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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"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eJeanette Cohen Rousso interviewed by Sandra Berman on March 30, 2011 in Montgomery, Alabama.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJeanette Cohen Rousso was born in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1921.  Her parents were Sephardic Jews who immigrated to Montgomery in 1912 from the Isle of Rhodes.  Her father owned Economy Deli in Montgomery.  Jeanette’s mother cooked Shabbat dinner of kosher meats and Sephardic desserts.  They belonged to Agudath Israel congregation.  She went to Sunday school at Temple Beth Or and was confirmed.  Jeanette married Morris Rousso.  They owned several large shoe store businesses.  They have a son and two daughters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJeanette talks about the early Sephardic community in Montgomery.  She talks about her childhood, her family, and how life revolved around the synagogue.  She remembers Shabbat dinner with her family on Friday nights and the Sephardic desserts her mother baked.  She discusses the meals they cooked for Passover and Rosh Ha-Shanna.  She talks about her mother’s kosher cooking. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeanette talks about the synagogue and attending Sunday school.  She recounts being confirmed at Temple Beth Or.  She recalls when the Orthodox and Reform congregations merged.   She discusses belonging to the Progressive Club and the activities and parties they had.  She talks about the Ladino language.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeanette talks about segregation during the Civil Rights era and her relationships within the black community.  She talks about the shoe store business that she and her husband owned.  She discusses her childhood years, her neighborhood, activities, and friends and relationships.  She talks about her son and two daughters.  \u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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I'm in Montgomery, Alabama, with Jeanette\nRousso, who has agreed to participate in the Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral\nHistory Project of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum. My name is Sandra\nBerman. I'm so glad to be here today. Thank you for participating. I'd like to\nbegin by asking you a little bit about your own background, when you were born,\nand how your family ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"came to Montgomery. When you are talking about your parents\nor your grandparents, if you could spell out any names that the transcriber may\nnot be able to recognize.\n\nROUSSO: My name is Jeanette Cohen Rousso, the daughter of Glavina and Eli Cohen.\nMy mother's maiden name was Pisante. They both came from the Isle of Rhodes\n[Greece]. At the time of their ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"marriage, my father was living in Beirut, Lebanon\n- in those days Syria. My mother went there. Being the Isle of Rhodes was owned\nby Turkey, my father came to America soon after so that he would escape the\ndraft because they were taking up all the young men.\n\nBERMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What year was that?\n\nROUSSO: My father came here in 1912. My mother came to America on the first boat\nafter the war. At that time, the Rhodes was owned by Italy, so she came through\nMilan. She came with her son, which ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was my father's son. She had him after my\nfather came to America. She lived at home with her parents and her family.\n\nBERMAN: How did they come to Montgomery?\n\nROUSSO: My mother's cousin, whose name was Ralph Cohen, no relation to my\nfather's Cohen, was living here. He had done very well, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he sponsored my\nfather. There were several Jewish families here, Sephardic families. Don't\nforget, we're Sephardic. It just so happened I married a Sephardic. I'm the only\none in my family that did.\n\nBERMAN: Do you know how those first families got to Montgomery? The first\nSephardic families, why they came here?\n\nROUSSO: They came here through some Greek ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"friends, I think. They were not Greek.\nActually, they were Lebanese. The Azars were here. There was another family. The\nDeeps were here. I'm sure that was not their original name. I don't know who\nelse. You know, they were all friends. They were all young people.\n\nBERMAN: Your husband's family, the Roussos?\n\nROUSSO: My husband's family came ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"here -- he was one of the first. He married\nSultana Rousso. No, he married Sultana Taranto.\n\nBERMAN: Who married?\n\nROUSSO: My husband's . . .\n\nBERMAN: Father.\n\nROUSSO: Married. I think he went back to Rhodes and they married, but they\nmarried here in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"America. I have a picture of my husband's bris. It's in one of\nthose books. I have to find it.\n\nBERMAN: Your husband's name?\n\nROUSSO: Is Morris Rousso.\n\nBERMAN: And his father's name?\n\nROUSSO: Solomon.\n\nBERMAN: Solomon married . . .\n\nROUSSO: Sultana.\n\nBERMAN: I think we've got it.\n\nROUSSO: She died in 1920.\n\nBERMAN: If we could talk a little bit about the Sephardic community and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"your\nearly recollections. In fact, if you could tell me a little bit about the\nsynagogue as well.