{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/vt1gh9c01z/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Amiel, Lydia Sarda"]},"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":["1992-03-04 (creation)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English (primary)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Audio"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source"]},"value":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Collection"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eLydia Amiel interviewed by Patty Mazier on March 4, 1992 in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eThis interview is, in large part, about Lydia’s father-in-law and mother-in-law, Rebecca and Ralph [Raphael] Amiel. The Amiels came to Atlanta from Crete and Cairo, Egypt in 1905.  They were the first Sephardic couple to settle permanently in Atlanta, where they joined a handful of Sephardic men already here.  Rebecca hosted young Sephardic women who arrived from Rhodes, Istanbul or Turkey to marry, lodging them in her home.  She also organized services in temporary locations by gathering young men from the street to make a minyan.  The Amiels came from Crete and established a restaurant called the Arcade Restaurant in Five Points.  The Sardas, Lydia’s parents, lived in Cairo, Egypt until they left after World War II.  The Sardas were well-to-do, with servants\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRebecca and Ralph had two sons, Bando and Leo. Bando died in 1923 of an unfortunate illness.  Lydia married Leo in 1934 and came to live in Atlanta with him. After Ralph died in 1923 Rebecca lived with her son, Leo, and Lydia for the next 40 years.  Ralph and Rebecca belonged to Congregation Ahavath Achim because the Sephardic synagogue, Or VeShalom, was too far away from their home on Gilmer Street.  Leo and Lydia were married by Rabbi Harry Epstein at Ahavath Achim, although they had a Sephardic wedding and their son Ralph became bar mitzvah there as well.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eLydia discusses the seminal roles of Ralph and Rebecca Amiel in the growth of the Sephardic community in Atlanta. She recalls the origins of the Amiel family in Crete and the Sarda family’s life in Cairo, Egypt before their immigration to the United States. In Atlanta she recalls her mother-in-law’s connection to the Leo Frank case. She recalls the family businesses which included the ownership of restaurants and liquor stores.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLydia discusses her immigration and marriage to Leo, their involvement in Ahavath Achim and Or VeShalom, her work as president of the Sisterhood at Or VeShalom. She discusses her children and grandchildren.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLydia recalls in detail what the cultural, social and religious life was like for a well-to-do assimilated Jewish family in Cairo, Egypt before her immigration. She went to a Catholic religious school where French was spoken and thus never learned to speak or read Hebrew. Ladino was not spoken in her family.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/27975"]}},{"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":["Sephardic Jews (topical term)","French Language (topical term)","Cairo (geographic term)","Congregation Or VeShalom (corporate name)","Bon Pasteur (corporate name)","Leo Frank (personal name)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eLydia Amiel interviewed by Patty Mazier on March 4, 1992 in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis interview is, in large part, about Lydia’s father-in-law and mother-in-law, Rebecca and Ralph [Raphael] Amiel. The Amiels came to Atlanta from Crete and Cairo, Egypt in 1905.  They were the first Sephardic couple to settle permanently in Atlanta, where they joined a handful of Sephardic men already here.  Rebecca hosted young Sephardic women who arrived from Rhodes, Istanbul or Turkey to marry, lodging them in her home.  She also organized services in temporary locations by gathering young men from the street to make a minyan.  The Amiels came from Crete and established a restaurant called the Arcade Restaurant in Five Points.  The Sardas, Lydia’s parents, lived in Cairo, Egypt until they left after World War II.  The Sardas were well-to-do, with servants\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRebecca and Ralph had two sons, Bando and Leo. Bando died in 1923 of an unfortunate illness.  Lydia married Leo in 1934 and came to live in Atlanta with him. After Ralph died in 1923 Rebecca lived with her son, Leo, and Lydia for the next 40 years.  Ralph and Rebecca belonged to Congregation Ahavath Achim because the Sephardic synagogue, Or VeShalom, was too far away from their home on Gilmer Street.  Leo and Lydia were married by Rabbi Harry Epstein at Ahavath Achim, although they had a Sephardic wedding and their son Ralph became bar mitzvah there as well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLydia discusses the seminal roles of Ralph and Rebecca Amiel in the growth of the Sephardic community in Atlanta. She recalls the origins of the Amiel family in Crete and the Sarda family’s life in Cairo, Egypt before their immigration to the United States. In Atlanta she recalls her mother-in-law’s connection to the Leo Frank case. She recalls the family businesses which included the ownership of restaurants and liquor stores.