{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/w08w95172p/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Wexler, Sanford"]},"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":["1999-07-20 (creation)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Audio"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source"]},"value":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum","Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Collection","Savannah Jewish Archives"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eSanford Wexler interviewed by Harriet Meyerhoff on July 20th, 1999 in Savannah, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eSanford Wexler was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1915 and moved to Savannah, Georgia at the age of 5. His parents, originally from Romania, bought Arnstein's, a dry-cleaning business, in 1920. Mr. Wexler did not go to college and immediately after high school, he started working with his father in the dry-cleaning business. He passed away in 2007 at the age of 91.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eSanford talks about growing up in the city with few Jewish neighbors, friends and teachers. He was active at the JEA, Jewish Educational Alliance. He played all sports, B’nai Brith AZA, the Nathan Schultz literacy club and the debating team. He was most successful with basketball. Their team was undefeated and played against Georgia Southern, Georgia Tech and Clemson. He was not drafted into the military due to his poor vision, he was declared 4-F.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMr Wexler was the chairman of the lecture and concert series at the JEA, Jewish Educational Alliance. He brought in speakers to educate the citizens on Zionism such as Pierre Van Paassen. He went on to become the Vice President.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/27926"]}},{"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":["Savannah (Ga.)","Jews--Social life and customs.","Antisemitism","Civil RIghts"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eSanford Wexler interviewed by Harriet Meyerhoff on July 20th, 1999 in Savannah, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSanford Wexler was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1915 and moved to Savannah, Georgia at the age of 5. His parents, originally from Romania, bought Arnstein's, a dry-cleaning business, in 1920. Mr. Wexler did not go to college and immediately after high school, he started working with his father in the dry-cleaning business. He passed away in 2007 at the age of 91.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSanford talks about growing up in the city with few Jewish neighbors, friends and teachers. He was active at the JEA, Jewish Educational Alliance. He played all sports, B’nai Brith AZA, the Nathan Schultz literacy club and the debating team. He was most successful with basketball. Their team was undefeated and played against Georgia Southern, Georgia Tech and Clemson. He was not drafted into the military due to his poor vision, he was declared 4-F.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMr Wexler was the chairman of the lecture and concert series at the JEA, Jewish Educational Alliance. He brought in speakers to educate the citizens on Zionism such as Pierre Van Paassen. He went on to become the Vice President.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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Now, tell me how you got here.\n\nWEXLER: By train. No, no, we lived in Toledo, Ohio, and my father wasn't happy\nup there and saw an advertisement in the paper about this place for sale and we\ncame down and saw it and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"bought it.\n\nMEYERHOFF: What place for sale?\n\nWEXLER: The dry cleaning place. Arnstein's. And he sent us a telegram, \"Y'all\ncome.\" And we came and we were saved, thank God, we didn't become Yankees.\n\nMEYERHOFF: What year was that?\n\nWEXLER: 1920.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Where did the name Arnstein come from?\n\nWEXLER: That was the name of the place when my father bought it and he left it\nthat way.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Arnstein's was located where?\n\nWEXLER: On Seiler Avenue, between Price and East Broad.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Okay. Your parents, what were their names?\n\nWEXLER: My mother's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"name was Schwartz, Fannie Schwartz. They came from Romania\nand lived in Canada and then lived in Toledo, Ohio. That's where I was born. We\ncame down here when I was five years old.\n\nMEYERHOFF: You came along with who? Who were your siblings?\n\nWEXLER: My sister Jeanette, she was a Yewis. My sister Rose, she's Rose Jacobs\nnow from Charleston. My sister Dorothy, was a Mirsky, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and Louis A. Wexler, my\nbrother who has passed away five years ago next week.\n\nMEYERHOFF: So, once you settled here, where did your family live?\n\nWEXLER: 315 East Charlton Street. Little, white, old-fashioned, little old--\npaying the unheard of rent of $75.00 a month at that time, which, of course, was\nquite --\n\nMEYERHOFF: And there were ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a lot of Jewish families in that area?\n\nWEXLER: Well, there were some. Not particularly, Hymie Winner was one of them.\nHe was the only one that really was in that neighborhood.\n\nMEYERHOFF: What else was going on in that neighborhood at the time, in the '20s?\n\nWEXLER: Nothing particularly. Except one time we had a riot there when a black\nman they were trying to get him out of jail. They couldn't do it. But that was\nthe only excitement that we had.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Any other Jewish merchants in that neighborhood?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEXLER: No, no. Everything was on Broughton Street or on the west side. Very few\n- Leo Blumenthal lived in that street. But that was the only ones in that\nneighborhood. At that time -- neighborhood. But that was the only one of that\nColemans, Barney Coleman and Izzy Coleman, lived across the...\n\nMEYERHOFF: Well, where was the location of Arnstein's?\n\nWEXLER: On Seiler Avenue.\n\nMEYERHOFF: In the '20s?\n\nWEXLER: Yes, yes. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That was at East Broad between Price and East Broad on Seiler Avenue.\n\nMEYERHOFF: I didn't realize that it had been there that long that you came here\nto that neighborhood.\n\nWEXLER: Oh, yeah, yeah, it was probably 1910 was probably established. It's been\nthere a long time, yeah.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Okay. Now, where would you have gone to school and, at that time?\n\nWEXLER: Well, I went to Massey School. That's the school on Habersham and\nTaylor, I think it is. 