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His father owned Jefferson Home Furniture Company. James took over the family business upon his father’s premature death in 1967. Growing up, his family attended both the Reform synagogue, Temple Emanu-El, and the Conservative (formerly Orthodox) synagogue, Temple Beth-El. James graduated from the University of Alabama and briefly served in the United States Army. James has been an active member within the Birmingham Jewish community. He served as president of the Levite Jewish Community Center and was on the board of the Birmingham Jewish Federation. James is married to Judy Toronto. The couple has three sons and six grandchildren.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eIn his interview, James details his family’s history and shares how his ancestors arrived in Birmingham, Alabama. He talks about his late father, Nathan Rotenstreich, who ran the family business, Jefferson Home Furniture Company, until his death in 1967. James recalls spending the summers of his youth working for the business. He discusses the role of Judaism in his home growing up and the tension between his mother’s Reform upbringing and his grandmother’s Orthodox faith. James recalls his memories of Rabbi Milton Grafman of Temple Emanu-El and his advocacy for civil rights. He describes the impact of the civil rights movement on the family business and how his father navigated the racial status quo in Birmingham. James recalls the domestic help that sometimes worked within the Rotenstreich home. He shares his experience attending a Jewish summer camp in Wisconsin. James reflects on his college years and his father’s insistence that he join the family business upon graduation. He speaks about the importance of his Jewish identity and the Jewish community in Birmingham. James shares how he met his wife, Judy. He reflects on the future of Birmingham and shares his hopes for its future. James reminisces about going to his grandmother’s house on Friday evenings and reflects on her role in the Orthodox community in Birmingham. James concludes his interview by discussing the decision to sell the family business and talks about his three sons and six grandchildren.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/29105"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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His father owned Jefferson Home Furniture Company. James took over the family business upon his father\u0026rsquo;s premature death in 1967. Growing up, his family attended both the Reform synagogue, Temple Emanu-El, and the Conservative (formerly Orthodox) synagogue, Temple Beth-El. James graduated from the University of Alabama and briefly served in the United States Army. James has been an active member within the Birmingham Jewish community. He served as president of the Levite Jewish Community Center and was on the board of the Birmingham Jewish Federation. James is married to Judy Toronto. The couple has three sons and six grandchildren.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn his interview, James details his family\u0026rsquo;s history and shares how his ancestors arrived in Birmingham, Alabama. He talks about his late father, Nathan Rotenstreich, who ran the family business, Jefferson Home Furniture Company, until his death in 1967. James recalls spending the summers of his youth working for the business. He discusses the role of Judaism in his home growing up and the tension between his mother\u0026rsquo;s Reform upbringing and his grandmother\u0026rsquo;s Orthodox faith. James recalls his memories of Rabbi Milton Grafman of Temple Emanu-El and his advocacy for civil rights. He describes the impact of the civil rights movement on the family business and how his father navigated the racial status quo in Birmingham. James recalls the domestic help that sometimes worked within the Rotenstreich home. He shares his experience attending a Jewish summer camp in Wisconsin. James reflects on his college years and his father\u0026rsquo;s insistence that he join the family business upon graduation. He speaks about the importance of his Jewish identity and the Jewish community in Birmingham. James shares how he met his wife, Judy. He reflects on the future of Birmingham and shares his hopes for its future. James reminisces about going to his grandmother\u0026rsquo;s house on Friday evenings and reflects on her role in the Orthodox community in Birmingham. James concludes his interview by discussing the decision to sell the family business and talks about his three sons and six grandchildren.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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I am in Birmingham, Alabama, with Jimmy\nRotenstreich, who has agreed to participate in the Esther and Herbert Taylor\nOral History Project of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum. I am Sandy\nBerman and I am the archivist for the museum, and I'm very grateful that you\nagreed to participate in this project. And you want to say something.\n\nROTENSTREICH: You rascal. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's all.\n\nBERMAN: I'd like to . . . it's painless. I'd like to begin by just asking you a\nlittle bit about your own . . . your family's background, where they were from,\nand how they ended up in Birmingham.\n\nROTENSTREICH: I didn't know my grandparents other than my paternal grandmother.\nMy father was born in New ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"York. And they left New York. He was about two years\nold, which would have been 1905.\n\nBERMAN: And his name?\n\nROTENSTREICH: Nathan.\n\nBERMAN: And your mother's?\n\nROTENSTREICH: Rose.\n\nBERMAN: Maiden name?\n\nROTENSTREICH: Tenenbaum.\n\nBERMAN: So they came to Birmingham?\n\nROTENSTREICH: No, he came to Birmingham at age two or three.\n\nBERMAN: Okay.