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLydia discusses her immigration and marriage to Leo, their involvement in Ahavath Achim and Or VeShalom, her work as president of the Sisterhood at Or VeShalom. She discusses her children and grandchildren.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLydia recalls in detail what the cultural, social and religious life was like for a well-to-do assimilated Jewish family in Cairo, Egypt before her immigration. She went to a Catholic religious school where French was spoken and thus never learned to speak or read Hebrew. Ladino was not spoken in her family.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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The date is March 4, 1992. I am interviewing\nMrs. Lydia Amiel. This is for the Oral History Project for the American Jewish\nCommittee and National Council of Jewish Women. Mrs. Amiel, thank you for\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"inviting me into your home so we could have this interview today.\n\nAMIEL: You're welcome.\n\nMAZIAR: I wanted to talk to you about a branch of your family that made a very\nsignificant contribution to the Sephardic community in Atlanta. That is, Rebecca\nAmiel and her husband, Ralph Amiel.\n\nAMIEL: Ralph Amiel. Raphael . . . he was known as Raphael Amiel.\n\nMAZIAR: Can you tell me about them?\n\nAMIEL: Yes. They came ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"into Atlanta in 1905, but in the [United] States much\nearlier . . . with two young boys. They were the first Sephardic couple who came\nin just because there was one young girl from Cairo [Egypt] who married and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"came\nto Atlanta to be with her. That young girl left. They stayed behind and lived in\na room over Mrs. Cohen on Washington Street . . . then when she got her\napartment on Gilmer Street. There were five, six or seven young men . . .\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"bachelors . . . in Atlanta. She used to gather them in her house for the\nholidays and go to the synagogue . . . to the shul [Yiddish: synagogue] on\nGilmer Street, the AA [Ahavath Achim]. Mr. Jacobs was in charge, borrowing a\nSefer Torah and having holidays . . . Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in her own house.\n\nMAZIAR: This is Rebecca Amiel.\n\nAMIEL: That's Rebecca Amiel. Later on, those young men would bring in their\nbrides from Rhodes, Istanbul, Turkey, or from Greece. She had them in her house\nuntil their ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"weddings.\n\nMAZIAR: The girls would stay with her?\n\nAMIEL: The girls would stay with her.\n\nMAZIAR: She was like a mother.\n\nAMIEL: Like a mother to all of them. She was a godmother of more than one of the\nboys, because she was helping the mothers with their first childbirth. She was\nreally considered as the mother of the first timers . . . the first members of\nthe congregation. She had a brother-in-law with her who, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"unfortunately, died at\n22 years old. He is buried by the name of Jacob Amiel. He is buried at the\nOakland Cemetery.\n\nMAZIAR: What brought them to Atlanta? Why did they come to Atlanta?\n\nAMIEL: My father-in-law came in before for a fair in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1898 . . . or something.\nThen he came back with his family for the fair in 19 . . . what do you call that fair?\n\nMAZIAR: St. Louis?\n\nAMIEL: St. Louis Exposition. They lived in New York for a while. This young\ngirl, who had come with them, also had come to Atlanta. She was expecting a\nbaby. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The husband called Mrs. Amiel to come down, being a friend from Cairo,\nbecause the girl was very unhappy. They stayed behind. Mr. Amiel was mainly a\ntailor . . . he was a cutter, not a tailor, a cutter. He would cut only.\n\nMAZIAR: Why was he here for the World's Fair? Was he working?\n\nMAZIAR: Yes, he worked on the World's Fair, but he came in as a young ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"man\nexploring. In those days, the new world was the United States. His family was in\nboats, they were ship[ping] . . . how would you say it in English . . . so, I\nimagine they came in with . . .\n\nMAZIAR: . . . they built ships or . . .?\n\nAMIEL: . . . they had ships. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's why they came down. Can you close it for a minute?\n\nMAZIAR: Let's move back a moment. Your father-in-law came here to the United\nStates to explore, to see what kind of opportunities there were.\n\nAMIEL: Sure, opportunity. He was going away from Greece a young man. He went to\nCairo to get ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"married [into the family] with boats . . . or the ships of the\nfamily . . . or whatever it was . . . before he came to the United States. I\ndon't know which exposition it was in 1898. He came in with one of his cousins,\napparently. They have lost contact. But lately . . . about last year . . . the\nson of that fellow wrote an article in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"New York Times asking to find if\nthere were any relatives of his father. He even had gone to Greece to try to\nvisit the cemeteries. Dr. [Perry] Brickman read it. He faxed it to my son, who\nis Ralph Amiel. I wrote to the editor of the New York Times whose name ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"is Joseph\nAmiel. We found out that his father with my father-in-law . . . as a matter of\nfact, one of my father-in-law's brother's names is Joseph Amiel . . . this\nfellow, Joseph, was named after his father's father. They happened to be\nrelatives . . .