georgia as a part of the Atlanta, Georgia metropolitan area. The area had forcibly removed the indigenous stewards of the land, the Cherokee, to make room for settlers in the area during the 1830’s as a result of the Indian Removal Act that set off the Trail of Tears.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7640.0,7718.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2052/annotation/674","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRabbi Arnold M. Goodman served as senior rabbi of Ahavath Achim in Atlanta, Georgia from 1982 to 2002. He came to Atlanta from Minnesota where he had served as rabbi of Adath Jeshurun in Minnetonka since 1966. He currently serves as its senior rabbinic scholar. Upon his retirement, the synagogue honored them by designating its adult education program as Beit Aharon: The Rabbi Arnold and Rae Goodman Learning Institute for Adult Studies.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7724.0,7756.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2052/annotation/675","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRabbi Analia Bortz (1967- ) is a Latin American rabbi and bioethicist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She became the first female Latin American rabbi when she was ordained in Jerusalem at the Seminario Rabinico Latinamericano in 1994. She and her husband, Rabbi Mario Karpuj, founded Congregation Or Hadash in Sandy Springs, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7801.0,7842.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2052/annotation/676","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eMorningside/Lenox Park is a neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia founded in 1923. It is located north of Virginia-Highland, east of Ansley Park and west of Druid Hills. Approximately 3,500 households comprise the neighborhood that includes the original subdivisions of Morningside, Lenox Park, University Park, Noble Park, Johnson Estates and Hylan Park. After World War II, residents of heavily Jewish Washington-Rawson and Summerhill neighborhoods south of the State Capitol relocated to northeast Atlanta including Morningside when those old Jewish neighborhoods were demolished to make way for the Downtown Connector freeway and Turner Field.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7801.0,7842.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523/annotation_set/2052/annotation/677","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBuford Highway, sometimes called BuHi, is a major roadway that connects three metro Atlanta counties. It stretches north from Midtown Atlanta to the Dekalb-Gwinnett County line. The Buford Highway also refers to the community around the roadway (also known as the Buford Highway Corridor and DeKalb International Corridor), which spans along either side of a stretch of Georgia State Route 13 (SR 13) in DeKalb County. Buford Highway is an ethnically diverse, linear community made up of apartment complexes, suburban neighborhoods, and shopping centers.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/162124/file/294523#t=7859.0,7905.0"}]}]}]}