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Her family had been living in Savannah since before the Civil War. During her childhood, Ann was involved with local Jewish youth group organizations and attended the Savannah Public School Systems. After she graduated, she attended the University of Georgia. While earning her degree, she met her husband, Jay Davis. She moved to live permanently with Jay in Atlanta, where they later had two children. Jay and Ann currently live and are active in the Atlanta Jewish community today.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eThis interview begins with the introduction of Ann Leffler Davis and her family history. She recalls their German ancestry and the family’s roots in Savannah, Georgia. The interviewee discusses Congregation Mickve Israel and coming of age in the Jewish community of Savannah. Identifying as Southerners, the memoirist details her memories of interactions between non-Jewish Georgians and Jewish-owned companies. Davis remembers her immediate family members and what participating in their family looked like; what discriminations they faced, their interest in supporting Israel, and being raised by a World War II veteran.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAlso discussed were their religious traditions at home as well as their experiences with racism and antisemitism. Some topics are revisited throughout the interview, including war, discrimination, the Civil Rights Movement, along with Jewish youth groups and organizations. The interview concludes with reflections on where the Jewish community stands in Savannah, Georgia, at the time of the interview.\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":["Davis, Ann Leffler, 1948 – (personal name)","Savannah (Ga.) (geographic)","Atlanta (Ga.) (geographic)","Jewish holidays (topical)","High Holy Days (topical term)","Leffler, Matiel Roos, 1926-2017 (personal name)","Leffler, Martin Stuart, 1917-2003 (personal name)","American Civil War, 1861-1865 (named event)","Congregation Mickve Israel (Savannah, Ga.) (corporate name)","Reform Judaism (topical term)","Starrels, Rabbi Solomon Elihu, 1895-1984 (personal name)","Traditions (topical)","Coming of age--Southern States--Social conditions--20th century (topical)","Congregation B’nai B’rith Jacob (Savannah, Ga.) (corporate name)","Congregation Agudath Achim (Savannah, Ga.) 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Jay and Ann currently live and are active in the Atlanta Jewish community today.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis interview begins with the introduction of Ann Leffler Davis and her family history. She recalls their German ancestry and the family\u0026rsquo;s roots in Savannah, Georgia. The interviewee discusses Congregation Mickve Israel and coming of age in the Jewish community of Savannah. Identifying as Southerners, the memoirist details her memories of interactions between non-Jewish Georgians and Jewish-owned companies. Davis remembers her immediate family members and what participating in their family looked like; what discriminations they faced, their interest in supporting Israel, and being raised by a World War II veteran.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAlso discussed were their religious traditions at home as well as their experiences with racism and antisemitism. Some topics are revisited throughout the interview, including war, discrimination, the Civil Rights Movement, along with Jewish youth groups and organizations. The interview concludes with reflections on where the Jewish community stands in Savannah, Georgia, at the time of the interview.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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I'm calling this interview a prequel. I thought about that because what I want to talk about today is your growing up in Savannah, [Georgia] and really your life before you got married and you moved to Atlanta, [Georgia]. You've accomplished so much since you've been here, but this is about growing up in Savannah, which we collect in that area. It's important to us to have a lot of these stories. If you could, say again what year you were born and the names of your parents.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1.0,44.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Okay. I was born April 23, 1948. I was told that it might have been during Passover—I’m not sure—and that my . . . grandmother, everybody went to temple. My mother didn't go, but my relatives went with corsages because they had had a baby. My mother was Matiel Roos Leffler. My father was Martin Stewart Leffler.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=44.0,76.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: We discussed a little bit last time that your family has roots in Savannah that go far back.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=76.0,86.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=86.0,86.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Is it both sides of the family or only one side of the family?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=86.0,91.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Well, we have documentation in a family Bible from the Herman side of the family, which was my paternal grandmother. Her name was Miriam Herman Leffler. Her father—I guess it was her father—came [to the United States of America] in the early 1850s. It's registered in the Bible. Yes, they've been there a long time. I think both sides, though. I really do. They were from Germany.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=91.0,126.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: The Roos side is also . . .?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=126.0,130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: It was the Leffler-Herman side, that was the paternal side. The Roos side . . . Roos and Belsinger was the maternal.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=130.0,140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: I think that Roos, you're right. They were here really early on, too.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=140.0,145.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=145.0,145.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Can I get the names of all of your grandparents, then?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=145.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: My paternal grandparents were Miriam Herman Leffler and Edwin Leffler. My maternal grandparents [were] Beatrice Shoenig Roos and David Irving Roos.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=150.0,166.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: That middle name . . . Did you say . . .?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=166.0,167.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Shoenig.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=167.0,169.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Shoenig, how do you spell that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=169.0,170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: S-H-O-E-N-I-G.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=170.0,174.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: They were here since before the [American] Civil War?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=174.0,178.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: [The] Civil War, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=178.0,178.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Did any of them participate in the Civil War?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=178.0,182.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: I think they paid—the Leffler part—I think he paid someone to serve for him.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=182.0,190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Which was a common practice.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=190.0,191.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Which was very common, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=191.0,195.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: I don't think . . . Having these long-established roots, I've often asked this question. Did they . . . If . . . your parents described themselves, would they say first that they were Southerners, or would they say that they were Jews? How do you think they would describe that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=195.0,216.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: I would say Jewish. They were Jewish before they were Southerners coming from Germany, but they were Southern. It was very . . . I grew up very southern, but very Jewish. My childhood was rooted in being involved in the temple, the Temple Mickve Israel, which is a very old congregation.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=216.0,244.