\n\nMAZIAR: . . . first cousins . . .\n\nAMIEL: . . . 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They ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"had come from Greece.\n\nMAZIAR: Where were they living in Greece? Where was their home?\n\nAMIEL: Crete.\n\nMAZIAR: They were on the Isle of Crete?\n\nAMIEL: The Island of Crete. They all came in from the Isle of Crete.\n\nMAZIAR: Did Raphael Amiel's family live on Crete?\n\nAMIEL: Yes, but then they came, after the time of the . . . there was cholera in\nGreece. They all moved and they went ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to Cairo.\n\nMAZIAR: . . . to Cairo . . .\n\nAMIEL: . . . to Egypt.\n\nMAZIAR: . . . and they opened up their businesses?\n\nAMIEL: They all opened up their businesses there . . . very, very successful. My\nfather-in-law had about five brothers and three sisters. They're all very close\nfriends. They had to go away . . . the only time they left Egypt was after the\nwar in 1945 or 1946 . . . after World War ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"III.\n\nMAZIAR: World War II.\n\nAMIEL: World War II.\n\nMAZIAR: He came over here really as a tourist?\n\nAMIEL: When he first came, he came as a tourist. Then he went back and got\nmarried and came back in 1903 for the . . .\n\nMAZIAR: . . . St. Louis Exposition . . .\n\nAMIEL: . . . 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They had a night club in there, too.\n\nMAZIAR: Is that building still standing?\n\nAMIEL: No, the Arcade . . . that building was torn down to make place for the\nFirst National Bank ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in the early 1940's.\n\nMAZIAR: They came to Atlanta because there was a young woman living here?\n\nAMIEL: That's right. The only reason they came to Atlanta from Jamestown [was]\nbecause that Attias fellow wanted . . . his wife was expecting. He was an\nelderly man with a younger wife. She was crying that she wanted to go back home\nto Cairo. They were from Cairo. 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Then they went back.\n\nMAZIAR: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How do you spell their name? Do you remember?\n\nAMIEL: A-T-T-I-A.\n\nMAZIAR: They [her family] were really the first permanent . . .\n\nAMIEL: The first permanent people who stayed. They lived on Gilmer Street until\n1919. 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He went to be ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"shaved by the Arabs, by the big razors. He was\na young boy of 19 years old. Apparently, he was nicked. He had an infection in\nthe brain. A week later he died. That's what prompted them to come back home.\nMr. [Raphael] Amiel had . . . right-away . . . a heart attack. In 1922 ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he died.\n\nMAZIAR: In 1922. [NB: 1923]\n\nAMIEL: In 1922. He died at 55 years old. That left his wife, Rebecca, with my\nhusband, Leo Amiel. They lived here, on Pryor Street.\n\nMAZIAR: What kind of woman was she?\n\nAMIEL: Mrs. Amiel? She was the most wonderful person. Very helpful to the whole\ncongregation . . . loved by ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"everyone . . . considering everyone like her own\nchildren. I could say more on that. She lived with me after I got married for 40\nyears. She died when she was 95 years old. She died 10 years after her son . . .\n95 years old in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1969.\n\nMAZIAR: Ten years after your husband?\n\nAMIEL: Ten years after my husband. She died in 1969 . . . 95 years old.\n\nMAZIAR: Someone told me a story that she used to visit Leo Frank when he was in jail.\n\nAMIEL: Yes. There wasn't one person who would be in the hospital that she\nwouldn't be at their bedside. There wasn't one young woman of those days that\nwould have a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"child that she wouldn't be at the bedside with Dr. [Joseph O.]\nKinard or Dr. [Oscar H.] Matthews. The two doctors who were delivering all those\nboys of . . . what would you call it? . . . Alhadeffs . . .\n\nMAZIAR: Sephardim?\n\nAMIEL: Sepharad. 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I don't know whether ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"she knew the family.\nShe knew all the Yiddish ladies from living on Gilmer Street next to the\nsynagogue. She was a very religious person. Until she died it was all kosher . . .\n\nMAZIAR: . . . in her home . . .\n\nAMIEL: . . . in her home, and very religious. She was fasting up to the last\nyear that she ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lived.\n\nMAZIAR: On Yom Kippur.\n\nAMIEL: Although for 10 years she had cancer on the esophagus.\n\nMAZIAR: What did she tell you about Leo Frank and about the case?\n\nAMIEL: She just told me the story about what had happened . . . that the young\nman was innocent and everybody knew it. In those days they were afraid to talk\nbecause he was a Jewish boy.\n\nMAZIAR: Was she ever ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"afraid to be . . .