\n\nROTENSTREICH: Married my mother when he was in his early thirties. He was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"34\nyears older than me and I'm the second of three children, my sister being two\nyears older than me. And around 1950 my grandmother died, but she . . . and I\nreally didn't know her age, but I knew she was from Eastern Europe and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"spoke a\nfair amount of English. She was kind of matriarchal at one of the synagogues.\nAnd as a youngster I was exposed to that during her lifetime. But I was 12, 13\nyears old when she passed away. That's all I knew of my grandparents on a\nfirsthand basis.\n\nBERMAN: What was her name?\n\nROTENSTREICH: Annie Ackerman Rotenstreich, I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"believe.\n\nBERMAN: What drew the family from New York to Birmingham? Your father's family?\n\nROTENSTREICH: Hunger, I suppose. After all, they moved in here the early part of\nthe 20th century, and I was born in 1937. I didn't wake up until I was about . .\n. until 1945, say, or 1950.\n\nBERMAN: Did they ever discuss what drew ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"themselves?\n\nROTENSTREICH: No. I know the history of my father and his siblings.\n\nBERMAN: That would be great.\n\nROTENSTREICH: I have to be careful, as I guess we all should be, because I have\nmy impression of my father and how he managed his life. He died prematurely at\nage 63. Of course, at that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"time I was just 30 and I felt he was quite old or\nolder at that point. That wouldn't be a problem, but . . . I don't think. But anyway.\n\nBERMAN: Back to the tape. You were speaking about your father. He died prematurely.\n\nROTENSTREICH: Right. And my perception of my upbringing was something like this.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My mother told me that when I was born, he was shouting it to the world.\nObviously, he was very set on having a son. An heir, I suppose. But in 1937,\nthere wasn't a great deal to inherit, by that standard. He was a very\nhard-working guy. I found him to be very high character, very credible, very\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"tough. And so I lived in that environment for my maturing years. He had two\nolder sisters, both were in the community, and they had their respective\nfamilies. And he was close with them, but he was very independent in that\nregard. He was working with his family in a small supply ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"store, was the name on\nthe door, which was bankrupted somewhere around 1930. And I believe he went to\nthe judge or the court and was able to acquire the assets from the court. It\nbegan to be his and his fingerprint then was placed on the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"business. And he\nworked long hours, the same story as most Jewish immigrant families in the steel\ntown or news community of Birmingham. He had a younger brother nine years his\njunior, which he obviously was somewhat a fatherly figure, or he felt that way\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"this . . . his brother, he loved him dearly and he was protective and he looked\nafter him and so he included his brother in the business with him. And very\nsadly, that brother passed away when he was about 35 or [3]6 years old from what\ntoday is hypertension, which is very controllable, as we know. But it was a very\nsad ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"time. And he . . . my father continued his . . . kept his brother's interest\nfor his sister-in-law and their two children. And my cousin and I ended up in\nthe business together, each having, when my father passed away, our respective\ninterests. But that was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1967. So for some 17 years, he nursed the business for\nthe interests of me . . . my father and his immediate family . . . as well as\nhis brother's family. I ended up in partnership with my cousin.\n\nBERMAN: And you said it was in the supply . . . it was . . . he bought the\nassets of a supply company?\n\nROTENSTREICH: The short story is the name of the company was Jefferson Home\nSupply ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Company and when he bought it, he named it Jefferson Home Furniture\nCompany. He changed the name. But they were in the business of, I suppose,\nsupplying anything they could buy for a nickel, sell for a dime, which were\nmostly home furnishings related. They were just in a dry goods-type world of\nretailing. And then they got into the business of carrying the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"paper of their\ncustomer, who was primarily working in the steel industry on an hourly wage.\nThey would give them weekly terms to pay for their purchase.\n\nBERMAN: Was the store in the heart of the . . . where all the other Jewish\nmerchants were?\n\nROTENSTREICH: No, I don't think Birmingham really was necessarily that\ndistinctive in its . . . although many of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jewish families were in retailing\nfor obvious reasons. But you had second-generation families that had arrived\n40-50 years earlier. Department stores, clothing ready-to-wear, and all sorts of\nretail. But there were Jewish families in other forms of endeavor as well,\nprofessionals and people in steel-related business ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because of the industrial\nnature of the community. The merchants were scattered, in my opinion, but\nclearly there were Jewish merchants up and down the street as typical.\n\nBERMAN: Growing up, did you work in the business?\n\nROTENSTREICH: Yes.\n\nBERMAN: After school?\n\nROTENSTREICH: Every Saturday, every holiday, every summer ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"from the time I was 14\nyears old.\n\nBERMAN: Happy memories?\n\nROTENSTREICH: At the time . . . there were two dynamics. I enjoyed it. I learned\nlater that I didn't know any better, that all my friends were playing football,\nor taking summer vacations, or whatever, but none of my friends were. Most were\ninvolved in something, and so ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I just worked. I thought it was the proper thing\nto do, and I really wasn't given a choice. But I never thought about it. I\nremember incidences when I went to high school my first day. I asked my\nelementary school friends who I hadn't seen all summer, \"What have you guys been\ndoing?