{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/vq2s46hs1w/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Feldman, Sidney"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["1990-12-02 (creation)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Audio"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source"]},"value":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum","Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Collection","Georgia Jews"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eSidney Feldman was interviewed by Elise Eplan in Atlanta, Georgia on December 2, 1990 and January 7, 1991.\u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eSidney Feldman was born on January 2, 1921 in Brest, Poland. His father, a tailor, immigrated to the United States in 1922, moving to Atlanta, Georgia. Sidney, his mother, and his older brother followed in 1930. Two younger sisters were born in Atlanta. When growing up Sidney’s family did not live in the mainstream of the Jewish community. His parents had a small grocery store in Atlanta and the family lived for a time in back of, or above, the store. As a teenager Sidney attended Boys High. He joined the Jewish Educational Alliance and Young Judea Club, and started playing basketball. He was offered an opportunity to join the Jewish Progressive Club and began playing basketball on their team. Sidney’s membership in the Progressive Club began his process of growing involvement in the community. Through his association with the Progressive Club he met many of people who were, or who were to become, the leaders of the Atlanta Jewish community, and the Atlanta community in general. Sidney served as an officer in the Navy during World War II. His ship was involved in Pacific Theater battles and when he returned to the United States, Sidney was an outpatient for a time Long Beach Naval Hospital. Upon his return to Atlanta Sidney began dating, and then married Clara Lazar. They went on to have four children, Linda Bressler, Terri Bagen, Lewis Feldman, and Michael Feldman. Sidney and his uncle, Max London, joined together to form a business in 1945. Throughout his life Sidney served as an officer or board member for many community organizations including The Jewish Federation, Atlanta Jewish Community Center, William Breman Jewish Home, the Hebrew Academy, Georgia State University Alumni Association, Morehouse Medical School, and United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta. In 1999 he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta for his community work and philanthropy. Sidney died on June 2, 2005 at 84 years old.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eSidney discusses his family and their roots in Poland. He explains that after immigrating to United States in 1930 he and his family lived in Atlanta. Sidney recounts growing up in Atlanta and becoming involved in various youth organizations. He speaks of the role these organizations played on his future personal and organizational affiliations. Sidney touches on his service in the Navy during World War II and reflects on his lifetime of service in the Atlanta and Jewish communities. He describes his relationships with many of the leaders in these communities. He explains how his optimistic attitude has colored his way of viewing events in his history, Atlanta’s history, and Israel’s history. Sidney elaborates on the importance of family in his daily life and expresses his confidence in future generations.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28295"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Subject"]},"value":{"en":["Feldman, Sidney, 1921-2005 (personal name)","William Breman Jewish Home (corporate name)","Jewish Educational Alliance (corporate name)","Boys' High School (corporate name)","World War II (topical term)","Medintz, Barney, 1910-1960 (personal name)","Massell, Benjamin J., Sr., 1886-1962 (personal name)","Zaban, Erwin, 1921-2010 (personal name)","Balser, Meyer L., 1908-2004 (personal name)","Israel (geographic term)","Atlanta Jewish Federation (corporate name)","Jackson, Maynard H., Jr., 1938-2003 (personal name)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eSidney Feldman was interviewed by Elise Eplan in Atlanta, Georgia on December 2, 1990 and January 7, 1991.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSidney Feldman was born on January 2, 1921 in Brest, Poland. His father, a tailor, immigrated to the United States in 1922, moving to Atlanta, Georgia. Sidney, his mother, and his older brother followed in 1930. Two younger sisters were born in Atlanta. When growing up Sidney’s family did not live in the mainstream of the Jewish community. His parents had a small grocery store in Atlanta and the family lived for a time in back of, or above, the store. As a teenager Sidney attended Boys High. He joined the Jewish Educational Alliance and Young Judea Club, and started playing basketball. He was offered an opportunity to join the Jewish Progressive Club and began playing basketball on their team. Sidney’s membership in the Progressive Club began his process of growing involvement in the community. Through his association with the Progressive Club he met many of people who were, or who were to become, the leaders of the Atlanta Jewish community, and the Atlanta community in general. Sidney served as an officer in the Navy during World War II. His ship was involved in Pacific Theater battles and when he returned to the United States, Sidney was an outpatient for a time Long Beach Naval Hospital. Upon his return to Atlanta Sidney began dating, and then married Clara Lazar. They went on to have four children, Linda Bressler, Terri Bagen, Lewis Feldman, and Michael Feldman. Sidney and his uncle, Max London, joined together to form a business in 1945. Throughout his life Sidney served as an officer or board member for many community organizations including The Jewish Federation, Atlanta Jewish Community Center, William Breman Jewish Home, the Hebrew Academy, Georgia State University Alumni Association, Morehouse Medical School, and United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta. In 1999 he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta for his community work and philanthropy. Sidney died on June 2, 2005 at 84 years old.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSidney discusses his family and their roots in Poland. He explains that after immigrating to United States in 1930 he and his family lived in Atlanta. Sidney recounts growing up in Atlanta and becoming involved in various youth organizations. He speaks of the role these organizations played on his future personal and organizational affiliations. Sidney touches on his service in the Navy during World War II and reflects on his lifetime of service in the Atlanta and Jewish communities. He describes his relationships with many of the leaders in these communities. He explains how his optimistic attitude has colored his way of viewing events in his history, Atlanta’s history, and Israel’s history. Sidney elaborates on the importance of family in his daily life and expresses his confidence in future generations.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/097/988/small/AJT_9_022b.jpeg?1619291910","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - Feldman_Sidney.mp3"]},"duration":8328.43755,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/097/988/small/AJT_9_022b.jpeg?1619291910","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-thebreman.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/097/988/original/Feldman_Sidney.mp3?1611507822","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mp3","duration":8328.43755,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Sidney Feldman [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"EPLAN: This is Elise Eplan. The memoirist is Sidney Feldman and the date is\nDecember 2, 1990. We are in the home of Sidney and Clara Feldman in Atlanta,\nGeorgia. This interview is being done for the Jewish oral history project of\nAtlanta co-sponsored by the American Jewish Committee, Atlanta Federation, and\nNational Council of Jewish Women. Let me start with some basics. When and where\nwere you born?\n\nFELDMAN: First, let me thank you for visiting us this ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"morning.\n\nEPLAN: My pleasure.\n\nFELDMAN: I feel flattered that you would come to speak to Clara and myself.\n\nClara: She didn't come to speak to me.\n\nFELDMAN: You might chime in. I was born January 2, 1921 in what is known as\nBrest, Poland. It was, before that, originally known as Brest-Litovsk but the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"treaty of the first World War was signed, the . . . point . . .\n\nEPLAN: Where were your parents born?\n\nFELDMAN: Also around the same neighborhood. When they were born it was part of\nRussia and then became part of Poland. It changed back and forth many times,\nRussia, Poland, Poland, Russia. They were born in Russia. When I came along it\nwas ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Poland.\n\nEPLAN: Tell me a little bit about how you decided to come to this country and\nhow that occurred.\n\nFELDMAN: The decision wasn't mine. It's a rather long story. Let me see if I can\ntell you briefly. An uncle of mine, who came to Atlanta as a representative of\nthe Hebrew Benevolence Committee, visited Poland ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"back somewhere around 1918 or\n1919. He was a widow at that time. He met and fell in love with my mother's\nyoungest sister. He came back the next year, married her, and brought my\nuncle--who just passed away a few months ago--Max London, to this country with\nhim. He was a young man of the age of about 18 at that point. The next visit he\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"brought my father back, in 1922, to settle here. Some eight years later, in\n1930, my father brought his family over. Before he brought his own family\nover--which consisted of my mother and my older brother Aaron--he brought his\nbrother over, Sam Feldman, who later in turn brought his family over.\n\nEPLAN: They all came directly to Atlanta?\n\nFELDMAN: Direct to Atlanta. Actually, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the only remaining member of our family\nwho did not leave Poland was my mother's youngest brother, Tzadik. That was by\nhis own choosing because between 1931 and 1935 we had opportunities to get him\nout. He just chose not to come. Things were better in Poland at that time for\nJews. Just about the time Hitler came in we lost contact with him. Basically,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what happened to him is a matter of history, what happened to most of the Jews\nin Poland.\n\nEPLAN: What were things like in Poland before you left? What kind of memory . .\n. how old were you when you came?\n\nFELDMAN: I was nine years old but my memories are very clear. I have fond\nmemories of Poland. My grandfather had a large estate where we all lived. The\nwhole family lived together overlooking a river where we used to learn to ice\nskate as ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"youngsters. We traveled some for vacations in the summertime especially\nto the country where it was cool. I visited Poland and other larger cities. Very\nfond memories of growing up.\n\nEPLAN: What kind of business was your father in in Poland?\n\nFELDMAN: My father was a tailor. He spent most of his time trying to stay out of\nthe Russian army during the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"war as many of the Jews did. But my grandfather was\nwell off and provided for most of the family who stayed together. My grandfather\nwas a banker, lumberman. He kept the family as a unit. All the girls--there were\nfive daughters and two sons in the family--and we all lived in the same complex,\nthe same house.\n\nEPLAN: They ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"all came over except the youngest?\n\nFELDMAN: No. The two oldest sisters chose to go to Russia and over the years we\nlost contact with them. They were sort of revolutionists even in those days.\n\nEPLAN: That's interesting.\n\nFELDMAN: They married two brothers. They all moved to Russia to, you might say,\nto practice their beliefs.\n\nEPLAN: Given the prominence that it sounds like your father had in the\ncommunity, what do you think ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"prompted him to agree to move everybody to this country?\n\nFELDMAN: The old belief that the gold . . . not for themselves but for their\nfamilies. The credo by which most Europeans--in particular eastern\nEuropeans--base their future on, if they were able to leave they would certainly\ntake the opportunity. As we all know, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"most of them who had the opportunity did\nchoose to leave and make a life for themselves here.\n\nEPLAN: Give me the ages and gender of your brothers and sisters. How many\nbrothers and sisters do you have?