{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/pc2t43k90v/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Arnovitz, Morris"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["1984-01 (captured)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Plasker, Susan (Interviewer)","Arnovitz, Morris (Interviewee)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Audio"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source"]},"value":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Ester Herbert Taylor Oral History Collection","William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eMorris Arnovitz interviewed by Susan Plasker in Atlanta, Georgia in January 1984.\u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eMorris Arnovitz was born on August 10, 1916, in Atlanta, Georgia. He was the son of Jacob Arnovitz and Sarah Skott. He attended Ahavath Achim Synagogue growing up and had an Orthodox upbringing. Arnovitz attended the University of Virginia. He later served in World War II, in which he was a prisoner of war. He was the husband of Pearl Feldman and later, Ruth Hillman. Arnovitz was a part of the real estate business. He passed away on April 18, 1988, at age 71.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eThe interview begins with Arnovitz discussing his birth. He describes the community he grew up in and its environment. Arnovitz reflects on his memories of Ahavath Achim. He focuses on the entrance of Rabbi Epstein. Arnovitz then goes on to talk about his family. He specifically talks about his grandfather in detail. Arnovitz reminiscences on what Atlanta’s society was like during that time. He reflects on his religious practices growing up. Arnovitz then reminiscences on his time on Washington Street growing up. He talks about how he started a splinter group apart from the AA with other Jewish people in the community. Arnovitz discusses his religious upbringing more and talks about his bar mitzvah. He talks about his transition from Orthodox to Conservative. Arnovitz details his relationship with the Epstein’s. He then talks about his experience in the real estate business. Arnovitz reflects on his service during World War II. He discusses how people would come into Atlanta for the High Holidays. Arnovitz finishes by talking about his involvements with Ahavath Achim as chairman of the House Committee. \u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/29095"]}},{"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":["Atlanta, Georgia (topical term)","Ahavath Achim Synagogue (corporate name)","Washington Street (geographic term)","Rabbi Harry H. Epstein (personal name)","Orthodox Judaism (topical term)","Conservative Judaism (topical term)","Jewish Upbringing (topical term)","Jewish Community (topical term)","Antisemitism (topical term)","World War II (chronological term)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eMorris Arnovitz interviewed by Susan Plasker in Atlanta, Georgia in January 1984.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMorris Arnovitz was born on August 10, 1916, in Atlanta, Georgia. He was the son of Jacob Arnovitz and Sarah Skott. He attended Ahavath Achim Synagogue growing up and had an Orthodox upbringing. Arnovitz attended the University of Virginia. He later served in World War II, in which he was a prisoner of war. He was the husband of Pearl Feldman and later, Ruth Hillman. Arnovitz was a part of the real estate business. He passed away on April 18, 1988, at age 71.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe interview begins with Arnovitz discussing his birth. He describes the community he grew up in and its environment. Arnovitz reflects on his memories of Ahavath Achim. He focuses on the entrance of Rabbi Epstein. Arnovitz then goes on to talk about his family. He specifically talks about his grandfather in detail. Arnovitz reminiscences on what Atlanta\u0026rsquo;s society was like during that time. He reflects on his religious practices growing up. Arnovitz then reminiscences on his time on Washington Street growing up. He talks about how he started a splinter group apart from the AA with other Jewish people in the community. Arnovitz discusses his religious upbringing more and talks about his bar mitzvah. He talks about his transition from Orthodox to Conservative. Arnovitz details his relationship with the Epstein\u0026rsquo;s. He then talks about his experience in the real estate business. Arnovitz reflects on his service during World War II. He discusses how people would come into Atlanta for the High Holidays. Arnovitz finishes by talking about his involvements with Ahavath Achim as chairman of the House Committee.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - Arnovitz__Morris_lofi.mp3"]},"duration":2915.91837,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-thebreman.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/181/007/original/Arnovitz__Morris_lofi.mp3?1679410290","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mpeg","duration":2915.91837,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Arnovitz, Morris [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"PLASKER: Are you from Atlanta? No, you're not from Atlanta.\n\nARNOVITZ: Yeah, I was born over there by the stadium. Glenwood and Colony Street.\n\nPLASKER: All right. Yes. Right, I know exactly where that is.\n\nARNOVITZ: August 10, 1916.\n\nPLASKER: That makes you . . .\n\nARNOVITZ: 67. I'll be 68 eight this year.\n\nPLASKER: That's where you were living when you were born. Were you actually born\nin a house?\n\nARNOVITZ: Born in the house, yeah.\n\nPLASKER: Oh, you're born in a house there. That was the days . . .\n\nARNOVITZ: When the doctor came out and charged $15 dollars. That's what mother\ntells me.\n\nPLASKER: Really? That was a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"deal.\n\nARNOVITZ: In a horse and buggy.\n\nPLASKER: You didn't have to go to the hospital or anything. That was right near\nthe, well, no, wait a minute. In 1916, it was on, the synagogue was on Gilmer Street.\n\nARNOVITZ: I think, yes, it was Gilmer Street then.\n\nPLASKER: Right, and then it moved to . . .\n\nARNOVITZ: Washington and Woodward.\n\nPLASKER: Yeah, do you remember the synagogue on . . .\n\nARNOVITZ: On Gilmer? I remember it on Washington but never on Gilmer Street.\n\nPLASKER: You were too little.\n\nARNOVITZ: I've seen pictures of it.\n\nPLASKER: I think it moved to Washington Street in 1920 or something, so you were\nonly . . .\n\nARNOVITZ: Something like that, yes.\n\nPLASKER: . . . about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"four years old. That was where the Jewish community pretty\nmuch was centered, right?\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes, on Washington and Crew Street and Pulliam Street, Capitol Avenue\nand Pryor, Central Avenue.\n\nPLASKER: Was that almost all Jewish in there?\n\nARNOVITZ: No, it was mixed.\n\nPLASKER: It was mixed?\n\nARNOVITZ: Mixed up, yes.\n\nPLASKER: Yeah, but it was where the majority of Jews were in there.\n\nARNOVITZ: Everybody in those days lived near the streetcar lines. That was your\nmain transportation. A lot of families didn't have cars in those days. If they\ndid, they just had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"one car.\n\nPLASKER: Right, and that was more of a residential area, then.\n\nARNOVITZ: Oh, yes. They had some stores on the corners, something like grocery\nstores and drugstores and things like that.\n\nPLASKER: Can you kind of describe what the community was like, the life in that\ncommunity? .\n\nARNOVITZ: From there, I think we lived on Glenwood and Connally for two years.\nWhen I was two years old, we moved to Pryor Street, between Richardson and\nCrumley Street. The home was the home of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Steiner, who was the Steiner Brew Beer,\nand my daddy cut it up into six apartments. I remember across the street was the\nBerchenko. They had a cow in the back yard. We used to get our Passover milk\nfrom them all the time.\n\nPLASKER: Is that right? From this cow?\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes. Up the street was a drugstore, Silverman's Pharmacy. They had a\nfew other stores there. Across the street from the pharmacy was the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"temple,\nwhere I think the building is still there. For a while, it was the Greek\nOrthodox Church, before they moved out to Claremont Road.