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He went to college at Emory University before beginning work at the Montag Bros. school supply and paper company, where he worked as a salesman.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter six years of sales work, Alvin Sugarman turned to work of faith. He was ordained by Hebrew Union College, and he eventually found work at The Temple-Hebrew Benevolent Congregation of Atlanta, where he became senior rabbi in 1974. From that point forward, Sugarman devoted his life to leading one of the Southeast's, if not the country's, most important and influential religious communities, earning several community service awards along the way. \u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eIn this interview, Rabbi Sugarman elaborates on much of his life experiences. This includes his childhood in the Atlanta area, work as a salesman for Montag, and much elaboration on how he decided to pursue the position of Rabbi. In terms of his religious life, he covers his early influences, his time in seminary, and much of his early work as a rabbi, including work at The Temple in Atlanta, as well as at the federal penitentiary in Atlanta.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28484"]}},{"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":["Sugarman, Alvin (personal name)","Atlanta, Georgia (geographic term)","Rabbi (topical term)","Rabbinate (topical term)","Lipshutz, Bob/Robert (personal name)","Montag Bros. 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He was ordained by Hebrew Union College, and he eventually found work at The Temple-Hebrew Benevolent Congregation of Atlanta, where he became senior rabbi in 1974. From that point forward, Sugarman devoted his life to leading one of the Southeast's, if not the country's, most important and influential religious communities, earning several community service awards along the way. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn this interview, Rabbi Sugarman elaborates on much of his life experiences. This includes his childhood in the Atlanta area, work as a salesman for Montag, and much elaboration on how he decided to pursue the position of Rabbi. In terms of his religious life, he covers his early influences, his time in seminary, and much of his early work as a rabbi, including work at The Temple in Atlanta, as well as at the federal penitentiary in Atlanta.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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It's March 29th, and we're ready to start our interview. It's interesting, I have a copy of your bio, and I think, not only is it unusual that we got together, but we're two native Atlantans.\n\nSUGARMAN: That's right. We're rare birds.\n\nKARP: That's right.\n\nSUGARMAN: In the fullest sense of the term.\n\nKARP: Did you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"came along after Boys High or did you go to Boys High?\n\nSUGARMAN: No. I must have started [at] Grady [high school] in 1951, so it wasn't\nthat many years . . .\n\nKARP: That's right.\n\nSUGARMAN: Three [or] four years. Was it late forties that Boys High [became Grady]? it was after the war, wasn't it?\n\nKARP: It was after the war.\n\nSUGARMAN: Yes. So, it had not been Grady that long.\n\nKARP: You lived in that neighborhood?\n\nSUGARMAN: Right, and I think when I was born, my dad had a store ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in West End. It was called the Community Five and Ten. And for a while . . .\n\nKARP: Where was it in West End?\n\nSUGARMAN: I think on Gordon Street. Isn't that one of the main . . . ?\n\nKARP: Oh, yes, Gordon Street.\n\nSUGARMAN: You know, I've never thought about it, [but] I could get an old phone book and look it up. But I have a picture of my mama holding me, rest her soul, and I must have been home from the hospital. And it was on the porch of a little frame house that they lived in in West End before they moved to the corner of Ponce de ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leon and Bonaventure [avenue] there at 815. I think we were on the second floor, and downstairs were Sidney Marcus, alav ha-shalom, and his sister Sandra who is now Sandra Silverman.\n\nKARP: Well, we have another commonalty. I'm a West End-er.\n\nSUGARMAN: Really? Cause I didn't [remember] many Jews?\n\nKARP: There was not.\n\nSUGARMAN: I didn't think so. Cause I thought my dad told me that there was not many.\n\nKARP: That melded us. We were the only Jews in a part of West End called Capitol View.\n\nSUGARMAN: Yeah.\n\nKARP: We were the only Jewish family. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In West End, you were in [what part of] West End?\n\nSUGARMAN: I really ought to look in the phone book and see. I never thought to do this. [I'll] see what the address was and go by. I'm sure that house is not still standing, but just see what the address was.\n\nKARP: Was the house on Gordon Street?\n\nSUGARMAN: I'm not sure. I don't think so.\n\nKARP: Yeah.\n\nSUGARMAN: I don't think so. I honestly don't know that, but it was a little frame house. I could just tell from the porch with the swing on it, a wooden swing, and my mother holding me.\n\nKARP: I hope in this exhibit ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that they're going to have at the Atlanta Historical Society, they'll have a facility so that people can compare where they live with what is there now. I was born in left center field at Piedmont Hospital.\n\nSUGARMAN: Well, that makes two of us. I told some kids once that there was a\nplaque underneath third base. They believed me! There were little kids when I\nwas giving blood at the Red Cross. \"Sure enough?\" I could hear them. I said, \"Yeah, just lift it up there!\"\n\nKARP: You know, there was a migration ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"pattern. You were a little bit south of where the Jews were located, but by that time Jews had already moved out of the Capitol Avenue [and] Washington Street area.\n\nSUGARMAN: Which is where our family [lived]. My Uncle Sam, whom I know you knew, Alahaf Shalom, and Aunt Rose, all of them. I think the reason that they got involved in the Temple was that their back yard fed into the Temple's back yard. They would go to Sunday School, they would get up in the morning, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"walk out the back door, and walk into the Temple.\n\nKARP: And the Temple then was on Pryor Street.\n\nSUGARMAN: I guess, either Pryor and Garnet or Pryor and Richardson.\n\nKARP: Pryor and Richardson, which later became Greek Orthodox.\n\nSUGARMAN: Right. I've seen films of that synagogue at a celebration of the Greek Orthodox, some historical moment in their life, when they showed a film.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KARP: There's a branch of the Sugarman family that was Conservative, wasn't there?\n\nSUGARMAN: Well, it all happened when Uncle Sam, alav ha-shalom . . . I think\nthat's an interesting story, [he] met . . . everybody calls him Papa Sam and Mama Ida Annette . . . Ida Meyers, that was her maiden name, and of course, she belonged to Ahavath Achim.\n\nKARP: She was a close friend of my mother-in-law.