\n\nFELDMAN: There are four children in the family. My brother Aaron is three years\nolder than I. My sister--who was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"born here after we came over--is about ten\nyears younger, Eunice Stein. My youngest sister, Frieda--who is two years her\njunior, or a year and a half--Frieda Socol, was also born here. The two boys\nwere born in Poland. The two girls were born here.\n\nEPLAN: What are some of your earliest memories either in Poland or here in terms\nof the kinds of memories ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you have . . . around holidays, things that happened in\nyour house, or family occasions that you remember from your childhood?\n\nFELDMAN: The most vivid memory is togetherness. We started out as a family who\nshared holidays--good times and bad times--together. I remember when we came to\nthis country, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"came to Ellis Island, and the first thing we noticed as we came\nout of the building was a contingent of all our cousins who were living in New\nYork at the time, to meet us. My dad was not there. My dad was in business here\nand was not able to make the arrangements. We were met by the rest of the\nfamily. He met us on the way to Atlanta. He picked us up in Gainesville on a\ntrain ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and rode back with us from there. But we had a wonderful family in New\nYork who met us and spent the day with us and then put us on a train for\nAtlanta. We kept in touch with the family. We still do to this day, the\nremaining members. It's been close family ties that distinguishes our family\nfrom so many others who have not been ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"fortunate enough to have large families\nand remain close together.\n\nEPLAN: Did your family here tend to gather together for the Jewish holidays?\n\nFELDMAN: Always. Not only attempted to get together, we still do. There isn't\noccasion of birthdays or anniversaries or weddings that our complete family is\nnot together.\n\nEPLAN: You have a very large family now.\n\nFELDMAN: We do have a large family and we still get ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"together. Our immediate\nfamily, brothers and sisters, we're together. We see each other practically\nevery week, both Clara's side and my side. We--I don't know--for some reason,\nalways seem to enjoy each other's company.\n\nEPLAN: That's very wonderful. That doesn't always occur.\n\nFELDMAN: We have our differences politically, socially, educationally, and our\nbeliefs, but that doesn't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"change the way that we're one group.\n\nEPLAN: You're family.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes. We argue about it. Sometimes we get very vocal about it. But we\nsupport each other and we are together. We're even closer than our own children.\nThe brothers and sisters--we're together practically every week of the year.\nYou'll find us every Friday night, all our kids--unless they're out of town, or\nthey have a special occasion like a football or basketball game, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"one of our\ngrandchildren is participating, then they may not come but otherwise--we're\ntogether, anywhere from 16 to 21, 22, every Friday night for Shabbos dinner\nhere. It's not a . . . it is a spiritual gathering more so than a religious\ngathering, although we do make kiddush. We have the wine.\n\nEPLAN: Do you think that feeling of importance of family came from something you\nsaw as a child from ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"your parents? Can you even place where that came from?\n\nFELDMAN: I'm not being a sociologist. I would have to accept that's where they\nsay it comes from. I have always . . .\n\nEPLAN: There was always family around when you were a child?\n\nFELDMAN: Yes, everyone in the family always had it. There was always family.\n\nEPLAN: That'll do it.\n\nFELDMAN: Not only growing up, even in my later years. Sometimes when things go\nawry . . . sicknesses and things that happen not as pleasant . . . family's\nalways there. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We've never known any other way. We grew up in that atmosphere.\n\nEPLAN: Tell me a little bit about what Atlanta was like when you came, the early\nmemories you have. You may have been too young when you actually came to the\ncity to remember but . . .\n\nFELDMAN: I have vivid memories. Atlanta's always been a wonderful city. We did\nnot live in the mainstream growing up. We did not live in the mainstream of the\nJewish community. My father and mother ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"had a small grocery store in a typical\nblack section--black neighborhood--of Atlanta. We lived in back of the store. We\nmoved frequently trying to better ourselves. Maybe the next move would be better\nso we lived in the back of the store or on top of the store. Always, on weekends\nparticularly, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we'd come over and visit relatives on Washington Street, Atlanta\nAvenue, Capitol Avenue. When I became a teenager I joined the Jewish Educational\nAlliance and Young Judaea Club and started playing basketball and became\nsocially involved. There are very fond memories and many of the young people\nwith whom we first associated were the young men. They're still friends of ours.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We still see each other. Today we play golf together.\n\nEPLAN: What was the neighborhood--you said you moved a lot--can you describe\nsome of the various neighborhoods? What were the neighborhoods like? 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Not because the type of education\nthat was offered, or because of any religious reason that it couldn't be mixed,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but just as an outgrowth of something Atlanta, the Boys' High, Girls' High, Tech\nHigh, myth that remains as being the best time of growing up in Atlanta and\ngoing to school.\n\nEPLAN: My father says the same thing.\n\nFELDMAN: They produced so many leaders of the community. So many people who\nhelped build Atlanta were the graduates of those three schools. It was a\nwonderful memory, high school. 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Or VeShalom ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"had already moved to, all within the same area. I\nthink all of them but The Temple had moved away by that time.\n\nEPLAN: Was there socially . . . what were your impressions of some of the\nseparation socially between the Jews who had come from Eastern Europe and the\nGerman Jews who had already, perhaps, been here longer and were more\nwell-established? 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I knew\nwhere the Standard Club was located but I was in my twenties before I first\nvisited the Standard Club on Ponce De Leon as a guest.\n\nEPLAN: Amazing.\n\nFELDMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In later years I learned though that there was not that much of a\nspiritual division in the community because many of our original leaders--many\nof the people who started organizations that became a part of our way of\nlife--were a mixture of all these diverse backgrounds . . . so-called the\nGermans, the Sephardics and then the Ashkenazi, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the Russians. I saw names of\npeople I never knew like 'Regenstein,' 'May' and so forth although I heard they\nwere a little different than we were. They belonged to different social clubs.\nBut they had the same concerns that we did. Maybe for their own element, but\nthat's something that, regardless of what it was, we all benefitted from it. As\nan ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"individual, I never was one to dwell on the differences. I never picked them\nup, never noticed it . . . physically maybe. I wasn't picked on as being Jewish\nby other youngsters. Maybe I was a little too big. Maybe because of my physical\nprowess they stayed away from me. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But Carter, that's who I've read. I've read Begin and Golda Meir. If you\nlooked on the book shelf you'd see a lot of biographies.\n\nEPLAN: The leaders. The personalities.\n\nFELDMAN: It is, in a way, a little duller to read than a novel but . . .\n\nEPLAN: I like non-fiction myself.\n\nFELDMAN: Right now I'm reading a novel though--by Ludlum--The Bourne Affair. I'm\nnot reading as much as I'd like to.\n\nEPLAN: But it came late. 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But also at the same time, I had the ambivalence of\nfeeling guilty that if I didn't finish school at the present time, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"if I\nsurvived, that I wouldn't do it. So I did enlist in the Naval Reserve at that\ntime. I was given enough time to finish my education. I was given a full year to\nfinish. Really it was a personal involvement and not concerned with the overall\nnature of the problems of the world. 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But as you\nget older--say, when ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we came out of the service--we could. At that time I was\nvery fortunate to meet and get involved socially with some very wonderful\npeople. I'm sure many of whom are being interviewed just as I am this morning.\n\nEPLAN: Here in this community.\n\nFELDMAN: I hesitate to name some because I might leave some out. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I played basketball with Max Kuniansky\nas a youngster at the old Progressive Club. We all came up about the same time.\nA lot of parties. A lot of fun. A lot of memories to share. But then when we got\ninto business we all had a common goal, to make this a better community.\n\nEPLAN: I'm going to get back to that in a minute. Tell me about what the old\nProgressive Club was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"like.\n\nFELDMAN: From a personal perspective, again you have to qualify when you say old\nProgressive Club.\n\nEPLAN: There's more than one old one?\n\nFELDMAN: Yes. Again, in terms of when you call old Progressive Club. 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I played on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the last team they had. The last two draftees, I\nremember vividly were Asher Edelstein and myself. When we ended the 1939 season,\nwe received tan jackets with a basketball on the sleeve with JPC on it which I\ncherished for many years. I don't know where it is today. But I met a great\nbunch of guys there, Happy Ginsberg, and Gabby Greenberg, Steve Broudy, and Max\nKuniansky ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"again, and again the Katz boys. This is also a process of growing\ninvolvement for me in the community. It wasn't long after, in 1940, they started\nbuilding a new club.\n\nEPLAN: The one on Techwood?\n\nFELDMAN: The one on Techwood. In 1942 when I went in the service I was a member\nthere. When I came out in 1945 I was given a year's free dues as a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"veteran so I\nstayed a member. In 1952 or 1953 I was president of the club. In those days your\ngrandfather and others were involved. They were planning the club as well as the\ncommunity. Through association with the Progressive Club, I think it introduced\nme to many of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"leaders of the people who were so called movers and shakers in\nthe Atlanta community, also the Atlanta Jewish community. They sort of paved the\nway for people like myself. I had an innate interest, I guess, to do a little\ngood somewhere so I started there. From there I got involved with the more\nimportant aspect of the community, the Community Center. From there ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it led to\nother things.\n\nEPLAN: So that's interesting. It really started with a social . . .\n\nFELDMAN: I'm glad you asked that question because my initial introduction to\nthese people was through the Progressive Club in the late 1930's.\n\nEPLAN: It's very interesting actually.\n\nFELDMAN: I think it was a proving ground maybe for some of the future leaders.\nMost of them are merely social oriented and stayed that way. But some of us\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"moved on to other facets of the community.\n\nEPLAN: Absolutely. That's very interesting. I had always heard about it as a\nsocial place but to think about it as a breeding ground, that's very interesting.\n\nFELDMAN: I found, in my life, a breeding ground to meet the right people . . .\npeople who were more concerned just from a social aspect towards community.\n\nEPLAN: It's a shame it's not around anymore. What takes its place?\n\nFELDMAN: It is a shame. It's a great loss to the community. When the club ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was\nsold on Tenth Street, it was a tremendous loss. It was just an institution that\nmeant a great deal. But it outgrew its time just as a lot of things have\noutgrown its time. But things do change.