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: The third, I think, oldest [congregation] in the country. You grew up there at the very Reform congregation?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=244.0,252.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=252.0,252.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Can you talk just a little bit about that congregation, who the rabbi was that was there when you were there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=252.0,261.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: When I was there, that I remember, it was Rabbi Solomon Starrels. He was really . . . As a kid, he was very nice. I guess he was a good rabbi. I don't know. He . . . The congregation was very devoted to him. I think he was a scholar. My mother would say that he didn't have such a great voice. His delivery wasn't great. Had he had a better delivery, he might have been in a bigger congregation. That was her take on it. My grandmother and great aunt went to services every Saturday and then a study group. I guess he had a study group on Saturday afternoon. They were participants in that. It was a central part of the life of our family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=261.0,318.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Was it classically Reform Judaism?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=318.0,320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=320.0,321.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Were there bar mitzvahs?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=321.0,323.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: No. I was confirmed. I don't know. My father was confirmed, my father was not bar mitzvahed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=323.0,333.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: The other large synagogue was [Congregation B'nai B'rith (B.B.)] Jacob.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=333.0,338.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Right, which is Orthodox.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=338.0,340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Was it always Orthodox?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=340.0,342.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: That was Orthodox and then there was a Conservative. When I was growing up, there were three congregations. The Orthodox was B'nai B'rith Jacob, which was the largest. The Conservative was [Congregation Agudath Achim (A.A.)] Synagogue—I guess it was Agudath Achim—and then the Temple Mickve Israel.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=342.0,361.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Did the children, people your age did they associate with . . .?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=361.0,367.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: My age group, we did, yes. [Aleph Zadik Aleph (A.Z.A.)] and [B'nai B'rith Girls (B.B.G.)], which is now [B'nai B'rith Youth Organization (B.B.Y.O.)], was very big. I was involved in that. All the kids participated. The Orthodox kids went to . . . Most of us went to public school and the Orthodox kids did, too. It wasn't as segregated as it is now with the Orthodox and non-Orthodox.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=367.0,397.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: The . . . It's interesting because here, it was very different. The students really didn't associate that much. The temple crowd wasn't with [United Synagogue Youth (U.S.Y.)], they were still with B.B.Y.O.?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=397.0,413.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Right. When my parents were growing up, I think it was the temple people didn't mix with the Orthodox. I don't know . . . if it's the character of a small town. My parents had Orthodox friends. They had it . . . They just had Jewish friends. It didn't matter. I did, too. We all went to the bar mitzvahs of the boys. The girls didn't really have bat mitzvahs. They all came to our confirmations. It was really a nice group of kids that just . . . [It] was centered at the Jewish Educational Alliance, which is the J.E.A. 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Was their friendship circle . . .?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=462.0,472.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Their friendship circle was Jewish, but we lived in a neighborhood where we had neighbors that weren't Jewish. My father ran a small factory, a mattress factory, and of course his employees were not Jewish. They did . . . My parents did square dance, which was really . . . They loved it. That was not all Jewish. They had non-Jewish friends, and we were all comfortable in . . . not participating, but just being a part of the larger community. We never had a problem being with non-Jews, but our inner group and close friends were always Jewish and my parents' [friends], too.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=472.0,517.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: What was the name of the factory or the company?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=517.0,519.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: It was Georgia Mattress and Canvas Company [Stuart Industries].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=519.0,523.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: What happened to it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=523.0,525.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: It went out of business. It was a family business. It was . . . My mother had two uncles, and my father went in with them when he came back from World War II.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=525.0,536.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: I should backtrack a little bit. What was the . . . What did your grandparents do in Savannah? What was their line of work?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=536.0,543.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: My grandfather, Edwin Leffler, died before I was born. He died before my parents got married. I really don't know that . . . I never knew him. 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Has that been researched?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=560.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: [What do] you mean . . .?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=570.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: The original . . . great-grandparents who arrived in the 1850s and a little bit later, how did they end up in Savannah?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=570.0,579.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: I guess they came through Galveston, [Texas]. I mean, wouldn't it . . .?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=579.0,585.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Do you know why [the] South or what drew them to Savannah?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=585.0,587.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: No, I don't.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=587.0,591.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: I've often heard that Savannah can be sort of insular in . . . the social level or levels for people who have been there for a very long time compared to newcomers. Was your family part of old Savannah . . . even though they were Jewish?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=591.0,615.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Are you talking about Jewish or not Jewish?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=615.0,617.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Not Jewish. Were you part of that elite of old Savannah?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=617.0,624.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: I don't know. I know that there were several clubs in Savannah which Jews were not allowed to go [to]. My parents were not a member of a country club or the yacht club. They went to public schools, so they probably knew . . . They were part of the society, but I don't think they were part of the elite, debutante.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=624.0,653.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Old Savannah, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=653.0,653.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Yes. I'm not sure they wanted to be. They had their own group of Jews who had been there a long time and some that had come a little bit later.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=653.0,665.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: You just earlier described Savannah as a small town. When I think of Savannah, I don't really think of it that way. Why do you say that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=665.0,674.