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She grew up with her sister, Caroline, on a farm. She attended a predominantly non-Jewish school as well as religious school at The Temple. Emily graduated Emory University and then attended the University of Georgia for her master’s in psychology. After getting married, Emily moved to Cincinnati, Ohio alongside her husband where she raised her two children, Michael and Charlotte. She later moved back to Atlanta where she continues to attend congregation at The Temple. \u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eEmily Isaacs begins the interview with discussing her family’s background and their immigration to Atlanta, Georgia. She discusses antiques that they brought with them. Isaacs then talks about herself and her children. She reminisces on her Jewish education and upbringing. Isaacs talks about children. She goes on to discuss the Atlanta community and her life growing up on a farm. She recalls her memory of The Temple bombing. Isaacs then switches the topic to her marriage and moving to Cincinnati, Ohio. She discusses how she celebrates Passover and her family’s Jewish practices. Isaacs explains some photos she brought with her. She details her mother’s role in advocating for civil rights for African Americans and how that has influenced Isaacs in standing up to prejudice. She recalls two stories, one about the Ku Klux Klan in Athens, Georgia, and one about neo-Nazis in Cincinnati, Ohio. \u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/29091"]}},{"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":["Civil Rights Movement (topical term)","Cincinnati, Ohio (geographic term)","Atlanta, Georgia (geographic term)","Jewish Upbringing (topical term)","Jewish Community (topical term)","The Temple (corporate name)","Antisemitism (topical term)","Passover (topical term)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eEmily Isaacs interviewed by Marjorie Diamond on December 3, 2019, in Atlanta, Georgia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmily Isaacs was born in Atlanta, Georgia. She grew up with her sister, Caroline, on a farm. She attended a predominantly non-Jewish school as well as religious school at The Temple. Emily graduated Emory University and then attended the University of Georgia for her master\u0026rsquo;s in psychology. After getting married, Emily moved to Cincinnati, Ohio alongside her husband where she raised her two children, Michael and Charlotte. She later moved back to Atlanta where she continues to attend congregation at The Temple.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmily Isaacs begins the interview with discussing her family\u0026rsquo;s background and their immigration to Atlanta, Georgia. She discusses antiques that they brought with them. Isaacs then talks about herself and her children. She reminisces on her Jewish education and upbringing. Isaacs talks about children. She goes on to discuss the Atlanta community and her life growing up on a farm. She recalls her memory of The Temple bombing. Isaacs then switches the topic to her marriage and moving to Cincinnati, Ohio. She discusses how she celebrates Passover and her family\u0026rsquo;s Jewish practices. Isaacs explains some photos she brought with her. She details her mother\u0026rsquo;s role in advocating for civil rights for African Americans and how that has influenced Isaacs in standing up to prejudice. She recalls two stories, one about the Ku Klux Klan in Athens, Georgia, and one about neo-Nazis in Cincinnati, Ohio.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"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"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/186/295/small/Isaacs_Emily.mp4_1683000634.jpg?1683000639","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - Isaacs_Emily.mp4"]},"duration":2403.502,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/186/295/small/Isaacs_Emily.mp4_1683000634.jpg?1683000639","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-thebreman.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/186/295/original/Isaacs_Emily.mp4?1683000623","type":"Video","format":"video/mp4","duration":2403.502,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Isaacs, Emily [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"﻿DIAMOND: This is Marjorie Diamond oral historian for the William Breman\nJewish, wrong place. Let me start again. [Off camera voice: No problem. Go\nahead.] Okay. Hello, this is Marjorie Diamond, oral historian. I am here with\nEmily Isaacs. Memoirist on December 3 at the Bremen Museum. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Thank you for\nagreeing to participate in the Taylor Oral History Project at the Breman Museum.\nLet's start with your family history.\n\nISAACS: Okay.\n\nDIAMOND: Grandparents names is a good place to start, if that's okay with you.\n\nISAACS: Okay, let's see. My mother's maiden name was Buchwald. Let's see. Her\nfather's name ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was Wolfe, and her mother's name was Esther. Let's see, my father,\nfather's mother's name was Madeline Burroughs, and my grandfather's name was\nVictor Burroughs.\n\nDIAMOND: Where was your family from originally? Either side.\n\nISAACS: Okay. My mother's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"family was from Russia and my father's family was from\nEngland. They came over to this country and . . . let's see. 1700 and, no, I'm\nsorry. 697.\n\nDIAMOND: Do you know why they decided to immigrate to America?\n\nISAACS: I really, not my father's family. I don't know. My mother's family came\nbecause of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the programs in Russia.\n\nDIAMOND: Okay. Did they bring anything with them that you might still have or treasure?\n\nISAACS: Yes, my mother has, and I have now . . . a little, I guess it's a Friday\nnight set for . . . I mean a set for Friday night services. It's some little,\nteeny ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"plates and wine cups and a spice box.