\" They said, \"We've been practicing football.\" I said, \"Really?\" They were\ngoing to play high school football and I didn't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"have a clue. I had been working.\nAnd that's the way it went. That's my . . .\n\nBERMAN: What was your job?\n\nROTENSTREICH: It was a small business and if it didn't have a broom handle, I\nwould have been promoted. 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And a lot of it was warehousing, and moving heavy goods\naround, and helping the delivery system work, and none of the back office stuff.\nWe weren't qualified, of course.\n\nBERMAN: Did you . . . in school . . . did you go to public ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"school?\n\nROTENSTREICH: Yes, I did.\n\nBERMAN: And was it a Jewish area neighborhood that you lived in?\n\nROTENSTREICH: It was not Jewish intensive at all. As a matter of fact, the\ncommunity of Birmingham is not very Jewish intensive, except in the eyes of our\nnon-Jewish friends. But, you know, the Jewish community was pretty tight. There\nwere three synagogues. 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I grew up with Jewish\nfriends, but to this day I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"have elementary school friends that are not Jewish\nand lifelong friends. It was not Jewish intensive in that respect.\n\nBERMAN: Were there any issues of you being Jewish in school?\n\nROTENSTREICH: Probably there were, but I was not aware of it. And in my later\nyears I can reflect on it. I don't remember any overt antisemitism. 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But as a\nJewish man growing up in Birmingham, I personally had very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"little exposure to\nantisemitism firsthand, and I may have been a little naive at the same time.\n\nBERMAN: Was being Jewish important in your own home growing up? Holidays, the\nsynagogue. Was that an important part?\n\nROTENSTREICH: It was. My mother was Reform. My grandmother was Orthodox. My\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"father worked all the time. Very respectful of his mother, but very receptive of\nhis wife's upbringing. And so we landed in the Reform temple primarily, although\nI was bar mitzvah'd in the Conservative shul Beth-El. 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Most of them didn't have any Hebrew training, much\nless bar mitzvah.\n\nBERMAN: You grew up at Emanu-El, with Rabbi Grafman?\n\nROTENSTREICH: That's correct.\n\nBERMAN: And what were your impressions as a young person of him, as a rabbi?\n\nROTENSTREICH: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"As a rabbi?\n\nBERMAN: Yes. Or as the leader of the congregation?\n\nROTENSTREICH: He was a hell of a guy, if you ask me. He was very assertive,\nbright, very . . . understood his role and as a Reform rabbi, socially as well\nas religiously, and ran a very solemn and distinct service, which was [a] ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"very\nimpressive service to outsiders, not necessarily to Conservative or Orthodoxy.\nBut still, he was very Jewish in his approach. But Reform.\n\nBERMAN: It's common knowledge that he was really at the forefront of the civil\nrights movement here in Birmingham. And do you recall how the congregation felt\nabout his activities? Were they supportive of him?\n\nROTENSTREICH: I think generally speaking, they were. 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I want to use the word fear\n. . . but an anxiety that they might not have wanted to readily admit that they\nwould care.\n\nBERMAN: It was a frightening time.\n\nROTENSTREICH: Yeah. Would that be fair, Sol [Kimerling]? Thank you.\n\nKIMERLING: Yes.\n\nBERMAN: What about within your own business? Fifties and the Sixties. Was it\naffected at all by the civil ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"rights activities here?\n\nROTENSTREICH: It was, but it was not inhibiting. It was just make adjustments\nand move on. I had been trained by any other word to just take care of business.\nAnd you had to be flexible, you had to be open minded, you had to be forward\nthinking. 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He had\ninstilled responsibility on myself and my cousin to take care of my mother, his\nmother, and the family. \"Get on with it.\" He never ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"seemed to present himself to\nme as being someone that I needed to mourn in a debilitating way. He was a fair,\nhardworking man and he took his lumps. He gave out some lumps. And his\nexpectation was just keep moving, keep looking forward.\n\nBERMAN: Was your business boycotted at all ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"by . . .?\n\nROTENSTREICH: During my tenure as the . . . say from 1967, the time he passed\naway, I don't remember anything of that nature. I remember him going through the\nearly Sixties and he was very protective of his interests, his physical\ninterests. 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You ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"had a good\ncustomer and he was African American? He was a good customer and he got the best\ntreatment. If he had a bad customer and he was not African [American], he was\nwhite, he got treated like a bad customer. He didn't get treated just because of\nhis color or anything. My dad had friends in that regard and he had friends of\nother ethnic groups. Greeks, Italians, and so on. He was a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"man of all seasons I\nguess is the way I would [en]vision him.\n\nBERMAN: Within your own home, growing up . . . your parents' home . . . did you\ncelebrate . . . go to synagogue on the high holidays? Did you have a Passover\nseder? All of those?\n\nROTENSTREICH: We did. We celebrated Rosh HaShanah, Yom Kippur, Hanukkah, and\nChristmas. 