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Compared to Atlanta . . . In my confirmation class, I had ten kids, but they were the same ten kids that we went all through Sunday school with. It was small. Everybody knew you. They knew your parents. They knew your grandparents, which was comforting. They knew who you were. Savannah was different, I think, than South Georgia. It is a port city. There was a Greek community, a Catholic community, Irish Catholic, [and a] Jewish community. They all really got along as far as I knew. I had friends, I had Greek friends, I had Catholic friends. Saint Patrick's Day was a big thing, everybody participated in that. I think being a port city was not quite as insular, maybe. They had ethnic communities in Savannah, but it was . . . I think it was small.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=674.0,739.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: I read that there were a number of pretty prominent stores on . . . Am I saying this right? Broughton Street?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=739.0,748.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Broughton [Street].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=748.0,748.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Broughton [Street]. The Hub Harris, the Hub. Harry Breiner's Style Shop and Adler's Department Store.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=748.0,758.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Yes, and Town and Country [Women’s Store].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=758.0,761.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: And Town and Country. Can you talk about these businesses and going to them? Can you discuss what they were like?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=761.0,767.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: They were wonderful. Town and Country was run by Kurt Appel, who was from Germany . . . He was there when I was a child, so I don't know that he escaped, but he came probably before [World War II]. It was a great store. I worked there when I was in high school. I loved it and the Style Shop. These were really . . . The Globe Shoe Company. These were all Jewish merchants who had very nice retail stores on Broughton Street and were very well thought of.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=767.0,807.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: What about the political life? Were Jews involved in the political life of Savannah?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=807.0,812.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: I don't . . . I think we had a Jewish mayor . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=812.0,818.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: I did write that down. There was a Jewish mayor in . . . There was one in 1895 . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=818.0,827.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: I think I just read that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=827.0,828.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: . . . Herman Myers. There was one who was a little bit later. I mean, a lot later. Susan Weiner in 1991. You were gone.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=828.0,839.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: I was not there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=839.0,841.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: I think that speaks to the diversity of the community, that in 1895 they had a Jewish mayor.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=841.0,849.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: I think the Jews were very well thought of. That's a child's . . . Looking through a child's lenses. My parents were not involved politically. I don't know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=849.0,865.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Do you remember any incidents of antisemitism growing up?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=865.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: I really don't. I do remember that in junior high there was this . . . There were two sororities in either high school or junior high and I think I was asked to join one of them. [I] decided not to because my friends were not there. My parents never said anything . . . I never had any antisemitism incidents.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=870.0,898.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: What about integration? When . . . the public schools became integrated. What was your . . . the stance of your parents and how did you feel about it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=898.0,909.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: I went to public school, so it was really . . . [It] didn't affect me. I don't remember any African American children in my high school, but there were probably a few. It just wasn't an issue. Maybe, I was before . . . I graduated in 1966 from high school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=909.0,935.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Was integration peaceful in Savannah?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=935.0,939.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: I'm assuming, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=939.0,941.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Were there comparatively to other southern cities? It doesn't seem like they had . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=941.0,948.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: I don't think they did.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=948.0,949.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: . . . The same kinds of issues. What do you . . . attribute that to?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=949.0,956.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: I think living in the South, we lived with African Americans our entire life. For me and my parents, it was just not an issue. I was never . . . It was never talked about in my house. It just was . . . My father had employees that were black, and he just treated them the same. They were . . . It just wasn't discussed that anybody was different.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=956.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Do you remember discussions about what was going on in the rest of the South and . . .?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=990.0,994.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: No, I don't.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=994.0,995.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: . . . The boycotts and the marches and the . . .?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=995.0,1005.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: No.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1005.0,1005.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: What about during World War II? Were your parents, was your father in . . .?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1005.0,1009.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: My father was in World War II. He was drafted and was about to get out and the war started, so he had to continue. He was in Normandy, [France on] D-Day Plus One.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1009.0,1025.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Oh, gosh.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1025.0,1026.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: He didn't talk about the war. My parents were very patriotic and loved America and being Americans. My father just didn't talk about the war, which I think is common. We were too young to ask any questions. I was born in 1948. My parents got married in 1946. The war was over in 1945.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1026.0,1055.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: He was at D-Day Plus One and he never spoke about his experiences?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1055.0,1060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Yes. He was wounded, I know he was wounded. There was somebody in his unit who saved his life who he kept up with. They used to have reunions every once a year. I remember my parents went to the reunion and it was . . . My father said this person saved his life. They wanted to stay in touch.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1060.0,1084.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Did they . . . Did he come back with any impressions about what had happened or discussed what had happened to the Jews of Europe?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1084.0,1091.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: He never discussed that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1091.0,1094.