\n\nDIAMOND: Oh, how special.\n\nISAACS: It is.\n\nDIAMOND: How are the plates decorated or what . . . ?\n\nISAACS: Pardon.\n\nDIAMOND: How, can you describe them?\n\nISAACS: Let's see. The spice box, of course, is a little, has, is very\ndecorative with, of course, little holes in it so you can smell the spices. The\nothers are just ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"plain.\n\nDIAMOND: Okay. What about this greater metropolitan Atlanta [Georgia] area? How\ndid they decide to settle here?\n\nISAACS: Let's see. My father was from Greenville [South Carolina] and I'm not\nquite sure. Oh, I think he settled here because of a job. My mother settled here\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because let's see, her family settled here, settled in Athens, Georgia, because\nof some relatives here. My grandfather came over and then they moved to Atlanta\nmuch later on.\n\nDIAMOND: What kind of job? You mentioned that he came for a job.\n\nISAACS: He originally was manager of the Mushroom Pontiac ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Service.\n\nDIAMOND: Did he stay in that job?\n\nISAACS: Now, I guess after the war started Second World War, he became a\ngovernment employee for, or I guess an Army employee for teaching mechanical\nmaneuvers for the troops.\n\nDIAMOND: Did he have any other jobs ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"after that?\n\nISAACS: Yes, he did. He decided at age 50 that he wanted to have a degree, which\nwas very late in life, of course. Too late.\n\nDIAMOND: Do you have any siblings?\n\nISAACS: I have a sister who is deceased. Her name is Caroline.\n\nDIAMOND: What can you tell us about her?\n\nISAACS: Let's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"see. She got her master's degree in social work at University of\nGeorgia. A number of years after she was married. While one of her children was\nstill young and . . . Let's see. She also was a dancer and ballet dancer. Then\nlater on also began to teach dancing. 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Anyhow, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that was, that went very\nwell until I was . . . it was true of all the other Jewish people in the school.\nUntil we were about in the eighth grade and then the people just departed, our\nfriends were no longer friends with us. My ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mother's theory was that their\nparents probably didn't want us to be socially active with their children when\nthey became age eighth for partying and eventual engagement marriage. 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I worked there for a number of years and about, I\nguess, three years. Then I attended college at Emory [University], and then I\nwent to University of Georgia for my master's in psychology.\n\nDIAMOND: Let's pop back to The Temple. You said you had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wonderful teachers. Can\nyou name many of them? Do you remember any of their names?\n\nISAACS: Yeah. There was a Mrs. Barron who was the nicest, most tender person in\nthe world. I have to tell you a bit about a little bit about her.\n\nDIAMOND: Sure.\n\nISAACS: She was just so wonderful. She and her husband had, they had an antique\nshop, but they, it was never very profitable. 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I'm guessing one of the\nother people was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"your sister in high school. Then there were two others.\n\nISAACS: The other one was Donald Weissman and his sister, Susan.\n\nDIAMOND: Did you remain friends or . . . ?\n\nISAACS: We remained friends for a while. Actually, once we all graduated\ncollege, we sort of. 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The niece that died, did she ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"belong to your sister? Your sister's child?\n\nISAACS: Yes. It was her only child. Yes, and she was 32 . . . and had no children.\n\nDIAMOND: Okay. Let's talk about community life and Atlanta when you were growing\nup or on the farm. 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As far as celebrations in your\nfamily, anything that stands out ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"or that you remember.\n\nISAACS: There is. I guess my grandmother always had Passover. We always went to\nher house for Passover. My mother had never had Passover at her home. She\n[grandmother] would come to my home for Passover. She was so proud that I had\ncarried on the tradition and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"then knew how to make all the dishes and so forth\nand so on. That was, it was a wonderful feeling for me and for my mother.\n\nDIAMOND: You learned that from your grandmother.\n\nISAACS: Right, right.\n\nDIAMOND: What were some of the dishes that were special?\n\nISAACS: Oh, I think, kugel and matzo stuffing and . . . we used to make, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm\ntrying to think what else? Gefilte fish and I'm sure chicken soup with matzo\nballs. I still have this huge wooden bowl that my grandmother used to chop\ngefilte fish for making gefilte fish in.\n\nDIAMOND: How is being Jewish different in Cincinnati than it was in Atlanta?\n\nISAACS: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Of course, Cincinnati is much smaller, and we belong to a very small\ncongregation. That was, that was really nice. It was a small Reform congregation\nand the congregation that I belonged to when I was living in Atlanta, of course,\nis a temple, which is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"huge. I've, and we have Friday night services which are\nsmaller, which remind me of my temple in Cincinnati. 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I wish everybody should have a good\nmarriage like they ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"did.\n\nDIAMOND: Just, was your husband Jewish, the person?\n\nISAACS: Yes.\n\nDIAMOND: Have your children continued to practice Judaism?\n\nISAACS: Yes. My daughter is a very Orthodox Jew.