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But there were no Christmas\nornaments, no trees, no ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"cards, nothing like that.\n\nBERMAN: Did your mother . . . growing up in a Reform household, perhaps your\nmother was used to . . .\n\nROTENSTREICH: My mother's family . . . she was one of seven siblings and the\nyoungest of seven. And all but one or two were in town, in Birmingham. Her\noldest brother, who was kind of her patriarchal figure, took care of her. She\nwas ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"actually orphaned at a very young age and one of her sisters, or her\nsisters, collectively looked after her. Whatever came her way in the Reform\nworld in Birmingham, she went along. She was not necessarily committed, but she\nwas not . . . she didn't hide her Jewishness at all. She was . . . just went\nwith the flow, I guess.\n\nBERMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Did you have help in the house growing up?\n\nROTENSTREICH: I was the help. We did have domestic help. We had people that did\nthe laundry, or babysat, or whatever.\n\nBERMAN: Were they live-in?\n\nROTENSTREICH: Occasionally. We had a facility where they could spend the night\nin our home. 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And in that home, they built a living\nfacility in a part of the house for anticipating live-in help or whatever was necessary.\n\nBERMAN: I'm often curious whether the live-in help or the cooks learned how to\nmake Jewish ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"dishes for some of the holidays.\n\nROTENSTREICH: They actually cooked pretty good on their own and I had no desire\nto change it. Fried chicken, and collard greens, and black eyed peas was\nsomething I really love. But they learned and taught us, as well. But I don't\nrecall that they necessarily gravitated to Jewish cooking, specifically.\n\nBERMAN: Were the Passover seders ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"traditional? Traditional foods, traditional . . .\n\nROTENSTREICH: Oh, yes. And almost predictably, every year, the matzo ball soup\nand all that. Yes. And we had holiday meats that were prepared . . . kind of\ncall it the holiday recipes. There was a routine that was holiday intensive, so\nto speak, or Jewish holiday intensive, in that respect.\n\nBERMAN: I already know the answer to this, but I guess I'll ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"just ask it.\n\nROTENSTREICH: You probably know the answers to all the questions you've asked.\n\nBERMAN: You did not attend Jewish summer camp because you were working in the\nstore, correct?\n\nROTENSTREICH: Interestingly, I went to a Jewish summer camp in Wisconsin, and I\nloved it. I couldn't believe it. When I think about it today, I can't believe I\nwas nine years old and my parents put me on a train to Wisconsin. And it ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was an\ninteresting revelation. I stayed there two months. I went back at age ten. I\nwent back at age 11. I was held out at age 12. He was feeling me out of it. Went\nback at age 13 and then he said, \"It's over.\" But I actually did attend a Jewish\ncamp in Wisconsin.\n\nBERMAN: How important did that experience . . . going to a Jewish summer ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"camp?\nReflecting back, was that an important experience in your life?\n\nROTENSTREICH: It was. But unlike . . . I think you had questioned me . . . it\nwas not . . . it was Jewish children and the man that owned it was a Jewish man\nwho was referred to as a rabbi. But at the camp, it was not necessarily any\nintensive Jewish educational training at all. It was just a camping summer ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"camp\nwhere we had athletics and canoe trips and we just had fun for two months.\nDidn't have any real religious content except on Friday night, there was a\ncampfire where the entire camp participated and Rabbi Hirshberg, or whatever his\nname was, would read some service ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"issue, but very short and not intensive.\n\nBERMAN: What was the name of the camp?\n\nROTENSTREICH: Horseshoe.\n\nBERMAN: Very Jewish.\n\nROTENSTREICH: Oh, Jewish. In today's world I wouldn't call it very Jewish, but\nit was a camp for Jewish kids, obviously.\n\nBERMAN: Was Jewish continuity important or just a part of your home? What I'm\nasking is, did your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"parents care who you dated? Did they want you to date Jewish\nor was it okay to go outside of your . . .\n\nROTENSTREICH: They never . . . my father never said anything to me about that,\nnor did my mother. But just by the nature of the way our lives went, we ran in\nJewish circles. 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A story I'll share with you about\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my college dating and so on . . . my home was a home to all of my fraternity\nfriends 50, 60 miles away in Tuscaloosa [Alabama]. And any chance we all got to\ncome back to Birmingham my mother would just open the house and she was like a\nmother to them and they just loved being there. One Sunday evening, they had all\ngone back to college and I'm sitting there, my mother's picking my brain about\nthis nice weekend we'd had. And my father was at the end of the table. He was a\nman of very few ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"words and he was eating some soup, I remember distinctly. And\nI'm explaining to my mother who I was dating and all that, and she was all ears.\nAnd finally he looked . . . I looked down to the end of the table, he says,\n\"Well, I'll tell you one thing.\" And I look, I said, \"What?\" He says, \"Your\nheart may belong to the girls, but your ass belongs to me.\" And I think that\npainted the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"picture of my relationship with my father in a nutshell.\n\nBERMAN: If we talk about college a little bit . . . after graduation from high\nschool, you obviously went to [the University of ] Alabama.