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And from there to Savannah High School.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Did you have any Jewish teachers during that time?\n\nWEXLER: In, at ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"37th Street, yeah. Mrs. Shawl. She was Jewish. That's the only\none that I can remember. In high school I had Gertie Javetz and Mr. Eisenberg,\nat that time. Those were the only Jewish teachers that I had. Mr. Eisenberg was\nthe Athletic Director of Savannah High School at that time. That's about it.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Okay. From the time that you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"were young, were you involved in the JEA?\n\nWEXLER: Yeah. When I was 12 years old, 11 or 12, I tried to go gym classes. Of\ncourse, I had to go to Hebrew School several times, Monday, Wednesday and\nFriday, so the only time I could go was Friday. Of course, I played on the\nbasketball team which is that picture there. And after my bar mitzvah then you\ndidn't have to go to Hebrew School anymore, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so then I played Monday, Wednesday\nand Friday and when I got to be 14 I went up to what we called the\nintermediates. And I played basketball with the intermediates and coached the\njuniors at that time.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Well, Sanford, you are known to be, to have been very active with the\nyouth and with the JEA. Were your parents also active?\n\nWEXLER: Not particularly. My father was a hardworking man and that's what he did\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"all his life. He worked, period. But he was, he liked to be involved in this\nwonderful institution and actively supported it, monetarily and otherwise. My\nmother had five children to raise and no maid so she didn't have much time for\nextra-curricular activity.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Which was the popular bakery at that time? Was it always Gottliebs?\n\nWEXLER: Yeah. Gottliebs was the biggest, there was a Rundbaken Bakery here for a\nwhile, but, to my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"recollection, Gottlieb really took it over. They were the ones.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Sanford, what activities, you were good in sports. What did you play?\n\nWEXLER: Well, I played all sports. I don't know how good I was but I played all\nsports. Basketball, we had the softball, you know. I don't know whether you\nremember that but we used to play softball in the old Alliance upstairs and I\nwas active in that. I was active as a handball player and that was the only\nsports we had at that time, you know.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Sanford, why did the boys not play in the park outside of the JEA?\n\nWEXLER: Well, they didn't like it. There was no playground at that time, see. We\ncould always come over there. When I was coming up there wasn't plentiful money\naround so we had to find activities that didn't cost anything. So we would spend\nall our afternoons at the JEA playing whatever there was at that time. We had\nquite an active group, there was a bunch of us there and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we could always find\nsomething to do there. Kept us out of trouble.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Do you remember who your coach was?\n\nWEXLER: Mr. Abrams was there when I first got there and then Jerome Eisenberg\ntook over from him. That could have been in, probably the early '30s I believe\nit was when he came in. Maybe before then. But around that time, I think it was\nwhen he got there and he was the only, he was the athletic director and\neverything else. At that time. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I believe it was around the early '30s. It could\nhave been some other time, but I believe that's what it was. Close enough, anyway.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Now, I know that you were very involved, and I want to get into that,\nbut I want to know how it evolved - did you go into the military service first?\n\nWEXLER: No. No, I was declared 4-F. I was examined three times and every time\nthey turned me because of my eyes. I started wearing glasses when I was 16 years\nold. That was it. But I did, I played and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I managed to get by in basketball\nbecause I could, don't have to have real good eyesight to do that but I managed.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Well, what did you do here when so many of your contemporaries were\naway? At war.\n\nWEXLER: Well, that's when I took over most of the athletic department at the\nAlliance. I coached at the, the juniors and the intermediates, what was left.\nAnd the AZA, did most of that. I was president of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nathan Schultz Literary\nSociety. We used to do debating. Later on they asked me to take over the AZA and\nI became that, the advisor to the AZA and I coached the basketball team and the\ndebating team. Talked Buddy Portman into doing the declaim because he didn't\nthink he could do it and I said, \"I believe you can. Try it.\" He did it and he\nwas fine. Alan Gottlieb ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and Irwin Konter were the debaters at that time. Harry\nSlotin and Murray Arkin did it a little bit, too. And then we had, at one time a\nlittle later on, we had a Junior Board of Directors. You had this for the young\nkids and I was president of that Junior Board of Directors for a time. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The\nintermediate basketball team - we played at Charleston.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Sanford, tell me about the, your basketball team. For instance, how\nfar did that go with success?\n\nWEXLER: You mean the local team? Well we won most of our games, on the senior\nbasketball team. And the intermediate team, when I played, for about four, for\nabout three, four or five years we never were defeated. We won every game we\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"played. Irvin Center was on the team, Melvin Blair, myself, I think, the ones\nthat were there all the time I can recall on the intermediate team. And then\nwhen you got to be 18, then you had to go to the varsity and I managed to play\nwith the varsity a few years, too. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Albert Mazo was there. Harry Eichholz.\nMaurice Alpert. Leo Center. Irvin Center. Myself. We used to play. Well, we\nplayed Georgia Southern at that time. Of course, it was Georgia Normal Teachers\nCollege. When they had home games, we'd go up to Statesboro and play with them.\nWe had some wonderful experiences doing that. The fact is in one game, I lived\nup in Statesboro when we played them. At the end of the half we were ahead ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"23-9.