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She mentions her grandchildren embracing Judaism and participating in BBYO and bat mitzvah, and March of the living.  Finally, Billy reflects that, for her, the most important values are a strong Jewish community, family, and Israel.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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My name is Esther Levine. Today is August 5th, 2025.  I would like to thank Billie Greenberg for participating in the Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Project of the William Bremen Jewish Heritage Museum. Billie, it's such a pleasure to see you and reconnect. Let's start by your telling us where and when you were born. Give us some background information about your growing up, your Jewish life growing up, and how and when you moved to Atlanta.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/163781/file/298116#t=1.0,43.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/163781/file/298116/transcript/87364/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENBERG:\u003c/strong\u003e OK, that's a lot of questions, Esther. I was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts. That was in 1942, which in itself is quite a statement. Nonetheless.  My whole family actually grew up there. My mother was one of eight. All of them were born there and grew up there. My family was always involved in the Jewish community. It was a very small community. It had one house of worship that was important to me, and it was conservative. In another part of town, which was the older part, there was a shul. To give you a little background, at one time my grandfather was president of both the temple and the shul.  As I said, it was a relatively small Jewish community. As far back as I can remember, our home, or my grandparent’s home, was the center of Jewish life in the community. Every seder was upwards of fifty people. The rabbi and his family, and this and that.  My mother was president of, at the time, we only had National Council of Jewish Women.  She ran a thrift shop. Everything that I did was centered, really, around being Jewish.  To this day, I will tell you, I light Friday night candles and have every Friday night, give or take. I'm the eldest of the grandchildren, so we were always at my grandparents' home on Chavez, and I lit with my grandmother.  I still do. Not so many people around, but nonetheless, I still do.  I moved to Atlanta in 1968 I guess, and here I am.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/163781/file/298116#t=43.0,177.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/163781/file/298116/transcript/87364/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eLEVINE:\u003c/strong\u003e We're thrilled because you've been such an asset to the community.  I feel like you are a wonderful example of someone who was not born in Atlanta but moved here and made such an impact on the Jewish city and non-Jewish city.  I would love for you, I think I mentioned this, I want you just to brag all over yourself {Goldberg laughs} about everything that you have done for the community while you're here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/163781/file/298116#t=177.0,208.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/163781/file/298116/transcript/87364/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENBERG:\u003c/strong\u003e I think because I grew up knowing that, or believing, that immediately you connect with something Jewish if you live someplace else. When I moved here, I had family here. I wasn't really a newcomer. I'd been coming here to visit since I was a little girl.  The first thing was to call the Federation Building. That's just what you did, that and a synagogue or a temple.  I did both of those things. My family were members of the temple forever. Being new, and considering myself an independent person, we decided that we wanted to branch out of the Temple, although it's wonderful, and we joined Temple Sinai, which was brand new at the time. That was exciting.  As far as my communal work, I guess it was a little bit of everything. It was Brandeis Women's Committee. It was the Federation. It was almost anything that connected me Jewishly.  As time went on, my interest expanded, still Jewish. My kids always kidded me if somebody wanted to know if you knew somebody, my preface was, if they're not Jewish, I probably don't. That was really true at the time. It was a very insular community and I loved it. When the Davis Academy started, I became involved there. It was, and still is, very exciting to me to see what’s happened in Atlanta. It is certainly not the small community that I came to. It's expanded.  I’ve stayed somewhat involved as I grew older. I realized there are people younger than I that should take over the reins.  I think that's why Atlanta, at least Jewishly, is so important.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/163781/file/298116#t=208.0,350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/163781/file/298116/transcript/87364/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eLEVINE:\u003c/strong\u003e I agree totally. I'd like to back up a little bit. Tell us a little bit about your family who lived here and about your children and growing up.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/163781/file/298116#t=350.0,361.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/163781/file/298116/transcript/87364/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENBERG:\u003c/strong\u003e My family that lived here were Sylvia and Saul Becker and Ralph Becker. Which, in itself, I had two of my mother's brothers that married two sisters.  Coming here was wonderful for me because although I was new to the city, I really wasn't.  I can remember very clearly when I moved here, I had one child at the time.  My Aunt Sylvia had said to me, “don't think you can go somewhere and give her a potch because she misbehaved, I’ll know, in five minutes”.  