\n\nROUSSO: The synagogue. There should be pictures here somewhere of the synagogue.\nI was married in the synagogue on Sayre Street. Everything revolved around the\nsynagogue. You didn't have a party at home for anything without ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"inviting the\nwhole synagogue. We just did. We still do.\n\nBERMAN: How big was the Sephardic congregation?\n\nROUSSO: At the biggest, it was about 60 or 70 families, but we stayed together.\nWe lived together almost. Half the membership went to [Temple] Beth Or when we\ndisband. When we joined Agudath [Israel Etz Ahayem], half of them went to Beth\nOr, which is Reform [Judaism]. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We never knew we were Orthodox anyway. We didn't.\n\nBERMAN: When the Sephardic families first came here, did they not feel welcome\nat Agudath Israel?\n\nROUSSO: They didn't feel welcome at either one. They wanted their own. We talk\nabout segregation, everybody wants to be segregated. You just do. I don't know\nwhy. You segregate. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You go with your own.\n\nBERMAN: You were born here in Montgomery?\n\nROUSSO: I was born here in Montgomery. My sister Lina [Pauline]. All of us were\nborn here with the exception of my oldest brother.\n\nBERMAN: Talk a little bit about your neighborhood growing up. What was it like?\n\nROUSSO: We moved away from here when I was four months old. We moved to\nCalifornia. My mother's brothers were there. We moved back when I was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"five. We\ngrew up around town. We grew up about three blocks from town. My father went\ninto business with David Franco, who is Ruben Piha's grandfather. He had been a\npartner with his uncle, who moved to Atlanta [Georgia]. If you know Nace Franco?\nHis father or grandfather. I think it's his ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"father. Anyway, we grew up there. On\nSundays, we would go to the movies. My mother would say, \"You have to call Sarah\nFranco.\" She was younger than us. I said, \"No, we don't want her to go.\" She\nsaid, \"You have to, have to have to.\" So, we would have to call, and she would\ngo to the movies with us sometimes. It was a good crowd.\n\nBERMAN: Was it mostly ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sephardic?\n\nROUSSO: Yes. I had an aunt, who got us all together. All Sephardic girls. We\ncalled ourselves \"Tau Gamma Nu.\" Don't ask us why we got a Greek name. We would\nhave parties and invite the boys from the other congregations. We did that, and\nsome married. Some didn't.\n\nBERMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What line of work was your father in with Mr. Piha?\n\nROUSSO: No, with Franco. Grocery. A delicatessen. A fancy delicatessen. Later,\nthey put in a little bar when they were selling beer.\n\nBERMAN: What was the name of it?\n\nROUSSO: Economy Deli.\n\nBERMAN: There was an Economy Deli in Atlanta too.\n\nROUSSO: No relation.\n\nBERMAN: But it was also Sephardic.\n\nROUSSO: I'm ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sure!\n\nBERMAN: On Friday night, did you go to services?\n\nROUSSO: The men went to services. We never went. We didn't think we had to. The\nwomen stayed home and prepared dinner. We never went to services. The men went,\nbut if they had a general meeting, we went. I remember, I was a teenager and Mr.\nRousso got up to say something, and I didn't agree with him. I said something\nback. My mother ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"said later, 'she whispers' \"You should never answer back. You're\nnot supposed to answer back.\" I said, \"Yes, you are.\" Anyway, it was good.\n\nBERMAN: Was there Friday night dinner in your home? Shabbat dinner?\n\nROUSSO: We always had Shabbat dinner. When we married, my sister lived here with\nher husband and children. At that time, we didn't have all of the children. My\nbrother, Isaac, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was married. He married Sephardic. Lina married Ashkenazi. I\nmarried Sephardic. We all went to my mother's on Friday afternoons with the\nBratts [sp]. My sister Lina could sit behind a magazine or book and not see what\nthe kids were doing at all. I would get very aggravated.\n\nBERMAN: Who cooked those meals?\n\nROUSSO: My mother!\n\nBERMAN: Did you have help in the house?\n\nROUSSO: She always had help, but her ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"help did not cook. Her help cleaned. My\nmother still cleaned too.\n\nBERMAN: Was it a kind of mix of Sephardic traditions and Southern traditions in cooking?\n\nROUSSO: The only Southern tradition was when the maid would make a pie. My\nmother could make a sponge cake, and everything else was Sephardic goodies. You\nknow ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what they are. Travados. Anything Sephardic she had in the house. Baklava.\nMarzipan for weddings. We still do that. I took it out to Denver [Colorado] when\nmy grandson got married. We made it here. Got to have it. What ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"else? Then my\nmother, in later years when my father passed away, she moved to a smaller house.\nShe would still have Friday lunch. Anybody that wanted to could come. Sons,\nsons-in-laws. My husband would take his partner, Al Capp, whose name was [Albert\nMorris] Capouano. They finally quit going. They said there was too much food. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My\nmother would bake bourekas, boyoz, pasteli. Everything good. It's a lost art.\n\nBERMAN: Do you still do it?\n\nROUSSO: No. Once in a while. When it comes to Rosh Ha-Shana, I get the kids\ntogether and we try to make pastelis. That's the meat pies, which are best, to\nme. Once in a while, I'll make some bourekas. Not often. Nobody wants to gain\nthe weight anymore. Nobody wants to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"eat. Nobody wants to do anything. I never\nmade boyoz. I don't like to do that. That's with oil. Everywhere.\n\nBERMAN: What was Passover like in your home?\n\nROUSSO: My father had two brothers that lived here. One had three children. 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Crazy.\nBefore we moved, we ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"had a living room and dining room that were together. In\nthose days, they had what they call horses -- what you put the long pieces of\nlumber on. They would fix it up, and we had one long table. I have a picture . .\n. I don't know if you can see it. I don't know if it's over there right now or\nnot. My parent's 25th wedding anniversary, they had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"horses in the living room\nand dining room. We were living on the corner of Hall and Monroe [Streets].\nThat's the house we came back to from California. We were there for about 20\nyears -- 18 years.\n\nBERMAN: Getting back to the synagogue, for the purposes of the tape, what was\nthe name of the synagogue?\n\nROUSSO: Etz Ahayem.\n\nBERMAN: Who was the first rabbi that you remember?\n\nROUSSO: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We had rabbis that were scattered. We would have a rabbi. Then, of\ncourse, he would go somewhere else. Then we would go for five or ten years\nwithout a rabbi. Mr. Simon Franco, Sam Franco, was our . . . what do you call\nhim. 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They ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"welcomed us. People like my sister, Lina,\nshe became friends with everybody. She had a ball. They remained her friends\nforever. One of them, Betty Lou, is still here.\n\nBERMAN: Was it difficult being Sephardic with Sephardic ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"traditions going to Beth Or?\n\nROUSSO: We didn't have traditions in those days. We thought we were the next\nthing to Reform anyway. Very few of us might. In the very beginning, my mother\nkept kosher. Our kosher was not kosher-kosher. Our kosher was not separate\ndishes. We used one set of dishes. It just meant kosher ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"meat. We'd finish up on\nthe holidays, and my mother made wonderful bread. Everybody is getting up from\nthe table, taking a cigarette. Whatever. I'd get up and go get the butter. My\nmother would say, \"You shouldn't do that. You shouldn't do that.\" Felice and I,\nmy sister-in-law, would sit there and eat bread and butter. It was delicious.\n\nBERMAN: Was Ladino ever spoken?\n\nROUSSO: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Always. My grandmother lived with us for 21 years until my father died.\nYes, we spoke Ladino.\n\nBERMAN: Do you still speak it?\n\nROUSSO: I can.\n\nBERMAN: Did you know Sol Beton?\n\nROUSSO: Yes, I did.\n\nBERMAN: Because he did the Ladino alphabet.\n\nROUSSO: From Atlanta. Married to Rosie.\n\nBERMAN: Right. Is it sad to you to know that the language is . . .\n\nROUSSO: It's about to go under.\n\nBERMAN: How do you feel about that?\n\nROUSSO: We went to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Spain about four years ago. We were just in Barcelona. We had\nbeen on a cruise. I didn't understand anybody until I went into one store in the\nhotel. This woman is speaking. I said, \"Oh my God,\" and I spoke with her. I\nsaid, \"How is that I can't understand anybody else?\" She said, \"Everybody has a\ndifferent dialect.\"\n\nBERMAN: It's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"amazing. I wanted to talk to you a little bit about your social\nlife. Was it at the Standard Club?\n\nROUSSO: No. We were not members. We were segregated. They didn't want us until\nthey got hungry, and then they welcomed us. Isn't that true about everybody?\n\nBERMAN: How did that feel?\n\nROUSSO: Not ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"good.\n\nBERMAN: Was it common knowledge that they didn't want you? Did you try to apply\nand . . .\n\nROUSSO: Sure. If you were a doctor, a dentist, or a lawyer or had lots of money,\nyou were accepted. Then later on, they were accepting. It was hard to turn\npeople down. So we joined. I had both my girls' weddings ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there.\n\nBERMAN: But growing up, it was not a part of your life?\n\nROUSSO: No. We didn't have a club.\n\nBERMAN: Were any of the social functions like Ballyhoo or Falcons? Did you\nattend any of those?\n\nROUSSO: No, I didn't attend any of them.The only one who might have attended one\nwould be Sarah Franco, but not Ruben Piha's mother. She has Alzheimer's\n[disease] now, and she is in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Florida.\n\nBERMAN: What did you do socially? What did you do for fun?