\n\nAMIEL: . . . no . . .\n\nMAZIAR: . . . because she was Jewish?\n\nAMIEL: No. Not those days.\n\nMAZIAR: What did she do exactly to help him?\n\nAMIEL: Nothing, no, she didn't do nothing to him, but maybe just to visit him or\nsee him or comfort . . . by words or being sympathetic to the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"young boy. She may\nhave known his family from Gilmer Street.\n\nMAZIAR: The wife's family?\n\nAMIEL: No, Frank's family.\n\nMAZIAR: His family was here also?\n\nAMIEL: Yes, Leo Frank's family . . .\n\nMAZIAR: . . . lived here . . .\n\nAMIEL: . . . she may have known the family. I couldn't tell you. In those days .\n. . she told me once when she first came in and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lived . . . took a room with her\ntwo little boys in one Jewish family. She didn't know Yiddish. All she was\nspeaking was Greek and a little broken English. The lady wouldn't believe that\nshe was Jewish. She opened her trunk and took out the mezuzah that her mother\nhad put in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there with some Jewish religious books or something. When she showed\nit to them, they asked her where she was from. She told them, \"Ben mizraim.\"\nThen she called the lady . . . Mrs. Cohen . . . [whose house] she lived in . . .\ncalled all the neighbors around [Yiddish phrase: unintelligible:] in Yiddish\nthat she's Jewish. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ever since then, they took care of her and patted her and\ntook care of the kids. Before, they wouldn't believe that she was Jewish because\nshe didn't know Yiddish.\n\nMAZIAR: . . . speak Yiddish . . .\n\nAMIEL: All the Jewish people were Yiddish here. They couldn't imagine that there\nwas someone who was Jewish and couldn't speak Yiddish.\n\nMAZIAR: I understand that. That language has been very important.\n\nAMIEL: Definitely, definitely.\n\nMAZIAR: I guess that may have been one reason why the reformed ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jews were not\ninvolved, because they probably didn't speak Yiddish.\n\nAMIEL: That's right.\n\nMAZIAR: They were all either English . . . I don't know how far removed from\nGerman-speaking . . .\n\nAMIEL: . . . she was studying . . . she had a lady coming home teaching her how\nto read and speak English. She was a very strong-willed person. She was a\nwonderful person.\n\nMAZIAR: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Does your husband have any . . . were there any stories about her that\nhe liked to tell you about? Things that she did, or that really made her very unusual?\n\nAMIEL: Mostly for being very involved with the community. There were only very\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"few people . . . there were about 30 or 40 women or people around. One time, she\nhad nine people for minyan for Rosh HaShanah. She went out in the street to\nwalk around and see if she could find one of the Yiddish boys in the\nneighborhood to call him for minyan. All of the sudden she saw two strangers\nwalking on Gilmer ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Street. She asked them who they were. They find out that they\nwere some boys who had come in from Montgomery [Alabama] looking for some others\nbachelors that they knew were in Atlanta that they wanted . . . to gather. She\ncalled them, \"Come on in and you'll be a minyan.\" That's what held them to have\nminyan in the house. But for two or three years before. . . 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After . . . when those\nyoung boys got married . . . there were about 10 to 12 of them in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Atlanta . . .\nthey were borrowing a Sefer Torah from the AA and they were renting a room at\nthe Alliance on Capitol Avenue. They were celebrating Rosh HaShanah and Yom\nKippur there for many years, before they built the shul, Or VeShalom synagogue,\non Central Avenue.\n\nMAZIAR: She really helped them along.\n\nAMIEL: When she ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"left in 1919 to go to Cairo and visit her family, that's when\nthe synagogue was built . . . they had rented on Central Avenue . . . in 1919.\n\nMAZIAR: By 1919 her husband already had his business going . . . the restaurant\nbusiness in Atlanta.\n\nAMIEL: He had a business right ever since they came in 1905 or 1906. 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When they came\nback from Cairo after their visit in 1921, he opened the same type of business\non Luckie Street. That's when he died. He died in 1923.\n\nMAZIAR: Tell me about your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"husband.\n\nAMIEL: He was the most wonderful person. He really was,\n\nMAZIAR: Was he in the family business?\n\nAMIEL: No, when his father died he took over the business. 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He was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"35 when he finally got married.\n\nMAZIAR: He was a bachelor?\n\nAMIEL: Yes, he was a bachelor. He always said that unless I had come in, he\nwould have never married.\n\nMAZIAR: How old were you when you got married?\n\nAMIEL: Twenty-five. We lived together with his mother for 40 years. I had his\nmother in the house for 40 years. 