\n\nEPLAN: I'm jotting notes to ask you about that in the later section when we talk\nmore about today. Tell me a little bit, if you can, about some of your memories.\nYou talked a little bit about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"being drafted and going to fight in World War II.\nTell me what it was like to be a soldier in that war and how it felt when you\ncame back.\n\nFELDMAN: I was a sailor not a soldier. I was in the Navy.\n\nEPLAN: Excuse me.\n\nFELDMAN: I fortunate. I had been given an opportunity to finish school. I went\nin as a mid-shipman at Columbia University ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and became an officer in 90 days. As\nan officer it was really a time in my life that was exciting, wonderful. How can\nyou say it's a wonderful time of life when there's a war going on. The total\naspect of the social impact ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on the whole world sure was negative but as an\nindividual, in retrospect--I wouldn't have said this when I was in there but in\nretrospect--it was a growing up time for me. It was a time of . . . I think . .\n. I had an opportunity to go to school like Columbia. Meeting other men--my\npeers from all over the country--and then associating with them in the service,\nbecoming an officer, helping to train other ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"men and going through some tough\ntimes. I was in many battles. I was on a carrier and was hurt in the war. I had\nsome experiences that remained with me, but it was still a wonderful time. There\nwas no fear, as such. Maybe temporary, during time of engagement or something,\nbut even then I don't think anybody showed any fear. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It's a unique time. It's\nnot something I want my children or grandchildren to go through. That's why I'm\nso concerned about what's happening now. But while it's happening it was\nactually invigorating. I don't know if people feel that way now, but in talking\nto others who went through the same thing, many felt the same way. You knew you\nwere there for a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"purpose. You wanted to get the job done. You gave it all you had.\n\nEPLAN: So there was much more of a national . . .\n\nFELDMAN: . . . the chauvinistic . . .\n\nEPLAN: There's no question that this is what we needed to do?\n\nFELDMAN: That's right. You were involved with people who all felt the same way.\nYou felt you were doing something. We never looked at the negative side of it.\n\nEPLAN: But there wasn't a sense ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of the horrible things going on in Germany?\nThere really wasn't?\n\nFELDMAN: I can honestly say I had no idea at all. We had no conception of what\nwas going on. First of all, we did get the news. But I'm sure that the\nundercurrent--the rumblings and so forth--did not pervade what was happening. 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I know that we were so concerned about our own\nposture at the time, what was happening over there that when I came back to the\nstates in May 1945, my ship, my carrier--which was the only survivor out of the\nwhole group of five--we came back to the states after Okinawa, after the Leyte\nGulf battle at Okinawa, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that I came back to the hospital. My ship was going to\nbe out for the invasion of Japan and there was a great amount of fear and\ntrepidation because all of the reports and all of the information--all of the\ninformation that --that indicated that there would be 500,000 . . . 1,000,000\nmen lost. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"At this point, now, it wasn't my concern. I was back in the States. I\nwas an outpatient at Long Beach Naval Hospital and the war was over for me. But\nstill the trepidation still remained with me for my shipmates. I'd gotten close\nto them. You live together for three, two and a half years, in that kind of a\nconfine and there were 1,000 people. You get to know most of them by first name\nand all about them. But fortunately, or ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"unfortunately for those who were killed,\nwhen the bomb was dropped it was all over. But we didn't . . . on a day to day,\nmonth to month basis we were just not aware. Maybe [we were] not as concerned to\nbe aware of what was happening to the rest of the world. We had our own little\npocket, our own area of concern to get the job done.\n\nEPLAN: What did it feel like ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"coming back after you left the hospital, coming\nback to Atlanta? Was it at all difficult to make that transition back into\ncivilian . . . ?\n\nFELDMAN: No, not at all. People were wonderful. Getting back to the family was great.\n\nEPLAN: They must have been happy to see you.\n\nFELDMAN: Everybody. Then my brother came home right after I did. The last\nbrother who had been a prisoner of war came home. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We all came home about the\nsame time. We partied and the Progressive Club was still . . .\n\nEPLAN: . . . heyday I bet . . .\n\nFELDMAN: . . . heyday. And the Standard Club . . . that was all open to all of\nus at that point. There was no separation of where you belong. The Mayfair Club,\nit was like a Polish wedding. It went on . . . except not for a week. It went on\nfor two or three months before we all settled down. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Then it got time. Everybody\nhad their own need to make their way in the world. Find where their niche was.\nGo about their own business.\n\nEPLAN: How old were you at that time? Twenty . . .\n\nFELDMAN: Twenty-five.\n\nEPLAN: Twenty-five when you came back. But you had finished school before you left?\n\nFELDMAN: Yes, I finished school. In fact, I wasn't there for graduation, but my\ndad sat in my chair and was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"given my diploma. But they called him and asked him\nto receive my diploma. I was already gone but I had finished. I had a degree for\nwhatever good or bad that it served me. I did have a degree. I was the first to\nfinish college in my family, whole extensive family. I was the first to go to\ncollege and the first to finish of all ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the cousins and everyone else.\n\nEPLAN: Did your siblings, brothers and sisters go?\n\nFELDMAN: No. I was the first among all my siblings and all my whole--not\nimmediate, but the whole range of family--to finish. Many of them did go after\nthe war, my cousins. My brothers and sisters didn't go.\n\nEPLAN: Let's move into your life after the war and as you were into adulthood.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When and how did you meet your wife? When did you get married?\n\nFELDMAN: I saw Clara . . . actually the first time was after the war. I was\ndriving my sister to school. I was home on leave before I was discharged, before\nmy medical discharge came through. I was taking my youngest sister to Girls'\nHigh with her contemporaries. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She was standing there and I started a\nconversation with her. I knew who she was because I had been a friend of the\nfamily. I knew her brothers. I knew the family. Our families had been friendly.\nBut the time I left, to the time I came home, she . . . younger sister. She had\ngrown up to be a young lady. I liked what 1 saw. In fact, the first few times ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I\ndated her she was so young that she used to go with her brother and then we'd\nmeet and we'd all go together.\n\nEPLAN: Chaperone.\n\nFELDMAN: . . . chaperone, that's right. She was only 17 and the month that she\nbecame 18 we were married.\n\nEPLAN: She had grown up . . . her family had come here as well. She'd grown up\nin Atlanta?\n\nFELDMAN: Yes. Grown in Atlanta.\n\nEPLAN: How did your family feel? ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They probably must have been very happy about\nyour marriage. It sounds like it was connecting two families.\n\nFELDMAN: Sure, yes. It was a wonderful time. Everybody was happy. It remained\nthat way until our parents passed away. We were always together at either our\nhouse or their house or at gatherings. We remained close. Our family ties ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"were\nevident the whole time that they were alive, both sides.\n\nEPLAN: What were you doing professionally at the time?\n\nFELDMAN: My uncle and I, Max London and I, started in business. In fact, when I\ncame home I'd seen him again when I was coming home on leave. 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They're all\npartners in the same ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"business. Mary's still there . . . going to the office\nevery day. I go in occasionally. They've got a fancy office for me that I go to.\n\nEPLAN: That's wonderful.\n\nFELDMAN: Started in 1945. It's now in its forty-sixth year.\n\nEPLAN: What was the business climate like? How did you feel about . . . what did\nyou know about being in business? What was it like to start a business in 1945?\n\nFELDMAN: Much easier than it is today, I believe. 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Some trepidation . . . but my uncle was\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"older than I. He was the next generation, my mother's generation. He had a lot\nof experience. He was a wonderful person. I had youth. I was ambitious and\ninvigorating to starting a business. With all modesty, I think we made a good combination.\n\nEPLAN: Sounds like it.\n\nFELDMAN: We enjoyed what we did. It was quite successful. Raised our families\nwell. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My experience was--my whole life\nhas--just been so positive. Maybe I missed something because I hear the people .\n. . , and the problems, and the negatives that you probably get from some\npeople. How hard it was, and what they had to go through to get success. For\ngood or bad, I missed that. Everything is . . . I just look back sometimes in\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"amazement. The negatives were so few and far between. Everything was always on\nthe up side. I always enjoyed everything I did.\n\nEPLAN: That's probably attitude too. You've got a positive outlook.\n\nFELDMAN: That's something that you really can't put your finger on. I guess it\nis, but the reason I had a positive outlook was because everything came this\nway. I have a reason to be positive.\n\nEPLAN: That's true. Very much so. Speaking of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=3060.0,3090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that, tell me about your children.\nSome of them I know, but how many children do you have?\n\nFELDMAN: We have four children. Linda Bressler, Terri Bagen, Lewis Feldman, and\nMichael Feldman. Lewis is married to LuEllen. Michael is married to Jody, him\nyou know. The best thing is we're very proud of all of them.\n\nEPLAN: They all live here?\n\nFELDMAN: All live here. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=3090.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"All share our lives together. We're all in business\ntogether. They're all partners in business with us. From the time they came in\nwe made them partners in our business. I'm more proud of them through the way\nthey conduct their lives daily . . . their involvement, their own personal\ncommitments to each other and their children. They're just a good bunch of kids.\n\nEPLAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Stepping back for a minute, can you remember or tell me--when the\nchildren were little and you were having these children--what were . . . what\ncontinue to be your aspirations for them?\n\nFELDMAN: To be completely honest, when my children were little and growing up, I\ndidn't give them as much time as maybe ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I would have liked to. You hear people\ntalking about quality time, well that's a lot of bunkus at times. I was more\nconcerned . . . and again, I'm not saying . . . I was more concerned that I was\nbuilding a business, but I was also very much involved with the community. I\nspent a great deal--sometimes business--of my time ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=3180.0,3210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in community work when they\nwere growing up. Meeting after meeting after meeting. I have been through most\norganizations. I've been president of practically every major organization in\nAtlanta including my school, and some things I'm interested in like arts . . . ,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the black community and so forth. They keep me busy. If our kids turned out like\nthey did . . . and we're so pleased with the way they turned out . . . I think\nmost of the credit goes to Clara. I was always home. I didn't travel. I didn't\nhave to be away at night. But I was away at meetings and so forth. I always\nenjoyed my children. I never missed basketball games. I did take them to\nbasketball games, and I did take them to this, but I could have spent more ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=3240.0,3270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"time\nwith them. We all sometimes make a decision of where our priorities are and I\nfelt that they could benefit more. My goal--as was the goal of so many of these\npeople that I mentioned to you, people I was involved with--was to build a\nbetter community for our children. I felt I was doing a better service of\nbuilding that base, building a community, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"than maybe being with them at times I\nmight have been spending at a meeting. To see that there was a new building for\nthe community center or Federation, that would support organizations they would\ncome to rely on later, or a school for our grandchildren to attend like the\nAcademy, or Solomon Schechter which I was not involved in personally. But . . .