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His siblings were Claudia Arkin Kantsiper (1916-1991), Marvin Walter Arkin (1921-2009) and Marilyn Arkin Seeman (b. 1925). He attended Savannah Public Schools and the University of Georgia before enlisting in the United States Army in 1946. During his Army service, he joined the Occupation Forces in Japan where he served in the Field Artillery and later, the Medical Corps. It was during his time in Japan that Arkin decided to become a doctor. After his return from overseas, Arkin re-enrolled at the University of Georgia, where he joined the Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity and graduated in 1949. After earning his bachelor’s degree, he enrolled in medical school at the Medical College of Georgia (now part of Augusta University) in Augusta, Georgia. After graduation, he did his internship at Minneapolis General Hospital in Minnesota, his residency at Hines Veterans Administration Hospital in Hines, Illinois and Presbyterian-St. Louis Hospital in Chicago, and his fellowship in internal medicine at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago. While studying in Chicago, he met his future wife, June Alper (1931-2017) and they married in Chicago in 1956. Later, the couple moved back to Savannah where he began in private practice and then was an Internist at Memorial Medical Center (now Memorial University Medical Center) beginning in 1990. Arkin’s medical career lasted 47 years. In 1998, Dr. Arkin was awarded the highest honor in Savannah’s Jewish community, the Jack Malitz Levy Leadership Award, from the Savannah Jewish Federation. Murray and June Arkin had three sons, David (b. 1958), Lawrence (b. 1960), and Jonathan (b. 1967).\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/27980"]}},{"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":["Arkin, Murray C. (b. 1928) (personal name)","Arkin, June Alper (1931-2017) (personal name)","University of Georgia (corporate name)","Medical College of Georgia (corporate name)","Congregation B'nai B'rith Jacob (B. B. Jacob) (corporate name)","Memorial Health University Medical Center (MHUMC) (corporate name)","Jewish Educational Alliance (JEA) (corporate name)","Savannah Jewish Federation (corporate name)","Aleph Zadik Aleph (AZA) (corporate name)","Savannah, Georgia (geographic term)","Japan (geographic term)","Chicago, Illinois (geographic term)","Broughton Street (geographic term)","Israel (geographic term)","United States Army (corporate name)","Occupied Forces in Japan (topical term)","World War II (topical term)","Great Depression (topical term)","Anti-Semitism (topical term)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eDr. Murray Arkin was interviewed by Rebecca Chadwick on October 29, 2014 at the Savannah Jewish Educatinal Alliance in Savannah, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMurray Charles Arkin was born in Savannah, Georgia on January 26, 1928, the youngest of four children born to Polish immigrants Ben Arkin (1889-1968) and Henrietta “Yetta” Fallick Arkin (1893-1964). His siblings were Claudia Arkin Kantsiper (1916-1991), Marvin Walter Arkin (1921-2009) and Marilyn Arkin Seeman (b. 1925). He attended Savannah Public Schools and the University of Georgia before enlisting in the United States Army in 1946. During his Army service, he joined the Occupation Forces in Japan where he served in the Field Artillery and later, the Medical Corps. It was during his time in Japan that Arkin decided to become a doctor. After his return from overseas, Arkin re-enrolled at the University of Georgia, where he joined the Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity and graduated in 1949. After earning his bachelor’s degree, he enrolled in medical school at the Medical College of Georgia (now part of Augusta University) in Augusta, Georgia. After graduation, he did his internship at Minneapolis General Hospital in Minnesota, his residency at Hines Veterans Administration Hospital in Hines, Illinois and Presbyterian-St. Louis Hospital in Chicago, and his fellowship in internal medicine at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago. While studying in Chicago, he met his future wife, June Alper (1931-2017) and they married in Chicago in 1956. Later, the couple moved back to Savannah where he began in private practice and then was an Internist at Memorial Medical Center (now Memorial University Medical Center) beginning in 1990. Arkin’s medical career lasted 47 years. In 1998, Dr. Arkin was awarded the highest honor in Savannah’s Jewish community, the Jack Malitz Levy Leadership Award, from the Savannah Jewish Federation. Murray and June Arkin had three sons, David (b. 1958), Lawrence (b. 1960), and Jonathan (b. 1967).\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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Okay, Murray, if you can just give us\nyour full name.\n\nARKIN: Murray Charles Arkin.\n\nCHADWICK: Okay. And what are the names of your parents and siblings?