\n\nROUSSO: We had Tau Gamma Nu, and we had fun. We had meetings. My aunt was great\nwith us. I just went through some pictures, and I can show you pictures of Tau\nGamma Nu. At our functions, we had big parties with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"dresses for it. I mean\nevening dresses, not just a church dress. We got together. We went out. We\ndidn't stay home. We dated their boys, mostly the boys from Agudath. Very few\ndated the boys from Beth Or. In fact, I can't remember anybody. Boys from out of\ntown, Columbus, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Georgia. We would come to Montgomery. Atlanta. Boys came to Montgomery.\n\nBERMAN: Was it that the boys from Beth Or just weren't interested in?\n\nROUSSO: I don't think either way. If somebody did like someone, they would have\ndated, I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"think.\n\nBERMAN: Do you think it was frowned on by the families?\n\nROUSSO: No, I don't. I really don't.\n\nBERMAN: If we could talk about another form of segregation, and that was the\nsegregation that was here in Montgomery during the 1950s.\n\nROUSSO: It was not a bad segregation. When it came to the holidays during Yom\nKippur when we were at synagogue, towards ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"afternoon, we would all go over to\nAgudath and see how those kids were getting along. They would come out. It was nothing.\n\nBERMAN: What about the segregation between the races here. What can you describe\nabout that, growing up here in the South.\n\nROUSSO: We didn't really know it. Did you know it in Atlanta? Are you from Atlanta?\n\nBERMAN: Not ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"originally, no.\n\nROUSSO: When we had segregation here with the black people, I was working. So,\nyou had a maid. I had a maid five and a half days a week. I had a babysitter\ntwice a week. Thursday night was bingo night at the Progressive Club, which we\nformed. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Also on Saturday night, which was go out night. I would go and pick up\nthe maid. Take her home. If they could come on their own, they did, and we would\ntake them home. One way or another. We lived in a duplex. The Pihas and us. We\nbuilt a duplex together. Nobody could afford a real house, so we built a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"duplex.\nBoth husbands traveled. We had one big door and then two inside doors. I would\nleave the door open when I took the maids home or Sarah would do the same when\nshe took the maids home. We kept our help. Sarah had Merra [sp], and I had Della\nMae [sp]. We kept them.\n\nBERMAN: When things started to change, did you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"notice any changes in your\nrelationship with the help?\n\nROUSSO: I don't know. Not really. They still . . . I have help here. Someone\ntwice a week. It's a big house. I'm getting ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"old.\n\nBERMAN: What was it like when the march from Selma to Montgomery? Do you remember?\n\nROUSSO: It was tough. It was. We had a store. We had two stores downtown, Al's\nBootery and the Shoe Box. They would come to the store and buy shoes, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they\nstill came. Business, of course, dropped, but people still came. If they wanted\nshoes, they still came to Al's Bootery and the Shoe Box. Don't ask me why.\n\nBERMAN: What was the name of the first store? I didn't catch it.\n\nROUSSO: Al's Bootery.\n\nBERMAN: Those were the two stores you and your husband owned?\n\nROUSSO: And Al Capp and his wife. His first wife.\n\nBERMAN: Did anyone from your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"congregation get involved in the Civil Rights Movement?\n\nROUSSO: Not really. We were a part of it. We did not deny it. We didn't have\nthat many employees in the store. There were no black salespeople, but there was\na black porter in the store always. 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We lived on the corner of Hall and Monroe Street, and it was\nnothing to be called \"Jew Betsey\" or Jew something.\n\nBERMAN: How did you deal with that?\n\nROUSSO: Our parents taught us to walk ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"away. There was just one family of bad\nkids on the block, but everybody else was nice.\n\nBERMAN: Did you have any problems at school?\n\nROUSSO: No. Didn't ever have any problems at school. It was not segregated.\nSchool was not segregated. School didn't get ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"segregated until my youngest\ndaughter was a senior at high school.\n\nBERMAN: You mean integrated?\n\nROUSSO: Integrated. Yes. She graduated in 1969.\n\nBERMAN: Was that a big change for her at the school?\n\nROUSSO: She thought it was just wonderful, wonderful, at the time.\n\nBERMAN: How did you feel?\n\nROUSSO: So long as one didn't ask her to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"go to the prom, and she didn't want to\ngo with him, it was alright with me. It didn't bother me. No, it did not bother\nme, so long as she did not get involved. I didn't want to be involved.\n\nBERMAN: I've talked to a lot of people in both Birmingham [Alabama] and here.\nOne thing that some of the Jewish people spoke about was their resentment of\nNorthern Jews coming ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"down to the South during the Civil Rights Movement and then\njust leaving.\n\nROUSSO: They sure did.\n\nBERMAN: How did you feel about that? Or your husband?\n\nROUSSO: My husband traveled. He traveled eight, nine states. 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I can't say that we were . . . we were all cowards.\n\nBERMAN: Do you think that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"now in retrospect?