\n\nSUGARMAN: And ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a very beautiful young lady. I remember my daddy telling me . . . he was the best man at Uncle Sam's wedding . . . when Uncle Sam met Aunt Ida, [he came] running home to my dad, \"You won't believe, I just met the most\nbeautiful . . . \" is this going public, because what he said was not real [appropriate].\n\nKARP: No, no.\n\nSUGARMAN: He said, \"I met the most beautiful girl. She looks just like a shiksa.\nWhich was an incredible statement in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"its context. It also was a self-deprecating statement as if a Jewish woman couldn't be as pretty.\n\nKARP: That's right.\n\nSUGARMAN: So, there's insight to be learned from these little, historical flashes of our own self-deprecating prejudice. We belonged to the Temple. When Uncle Sam brought Aunt Ida right here, to the Temple, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to meet Rabbi Marx, Rabbi Marx commented, \"Sam, you've left the fold.\" And it really hurt his feelings. And that was it. He went straight. And that's how, that was the conversion, if you would, of Uncle Sam to the Reform movement. Now, they had to kind of sneak around and date at first because her daddy, Red Meyers, was very, very frum and dating Uncle Sam, this fellow ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at Temple, was not exactly the in thing to do. And finally everything was accepted. But it was almost like a \"mixed marriage.\"\n\nKARP: Well, I guess that kind of tension was really the order of the day. It was more than just when marriages were [indistinct].\n\nSUGARMAN: Right. In fact, I remember growing up hearing very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"vicious kind of appellations of one community, the [indistinct; sounds like \"dietchen\"] . . .\n\nKARP: That's right, and the [indistinct; sounds like Rushishon].\n\nSUGARMAN: Yeah, the [indistinct; sounds like Rushishon], and even the Kikes,\nthat was used. Again, that's a horrible, a horrible commentary, that I guess carried over from Europe that spilled over into the New World prior to Hitler, when, of course, we know . . .\n\nKARP: Yes. I think it probably was heightened in the New World. I think ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the separation was even greater.\n\nSUGARMAN: Could have been. On a side note, I remember my dad telling me that a German family moved across the street when they must have been eight, nine, ten, eleven years old.\n\nKARP: Yeah. You mean German Jewish family?\n\nSUGARMAN: No.\n\nKARP: Oh, German, I see.\n\nSUGARMAN: German family, German family. Should I stop?\n\nKARP: No, go ahead, go ahead.\n\nSUGARMAN: A German family moved in, and you know, the kids met one another, and Uncle Sam and my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"dad played with them. Then all of a sudden, they said, \"Come on Hans,\" or whatever his name was, come out to play. And he stood, kind of braced himself on the sidewalk and said, \"No, no, no. Mama says we can't play with Jews [pronounced like \"juice\"].\" And my daddy, who was a bit of a comedian, said, \"What kind of juice? Orange juice? What juice?\" But already, see? The whole thing about Hitler's phenomenon being a self-contained thing [isn't particularly accurate]. This must have been ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the year 1900 or so. My dad was born 1892. That antisemitism they brought from Germany with them, and immediately carried it to their new neighbors in America across the street.\n\nKARP: That was from their mother's milk, so to speak.\n\nSUGARMAN: Unfortunately, that's true.\n\nKARP: So, you went to Boys High. Grady.\n\nSUGARMAN: Grady.\n\nKARP: And then after that?\n\nSUGARMAN: Well, prior to that . . . Bob Lipshutz and I like to say that we were both graduates of Smillie. 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Went from Smillie, and had finished grammar school at Morningside, and then to Grady, and then went straight to Emory, and then went to work for Montag where at ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"least three of the four brothers, Sugarman brothers, worked for Montag.\n\nKARP: Is that right?\n\nSUGARMAN: Then Uncle Sam left to form Sugarman Hirsch Company which became Fulton Paper Company. And that's where my . . .\n\nKARP: Now what did you do at Montag?\n\nSUGARMAN: I eventually became a salesman, and then advertising and sales\npromotion manager. But they started all their ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"salesmen off in the stock room,\njust like my dad, and Uncle Sam, and all of them started. I worked in the factory, helped take inventory, worked in what they called the paper trees where the stationary was designed. I can remember watching, they used to do what they call hand-deckled stationary where the edges were hand done. And they had this stone.\n\nKARP: Oh, yeah.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SUGARMAN: Yeah, it was beautiful. And I would watch them. The arms on these guys were like wrestlers. And then, on a terrific training program, I went to\nseventeen states working with different salesmen. From the South Carolina, North Carolina, going with Uncle Sam across with other salesmen, all the way to Texas and Oklahoma. It was a great way to see at least a quarter of the United States.\n\nKARP: Now, this is an aside, but I'm interested in this: how did the Montags get in the paper business?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SUGARMAN: I should know that answer. That picture on the wall over there behind you is the old Montag building. That's Uncle Sam on the left and my dad on the right with their Model T's. They had just split up the territory. I honestly don't know. I'll have to ask maybe Tony if he would know. Or Elaine. Elaine may know.\n\nKARP: The reason I ask is that around Asheville [North Carolina] there was a paper industry there for the specific ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"purpose of making paper for cigarettes. And located there because that's where the wood was.\n\nSUGARMAN: Yes.\n\nKARP: And that was in Jewish hands, the Bowers, and they came from Austria and Germany. And I wondered if . . .\n\nSUGARMAN: I know that the Montag family came into Galveston [Texas]. I know\nthat. That's where they entered the States. How they even got to Atlanta, I don't know. But I bet either Tony Montag or Harold Montag's daughter, Elaine ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"would know.\n\nKARP: I suppose what's now Mead Packaging is an offshoot of that also.\n\nSUGARMAN: Right. We bought paper from Champion, which bought Montag before me, and then we were what they called paper converters. We converted the raw paper stock into either notebook paper or fine stationary.\n\nKARP: The way you spoke of deckled paper, you obviously have a [love for craftsmanship]. Do you still have a love for good, fine paperwork?\n\nSUGARMAN: Oh, absolutely. And for years after I was married, even though [I no longer worked in the paper business], ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'd go into a department store with\nBarbara and I'd go over and check, just out of habit, check their stationary stock after all those years.\n\nKARP: Well, it's obvious the question that I'm leading to is, to put it somewhat irreverently is what is a nice Jewish boy like you doing in the rabbinate?