\n\nPLASKER: The building is still there.\n\nARNOVITZ: I think it's still there yes. It's got the dome on it.\n\nPLASKER: I see.\n\nARNOVITZ: Then the Progressive Club was up the street about three, four blocks.\n\nPLASKER: Was there a lot of life on the streets? Did people hang out on the streets?\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes. I was just a small kid then. I moved away from there when I was\nsix years old.\n\nPLASKER: When were you six. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where did you move then?\n\nARNOVITZ: Moved to Boulevard.\n\nPLASKER: All right.\n\nARNOVITZ: Which is . . . what do they call it now? The Monroe Drive.\n\nPLASKER: Right.\n\nARNOVITZ: I lived there from 1924 to 1930 and saw a lot of activity there.\n\nPLASKER: What was that area like at the time?\n\nARNOVITZ: It was mostly apartment houses. My folks were in the apartment house\nbusiness. They owned some and leased some and rented them out to tenants and\nmaintained them themselves, managed them themselves, and later I got into the\nsame type [of] business. We had Angier ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Drug Store right up the street, where it\nused to be a hangout for everybody.\n\nPLASKER: That was on Boulevard?\n\nARNOVITZ: Boulevard at Rankin Street, and then up the street was the Georgia\nBaptist Hospital over on East Avenue and Boulevard, near Forrest [Street].\n\nPLASKER: That was a heavily Jewish area, too.\n\nARNOVITZ: That's right. A lot of the Jewish people moved to the north side. We\nwere among the first to move over there.\n\nPLASKER: You were among the first to move over there.\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes. A lot of other people were there before us, but the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Orthodox . .\n. they started moving over in the early twenties, going over to the north side.\n\nPLASKER: I wonder what it was about that area . . . I'm sure you probably\ncouldn't answer that question . . . hat ended up being the area where Jews lived.\n\nARNOVITZ: With the apartments and . . . a lot of people lived in apartments then,\n\nbefore they started going out and buying homes and things like that.\n\nPLASKER: Right, there was a lot more apartment living.\n\nARNOVITZ: Oh, yes, quite a bit then. In fact, we ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"operated one apartment at 501\nBoulevard that I think every tenant in there, was sixteen units, and every\ntenant was Jewish in there.\n\nPLASKER: Hmm.\n\nARNOVITZ: I don't think I recall anyone not being Jewish there. You had several\nkosher butchers down there on Ponce de Leon Avenue, and delicatessens.\n\nPLASKER: You had some kosher butchers on Ponce de Leon.\n\nARNOVITZ: Ponce de Leon. You had Hoffman, Gilner, and Gold . . . oh, you had a\ndelicatessen at the corner of Parkway and Ponce de Leon.\n\nPLASKER: Hmm. This would have been in, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what year did you move there, did you say?\n\nARNOVITZ: I moved in 1924, in June 1924.\n\nPLASKER: Okay. All right, you were one of the first to move over there.\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes, among the first, yes.\n\nPLASKER: Among the first, okay, so you got in the real estate business,\nyourself. All right, you owned the Southland Hotel. Did you own any other famous\ninstitutions or just apartment houses?\n\nARNOVITZ: When I came back from service, I built that in 1946.\n\nPLASKER: Oh, you built the Southland Hotel.\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes.\n\nPLASKER: Is that right?\n\nARNOVITZ: It was not a large hotel, 60 rooms.\n\nPLASKER: Yes. You built that yourself.\n\nARNOVITZ: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes.\n\nPLASKER: What are your earliest memories of AA [Ahavath Achim]? I know it would\nhave been on Washington Street.\n\nARNOVITZ: I remember when I lived on Pryor Street, went there. Was just a young\n\nkid, before I was six years old, I remember. Then that's when they had the bimah in\n\nthe center of the congregation, where they read the Torah and all, besides\nhaving the\n\nmain dais with the ark up front. The ladies would sit upstairs, and the men\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"downstairs. Then they had what they called the beis medrash. That's in the\nbasement, where they had services, daily services, and also the Sunday school\nand the Hebrew school was there.\n\nPLASKER: Down in the basement.\n\nARNOVITZ: That's right. Then Rabbi [Harry H.] Epstein came there, let's see . . .\n\nPLASKER: In 1928.\n\nARNOVITZ: In 1928, yes. I remember because I was in his Bible class I think\naround . . . let's see, around 1932.\n\nPLASKER: When that Rabbi Epstein came, you were . . .\n\nARNOVITZ: Twelve years old.\n\nPLASKER: . . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"twelve years old.\n\nARNOVITZ: I then I remember, I think it was the last year I was there . . . I\ndidn't get to\n\ngraduate Bible class because I went off to school at University of Virginia when\nI was\n\nseventeen, and I missed graduating.\n\nPLASKER: I see. Do you recall Rabbi Epstein coming in?\n\nARNOVITZ: Very well.\n\nPLASKER: What are your memories of that?\n\nARNOVITZ: I remember he came in, and it seemed like he was changing things around\n\nthen, and started off by giving some English speeches, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sermons, and he gradually\nchanged it where the ladies could sit downstairs with the men, and he\nstandardized the prayer books. I remember a lot of us had small, all types of\nbooks, and my Daddy had some size like that where you could hardly read the\nprint, and he standardized them to the books we have today.\n\nPLASKER: They were ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"different.\n\nARNOVITZ: They used to use a lot of different prayer books, and you never could\nfind out exactly where you were if you didn't know what you were doing.\n\nPLASKER: I see. Like, they didn't all have the same pages.\n\nARNOVITZ: That's right, that's right.\n\nPLASKER: you could call it out. So how did that work? I guess it was . . .\n\nARNOVITZ: You'd always ask somebody where it is, or you just didn't know.\n\nPLASKER: I see.\n\nARNOVITZ: In those days, you had some frum, very religious people. My grandfather,\n\nI remember, may he rest in peace, and other people I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"remember that put the\ntallis over their head when they said their prayers. The services lasted longer\nin those days. That's another thing Rabbi did. He standardized the services and\ncut them back, where instead of getting through morning service at two o'clock,\nit got through at twelve thirty.\n\nPLASKER: This, nobody has told me. The services were a lot longer.\n\nARNOVITZ: That's right.\n\nPLASKER: They would last till two thirty.\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes, like on Rosh Hashanah and on New Year's or even ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on Sabbath they\n\nlasted much later, and he cut them back and standardized them more.\n\nPLASKER: I see. What did you think about all the changes?\n\nARNOVITZ: I liked it. I liked it. No use . . . a lot of it is repetition anyway,\nso why go\n\nthrough it two or three times? Just like on our Yom Kippur services, instead of just\n\nkeep repeating, like, they have one prayer there, \"Al Chet,\" where you ask for\n\nforgiveness. I think in the prayer ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"book you say it seven times, but he changed\nit around\n\nwhere some of it was in English and some in Hebrew, and then explained it and\n\nshortened it in some places, and it made it more enjoyable. Now, he didn't do\nall this at\n\nonce because at that time, if he'd had a speech in English, a sermon in English\nduring the\n\nmorning, then [in] the afternoon he would give a speech in Yiddish, his sermon in\n\nYiddish. Those who understood that . . .\n\nPLASKER: Right. I guess a lot of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"people at that time only understood Yiddish.\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes, a lot more understood Yiddish than they do today. I learned\nYiddish because that was the only way I could communicate with my grandparents\nwhen they came over.