\n\nROUSSO: I really don't, but I think that's what people think about us.\n\nBERMAN: No. I mean, I think it's a very hard . . .\n\nROUSSO: It's a very hard thing, but we don't want to . . . I don't want to be. I\ndon't know. I don't want to be thought of as a coward. In the meantime, I'm sure\nthat we were. We ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"were a little bit of cowards. We were, but we had some people\nin Montgomery that were wonderful. The Dunns were great.\n\nBERMAN: What did they do?\n\nROUSSO: They went all out for the black people.\n\nBERMAN: Were they Jewish?\n\nROUSSO: No. They were not Jewish. They had Durr Drug Company. I said Dunn. I\nmeant Durr. 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It's not supposed to be, but it would have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"been.\n\nBERMAN: Tell me about the businesses. So, there were three stores eventually?\n\nROUSSO: Oh no. We had a lot of stores before we sold out.\n\nBERMAN: How many stores?\n\nROUSSO: We had over 100.\n\nBERMAN: Oh my gosh. All shoe stores?\n\nROUSSO: All shoe stores.\n\nBERMAN: All across the south or . . .\n\nROUSSO: More or less. Alabama, Florida, Georgia. 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That's the only reason ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I can say.\n\nBERMAN: Did you work in any of the stores?\n\nROUSSO: Not the Shoe Cities. I worked in Al's Bootery and Shoe Box. I sure did,\nand I enjoyed every minute of it. I didn't mind waiting on you for shoes. I\ndidn't mind waiting on a black person. I waited on everybody. Shoes and handbags.\n\nBERMAN: Did you have a favorite customer?\n\nROUSSO: No.\n\nBERMAN: Or one memorable . . . can you remember any anecdotes about the store, a\ncertain customer or ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"certain . . .\n\nROUSSO: It was good. I didn't mind cleaning up behind the counters or wherever,\nbut don't ask me to clean up at home. I wanted my maid to do that. Not really. I\nwent to work late and got off early. My son went to a Marion [Military]\nInstitute. He graduated high school at Marion ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Institute. My girls did not have a\ncar at 16. But I could be home at 3:00 or 3:30 when Sue got out of school. When\nJoy got out of school . . . Joy is three years younger than Sue. So then Sue had\ngone off to college, and here comes Joy. I didn't mind being home at 3:30. Don't\nbe driving fast. Don't do this, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and don't do the other. Take the car.\n\nBERMAN: What kind of shoes were they? Were they high priced, medium priced, low priced?\n\nROUSSO: In those days, they were medium to . . . a good alligator shoe. We sold\nStuart Weitzman's for $19.95.\n\nBERMAN: I wish I could get a pair now for $19.95.\n\nROUSSO: I think they started out . . . his father's shoes started out at $12.95,\nand we sold those.\n\nBERMAN: And your clientele?\n\nROUSSO: The ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"best people came to us. They came to us because we carried narrow\nsizes. If we couldn't fit them, or if we didn't have what they wanted, then they\nwould go to Miller's [Shoes] or to Nachman's [Nachman \u0026 Meertif].\n\nBERMAN: Did your husband get involved in any community activities like the Elk's\nor the Kiwanis? Was he community . . .\n\nROUSSO: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"No. He traveled. He was a traveling salesman. When he quit that, he\nworked at the store, and he played golf.\n\nBERMAN: What about you? Were you involved in community life besides the synagogue?\n\nROUSSO: The synagogue, and what else did we do? Not too much. You didn't have time.\n\nBERMAN: You were ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"working.\n\nROUSSO: I was working. I worked until Joy got married in 1970. She went one year\nat University of Georgia, and she had met Craig when Sue Ann got married. He\ncame down. She was with him for seven years.\n\nBERMAN: How would you describe the community today in Montgomery, the Jewish community?\n\nROUSSO: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think Agudath Etz Ahayem is on its way down. Within five years, there\nwill be one synagogue.\n\nBERMAN: How do you feel about that?\n\nROUSSO: I really don't care, and I'm not happy here. My son is not happy. It is\nsupposed to be equal. Nothing is ever equal. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I don't know why.\n\nBERMAN: When you say you're not happy here, you're not happy in the synagogue or\nin Montgomery?\n\nROUSSO: I'm happy in Montgomery. I was born here.\n\nBERMAN: So the synagogue life.\n\nROUSSO: The synagogue life.\n\nBERMAN: How come?\n\nROUSSO: I don't know why. Because they are not active. My daughter-on-law, she\ndoes everything for the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"synagogue. I've tried to . . . I used to when it was\njust Etz Ahayem. I was president for a couple of terms.\n\nROUSSO: We worked, but . . . I guess I'm just too old.\n\nBERMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Did you ever regret not living anywhere else?\n\nROUSSO: I never thought of leaving Montgomery. I thought surely we would have\nmoved on, but we didn't. No. At one time, we thought about moving to Atlanta.\nThat way, he could have a showroom with the merchandise. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But he went into\nbusiness instead. The business was pretty good. He quit the road and stayed home.