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I stayed behind . . . is\nwith the help of the National Council of Jewish Women with whom I was a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"member\nfor many years, because I stayed. I came in for the World's Fair.\n\nMAZIAR: As a visitor?\n\nAMIEL: As a visitor.\n\nMAZIAR: That's how you came to Atlanta?\n\nAMIEL: I came to Atlanta. I was in New York for two weeks and he came to New\nYork to meet us for the World's Fair. Then we came down to Atlanta to visit his\nmother. The [World War II] ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"broke, so, I had to stay behind. I had to extend my\npermit . . . my visa . . . for three more months. When I decided to get married,\nI couldn't stay. I had to get married and I had to go out of the country and be\ncalled in by a husband. I didn't want to get married until I was sure that I\ncould stay. The National Council of Jewish Women . . . Miss Phillips [sp] ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was in\ncharge . . . she made arrangements for me to go to Cuba and to send all my\npapers to Cuba. About two months later they called me and they said my papers\nwere ready. All I had to do was go for a visa. I got married in a hurry and went\nto Cuba. Three days later I came back . . . called in by an American husband.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The National Council of Jewish Women had a meeting at the home of . . . the\nPhipps Plaza is where it . . .\n\nMAZIAR: . . . Alexander . . .\n\nAMIEL: . . . Alexanders. Mr. [Henry A.] Alexander [Sr.]'s home. I wasn't\nmarried yet, but I was taken there to the meeting. 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I bought a ticket for $1.\nA week before I got married, they called ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"me one night at 10 o'clock . . .\nNational Council of Jewish Women, \"Miss Sarda, you're lucky. You won the table\ncloth, the prize. Would you like to sell it?\" I said, \"Why?\" \"Somebody in here\nis offering you $100. Would you like to sell it?\" I said, \"No, I haven't seen it\nyet. I'd like to see it first. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maybe that will help me to have it . . . seeing\nthat I'm getting married next week.\" I went to see it and I told Miss Phillips,\n\"No, I'll keep it.\" So, they took it back and they engraved my initials on it. I\nstill have that table cloth and used it always in good simchas . . . my\ndaughter's wedding, my son's bar mitzvah, my son's wedding ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"parties. I hope now .\n. . I have my granddaughter getting married. I'll use it for her.\n\nMAZIAR: Isn't that wonderful? It's always brought you good luck.\n\nAMIEL: That's right. I still have it!\n\nMAZIAR: Such a wonderful story.\n\nAMIEL: It was given to National Council [of Jewish Women] by Franklin in\nWashington D. C. It was Franklin Department Store, or something. I still have it\nin the box.\n\nMAZIAR: That's a wonderful story.\n\nAMIEL: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They took it back and they embroidered my initials on it . . . a damask\ntable cloth in silk. Somebody offered me $100 for it then . . . the table cloth\nwas valued more than that. I still have it. That's something.\n\nMAZIAR: You did not have a typical Sephardic wedding when you got married?\n\nAMIEL: Sephardic wedding? I certainly did, but I got married at the AA . . . at\nthe big shul on Washington ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Street with Rabbi [Joseph] Cohen and Rabbi [Harry]\nEpstein because my husband didn't have any Sephardic education. He had an\nAshkenazi education because the shul was next to their house on Gilmer Street\nand there was no Sephardics. My mother-in-law, Rebecca Amiel, being so\nreligious, sent both of her ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"children to the AA. It was Rabbi [Aaron A.] Jacobs\nwho was, I think she told me . . . he was the chazzan then . . . who educated\nthem. Even my son was bar mitzvahed and educated at the AA.\n\nMAZIAR: How ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"come?\n\nAMIEL: Or VeShalom was on Central Avenue. We lived in here in north side. I\ncouldn't commute to take him down there. Ralph was going at the AA ever since he\nwas in kindergarten on Tenth Street. Then he went to [study] Hebrew there. He\nwas bar mitzvahed on Washington Street. 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He married also . . . the same thing at the AA . . . my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"daughter got\nmarried by Rabbi Epstein and Rabbi Cohen at the AA on north side.\n\nMAZIAR: How did you become involved with Or VeShalom? Did you belong to both places?\n\nAMIEL: Yes, I belong both places, Or VeShalom and AA, always. My husband had his\nseats always at the AA. His plaque is in both synagogues. Then when ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Or VeShalom\ncame to Highland Avenue and I had a little bit more time, I got involved with Or\nVeShalom. I was president for nine years . . . six years president and eight\nyears . . . I don't know how many . . . and vice-president. Then I quit when my\nson was bar mitzvahed, because I was busy. Then, unfortunately, my husband\npassed away and I started working. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That was it. I'm active now with Or VeShalom,\nbut not like I used to be.\n\nMAZIAR: You were president of the Sisterhood?\n\nAMIEL: Yes, president for six years or nine years.