\nOf course, that was big scores in those days. Not like it is now, you know. The\ncoach said, \"I didn't want to tell you before,\" this was Mr. Eisenberg, when he\nsaid, \"Fellows, this is my birthday. I'd like to win this game.\" Well, we had a\nlead, 23 to 9 at the half. About three minutes at the start of the half, it was\ntie score. We all thought we were going to die. But we managed to beat them up\nthere and that was quite an experience to beat them up there. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We used to play\nthem down here. In fact we played Georgia Tech here one year. And Clemson\nUniversity came here one year and played us.\n\nMEYERHOFF: The JEA?\n\nWEXLER: Yeah. Yeah. And the Boston Celtics came through here on exhibition and\nplayed the JEA.\n\nMEYERHOFF: How was that arranged?\n\nWEXLER: One year there was the Boston Celtics - New York Celtics, I think it was\nat that time. They were on a bond-selling tour, you know. Some of the fellows\nthat really ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"became great coaches - Joe Lapchek, Davey Banks, on the Boston, New\nYork Celtics I think it was. They became, I think Joe Lapchek was the coach at\nSt. John's University. He was on that team. They were great basketball players.\nWe played them.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Is that because the JEA had such good players? Or it was convenient?\n\nWEXLER: Well, we had a lot of good players and we could play long. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I played\nuntil I was about 30 or 35. You know. As I say, money wasn't available. I\ngraduated from Savannah High School in 1934. Things weren't at their best in\n1934, as you can imagine. So we had to find things to do that didn't cost money\nand that's what we did. So we played up there.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Were any of the basketball players here of exceptional quality?\n\nWEXLER: Well, Harry Eichholz was exceptional. Leo Center was an exceptional\nplayer. And before my time I heard that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Benny Sheftall was quite a player. I\nremember seeing him play, of course. What kind of compare players at that stage\nand this stage - you can't do it. They are so much better now.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Why didn't boxing ever develop at the JEA?\n\nWEXLER: We did have a boxing team. Yes, we boxed. I was the manager one year and\nwe boxed the Catholic Young People's Association in the City Auditorium. That\nwas downtown at that time. We had two or three ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"thousand people at that time. Joe\nDinerman was on the boxing team. Leo Center was on the boxing team. Maurice\nAlpert was on the boxing team. David Rubinitz was on there, he's didn't score\nfrom that point, did that now, but he was on there. Colman Mopper who became a\ndoctor and moved up to Chicago, I mean up to Cincinnati, I believe it was. He\nlived up there for a while. 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How did that get started?\n\nWEXLER: Well, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that's what we, I mean, there was a Zangwell Club, too, at that time?\n\nMEYERHOFF: What is Zangwell?\n\nWEXLER: Zangwell.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Zangwell?\n\nWEXLER: He was a prominent Jewish person up in New York City at that time.\nNathan Schultz Club. Nathan Schultz was a very prominent -----, So that's what -\nwe used to debate against them and I debated, as a Young Judean, I debated in\nAtlanta one time and in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Macon one time and in Savannah one time.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Can you remember some interesting issues that you would have debated\nat that time?\n\nWEXLER: Well, yes, we debated about all of the, how could Israel support, a\nsmall country, support all the Jewish people? And we did that and, you know,\nwhat to do. It was to be for those people who had trouble in their country. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"This\nwas back in '28, '29, '30,'31. Before it had really gotten, happened. It was for\nthose people who were having trouble to have a place to go where they wouldn't\nhave trouble. We also debated whether it should become an agricultural country\nor a manufacturing country. And this is the kind of subjects we debated. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Offhand I can't recall who they\nwere, but I surely wasn't the first. No.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Anything interesting that you can remember from the events then vs. today.\n\nWEXLER: I know when they first declared Israel, you know, the Balfour\nDeclaration. That was a big thing then. The Balfour Declaration. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We had--I was\nalso chairman of the Literary, of the Committee, at the Alliance and we used to\nbring speakers down. We had a fellow by the name of Pierre don Passen, who was a\nProtestant minister and an ardent Zionist and he used to go around talking for\nIsrael and how it's got to be done, and this and that and the other. 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He was the one that told us about Moyshe\nDayan, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"how he got his eye. That was the first time I'd heard about him at that\ntime. But he was a Protestant minister who toured the whole country talking\nabout Israel - we've got to help them - we've got to do it. Very ardent Zionist.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Were you responsible for bringing speakers in as well?\n\nWEXLER: Well, that's what - I brought him back - that year we had him. Also\nthere was a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rabbi Giddlesohn who was on Harry Truman's civil rights committee.\nWe brought him down. We did things when civil rights wasn't a popular issue, you\nknow. Particularly down here. We were the first ones to bring him down. Paul\nKulick, I believe, was the director, executive director of the Alliance and I\nwas chairman of that lecture and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"concert series, what we called it at that time.\nI was chairman of that and brought that down.\n\nMEYERHOFF: What was the feeling of the JEA, of the Jewish community amidst the\nnon-Jewish at that time?\n\nWEXLER: We've always had a great relationship. We never had any problem with,\nnone that I can recall in the way of anti-Semitic feeling. We knew it was there,\nof course, it's always going to be there. It's not going to change. But it would\nnever, we always had Jewish ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"aldermen. In fact it was Jewish aldermen that helped\nbuild the present City Hall. I think his name was Myers. Lee Roy Meyers\n[Herman]. He was mayor at the time that that was done. So we've always had a\ngreat relationship with the Christian community. Never had any problems.