\n\nARKIN: Ben and Yetta Arkin were my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"father and mother, they're deceased. I had a\nsister, Claudia Kantsiper, who is deceased; a brother Marvin Arkin. He's\ndeceased. And I have a sister, Marilyn Seeman. We're the only two, we're both in\nSavannah. All four of us came back to Savannah.\n\nCHADWICK: Great. And what is your occupation?\n\nARKIN: I'm a retired physician.\n\nCHADWICK: Retired physician. Okay, great. So, to start at the very beginning, if\nyou can give your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"date and place of birth.\n\nARKIN: Savannah, Georgia, January 26, 1928.\n\nCHADWICK: Great. So, you've spent your entire life here, for the most part?\n\nARKIN: Well, for the most part, yes.\n\nCHADWICK: For the most part, right.\n\nARKIN: But education and so forth and in the Army, away from here.\n\nCHADWICK: Right.\n\nARKIN: I was in Savannah. I was born here and went through high school here.\nAnd, then I went to the University of Georgia at Athens a year, then I joined\nthe ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Army in 1946. I was too young for World War II but I was in the Occupation\nForces in Japan for a little over a year. Then I came back and went back to\nAthens for a few years and then got into medical school in 1949, I believe it\nwas. Graduated from medical school in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1953. Interned at Minneapolis General\nHospital. And then I went to Chicago for my residency. And I was at Hines VA\nHospital and Presbyterian St. Louis Hospital. Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago\nfor my residency and fellowship that I was in internal medicine, too. And I met\nmy wife in Chicago and we got married in Chicago and she moved to Savannah with\nme in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1958. That's when I started my practice. Was solo for about 8 or 9 years\nuntil I joined Lamont Danzig, who was another internist and we hired another\ndoctor, Dr. DiBenedetto and formed a small group. And we grew to about 12 or 14\npeople eventually and then sort of split up, through the times. Not ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"problems\nwith the practice. We all got along well but we had nephrologists and, we all\ndid different things and it got hard, in 1990 it got difficult. We just sort of\ndivided up. I went to Memorial as an internist.\n\nCHADWICK: Oh, okay.\n\nARKIN: And worked there, worked for Memorial until I retired in 2005.\n\nCHADWICK: Okay.\n\nARKIN: So I was in practice 47 years.\n\nCHADWICK: Wow! Great. Okay. And now were your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"parents . . .\n\nARKIN: My parents lived in Savannah. They were not from here. My mother was from\nAustria and my father was from a shtetl in Poland, and they came to New York and\nhe had a friend from his Polish neighborhood that lived in Savannah who came up\nto New York and told him he had a good job for him in Savannah and he came down\nhere. He stayed here.\n\nCHADWICK: Okay. And do you have any idea of when, around, around what time they\ncame to Savannah?\n\nARKIN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh, I imagine in the late 1910s. I'm not sure exactly.\n\nCHADWICK: And what was your father's occupation?\n\nARKIN: He was a merchant. Had a little store on Broughton Street.\n\nCHADWICK: Okay. And did your mother work or . . . ?\n\nARKIN: She worked there with him.\n\nCHADWICK: Oh, okay, great. Do you remember your family being affected by the\nDepression at all?\n\nARKIN: Oh, boy. I don't really ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"remember it. I was a young kid, but my father, he\nwas low-key, in a little small store and right around 1929 he tried to open a\nbig fancy store and they really got sort of wiped out with the Depression.\n\nCHADWICK: Right.\n\nARKIN: Then he went back to what he had been doing. He did that the rest of his\nlife. A small store, nothing fancy.\n\nCHADWICK: Right. Yeah, okay. But nothing, it was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"possible to cope, do you think,\nfor the most part?\n\nARKIN: Oh, I never missed a meal, and never missed a pair of shoes, you know.\n\nCHADWICK: Okay.\n\nARKIN: It wasn't fancy.\n\nCHADWICK: Right. But you got by.\n\nARKIN: We got by fine.\n\nCHADWICK: What synagogue did you . . .\n\nARKIN: B.B. Jacob and I still do.\n\nCHADWICK: Okay, great. Do you have any specific memories or experiences ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that\nstand out?\n\nARKIN: Well, let me see, uh, while I was in Savannah, I was in AZA. I was\npresident of the local chapter and I was also president of the region of the AZA\nand the district that was from North Carolina to Florida. I was very active in\nAZA for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"years. I spent a lot of time at the old JEA on Barnard Street, playing\nping pong and basketball and so forth. I enjoyed that and have always been\ndevoted to the Alliance, then I went to Japan and spent a wonderful year in the\nOccupation Forces in . . . 