\n\nMAZIAR: So you knew all the women?\n\nAMIEL: I was member of the National Council [of Jewish Women] for so many years\nuntil I started working after my husband died. I was very active with the\nrefugees when the National Council ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"had [unintelligible: 35: 00] all those\nladies. Now I'm a little retired lady.\n\nMAZIAR: Looks like you stay pretty busy. Let's just back track a little bit. The\nwar broke out and you had to stay in Atlanta. What were you doing? Who did you\nstay with?\n\nAMIEL: I stayed with my husband's mother.\n\nMAZIAR: Because she was your relative?\n\nAMIEL: Yes. 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I couldn't go nowhere.\nWhere else would it have been better than my grandmother's sister's?\n\nMAZIAR: Your husband lived there also?\n\nAMIEL: Yes.\n\nMAZIAR: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I guess you got to know each other.\n\nAMIEL: That's where we got to know each other. It could have been family\nattraction. You can never tell but . . .\n\nMAZIAR: But aside from them, you didn't have any other family. Your family was\nall where?\n\nAMIEL: I have no one here. After the war . . . my sister came in 1945 with my\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mother and my grandmother.\n\nMAZIAR: They moved to Atlanta?\n\nAMIEL: They moved to Atlanta. They first came here. They've been in this house\nfor 48 years.\n\nMAZIAR: Their name is Sarda.\n\nAMIEL: Yes, Mama is Sarda.\n\nMAZIAR: How do you spell that?\n\nAMIEL: S-A-R-D-A. My grandmother was Levy. L-E-V-Y. They're both buried in here\n. . . the Or VeShalom cemetery. Grandma died at 95 also. 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Her\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"husband was in the stock exchange. After they came down in Atlanta . . . her\nhusband died in here, after he got sick. It was too cold to be up there\n[unintelligible: 37: 45], so we live together here now.\n\nMAZIAR: Your sister is here also?\n\nAMIEL: Yes, she lives with me. When she came to Atlanta she worked for the\nFulton County.\n\nMAZIAR: What's her name?\n\nAMIEL: Anita Hemmo. H-E-M-M-O. She went to the doctor ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"today. We both live\ntogether now in this little old house for the last 50 years . . . 48 years I've\nbeen in this house. There's no one else but us two. We have no other family.\n\nMAZIAR: You have a son?\n\nAMIEL: I have a son in here. I have a daughter in New York. My daughter is\nmarried in New York. Her husband is a professor in college. She is an assistant\nto State Attorney ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in Richmond, Virginia.\n\nMAZIAR: I'm sorry . . . she's an assistant state attorney in Richmond, Virginia?\n\nAMIEL: Yes.\n\nMAZIAR: She lives in Virginia now?\n\nAMIEL: Yes, she lives in Richmond.\n\nMAZIAR: She lived in New York for a while?\n\nAMIEL: No, that's my sister that was in New York. That's my daughter who is in .\n. .\n\nMAZIAR: . . . Richmond . . .\n\nAMIEL: . . . Virginia.\n\nMAZIAR: What's your daughter's name?\n\nAMIEL: My daughter, Anita Rimler. She's assistant to a State Attorney. My son is\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"here . . . Ralph Amiel in Atlanta . . . Standard Press . . . Ralph Amiel.\n\nMAZIAR: Your daughter is in . . .\n\nAMIEL: . . . Richmond, Virginia.\n\nMAZIAR: Your son is Ralph Amiel?\n\nAMIEL: Ralph Amiel with Standard Press.\n\nMAZIAR: That's his business?\n\nAMIEL: Yes.\n\nMAZIAR: He has children?\n\nAMIEL: He has a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"daughter, Sharon Lynn [sp] and a son, Leo Amiel, who is named\nafter my husband. Leo Amiel is in college. My daughter is the same thing. She\nhas a son who is studying at Jamestown University who\nis becoming a lawyer, and a daughter who is very active in Israel and very . . .\nshe's in Jamestown University . . . JMU . . . James Madison University. She's very active in Israel. I guess that's my family.\n       ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nMAZIAR: You're from originally . . .\n\nAMIEL: . . . Cairo.\n    ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nMAZIAR: You were born in Cairo. Your sister was also born in Cairo?\n\nAMIEL: Yes.\n\nMAZIAR: Your mother was born . . .\n\nAMIEL: . . . in Cairo. My father was born in Cairo.\n\nMAZIAR: What business was he in?\n\nAMIEL: Banking.\n\nMAZIAR: Was he a money lender?\n\nAMIEL: No, he worked at the National Bank of Egypt. That's where I worked after\nI came out of college. My sister was working with Shell Oil Company. We were\nfive generations in Cairo.     ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n\nMAZIAR: It sounds like the Jewish community must have been very comfortable.\n\nAMIEL: Eighty thousand Jewish people in Cairo. Now there's not even a minyan. I\nwent there to see some cousins five years ago. That's the last trip. I went for\nthe first time after I came ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in in 1939, but just to see my family . . . my\ncousins. Unfortunately, they both passed away in between. I don't believe there\nwere about 30 old ladies in an old shul . . . the big shuls open every Friday\nnight, hoping that there will be some tourists going in and visiting so that\nthey can make prayers . 