\n\nROTENSTREICH: Actually, I did. And back then, every young able-bodied man had a\ntwo-year military obligation in the United States Army. Everyone planned . . .\nROTC. Everybody was in ROTC at the university. And ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you planned your career\nprocess with this two year, at least, hiatus in the military. And they came out\nwith a program that allowed anyone under 18 and a half to do their obligation\nsix months on active duty and seven and a half years in the Army Reserve. It was\ntwo plus six. And my father knew and I knew he wanted me at that company ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"day\none, as soon as I could get there. And so I opted to join the Army. I dropped\nout of college my second semester my freshman year. I went in for six months,\ncame back home somewhere around August, went right back to university as a\nsecond semester freshman and through summer school and the next year and a . . .\nthree and a half year . . . four and a . . . two and a half year process,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"whatever, I made up that semester by taking extra hours and graduated on time.\nAnd I'll never forget it, I took my final exam on a Wednesday . . . and of\ncourse, being in Birmingham, I'd already moved almost everything back home . . .\nand Thursday morning I was at work. I never went through the graduation process\nor anything. I just . . . they said \"Done,\" and I went to work.\n\nBERMAN: Was that . . . I know that was your father's dream, but was it yours as well?\n\nROTENSTREICH: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"With all due respect, it was later that I began to reflect on how\nthat had happened. As I saw others go to med[ical] school, law school, other\ncareers, and trying other things. I began to reflect on whether I had been\nproperly treated in that regard. At the end of the day, I never really\nquestioned it. I often ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wished or wondered whether I might have had opportunities\nor done something else. But I never really was sorry for it because some of the\nadvantages I had received by doing that were clear at a younger age over some of\nmy peer group. But yes, I had reflections on whether I should . . . might have\nbeen ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"given another opportunity, but it was something I couldn't change. I just\nhave lived with it and I have not been sorry, but I have not subjected . . . I\nhad no way knew I would subject my children to something like that. I did, and I\ngave them a little more free rein. But times were different, of course.\n\nBERMAN: From your friend Sol here, I have learned that you've been very\ncommunity-minded in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jewish community, and I was wondering if you could go\nover a few of the things you've done and also why that's important to you.\n\nROTENSTREICH: I was born and raised here. My roots are clearly here. I raised\nthree sons here. I wanted them to have all the advantages that I could . . .\nthat I had, and more, if I were able to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"provide that. In that process, and with\nmy wife, who essentially was raised from infancy here in Birmingham, we had\nthose roots . . . led us to roles, and commitments, and relationships, just\nnaturally. Being Jewish was being Jewish. We clearly never ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"denied that and we're\nproud of it, especially after 1967. And I readily admit that seven days . . . to\nthis day, I have a book that I read . . . a little cabin I have, and when I\nforget to bring something . . . it's called Six Days of War, and it is the most\nprofound documentary about that time, and that war, and that battle. But ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I\nremember so many people who I didn't know were Jewish all of a sudden were\nJewish and the change that that brought about and my identity and our identity\nin this community. Deep South, Birmingham, industrial town, Atlanta [Georgia]\ngrowing leaps and bounds, Memphis [Tennessee] growing leaps and bounds, much\nlarger Jewish communities, Nashville [Tennessee] even getting ahead of us\nsocially and that sort of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"thing. But the Jewish community of Birmingham holds,\nin my mind, is second to none as far as its identity and commitment to\ncommunity. And so we've just been a part of that, and I've been very proud to do\na small part. My cousin, my wife, my sister have all done things . . . my mother\ndid, my father did ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in his day. To me it was very natural to be a part of the community.\n\nBERMAN: What were some of the things that you've done over the course of this\ninvolvement? Where has your interest . . .?\n\nROTENSTREICH: I was the president of the Jewish Community Center and member of\nits board for a long time. I was on the board of the federation for a number of\nyears. Jobs here and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there that came up. And I've been somewhat active in the\nnon-Jewish community as well in that regard. I don't really wear many medals in\nmy mind. Sol maybe can tell me of things. But where I felt I could help and that\nI could do it enthusiastically, and that I believed in the process, the system,\nand could commit myself to it, I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"would join and help out on many of the boards\nand on and off types of things. Leadership roles . . . none of the top, not much\nof that . . . and my wife did . . . chair this or chair that. But I feel like\nthat I made a contribution and participated. But most of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"community has\nalways been like that, so it was not difficult.\n\nBERMAN: You keep mentioning your wife. Let's talk about her a little bit. How\ndid you meet your wife and what's her name?