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Then I came back and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I opened a practice. It was slow at first,\nbut I eventually got pretty busy. Having come from Savannah, I guess, I was very\nactive in the, not only in the medical community, but the Savannah Jewish\ncommunity, too. I got involved with the Alliance and the Jewish Federation, you\nknow, the Chairman of the Federation ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Fundraising for a year or two and I was\npresident of the Savannah Jewish Federation. Later president of the Alliance,\nfundraiser there, too. When I was president of the Federation, one of the things\nthat stands out in my mind is that I invited Yitzhak Rabin. He was Ambassador\nfrom Israel to the United States at the time. I said, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Savannah's a lovely\ncity,\" and I said, \"Come down to Savannah and see the small Jewish community. No\nfundraising, no nothing, just enjoy it.\" And, lo and behold, he came down here.\nWe had a wonderful two or three days with him. He's a wonderful man. That was\none of the highlights of my . . .\n\nCHADWICK: What time was . . . ?\n\nARKIN: . . . 1970, early 1970 something.\n\nCHADWICK: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Okay. Do your children . . .\n\nARKIN: My children all live in Atlanta. Two are physicians and one's in the\nmedical records field.\n\nCHADWICK: Oh, wow, taking after their father, huh?\n\nARKIN: Yeah. Two of them: one's an ophthalmologist and one's an endocrinologist.\nThe younger one worked with medical electronics. I get to see them. They're all\nin Atlanta, thank ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"goodness.\n\nCHADWICK: Were they a part of the JEA? Growing up?\n\nARKIN: Oh, yes. They all were. It's a new world now, you know, when I was\ngrowing up, a lot of places where we Jewish people weren't welcome. We had the\nAlliance and you were welcome there. We spent most of our time. Nowadays you can\ngo anywhere you want to go. It's sort of . . .\n\nCHADWICK: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So, going off of that . . . did you experience any antisemitism\ngrowing up? Or . . .\n\nARKIN: . . . It was just there. You can sense it in high school we had a little\nghetto where the Jewish people stayed and a lot of little things. Couldn't get\ninvited into any of the gentile fraternities at Georgia or the Medical College\nof ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Georgia. And they had, I think, I'm talking now, I'm not sure, but I think\nthey had a restricted number of Jews that they took into the Medical College.\n\nCHADWICK: Really?\n\nARKIN: Yeah, there were only about, there was one senior, one junior, one\nsophomore and they took five of us. So we were the first freshmen there. But, it\nwasn't terrible.\n\nCHADWICK: Right.\n\nARKIN: It was just part of my life at the time.\n\nCHADWICK: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah, you were just aware of it. Can you describe the neighborhood\nthat you grew up here in Savannah?\n\nARKIN: I lived on Duffy Street, near the big park, Forsyth Park, for a few years\nand then we moved to 37th Street on the West Side. That was sort of a Jewish\nneighborhood, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"too. I lived on 41st Street and Harmon for a few years when I went\nto high school and my dad finally built a home at 51st and Reynolds Street.\n\nCHADWICK: Oh, really.\n\nARKIN: That's where we lived until, we used to live there until I went off to\nschool and so forth. 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When I got\ninto Japan, I got into this place and I was in the field artillery and my job I\nnever forget, we'd get up at 6 ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"o'clock, have breakfast, and then we'd go out to\nthe 105 millimeter howitzers, a big cannon. My job was to turn a knob so a\nbubble went to the center and then they shot off the gun. I said, \"Am I going to\ndo this for the next 12 months? I'll lose my hearing and I'll lose my mind.\" And\nabout a few weeks after I was there, somebody said they need they need a medic,\nand if anybody here had any ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"experience? I'm a pre-med. They took me and I went\ninto the medical corps which I enjoyed thoroughly. And that's when I decided I\nwanted to be a physician.\n\nCHADWICK: Oh, good. Do you remember, I'm sure you do, or if you can describe\njust how Savannah has changed over the course of your experience, just the most\nsignificant changes you can remember.\n\nARKIN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Savannah went from a segregated, little, small town to a pretty big city.\nOne of the important things to me, what I really worked on is medical education.