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I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wouldn't go and live anywhere else. I couldn't. I've traveled. I\nwent back to Europe many times until two years ago. I went to visit my uncle in\nLausanne [Switzerland]. My uncle and my aunt, both of them died . . . 105 my\nuncle was. My aunt was 85 only . . . my father's sister's . . . sister and\nbrothers. I still have part of my family in Paris [France], a cousin. That's the\nonly ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"thing left over from my family. One cousin in Paris.\n\nMAZIAR: This is from your side of the family?\n\nAMIEL: My side, Sarda. My side of family. My father's side . . . family . . . in\nLausanne, Switzerland, and in Paris.\n\nMAZIAR: Let me go back a little bit to life in Egypt. These were Egyptian people\nwho worked in your house or were they . . .\n\nAMIEL: . . . Arabs . . . just like years ago they used to have. They were not\nslaves. 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That was it.\n   ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nMAZIAR: You ate non-kosher meat.\n\nAMIEL: Yes, but you see the Arab was . . . we were very close with the Arabs.\nThe Arab was like kosher, because the Arab wouldn't eat any treif meat. They\nwouldn't eat ham or pork, so we never ate that. We used to eat lamb mostly, and\nveal. 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I think so, I don't know.\n  ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nMAZIAR: How unusual. Did your family keep Friday nights?\n\nAMIEL: Yes. I still do it. I don't sew Saturday . . . sewing or cooking or\nanything on Saturday, no. The only thing was, they were keeping it a tradition .\n. . the Jewish tradition . . . but no kosher meats. That's the only thing,\nbecause we didn't eat any ham or pork.  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We still speak\nFrench between my sister at home.\n   ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nMAZIAR: Is that right?\n\nAMIEL: Yes, that's our language. We speak French.\n\nMAZIAR: Did you speak Ladino?\n\nAMIEL: No, we never spoke Spanish. I learned Spanish when I came to Atlanta with\nall these ladies in here. My mother-in-law the same thing. She didn't know\nSpanish. She learned from the ladies in here. We were Europeans . . . French. We\ndidn't go to Turkey. All these other people went to Turkey and then went to\nRhodes, because it was part of Turkey . . . the island. 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We were traditional Sephardic. I had eight uncles\nand aunts, as I showed you on my father's side . . . my father . . . were eight\n. . . five brothers and three sisters . . . eight of them, with children in\nthere. My mother's side . . . my grandfather had one brother with five children\nmarried ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=3540.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and their cousins . . . we were all the same thing. The girls . . .\nnothing but the family . . . we knew by going to the synagogue, or whatever it\nwas. The men, that's what counted, the boys.\n       ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=3570.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nMAZIAR: They were important.\n\nAMIEL: They were supposed to be educated, and so on. We went to Catholic school\nby nuns for 10 or 12 years. They used to go to church. They were not forcing us\nto go to church. They were not making any praise or anything. Whenever the other\nones would go to church, we used to be out of school.\n\nMAZIAR: Were you ever allowed to be friends with non-Jewish girls or non-Jewish boys?\n\nAMIEL: Yes. In the neighborhood over there . . . we didn't live in the ghetto .\n. . we didn't live in that surrounding. We had friends.     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All married at the    ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=3690.0,3720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nsynagogue, very religious. That was it . . . assimilation, because you knew your\nbackground was Jewish. I'll be honest with you. I had a girl working with me at\nthe bank . . . a Jewish girl, Yiddish girl . . .\n\nMAZIAR: . . . you mean Ashkenazi?\n\nAMIEL: . . . Ashkenazi, Yiddish, Ashkenazi. Do you want me to say it?\n       ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=3720.0,3750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nMAZIAR: Go ahead.\n\nAMIEL: She married a Jewish boy, but local. I would say . . . Egyptians, not\nGreek, not European, not Italian, Greek, or French. Maybe from the first one who\nhad come in. They called them . . . we used to call them . . . local . . .\n\nMAZIAR: . . . \"Oriental\" . . .\n\nAMIEL: . . . Oriental. Do you know that his mother sat shiva because he\nmarried a Yiddish girl . 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Russian, the Germans was just because it was French and Germany\nnationality that [would] clash. There were always wars between France and\nGermany, but talking of Polish or Russian . . .\n\nMAZIAR: . . . they were not acceptable.\n\nAMIEL: It was a disgrace. It was Jewish quarter.\n  ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=3810.0,3840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nMAZIAR: It's been wonderful talking with you. We've been talking for over an\nhour and fifteen minutes.\n\nAMIEL: No kidding? I'm sorry I kept you that long.