\n\nSUGARMAN: My uncle asked me the same thing. Uncle Sam, he says, \"What do you want to do this for?\"\n\nKARP: When did it happen?\n\nSUGARMAN: It happened while I was at Montag. And I remember that Murray . . . you know Murray? You know Murray and Harriet Eisner?\n\nKARP: Yes.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SUGARMAN: Okay. Murray told me, he called me in my office and he said, \"Alvin, in ten years you'll probably be among the top men in the stationary industry.\" This was when I was off the road and doing advertising and sales, and working directly with Murray. He was a wonderful person to work with. But it was really those nights on the road, I think, where you really . . . I had my share of\ndates on the road. But I've never been one to go out drinking with the guys. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maybe my cohorts at Grady did it, but it just never interested me.\n\nKARP: You didn't sit in the hotel room at night and read the Gideon Bible did you?\n\nSUGARMAN: No, no. That I didn't do.\n\nKARP: That wasn't part of it?\n\nSUGARMAN: I might have stayed up writing orders and watching TV half the night, I Dream of Jeannie, or something. A lot of the guys on the road, \"Come on, let's go have a drink.\" But that was just not [my thing.] I was too busy to do that, number one, and number two if it didn't interest me in high school it wasn't about to interest me.\n\nKARP: Now I don't want to put words in your mouth or misinterpret what you said, but that's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a reason to leave Montag. What was the reason for choosing the rabbinate?\n\nSUGARMAN: It was during that time, alone in the room, and particularly alone in\nthe automobile, and on the road, you cover a lot of miles. My territory was Alabama after I covered these training states. It's a big state, all the way from north Alabama, and I went right down to the line, right north of Mobile [Alabama]. That ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"time to reflect, and to think, coupled with some little seed, a spiritual seed for lack of a better term, that was really implanted by the model of Rabbi Rothschild. When I was even eight, nine or ten, I can remember sitting in the sanctuary feeling something special when he would take the Torah out and say, \"This is my Torah. You shall observe its commandments.\" It was something almost scintillating, or very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"exciting, very meaningful. I mean, spiritual. It hit me in my kishkes when he would do that. Then, the fact that I was in Alabama and I saw the horror of the hatred against the Blacks. Listening to Rabbi Rothschild preach just the opposite. And the year my dad died, 1964, [I was] doing something I had wanted to do for a number of years but never had done, which was I taught religious school. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I happened to teach the eighth grade which was the prophets. And I would use the prophetic teaching as a counterpoint against the teachings of the Klan. I remember I would have my kids say, \"Okay, you're in the middle. You're Amos, the prophet Amos. And you're walking into the middle of a Ku Klux Klan rally in Selma, Alabama. What do you see?\" And that juxtaposition of teaching the prophets, being in the middle of the Civil Rights struggle in Alabama, being in Tuscaloosa [Alabama] the day that JFK was killed, with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a Holocaust survivor when we got the news. Just like I'm talking to you now.\n\nKARP: Wow.\n\nSUGARMAN: I was with a man named Andre Elder who was a buyer for Rosenfeld Paper Company. And immediately when he heard JFK's assassination . . . at that time we didn't know he was dead. None of us knew when we first heard it. We just thought it was an attempt on his life. We knew he had been shot. He started cursing the Nazis, and he immediately made the connection between the evil of JFK's assassin with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nazis. All those kind of like in a caldron, stirring within me. Then when I met my wife, which was six months before Richard Lehrman, alav ha-shalom, moved to Atlanta. And my wife's brother was already an ordained rabbi when I met him. So, they were two people, young people my age about. In fact, when Dick Lehrman used to do services . . . I'd only ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"been married a month or two when he came here, and I would say to Barbara, \"Gee, how come I couldn't do that.\" Because when you get married, Herb, as you well know, if you're going to have a good marriage, you better be open and honest not only with your life partner but with yourself. Of course, it threw Barbara off. She had been very involved in Youth Group. That's how we got fixed up. Shirley Herman fixed us up because she figured . . . in fact, I was teaching Shirley's son Stewart in religious school when she introduced me to Barbara.  ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n\nKARP: Then Mrs. Sugarman is a native Atlantan also?\n\nSUGARMAN: Jackson, Mississippi.\n\nKARP: Jackson.\n\nSUGARMAN: Shirley's from Jackson, of the Herman girls there. Shirley's father\nand Barbara's father were brothers in Jackson. So, it was all those events. And\nthen coming and talking to Rabbi Rothschild, he almost fell out of the chair because he said, and truthfully, that I had never said a word to him about becoming a rabbi. But the minute I told him, from that split second, he was extremely supportive. Barbara was very fearful. Here she was, married a rising\nyoung business executive, and all of a sudden, we're talking about picking up\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"roots, going . . . and she loved Atlanta, you know. Never dreamed we would come back here . . . going to Cincinnati for five years, et cetera. But he was very supportive. The college thought it was just a passing fancy. At that time, I was\nall of 27, 28 by the time I went. An older student. Now they have students [in their] forties and fifties.\n\nKARP: Sure. In fact, that's not the norm, but the norm is older students, both in Jewish theological seminaries and in Christian.\n\nSUGARMAN: Because people are seeing ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"God. Honestly, I loved working for Montag, but coming home, I just told Barbara, I said, \"I don't know how many more days I can take of deciding whether we should pack this six white, three blue and three pink, or six white, three blue and three lilac,\" you know? There just was something stirring inside of me. You probably don't know this, when I [was] at the end of my sophomore year at Emory, I wrote a letter to the rabbinic seminary, but never mailed it. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"couldn't come to terms with it. My father was not in good health, we had been dependent for a long time on Uncle Sam, Aunt Ida and my Aunt Rose.\n\nKARP: So, the point was there earlier.\n\nSUGARMAN: The seed was there. It was deeply [rooted]. But I never mailed the\nletter, and then those years on the road in Alabama. Everything happens in a context, and I think what was going on around me helped me more clearly formulate and know that I needed to make this move. And I think it was marriage. 