\nWhen I came back to Savannah, there was Candler and St. Joseph Hospital, there\nwere no restrictions, a doctor would get to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MD, in fact the person could do\nanything you wanted and Memorial had just opened two years before I got here. We\ndecided that we wanted to emphasize medical education, too. I really wanted a\nmedical school here, frankly. I was chairman of graduate medical education at\nMemorial for about 12 years or so, and I made a lot of enemies during that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"time\nbecause if somebody wasn't trained to do something, we wouldn't let him do it at\nour hospital and it got to be no fun. I mean, telling somebody who thinks\nthey're pretty good, they might have been, but you had to have 3 years of\ntraining and so forth. It was very restrictive. But it worked and we did\nsomething very smart. We built apartments ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because we were not in Savannah, who\nthe hell wanted to come to, you know, just starting out and . . . so, we built\nthese apartments and the interns, instead of having to live in little rooms, and\nbe on call in the room, the intern and his wife could live in an apartment. We\ngot some real good people because of that. It was a real good idea and we really\nformed a good residency program ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"very quickly and had good residents. We've\nalways had good residents. As I said, I was with medical education, we did a lot\nof recruiting, a lot of restricting and then, as you can see, now we've got a\nmed school.\n\nCHADWICK: Are you happy with the changes?\n\nARKIN: I'm thrilled with it. It is just, one of my dreams was to have. Savannah\nis isolated, Augusta's over here, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and we're more cosmopolitan, frankly, than\nAugusta. We've got a pretty good med school here now. Don't get me wrong. I\ndidn't do it all by any means, but I was involved.\n\nCHADWICK: Right, you were invested in it and you worked. Absolutely. Any other\nchanges you can think of, outside of the medical realm?\n\nARKIN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Everything. Savannah has progressed. The nicest thing about Savannah,\nSavannah, Charleston, and Jacksonville were about the same size. Jacksonville\nhas gotten to be big and I was a little jealous of them, but now I'm contented\nthat we stayed relatively small and cultural and we had a symphony and, I mean,\nSavannah is really a nice city to live in. You have the ocean, you got Tybee,\nyou got all ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"kind of wonderful things. I've been active in the Jewish community\ntoo, especially social. You know, since when I came up that was the way it was,\nand so I just find it very nice. I won the Jack Levy Award. I don't know,\nincluded or not, but the only ones we had Norton Melaver, Don Kole, Aaron ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Levy,\nme, Doris Lukin, and Paul Kulbersh. There's only six of us. That was just from\ndoing a lot of work with the Alliance and with the community itself and the Federation.\n\nCHADWICK: Have you seen changes in the Jewish community ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"itself?\n\nARKIN: Sure. Very different.\n\nCHADWICK: How so?\n\nARKIN: Well, when I was coming up, the Alliance was critical, because you\nweren't welcome at a lot of places. Then, these people live at The Landings,\nthey can do their exercises, we don't have the same participation that we used\nto have.\n\nCHADWICK: Would you say more of the younger generations aren't . . .\n\nARKIN: All of them. They come down here to, some of the older people retire down\nhere, they ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"don't want any part of . . . A lot of them have made quite a good\ncontribution to the community and all, I don't know too much about all that, but\nit's a different situation.\n\nCHADWICK: Which, you know, comes from some good things.\n\nARKIN: Oh, yeah, I'm not, you know, it's good for the community, I think. I\ncertainly, it's good, I think people are much more tolerant with the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jewish\npeople now, much more socially. They get together more. And there is certainly a\nlot less restrictions than there were. So, things have changed. The Alliance is\nno longer necessary. It's good and I love it and I still participate, but the\nthings that we did here you can do elsewhere now.\n\nCHADWICK: Yeah, yeah, that seems to be the case in a lot of different\ncommunities that used to be very strong and now they're sort of disbanding,\nwhich . . .\n\nARKIN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, we don't want them to, we want to let them know that we're still\nsomething special.\n\nCHADWICK: Right. Growing up, a little question, what were your favorite foods,\nwhen you were young?\n\nARKIN: Hamburgers.\n\nCHADWICK: Hamburgers!\n\nARKIN: Hot dogs.\n\nCHADWICK: Were there any . . .\n\nARKIN: My mother was a good cook. Every Sunday, she'd get up early in the\nmorning and cook a nice Sunday dinner.\n\nCHADWICK: And what ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about holidays?\n\nARKIN: I'm not ultra-religious even though I go to B.B. Jacob but we were more\naware of the Jewish holidays than they are now. When Rosh Hashanah would come,\nBroughton Street would be closed.\n\nCHADWICK: Oh, really, wow.