\n\nPLASKER: Oh, is that right?\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes.\n\nPLASKER: Oh, your grandparents came over here after you were born.\n\nARNOVITZ: They came over in 1924.\n\nPLASKER: Where were they from?\n\nARNOVITZ: Poland.\n\nPLASKER: They were from Poland.\n\nARNOVITZ: My folks were from Poland, too.\n\nPLASKER: You learned to speak Yiddish so you could . . .\n\nARNOVITZ: That's right.\n\nPLASKER: How did you learn to speak it?\n\nARNOVITZ: Just hearing them talk. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Never went to school for it. Just listened to them.\n\nIt was the only way I could communicate, in Yiddish and part English and sign\nlanguage and all like that until I learned the language better over the years.\n\nPLASKER: They came over here in what year?\n\nARNOVITZ: I think my grandfather came in about 1922 or 1923, and my grandmother in\n\n1924, somewhere in those years, early twenties.\n\nPLASKER: In what ways were they different from the people who had, you know, as\nfar as their Judaism, from the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"people who already lived here in Atlanta?\n\nARNOVITZ: We were leaning more towards the conservative, and they were still very\n\nOrthodox, although my folks always kept a kosher home.\n\nPLASKER: You said your grandfather was very religious.\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes, although in later years he had to work on Sabbath and things like\nthat, but he didn't want to, but he just had to. But when he could afford it, he\nstopped working on Saturdays. He had just a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"little stand where he sold notions\nright on Decatur Street.\n\nPLASKER: Oh, really?\n\nARNOVITZ: That's where a lot of the businesses were, up and down Decatur Street. A\n\nlot of them were Jewish businesses: tailor shops, pawn shops and food places and\nthing[s] like that.\n\nPLASKER: He owned this little stand?\n\nARNOVITZ: Stand, yes.\n\nPLASKER: Notions. What are notions?\n\nARNOVITZ: Like socks and sewing things and shoelaces. You don't use shoelaces\ntoday, but that was a big thing in those days.\n\nPLASKER: I still use shoelaces.\n\nARNOVITZ: Handkerchiefs and all like that.\n\nPLASKER: It was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"just a stand, or what do you mean, a little store?\n\nARNOVITZ: Actually, his first was between two stores. It had a wall about that\nwide, and he built shelves and hooked it on there every morning and took it down\neach evening. Later he got the adjoining store, and he expanded to a larger\nplace. In the beginning, it's just like that book that you read about in Our\nCrowd [The Great Jewish Families of New York, by Stephen Birmingham. I don't\nknow if you read that book. He went peddling with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"two baskets, around into\nmostly in the colored neighborhoods.\n\nPLASKER: He was a peddler, too.\n\nARNOVITZ: That's right.\n\nPLASKER: I see.\n\nARNOVITZ: He sold the notions then, and then he decided to go where he wouldn't\n\nhave to walk that much and be in one place.\n\nPLASKER: That's when he got a store.\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes.\n\nPLASKER: I store.\n\nARNOVITZ: When he picked up a little English in those days, things like that. We\nalways used to kid him. Anytime somebody asked him about something, he said,\n\"Look in the basket.\" That's what my mother taught him, \"Look in the basket.\"\nThat was the only words he knew.\n\nPLASKER: When someone asked him, he said, \"Look in the basket,\" you'd see ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what I have.\n\nARNOVITZ: That's right.\n\nPLASKER: That's funny. A lot of people, when they first came over here,\n\nimmigrants, were peddlers, weren't they?\n\nARNOVITZ: That's right, yes.\nPLASKER: Do you remember, other than your\ngrandfather, many peddlers at that time?\n\nARNOVITZ: Not too many.\n\nPLASKER: On a personal . . .\n\nARNOVITZ: No, I didn't remember, because I was real young at the time.\n\nPLASKER: Yes, it was going out at that time.\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes. But I remember when a lot of them went into businesses. Times\nwere tough, too. A little tailor shop. My ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Daddy was a tailor, and he got out of\nthe business in 1928. That's when he went into the real estate business.\n\nPLASKER: At that time, in that area, as a rule, most of the people who belong to\nAA now are pretty well to do, you know.\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes.\n\nPLASKER: Were people less well to do at that time?\n\nARNOVITZ: Oh, yes, yes. In fact, they used to help each other. They had what\nthey called a Free Loan Society, and they had to get loans there. It seemed like\neverybody was always needing ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"some money, and they'd go to the Morris Plan with\ntwo signatures and borrow money in those days.\n\nPLASKER: Go to the what?\n\nARNOVITZ: Morris Plan Bank. That's the Bank of Georgia now.\n\nPLASKER: What was this loan thing? Was that within the synagogue?\n\nARNOVITZ: Within the synagogue. In fact, that was part of the rabbi's sermon\nthis past Saturday, because in this week's reading of the Torah, there was\nsupposed to be one thing: you wasn't supposed to charge interest if you loaned\nsomething to a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"friend or neighbor or something like that, or relative, and that\nwas what they established, free loan societies, where they could loan, it wasn't\ngreat sums; it was a lot of money in those days, a hundred and two hundred\ndollars. I don't think they went up to the thousands in those days. But they\nused to loan each other money, and people would give money to the Free Loan\nSociety so they'd have the funds to loan out to the needy people.\n\nPLASKER: This was within the synagogue, in the synagogue.\n\nARNOVITZ: That's right.\n\nPLASKER: This Free Loan Society.\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes.\n\nPLASKER: Hmm.\n\nARNOVITZ: I think one of the early presidents, Mr. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dorfan, was president of that.\n\nPLASKER: Hmm. This is the first I've heard of that. Hmm. People\n\nwould put the money there. There wouldn't be contributions; it would be loaning.\n\nARNOVITZ: They'd contribute to the Free Loan Society, and then the Free Loan\n\nSociety would loan it out to the needy people, people who needed some funds temporarily.\n\nPLASKER: Who were members of AA.\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes, that's right. I imagine sometime some stranger come into town,\nthey'd help him out, too.\n\nPLASKER: Did that happen very often?\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Used to find quite a few people traveling, and they'd give out of\n\nfunds, and they'd be helped.\n\nPLASKER: All right, someone would be traveling, they'd give out of funds,\n\nand they . . .\n\nARNOVITZ: They'd come to the synagogue.\n\nPLASKER: They'd come to the synagogue.\n\nARNOVITZ: In fact, we still have it today. In our morning service. I go to the\nservice most every morning, and a few times a year we have some people coming\nthrough on the way to and from New York and Florida and places like that, and\nthey stop off in the synagogue, and we take up a collection for them.\n\nPLASKER: You do that in the morning?\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We'll raise anywheres from twenty to forty or fifty dollars for them.\n\nPLASKER: Is that right? you go there almost every morning, like, at seven o'clock.\n\nARNOVITZ: Seven fifteen.\n\nPLASKER: Seven fifteen. Why do you do that?\n\nARNOVITZ: I started that when my father passed away, and I started saying\nKaddish, you know, the memorial service.\n\nPLASKER: Yes.\n\nARNOVITZ: He passed away in 1978.\n\nPLASKER: You just kept on.\n\nARNOVITZ: I decided, I finished my eleven months, and it was a nice group of\nfellows there, and it's something that the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"synagogue needed. If you have a\nminyan, ten men there all the time, then the other people could come there, loo,\nand say memorial prayers. We just got a nice group. We have a little coffee and\nDanish and juice afterwards.