\n\nDIAMOND: Great way to rebel.\n\nISAACS: Pardon?\n\nDIAMOND: Great way to rebel.\n\nISAACS: Yes, I guess so. My son goes to a Reform temple, no, a Conservative\ntemple, I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"think, with his family. As far as his beliefs, he is agnostic, leaning\ntoward atheism. He got his degree in Judaic studies but got his master's degree\nin that. He's very knowledgeable about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Judaism. He's very upset with a\nlot of modern-day practices of Judaism because that's not the way it was. That's\nnot the way it's supposed to be and so forth. Anyhow, and of course, his family\nis Jewish. Anyhow.\n\nDIAMOND: Today, do you belong to a congregation or practice?\n\nISAACS: I practice. I go with my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"friends and finally I'm going to join The\nTemple. I've always just gone with my friends and found it easier that way. I\ndon't know why, but that's what happened.\n\nDIAMOND: Okay. You talked about the civil rights and how strongly your mother\nfelt and Jack Rothschild and how he preached about it. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Did you have any African\nAmerican friends?\n\nISAACS: No, I really never have. I've had casual relationships, but for some\nreason, there has always been a barrier for more social relationships. I don't\nreally think, in my heart ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of hearts, that it's because of me. I think that I'm\nnot really acceptable in their homes or their cultures and their culture. I\nmean, like now you find, and the condominium complex where I live, like we used\nto walk dogs together and be very friendly and so forth. When I would say, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"why\ndon't you come over and you bring your dog and we'll have something to drink and\nthey will say, \"Oh, not, another time\" or something like that. Part of the\nreason maybe is because they're very much younger than I don't know. I don't,\nbut when I lived in Cincinnati, there was one woman that I was friendly with,\nbut not ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"here.\n\nDIAMOND: Okay. You brought some pictures with you. Would you like to share\nthose? Yeah, right here.\n\nISAACS: Oh, okay. Okay. Let me put my water down. These are pictures that\nactually that Donald Weissman took when I was, I think he is being interviewed\nhere also. Yes. 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Now he has a big fixture, and he makes fig preserves like\nmy mother did, which is really nice. This was just a driveway coming up to my\nhouse and the front of my house. Yes, and this is the inside of the milking barn.\n\nDIAMOND: What treasures to still have those.\n\nISAACS: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How nice of Donald to do this.\n\nDIAMOND: What year was that? Do you know?\n\nISAACS: Let's see. Probably. Maybe he told . . . I guess he took these in 2000.\nThat was long after we had moved out. I guess before everything was destroyed.\nIt was just it was wonderful. 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It's amazing that he and his sister still\nkept and wanted all of the things that we had on the farm and . . .\n\nDIAMOND: Like what?\n\nISAACS: I mean, like, I remember Susan when she kept saying, do you still have\nthat casserole, that, your mother casserole keeper or something like that that\nyour mother used to use all every ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Thanksgiving and I want it. Then there was\nanother time that she found out that I guess it was after my sister died and my\nsister had some of the wicker furniture that had been on that porch. Susan came\ndown and she said, \"All right, I'm going to take most of that\" She did. 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That's fast.\n\nDIAMOND: Thank you so much.\n\nISAACS: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/transcript/42907/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm so glad I got to do this.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=2400.0,2430.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/annotation_set/1037","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Isaacs, Emily [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/annotation_set/1037/annotation/82","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. 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Most countries fought in the years 1939–1945 but some started fighting in 1937. Most of the world's countries, including all the great powers, fought as part of two military alliances: the Allies and the Axis Powers. World War II was the largest and deadliest conflict in all of history. It involved more countries, cost more money, involved more people, and killed more people than any other war in history. Between 50 to 85 million people died. The majority were civilians. 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The cornerstone was laid on the Temple on Garnett Street in 1875. The dedication was held in 1877 and the Temple was located there until 1902. The Temple’s next location on Pryor Street was dedicated in 1902. The Temple’s current location in Midtown on Peachtree Street was dedicated in 1931. The main sanctuary is on the National Register of Historic Places. The Reform congregation now totals approximately 1500 families. As of 2022, its Senior Rabbi is Peter S. Berg.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/annotation_set/1037/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eEmory University is a private research university located in Atlanta, Georgia, founded in 1836. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/90197/file/186295/annotation_set/1037/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRabbi Jacob Mortimer \"Jack\" Rothschild (1911-1973) served as rabbi of Atlanta’s oldest Reform congregation, the Temple, from 1946 until his death in 1973 from a heart attack. 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