\n\nMAZIAR: No, you're not . . . don't be sorry at all. I really enjoyed it. One of\nthe things that happens the more we talk the more that comes to mind. I find\nthat after talking for a while . . . we don't want to get too tired.\n\nAMIEL: No, that's not what I mean. You have it closed, don't you?\n          ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=3840.0,3870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nMAZIAR: Go ahead.\n\nAMIEL: No, I was going to tell you . . . you talked about the school . . . nuns.\nI had some pictures. That's was a good time . . . of my nuns and my school.\n\nMAZIAR: Maybe we can get together again.\n\nAMIEL: You see what the family was, in those days, in 1900 maybe or . . .\n\nMAZIAR: . . . how many people are in that picture?\n\nAMIEL: How many would there be in here?\n ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=3870.0,3900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nMAZIAR: No, it looks like there are at least 60 or 70.\n\nAMIEL: At least. Two . . . four . . . about six or seven. You see some children\nin there and that was way before my mother was married.\n\nMAZIAR: Must have been a wonderful life.\n\nAMIEL: Yes, they were getting together, and there were never intermarriages. It\nwas all very close family. 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I don't\nknow . . . the Israeli government gave him a big dinner and medals and someone\nin New York . . . what ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=4140.0,4170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/transcript/22470/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they did to him. When he went back to Israel, he got\nmarried. It didn't last too long . . . about five or six years later . . . he\nlives with his father now. He's still blind. That's terrible.\n\nMAZIAR: He was very brave.\n\nAMIEL: That's the only casualty. 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Historically, the vernacular language of Sephardic Jews was Ladino, a Romance language derived from Old Spanish, incorporating elements from the old Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula, Hebrew, Aramaic, and in the lands receiving those who were exiled, Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, Greek, Bulgarian, and Serbo-Croatian vocabulary.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/annotation_set/349/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAhavath Achim Synagogue was founded as an Orthodox congregation in 1887 in a small room on Gilmer Street. In 1901 they moved to a permanent building at the corner of Piedmont Avenue and Gilmer Street. In 1921, the congregation constructed a synagogue at Washington Street and Woodward Avenue. It joined the Conservative movement in 1952. The final service in the Washington Street building was held in 1958 to make way for construction of the Downtown Connector (the concurrent section of Interstate 75 and Interstate 85 through Atlanta). The synagogue moved to its current location on Peachtree Battle Avenue in 1958. 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It must meet extremely strict standards of production.  When not in use in services, it is stored in the holiest spot in a synagogue, the \u003cem\u003eAron Kodesh\u003c/em\u003e (Holy Ark), which is usually an ornate curtained-off cabinet or section of the synagogue built along the wall that most closely faces Jerusalem, the direction Jews face when praying.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/annotation_set/349/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRosh HaShanah\u003c/em\u003e [Hebrew: “head of the year”] begins the cycle of High Holy Days. It introduces the Ten Days of Penitence, when Jews examine their souls and take stock of their actions. 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Most of the day is spent in prayer, reciting \u003cem\u003eyizkor\u003c/em\u003e for deceased relatives, confessing sins, requesting divine forgiveness, and listening to \u003cem\u003eTorah\u003c/em\u003e readings and sermons. People greet each other with the wish that they may be sealed in the heavenly book for a good year ahead. The day ends with the blowing of the \u003cem\u003eshofar\u003c/em\u003e (a ram’s horn).\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29968/file/97927/annotation_set/349/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eOakland Cemetery is the oldest cemetery, and one of the largest green spaces, in Atlanta. Many notable Georgians are buried at Oakland including Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind, Dr. Joseph Jacobs, owner of the pharmacy where John Pemberton first sold Coca-Cola as a soft drink, Bobby Jones, the only golfer to win the Grand Slam, the United States Amateur, United States Open, British Amateur, and the Open Championship in the same year, as well as former Georgia governors and Atlanta mayors. 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Governor John M. Slaton, believing there had been a miscarriage of justice, commuted Frank’s sentence to life in prison. This enraged a group of men who styled themselves the “Knights of Mary Phagan.” They drove to the prison, kidnapped Frank from his cell and drove him to Marietta, Georgia where they lynched him. Many years later, the murderer was revealed to be Jim Conley, who had lied in the trial, pinning it on Frank instead. 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