\n\nPLASKER: Yes, I went one morning.\n\nARNOVITZ: You did? Helen [Cavalier] was there.\n\nPLASKER: Yes. She gets all the goodies together.\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes. Then we have a monthly breakfast, where we celebrate the\nbirthdays of that month for anybody . . .\n\nPLASKER: That's the one that I attended.\n\nARNOVITZ: That's right.\n\nPLASKER: In ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"January, yes.\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes. It's very enjoyable. It means you get up a little earlier, and you\n\ngo. I used to put on the phylacteries [which he pronounces as phylactrophies], you\n\nknow on your head and arm?\n\nPLASKER: Yes.\n\nARNOVITZ: At home, so I just said, \"Just as well go down there.\"\n\nPLASKER: You went down there. You got a breakfast there.\n\nARNOVITZ: That's right.\n\nPLASKER: Some companionship. All right, there's probably not a Free Loan\n\nSociety now because you don't need one ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so much.\n\nARNOVITZ: No, I don't think they still have it.\n\nPLASKER: What else was there like that? Were there any other activities like\nthat within the synagogue that you don't have now because of changing times?\n\nARNOVITZ: They used to, in the evening, or in the mornings, too, I think they\nused to\n\nhave real study sessions for the more or less retired people and the older\nmembers. I\n\nremember my grandfather used to go there, and they'd study the Talmud and the\nTorah and all like that and discuss it. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They'd have maybe an hour at each\nsitting. They'd discuss that, in [the] afternoon and morning.\n\nPLASKER: That doesn't take place anymore.\n\nARNOVITZ: Not too much. We have it once a month when the rabbi, like, we got on\nFebruary 7th, coming up, a study session, do it once a month. A few of us got\ntogether and put some money into a fund so we could have a breakfast at the same time.\n\nPLASKER: Back in those days, would you say people were more religious?\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes, I believe they were more . . . That's right.\n\nPLASKER: Concern of studying and everything?\n\nARNOVITZ: That's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"right. Of course, that's what they learned back where they came\nfrom in Europe.\n\nPLASKER: Yes.\n\nARNOVITZ: That was their heritage. They were supposed to keep on studying.\n\nPLASKER: Right.\n\nARNOVITZ: You're supposed to teach your children.\n\nPLASKER: Right. All right, you grew up in a very Orthodox, well, how did you\nraise your children different than how you were raised as far as the . . .\n\nARNOVITZ: We were modified Orthodox, but we kept a kosher home.\n\nPLASKER: Oh, you did?\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes. I didn't keep it real close when I went ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"out, but at home we kept\na kosher home all the time, and we taught them, they'd go to synagogue. My son\nwas president of the Junior Congregation one year, and he participated in all\nthat. My daughter went through the Sunday school and Hebrew school. Both of them\ndid. They enjoyed it, in joining all the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"activities. Went to the Jewish camps\nduring the summertime.\n\nPLASKER: What are some of the memories you have of Washington Street that\nparticularly stick in your mind, some specific things happening? Do you recall\nany particular stories?\n\nARNOVITZ: I remember they talked about it more, I heard it through other\nconversations. I attended a few of the meetings. It was a lot of dissention, and\neverybody was, \"You're out of order. You can't discuss that now.\" They didn't go\nalong Robert's Rule of Order in those ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"days. Some of the meetings were pretty hectic.\n\nPLASKER: What kind of meetings would they be?\n\nARNOVITZ: Like, the annual meeting, monthly meetings or something like that.\n\nPLASKER: They get . . .\n\nARNOVITZ: It got pretty exciting.\n\nPLASKER: Do you remember anything in particular that you might have been\ninvolved in?\n\nARNOVITZ: I remember you had a few fellows like [Charles] \"Charlie\" Bergman and\n\nthat Joel Dorfan and . . . I can't remember all the names now, but ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you'll see a\nlot of the\n\npictures on the wall there, right outside of the office.\n\nPLASKER: Were you ever involved in any of these meetings that got hot and heavy?\n\nARNOVITZ: No. When we moved over to the north side, we started a splinter group\nbecause my folks . . . it was a problem during the High Holidays to take the\nfamily and go someplace close enough where you can walk to the synagogue,\nbecause from where we lived on Boulevard to the synagogue was a pretty good\nwalk. Especially Mother couldn't do ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that. We used to do it on Saturdays quite a\nbit, when the weather permitted. We started another synagogue over there.\n\nPLASKER: Who is \"we\"?\n\nARNOVITZ: A group of us: the Kleins and, oh, there was a whole group. It was\nabout fifteen or twenty of us. We started meeting in, I forgot his first name.\nHis name was Klein. He was a jeweler man. That house, and then we rented a\nchurch and turned it into a synagogue on Boulevard, just ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"below Ponce de Leon Avenue.\n\nPLASKER: You rented a church.\n\nARNOVITZ: Made it into a synagogue, yes.\n\nPLASKER: There were only about twenty of you?\n\nARNOVITZ: Afterwards we got a big group. In fact, when we had services there,\nthe place was filled to capacity, about a hundred, two hundred people.\n\nPLASKER: All right, did you give it a name?\n\nARNOVITZ: Adath Yeshurin, A-D-A-T-H capital Y-E-S-N-U-R-I-N or -M or something\nlike that. In fact, I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"donated a Torah in my name. I won the Torah in a raffle,\nand we had a big ceremony. It was supposed to be a real big mitzvah to give a\nTorah to a synagogue, and folks threw a big party that night, and we donated the\nTorah to the synagogue.\n\nPLASKER: Now, you won a Torah in a raffle?\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes, that's right. Someone had brought a Torah either from Israel or\n\nEurope, and we bought tickets for I think it was fifty cents a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ticket, and they\nsold a bunch of tickets to raise some funds for some charity; I don't know what\nit was. I had no idea, my ticket won.\n\nPLASKER: Is that right? Actually, let me try to get an understanding. This new\nsynagogue was not part of AA.\n\nARNOVITZ: Kind of like a splinter group, yes.\n\nPLASKER: You started your own.\n\nARNOVITZ: Our dues at that time I think were twelve dollars a year when I was\nabout twelve, fourteen.\n\nPLASKER: This was at AA or the new synagogue?\n\nARNOVITZ: The new synagogue.\n\nPLASKER: [indistinct: 22:27].\n\nARNOVITZ: I think I was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about twelve, fourteen years old then. No, I was about\nfourteen or fifteen because I know I was bar mitzvah in the old synagogue. In\nfact, I was bar mitzvah down in the basement because they were redecorating the\nupstairs at the time.\n\nINTER VIEWER: Is that right?\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes. That was in 1929. Then later, when they built the educational\n\ncenter along 10th Street, we moved in there, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"then the splinter group joined\nback into\n\nthe AA again.\n\nPLASKER: Who moved in there?\n\nARNOVITZ: The Adath Yeshurin, our splinter group that was meeting on Boulevard . . .\n\nPLASKER: Oh, started meeting in . . .\n\nARNOVITZ: In there, and we started having services on 10th Street, which was within\n\nwalking distance of where most of us lived at the time.\n\nPLASKER: Then it was at the same part of AA.\n\nARNOVITZ: Actually, I don't think . . . my parents never dropped out of AA, just\npaid dues in both places. Most of them did that.\n\nPLASKER: I see. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"This is primarily because of the walking.\n\nARNOVITZ: That's right. For the High Holidays, because even the Jefferson Hotel\nwas quite a walk from there to the synagogue, and they filled up, and there\nwasn't that many rooms available.