\n\nROTENSTREICH: Judy and I first slept together when we were three.\n\nBERMAN: I thought this was going to be risque for a minute.\n\nROTENSTREICH: That may explain . . . our parents were friends. We've been\nlifelong friends and acquaintances. We've been boyfriend, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"girlfriend on and off\nhalf a dozen times throughout our formative years and married immediately out of college.\n\nBERMAN: What was her maiden name?\n\nROTENSTREICH: Toronto.\n\nBERMAN: Is she related to the Torontos in Atlanta?\n\nKIMERLING: Yes.\n\nROTENSTREICH: Judy's mother was . . . Judy's father's name was Maurice Arnovitz\nfrom Atlanta.\n\nBERMAN: Okay.\n\nROTENSTREICH: And Judy was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"born during the war years, well, born in 1939. And\nthen her father went off to war there and the marriage didn't last. And\nsomewhere in the mid-forties or so, her mother met Al Toronto from Birmingham.\nThey married and she moved here, was adopted by Al Toronto and was raised ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"here.\n\nBERMAN: Very interesting.\n\nROTENSTREICH: She has siblings in Atlanta and siblings who were raised here in\nBirmingham. Children from both of these unions.\n\nBERMAN: Looking back on the city of Birmingham in general, how do you see it\nmoving in the future? Do you like the direction ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that Birmingham's going?\n\nROTENSTREICH: To be honest with you, I am disappointed in our community\nleadership. Our governmental structure is flawed. That leads to poor government\nleadership. And I would like in my day to see that change. But it has to do with\nour state constitution, and how the counties govern themselves, and how the\nbudget is structured. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Given those flaws, I love Birmingham and I'm proud to live\nhere. I'm proud to be a part of it. I have never been embarrassed about being\nfrom Birmingham, even when the reputation was flawed. I mean, we weren't the\nonly segregated community. But I am disappointed in the growth of the state, and\nthe county, and the city. 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The landowners are\nchanging and we have an intellectual property known as UAB that is our lead\nindustry here, rather than hardcore manufacturing, which leads to intellectual\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"participants. I think it's got a great potential and future, especially in light\nof our country looking at its flaws today . . . and where can it grow? Where's\nthe place to be? Where's the place to live? Well, the Sun Belt of the Southeast\nwith Atlanta, and New Orleans [Louisiana], and Birmingham, and Nashville,\nMemphis. It's a wonderful area. Weather's good, big ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"industry is moving.\nAutomobile industry is relocating here. The world has changed. We're in a\ndifferent kind of economic environment. But I think Birmingham's got a great\nshot and some of the mistakes it would have made, it didn't make, so now it has\na chance, hopefully to get on the right track and hopefully it will.\n\nBERMAN: I think on that note, unless I have not covered something. Sol? Do you\nthink there's anything I haven't covered here?\n\nKIMERLING: No, I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"don't. It was pretty good. You didn't cover . . . give me some\nski exploits.\n\nROTENSTREICH: No. I'm known as the Saint Bernard of our ski trip. If it weren't\nfor me, he would still be walking down the mountain that he decided to walk home\ninstead of ski home.\n\nBERMAN: I do want to ask one final question. To come back to your grandmother,\nwho was mentioned as kind of like ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the grand dame or the matriarch of Beth-El.\nCan you talk about that a little bit? Describe her personality and what she was like?\n\nROTENSTREICH: It was interesting. The home she lived in is not . . . I drove by\nit the other day. It's in a kind of an old section of . . . it's kind of rundown\nnow, but I'd go by there. I'm in the neighborhood. I go by there occasionally\njust to look at this huge hill on which she lived, which is now nothing but a\nlittle dirt pile. 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My mother, I'm not sure whether she cared or not, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but she didn't relate\nreally heavily to my grandmother. But my grandmother's relationship with my\nfather was strong. They were both strong people and he was his own man and she\ndepended on him, loved him, and respected him, and vice versa. And they probably\nhad their little spats every now and then. But we were at her home on Friday\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"evening. I remember she had a fig tree, which we gathered figs. She had\nchickens, and she slaughtered them in kosher style. Cooked Jewish. Even today,\nJudy, my wife, has recipes of eggplant and things like that that my grandmother\nhad all the time. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She, as Sol mentioned, spent most of her free time at the\nsynagogue. And she saw to it that all of the festivals, no matter how minor,\nSukkot, or Purim, or those, were celebrated in some fashion. I used to go there\nand be dragged there or whatever, because none of my friends that I was running\naround with were there. And I always remember little bags of fruit, and the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"raisins, and the nuts and things like that, that obviously she had a great deal\nof influence producing. I maybe was too young to understand her role, but I have\nappreciated it in my later years, much more than I did then.\n\nBERMAN: When you think of going to her home on Friday night, can you conjure up\nthe smells?\n\nROTENSTREICH: I wasn't going to mention that, actually. It was different. There\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was an odor in the house. And it probably was mostly garlic and chicken fat. The\ntsibeles was so good, I mean, it was so bad for you. Yes. It was distinctively\ndifferent than the home I lived in.