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Did you know anything about the Jewish architect for the City Hall?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEXLER: No, I don't. No, I don't.\n\nMEYERHOFF: You didn't know the name, Witcover?\n\nWEXLER: No. He was one of them? I didn't know. Of course, when that was built,\nthat was about 19--\n\nMEYERHOFF: Before you.\n\nWEXLER: Yeah. I was just a gleam in my father's eye at that time. And the\nintermediates would play Charleston. We would go there for a home and home and\nthen they would come to Savannah to play ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"us. It was a very strong rivalry. The\nsame way with Jacksonville. We had our own, I would say that we won more than we\nlost, but we didn't win every time. We often played, I was on the team that\nplayed the Jewish Progressives out of Atlanta. I didn't get in the game but that\nwas one of the few times that we won. They usually beat us pretty good. 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But as far as\nour relationship with the Jewish community - I played on the Savannah High\nbasketball team one year, but I wasn't big enough to really get very far with it\nand I only managed ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"one year.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Tell me about the rest of the city in the way of the Jewish community\nat that time. Where was most of the shopping?\n\nWEXLER: Well, most of the, Broughton Street was the only place to shop down on\nBroughton Street.\n\nMEYERHOFF: City Market as far as food shopping?\n\nWEXLER: Oh, yes, sure. That was a tremendous place. Yes. My mother would go\nthere every Friday and then we'd have to go pick her up and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"carry the things\nhome. Sure.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Did your mother make any specialties for the holidays?\n\nWEXLER: Yes. My mother made a strudel that was out of this world. She used to\nmake it for all the people that, you know, when they had bar mitzvahs, I mean\nshe would make them for them, yeah. She was a great cook. She used to make her\nown bagels and everything like that. As I say, she didn't have too much time for\nextra-curricular activities.\n\nMEYERHOFF: So she didn't have time to even sell that--\n\nWEXLER: Oh, she didn't. She just made them for her ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"friends. You had to be a\nclose friend, otherwise she wouldn't make them. It was a lot of work.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Sure.\n\nWEXLER: It was tremendous, but she did it pretty well.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Now, when, surely not everyone had cars - so how did the youth get around.\n\nWEXLER: We walked.\n\nMEYERHOFF: You walked. Well, what about when you socialized in Charleston and\nJacksonville? Was that by train?\n\nWEXLER: No, we'd usually go by cars that time. But it was about 2 or 2-1/2 hour\nride to Charleston ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"by car. And to Jacksonville, we would drive, when we were\nplaying basketball we'd leave about 2:30 in the afternoon and get there about 5\nor 6 and then we'd play basketball and then drive back that night - get back\nabout 7:30 in the morning, because it was a 2-way line, 2-way highway and a\nlousy car. The cows would roam on the road sometime and it was rough. You'd had\nto be very careful.\n\nMEYERHOFF: What made you leave the Charlton Street address?\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEXLER: Well, the\nfamily and things got better for my father and so we bought a house out on\nAbercorn Street. 1703 Abercorn. Much bigger and much nicer and we went out there.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Had many of the Jewish community moved?\n\nWEXLER: Yeah. But most of them were all on the west side. They were around 36th\nStreet. 36th and between Montgomery or Barnard and Montgomery. That's where most\nof the Jewish people at that time. And on Bryan Street. A lot of them lived up\non Bryan Street and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Congress Street. Over the stores. Life was good. We had no,\nwe didn't know we were deprived. We had a good time and our relationship with\nthe black people was like everybody else. It was good. We had no big problem\nwith that at all. We knew that they were separate but we didn't mind.\n\nMEYERHOFF: And you were a member of the B.B.Jacob?\n\nWEXLER: Yes.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Can you think of anything in particular or outstanding that you can\ntell me about the B.B.Jacob?\n\nWEXLER: No, not really. We, before air conditioning, it was hot as the devil up\nthere, naturally. But you managed.\n\nMEYERHOFF: How did people manage? That almost sounds unbelievable now, but I\nremember as a child,\n\nWEXLER: It was hot. It was hot. You'd fan yourself, particularly on Yom Kippur,\nyou know, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when you were fasting, it was tough. And all the windows were open and\nfinally they put in what they called \"air flow\" and they would have a place down\nin the basement where they'd put ice and the fans would blow across the ice and\nhave that come in there. That was the only way you could do it. It may have\nlowered the temperature two or three degrees, but that was all. It could have\nbeen 85 or 90 inside that place. Or more. 'Cause it was always filled, you\nknow, on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yom Kippur. Same way in playing basketball up in the Alliance. It was\nhot. Of course, that was in the winter. We played basketball in the winter, so\nit wasn't so bad. But there was no such thing as air conditioning then. You put\nup with it. Excuse me, you had fans, but they couldn't do much good.\n\nMEYERHOFF: What was Trustees Gardens like, then? Because you're living in that\narea now.\n\nWEXLER: I don't really remember much about it. There wasn't -- Of course, it was\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"gone. There was - all this area up here was, was depressed. This was a bad area.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Up here, for the tape, you mean the Old Fort section.\n\nWEXLER: The Old\nFort section up through here. You could have bought the whole section here - for\n$50,000 you could have bought five blocks at that time. Things were tough.\n\nMEYERHOFF: What was happening at the Pirate's House in those days?\n\nWEXLER: I don't remember exactly when it was started. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Now, they say it's been\nthere a long time. Probably the buildings have been there a long time, but\nexactly when it became a restaurant, I don't know. But I know that when Herb\nTraub bought it and exactly when I don't remember anyway. But he turned it\naround and it became very, very popular and a very, very fine restaurant. He was\nthe one that did it. He was a good restaurant man and he did well.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Sanford, did you go to college?\n\nWEXLER: No.\n\nMEYERHOFF: So, after you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"graduated high school, you probably--\n\nWEXLER: Went to work and then after I worked a while, then with my father and\nspent the rest of my life working with him until he passed away and then I took\nit all.\n\nMEYERHOFF: You said Arnstein's was the name of the drycleaners.\n\nWEXLER: Yeah.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Do you remember how it got its name?\n\nWEXLER: I think that the man that started it was named Arnstein.\n\nMEYERHOFF: And he was Jewish?\n\nWEXLER: That I don't know. I think he may have been. But my father\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Tell me about Young Judea.\n\nWEXLER: It was a national organization. Something on the order of AZA, but the\nAZA hadn't started then. They used to call the different clubs, you know, like\nthe AZA or the BBYO or any organization like that that you were, as you went to\nthe Alliance you joined the clubs. You know they had the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"groups say from 10 to\n12 and then from 12 on and after 18 there wasn't too much, that's when we got\ninto the Literary Societies and we would do that kind of work at that time.\n\nMEYERHOFF: What about drama?\n\nWEXLER: Yes. Sure we had plays up at the Alliance one time. My sister was very\nactive in that.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Who directed it?\n\nWEXLER: We used to get, most of it was voluntary, but sometimes we'd have a\nprofessional come in. A social director is what we called it at that time. A\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"social director, that was about what it was. Got to remember at that time there\nwasn't much money involved. You could get a good director to come down for\n$3,000 or $4,000 a year. Some of them they do. But we had a lot of them down. We\nhad the executive director of the Alliance was a very popular man. Mr. Pinsker\nwas probably more responsible than anybody else for the success of. But we used\nto ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"play the cracker club, you know, and the Catholic Young People's Association\nand we'd play 18 to 20 games a year. But that's with the Young Judea. We used to\ndebate Charleston and debate Augusta. Augusta wasn't that much at that time.\nThey never had too big a Jewish community. And Macon never had too big, they had\na few. But Savannah and Charleston and Atlanta and then Jacksonville were the\nones that had the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"bigger--Jewish people.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Now was it mostly the B.B. and the A.A. or would you say all three\nshuls, the use [the JEA] . . . \n\nWEXLER: Well, at that time most of the B.B. and the A.A. and then gradually\nafter they established then the Mickve Israel became involved. But it wasn't\nuntil right around the time of the war when they came in. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So that's what was there. That's why it was established. I\nthink it was in 1910, or earlier it may have been. I'm not sure. But Rabbi\nSolomon was the main, if I'm not mistaken, the main man. Mr. Gazan at that time\nwho was a very prominent Jewish lawyer, and between the two of them they raised\nenough money, mostly from the Mickve Israel because they had the one, they were\nestablished. They were there ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for 150 years before a lot of the people from\nRussia we'll say, from Romania - the poorer class, you know, came in.\n\nMEYERHOFF: So there was a resettlement program even then, as there is today with Russians.\n\nWEXLER: That's exactly right. That's exactly right.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Do you remember who would have been in charge of that? Or who taught\nthem English?\n\nWEXLER: No. I can't remember but it was all voluntary work, you know. We had no,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"send some of them to the Hebrew School, you know, and try to teach them English.\nIt was a matter of teaching them manners, really.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Manners?\n\nWEXLER: Manners. They didn't know. Some of the social graces. They came and they\ndidn't have a chance to learn, you know. Some of them were right out of the\nghettos, who came in here. I'm talking about around 1900 - 1905. At the time my\nfather came here. My father didn't speak English when he came to this country.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Where in the downtown would they have been placed for housing?\n\nWEXLER: They lived all over. They lived on Bryan Street and Yamacraw and a\nlittle place called Frogtown as some people called it.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Where exactly is Frogtown?\n\nWEXLER: Well, it would be over where Union, not the Union, you know where I-16\ncomes in there with the Union Station? It was back over in that section. 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George Oliff, every\none of them had stores.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Well it must have been a good living, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but very limited for Jewish life.\n\nWEXLER: There was no Jewish life at that time.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Right.\n\nWEXLER: At the most, two families in the town, what could it have been? And\nsometimes, most of the time, they were competing against each other so they\ncouldn't have too much of a, they had some social life and they got together but\n- they used to come here, most of them at that time would come to Savannah for\nthe holidays and they would all remember - they'd come in Rosh Hashanah and Yom\nKippur, there would be a flood of them and they'd come in and spend ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"time there.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Sanford, in your adult life, you did so much when, as a young man, in\nyour adult life what have you been involved in?\n\nWEXLER: I don't get involved in nothing, because for some reason or other, I was\nvery active in the Alliance, I was the vice president of the Alliance, but that\nwas as far as I got and I'm not going to say any more about it.\n\nMEYERHOFF: And who were your, who have been your friends through the years?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEXLER: Well, Bobby Gordon, Harry Eichholz, Jake Fine, Carly Green who was\nkilled. I don't know whether you remember Carly. He was a very close friend of\nmine. And, that, there were a number but offhand I can't remember who they are.