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I just couldn't, honestly, because I knew it meant five more years of being dependent and I wanted ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to be independent, on my own.\n\nKARP: But you went there as a married man?\n\nSUGARMAN: Absolutely. Only one of two. In fact, the only other classmate who was married just called me two days ago. We studied together. And the interesting quirk of this: most of our friends were in the classes ahead of us, because they were more in our age group and there were more married. And about maybe five or six years ago, I was voted in as an honorary member of the class of 1969, even though my official class is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1971, because when we go out to rabbinic conventions, we're always [together]. We took our twenty-fifth anniversary cruise with a group from . . .\n\nKARP: It was five years?\n\nSUGARMAN: Five years at rabbinic school.\n\nKARP: What kind of evaluation, what kind of interviews did you have? They don't\njust take anybody out of a paper concern to be a rabbi.\n\nSUGARMAN: Right. There's a funny footnote to that, too, to that question. The\nman that interviewed me was a man named, alav ha-shalom, Dr. Samuel ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sandmel . . .\n\nKARP: Sandmel, of course.\n\nSUGARMAN: A world renowned Biblical scholar. Did you know, Herb, that he was once . . .\n\nKARP: That's right, he was here in Atlanta.\n\nSUGARMAN: He was here. To the best of my knowledge, he didn't do the actual\ncircumcision, but he officiated at my bris, which was an incredible [coincidence]. I later had him come back. Because I was born June the 3rd. Rabbi Marx was out of town. And June the 11th would have been my circumcision. He came back, and he was the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"rabbi that installed me on April the 26th, 1974, as senior. As the senior rabbi. We came in on a Shabbat afternoon, because I was working at Montag, and he was on the way to take his son to a Cincinnati Reds game. So, we didn't have what you would call a real in-depth interview. He was a close friend of Jack Rothschild, and both he and Rabbi Rothschild later ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"told me that he, Dr. Sandmel, thought I was just going through a whim, really. That this was just something, I had gotten married. But when they saw I was serious, and I filled out all the forms . . . you have to write essays, you know, why you want to do this. You also have to have a psychiatric evaluation. However, for whatever reason, bureaucratic, they never gave me that. [Then about] a month before I was to be ordained, I said, \"Okay. I don't want you coming at me and saying you're not going to ordain ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"me. I demand to take [that psychiatric evaluation]!\" I guess I wanted to be sure I wasn't a little nuts myself. So, they gave me the psychiatric interview about two weeks [before I was ordained,] five years after they were supposed to!\n\nKARP: You wanted to make sure that everything was in order.\n\nSUGARMAN: Right. And interesting enough, the night that we started rabbinic\nschool, you had to come in and take a placement exam to see what level of Hebrew. I had studied with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Max Klineman. He was a mohel here in town. Rabbi\nLehrman taught me the Hebrew alphabet, because growing up at the Temple then we didn't have a word of Hebrew in religious school. So, I started with the\nAleph-Bet, ah ah ba ba, [and I] would sit in Dick's living room with him while\nhis wife, Gail, at that time, and Barbara would go upstairs and visit. And I\nwent to sign for the Hebrew. All the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"incoming students, none of us knew one\nanother, and they came up to me and said, \"Excuse me, sir, which class will you\nbe teaching?\" I said, \"Wait a minute. I'm one of you. I'm not [a professor!]\" As\nit turned out, about three years later I did end up teaching the incoming\nstudents in a special summer tutoring program, and I taught Hebrew at the\nUniversity of Cincinnati for the students who were thinking about going to HUC\n[Hebrew Union College].\n\nKARP: Now, did Barbara work while ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you were in the [seminary]?\n\nSUGARMAN: She worked until our children came. That's another story: we had said, okay, just got married, and we're going to delay our having children. We'll wait five years until after we finish. Well, end of the first week, she said, \"Alvin, I think you need to sit down.\" And she sat down to tell me. Later, Lanie was born, our [indistinct] was born. And once the children were a little older, I theoretically took the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"job of bookkeeper at the bookstore, but she did all the work. She did all the bookkeeping of the bookstore while I taught and tutored. And then we had a student congregation that I would go to, first for the High Holy days and then every other weekend, sometimes more than that. And for a student congregation, it was rather large. Most of them are five, ten, fifteen families. This was about eighty-five families. And it was a wonderful experience in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Then ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my senior year, the rabbi in Mobile, Irving Blum, went on a sabbatical and they called Hebrew Union College and said, \"Do you have someone who would be willing to move down here, to come almost every week in the Fall, and then move down and stay for the rest of his senior year?\" I had taken enough coursework that the only thing left to do after December, early January, was to write my rabbinic thesis. So, we packed up and left six months early, moved to Mobile, which was like two hundred and twenty-five families. Which was a great experience, where I was the interim rabbi while ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the rabbi was in Israel.\n\nKARP: Mobile community is small, but some real movers and shakers.\n\nSUGARMAN: And wonderful people, yes. And I'm sure, Bubba Mitchell, Mayer\nMitchell, who is the immediate past president of AIPAC [American-Israel Public\nAffairs Committee].\n\nKARP: Oh yes, that's right. He's from Mobile.\n\nSUGARMAN: It's a wonderful, wonderful community.\n\nKARP: And socially active.\n\nSUGARMAN: Right.\n\nKARP: Active in Alabama much ahead of their time.\n\nSUGARMAN: Right.\n\nKARP: And sometimes at the peril of their ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lives.\n\nSUGARMAN: That's exactly right.\n\nKARP: What was the subject of your rabbinic thesis?\n\nSUGARMAN: I wrote a religious school curriculum that was based on a non-supernatural understanding of deity, where you wouldn't have to unexplain or redo what you told children about God as they grew older. For instance, it took\nthe lives of Abraham, Isaac and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jacob, and focused on their lives as they might\nnaturally have unfolded as nomads. Their relationship with God was done on a\nmuch more naturalistic, as opposed to supernaturalistic [level]. And I guess it's interesting because, I never really thought about it until your question, [but] the book that I'm working on now, which is an outgrowth of my doctoral dissertation at Emory, really makes the same argument on a completely different level. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That God is limited. God does not break into the natural order.\n\nKARP: And having a God that is not dependent on supernatural concepts means that a person is going to have a relationship to God that is much more likely to survive.\n\nSUGARMAN: Well said. That's exactly right. In fact, one of the titles I'm playing with in the book, has to do with rescuing the covenant. Because I think the old way people said God doesn't work that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"way, there's no evidence for that. But to have a covenant where . . . I call it the covenant of mutual affirmation, where we both affirm. Lord knows, we have limits as human beings. But to affirm and understand that at the moment of creation, in order for there to be room for us, God limited God's own self, and to give us the gift of freedom and the autonomy to make decisions. It makes us much more responsible partners with God in creation.\n\nKARP: To give us the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"gift of freedom, and as the late Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, to give us the insecurity of freedom.\n\nSUGARMAN: Right. He, by the way, is chapter four in my book.\n\nKARP: Is that right?\n\nSUGARMAN: Yeah. He is an incredible man. It's funny, we went to HUC, and we\nbarely just brushed by Heschel, and it took David Blumenthal to bring me to . . .\n\nKARP: Heschel came from a Reform background, didn't he?\n\nSUGARMAN: Heschel was a professor at HUC. You know what the mashuganas did to him?\n\nKARP: No.\n\nSUGARMAN: They in effect fired him, told him he was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"too Reform for HUC. So, he became the light of the Conservative movement. A wonderful human. We're working on bringing his daughter to Temple. I've gotten to know her, Susannah Heschel.\n\nKARP: Now she was here for the Martin Luther King funeral, got lost, and one of my colleagues at Emory rescued her.\n\nSUGARMAN: I'll be darn. I didn't know that.\n\nKARP: Yeah. I didn't get a chance to meet her.\n\nSUGARMAN: I've met her. I was in Cincinnati and I didn't get to meet her then. Yeah, she's a wonderful, fine scholar. She's at Case Western now.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KARP: Really? I know she was at one time thinking of or actually was in medical school.\n\nSUGARMAN: That I don't know.\n\nKARP: To get back to your senior thesis. Who was your advisor?\n\nSUGARMAN: In rabbinic school?\n\nKARP: Yeah.\n\nSUGARMAN: Dr. Alvin J. Reines, R-E-I-N-E-S. He was the terror of the faculty.\n\nKARP: What was his field?\n\nSUGARMAN: Jewish . . . he studied at Harvard with Harry Wolfsen.\n\nKARP: Oh yeah.\n\nSUGARMAN: His field is Jewish philosophy and thought, and very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"radical in his\napproach. In fact, there's like a standing offer of a quarter of a million dollars gift to the college the minute they fire him. But he was one of the . . . have you read that biography about the woman whose husband was Martin Finster? I didn't say the name there. You remember Martin Finster? He was murdered.\n\nKARP: Yes.\n\nSUGARMAN: Yeah, that was the incident I was talking about. I went in to see Mrs. Finster, and she said, \"I don't want to see you, you and your damned God.\" Well, it was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dr. Reines' mentoring and scholarship that enabled me to give her a response that did not require a supernatural God [to be] in control. Because if\nGod was in control, then God murdered her husband. That's the logical absurdity of it.\n\nKARP: And it's an illogical extension that so many people turn to.\n\nSUGARMAN: That's exactly right.\n\nKARP: You know, why me, how did God let this happen. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That was the big question of the Holocaust. Any contact with Jacob Marcus?\n\nSUGARMAN: Yes. I'm one of his boys. That's what he calls all of us. It was a\nreal quirk, and a tremendous disappointment to me that, somehow, I never had him as a professor. But just being on campus with him, and getting to know him\nthrough the years, whether at rabbinic meetings . . . and most of the time, of course, at the college he is just an incredible . . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he is a walking repository of American Jewish history. I mean, living.\n\nKARP: I had the pleasure of hearing him lecture in a very small group. I was a\nspouse at a meeting of Jewish librarians, and so I had to. Later I had a chance\nto talk to him, and he was asking me questions, and by the time we ended the conversation, he practically told me my address where I was born.\n\nSUGARMAN: I can see him. That's his ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"forte. Yeah, he's wonderful.\n\nKARP: And his counterpart in the Conservative movement is Abraham Karp, no relation.\n\nSUGARMAN: Yes, I see his name a lot.\n\nKARP: Yes. American Jewish . . .\n\nSUGARMAN: Same spelling.\n\nKARP: Yes, same. And then for your Ph.D., it was David Blumenthal?\n\nSUGARMAN: Right. He was the principal force, factor, everything. Jack Boozer\nplayed a significant role also . . .\n\nKARP: Yes, I was going to ask you about Jack.\n\nSUGARMAN: . . . of nurturing. Jack and I had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lunch after I talked with David, to open up the door. Because as I later learned the hard way . . . it's an interesting story: Emory was not thrilled with my working full-time and doing the graduate Division of Religion, even though they accepted me in the division knowing full well that I had a, full time commitment here at Temple. Late one afternoon right before Shabbat ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"shul, I picked up a letter from Emory right before I was to take my doctoral exam that said, \"look, you have not been a full-time student; therefore all of your work is invalid.\" I'm paraphrasing it. It was like, wow. I think David was maybe out of town. I couldn't get him. I reached one of the professors and he said, \"We'll get a hold of him.\" To make a long story short, as David likes to put it, they have their own \"Protestant ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Torah.\" They go by the rules. And we had a meeting, I thought my wife was going to murder me because it meant an extension of at least one full if not two full years of work there to satisfy the residency. Which I did. They saw the original letter, because the professor that was Chair of the department at that time, stating that we accept you, knowing full. But we came to an agreement because I wanted to have as strong a basis as I could, and I worked out a partial sabbatical with the Temple while I was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"preparing for the exams. I prepared for\nthe exams and took my full course load the same year, and took the exams and\nthen started writing. But it was an interesting endeavor.\n\nKARP: Now, you came to Atlanta how soon after your ordination?\n\nSUGARMAN: About three weeks. We were in Mobile, and our furniture was in\nstorage, and we just picked up and had the furniture shipped here. Finished ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"out\nmy year in Mobile and came straight here.