\n\nBERMAN: One final question. You didn't say . . . are you still in business with Jefferson?\n\nROTENSTREICH: No. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We sold the business . . . that's hard to believe . . . 17\nyears ago. My cousin Joel and I were partners up until the mid-eighties and at\nthat time, he sold his interest to me. We stayed together for five more years,\nand he moved on. My son came into the business and I was running it for\nperpetual reasons, and we ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"struggled a little bit. We were losing direction,\ncomputers were coming on. We had a lot of challenges and a fella made me an\noffer to buy. [He] was very interested in it and my son suggested we talk to him\nbecause it weighed on my mind and so we effected a sale of the company and he\nmoved on with another group in the same ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/transcript/42648/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"industry. I had two sons who were 14\nmonths apart. The second son lives in Greensboro, North Carolina as a lawyer.\nThen I have a son that's six years younger who is a lawyer here in Birmingham.\nMy three sons are all married with children . . . and they're out of my control now.\n\nBERMAN: How many grandchildren?\n\nROTENSTREICH: Got six. Each son had a boy, girl. 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Thank you.\n\nROTENSTREICH: Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=2910.0,2940.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/annotation_set/1028","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/annotation_set/1028/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBirmingham is the seat of Jefferson County and the third-most populous city in the state of Alabama.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/annotation_set/1028/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eJames Rotenstreich was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1937 to Nathan Rotenstreich and Rose Tenenbaum Rotenstreich. His father owned Jefferson Home Furniture Company. James took over the family business upon his father’s premature death in 1967. Growing up, his family attended both the Reform synagogue, Temple Emanu-El, and the Conservative (formerly Orthodox) synagogue, Temple Beth-El. James graduated from the University of Alabama and briefly served in the United States Army. James has been an active member within the Birmingham Jewish community. He served as president of the Levite Jewish Community Center and was on the board of the Birmingham Jewish Federation. James is married to Judy Toronto. The couple has three sons and six grandchildren.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/annotation_set/1028/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Esther and Herbert Taylor Family Foundation supports The Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Collection at the Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History at the Breman Museum in Atlanta, which consists of a thousand oral histories that document Jewish life in Georgia and Alabama. The foundation was founded in 1983 and is administered by the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/annotation_set/1028/annotation/102","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 with James Rotenstreich is one of those transcripts.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/annotation_set/1028/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eSandra Katz \"Sandy\" Berman is an American archivist. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, she was the founding archivist of the Cleveland Jewish Archives. She later moved to Atlanta, Georgia, and in 1985 became the founding archivist of the Ida Pearle and Joseph Cuba Archives for Southern Jewish History at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum. During her 28-year tenure at the Breman, she co-curated multiple exhibitions and expanded the scope of the museum to include collections from Jewish communities throughout Georgia and surrounding states. She is the interviewer for many of the oral histories that can be found in this collection.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/annotation_set/1028/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAntisemitism is prejudice against, hostility to, or hatred of Jews\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/annotation_set/1028/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eWorld War II (abbreviated WWII or WW2) was a global war involving fighting in most of the world and most countries. 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. It included massacres, the deliberate genocide of the Holocaust, strategic bombing, starvation, disease, and the only use of nuclear weapons against civilians in history.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/annotation_set/1028/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe systematic, government-sponsored attempt by the German Nazi government to annihilate the Jews of Europe between 1939 and 1945, which resulted in the deaths of 6,000,000 Jews.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/annotation_set/1028/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eReform Judaism is a division within Judaism, especially in North America and the United Kingdom. Historically it began in the 19th century. In general, the Reform movement maintains that Judaism and Jewish traditions should be modernized and compatible with participation in Western culture. While the Torah remains the law, in Reform Judaism women are included (mixed seating, bat mitzvah, and women rabbis), instrumental music is allowed in the services, and most of the service is in the local language as opposed to Hebrew.