\nBut I lost a lot of contemporaries that I've had. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Afterwards, Mike Adilman, he\ncame to town, he was a good friend of mine. He stayed here, naturally.\n\nMEYERHOFF: With so much that we have now in our society, can you think of, and\nfrom the 1920s on, life was so much simpler, can you think of how it was better\nthen than it might be now?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEXLER: I can't say it was better. We didn't know any better. We didn't know we\nwere depressed. We didn't know deprived. We managed. Like I say, we didn't have\nany money so we would go to the Alliance and play all afternoon, then go home\nand get something to eat and then afterwards, come back at night and play.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Did non-Jewish boys want to join the JEA?\n\nWEXLER: Well, a lot of, some of them came in and played with us, but none of\nthem at that time there, I don't recall any of the boys being members of the\nJEA. That ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"started, I think, when we opened up out at the new place. I was on the\ncommittee that bought that land for that, for the new JEA. In fact, Abercorn\nStreet wasn't paved at that time, when we bought that land. And we wanted to buy\nthe strip on Montgomery Street, on Derenne Avenue, where the shopping center is\n- we didn't have the money. We could have bought it for $20,000 and we didn't\nhave the money to buy it. But it was a good life. We ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"enjoyed things. We went\nand, a lot of them lived at Tybee during the summer. A lot of them out there,\nthe Slotins out there and the Fines.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Can you tell me anything about the boardwalk in the evening times at\nthe beach\n\nWEXLER: Oh, yeah. The boardwalk was great and the Tybrisa Pavilion, you know,\nhave you been to the Pavilion at Tybee? Well, Tybrisa was twice that big. We\nused to have dances there every night.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Every night?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEXLER: Every night.\n\nMEYERHOFF: In the summer.\n\nWEXLER: That's right. We would go on Friday, I mean, we would go Monday night\nand Saturday night, we'd go to the dances. And Sunday night they had a concert\nand we had some of the finest orchestras. Cab Calloway came through here one\ntime. Bob Crosby came down, that was Bing Crosby's brother came here. Louis\nArmstrong came through one night and gave a concert and a dance up there. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"There\nwere a lot of them that came, Tommy Dorsey. Jimmy Dorsey's band came through\nhere. We would have a lonesome night and we'd go out, drive out there.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Where would they have stayed then?\n\nWEXLER: Well, some of the boys used to get together - me, Jake Fine, Harry\nEichholz and other different, but us three, we could rent a room at the Hotel\nDesoto at that time - now listen carefully - for $200 a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"year, for the whole\nseason. $50 a man and we had that was our room. We could come on any night. We\nhad free linens, free anything and towels. $50 a season. $200 for the room. So\nwe had that. We used to come down Friday afternoon and Saturday and Sunday and\ngo back Sunday night.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Well, it sounds ridiculous today, but when you paid that, was that still . . .\n\nWEXLER: When I got out of high school ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my salary was $30 a month, first job I\never had. $30 a month.\n\nMEYERHOFF: So you had to work some money up to get that?\n\nWEXLER: Oh, yes. Well, I got the job because I knew somebody in the office. That\nwas the reason I got it, because a lot of people wanted it.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Where did the bands stay when they came here?\n\nWEXLER: Well, they stayed at the hotel at Tybrisa, they called it the Tybrisa\nHotel and the Tybee Hotel.\n\nMEYERHOFF: It was a mistake they ever tore that down.\n\nWEXLER: Oh, well, no I think it was torn down in, a storm came ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"through and tore\nit down and they never - this one here I don't think had been built, what about\nthree or four years? Maybe less than that, I'm not sure. But it was much bigger\nthan that. 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But he says, \"You go into New York and\nyou see a fancy restaurant and you go in there and they take your order. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was\ntwo hours before it got to you.\" So, in the same way, they were segregated up\nthere, too. It was a little more subtle there than down here. The sign says \"No\nblack.\" And, unfortunately, there were some places that said no Jewish people either.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Were services ever held at the beach in the summertime?\n\nWEXLER: Sometime when somebody would need to say kaddish, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they would get\ntogether for a evening, Mincha and Maariv, in the evening but the Saturday . . .\nwould have them but it wasn't, if you had enough they'd have a service there but\nnothing sponsored by the B.B.Jacob or the Agudath Achim or anybody else, but\nthey gather as many as wanted to get together and have a, in fact there was when I said Kaddish from my father I used to go up ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and daven with them.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Now, what about the boardwalk? Describe that.\n\nWEXLER: It was wonderful. People used to gather there and talk and sit and\nlaugh. Just like they do now. It was, like I say, it didn't cost anything, so we\njust had a good time. Not everybody had a car then. There was one family car.\nThere would be ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"two, three or four couples in the car, we'd manage to go anywhere\nwe want to. Drive to Tybee with eight people in the car.\n\nMEYERHOFF: The Brass Rail was so popular - what made that popular?\n\nWEXLER: Yes. Well, they had an orchestra, a small orchestra and people used to\ndance there a little bit. But it was mainly, the Brass Rail people wanted to\ndrink. At that time particularly Jewish people weren't too much of drinkers.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Now, of course, they are, we are - whether that's good or bad I don't know. But\nwe weren't.\n\nMEYERHOFF: And, how about Johnny Harris in the earlier days?\n\nWEXLER: It was a wonderful place. We used to go there in the wintertime, sure.\nFriday night, not Friday night, but during the night we'd go out and have a date\nand go there. For $0.25 you'd buy a lamb sandwich, it was more than you could\neat. The chicken and everything else, we would go there. Yes.