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Do you think that your . . . I'm just curious if your love of Israel and for the state of Israel comes from that experience, from your parents?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1094.0,1108.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: I don't know. I've thought about that a lot. I've just always wanted to be Jewish, wanted to be . . . wanted to learn and wanted to be involved with anything Israel. They were, like I said, proudly Jewish. I do remember that they went to Washington, [D.C.] once for something. I tried to figure out what it was. It couldn't have been the 1973 War because I was already living here. Maybe it was [in] 1967. They participated in that. They were just always pro-Israel.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1108.0,1151.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Did they ever visit the state of Israel?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1151.0,1153.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: They did. When Jay [Davis] and I had our first trip . . . We came back and I called my parents and said, \"You have to go. You have to go to Israel.\" They went on a mission from Atlanta. I said, \"Just find a mission.\" There happened to be one from here. They went with the mission from here, with the [Atlanta Jewish] Federation. I don't remember what year it was. They were sold.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1153.0,1182.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: How was Judaism and its traditions celebrated in your home growing up?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1182.0,1187.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: My parents . . . My father was president of the congregation. At that time . . . We went to services every Friday night and Saturday morning. If your father was . . . When you were president, you had to be there every Friday and Saturday. We went to services. We lit Shabbat candles and we had all the holidays. We had Rosh HaShanah, I remember, with my relatives and Yom Kippur. We didn't have a big break the fast. My father would stay all day and just come home and have a piece of coffee cake with my grandmother. We celebrated all the holidays. In school I was the only Jewish person in my class that was absent. I was always absent. That was a little embarrassing, I guess, but it wasn't . . . It just was what you did. 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And yet, what you're describing is not what Temple children described.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1248.0,1263.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1263.0,1264.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: You're describing a childhood immersed in . . . Did you celebrate Christmas? Did you have a Christmas tree?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1264.0,1270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: We did celebrate Christmas. We did. My grandparents, David and Beatrice Roos, they owned Melvin Roos and Company, which was a display. They had all the Christmas . . . They used to bring it all to our house and we celebrated Christmas and had presents under the tree and that was what we did. It had, obviously, no religious significance.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1270.0,1301.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Did you see Ballyhoo when Alfred Uhry . . .?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1301.0,1306.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: In Driving Miss Daisy, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1306.0,1308.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Did you think Ballyhoo was a fairly true depiction of what went on?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1308.0,1312.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Well, not . . . I don't think in Savannah. I think I was just too young to realize . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1312.0,1319.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: . . . Some of it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1319.0,1319.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Yes, it wasn't important.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1319.0,1323.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Can you describe a typical seder in your family?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1323.0,1328.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: We used a little gray Haggadah . . . My father gave Jay and me 12 Haggadahs when we got married, so we had the same ones. We still use them because it's just . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1328.0,1348.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: . . . Tradition?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1348.0,1352.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: It was not a lot of Hebrew, of course, because that was Classical Reform. We had a seder.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1352.0,1361.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Were there any specific foods that you remember, any specific recipes . . .?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1361.0,1367.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: . . . For? From?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1367.0,1369.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: From either Friday night or from the seders that were maybe Jewish and a little tinge of Southern?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1369.0,1378.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: My grandmother—my father's mother, Miriam Leffler—was a great cook. She baked all kinds of German cookies and tarts and torts and . . . Of course, I don't have the recipes, and I never . . . I remember that. No, we had German-Jewish food. We did not have a lot of brisket. I never had tuna fish until I went to college!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1378.0,1418.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: It was not Eastern European, it was German.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1418.0,1422.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: What is German-Jewish food? How would you describe it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1422.0,1428.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Sweet and sour beans, and sweet and sour cabbage, and the cookies, and the torts.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1428.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Did you have a cook in your home?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1440.0,1443.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: We didn't have a cook, but my mother had an aunt who lived in Savannah who had no children. She would have us for most of the holidays. We went to her apartment, and she had a cook. She cooked all that. Yes, it was great.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1443.0,1460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Did you have a maid?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1460.0,1461.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: We did have a maid, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1461.0,1463.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: How would you describe your relationship with the help in the home?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1463.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: It was not live-in, because my father didn't want that. I think he had that growing up and decided he didn't want that. Thelma, she came every day, and she cleaned. She was . . . We had a great relationship. It was never anything as was seen in The Help. That never happened at my house. It was just not an issue. She worked for us. She was an employee. I remember my mother paid the Social Security part of her . . . I remember her telling me that. That this is the right thing to do, this is what you do.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1470.0,1516.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: That was unusual.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1516.0,1517.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: That was unusual, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1517.0,1527.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: What were some of the activities your parents did within the Jewish community? What did they belong to and what were their [indistinct: 25.33]?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1527.0,1535.