\n\nKARP: You know, I realize now in retrospect that I directed myself to return to Atlanta. It wasn't just happenstance. I somehow or another managed to take advantage of every opportunity to bring myself back to Atlanta. Did you have the\nsame thing?\n\nSUGARMAN: I think it must have been the same thing. I know my wife's feeling. In fact, that's an interesting question. 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But once we were here, it became very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"evident that it was a mutual bonding there. Shidduch was made. So, we called the placement office in Cincinnati, Rabbi Rothschild did, and I called too, [and we said] that I wished to have my name removed. And he wished to have [his name removed,] because he was planning to go up too if for some reason it didn't work out here. I didn't even go through the interviewing process, and it was all done with the blessing of the college. A few of my classmates probably were a little upset that they never ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"had a chance to interview Atlanta. But we could have gone through and I could have interviewed Washington and sixteen other congregations, and Jack could have interviewed thirty-two other people, but just going through the motions. And rather than go through the motions, we were honest about it and said that we made the match here.\n\nKARP: You were an assistant to him?\n\nSUGARMAN: Right. For two and a half years until the day of his death, the end of December 1973. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was in Jackson, Mississippi, at a synagogue New Year's Eve party when Bob Lipshutz . . . I picked up the phone. It was Bob, and he was\nsobbing. He was president of the Temple at that time. And I knew by . . . I didn't even know Jack went in the hospital. He had told him not to call me. We visited. We had the nicest visit of our life with him on Thursday evening, I believe it was the 20th of December, and just coincidentally my dad's birthday, stayed up late as I don't know what with him and Jenice, just shmoozing, just the two couples. 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Came home, showered, and walked over ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to Jenice's. And I'll never forget walking into her home, and one of Jack Rothschild's closest friends was standing there. This is riveted in my memory, Herb. And he looked at me and he looked at Jenice and he looked at Barbara and he looked back at me and he said, \"The king is dead. Long live the king.\" And, boy, did it drive home to me how quickly and how ethereal each of us really is, no matter how important we may think ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ourselves to be. In the flick of an eye, the eye turns somewhere else. That was really quite an instructive moment for me.\n\nKARP: I guess the two of you really had many points of compatibility. You obviously had a very active social conscience. He, I think, of all of the rabbis in Atlanta set the direction of social conscience.\n\nSUGARMAN: Yes. It made me feel so good. It just flowed. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In fact, the night that I was installed I spoke about David Marx building a bridge to the greater community, Jack walking over the bridge, and my standing on the other side of the bridge to my congregation beckoning them to join me. That was the image that I used.\n\nKARP: All right. You know I come from a different orientation. Were you part of the transition, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"either as a member of the congregation or as a child here, of the transition of this particular congregation and Reform Judaism in general toward Israel, toward Zionism?\n\nSUGARMAN: Well, obviously, I was ten years old when Israel was born [in 1948],so I wasn't exactly in a leadership position. 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And when he and Rabbi Epstein became\nco-chair, I want to say [in] 1951, I could be off a year or two, but co-chair of the Welfare Federation drive then, that was a clear signal that the Temple was moving.\n\nKARP: And ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the movement was not without pain, I suppose.\n\nSUGARMAN: Oh, no. You could talk to some of the people who . . . have they done the history on Miriam and Al Freedman?\n\nKARP: I don't know. But of course, Albert, I was in a discussion group with Albert on Zionist.\n\nSUGARMAN: Yeah, and Miriam was president of the Sisterhood. And believe me, she can tell you some stories that will make your hair stand on end. 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And the reverberations that I heard on dear old Emory's campus were like the end of the world is here.\n\nKARP: And unfortunately, if you look at some of the graffiti in the men's room at Emory, there is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"still a great deal of . . .\n\nSUGARMAN: Unfortunately, I see it on the desks. Even when I was studying out\nthere in my recent coronations. And I just left a Kiwanis meeting. I had to speak today. And I got a blatant antisemitic question. In effect it was, \"are we witnessing all over again the Jewification of the Clinton administration, like we saw the Jewification of the Roosevelt administration?\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And you know Paul\nGoldstein? You may know Paul. Paul and Ellen Goldstein? I think they just came.\n\nKARP: Paul and Ellen, yes.\n\nSUGARMAN: They just became, I think, co-chairs of the Israel Program Committee for [indistinct]. Anyway, this guy was just inducted into the Kiwanis today, and Paul Goldstein, who is a member, I saw him. He went over to him and let him have it at the end of it. I don't take that anymore. It's enough. And I just said, I said, \"Are you talking about the . . .\" I just pushed him on it. And he ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"started waffling.\n\nKARP: Obviously, he came armed with that question.\n\nSUGARMAN: Yes, he knew a rabbi was going to be there.\n\nKARP: Sure.\n\nSUGARMAN: Unfortunately, I'm seeing little pockets of this pop up, of the antisemitism.\n\nKARP: Well, I resigned from the Monday Luncheon Club, and I would run into it there.\n\nSUGARMAN: Oh, yeah. I told Barbara that I sense it. You can ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"look in the faces\nand know, you know which ones.\n\nKARP: This is the way we've survived four thousand years.\n\nSUGARMAN: Did you resign because you were just . . . ? how long had you been in it?\n\nKARP: About three years. It only seemed like thirty.\n\nSUGARMAN: I know. I spent half my life making it up.\n\nKARP: It's a terrible waste of time.\n\nSUGARMAN: I did it for Jay Lavefne. He's so sweet and so kind.\n\nKARP: The best . . .\n\nSUGARMAN: I don't know how much longer I can keep it up. It's running me nuts.\n\nKARP: Well, I finally decided this is . . .\n\nSUGARMAN: I met a few nice people, and I'm sure you have too.\n\nKARP: Oh, sure.\n\nSUGARMAN: But, my God.\n\nKARP: Most of the nice people I met there I knew before I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"went there. But this\nleads to another question I had: How about your experiences with Leadership Atlanta?