{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/w08w952q4d/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Cohen, Ned Joseph"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["1990-07-31 (captured)","1990-08-18 (captured)","1991-01-28 (captured)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Maziar, Patty (Interviewer)","Cohen, Ned Joseph (Interviewee)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Audio"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source"]},"value":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum","Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Collection","Jewish Oral History Project of Atlanta"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eNed Joseph Cohen was interviewed by Patty Maziar in Atlanta, Georgia, on three dates: on July 31, 1990, on August 18, 1990, and on January 28, 1991.\u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eNed Joseph Cohen was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on May 13, 1911, to Sephardic parents Joseph Cohen and Regina Cohen. During his youth, he lived in Montgomery, Alabama for ten years before most of their family moved to the Isle of Rhodes to live among the Jewish community in Greece. His father, having left to visit his own brother with Ned’s eldest brother in Montgomery, ended up separated from their family in Rhodes just as World War I broke out. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFacing discrimination in Rhodes during the war, the family was able to move back to Montgomery after, where Ned attended and graduated high school. Upon graduation, he worked in traveling sales based in Atlanta in the 1930s. During this time, he married his wife, Leah “Katherine” Cohen, on July 14, 1940, and had four children: Barbara, Sara, Joan, and David Cohen.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eNed Cohen was drafted into the U.S.A. military service during WWII, where he became a radio bombardier. He fell ill of pneumonia and pharyngitis while on an expedition in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, discharging him from duty. Ned moved back home to Atlanta, Georgia to live with his family. Many of his peers in his original troop ended up in the Battle of the Bulge. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eUpon his return to Atlanta in 1944, Ned began working in ladies’ garment manufacturing and started Ned J. Cohen Fashions. He became the President of Or VeShalom, his key involvement was in assisting the congregation in moving the synagogue and reserving the attached house for the current rabbi to live in. During Ned’s lifetime, he belonged to B'nai B'rith International, the Zionist Organization of America, and the Free and Accepted Order of Masons at Fulton Lodge. Ned Cohen died in 1998.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eThis interview includes three separate interviews spliced together into one. All three interviews touch on similar themes throughout and return to common topics for further detail throughout the recording.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe first interview, taken on July 31, 1990, starts with a basic introduction of Ned Cohen’s family history. He where he had lived in Montgomery, Alabama, Atlanta, Georgia, and the Isle of Rhodes in Greece, including the areas he grew up in, his memories of growing up Jewish there, how they moved there, and notable people from the area. Ned also explains the background of historical expulsion and movement of Jewish people and how they adapted to where they moved to. In this section, he describes the changes in identity through a Sephardic lens, focusing on cultural changes since the time of expulsion.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis interview also discusses where the Jewish community in Atlanta lived and worshiped, groups that were being run, their connections to Israel, and detailing the contributions of prominent people in the community. He speaks to the influence of people who immigrated to the area on the community and stressed the importance of their coming together to support each other financially. Ned details how he helped the Congregation Or VeShalom during his presidency upon return from service in 1944. This included moving the congregation to a new building, creating new spaces for growing congregations, and providing schooling spaces. In this interview, Cohen recalls memories of how holidays were celebrated and how services were carried out, explaining in detail the Aaronic tribe, dedication to tradition, and the kohanim. The memoirist also explains the differences in opinions of Jewish-Jewish Relations among Atlantans and how they evolved throughout his lifetime.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe second interview was held on August 18, 1990, and begins with the interviewee speaking more about the Atlanta Jewish community banding together during the Depression, moving Or VeShalom to a new synagogue, and his presidency of the congregation. He also discusses the interpersonal relationships of the rabbis at the time and the differences between them, including Rabbi Joseph Cohen, Rabbi Harry Epstein, Rabbi David Geffen, Rabbi Rob Ichay, Rabbi Emanuel Feldman, and Rabbi David Marx.