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: My mother was president of [the] National Council of Jewish Women. That was very big in Savannah. We were members of the Jewish Community Center. We were members of the synagogue. My father was president of the synagogue. He was, I think, considered an elder. He was always called upon to be . . . They had an endowment fund that he was in charge of. They were just involved in a lot of things. My father was a mason, which is not Jewish, but he was a mason. That was a big accomplishment for him, I think. There wasn't really anything else.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1535.0,1579.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: They felt accepted by the general community, you think?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1579.0,1582.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: I think, yes. Because he was in business in the general community.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1582.0,1588.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: I also saw that most of the businesses, all of those businesses—I know you were already living here—that you mentioned on Broughton Street . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1588.0,1596.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Broughton.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1596.0,1598.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: . . . Went out of business in the 1980s. Do you know what happened?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1598.0,1603.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: I think it was the decline of the downtown areas is the reason that happened. A lot of them were family businesses. I'm not sure the families still live in Savannah, would be my other guess. Now, downtown is revived, and Savannah has changed a lot since I left because of [Savannah College of Art and Design (S.C.A.D.)], actually.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1603.0,1629.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: So did this corner, [it] changed a lot.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1629.0,1633.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: It's been wonderful for Savannah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1633.0,1639.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Were you friends with any [of] that second generation who chose to leave and didn't take on . . . Or the third generation with these businesses? Were you friendly with any of those families?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1639.0,1655.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Not really. They were more my parents' contemporaries. Their children probably were just not my age, so I was not that friendly with them. I think that's what happened. The kids probably moved away and just were not interested.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1655.0,1672.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Have you ever regretted not living in Savannah?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1672.0,1676.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Jay would never live in Savannah because he had a business here and we came here. It was just a great place to grow up. I'm not sure. My brother grew up there, my sister grew up there. None of us live there now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1676.0,1699.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: They did not even stay there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1699.0,1702.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: No. My sister married somebody and moved to Charleston, [South Carolina], and then Columbia, South Carolina. My brother moved to Maryland.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1702.0,1712.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Do you go back often?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1712.0,1713.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Yes. My sister and I go at least once a year. We try to go sometimes twice a year. We go to the cemetery, and we ride by the synagogue, and we ride by our old house, yes. It's so familiar. I guess because we had a great childhood, we go back. We like to see what's changed . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1713.0,1737.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Do you still have family there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1737.0,1739.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: I have cousins, a few cousins. Distant, second or third cousins.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1739.0,1746.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: What about friends?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1746.0,1748.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: I have one friend that lives . . . two friends that live there that I still keep in contact with.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1748.0,1755.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: How was it . . . You described Savannah as a small town and then you moved to Atlanta. Was it a shock being in all this traffic, even when you came here?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1755.0,1767.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Yes. I remember looking for old buildings. There are not a lot of them here because they're post-Civil War here. In Savannah . . . it's [American] Revolutionary War. I remember thinking that \"Gosh, there really are no old buildings here.\" The history of Savannah was such a part of what we learned in school. It was a part of who you were when you came . . . The history, the historic part . . . was very important for us, learning that growing up. It was here . . . I don't get the feeling, though, here that it . . . as much as it was there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1767.0,1817.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: I think for the real old families like the Rooses or someone like Margaret Wyler, those folks who . . . before Atlanta was a big city. It's different.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1817.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1830.0,1836.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Is there anything else you want to talk about from your childhood that you would like to discuss that I haven't . . .? What about organizations? You said you were involved in B.B.Y.L. . . .?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1836.0,1849.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: I was very involved in [B'nai B'rith Girls]. We had a special chapter. I don't think I was president, but I was an officer. It was an important part of our lives growing up. It brought us together and . . . It also taught leadership skills. You had to run a meeting and take minutes and that kind of thing. Being at the Alliance was important, too. In the summer that's where we would swim and run the snack bar. It was very social. I was very social growing up.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1849.0,1895.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: What about boys? Was it important to your parents that you only date someone Jewish?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1895.0,1904.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: You know, I just knew I was going to date only Jewish boys. They never said anything. They never . . . It was never an issue. I never . . . I don't remember them saying anything. I've thought about that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1904.0,1923.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Did you attend a summer camp?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1923.0,1927.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: I did not like camp. The first camp I went to—I must have been really young—was Girl Scout Camp. Girl Scout Camp was . . . You can imagine. Very stark. I didn't like that. Then, I went to a camp in North Carolina that I didn't like. When [U.R.J. Camp] Coleman opened . . . By then, I must have been in high school. I did go to Coleman for one year, but I just never liked camp. A lot of kids in Savannah didn't go to camp. It was not . . . The kids stayed home in the summer. I don't know if that was just the culture of Savannah, that people didn't send their kids to camp like they do here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1927.0,1973.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Where did you swim? Was there a country [club] . . .?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1973.0,1976.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: At the Alliance, the Community Center.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1976.0,1978.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: There was not a Jewish country club?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1978.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: No. There were clubs, but they were restricted.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1980.0,1986.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Did your parents . . .?