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/annotation_set/1028/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eOrthodox Judaism is a traditional branch of Judaism that strictly follows the written Torah and the oral law concerning prayer, dress, food, sex, family relations, social behavior, the Sabbath day, holidays, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/annotation_set/1028/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eA bar mitzvah [Hebrew: son of commandments; plural: b’nai mitzvah] is a rite of passage for Jewish boys aged 13 years and one day. At that time, a Jewish boy is considered a responsible adult for most religious purposes. He is now duty-bound to keep the commandments, he puts on tefillin, and may be counted to the minyan quorum for public worship. He celebrates the bar mitzvah by being called up to the reading of the Torah in the synagogue, usually on the next available Sabbath after his Hebrew birthday.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/annotation_set/1028/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAlso known as Masorti Judaism, Conservative Judaism is a form of Judaism that seeks to preserve Jewish tradition and ritual, but has a more flexible approach to the interpretation of the law than Orthodox Judaism. It attempts to combine a positive attitude toward modern culture, while preserving a commitment to Jewish observance. In general, Conservative congregations also observe gender equality (mixed seating, women rabbis, and bat mitzvah). 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Today it is affiliated with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. The current sanctuary was built in 1926 on Highland Avenue on the Southside. As of 2022, Rabbi Hillel Norry, based in Atlanta, serves as the synagogue's Interim Rabbi.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/annotation_set/1028/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eTemple Emanu-El is a Reform Jewish congregation in Birmingham, Alabama. The community first held Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur celebrations in 1881. Before the synagogue was built, the community met at the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Land for the synagogue was purchased in 1884 and the building was inaugurated in 1889. 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He was one of eight local clergy members who signed a public statement entitled “A Call for Unity,” criticizing the Birmingham Campaign, to which Martin Luther King, Jr. responded in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/annotation_set/1028/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003e The American Civil Rights Movement encompasses social movements in the United States whose goal was to end racial segregation and discrimination against Black Americans and enforce constitutional voting rights to them. The movement was characterized by major campaigns of civil resistance. Between 1955 and 1968, acts of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience produced crisis situations between activists and government authorities. Noted legislative achievements during this phase of the Civil Rights Movement were passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/annotation_set/1028/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eSol Kimerling (1930-2022) was a native of Birmingham, Alabama. He graduated from the University of Alabama and served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. He worked in the family business in Birmingham, M. 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Through his covert actions to enforce radical segregation and deny civil rights to African American citizens, he became an international symbol of bigotry.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/annotation_set/1028/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eJim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. The name seems to have originated in the song “Jump Jim Crow,” a song-and-dance caricature of Blacks performed by white actor Thomas D. Rice in Blackface in 1832. As a result of Rice’s fame, “Jim Crow” became a pejorative expression meaning “Negro” by 1838 and the later segregation laws became known as “Jim Crow” laws. Jim Crow laws mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the southern states of the former Confederacy, with a supposedly “separate but equal” status for Black Americans, although in reality this was not so. Some examples of Jim Crow laws are the segregation of public schools, places, and public transportation and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants and drinking fountains for whites and Blacks. Private businesses, political parties, and unions created their own Jim Crow arrangements, barring Blacks from buying homes in certain neighborhoods, from shopping or working in certain stores, from working at certain trades, etc. In the middle twentieth century, the Supreme Court began to overturn Jim Crow laws on constitutional grounds. Rosa Parks defied the Jim Crow laws when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man, which became a catalyst to the Civil Rights movement. Her actions, and the demonstrations that followed, led to a series of legislative and court decisions that contributed to undermining the Jim Crow system. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 officially ended Jim Crow segregation laws.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/annotation_set/1028/annotation/120","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. 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Prayer and repentance before the sealing of the books on Yom Kippur may revoke these decisions.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/89650/file/185622/annotation_set/1028/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eYom Kippur [Hebrew: “day of atonement”] The most sacred day of the Jewish year. Yom Kippur is a 25-hour fast day. Most of the day is spent in prayer, reciting yizkor for deceased relatives, confessing sins, requesting divine forgiveness, and listening to Torah readings and sermons. People greet each other with the wish that they may be sealed in the heavenly book for a good year ahead. 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