\n\nBERMAN: That must have been nice.\n\nROUSSO: It was much nicer. We went on business trips.\n\nBERMAN: How many Sephardic families are left in Montgomery, do you think?\n\nROUSSO: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I don't know. I'd say 50 or 60.\n\nBERMAN: Are they still pretty tight?\n\nROUSSO: No. Nobody is tight anymore. It's a funny thing, we were not tight when\nwe all joined the Standard Club. We made Mah Jongg, canasta. We went to the\nparties. We went to dinner, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we played Mah Jongg with them. They played with\nus. It didn't matter. Sephardic, Reform, Ashkenazi. It didn't matter. Now all of\na sudden, I play with just the Sephardics again. Today, we are going to play . .\n. three widows and two ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"still have husbands. My sister-in-law. My brother is\nstill living, my oldest brother, but he is so . . . she has to get a sitter so\nshe can go play. Which is good, she needs to. Who else. Sylvia Capouano, the one\nwho called me. Her husband is my husband's cousin too. Well, his mother was a\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Taranto. My husband's mother was a Taranto. That was it. We're right back to\nwhere we started.\n\nBERMAN: That's interesting. It came full circle.\n\nROUSSO: It comes full circle. Even yesterday's game -- everybody was Sephardic.\nDon't ask me why.\n\nBERMAN: One last question. You mentioned earlier\n\nROUSSO: Into America. My father was partners with Jake Hanan [sp], a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"nice\nSephardic man. His wife was short and also very feisty, but she was of a\ndifferent sort. My mother had to go to town to buy a hat for Rosh Ha-Shana. She\nalready had a dress, but she had to buy a hat, so she goes . . . My father was\nvery fastidious. My mother was not. She goes to Nachman \u0026 Meertief, and she buys\na hat. They go back to the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"delicatessen, and she shows my father the hat. My\nfather looks at it. He says, \"Fine.\" He rolls up his apron around his waist.\nThis does not sound like my father, but he did. They go back to the store, to\nNachman \u0026 Meertief, and she had to try on every other hat until he found one\nthat he liked on her. When we came back from California and he became partners\nwith ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David Franco, whatever she did with Olga, he said that was fine, because\nOlga was a dresser. Olga knew how to do. He said, \"You go with her. You will be fine.\"\n\nBERMAN: What were you going to tell us about the other two women?\n\nROUSSO: My mother and Olga Franco. No matter who was president of the\nSisterhood, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they had to go collect the money. They didn't sent out bills to the\nmen for the dues. Nobody paid any money unless you went to collect it. Don't ask\nme why. They would go and collect the money for the men. This is for the\ncongregation, and they would bring the money back. Years later, they still\ndidn't sent out bills. Don't ask me ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"why. They asked the Sisterhood to take care.\nCorinne, Olga's youngest daughter who still lives in Montgomery, and I would go.\nTwo people. There was a superstition, especially my uncle and some of the old\ntimers. They always left a dollar. You always had to owe the synagogue because\nas long as you owed them, the Angel of Death would not get you. Don't ask ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"me\nwhy. My Daddy said that was right. You had to owe the synagogue. You're not\nsupposed to pay them in full.\n\nBERMAN: Did you have little evil eyes attached to your pillow or anything like\nthat to ward off . . .\n\nROUSSO: When my babies were born, my mother put them on. Yes. Everybody. We've\ngot hands somewhere on the walls.\n\nBERMAN: You were also speaking about two ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"women who were very feisty.\n\nROUSSO: That was my mother and Olga Franco.\n\nBERMAN: Oh that was your mother. You mentioned earlier that there was also a\nProgressive Club.\n\nROUSSO: Yes.\n\nBERMAN: When was that founded?\n\nROUSSO: That was in the 1950s. We had a picture of my son dancing on Halloween.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We did not join it right away. My family did not join it. My father and mother\njoined right away, but we did not join until my father paid the initiation for\nall of us. The three of us -- my brother Isaac, my sister Lina, and me. Because\nnone of us could really afford it. We could afford . . . I think it was $10 a\nmonth or some nominal fee a month, but we could not afford the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"initiation.\n\nBERMAN: What kind of club was it?\n\nROUSSO: It was nice. It had been a nightclub, so it had a big room.\n\nBERMAN: Was there a pool?\n\nROUSSO: Yes, there was a pool. It was a nice club.\n\nBERMAN: Was that because you couldn't really get into the Standard Club?\n\nROUSSO: Yes. We formed our own.\n\nBERMAN: What ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"happened to it?\n\nROUSSO: It went by the wayside. When Agudath Israel was ready to build the new\nsynagogue, they needed the money. The wealthy people wanted their share of the\nmoney to put into the synagogue, which was not bad. Anyway, the club went by the\nwayside. They sold it ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at a good price. And the Standard Club was beginning to\ntake our members in. The doctors and lawyers would join it at that time.