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1986.0,1987.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: My parents . . . We had a boat, so we used to go out on the boat. My father had a boat. He loved that. We used to do that a lot as a family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1987.0,1998.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Your parents, did they ever discuss not being allowed to be in any of those clubs?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1998.0,2004.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: I just remember them talking about it. They had a friend, David Morrison—who was my father's contemporary—who had a sailboat. David Morrison could not sail his boat from Savannah. He had to go to Jacksonville, [Florida] because the yacht club was restricted. I remember them telling us that, but that was it. We didn't discuss it. I remember it, so it must have made an impression.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2004.0,2034.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: If you could go back and ask your parents certain questions, what would they be?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2034.0,2042.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: I would ask them more about World War II. I do remember asking my grandmother, Beatrice Roos, about Leo Frank, and then World War II. She said Jews were just scared. They just didn't want to talk about it, and they were scared. I don't know how my parents felt. I really would like to ask my father about World War II. We didn't discuss it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2042.0,2079.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Did he save anything from his service?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2079.0,2081.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Yes. I have a lot of stuff. He saved . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2081.0,2084.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: What did he save?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2084.0,2085.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: He saved medals, and he got a Purple Heart. There's a flag that my brother has of his unit. He did save a lot of stuff.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2085.0,2098.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Then it must have been a very important part of his life.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2098.0,2102.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: I think when you serve in the military for your country and then you serve at war, I think it is an important part of your life.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2102.0,2112.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Besides that, you said they were very patriotic. How did they address their . . .?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2112.0,2116.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: They took us to vote. They took us with them when they went to vote. I did the same thing with my kids. I used to take them with me to vote. They believed in voting and they . . . They were not political. It was just what you did as an American.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2116.0,2138.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: I find that a lot of Southern Jews from that generation were extremely patriotic. It's nice to hear some of these reminiscences of that time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2138.0,2151.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: I think they were . . . They realized what a great country this is and that the country had been good to them. They weren't immigrants, though. My parents were not immigrants. Their parents were not immigrants. We really . . . Our family did not have the immigrant experience, which is very different from a lot of people. That I wonder about, if . . . I am not a child of immigrants. It might have been different. I do remember Gottlieb's Bakery. You didn't ask me about Gottlieb's Bakery. We always got fresh bread. We always had fresh cookies. We never had store bought any of that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2151.0,2204.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Who were the Gottlieb family? Where were they . . .? Did you know the family?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2204.0,2210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: There were a lot of them. I guess they had kids that were my age. They were from Russia, I think.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2210.0,2222.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: The three synagogues, are they still there today?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2222.0,2225.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2225.0,2225.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Are they still active?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2225.0,2227.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: They are very active, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2227.0,2228.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: What is the population in Savannah today, do you know? The Jewish population.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2228.0,2235.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: The Jewish population? I would say maybe 2,000.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2235.0,2238.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Which synagogue has the most . . .?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2238.0,2241.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: I don't know. The Orthodox has always been the largest. I don't know about the Temple [Mickve Israel] now, because the temple is just . . . The outreach is remarkable. They have so many things going on and they have a great rabbi. They might be as big as the Orthodox. I'm not sure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2241.0,2265.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: What about their outreach during the Civil Rights era? The temple here was very involved.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2265.0,2272.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: I know, but I just don't . . . I don't remember any of that. I don't remember that in Savannah. Maybe it wasn't as much of an issue there. I don't know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2272.0,2285.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: I wonder if it was, as what you said earlier, because it was a port city. 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I was in high school, but I don't remember there being any incidences . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2297.0,2308.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: With integration?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2308.0,2312.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/201","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: No. I went to University of Georgia, so I remember going to the sorority—I was in [Sigma Delta Tau (S.D.T.)]—and going to the sorority house and thinking, \"I have never been with so many Jewish kids my age.\" There were so few of us. That was such a pleasure. I loved that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2312.0,2334.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Did you always know you would go to University of Georgia?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2334.0,2338.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Yes. My father wanted us to go to a university that was close. 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That's where I wanted to go.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2359.0,2363.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/206","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Your brother, your siblings, did they also go there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2363.0,2366.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Yes, they did. They all did.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2366.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: And your children?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2370.0,2372.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: My children? One went to the University of Texas and . . . Our son went to the University of Texas. Our daughter went to [Washington University]. They both got master's degrees at Georgia. My grandchildren don't go to Georgia.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2372.0,2387.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Where do they go?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2387.0,2387.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: They both go to Texas.