I think that's really how the community was. Everybody knew everybody. I have three daughters that all live here, I'm very lucky.  They all went and graduated from Holy Innocence Episcopal School, which in itself is an interesting comment. I lived in Sandy Springs and there really wasn't a day school that was close. There were no public kindergartens at the time. Holy Innocence was almost next door to me and had a kindergarten. That's where my three girls went and I will say it was an extraordinary experience. It was, and I think still is, a school that is very empathetic and communally involved with the Jewish community. I remember just recently that terrible [day] on the seventh, of last year I guess, the first Friday night after that experience there were flowers on the bimah of Temple Sinai.  They were sent from Holy Innocence, which just reaffirmed to me, that community is what you make it. You can make it wonderful and you can make it meaningful or you can make it small and insular. It's lovely, it really is.  I will say in my career of volunteerism, I actually did work as regional development person for AIPAC for 12 years. And my region was the southeast. I had ten states for which I was responsible.  I loved it because it combined Jewish, it combined Israel, and as my kids would say, “you'll ask anybody for money for a good cause”. That combined the three things that were really important to me, and I loved it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/163781/file/298116#t=361.0,529.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/163781/file/298116/transcript/87364/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eLEVINE:\u003c/strong\u003e You were really good at it. I really would like for you to break down Brandeis Women's Committee, Federation, Temple Sinai, and tell us your role. I know that you were nationally involved for the Brandeis Women's Committee. I would love a breakdown. Again, as I mentioned, you're “tooting your own horn”, and we love it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/163781/file/298116#t=529.0,565.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/163781/file/298116/transcript/87364/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENBERG:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, interestingly enough with Brandeis, that was probably my first actual total involvement in something Jewish here. Coming from outside of Boston, I'd never been to the Brandeis campus, which was also fascinating. The first time I went back was as the president of our local chapter, and it was wonderful. All the monies that we raised went toward the library at Brandeis.  I served as president for several years, and then went on to do national work, which was also wonderful. That was Brandeis. We had wonderful book sales here under huge tents. Well, Sears is no longer here, but what was Sears in Buckhead was our parking lot. We were at Toco Hills. Believe it or not, a very wonderful and very smart, including you Esther, group of women stood under a tent for a week, rain, shine, heat, freezing, and we ran a book sale that raised enormous amounts of money. Really, we were responsible for sharing, I think, education and awareness of books. That was a wonderful experience. Federation, that is also something that I think is enormously important. It gives the community the insight as to really what being Jewish means. Israel, local, national, international. Again, at the time when I started, we had a portion of the Federation that was called Women's Division.  I was fortunate enough to chair that. That was fun, again, fundraising. Through my involvement with Federation, I was very fortunate to be asked twice to do two Kadima missions. That was made up of people from really all over the United States. The first time I went, there were 14 of us from all over. I was the only one from here. We [also] went to the Soviet Union, which really was then the Soviet Union. It was sort of exciting. It was like a spy mission. We had to connect with people that were trying to leave. But you couldn't say who they were because then they were treated poorly. We had to memorize their names and how to get in touch with them.  It really was sort of spy-ish, which made it very exciting and fun. As I mentioned previously lighting candles; one of the people that I met there… I don't speak Hebrew, I certainly don't speak Russian, but I do speak Yiddish. Not as well as I used to, but I do. One of the Shabbos evenings we went to have dinner with a refusenik, a woman who was trying to leave.  They didn't have a lot of food. I ate more cabbage that week than I have eaten in my entire life. Nonetheless, I did. We started trying to speak to each other. It was very difficult. But we realized the thing that we had in common was that we both lit Shabbos candles.  So a little Yiddish, a little this, a little that, we lit Shabbos candles together.  I will tell you, since that day, I really do think of that every Friday night because it was such a meaningful experience.  Anyway, the bottom line to all of that was that my involvement with Federation gave me enormous opportunities. To go places and do things. I was lucky enough to share that experience. Speaking all over the country, raising money, and um... The march on Washington was to free soviet Jews and that was an amazing experience. The wonderful part was that I got to share that with my three girls.  I remember we were all in Israel. On Shabbos the Yeshiva boys marched down to the wall to pray.  I was separated from my kids. They were on one side of the street and I was on the other. A lot of the kids that had made Aliyah to Israel came marching the boys down the street.  I remember my kids yelling across over the crowd, “Mom, there are your other kids”.  