\n\nPLASKER: Did a lot of people come in from other areas for the High Holidays to\n\nattend AA?\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes, you find a lot of them came from Carrollton, Newnan and a lot of\n\nother cities around here.\n\nPLASKER: What were the High Holidays like on Washington Street?\n\nARNOVITZ: Oh, it was a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"real parade, and that's when everybody dressed up, and the\n\nladies always had the newest outfit, and then you had the Shearith Israel down .\n. . you\n\nknow they were, on Washington Street also, about two blocks south. You had a\n\nparade back and forth between the two synagogues. You know, the kids didn't want to\n\nstay inside all the time, and the teenagers, and they all paraded back and forth\nand visited\n\nand all like that.\n\nPLASKER: Meeting each other . . .\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes.\n\nPLASKER: . . . and socializing and everything. Did you do a lot of that?\n\nARNOVITZ: Oh, yes. Just ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"like other normal people.\n\nPLASKER: Did people like boys and girls, young men and women meet each other\nduring . . .\n\nARNOVITZ: Oh, yes.\n\nPLASKER: Start dating and everything?\n\nARNOVITZ: Start dating. They were quite active in, we used to have hayrides,\nweenie roasts and all like that, went out to the old Dixie Lake, Mooney Lake.\nThat's where Broadview is now. Used to have affairs all the time, and used to\nmeet a lot of, the Jewish Educational Alliance ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was on Capitol Avenue, and used\nto have dances there almost every week.\n\nPLASKER: It was really more of a social sort of . . .\n\nARNOVITZ: Then you go across the street to Merlin's Delicatessen, and you got a\n\nwonderful hotdog with sauerkraut for a nickel in those days.\n\nPLASKER: You got bar mitzvahed in the basement?\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes.\n\nPLASKER: Can you recall that whole scene?\n\nARNOVITZ: Oh, yes. They had an ark downstairs, too, just like upstairs, and it\nwas a\n\npretty good-size auditorium, as big as ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what we use for the morning services now,\nEllman Chapel. In fact, I think it was larger. It looked like it might hold\nfour, five hundred people, where the capacity of Ellman Chapel is about two\nhundred and fifty.\n\nPLASKER: Yes. You were bar mitzvahed by Rabbi Epstein.\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes.\n\nPLASKER: Were you married by him, too? When were you married?\n\nARNOVITZ: I don't know if you know this. My wife and I married, and we saw Rabbi\nand Mrs. Epstein, and they said, \"We'll put them in the book of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Guinness's,\" the\nfamous book where . . .\n\nPLASKER: The book of world records.\n\nARNOVITZ: World records. He married us five times. I was married first. This is\nmy third marriage, and he married me first in 1938 . . .\n\nPLASKER: I've got you! He married the two of you all five times.\n\nARNOVITZ: That doesn't go in the story.\n\nPLASKER: Do you remember when the women first started coming down from the balcony?\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes.\n\nPLASKER: What was that scene like? Was there a . . .\n\nARNOVITZ: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think some of the members resented it, but it was just gradual\nchange. I think they came down first just for some minor holidays and minor\nmeetings and things like that, and then eventually came down for the High\nHolidays, too.\n\nPLASKER: First of all, maybe it was just one or two women?\n\nARNOVITZ: A few of them wouldn't think of it at first. They didn't think it was\nright for them to do it, either, but they finally came around to it. Then it got\nto a point where some of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"older ladies couldn't walk the steps anyway, so\nthey had to come in downstairs. \nPLASKER: That was a big . . .\n\nARNOVITZ: That was a big change.\n\nPLASKER: That was a revolutionary change, almost . . .\n\nARNOVITZ: That's right.\n\nPLASKER: . . . for the women to be down there with the men.\n\nARNOVITZ: At the Shearith Israel, when they moved there on University Drive,\n\nthey almost broke up the synagogue because they had one group that wanted keep the\n\nwomen separate from the men. In fact, even today you have one section where it's\nroped off where the men could sit separate from the women, if they want to do that.\n\nPLASKER: I see.\n\nARNOVITZ: Rabbi [Tobias] Geffen actually, he didn't approve of . . .I'm talking\nabout the Shearith Israel . . . what was going on about the various changes\nthere. He had a group that met in the chapel, even on the High Holidays, had\nservices in there, and the rest of the congregation was in the main sanctuary.\n\nPLASKER: Now, at AA that's not the case.\n\nARNOVITZ: No, I can't recall that anybody ever met separately. They just\ngradually worked into it. Then when we went over to the present building, we\ndidn't have that problem anymore. The seats were sold to families, and they all\nsat together.\n\nPLASKER: Rabbi Epstein was gradually making changes, I mean, did he run into a\nlot of resistance in all these . . .\n\nARNOVITZ: I don't recall any great resistance? You might have had some\ndiscussion ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about it, but I think he did it very diplomatically. He was a\nwonderful fellow.\n\nPLASKER: What were your feelings about joining the Conservative movement?\n\nARNOVITZ: I wanted that. When we grew up as children, we just saw there was\nOrthodox got too much to an extreme.\n\nPLASKER: What do you mean?\n\nARNOVITZ: When you're going out in the world, you couldn't, unless you wanted to\njust discipline yourself, you didn't want to just have to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"eat kosher all the\ntime. You found out you had to make some changes, that you rode to the services\nin a car. In fact, Rabbi Epstein came out and said, \"I don't really want to\ncondone you riding on the Sabbath or in the High Holidays, but if it's a\nquestion of coming to synagogue or not coming, I'd rather see you ride.\"\n\nPLASKER: Are there any particularly memorable services from those days on\nWashington Street that stick in your mind?\n\nARNOVITZ: I can't think of anything outstanding. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I started enjoying the services\nmore when the rabbi made them more Conservative and compacted, and didn't have\nto stay till two o'clock. You left there at twelve, twelve thirty. Everybody\nenjoyed it that much more.\n\nPLASKER: Right.\n\nARNOVITZ: Then when they changed the services around to the extent where we\ncould understand more of it because they had more in English, and then discussed\nit in English, too.\n\nPLASKER: Yes, I'm sure it made a lot of difference.\n\nARNOVITZ: I got to know Rabbi Epstein much better later, because he lived next\ndoor to me for twelve years.\n\nPLASKER: Oh, you lived next door to him.\n\nARNOVITZ: When he lived on Lenox Road, we lived right next door to each other.\nHe lived at 1678, and I lived at 1684.\n\nPLASKER: I guess you did get to know him better.\n\nARNOVITZ: Oh, yes. When the kids grew up, they got to know him.\n\nPLASKER: What kind of man was he back in those days?\n\nARNOVITZ: Very friendly, very friendly.\n\nPLASKER: Very friendly?\n\nARNOVITZ: Mrs. Epstein never drove a car, so my wife and a lot of the other\nladies used to take her places and things like that. I know with the kids\ngetting up in the middle of the night when they're ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"young, I'd look out the\nwindow. His light in his study would be on at three, four o'clock in the morning.\n\nPLASKER: He'd be up.\n\nARNOVITZ: Oh, yes, preparing sermons, and then in conversation I found out that\nsome people have problems, they'll call him in the middle of the night. He'd be\nthere, talking to them on the telephone.\n\nPLASKER: He worked hard.