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2387.0,2390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Texas, that's great. I think we're . . . [We] can conclude.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2390.0,2396.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: I know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2396.0,2397.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/214","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Unless you have anything else you'd like to add?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2397.0,2401.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: I can't think of anything. What, am I missing something?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2401.0,2404.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: I'm going to look at my questions again just to see.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2404.0,2421.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Tell me a little bit about the Jewish Educational Alliance and the impact that had on your . . . The J.C.C., the Community Center.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2421.0,2428.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: It was the only thing . . . The only game in town. That's where the B.B.G. and A.Z.A. meetings were. That's where we swam in the summer. That's where some of the dances were, when there was a dance. It was really the center of, I would say, young Jewish life.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2428.0,2457.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/219","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Was it open on Saturdays?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2457.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/220","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: I don't think so. I don't know, but I would say not, if I had to guess . . . I would think not.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2460.0,2468.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/221","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Did you go to Hebrew school?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2468.0,2472.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/222","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: I went to Sunday school and I was confirmed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2472.0,2476.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/223","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: No bat mitzvah?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2476.0,2477.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/224","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: No bat mitzvah, no. When I was confirmed, my father was the incoming president of the congregation, so it was very special for him. He was able to present me with my confirmation certificate. It was a very big deal. All of my friends came who were not being confirmed. They all came. I do remember this: it was on Shavuot. It wasn't on a day in May or June. We had all the holidays on the days they were supposed to be. Which I find a little amusing now, because it's never on the right day. I remember that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2477.0,2524.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/225","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: I guess I should ask you; I asked you about Christmas, but did you celebrate Hanukkah in your home?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2524.0,2529.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/226","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: We did, but it wasn't a big deal. I guess because it's . . . It's not an early holiday, it's more of the late . . . We didn't . . . We did celebrate, but it wasn't as big a deal as it is now, for the . . . It wasn't seen as a competition for Christmas.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2529.0,2555.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/227","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Like it is, now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2555.0,2556.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/228","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Like it is now, right. I think there was a day school in Savannah then, but I think it was at the JCC. There were . . . The people that went were children of immigrants, I remember that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2556.0,2578.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/229","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Was there a Holocaust community? Were there survivors who settled there, do you remember?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2578.0,2583.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/230","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Yes, there were. I didn't know it then, but they were immigrants. Their children were not, but they were. Yes, I think there were some Holocaust survivors that settled there. I'm sure they had family there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2583.0,2601.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/231","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Right. Did you . . . Your whole family is from Germany. Did you have family . . .?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2601.0,2608.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/232","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: We had a relative in Israel, the Resoleo's, and he was in Israel. I think he was in Israel before the Holocaust . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2608.0,2625.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/233","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: They didn't correspond or talk to any . . . during the war?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2625.0,2627.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/234","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Yes, they corresponded with my parents' family . . . I don't think we had . . . I'm not sure if we had any people. I'm sure we had family that was murdered in the Holocaust. I've been to Prague and I've seen the names. I saw the names at [Auschwitz-Birkenau] of my family. I don't know how far back that goes, but it had to be.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2627.0,2656.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/235","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: That would be a great research project, along with the Confederacy.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2656.0,2661.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/236","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Right. We didn't have slaves because they were merchants. We didn't have money, I mean, we didn't have land.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2661.0,2674.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/237","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Which is . . . Mostly, with the mercantile class, were not slave owners, the Jewish people. It was more of a rarity for them to be slave owners.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2674.0,2685.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/238","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Right. I did read about Abrum Leffler, who was a relative during the Civil War. He did have a slave, but she was a house . . . She was his housekeeper. I don't think they lived on a plantation. They probably lived in the city. 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I really appreciate you coming back, because we couldn't get to any of this during the last interview. That was much more of your life here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2713.0,2724.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/242","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: About us, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2724.0,2724.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/243","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: Thank you. I really appreciate it because Savannah is such an important part of our history, and we really need to . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2724.0,2731.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/244","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: It really is.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2731.0,2733.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/245","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: . . . Get a bigger picture. Although, we have so many interviews now, because they came over with all the things from the . . . Savannah Project.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2733.0,2743.