\n\nSUGARMAN: That was dynamite. That was a wonderful, wonderful experience. And their relationships on Wednesday night, nine-thirty, the Rabbi Goodman's TV show?\n\nKARP: Oh, yes.\n\nSUGARMAN: Walter Kimbrough and I are on there. He was at Ben Hill. Now he's back at Cascade. And we met in Leadership Atlanta and formed Leadership Atlanta clergy ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"alumni. And Woody Bartlett was a key person with the Episcopal diocese here. Those connections are still . . .\n\nKARP: Were there other Jews in your class?\n\nSUGARMAN: Yes. Skip Elsace was in my class. Barbara Asher was in my class.\nThat's all that . . . I'm laughing, you'll see why I'm laughing in a minute. What was his first name? ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sugarman from Maynard's first administration, the city administrator.\n\nKARP: Yes.\n\nSUGARMAN: You know, he was . . . I can't think of it, but he was in the paper all the time. I can't remember his first name. I used to kid him all the time. And, of course, Reginald Eaves who's Jewish . . .\n\nKARP: Yeah, that's right.\n\nSUGARMAN: . . . was in the class.\n\nKARP: Let me pause for just a minute to turn the tape over.\n\nSUGARMAN: . . . to my publisher and to David Blumenthal who is going to do the local editing for me.\n\nKARP: For the book?\n\nSUGARMAN: Yeah. But I've got to get it in before seder.\n\nKARP: Oh boy.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SUGARMAN: I've been working like crazy. When I came back from Israel, even\nthough it had been four years and I had worked on it, then set it aside for eight months, worked on it. Other than Shabbat, I don't look at it on Shabbat, I have not missed a single day now working on that manuscript. I get up. The alarm goes off at four fifty-five. My feet hit the floor. I'm like nigh [indistinct] I'm shaking myself, you know, to go down there. And I go down to my study, and that's the only time I get that work done. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And when I think . . . you talk about the Rotary, and I think I'm worrying about running to . . . I missed half the meetings. I can't be running to that movement. I could be doing something else. Anyway.\n\nKARP: But the Leadership Atlanta was an excellent experience?\n\nSUGARMAN: The Leadership Atlanta was a wonderful [experience]. That is an experience. One of the most fascinating experiences was that a classmate of mine from my undergraduate days at Emory was in my class.\n\nKARP: Yeah?\n\nSUGARMAN: And bright guy, lives in a lovely home. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Actually, right here in Brookwood Hills. And apparently, he had never really been . . . because you know there's a lot of socialization that goes on as part of the retreat? He'd never\nbeen in that kind of setting with as diverse a group of people. I saw him over in the corner, and there were tears rolling down his cheek. 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But that's the kind of thing that\nhappens in Leadership Atlanta. It breaks down incredible [barriers]. My nickname by the way was Sugarperson ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because I introduced myself once. It was just when people were getting sensitive, you know. I said, \"I'm Alvin Sugarperson.\"\n\nKARP: What occasions did you have with the activities of Leadership Atlanta to inject a Jewish point of view?\n\nSUGARMAN: Most of it came, in all honesty, around the dinner table, and committee meetings. We would look at a project, at a housing project. 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And in that, obviously, became very important\nhow the Jewish community thrives on coalition building.\n\nKARP: Did the Black/Jewish conflict or the quest for Black/Jewish unity surface?\n\nSUGARMAN: This was in the early seventies, and I don't have a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"specific recollection of that being [brought up]. It may have been, at that time, a non-issue. The antisemitic question that I told you about began with \"Why did so many Jews vote for Clinton?\" That was his opening sentiment. Why did essentially all the Jewish vote, when the fundamentalist Christians voted for Bush, why did the Jews vote for Clinton. 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I think I did say something about some of my past friends who were Republicans, there were many of them.\n\nKARP: Not many non-Jews appreciate the irony of that, \"some of my best friends\" . . .You mentioned something that reminded me of another aspect of your career: you were chaplain at ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the federal penitentiary?\n\nSUGARMAN: That's right, federal penitentiary. Oh, that does generate a rather\nfascinating story. When I came to Atlanta, I knew that was going to be part of\nmy responsibility. But I also knew that the service was being moved from eight\nforty-five on Sunday morning to eight forty-five on Saturday morning, so it would be on Shabbat, okay? ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I also knew that if it were eight forty-five and I got out of there at nine forty-five, and services were at ten forty-five when a new bar mitzvah was coming up, that that would be absurd. So, I asked that the services be moved an hour earlier, seven forty-five. Then I could come in like a mench and not have to run like a mashugana on Shabbat morning. The congregation didn't like it one bit. They were already upset because they liked their Sunday morning. They didn't want to have to go, much less at seven forty-five. So, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I walked into a hornet's nest. Temple Yahaco was the name of it. Here I am, a young whipper-snapper, and they're giving it to me right and left. And all of a sudden about ten minutes into the discussion . . . and I'm not making this up,\nHerb. This is exactly the way it sounds. And I know somebody that knows this\nperson I'm about to tell you about, and you can ask them and they'll verify it.\nAnd this person stands up, very tall and distinguished looking, flowing white\nhair, stands up ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and this is how it sounds and this is what he said: [Alvin puts\non a raspy old man voice] \"Wait a minute.\" Sounded just like the character that\nMarlon Brando was based on in the Godfather. \"You listen to what the rabbi is\nsaying. He's got a synagogue to run. He knows what he's talking about.\" And then all of a sudden everything is sweet. \"Oh, yes, rabbi, whatever you say. We'll be glad. No problem whatsoever.\" I don't know him from Adam. I'm just ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=2970.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"brand new. I'm the new kid on the block. Afterwards he comes up, thrusts his hand into mine with a firm handshake, and he says, \"Samuel DeCavalcante. I'm not Jewish,\" he says, \"but this is where I like to worship. This is a service that has meaning for me. My wife Mary is Jewish,\" he tells me, see. I later do a little research, or the guys tell me, or somehow I found out, he is the Mafia boss of the state of New Jersey. Two ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"books have been written about this man. One is called Sam the Plumber. It's Sam the Plumber. You may have heard of Sam the plumber. When he didn't like you, he blow torched your arm pits. And this was a real sweetheart, see.