\n\nBERMAN: Did you play Mah Jongg and all that at the Progressive Club?\n\nROUSSO: Yes. We played on Thursday nights. We didn't play in the afternoons.\nThere were no daytime activities there except on the holidays. Fourth of July,\npicnics, and this and the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"other. Barbeque and whatever. It was not kosher. It\nwas a nice club.\n\nBERMAN: Did you send your children to Jewish camp or did they have Jewish activities?\n\nROUSSO: No. My children went to camps around here.\n\nBERMAN: Was it important for you to try to maintain ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"their Jewish identity?\n\nROUSSO: Oh yes.\n\nBERMAN: Did you care if they dated someone who was not Jewish?\n\nROUSSO: When my son was going to a prom before he went off to private school, he\nwas going to go to a prom, and he wanted to call and invite a Christian girl. I\nsaid, \"'name unintelligible' doesn't have a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"date. This one doesn't have a date.\nWhy don't you call one of them.\" So he didn't go. I regretted that forever that\nI ever opened my mouth because I would have wanted him to go. Then he met Joanne\nat college at Alabama. He was frank with her. He said, \"I have to marry a Jewish\ngirl.\" He said, \"I'm not religious myself.\" He said, \"But I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"have to marry a\nJewish girl.\" So, she said, \"I'll convert.\" She converted, but she became really\nJewish. She is better than I am. Now she has Passover.\n\nBERMAN: That's wonderful.\n\nROUSSO: She has Passover. Now she has a big house. She enjoys it. I do the\ncooking over ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"here. Felice and I usually do the cooking. She was telling me last\nweek. She said, \"I don't know if I can get over there to help you.\" I started to\nsay, \"Get over here,\" but I didn't. It will get together.\n\nBERMAN: Have I missed anything? Is there anything that you want to talk about\nthat we didn't discuss? Any favorite story about growing up? Something with your\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"parents, your siblings -- just a good Southern, Montgomery story.\n\nROUSSO: Most of the girls in my group . . . well, all of the girls in my group.\nI can't remember one of them marrying outside the religion. Some of the boys,\nyes. But I don't remember any of the girls. They all married Jewish. 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She\nhappened to go to Birmingham with a roommate and met her ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"husband. They were\nmarried almost 40 years before he died.\n\nBERMAN: That is such a tragedy. I'm so sorry.\n\nROUSSO: It was. That was a marriage made in heaven, but those things happen.\n\nBERMAN: I'm sorry.\n\nROUSSO: My daughter, Joy, is a different story. I'm ready for Sue to find\nsomebody. A nice Jewish ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"guy. I want her to go to . . . what is that Jewish thing?\n\nBERMAN: JDate.\n\nROUSSO: JDate. Why not?\n\nBERMAN: Why not.\n\nROUSSO: Why shouldn't she?\n\nBERMAN: I agree.\n\nROUSSO: I will say she is now . . . how old is she? Sixty-one, sixty-two. Gosh,\nshe's getting up there.\n\nBERMAN: It is never too late to find happiness.\n\nROUSSO: No, it isn't.\n\nBERMAN: On that note, I think we will conclude. Thank you.\n\nROUSSO: I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/transcript/21094/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hope she knows that I said she should go on JDate.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=2910.0,2940.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/annotation_set/278","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/annotation_set/278/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eSephardic Jews are the Jews of Spain, Portugal, North Africa and the Middle East and their descendants. The adjective “Sephardic” and corresponding nouns Sephardi (singular) and Sephardim (plural) are derived from the Hebrew word ‘Sepharad,’ which refers to Spain. Historically, the vernacular language of Sephardic Jews was Ladino, a Romance language derived from Old Spanish, incorporating elements from the old Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula, Hebrew, Aramaic, and in the lands receiving those who were exiled, Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, Greek, Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian vocabulary.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/annotation_set/278/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eA bris, formally known as the ‘brit milah’ (Hebrew: Covenant of Circumcision) involves surgically removing the foreskin of the penis.  Circumcision is performed only on males on the eighth day of the child's life. 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In addition, Jews are also supposed to avoid foods made with wheat, barley, rye, spelt or oats unless those foods are labeled ‘kosher for Passover.’ Jews traditionally have separate dishes for Passover.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/annotation_set/278/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eEtz Ahayem was established in 1912 in Montgomery, Alabama by Ladino-speaking Sephardic Jews, particularly from Rhodes. Solomon Rousso was elected the first president of the congregation. Construction of its first building was completed in 1927. In 1962 the congregation moved to a new building, but by the 1990’s it had dwindled, as children of congregants moved away from Montgomery, and the synagogue had difficulty finding rabbis to lead it.  