\noutgrowth of the start, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=3300.0,3330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of the Hebrew Academy and the rest of them followed.\nThat's the decision that I felt. My role was more important along these lines\nthan maybe being with them more hours of the day.\n\nEPLAN: That leads to my next question. Tell me a little bit about their Jewish\neducation and how you and Clara decided that they would go to the Hebrew\nAcademy? 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At that time, we talked about it, but we felt that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=3420.0,3450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for them, the\nbest all-around education at that time of their life would have been in a\nregular public school. When it came time for our boys we sent them to the Academy.\n\nEPLAN: That's interesting.\n\nFELDMAN: Now, I never made a separation between boys and girls because given a\nchoice--you can put this in public record--all four of my kids ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=3450.0,3480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"know I'm very\npartial to girls. Always was and still am. Partial to this side of my family.\nBut I saw by that time, either we had changed some of our thinking, the innate\nvalue of a total complete Jewish education as well as secular education which\nour girls did go in the afternoon . . . Hebrew school . . . 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=3540.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The first seven will\nbe members of the Academy family. But there are other members. Clara is tutoring\nthere. We have a little Russian cousin who goes there and she's like one of our\nown. They've been here 15 months. Clara has gotten involved. She goes twice a\nweek to tutor these Russian kids. As you know, the girls have either, are, or\nhave been, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=3570.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"head of the school. So, we are full supporters . . .\n\nEPLAN: So you feel very strongly . . .\n\nFELDMAN: . . . of Jewish education in general. Even to the community that I\nsupport the type of education that I wouldn't follow.\n\nEPLAN: I was going to ask you how you reconciled that you talked about . . .\n\nFELDMAN: I've been told that I reconcile better than most people . . . reconcile\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=3600.0,3630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to the fact that I want them to accept what I believe and my family believes,\nbecause I can accept what they believe. I won't be part of it. I won't affect\nthe total structure of our community. But there is room for pluralism and I\nrespect their position. What I disdain about it is when they don't respect in\nreturn what we want to do. I respect their position ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=3630.0,3660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but not necessarily how they\napproach it and what they do about it. I won't get involved in details. To a\ndegree you would say that we're supported through our community or individually\nand we do.\n\nEPLAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=3660.0,3690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In the course of your children growing up, and nieces and nephews, has\nyour family had to face intermarriage?\n\nFELDMAN: Yes, my son is married to a convert. Best thing that ever happened to\nhim. Unequivocally the best thing that happened to him, and that says it all.\nShe was in the house before they got married and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=3690.0,3720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we encouraged her completely.\nWhen she decided to convert, it was her own decision. Had she not, there would\nbe no change in both Clara's and my love and acceptance of his wife. Not at all.\nWe're happy that she converted not so much for our own position with Lewis, but\nbecause of the children. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=3720.0,3750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But it would not have made that much difference to me.\nIt wouldn't have made any difference. I'm sorry I said not much, it wouldn't\nhave made any difference. Really. Because she's a wonderful girl and the little\ngrandchildren are beautiful.\n\nEPLAN: They live near here, don't they?\n\nFELDMAN: Yes, they all do. About 15, 20 minutes.\n\nEPLAN: Tell me about--especially interesting in this case because you've lived\nhere in this house for quite some ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=3750.0,3780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"time--the neighborhood. How it's changed? What\nit was like when you moved in? What it's like today? It's a wonderful area.\n\nFELDMAN: That's right, you've asked a joint question. We were the second house\non this block. The Greenbaums lived next door to us. They've since moved away.\nThe Zabans lived about four doors up. We're like . . . we're family with the\nZabans. We're close as I am to my own brothers and sometimes ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=3780.0,3810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"even closer. It was\nwonderful being close to each other. But most of the people have gone further.\nOur children live further out. They've all moved away. But it's a wonderful\nneighborhood. We're walking distance from most of our family. We'll never move.\nWe've been here 38 years and people have asked, \"Why don't you have a bigger\nhome?\" I said, \"Why?\" If I had a bigger home way out, my brothers and sisters\ncouldn't walk over here. 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You talked about the people that lived in\nthis neighborhood when you moved in and for many years, and in terms of the way\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=3840.0,3870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that the geography has changed.\n\nFELDMAN: A lot has grown. When you grow you have to move out geographically. You\neither have to go up or out. In your business establishment you can go up, but\nyour residential stuff has to go out. It's grown aesthetically. It's beautiful\nin the new neighborhoods. 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Our\nchildren do happen to live in not predominantly the neighborhoods where there is\na Jewish ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=3900.0,3930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"atmosphere, Jewish neighbors. The girls live near, walking distance to\nthe Academy because that's where they want to live because their children have\ngone and are going to the Academy. They won't be carpooling. Lewis has to\ncarpool. Everybody got a carpool arranged for next year. But as far as a\ncentral, being centrally located, this is wonderful. We've seen it go from a\nfamily area to a more of a senior citizen. 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Youngsters\nin their late ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=3960.0,3990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"twenties, early thirties. So we have four children, two on either\nside of our house.\n\nEPLAN: Do you see Jewish couples coming back in?\n\nFELDMAN: One's Jewish and one is not Jewish. On one side it's a Jewish couple.\nThe other side, the Lewises, are not Jewish. I think it's going to be a mixed\ngroup, a homogeneous group of young people moving in which I like. 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Do we have enough time?\n\nFELDMAN: That's embarrassing.\n\nEPLAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=4020.0,4050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Talk about some of the organizations that really have meant a great deal\nto you.\n\nFELDMAN: I'm a by-product of the Jewish Educational Alliance. My tonsils were\ntaken out at the Morris Hirsch Clinic, the Hirsch Clinic--which was in back of\nthe Alliance--for free in 1930. That's how far back I'm linked to it. 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That's where my cultural involvement, with people like--a despot in\nhis ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=4080.0,4110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"day--Ed Kahn, a wonderful man. When I moved to Federation I met people like\nMax Gettinger. He served with me and I served with him. When I moved from having\ngone through the workings of the center, I got involved in Federation and the\nHome. I was President of the Center . . . was President of the Home. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=4200.0,4230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Therefore I sort of spread my time and involvement.\nNot all volunteer. I've been asked to come to some of them.\n\nEPLAN: I'm sure.\n\nFELDMAN: I became president of the Home without having served as an officer or\ngoing through the chairs. Whatever reason, they came forth, came when they felt\nthey needed my services. 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I'm not sure if you heard or not, we have\nbeen approved, and are going to start the building of another 100 units the\nfirst of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=4260.0,4290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"year.\n\nEPLAN: No. I didn't know that. That's wonderful.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes, it took some political cajoling and so forth, and we finally got\nit worked out. The board . . . Meyer Balser, Joe Cuba, Adam Skorecki, and\ncertainly, most of all, Herbie Cohen . . . has given, dedicated, many hours and\nweeks and months to service of those senior citizens over there. Which is . . .\nit's a wonderful thing. We're going to be there one of those days, hopefully. 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I used to tell ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=4320.0,4350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Clara and others, how we\nall get so wrapped up in ourselves, \"What's going to happen to this community\nafter?\" We talked about it with Erwin, and with Milt and with Max and Bernie\nHoward who passed away, after the six, seven of us who have taken so much pride.\nMaybe we did do something, maybe we did accomplish something. Maybe we did build\na little better community for our kids. What's going to happen when we're gone?\nWho's going to take care of our city? 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But there are so many of you\nto do it.\n\nEPLAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=4410.0,4440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Elaborate a little bit on some of your . . . one thing that sets you\napart is your involvement in the general community as well as the Jewish\ncommunity. That's something that's one thing that's always been of interest to me.\n\nFELDMAN: I've never tried to separate, as I mentioned earlier, for instance, my\nneighbors. We have neighbors, general, Jewish on one side and not Jewish. 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It's a major institution of\neducation, and maybe I grew a 1ittle bit with it.\n\nEPLAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=4500.0,4530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You mentioned you're on the board . . . or were on the board of\nMorehouse. How did that come about? The school of medicine.\n\nFELDMAN: May of 1980 they came to see me and asked if I would serve. I accepted,\nreverend, and without any hesitation ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=4530.0,4560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because, to me, it was going home. I grew\nup a block from the school. I used to slip in the gate when they were playing to\nsee football games and basketball games. I didn't go to Georgia Tech to see the\ngame on Saturday. I didn't have the money to pay for tickets. I didn't go see\nGeorgia play Athens. I used to go see Morehouse play other black schools. When\nDr. Sullivan came to see me I accepted. 