It was really, I mean, when I think about it now, you know, you don't think about every day, but when you do, those experiences really shape your life. They did mine. So that was that. When the Davis Academy started, which was now 33 years [ago], which is hard to believe, I became involved there because it was a Reform Day School and it was important to my very dear friend.  Ann Davis, said to me, I need you, so I went and have remained involved. I was president also of that board for a while.  My middle daughter, Jill, now teaches there and has for 12 years. I still get to go. As a board member, as a past president, you get to stay on the board, I'm using this term, “forever”, whatever that means. Again, it's wonderful to see that this Reform Day School is the largest in the country and it's very exciting. There are lots of things that have happened in the community that I can reflect upon and say I was a part, even though small, it gives me great pleasure to know that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/163781/file/298116#t=565.0,967.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/163781/file/298116/transcript/87364/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eLEVINE:\u003c/strong\u003e This brings me to: what are the values that you hold and that you have passed on to your children and now grandchildren?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/163781/file/298116#t=967.0,978.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/163781/file/298116/transcript/87364/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENBERG:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, I think when you talk about values, you talk about community.  I think without a strong Jewish community, we sort of fall apart. It is the thing that keeps us together. It doesn't matter where you worship or how you worship. The bottom line is it's Israel, it's Jewish, and you hope your kids will in some way maintain that as part of their life. I'm fortunate, I have four grandchildren.  They [are] separated in age by a lot, but their Jewish values are important. My eldest, who is 25, was very involved with BBYO, she went on the March of the Living.  Those are the things that you say to yourself, maybe she heard something that I said, that said to her: I need to do this.  I have another one that was bat mitzvah last year. All in all, it's important to me. Of course, primary to that is family. I think it's important that my children and my grandchildren know the things that I've done, that have been important to me.  Those are the values that I hope to maintain through them, and I hope that's a legacy that is important. I'll tell you a very funny anecdote. When I was chair of women's division, my eldest daughter was home from college, and I heard her talking to a friend of hers from Chicago. She said to her, “Oh your mother's chair of women's division, so you've got those blue cards all over your house too!”. Those were the pledge cards. It's those kinds of things that say, you know, maybe I didn't do everything right, but some things are being perpetuated and that's important.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/163781/file/298116#t=978.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/163781/file/298116/transcript/87364/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eLEVINE:\u003c/strong\u003e You mentioned in passing about the blue barrels. Would tell that story? Which I didn't know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/163781/file/298116#t=1110.0,1119.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/163781/file/298116/transcript/87364/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENBERG:\u003c/strong\u003e When Brandeis was very active here, as I said, we collected books all year long.  [We] marked and sorted them in the basement of the Jewish home for a very long time. They were collected throughout the city. We had blue, they were barrels, and they were painted blue and they had Brandeis written on them. People could deposit their books there. Then we emptied them every so often. When we moved from barrels to small houses, because they were better and more effective, the blue barrels had to go somewhere. The blue barrels were stored in the basement of one of my homes. When I sold that home the kids came to the house to take what's theirs and what not. In the basements, they said, “Mom, what are you going to do with these twelve blue barrels that say Brandeis?” So that was a challenge, but they're gone.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/163781/file/298116#t=1119.0,1179.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/163781/file/298116/transcript/87364/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eLEVINE:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, Billie, this has been wonderful. I just want to know, is there anything that you feel that we haven't covered that you would like to talk about?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/163781/file/298116#t=1179.0,1189.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/163781/file/298116/transcript/87364/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENBERG:\u003c/strong\u003e No, I think really, you've encapsulated all of the things that are and were important to me. I'll just say that, Esther when you called and said would you do this, that was really an added treat because we've been friends for such a long time. We share friendship through our kids, through Mike and really it has been a joy to spend time with you again.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/163781/file/298116#t=1189.0,1218.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/163781/file/298116/transcript/87364/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eLEVINE:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/163781/file/298116#t=1218.0,1219.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/163781/file/298116/transcript/87364/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENBERG:\u003c/strong\u003e You're welcome.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/163781/file/298116#t=1219.0,1220.0"}]}]}]}