\n\nARKIN: Closed. Now, I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"say, it's wide open. Of course, at one time Broughton\nStreet was full of Jewish merchants. There's just not nearly that many now. But\nthey controlled, I mean, the men's clothing business was virtually entirely\nJewish. There was Morris Levy's and Allen Barry's and Men's Quality, all Jewish.\nAnd they would close on the holidays. Fine's and Asher's, women's clothes, they\nclosed, too. They don't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"nobody close now.\n\nCHADWICK: Are any of those shops still around? Because I know there's a, there's\nsome . . .\n\nARKIN: There's still some Jewish merchants, yeah, of course, but nothing like\nthere were. I mean, it was dominant. Jewish people . . . stores downtown and\nthey owned this, there was the Bargain Corner, which was a supermarket that was\nJewish, and M\u0026M, which was Norton Melaver, which was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jewish. And Barney Sadler,\nalso was Jewish. And the Konters, at one time, had a supermarket. But that all\nwent by, Melaver, the . . . and Barney passed away, and the Bargain Corner just\nsort of withered after a while.\n\nCHADWICK: Were you a member of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Scouts?\n\nARKIN: The Boy Scouts? Of course . . .\n\nCHADWICK: What about any, did you have any jobs when you were, you know, a teen-ager?\n\nARKIN: I used to work, I would go to shul, to the services on Saturday, then\nworked from about 11 ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"o'clock until 9 at night for about $1.25. I did that-- but\nI worked during the summer, too. One thing I had, during the summer I would go\nover to Armstrong because it was cheaper than Georgia. My ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"three kids went to\nCountry Day. It was a lot different than growing up. My wife was from Chicago\nand one thing she said, was that they were going to get a good education. You\nwouldn't think the schools were doing that well at the time.\n\nCHADWICK: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So, you said that you met your wife in Chicago. How did you meet her?\n\nARKIN: The year before I met her, one of my neighbors called me and asked me\nwould I please, he had a cousin coming in from Chicago and would I take her out\non a date. I said, sure. So I took her out on a date. We had a very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"nice time.\nShe was a very pleasant lady and I don't think I ever saw her again but then I\nwent to Chicago for my residency program and she'd been living in California,\nwas married already. But, anyway, her mother remembered that I had dated her in\nSavannah and had me over for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"dinner. I had dinner there and then she said, \"I\nwant you to go out to . . . There's an organization out there of young Jewish\nmen and women and they do nice things for Chicago. They do charitable work and\nso forth. Any way they're having a meeting up there and you'll get to meet some\npeople.\" I saw she was there and I asked her to go out with me and we dated for\na ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"while and then we got married.\n\nCHADWICK: How long did you date before you got married?\n\nARKIN: Let me see, I would say about 8 or 9 months.\n\nCHADWICK: And then you had children.\n\nARKIN: Got married in Chicago. Had my first child. I was interested in internal\nmedicine, I finished my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"internal medicine and I was ready to come back to\nSavannah but June was pregnant with our first son and she loved her obstetrician\nand she said \"I know we're moving to Savannah but would you stay another year so\nhe can deliver.\" So I found a fellowship on allergy and enjoyed it and it helped\nme a great deal later.\n\nCHADWICK: Okay, I think we covered just about everything. Do you have anything\nelse you'd like to mention? Anything?\n\nARKIN: I think Kaye does a wonderful job at the Archives. I'm very appreciative\nof that, although I don't tell her and I don't give a lot of money to the\nArchives. There's so many things to give money to these ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"days, it's unbelievable.\n\nCHADWICK: It's overwhelming.\n\nARKIN: It's overwhelming. And everything is good, don't get me wrong. The causes\nare good, but sometimes you've got to just say \"I don't look at a lot of them anymore.\"\n\nCHADWICK: Yeah, absolutely. So, I guess one final question is, where do you see\nthe Jewish community going in the future? Do you see any further changes? Or you\nthink things will pretty much stay the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"same?\n\nARKIN: I don't.\n\nCHADWICK: Yeah, hard to tell.