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Do you remember curtains at the booths?\n\nWEXLER: Who?\n\nMEYERHOFF: The curtains - were there curtains at the booths?\n\nWEXLER: Yes. There were curtains at the booths. Yeah. And then they did away\nwith them. I don't know why, I'll leave you, like your imagination might, I\npresume that was why they did away with them. I'm not sure now. But they had\nthem for a while, but they didn't last very long. They had the jukebox and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when\nwe'd get through playing basketball or something, we would go by there or we'd\ngo by the place called Leopold over on Habersham and Gwinnett and they had the\nfinest ice cream and everything. If we didn't go to there to have something to\neat and drink afterwards, basketball and gym classes and so forth.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Did they make their own ice cream?\n\nWEXLER: Yes. They made their own ice cream. It was the most popular place in\ntown by everybody. You didn't go there to be ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mobbed. Plenty of people were\nthere. They had curb service and you could get just about anything you'd want.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Where did the Jewish community - what about New Year's Eve? What was\nthat like?\n\nWEXLER: That was always an affair, the women's club would put on the affair in\nthe Alliance. I was always amazed. When I think of it now, what a chance we\ntook. Have you been upstairs in the Alliance? 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I have no complaints about the time we ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lived here.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Well, it certainly sounds like a safer life than what we have today.\n\nWEXLER: Oh, yeah, sure it was, sure it was. We didn't have to bother with dope,\nnothing like that at that time. Thank God it wasn't because I probably would\nhave tried it. But it was, like I say, we'd go never less than three couples in\na car. Because nobody had cars. You know, three people that had them, I was\nfortunate that my father had one and he would, he was very liberal with it. 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Nobody else.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Well, Sanford, in summing it up, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"can you think of anything which\nyou've been very modest in talking about yourself. But can you think of anything\nthat you might want to bring out?\n\nWEXLER: No. Like I say, I don't get involved. My record is up there. Anyone that\nwants to look at it, can look at it, but I'm not going to talk about what I did\nor what I accomplished. 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Many, many\nyears ago 37th Street was Highway 17 going North and South and most of the\nhouses there were bed and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"breakfast places, before they had any motels and\nthings. One day somebody noticed that one of the houses had the cross on there\nand they got excited, thought that that was a Christian image. So they talked to\nsome of the Jewish leaders and they went to see the lady and she said, \"Yes,\nthat's a cross out there.\" And she said, \"Let me show you something.\" They\nwalked outside and she said, \"Look over there on that house. There's a Star of\nDavid. 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It's been since ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cain and Abel. We just try to keep it at a minimum.\nWhat did I tell you about people? Times change, but people don't change. People\nare the same way. They've been that way and they're going to be that way. We\nhope and pray that they'll change but it hasn't changed in all the years, why\nall of a sudden do we think it's going to change now? We get more sophisticated,\nbut we don't get any better.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Do you think there will be another ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=3060.0,3090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"holocaust?\n\nWEXLER: I doubt that. I doubt that. I don't believe that, nobody knows for sure.\nBut I don't believe that there will be another. First of all, I don't think that\nwith Israel there to come before the thing and make the comments that they want\nto the United Nations and everybody else and I don't think, it's very important.\nThat's why sometimes I don't like who the Prime Minister in Israel ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=3090.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/transcript/22435/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"is, but\nwhoever they elect to be the Prime Minister, I feel we should support. Because\ntheir lives are on the line. They have to face these Arabs all day and all\nnight. We don't. And until we think that we can go over there and get carry that\ngun and do like they do, we've got to accept whoever they elect to be Prime Minister.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=3120.0,3150.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/annotation_set/435","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Sanford Wexler [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/annotation_set/435/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eJEA Is Savannah, Georgia’s Jewish Community Center. A Jewish community center (JCC) is a general recreational, social, and fraternal organization serving Jewish communities in the United States and Canada, as well as in the former Soviet Union, Latin America, Europe, and Israel. The JEA was once the hub of Jewish life in Savannah. Families congregated there for social, educational, sports and cultural programs. The JEA ran camps and held classes to help some new residents learn to read and write English.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/annotation_set/435/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003e4-F is when someone is classified as not acceptable for services in the Armed Forces due to medical or dental issues. This classification started during the Civil war when soldier needed to rip open a cartridge of gun powder with their teeth in order to load a rifle. So, if you had missing front teeth and could not do this, you were classified as 4-F or unfit for duty.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/annotation_set/435/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAZA (Aleph Zadik Aleph) The Grand Order of the Aleph Zadik Aleph (AZA) is an international youth-led fraternal organization for Jewish teenagers, founded in 1924.It currently exists as the male wing of B’nai B’rith Youth Organization, an independent non-profit organization. AZA’s sister organization, for teenage girls, is the B’nai B’rith Girls (BBG).