\n\nARNOVITZ: Oh, yes. It wasn't an easy job. Then, too, it was hard for him when he\nlived on Lenox Road and when ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we still had the synagogue over on Washington\nStreet. He and his wife, and sometimes she didn't go, they had to go down and\nstay at the Jefferson Hotel, and then later the stayed at the Piedmont, and they\nhad to walk over. It was difficult for them in those day\n\nPLASKER: Yes. Because he had to walk.\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes, he wouldn't ride on the Sabbath.\n\nPLASKER: Right. Back in those days, did there seem to be much antisemitism in\nAtlanta? ARNOVITZ: Oh, yes, we had some problems in the city parks and the\nschools and things like that.\n\nPLASKER: In the parks?\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes. One evening, it must have been just about twilight time, my\nbrother and I were leaving there. All of a sudden I got hit against my head.\nSomebody hit me with a fist. There was a whole gang of fellows, and told us\nwe're not to come back there anymore. Then we got a whole gang of Jewish fellows\ngot back and had a little fracas between the bunch, and it finally broke up. But\nwe had some antisemitism.\n\nPLASKER: Oh, you had kind of a rumble.\n\nARNOVITZ: That's right, yes.\n\nPLASKER: How did the rumble turn out?\n\nARNOVITZ: I think they must have put some more security in the park or something\nlike that, but we didn't have any more . . .\n\nPLASKER: What park was this, now?\n\nARNOVITZ: Piedmont Park.\n\nPLASKER: Oh, that was Piedmont. I see.\n\nARNOVITZ: You had trouble at Grant Park in those days, too.\n\nPLASKER: What are some other examples that you were personally . . .\n\nARNOVITZ: I just heard about it. I don't know, but, well, they still talked\nabout the [Leo] Frank case in those days. Even in junior high school, I remember\nit was antisemitism, more of little threats and things like than actually\nanybody getting hurt.\n\nPLASKER: Were you the subject of any of that?\n\nARNOVITZ: No. The only time I ever had any real problem was that time I got hit\nin Piedmont Park.\n\nPLASKER: Yes, that must have been pretty bad.\n\nARNOVITZ: I felt it for the moment, but it was more . . .all of a sudden you see\ntwenty people around you, and only two of you there.\n\nPLASKER: Yes.\n\nARNOVITZ: I think in those days we started going in bigger ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"groups, so, make sure\nthat if we were just alone, not to be there after dark. It's just like you have\nproblems you go down the street today. You don't want to be alone.\n\nPLASKER: Yes. I think it's worse today than it was then.\n\nARNOVITZ: That's right.\n\nPLASKER: It's my understanding that back in the early days of AA, that there was\nalmost like an extended kinship situation, that lots of people were related or\nthis type of thing.\n\nARNOVITZ: Oh, yes.\n\nPLASKER: Knew each other really well.\n\nARNOVITZ: You take at the synagogue . . . I think at one time I knew most all\nthe members there, and at the Progressive Club I knew all the members there.\n\nPLASKER: Now it's gotten too big to . . .\n\nARNOVITZ: You have so many newcomers, you just can't keep up with anybody unless\nyou're real active. I'd say somebody like Helen Cavalier or the rabbi or\nsomebody like that or the people in office, they might know them, but very few\nof us know everybody in the synagogue anymore.\n\nPLASKER: Yes. I was talking to Rabbi [Arnold] Goodman the other day. He was\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nsaying that he doesn't know everybody yet, either.\n\nARNOVITZ: He's doing a wonderful job. He finds out their names, and he retains\n\nthem, and he's calling them by the first name, too.\n\nPLASKER: Right.\n\nARNOVITZ: He remembers the wives' name, too.\n\nPLASKER: I know. That must be a big . . .\n\nARNOVITZ: It is.\n\nPLASKER: . . .job, coming in.\n\nARNOVITZ: In fact, we had him out to dinner a couple of times, and we were\ntalking about that, how they've gone into this whole [indistinct: 34:22], and\nthey're doing such a wonderful job. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They're having people over their home\nseveral times a week, and he's learning the congregation and the people and he\nknows what's going on. He started a lot of new programs that are very good, too.\n\nPLASKER: Yes. Some of the youth programs?\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes, youth and for the older people, too. [indistinct: 34:39].\n\nPLASKER: Yes, he's got, I mean, to come in, you know, on the heels of Rabbi\n\nGoodman, I mean of Rabbi Epstein . . .\n\nARNOVITZ: Epstein, that's right.\n\nPLASKER: . . .who's been there for more than fifty years, that's a big ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"job that\nhe's got. It seems like he's handling it very well. Do you remember any funny\nstories centered around the synagogue that you were involved in? I always like\nto try to get any humor . . .\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes, he . . .\n\nPLASKER: . . . in the book.\n\nARNOVITZ: Oh, they tell the old story about somebody went up to get his\ncitizenship papers, and the judge asked him who was the president, and the man\nsaid, \"Joel Dorfan.\"\n\nPLASKER: He was the president of . . .\n\nARNOVITZ: President of the synagogue. The judge wanted to know who's the\npresident of the United States. Asked him a few questions.\n\nPLASKER: Yes, somebody had mentioned that.\n\nARNOVITZ: I can't recall. I guess later on if I do, I could tell you, but I . . .\n\nPLASKER: Do you mind if I . . .\n\nARNOVITZ: No, help yourself.\n\nPLASKER: The move from Washington Street out to Peachtree Battle. That's kind of\na central part of the history of AA. What do you remember of that now?\n\nARNOVITZ: They had to raise a lot of money, and people really came out and made\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"big donations and bought seats and all kinds of memorials and dedicated to\nfamilies and friends, just to be able to have the money to build because it was\na big project.\n\nPLASKER: It was a big project, all right.\n\nARNOVITZ: Oh, yes.\n\nPLASKER: It's a big, beautiful building.\n\nARNOVITZ: I think originally it was over $2 million, original cost. I think we\nwound up with a pretty good mortgage and finally some years later we burned the mortgage.\n\nPLASKER: The mortgage was paid off.\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes.\n\nPLASKER: Yes. Do you remember the first service in the new building?\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes, I remember when they had the dedication. It was just raw land\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there in the mud and all, and we had a tremendous crowd came out to the\ndedication, and then the first service was just beautiful, to have such a big\nsanctuary, and it was full, too.\n\nPLASKER: What is this building right here? [Refers to photograph.]\n\nARNOVITZ: That's the University of Virginia, the rotunda. It was designed and\nbuilt by [Thomas] \"Tom\" Jefferson.\n\nPLASKER: That's a famous building, I guess.\n\nARNOVITZ: Oh, yes. On each side you have the lawn, and then you had the . . .\noh, quite a few famous people lived in there over the years. It's one of the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\noldest campuses in the United States. I think that was built in 1819.\n\nPLASKER: That's a real beautiful building. This is?\n\nARNOVITZ: That was a shopping center we just owned down in Titusville, Florida,\nright opposite the cape there, Cape Kennedy. This was a place we owned in Rock\nHill, South Carolina. Was a Sears store connected to a shopping center.\n\nPLASKER: You went straight into the real estate business when you got out of\ncollege? You joined your father in the business?\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes.\n\nPLASKER: It looks like that you all have done real well.\n\nARNOVITZ: That's when I was in service during World War II. That middle, rusty\ndog tag up there?\n\nPLASKER: Yes.\n\nARNOVITZ: That was my German dog tag. I was a PW [prisoner of war].\n\nPLASKER: You were a POW?\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes.\n\nPLASKER: Is that right? Hmm. How long?\n\nARNOVITZ: Seven months.\n\nPLASKER: For seven months. What were the conditions like?\n\nARNOVITZ: I lost 55 pounds. I was on two of the marches over there. When the\n\nRussians ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"broke through, they marched us out of our first camp, Stalag Luft 3,\nand then when the Americans started breaking through, I was near Nuremberg, and\nthey started marching us down to Berchtesgaden section. That's when I escaped\nand finally was picked up.