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/246","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: I will add that my parents were docents at the Temple [Mickve Israel] when they . . . They have so many visitors that come . . . Jewish and non-Jewish. Which is, I think, very interesting.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2743.0,2759.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/247","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"INTERVIEWER: I do, too. Thank you!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2759.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/transcript/72754/annotation/248","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAVIS: Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2760.0,2762.517"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/annotation_set/1658","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/annotation_set/1658/annotation/249","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAnn Leffler Davis (1948- ) was born to Matiel Roos Leffler and Martin Stewart Leffler in the Jewish community of Savannah, Georgia. She graduated from University of Georgia with her husband, Jay M. Davis. They have two children together and are currently active in the Atlanta Jewish community.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1.0,44.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/annotation_set/1658/annotation/250","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAs stated on the Breman Museum’s webpage for the collection overview abstract of the Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Project of Atlanta, “The Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Collection, housed in the Ida Pearle and Joseph Cuba Archives for Southern Jewish History at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, consists of more than 1,000 interviews that document Jewish life in Georgia and Alabama. The collection originated in the 1970s due to an oral history project conducted by the Atlanta Jewish Federation and the Atlanta chapters of the National Council of Jewish Women and the American Jewish Committee. It has since grown to include a multitude of additional oral history projects spanning topics related to Atlanta Jewish history, Georgia Jewish history, Alabama Jewish history, and Holocaust history.”\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1.0,44.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/annotation_set/1658/annotation/251","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in Atlanta celebrates and commemorates Jewish history, culture, and art through events and museum spaces. The Breman also contains the Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History, which houses thousands of manuscripts, oral histories, and photograph collections, related to southern Jewish history and the Holocaust. This interview of Perry Brickman is one of those transcripts.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1.0,44.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/annotation_set/1658/annotation/252","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eSavannah is the oldest city in the state of Georgia. It rests on the eastern coast along the Atlantic seaport and the Savannah River in Chatham County. The Savannah Jewish community has lived in the city since the colony was settled on the ancestral lands of the Tomochichi and Yamacraw in 1733. It is home to the third oldest congregation in the country, Temple Mickve Israel.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1.0,44.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/annotation_set/1658/annotation/253","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAtlanta, Georgia is the capital and largest city in the state of Georgia. During the American Civil War, it was a strategically important city for the Confederacy until it was captured in 1864. The city was almost entirely burnt to the ground during General William Sherman’s March to the Sea. After the war, the city rebounded and became a national industrial center.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=1.0,44.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/annotation_set/1658/annotation/254","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003ePesach [Hebrew: Passover] is the celebration of Israel’s liberation from Egyptian bondage. The holiday lasts for eight days. Unleavened bread, matzo, is eaten in memory of the unleavened bread prepared by the Israelites during their hasty flight from Egypt, when they had not time to wait for the dough to rise. On the first two nights of Passover, the seder, the central event of the holiday, is celebrated.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=44.0,76.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/annotation_set/1658/annotation/255","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eMatiel Roos Leffler (1926-2017) was born in Savannah, Georgia to Georgia natives David I. Roos Sr. (1886-1976) and Beatrice Shoenig Roos (1900-1993). She was educated in the Savannah Public School system and attended the University of Georgia, where she was a member of the Sigma Delta Tau Sorority and Panhellenic Council. She was a Past President of the Sisterhood of Congregation Mickve Israel and a past Chairwoman of the United Jewish Appeal in Savannah. She married Martin Leffler on October 12, 1946, and they had three children, Nancy Leffler Sonenshine (1952-), Ann Leffler Davis (1948-), and Martin Leffler Jr. (1964-).\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=44.0,76.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/annotation_set/1658/annotation/256","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eMartin Stuart Leffler (1917-2003) was born in Savannah, Georgia to Georgia natives Edwin Leffler (1880-1942) and Miriam Herman Leffler (1885-1972). He was educated in Savannah Public Schools and Georgia Tech, and served in the USA Army during World War II, where he received the Purple Heart. He was the owner of Stuart Industries, a mattress distributor. Martin Leffler was a devoted member of Congregation Mickve Israel and served as President of the congregation. Along with his religious activity, Mr. Leffler was a Master Gardener and a Mason, serving as Master of Clinton Masonic Lodge No. 54 in Savannah in 1964. He married Matiel Ann Roos Leffler on October 12, 1946, and they had three children, Nancy Leffler Sonenshine (1952-), Ann Leffler Davis (1948-), and Martin Leffler Jr. (1964-).\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=44.0,76.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/annotation_set/1658/annotation/257","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe American Civil War, widely known in the United States as the “Civil War” or the “War Between the States,” was fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. In January 1861, seven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. The Confederacy, often called the “South,” grew to include 11 states, and although they claimed 13 states and additional western territories, the Confederacy was never diplomatically recognized by a foreign country. The states that did not declare secession were known as the “Union” or the “North.” The war had its origin in the issue of slavery. After four years of bloody combat, which left over 600,000 Union and Confederate soldiers dead and destroyed much of the South's infrastructure, the Confederacy collapsed, slavery was abolished, and the difficult Reconstruction process of restoring national unity and granting civil rights to freed slaves began.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=174.0,178.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/annotation_set/1658/annotation/258","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eCongregation Mickve Israel [Hebrew: “Congregation for the Hope of Israel”] is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue in Savannah, Georgia. It was organized in 1735 by mostly Sephardic Jewish immigrants of Spanish-Portuguese extraction from London who arrived in the new colony in 1733. 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The Maccabees wanted to re-dedicate the Temple altar to Jewish worship by rekindling the menorah (ritual candelabra) but could only find one small jar of ritually pure olive oil. This oil continued to burn miraculously for eight days, enabling them to prepare new oil. 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Scholars and writers popularized the term holocaust [from the Greek word holokauston, which is a translation of the Hebrew word olah, meaning a burnt sacrifice offered to G-d] in the 1960s and by the late 1970s, it had become widely used.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053#t=2578.0,2583.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/138657/file/257053/annotation_set/1658/annotation/321","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003ePrague is the largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. 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