\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/annotation_set/435/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eB’nai B’rith Youth Organization (BBYO )is a Jewish youth movement for students in grades from 8 through 12. The organization emphasizes its youth leadership model in which teen leaders are elected by their peers on a local, regional and international level and are given the opportunity to make their own programmatic decisions.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/annotation_set/435/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBalfour Declaration-On November 2, Balfour Declaration Day is observed as a semi-holiday in Israel to commemorate a turning point in modern Jewish history. On November 2, 1917, Arthur J. Balfour, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, sent a letter to Lord Rothschild indicating that the British government was in favor of establishing a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/annotation_set/435/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eMoshe Dayan was an Israeli military leader and politician. He was born May 20, 1915 on the 1st kibbutz, soon moving with his family to a moshav (farming cooperative).\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/annotation_set/435/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBBJ (Congregation Bnai Brith Jacob) Savannah’s Orthodox Synagogue established in 1861, originally located at the intersection of Montgomery and State Streets. It moved to its current location on Abercorn in Midtown in 1962. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/annotation_set/435/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eHebrew for ‘Day of Atonement.’ The most sacred day of the Jewish year. Yom Kippur is a 25 hour fast day. Most of the day is spent in prayer, reciting yizkor for deceased relatives, confessing sins, requesting divine forgiveness, and listening to Torah readings and sermons. People greet each other with the wish that they may be sealed in the heavenly book fora good year ahead. 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It was established in 1903, and in 1945 they joined the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and became the 1st Conservative synagogue in Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/annotation_set/435/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eKaddish (Hebrew for ‘holy’)is a hymn of praises to G-d found in the Jewish prayer service that is recited aloud while standing. The central theme of the Kaddish is the magnification and sanctification of G-d's name. Along with the Shema and Amidah, the Kaddish is one of the most important and central elements in the Jewish liturgy. Mourner's Kaddishis said at all prayer services and certain other occasions. Following the death of a parent, child, spouse, or sibling it is customary to recite the Mourner's Kaddish in the presence of a congregation daily for 30 days, or 11 months in the case of a parent, and then at every anniversary of the death. 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Arnstein's. And he sent us a telegram, \"Y'all come.\" And we came and we were saved, thank God, we didn't become Yankees.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=29.0,362.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/index/46778/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arnstein's Cleaners","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Migration","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Savannah (Ga.)","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=29.0,362.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/index/46778/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Gottleib's Bakery","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=362.0,405.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/index/46778/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Gottliebs was the biggest, there was a Rundbaken Bakery here for a while, but, to my recollection, Gottlieb really took it over. 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There was no playground at that time, see. We could always come over there. When I was coming up there wasn't plentiful money around so we had to find activities that didn't cost anything. 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They were on a bond-selling tour, you know. Some of the fellows that really became great coaches - Joe Lapchek, Davey Banks, on the Boston, New York Celtics I think it was. They became, I think Joe Lapchek was the coach at St. John's University. He was on that team. They were great basketball players. 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Where was most of the shopping?","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=1436.0,1607.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/index/46778/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bagels","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jewish food","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Savannah (Ga.)","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Shopping","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Strudel","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=1436.0,1607.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/index/46778/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"B.B. 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They didn't know. Some of the social graces. They came and they didn't have a chance to learn, you know. Some of them were right out of the ghettos, who came in here. I'm talking about around 1900 - 1905. At the time my father came here. My father didn't speak English when he came to this country.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=2046.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/index/46778/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Acculturation","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Assimilation","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jewish immigration","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Savannah (Ga.)","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=2046.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/index/46778/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Automobiles","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033#t=2880.0,3040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/26276/file/93033/index/46778/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"nobody had cars. You know, three people that had them, I was fortunate that my father had one and he would, he was very liberal with it. But, you know, now you ride up in front of the Alliance now, you see a hundred cars and maybe fifty people in there. Everybody has a car. But then you'd go in a place, maybe ten cars outside, it'd be mobbed. 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