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We've gone from a two-year\nschool of 16 students to a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=4620.0,4650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"four-year medical school that will be taking over\nGrady Hospital within the next five or six years. Right now we're working with\nGrady with conjunction of Emory University which has been a great ally. We'll\nprobably have up to a class of 60 starting in about 1997, 1998 and it is\ntraining minority doctors. When I say minority it doesn't mean all black or\nHispanic. It's a great mixture there. 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It's just going to make a great\nimpact on our city, and our state, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=4680.0,4710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"our whole area. As far as the rescue\nmovement, the community, I was asked some years ago to get involved in . . .\nmany years ago my next door neighbor used to be a police lieutenant, he was in\ncity politics . . . got to know him in city politics. But my real involvement .\n. . people, I guess when they know you and you can ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=4710.0,4740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"afford to support them\nfinancially, they come to see you. Some people have life and health and some\npeople haven't. For instance, I'm very close with our senators. I think they're\nboth wonderful people. I like them. I support them. We've started clubs to\nsupport them and my association with Maynard Jackson goes back to the first time\nhe ran. The guys from the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=4740.0,4770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"uptown structure asked me to come to a meeting and\nsupport his candidacy when he was running the first time.\n\nEPLAN: That was in a time when the business community wasn't as supportive.\n\nFELDMAN: Wasn't supportive. Not at all. I met him. I liked him. I've been\nsupporting him since. In this last election he asked me to serve as his finance\nchairman, which I did. It was a good experience. All these things, I meet\nwonderful people. We make new friends ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=4770.0,4800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and we see a different side of our\ncommunity. Each one is a growth experience.\n\nEPLAN: Tell me a little bit--then we'll close for this session--about some of\nyour feelings now about the community's involvement, and your own involvement in\nIsrael; with Israel and continuing to support it, and I don't mean political\nstuff. 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It disturbs me.\nI think it's wonderful that people like Bernie Marcus have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=4950.0,4980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"set aside great funds\nto try to educate through a foundation that's set up. What is released to make\nchanges in the form of government? Somebody is going to start, and speaking to\nsome Israeli officials, other people, this is important, a good start, because\nwhat we feel does have some effect. When the last year . . . or two years ago,\nwhen this issue . . . 'who is a Jew?' 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Sometimes it comes awfully hard, I must tell you\nbecause in my own mind, what I want to support, what I don't want to support.\n\nEPLAN: You're absolutely right.\n\nFELDMAN: But ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=5070.0,5100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we came inside the fact that it's bigger than the sum of all its\nparts. Many of its parts I don't like. I could push them away. You still have\nthe . . . but that's not going to happen any time real soon I don't believe.\nMeantime there's a lot of fractured problems over there, have to be put back together.\n\nEPLAN: On that note ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=5100.0,5130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we will end this session and look forward to following up in\nthe next session. Thank you.\n\nFELDMAN: Thank you.\n\nEPLAN: This is Elise Elpan and I am interviewing Sidney Feldman in his home on\nLenox Road in Atlanta, Georgia on January 7, 1991. I listened to our tape\nearlier this week and it was just wonderful. I so enjoyed being here last time\nand I appreciate your letting me ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=5130.0,5160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"come again and follow up. You mentioned, as I\nlistened to it, a number of historical events that have occurred in your life\ntime . . . the war, Israel's statehood. How have these events and others that\nmay spring to your mind, had an impact on your life, your personal life, your\nfamily's life?\n\nFELDMAN: Before I get into it, let me mention that since you were here last,\nElise, I reached the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=5160.0,5190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mystical biblical age of 70.\n\nEPLAN: Mazel tov!\n\nFELDMAN: This past week, so now I'm on free time the rest of the way in. Being\non free time I guess I should be in a position to tell you all about my life,\nanything that you want to know because it can't get back to . . . anymore. I've\nmade my three score and ten. 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Whether it meant\nraising ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=5250.0,5280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"funds, supporting by visitations, supporting our political system to a\ndegree that gave us strength, and in support of Israel politically which in\nturn--if, then--if you have political support, you have financial support.\nCertainly even more so than now, Israel needed that sort of support from, not\nonly from the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=5280.0,5310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"diaspora, but from the American government. This didn't cease\nafter the state became an entity. Each crisis brought on more of the same, to\ngreater degrees, and more of the same from us, greater involvement. As we went\nalong over the years, we saw that maybe through our ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=5310.0,5340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"efforts of relating to the\nneeds others and some who may not have been as well--I shouldn't say informed,\nbut not as knowledgeable--of what is going on every day. We try to instill that\nneeded support in so many people. So many did accept that responsibility. It was\na bursting out of community responsibility over the years. Fortunately, even\ntoday I see that it is still growing with some setbacks. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=5340.0,5370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"There have been, at\ntimes, particularly in the last couple of years. I've been disappointed at some\nof the actions taken by the Israeli government, different governments. That\ndoesn't mean that I took it as a personal affront to the state of Israel, but\nall ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=5370.0,5400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"governments have a purpose. Sometimes even our own government, the purpose\nof the government in power, may not always be acceptable to some of us, or to\nall of us. The grievances I've found are related to our own personal feelings\nabout what the state should be. Again there, we should not be beyond a certain\npoint of giving ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=5400.0,5430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"our opinions, and even to the point of threatening support.\nNever forget that our threats should go to political positions and not to the\nsurvival of the state of Israel.\n\nEPLAN: What do you think of when you think of the future ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=5430.0,5460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of Israel and our\nrelationship with Israel? How do you see things happening? It's a very turbulent\ntime in a lot of ways.\n\nFELDMAN: Yes it is. However, I will not allow myself to become pessimistic or to\nfear the future of Israel. I have enough confidence and hope in, not only our\nJewish populist throughout the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=5460.0,5490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"world, but in the general community, in spite of\nsome of the harangues against Israel. In spite of some of the antisemitic\noutbursts and occurrences that you read about in the daily newspapers--not only\nin the rest of the world, but even in our own United States--that the government\nin particular--and most people--do, or will, find a way to support Israel. 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Israel could very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=5520.0,5550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"well come out a scapegoat\nof everything that's going on in Iraq, in the Middle East right now. But I, for\none, am just totally optimistic that the outcome will not in any way affect the\nsurvival of Israel. Israel will find a way to overcome. What is happening now\nwith the influx of the Russian immigration into Israel, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=5550.0,5580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hopefully there will be\nas many as 400,000 or 500,000 this year. This will be the greatest boom to the\ncountry since it was founded in 1948. These people are well-educated. They're\nproductive. They're professionals. I think that they ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=5580.0,5610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"are--what they will give to\nthe state in the next four or five years--will produce a more stable, sound, not\nonly Israel, but Israeli government. I just related where the state of Israel,\nand most of us don't know what position they're going to take politically.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=5610.0,5640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Certainly with what's happened in Russia, you can't expect them to give total\nsupport for the labor movement for instance, because this is what their problem\nwas in Russia. On the other hand, these same people also know that the party\nsystem that they have over there--the other faction--may not fit their needs\neither. I think what will come out of this is the regrouping, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=5640.0,5670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"politically, for\nthe best of both parties. I wouldn't be surprised if we'll see some form of\nchange in Israeli form of parliamentary government. Hopefully so, in my opinion.\nThat will stabilize the future of Israeli politics.\n\nEPLAN: What impact have you seen, and what kind of kinship do you feel, if any,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=5670.0,5700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with the Soviet Jews who have come here to Atlanta? Switching it? Making it more localized?\n\nFELDMAN: I think--I don't know if we discussed this the last time--we feel very\nclose to them because we have found a lost faction of our family. Evidently we\ndidn't discuss this the last time. A cousin of mine, a branch of the family whom\nwe did not ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=5700.0,5730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"have contact for many years, we did re-institute contact some years\nago when our cousin--whose name is Ilya Schostkovsky--parents moved to Israel\nsome 15, 16 years ago. I, at that time, flew to Israel to visit and meet them. A\nyear later one of their sons immigrated to Israel and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=5730.0,5760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I again went back, and met\nwith him. At that time Ilya, who was a vocal refusenik involved in the movement,\nwas not allowed to leave and immigrate to Israel. He and his family had to\nremain in Russia under strict KBG supervision. At that point, they were\nphysically abused at that point, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=5760.0,5790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but fortunately last May--May a year ago--I\nthink I mentioned, they did get out. They came to Atlanta. They're living here\nwith their daughter. In fact, they're coming for lunch today. Olga, Ilya's\nwife's mother, came in last week to visit for the first time, first trip to the\nUnited States. We haven't met her yet. She came in last Friday and they're\ncoming over just in about an hour. We're going to meet her for the first time.