\n\nPLASKER: You escaped during that. You lost 5 pounds. How much did you weigh?\n\nARNOVITZ: I weighed over 200, and when I came out, I weighed about 145 to 150.\n\nPLASKER: Do you know, there probably aren't any . . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I don't know, they'd have\nto be pretty old, I guess, anybody who was actually a peddler in Atlanta in that\ncommunity around Washington Street who's still living? I thought Max London\nmight be one, because he told me he was a peddler. [I wanted to] interview him,\nbut he wasn't a peddler here; he was a peddler in Nova Scotia. Then he came down\nhere to Atlanta and he was in the dry goods business.\n\nARNOVITZ: Years ago, Max and I used to play pinochle when we lived on Boulevard.\n\nPLASKER: Oh, is that right?\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes, we're related a little bit, through my second wife.\n\nPLASKER: He's a good bit older than you are.\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes, I think Max is about 75 now.\n\nPLASKER: He's 80.\n\nARNOVITZ: Close to 80 now? Yes, could be.\n\nPLASKER: I think he is. ,\n\nARNOVITZ: I know Sidney Feldman. Sidney Feldman and my former wife\n\nwere cousins. You know, that's Max's partner. Have you interviewed him?\n\nPLASKER: Yes, I interviewed Max last week. That's an amazing place he's got out there.\n\nARNOVITZ: Oh, yes.\n\nPLASKER: I've never seen anything like it.\n\nARNOVITZ: I haven't been out there in years.\n\nPLASKER: I mean, it is mammoth. All these huge cranes with the car, the wreck\nand box\n\ncars and everything. It's huge.\n\nARNOVITZ: The presses. How they squeeze that stuff together.\n\nPLASKER: I know it. It's amazing.\n\nARNOVITZ: I haven't been there in years, but I used to go out there once in a\nwhile. PLASKER: Do you know, is there anybody who's still alive that actually\nwas a peddler?\n\nARNOVITZ: I tell you who would give you a lot of history of the old people here\nis Herbert Taylor.\n\nPLASKER: Herbert Taylor.\n\nARNOVITZ: He's a good friend of mine, and he used to run a drugstore. Then he went\n\ninto the building business. 874-1262. He's a member of the congregation. Very close\n\nfriend of Rabbi Epstein and Mrs. Epstein.\n\nPLASKER: Do you know of anyone who might actually have been a peddler?\n\nARNOVITZ: I think most of them have died out.\n\nPLASKER: Yes. They'd probably be a hundred years old or something. I once\n\ndid a book of people over the age of 100. There are some around. It would just\n\ndepend on if there was anybody . . .\n\nARNOVITZ: Might be some older people at the old age home or something like that.\n\nLike, have you interviewed Jack-Freedman\n\nPLASKER: Like at the Jewish Home.\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes.\n\nPLASKER: I could up out there and see if there's . . . Jack Freedman, now.\n\nARNOVITZ: Of course, his father there. I don't think you could do, he used to be\nin the furniture business, but I think before that time, he might have started\noff as something small.\n\nPLASKER: Yes. Let's see if there's anything else . . . All right, we were\ntalking about people coming on the High Holidays.\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes.\n\nPLASKER: Were these people, they would come from out of the smaller towns in Georgia?\n\nARNOVITZ: That's right, yes. Not only come for High Holidays but they brought\ntheir kids in here on the weekend, just to go to Sunday school.\n\nPLASKER: Oh, it that right?\n\nARNOVITZ: Oh, yes.\n\nPLASKER: But these are the people where there was not a synagogue.\n\nARNOVITZ: That's right, yes. I remember people living in Carrollton and Newnan\nand Griffin. All of them used to come in there. They had a whole group. In the\nafternoon they would take some of their Hebrew studies then, too, to study for\nthe bar mitzvah. In those days, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you didn't have the girls' bat mitzvah, but the\nboys would study then. During the time the kids went to the Sunday school, they\nused to go to the delicatessens and buy . . . and some of them were merchants,\nand they used to go to, like, H. Mendel, you've heard his name.\n\nPLASKER: Yes.\n\nARNOVITZ: They'd buy their stuff for the store and pack up the car with that,\nand if they kept kosher, they'd buy the kosher foods right here in Atlanta.\n\nPLASKER: They'd come every week.\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes. A lot of them, all during the school year, which is not during\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there summertime, but the rest of the time they were. I know, like, the\nGershons, [Samuel] \"Sam\" Gershon and his wife, Jeannette, and I was related to\nthem. They had a store in Carrollton, and they lived there, and they brought the\nkids, and then the daughter got married to this Al Smith, and he brought his\nkids in every Sunday. I remember there was people from Griffin, Georgia, and Newnan.\n\nPLASKER: Does that occur now?\n\nARNOVITZ: I can't recall. Maybe a short distance away, but I don't think so. I\nguess you could ask them at the office. They could tell you quicker.\n\nPLASKER: In what ways besides joining the, you know, becoming Conservative, what\nother major ways is AA different to you now than it was in the early days?\n\nARNOVITZ: It seems to be much better organized, and you have more services, and\nalso you have your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"study groups. I don't attend them, but they have all kinds,\nlike, this past week they had a program with a soloist there at the synagogue.\nThey have quite a few other activities that we didn't have in those days.\n\nPLASKER: Especially you brought in a soloist from somewhere else?\n\n[indistinct: 43:17] probably doesn't matter.\n\nARNOVITZ: In fact, he was out of town this past weekend, I remember reading in\nthe bulletin and all. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I remember the old cantor you might want to put, I think\nhis name is Selsky or . . . he lived on Washington Street right near the\nsynagogue. We used to visit somebody down on Washington and Fulton Street and\npassed by his house on Sunday morning, I believe. Say he was shaving or\nsomething, and he would sing, the whole neighborhood would hear him. He had a\nhell of a good voice.\n\nPLASKER: While he was in there shaving.\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes.\n\nPLASKER: Letting it loose, huh?\n\nARNOVITZ: Maybe in the morning he just felt like singing. He'd sing.\n\nPLASKER: Yes, Cantor Goodfriend. He's an interesting man.\n\nARNOVITZ: Oh, yes. I was just talking with him this morning. He just got back from\n\n Savannah.\n\nPLASKER: He's funny, too.\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes. He could tell you some real stories!\n\nPLASKER: I've interviewed him twice, as a matter of a fact.\n\nARNOVITZ: He told me some stories about his youth in, well, you know, he was in the\n\nWarsaw Ghetto and escaped from there.\n\nPLASKER: Right, when he was . . .\n\nARNOVITZ: Very few people escaped from there.\n\nPLASKER: . . . yes\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"PLASKER: Hid out with a farm family for a whole year. Is there anything else\nthat really sticks in your mind about the synagogue or anything else you'd like\nto say that might be useful?\n\nARNOVITZ: I was chairman of the House Committee for eight years and climbed on\nthe roofs and supervised a lot of repairs and maintenance there.\n\nPLASKER: That's what the House Committee does.\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes.\n\nPLASKER: You patched up the roofs.\n\nARNOVITZ: That's right.\n\nPLASKER: For eight years.\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes. I was supervisor. I didn't actually . . .\n\nPLASKER: Right. That's a pretty big job to keep for eight years.\n\nARNOVITZ: We started a program taking care of the air conditioning and heating\nequipment better. They didn't have a real good program then. Happened to have a\nman on my committee . . . I can't think of his name . . . was an engineer, and\nhe helped us work that out.\n\nPLASKER: This is on Washington Street?\n\nARNOVITZ: No.\n\nPLASKER: Oh, this is the new one.