\n\nARKIN: It is very difficult for me to tell. It's like, for some reason there's\nalways been antisemitism. I don't know what is coming up. We're a small group of\npeople, there are only about 15 or 20 million of us in the world. And yet we,\nseems ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"like, everything now falls, . . . . it's just unbelievable how it works\nout, even this Gaza War thing. Everybody condemns. Hundreds of thousands of\npeople have been killed in Syria and they, for this. I don't know. So, I just\ndon't know. I used to be optimistic because we've come a long way, but I don't\nknow. I just don't know what it's going to be. I know one thing, there's a lot\nmore intermarriage now than there was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"before and we could all end up just a very\nstrong Orthodox, not that I, I don't know. I don't know what it's going to be. I\nthink Israel's important. I think if they can hold on, there could be peace over\nthere, it would make a big difference.\n\nCHADWICK: Absolutely. Well, great, thank you so much for meeting with me. 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We used up a bunch of them when we went to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Colorado. We\nstayed at a fancy hotel in Colorado Springs, fishing, golfing. We went to see a\ncouple of football games, no, a football game. We had a great time. That's my\nson, my youngest son did that for us. Very nice.\n\nCHADWICK: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/transcript/20046/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Great, okay.\n\nARKIN: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=1710.0,1740.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/annotation_set/214","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/annotation_set/214/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Jewish Educational Alliance (“JEA” or “The Alliance”) was chartered August 2, 1912 to meet the leisure and Americanization needs of the Jewish community in Savannah. It was originally located on the corner of Barnard and Charlton Streets, and in 1955 a new building opened on the corner of Abercorn Street and DeRenne Avenue, where it still stands as the center of Savannah’s Jewish community. The building includes a gym, pool, preschool, and day camp.  The JEA is Savannah’s Jewish Community Center, and is a member of the Jewish Community Centers Association of North America.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/annotation_set/214/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe University of Georgia, founded in 1785, also referred to as “UGA” or simply “Georgia”, is an American public research university in the city of Athens in the U.S. state of Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/annotation_set/214/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Allied occupation of Japan at the end of World War II was led by General Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, with support from the British Commonwealth. Unlike in the occupation of Germany, the Soviet Union was allowed little to no influence over Japan. This foreign presence marked the only time in Japan's history that it had been occupied by a foreign power. The country became a parliamentary democracy that recalled \"New Deal\" priorities of the 1930s by Roosevelt. The occupation, codenamed Operation Blacklist, was ended by the San Francisco Peace Treaty, signed on September 8, 1951, and effective from April 28, 1952, after which Japan's sovereignty – with the exception, until 1972, of the Ryukyu Islands – was fully restored.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/31170/file/99270/annotation_set/214/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Medical College of Georgia, often referred to as “MCG,” is the flagship medical school of the University System of Georgia, the state's only public medical school, and one of the top 10 largest medical schools in the United States.  Established in 1828 as the Medical Academy of Georgia, MCG is the oldest and founding school of Augusta University. 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The park is bordered by Gaston Street to the north, Drayton Street to the east, Park Avenue to the south and Whitaker Street to the west. It contains walking paths, a café, a children's play area, a Fragrant Garden for the blind, a large fountain, tennis courts, basketball courts, areas for soccer and Frisbee, and home field for Savannah Shamrocks Rugby Club. 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Following the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers by Hamas members, the IDF conducted Operation Brother's Keeper to arrest militant leaders, Hamas fired rockets into Israel and a seven-week conflict broke out. The Israeli strikes, the Palestinian rocket attacks and the ground fighting resulted in the death of thousands of people, the vast majority of them Gazans. The stated aim of the Israeli operation was to stop rocket fire from Gaza into Israel, which increased after an Israeli crackdown on Hamas in the West Bank was launched following the June 12th kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers by two Hamas members. Conversely, Hamas's goal was to bring international pressure to bear to lift Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, end Israel's offensive, obtain a third party to monitor and guarantee compliance with a ceasefire, release Palestinian prisoners, and overcome its political isolation. 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