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis interview also covers the local community’s opinions on assimilation, losing traditions over time, and reviving them. The second recording is the shortest of the three, briefly talking about being in Israel and the Isle of Rhodes. Throughout, Ned discusses his experience with discrimination and schooling in Rhodes while reminiscing about his first time returning as an adult.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe last interview was recorded on January 28, 1991, and mainly focuses on Ned Cohen’s work experience. This focuses on his time in the military and working in fashion manufacturing. He begins the third interview with speaking extensively about his experience with the military; how he transferred from the Army to the Air Force, the schooling he planned to receive, and people he knew from Atlanta or met throughout his time in the military. The memoirist explains how illness he got from an expedition in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, caused him to be discharged from the Air Force and return to his family in Atlanta.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eNed’s focus in this interview was on his career both within and beyond the military. He describes the common businesses run by Jewish immigrants in Atlanta, their owners, and what it was like to work for them. Many of these businesses mentioned were delicatessens, fashion, bakeries, grocers, and fashion merchandisers. The memoirist recounts what working as a traveling salesperson for Shirley of Atlanta was like in small Southern towns, describing the racism and antisemitism he experienced. Ned also discusses his own experience of starting a label in fashion manufacturing, Ned J. Cohen Fashions. Lastly, he briefly discusses his extended family members, and their roles in the family and business.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"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":["Cohen, Ned J. (1911-1998) (personal name)","antisemitism (topical)","Atlanta, Georgia (geographic)","Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium (corporate name)","Atlanta Jewish Community Center (local term)","Ashkenazism (topical term)","Assimilation (topical)","Associated Grocers Co-op, Inc. (Atlanta, Ga.) (corporate name)","Associations, Institutions, etc (topical)","Banks and Banking, American (topical)","bar mitzvah (topical term)","Benamy, Sol (1904-1978) (personal name)","Benveniste, Morris (1914-1985) (personal name)","Benveniste, Victor (1905-1988) (personal name)","Benator, Asher (1931-2013) (personal name)","Biloxi, Mississippi (geographic)","B'nai B'rith (topical term)","Buenos Aires, Argentina (geographic)","Businesses (topical)","Circumcision--Judaism (topical)","Clothing trades (topical)","Clubs (topical)","Cohen, Isaac (personal name)","Cohen, Jack (personal name)","Cohen, Joseph (personal name)","Cohen, Rabbi Joseph I. (1896-1985) (personal name)","Cohen, Lea (1915-1998) (personal name)","Cohen, Regina (personal name)","Cohen, Rose (personal name)","Cohen, Simon (personal name)","Cohen, Barbara (personal name)","Cohen, Sara (personal name)","Cohen, Joan (personal name)","Cohen, David (personal name)","Congregation Anshi S'fard (local term)","Congregation Or VeShalom (local term)","Congregation Shearith Israel (local term)","Congregation Ahavath Achim (local term)","Cookery, Sephardic (topical)","Delicatessens (topical)","Depressions (named event)","Depression--United States--1929 (named event)","Epstein, Rabbi Harry H. (1903-2003) (personal name)","Expulsion of the Jews, Spain, 1492 (named event)","family (topical)","Fasts and Feasts--Judaism (topical)","Feldman, Rabbi Emanuel (1927- ) (personal name)","Fort Belvoir Military Reservation (Va.) (corporate name)","Footwear Industry (topical)","Franco, Isaac David (1899-1990) (personal name)","Freemasons (topical term)","Fulton Lodge No. 216 of the Free \u0026amp; Accepted Masons (corporate name)","Funeral rites and ceremonies, Jewish (topical)","Galanti, Nace I. (1904-1958) (personal name)","Galanti, Rabeno (1885-1949) (personal name)","Galanti, Ralph I. (1909-1970) (personal name)","Garson, Frank (1886-1955) (personal name)","Geffen, Rabbi Tobias (1870-1970) (personal name)","Goldstein, Abe Wood (personal name)","Greece (geographic)","Grocery Trade (topical)","Hebrew Benevolent Congregation (local term)","Hebrew language (topical)","High Holy Days (topical term)","Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Rhodes (Greece, Island) (named event)","Ichay, Rabbi S. Robert (1929-2012) (personal name)","Illness (topical)","Immigration (topical)","Intermarriage (topical)","Israel (topical)","Istanbul (geographic)","Jewish Educational Alliance (local term)","Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta (corporate name)","Jewish ghettos--Greece (topical term)","Jewish Progressive Club (local term)","Jewish Sects (topical term)","Jewish Soldiers (topical)","Jewish Religious Education (topical)","Jewish-Jewish Relations (topical)","Jewish-Arab Relations--1917-1949 (topical)","Jews, Latin American (topical)","Jews--Dietary Laws (topical)","Jim Crow, 1890-1976 (named event)","Judaism--Customs and Practices (topical)","Kahn, Edward M.  (1895-1984) (personal name)","Keesler Air Force Base (Miss.) (corporate name)","Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (corporate name)","Kohanim (topical term)","Ladino Language (topical term)","Makover, Thomas (1889-1970) (personal name)","Marx, Rabbi David (1872-1962) (personal name)","Maslia, Dan (1933 - ) (personal name)","Maslia, David (1898-1952) (personal name)","Maslia, Victor David (1928-1993) (personal name)","Maziar, Patty (personal name)","Medintz, Barney (1910-1960) (personal name)","Melamed (topical term)","Military training (topical)","Military training camps (topical)","Montgomery, Alabama (geographic)","Near East (topical term)","Ned J. 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During his youth, he lived in Montgomery, Alabama for ten years before most of their family moved to the Isle of Rhodes to live among the Jewish community in Greece. His father, having left to visit his own brother with Ned\u0026rsquo;s eldest brother in Montgomery, ended up separated from their family in Rhodes just as World War I broke out.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFacing discrimination in Rhodes during the war, the family was able to move back to Montgomery after, where Ned attended and graduated high school. Upon graduation, he worked in traveling sales based in Atlanta in the 1930s. During this time, he married his wife, Leah \u0026ldquo;Katherine\u0026rdquo; Cohen, on July 14, 1940, and had four children: Barbara, Sara, Joan, and David Cohen.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eNed Cohen was drafted into the U.S.A. military service during WWII, where he became a radio bombardier. He fell ill of pneumonia and pharyngitis while on an expedition in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, discharging him from duty. Ned moved back home to Atlanta, Georgia to live with his family. Many of his peers in his original troop ended up in the Battle of the Bulge.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eUpon his return to Atlanta in 1944, Ned began working in ladies\u0026rsquo; garment manufacturing and started Ned J. Cohen Fashions. He became the President of Or VeShalom, his key involvement was in assisting the congregation in moving the synagogue and reserving the attached house for the current rabbi to live in. During Ned\u0026rsquo;s lifetime, he belonged to B'nai B'rith International, the Zionist Organization of America, and the Free and Accepted Order of Masons at Fulton Lodge. Ned Cohen died in 1998.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis interview includes three separate interviews spliced together into one. All three interviews touch on similar themes throughout and return to common topics for further detail throughout the recording.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe first interview, taken on July 31, 1990, starts with a basic introduction of Ned Cohen\u0026rsquo;s family history. He where he had lived in Montgomery, Alabama, Atlanta, Georgia, and the Isle of Rhodes in Greece, including the areas he grew up in, his memories of growing up Jewish there, how they moved there, and notable people from the area. Ned also explains the background of historical expulsion and movement of Jewish people and how they adapted to where they moved to. In this section, he describes the changes in identity through a Sephardic lens, focusing on cultural changes since the time of expulsion.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis interview also discusses where the Jewish community in Atlanta lived and worshiped, groups that were being run, their connections to Israel, and detailing the contributions of prominent people in the community. He speaks to the influence of people who immigrated to the area on the community and stressed the importance of their coming together to support each other financially. Ned details how he helped the Congregation Or VeShalom during his presidency upon return from service in 1944. This included moving the congregation to a new building, creating new spaces for growing congregations, and providing schooling spaces. In this interview, Cohen recalls memories of how holidays were celebrated and how services were carried out, explaining in detail the Aaronic tribe, dedication to tradition, and the kohanim. The memoirist also explains the differences in opinions of Jewish-Jewish Relations among Atlantans and how they evolved throughout his lifetime.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe second interview was held on August 18, 1990, and begins with the interviewee speaking more about the Atlanta Jewish community banding together during the Depression, moving Or VeShalom to a new synagogue, and his presidency of the congregation. He also discusses the interpersonal relationships of the rabbis at the time and the differences between them, including Rabbi Joseph Cohen, Rabbi Harry Epstein, Rabbi David Geffen, Rabbi Rob Ichay, Rabbi Emanuel Feldman, and Rabbi David Marx.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis interview also covers the local community\u0026rsquo;s opinions on assimilation, losing traditions over time, and reviving them. The second recording is the shortest of the three, briefly talking about being in Israel and the Isle of Rhodes. 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