\n\nARNOVITZ: The new one.\n\nPLASKER: On north side.\n\nARNOVITZ: I went in [as] chairman of the House Committee under Harry Lane\nSiegel. I think that was around 1963, 1965, somewhere like that.\n\nPLASKER: This book will be out probably in the fall.\n\nARNOVITZ: It will? Whoa!\n\nPLASKER: Dr. Schatten wants to, I'm not sure how he's going to do it, but\n\nhe's going to use the book in some way, helping to raise funds for the\neducational facility they're building.\n\nARNOVITZ: I know we all want to buy a copy of it, or several of them.\n\nPLASKER: Yes. It'll be a mixture . . .\n\nARNOVITZ: There's a lot of pictures in there, too?\n\nPLASKER: Yes, it's going to be a mixture of pictures and . . .\n\nARNOVITZ: Just like these . . .\n\nPLASKER: . . . people's recollections of their own work.\n\nARNOVITZ: The book that Norman Shavin put out about the city of Atlanta. Have\n\nyou seen that one?\n\nPLASKER: Yes.\n\nARNOVITZ: I've got that.\n\nPLASKER: But he's put out two.\n\nARNOVITZ: I got the one he just put out recently.\n\nPLASKER: With new pictures.\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes.\n\nPLASKER: The photographs will be in black and white rather than color. I'm a\nphotographer, and I shoot mostly in black and white. It makes it more\nreasonable, too, if they're not doing a huge number. It's going to be a mixture\nof old photographs that we'll be getting, kind of showing the history, and new\nphotographs. Like, this Thursday they're going to, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I can't photograph during a\nservice on the Sabbath. I wanted to photograph a bar mitzvah. Rabbi Goodman is\nsetting one up.\n\nARNOVITZ: Oh, we're going to have it this Thursday in the synagogue.\n\nPLASKER: Yes.\n\nARNOVITZ: That'll be in the chapel, yes.\n\nPLASKER: Yes. I think it'll actually be in the sanctuary.\n\nARNOVITZ: It will?\n\nPLASKER: Yes, because I can't take pictures in there during an actual bar \nmitzvah.\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes, because it's the Sabbath, too.\n\nPLASKER: Right. It'll be a mixture of new photographs and old photographs ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and\nthen it'll be in people's own words, rather than kind of a dry history. I mean,\nlike, some of the things that you told me today we'll transcribe in your words,\nand then we'll change it around a little bit.\n\nARNOVITZ: Jazz it up some.\n\nPLASKER: Jazz it up . . . It should really be good. I'll tell you, the members\nof your congregation are very lively. You're a very lively crew.\n\nARNOVITZ: I hope you got more from them than you got from me.\n\nPLASKER: I've gotten plenty from you. I got some good information that I didn't\neven know, some interesting, interesting stuff. I appreciate it.\n\nARNOVITZ: You've got these three cornerstones right out in front.\n\nPLASKER: Yes.\n\nARNOVITZ: During my time I was chairman of the House Committee, I helped work\nout that memorial there.\n\nPLASKER: Oh, you helped build that.\n\nARNOVITZ: The cornerstones were up at the other end of the lot, just getting mud\nall over them and everything else, and I had a friend of mine who sold cemetery\nlots and cemetery stones, he got some people, some heavy equipment, and we\nbrought the stones over, and Rabbi Epstein ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/transcript/42732/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"showed us where to put it, and they\nmade that little memorial. That was when Irving Galanti, I'll tell you, he\nshould get a lot of credit. He did a lot of work around there.\n\nPLASKER: The stones were in the ground.\n\nARNOVITZ: Just laying around. They saved them, but they . . . I\n\nthe parking lot up there.\n\nPLASKER: Oh, really?\n\nARNOVITZ: Yes, and that's when somebody said, \"We ought to get together and fix\nthem up as a little memorial underneath the present cornerstone.\" That's when we\nbrought the two other cornerstones together.\n\nPLASKER: That's the first thing you see when you're walking in there . . .\n\nARNOVITZ: That's right, yes.\n\nPLASKER: . . . from the parking lot. Yes, it looks nice.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=2280.0,2310.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/annotation_set/1030","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Arnovitz, Morris  [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/annotation_set/1030/annotation/78","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/87899/file/181007#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/annotation_set/1030/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Progressive Club was a Jewish social organization in Atlanta, Georgia. It was established in 1913 by Russian Jews who felt unwelcome at the Standard Club, where German Jews were predominant. At first the club was located in a rented house until a new club was built on Pryor Street including a swimming pool and a gym. 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/87899/file/181007#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/annotation_set/1030/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eGeorgia Baptist Hospital was founded in 1901 as the Tabernacle Baptist Infirmary. The Georgia Baptist Convention purchased the Infirmary and named it Georgia Baptist Hospital in 1913. The hospital was later moved to East Avenue and Boulevard in 1926.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/annotation_set/1030/annotation/81","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/87899/file/181007#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/annotation_set/1030/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eHotel Southland was a 60-room hotel located on Ponce de Leon Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/annotation_set/1030/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAhavath Achim Synagogue (often referred to as \"AA\") was founded as an Orthodox congregation in 1887 in a small room on Gilmer Street. In 1901 they moved to a permanent building at the corner of Piedmont Avenue and Gilmer Street. In 1921, the congregation constructed a synagogue at Washington Street and Woodward Avenue. It joined the Conservative movement in 1952. 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/87899/file/181007#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/annotation_set/1030/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eHebrew for “platform.” The bimah is a raised structure in the synagogue from which the Torah is read and from which prayers are led.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/annotation_set/1030/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eTorah [Hebrew: teaching] is a general term that covers all Jewish law including the vast mass of teachings recorded in the Talmud and other rabbinical works. “Sefer Torah” refers to the sacred scroll on which the first five books of the Bible (the Pentateuch) are written, but it is often shortened simply to \"Torah\" in casual speech and writing.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/annotation_set/1030/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe beis medrash is a hall dedicated for Torah study.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/annotation_set/1030/annotation/87","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. Under Rabbi Epstein, the formerly Orthodox congregation began to shift to Conservative Judaism, and officially joined the United Synagogue of America (now the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism), in 1952.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/annotation_set/1030/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe University of Virginia is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia, founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/annotation_set/1030/annotation/89","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. 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People greet each other with the wish that they may be sealed in the heavenly book for a good year ahead. The day ends with the blowing of the shofar (a ram’s horn).\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/87899/file/181007/annotation_set/1030/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Text of Al Chet is the confessions of sins. 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