\nShe speaks no English, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=5790.0,5820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but I'm sure we'll understand sign language or whatever\nway she can convey to us how it feels to be here. So we have, because of our\npersonal involvement been able to see and to hear their appreciation for our\ntype of freedom, our type of lifestyle. It was just amazing that when they\nwalked into a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=5820.0,5850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"grocery store and they saw all the food on the shelves and the\ncounters, how their eyes just lightened and brightened. They'd never seen\nanything like it. I'm glad to say that they've integrated into the community,\nhaving a wonderful life, enjoying life. We're enjoying having them.\n\nEPLAN: The influx of Soviet Jews has obviously had an impact on your life\npersonally. 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Not\nonly in the sole thrust of raising funds to make them ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=5880.0,5910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"comfortable, but in the\nemotional way that we've accepted with open arms . . . this system that we've\ndeveloped of adopting families throughout the community. Many of them have been\nadopted by younger folks and it is quite a responsibility on their part. They're\ntaking responsibility to a degree for their welfare, for their transportation,\nfor their introduction to community ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=5910.0,5940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"schools, to their medical needs\nrequirements, to their emotional requirements. A total family community. Through\nthis it has brought our community closer together.\n\nEPLAN: While we're on the topic of our community, I've jotted some notes to ask\nyou. How you felt about the future when you look back on your life and forward,\nhow you felt, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=5940.0,5970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about, the future of the Atlanta Jewish community? You've alluded\nto it a little bit, and I'd like for you to elaborate if you would, on how the\nfuture looks to you for the Jewish community here in Atlanta.\n\nFELDMAN: Again, as I mentioned a few moments ago, being a total optimist I look\nforward for the future. 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In fact, we had a gathering at our house just about\na month ago by a group called Young Leadership ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=6000.0,6030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in which my own children are\ninvolved. There were 20, 30 young people. I call them young. They're reaching a\nstage in 1ife where they're taking over the mantle of leadership. They were\nbetween the ages of 35 and 45. We discussed some of the same points that you\nmentioned to me about what the future holds for the Jewish community, who is\ngoing to accept the reins of leadership. 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I was asked my method of, when I was coming\nup, of involvement in the community when I became president of the Federation;\nwhat ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=6060.0,6090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/204","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"responsibilities it entailed, and how I reacted. I told them at that point\nwe were a small community. We acted by our guts. We had something, I think a\ntotal of eight or ten people working in the Jewish Federation. We started three\nor four agencies during my administration. But at that point--Max Gettinger was\nthe director, executive vice-president--we did things as we saw the needs arose.\nBut today, with some ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=6090.0,6120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/205","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"60,000 Jews in our community, it has to be well organized.\nIt has to be planned. The contingent of young leadership that has emerged are\nthe best planners, and organized, I've ever seen. I just revel in their\naccomplishments. I sit back and look with such pleasure in their ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=6120.0,6150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/206","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"capabilities,\nin their ability to not only accept the status quo, but to see the vision, and\nto see the future and to react, and to plan, and the organizations that they've\ninstigated to meet the challenges. I feel real good about it. I just don't know\nof any community who has done as good or better job. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=6180.0,6210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It won a national award for the, the completeness, and for the\ngeneral approach to what this community is going to do in the next decade, in\nthe nineties. It was very pleasing to see the results, especially when it hits\nso close to home, what's happening.\n\nEPLAN: We spoke earlier when I first arrived about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=6210.0,6240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the continued success the\nHebrew Academy is enjoying. I wonder whether you feel that all of the\ninstitutions--the Home, the Jewish Family Services, and the Hebrew Academy--do\nyou feel good about the future of those institutions? Do they seem to have the support?\n\nFELDMAN: Yes, I feel good about most of them . . . with some problems involved.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=6240.0,6270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You mentioned the Home. The Home is facing some problems. It needs to expand. It\nneeds to grow. It is now in a building that is some 20, 25 years of age.\nGeriatric . . . let's see how to put this . . . the approach to geriatrics today\nis different than it was 25 years ago. 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It's the same group of people who\nhave been involved in it, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=6300.0,6330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the board of the Jewish Towers. We have finally\nresolved our differences with HUD, which is the national organization for\nfurnishing all the financial aid required to build it. Ground will be broken\nsometime in March or April, which will give us 300 units. It is not in any way\ngoing to improve the home per se, but it'll give us an ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=6330.0,6360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"adjunct 100 units to\nservice people who are just about at an age or the physical needs for such a\nlifestyle before they may need a home. A home has today become more of a\nrehabilitation center and not a home to grow old ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=6360.0,6390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/214","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"gracefully, as was intended\nmany years ago. People are living older. To move into the Home, the average age\nof the Home today is nearly 87 years of age. Originally we felt that people\nwould move into the Home at 65, 70. There would be a turnover every five or ten\nyears. Fortunately, because of the good care and advances in medicine, they are\nliving to 85, 90, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=6390.0,6420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and we have two residents of the home who have reached 100.\nOne lady had a birthday the day before yesterday, second one who is 100 years\nold. That particular agency's needs will be expanded. You mentioned all\nagencies. Our schools are growing. The Academy is bursting its walls, although\nthe building is only . . . this is its second year. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=6420.0,6450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I have been informed that\nthere are plans now for new classrooms and new amenities that the school needs.\nThey will be under construction sometime this year without a capital fund\ncampaign throughout the city because of the largess of our past benefactors. It\ncan do this on its own. 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With the influx of the Russian families and the\nresponsibility ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=6480.0,6510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of finding jobs and placing them in the best possible position\nfor livelihood, they've had to expand. From what I hear--about that particular\nagency--they've done a wonderful job. I feel good about them because that\nparticular agency was founded during my administration. It consisted of one\nperson on a trial basis. 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They all deserve a great deal of\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=6540.0,6570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/220","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"credit for it.\n\nEPLAN: You were mentioning your very positive feelings about the future for the\nJewish community in Atlanta. I'd like to switch gears because I was struck by\nyour personal commitment to maintaining your ties with other communities, the\nblack community especially. I was very impressed myself by that. I'd like to get\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=6570.0,6600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/221","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"your sense of how you feel the future of that relationship looks to you . . .\nlocally, and or nationally, whatever you feel. You've got feelings about the\nfuture of black-Jewish relations?\n\nFELDMAN: I wish I was as optimistic about those relations as I am about our own\nposture. 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The rest of the world takes\nit in complete opposite of what Israel intended it to be, as a way of helping,\nof teaching to a degree of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=6630.0,6660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/223","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"acceptance. Beyond that, the rest of the world looks\nat it as they're . . . and they're not carrying responsibility. It reflects on\nour Jewish population here. Being so involved with the black community, not only\nin organizations and education, but politically. I consider some of our leading\npoliticians that happen to be ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=6660.0,6690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/224","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"black--our past mayor, our present mayor, and\nother leaders, our council make up, and our county make up--as friends of mine.\nSome closer than others. I can understand and try to understand where they're\ncoming from. I think we've given all they might expect of us but maybe they\ndon't feel that we've given enough. We haven't supported them enough. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=6690.0,6720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/225","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But in my\nopinion we may not be supporting them enough. We have to come to the fore. We\nhave to take leadership in support of their agencies. Not . . . we have to\nsupport, but in all. One of the problems is that they may expect us to do more\nthan they'll do for themselves. This galls me at some points. But if we have to\nimprove the relationship, we have to let the rest of the community know that we\nare ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=6720.0,6750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/226","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the fore, and that their problems are our problems. We're not going to be a\nworld class community--as our mayor has pointed out--because we've made some\nwonderful strides. We've got the Super Bowl game in 1994. We've got the Olympics\nin 1996. I just read in the paper that we're going to have some sort of other\ngames in 1993. But in my opinion that is not going to make us a great city. What\nis going to make us a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=6750.0,6780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/227","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"great city, or a better city than we have, is some way to\nresolve our housing problems, which our mayor has put number one priority. These\nthings that I mentioned, like the Olympic games, can ameliorate some of our\nproblems because with all this money and all of the possibilities of building\nthat they will afford us--if we plan right, if we work together, if ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=6780.0,6810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/228","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we\nunderstand each other's needs, and we don't try to grab a bigger piece of pie,\naction, or whatever you want to call it, than we're entitled to--we'll fail. But\nif we'll find a way to look at what's good for the city--and I'm fully confident\nthat our leadership will do just that--that we'll all benefit from it. It'll\nbring us closer together. I've been asked to become involved for some of the\nplanning. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=6810.0,6840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/229","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"As an example of what I'm talking about, I'm very much interested in\nthe Atlanta University Complex and in particular what happens to Morehouse\nMedical School, which I'm an officer and on the board of trustees. I see this\nnext three, four years before the Olympics as an opportunity to benefit the\nschool. We are going to build what they call Olympic villages. These villages\ncan ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=6840.0,6870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/230","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"become permanent. I feel that some of these buildings should be built not\nonly in Midtown, but in the outlying sector where this complex can reap the\nbenefits of what the money we spend now in building, become future, permanent\nstructures for use by the school, part of it for the medical school. We need\ndormitories for future prospective doctors. We need a science building. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=6870.0,6900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/231","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Future\nhousing of an enhanced staff to administer greater hospital. We need future\nscience buildings to attract bright minority students at the Atlanta University\nComplex. This is what's going to make this city the greatest city. This is going\nto, in time, reduce our homeless, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=6900.0,6930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/232","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"reduce our street people. Not welfare, but\neducation and caring. I feel that it is not a job for any one faction, any one\ngroup. We must work together. Now here too, I'm very hopeful and very certain\nthat it will ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=6930.0,6960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/233","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"happen. I see a reaction in the black community as well as white\ncommunity . . . this need to cooperate and work together. I think that we have\nsome wonderful leadership in our city.\n\nEPLAN: That leads into my next question. You obviously are so committed to this\ncommunity, Jewish and general. When did your own involvement in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=6960.0,6990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/234","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"politics, or\nwith political candidates begin? How did you get into that? Is that something\nyou enjoy?\n\nFELDMAN: I am not a political animal, per se. In fact, I vote ticket rather than\nparty. I voted against Carter who was elected. I then became very fond and very\nsupportive as I've gotten to know him ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=6990.0,7020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/235","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"better. I'm a registered Democrat and I\nvoted for Bush last time. I vote my conscience, but as I mentioned, personally\nI'm not a political animal. I support people who I think are going to be best\nfor the job they are seeking. Maybe because of my involvement in the community\nand so forth, I have gotten to know these people personally. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=7020.0,7050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/236","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Usually I know them\nbefore I support them. I go back with Maynard when he first ran for mayor after\nhe was defeated when he ran against Talmadge. I met him. I liked what he stood\nfor. He was a young, vibrant politician who wanted to do something for\nminorities, and I felt that the minorities needed support. 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But for whatever reason, I didn't grow up with the attitude that I was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=7080.0,7110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/238","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"one\nof them and had to show them, had to change that. But I felt that I could\nsupport the needs, the change of minority groups. Politically, it's the only\nsystem that can change it. By electing more minority people, we'll get more\nminority people into running it. 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As my\nability, because of what I did have, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=7140.0,7170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/240","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"gave me the inroads to get involved with\nsomeone who has not. I felt it was my- duty to help some of those people. In\nhelping them, I met them. Those that I liked, and those that I felt wanted to\naccomplish something I stood for, I went to work for them and tried to help them\nget elected. As I was in this last campaign, very, very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=7170.0,7200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/241","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"active. I'm pleased with\nthe administration and what it's trying to accomplish. Through an outgrowth of\npersonal needs not through my direct, involvement as a politician. I personally\ncould never sit in, or hold public office because I wouldn't be good\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=7200.0,7230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/242","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"compromising in too many positions. But as an outsider, I've been involved in\nsome situations that needed and demanded compromising. As an outsider again, I\ncould understand it. I have been involved in trying to be one that pushed and\ndid work out the compromise that I thought was needed by the community.\n\nEPLAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=7230.0,7260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/243","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Shifting the focus to you and your family a little bit more because it's\nclear that that's a very important part of your life, do you feel that you\ntransmitted your values to your children? How do you think you did that, if so?\n\nFELDMAN: I've been asked that before. I'll let other people judge. 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On the other hand, we\nalways discussed what was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=7290.0,7320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/245","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"happening in the community at our dinner table . . .\nhad open discussions. Each got out of it what they wanted to, I guess. My\nchildren are, again not to be showing traits of most parents, are relatively\nbright, very normal and I imagine, I've heard them say so ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=7320.0,7350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/246","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"publicly that they did\nlearn from us. Not only did they learn from us, they even surpassed what we were\ndoing in our small way, and are in the process now of doing even much more for\nthe communities than I might have done over the years, in my opinion. They are\nall ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=7350.0,7380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/247","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"involved to various degrees. The two girls are involved daily with\neverything Federation, the Academy. Practically everything worked on in the\ncommunity. The boys have a little less restraint on them. They did have to make\na living by working. But they're involved with different organizations. That is\nimportant to them. My oldest son, Lewis, has always been with the camp for the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=7380.0,7410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/248","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"asthmatic kids. Works year round. My youngest son, Michael, is involved in\ncoaching at the Academy. He's involved in Federation. He was involved in a\ncampaign of politics, 'Young Atlantans for Maynard.' He was with that particular\ngroup. They're all involved. 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I'm personally very happy that our children\nare ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=7440.0,7470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/250","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"involved in the Jewish community to the degree that they are. I think it\nlends a great deal to their lives as well as ours. I'm thinking it'll give them\na point of beginning a total growth as they get more involved in the community\nand leadership. It wouldn't surprise me at all ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=7470.0,7500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/251","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to see continued dedication by\nall our kids as they go along in years accomplishing much, a great deal more\nthan they already have. I'm very proud of what they've already done, as well as\nall the young people in the community.\n\nEPLAN: You must be proud. They are obviously following in yours and Clara's\nfootsteps. There's no question about it.\n\nFELDMAN: They did get plenty from their mother.\n\nEPLAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=7500.0,7530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/252","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What difference do you see between your children now, or as they were\ngrowing up, and yourself at their ages? 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Different in the degree that, at\ntheir age I might have been more involved in building a base for them to receive\neducation, to receive the ability to become ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=7560.0,7590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/254","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"involved without worrying about\nmaking a livelihood at this stage of their lives, to be able to expand their\nhorizons. Whereas particularly at the age of my sons, I had just come out of the\nservice and come with a more humble background from my parents. I didn't have\nanything to step ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=7590.0,7620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/255","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"into. I started building a business and a life for ourselves. I\nwas busier with the mundane requirements of raising a family. Not at the total\nexpense of community effort, because I did start early in my career of getting\ninvolved, but ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=7620.0,7650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/256","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they have great opportunities when they came along, and they chose\nto give themselves very unselfishly.\n\nEPLAN: Surely was no accident. You learn by example.\n\nFELDMAN: But they had the time. They had the wherewithal.\n\nEPLAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=7650.0,7680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/257","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You mentioned the differences in terms of your dealing with some of the\nmore mundane, day to day kinds of things. Do you see their choices being\ndifferent when they look around and have to decide how they're going to spend\ntheir time and their money? How they're going to raise their children? Are the\nchoices very different than they were for you?\n\nFELDMAN: No, not very different. Expanded, but not different. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=7680.0,7710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/258","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Basically the\nselfishness in each of us dictates what we do. We're all interested in the same\nthings. First our family which includes our children. It includes our extended\nfamily. Then our friends. To feel that you're doing what you're required, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=7710.0,7740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/259","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and\nwhat you need to do for this particular small group, you start in relationship\nto what's good for them. Then you expand. Now what's good for the community?\nWhat's good for the country? What's good for the rest of the world? You expand\nyour horizons. You expand your involvements. They all come from the seeds of\nselfishness. What's good for my kids? My family? What's good for me? ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=7740.0,7770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/260","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"If it's\ngood for me then I shouldn't stop what's good for me. Then it's got to be good\nfor my friends. It's got to be good for others. Good for those who may not live\nin this country but need our help. Good for those who live here and can't fend\nfor themselves. Some, not by their own choice, just need to be helped. 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I don't know of\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=7800.0,7830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/262","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"anyone--and I say this sincerely--who has given more than he should to others\nbefore they take care of themselves. I want to believe that some of us have\nshared, not equally, but to some point. But we take care of our own first. Our\nown can be expanded or it can be very limited. I would like to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=7830.0,7860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/263","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"think that with\nour family, with our friends, and so forth, it's an expanded circle. That's\nwhere our next generation I think is coming from.\n\nEPLAN: I have one last question and that is, in our last visit you spoke of a\nnumber of mentors ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=7860.0,7890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/264","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you had early on, some wonderful men who really formed this\ncommunity in some ways. If you had to name someone who was the most influential\nperson in your life, who would that be? I know that you don't like to pick\npeople out . . .\n\nFELDMAN: No I don't.\n\nEPLAN: But if there are even a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=7890.0,7920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/265","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"couple of people who spring to your mind as\npeople who had such a profound influence.\n\nFELDMAN: At different stages of my life there were different people who had\ngreat influence. You mentioned that I had mentors. I wouldn't call them mentors.\nI think they were more people whom I respected. Not necessarily in the way that\nI wanted to follow in their ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=7920.0,7950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/266","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"footsteps, but maybe wanted to create something out\nof our relationship. Naturally, my own parents were very socially conscious\ngrowing up. They always knew that it was proper to give and to help others. As a\nyoungster I was fortunate to come in contact ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=7950.0,7980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/267","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with people . . . the first one was\nBarney Medintz. I'm sure you've heard his name mentioned by so many people.\nThat's because of why I mention it first maybe, because he was an athlete . . .\ncame as an athlete . . . came as a director. As youngsters we all wanted to be\nathletes. We all wanted to play basketball, or football, or baseball in high\nschool and college. We could relate to him. As I grew older, in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=7980.0,8010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/268","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"retrospect, I\nrealized what my relationship with a man like Barney meant. Not only athletics,\nbut as I grew, and I saw as he grew in the community--when I went in the service\nand lost contact . . . when I came out of the service and he was still active\nhere--and what he had accomplished, I just became even more enamored and admired\nhim. We were a bunch of youngsters, hellions in those days. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=8010.0,8040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/269","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"People like Erwin\nZaban, Max K, Milton Weinstein, Bernie Howard are the four or five that come to\nmy mind. We were all working together. We looked upon people like, as I\nmentioned Barney, and then Meyer Balser, who was so involved community-wise.\nYour grandfather, bless his memory, who was such a leader in the community, Sam\nEplan. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=8040.0,8070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/270","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The early meetings we had at Pryor Street in Ben Massell's office. These\nwere men of accomplishment. Men who had done so much, and here we were,\nyoungsters in our twenties sitting back and listening to what they were aspiring\nand what they were doing. Each one--I don't think they realized it at the\ntime--each one must have added to my complete make of personality. 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Although he was not involved, but he was\nalways supportive in a way that being, not only my uncle, and older--and that\nalone should render him the respect that I hope I gave him all my life as an\nolder uncle--but he was a positive force that he always, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=8100.0,8130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/272","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"not openly or vocally\nalways supported me in the time I took away from work and business. Sometimes\ntwo partners can say, \"You can't run off to meetings and all this. We have work\nto do.\" But I never encountered that. I know that, covertly, that he was\nsupporting what I was doing. Which made it so much easier for me to do because I\ndid feel I had a responsibility to the business ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=8130.0,8160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/273","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and to his family as well as\nmine. But it made it much easier for me to get involved. As we progressed and\nstarted becoming a little active, and started feeling more important as we\nbecame more active, that we could do so much, that we could accomplish a great\ndeal. I guess the last 20, 25 years I've had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=8160.0,8190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/274","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a closer relationship with Erwin\nZaban than anyone. Just more than words can express. I have a lot of wonderful\nfriends but he's a very unique person. Uniqueness to me, it's personal. I don't\nwant to discuss it, but certainly he's had a great influence on the many things\nthat I've done in the community and otherwise. There are a large number of\npeople, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=8190.0,8220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/275","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and we've had our differences over the years. We've had some drag out\nbattles even with Erwin, and Milton, Max, and all the others, and Bernie. But I\nthink we were all working towards the same, and still are, those of us who are\nstill here. Unfortunately, Barney is gone. Bernie is gone. Some of the\nold-timers certainly are gone. But we had the same goal; what was good for the\ncommunity, what was good for the Jewish people, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=8220.0,8250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/276","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what was good for our families,\nwhat was good for you. So you could be sitting here today and asking all these\nquestions because you're going to be carrying on. If we did accomplish\nsomething--if we meant something to this community, and history might relate to\nthat someday--we're only handing something down that you and my kids and all the\nothers like yourself are going to have to handle and take over. 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As I look around this room at these awards and listen to you\ntalk, it's clear to me that you have been, and continue to be, an influence on\npeople, one generation, two generations down in the way that these ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=8280.0,8310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/transcript/21985/annotation/278","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"people were\ninfluential in your life. It's been a privilege for me to be able to gather this\ninformation and to have a chance to talk to you like this. It's a real honor.\nThank you very much.\n\nFELDMAN: Thank you for sharing this time with me.\n\nEPLAN: My pleasure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=8310.0,8340.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/annotation_set/389","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/annotation_set/389/annotation/279","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta raises funds, which are dispersed throughout the Jewish community. Services also include caring for Jews in need locally and around the world, community outreach, leadership development, and educational opportunities. It is an affiliate of the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA).\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/annotation_set/389/annotation/280","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eClara Lazar Feldman (1928-2017) was Sidney Feldman's wife.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/annotation_set/389/annotation/281","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShabbat\u003c/em\u003e (Hebrew) or \u003cem\u003eShabbos\u003c/em\u003e (Yiddish) is the Jewish Sabbath and is observed on Saturdays. \u003cem\u003eShabbat\u003c/em\u003e observance entails refraining from work activities and engaging in restful activities to honor the day. \u003cem\u003eShabbat\u003c/em\u003e begins at sundown on Friday night and is ushered in by lighting candles and reciting a blessing. It is closed the following evening with the recitation of the \u003cem\u003ehavdalah\u003c/em\u003e blessing.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/annotation_set/389/annotation/282","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKiddush\u003c/em\u003e [Hebrew] is a blessing recited over wine or grape juice to sanctify the Sabbath and other Jewish holidays.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/annotation_set/389/annotation/283","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eYoung Judaea is a peer-led Zionist youth movement founded in 1909. Its programs include youth clubs, conventions, summer camps and Israel programs that provide experiential programming through which Jewish youth and young adults build meaningful relationships with their peers, emphasize social action, and develop a lifelong commitment to Jewish life, the Jewish people, and Israel.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/annotation_set/389/annotation/284","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eYMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries. It was founded on 6 June 1844 by Sir George Williams in London, originally as the Young Men's Christian Association, and aims to put Christian principles into practice by developing a healthy \"body, mind, and spirit.\"\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/annotation_set/389/annotation/285","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBoys’ High School was founded in 1924. It later merged with Tech High and became coeducational and became known as Henry W. Grady High School. It is part of the Atlanta Public School System. It has had many notable alumni, including S. Truett Cathy, the founder of Chick-fil-A. It is located in Midtown Atlanta. 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He became a leader in Atlanta’s Jewish community and served as executive director of several organizations including the Jewish Educational Alliance (presently, Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta), the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund, and the Atlanta Federation of Jewish Social Service (presently, Atlanta Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta), an earlier incarnation of the current Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta and the Morris Hirsch Clinic (presently, Ben Massell Dental Clinic). Mr. Kahn also became Executive Secretary of the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund and of the Atlanta Jewish Community Council. He held these various positions until his retirement in 1964. Kahn was prominent in both local and national social work organizations as well as in Jewish organizations such as B’nai B’rith, the Jewish Children’s Bureau, the Jewish Home, and the Atlanta Bureau of Jewish Education. He also worked with the Southern Israelite newspaper as a writer and adviser.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988#t=4110.0,4140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29560/file/97988/annotation_set/389/annotation/316","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eMax C. 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