Etz Ahayem merged with another Montgomery congregation, Agudath Israel in 2001, and adopted the current name of Agudath Israel Etz Ahayem. The synagogue combines traditions and rituals of the Ashkenazi and Sephardim.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/annotation_set/278/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eKosher/Kashrut is the set of Jewish dietary laws. Food that may be consumed according to halakhah (Jewish law) is termed ‘kosher’ in English. Kosher refers to Jewish laws that dictate how food is prepared or served and which kinds of foods or animals can be eaten. Food that is not in accordance with Jewish law is called ‘treif.’ The word ‘kosher’ has become English vernacular, a colloquialism meaning proper, legitimate, genuine, fair, or acceptable. 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The club building was built in 1894 across from the Davis Theater, and members acquired the second lot in February 1913 in order to have a place in the country.  The Standard Club maintained the dual properties for over a decade. 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Yom Kippur is a 25 hour fast day.  Most of the day is spent in prayer, reciting yizkor for deceased relatives, confessing sins, requesting divine forgiveness, and listening to Torah readings and sermons. People greet each other with the wish that they may be sealed in the heavenly book for a good year ahead. 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The first was on March 7, 1965 and came to be known as “Bloody Sunday” when 600 civil rights marchers were attacked by state and local police with billy clubs and tear gas.  Several marchers, both black and white, were beaten or murdered over the course of the marches. The second march was on March 9, 1965.  Martin Luther King Jr. led 2,500 protestors who were turned back after crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge.  The third march started on March 16.  The marchers marched along US Route 80 protected by 2,000 soldiers of the United States Army, 1,900 members of the Alabama National Guard under Federal command, FBI agents and Federal Marshals.  They arrived in Montgomery on March 24.  The marchers in the third march were fed by women volunteers who cooked the food in the kitchen of the Green Street Baptist Church after which it was delivered to the gathering point for the march by truck.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/annotation_set/278/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe American Civil Rights Movement encompasses social movements in the United States whose goal was to end racial segregation and discrimination against black Americans and enforce constitutional voting rights to them. 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Noted legislative achievements during this phase of the Civil Rights Movement were passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/annotation_set/278/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eA group of women in a synagogue congregation who join together to offer social, cultural, educational, and volunteer service opportunities.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=2370.0,2400.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/index/47487","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Jeanette Rousso [Index]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/index/47487/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Family Background and Montgomery Synagogues","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=22.0,825.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/index/47487/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I’d like to begin by asking you a little bit about your own background, when you were born, and how your family came to Montgomery","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=22.0,825.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/index/47487/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Agudath Israel Etz Ahayem","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Eli Cohen","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Glavina Pisante Cohen","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Immigration","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Isle of Rhodes","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"l","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Montgomery","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Morris Rousso","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sephardic","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Temple Beth Or","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"World War I","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=22.0,825.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/index/47487/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Synagogue Etz Ahayem, Sunday School and Ladino","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486#t=825.0,1052.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32666/file/101486/index/47487/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Getting back to the synagogue, for the purposes of the tape, what was the name of the synagogue?  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