\n\nKARP: Oof.\n\nSUGARMAN: So, there was no problem then with the management of the congregation. About three weeks after that, I gave a little derasha on the Torah portion, and wove into it a young woman at Temple who had come down with cystic fibrosis, eight years old. Now I think I was probably talking about God and the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"role of God, how did this happen. Two days later . . . well, we're not counting Sunday, counting the other way. Tuesday morning, there was a check on my desk for $3,000 from the DeCavalcante Foundation, family foundation, made out to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in honor of this little girl. It was obviously sheer blood money, but it went straight to them. 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His name was Lou Altmark.\nAnd when I visited him, I didn't sit in a chair like you and I are talking now.\nI was flat on my stomach, lying on the floor, to try to talk to him through the\nlittle steel ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"plate that had been raised up because he'd be out of solitary\nconfinement three hours, and he would be back in again. Turned out he had robbed banks, he had done this, I guess it was mostly con stuff. The bank robber is another story I'll tell you real quick. But when he was [maybe] fourteen, they were in an upstairs apartment with his father. And his father . . . in front of\nhis son, his father walked over, pulled up the window and dived out and killed\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=3180.0,3210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"himself. And my own perception is that so much of what we call the criminal mind is really based on a mental breakdown, either chemically based, and/or coupled with our environment and our life experiences. This man would come out and you would meet him and you'd think he'd be on the board of the Temple or AA [Ahavath Achim]. Handsome guy. And whenever he'd get out, I knew that I'd be getting a letter from him in another two months, he would be back in another institution somewhere. 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If you had been there, \"I'm Herb Karp,\" \"so and so, physician at Emory,\" this and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=3240.0,3270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that, or \"I'm with National Service,\"\neverybody was telling where they were from. When the inmates came around, they told a little bit about themselves. One guys gets up. His name was Bobby Reeser, I think. Bobby Reeser said, \"I'm from Chicago,\" so and so. And then one of the other guests from Atlanta said, \"My home is Chicago.\" And the prisoner said, \"Where did you live?\" And he said, I don't know, some suburb. And he said, \"Oh, I once robbed the fifth Third Bank right at ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the corner of so and so!\" the way\nyou would say, \"I once went and stayed at a hotel!\" And he just did it as matter\nof fact! That was a wonderful experience.\n\nKARP: That's called professional prerogative.\n\nSUGARMAN: That's what he had.\n\nKARP: You know, I've not had direct contact with you except in a moment of\nrelatively intense involvement, when you brought your uncle to see me. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=3300.0,3330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I got\nsome flavor of what I've heard so many of your congregants say about you. Your\nremarkable insight and availability in times of stress. How do you maintain that?\n\nSUGARMAN: It's not getting any easier, it's taking its toll. I think more than anything else . . . that's a good question, because I really do believe it has a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=3330.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"very strong physical basis. Jack Rothschild, as you recall, as we said, died December the 31st. I was still green as grass even though I was a little older than most of my classmates. I'd only been in the pulpit two and a half years. Prior to that, our education director had resigned, so we had no education director. Two weeks before Jack Rothschild died . . . you may have known ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=3360.0,3390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Eloise Shurgan. That's Miriam Freedman's sister . . .\n\nKARP: Oh, sure.\n\nSUGARMAN: . . . fell over dead at the end of the day as she walked into her home.\n\nKARP: She was secretary.\n\nSUGARMAN: Twenty years. She was executive director for twenty years. So, we had no executive director, no senior rabbi, no education director. I was it. 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I said, \"How did I do?\" And I'd never run except for maybe ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=3420.0,3450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my first year at Emory. I had taken track as one of my sports, but never any distances. And he said, \"Not too good.\" No, he said, \"Fair.\" And I didn't like that. Fair is not a word that sits well with me. I don't like fair. And I said, \"What do you mean, just fair?\" He said, \"Well, you know, you ought to start doing some more.\" Well, my cousin Snooky . . . funny how timing in life really is everything . . . had asked me to give an invocation for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=3450.0,3480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dr. Cooper, Kenneth Cooper, who was speaking to the Georgia Dental Society, a year in advance, at a breakfast meeting. I had just been given that report. He talked about stress. He talked about a man named Walter McQuade, a doctor who wrote a book on stress. And it showed a picture of an eighty-five year old man running a mile in a film, or slide. So, I walked out . . . It was Brintanos. It was down at the old Regency then. I bought the book, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=3480.0,3510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"read the book, and saw how stress was a factor in cancer, and this and that and the other, in heart. To make a long story short, I started running. In six weeks, not a pain, nothing. Next Fall, not this Fall but a year from this Fall, will be twenty years. So, I think the running, the physical outlet of just pounding the pavement away from the telephone, has been an incredible release for me to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=3510.0,3540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"give me whatever stamina that I've had. Plus, having lost my mother at the age of five, I know what it means to hurt inside. I think I have a dose of empathy that I try to [put to good use]. When somebody tells me that they're in pain, you know, I can identify and can understand.\n\nKARP: Well, you blocked ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=3540.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my rebuttal. It takes stamina to do it, but it also takes insight. When you grew up, there was one Reform congregation in the city. Then there was two. Now how many are there?\n\nSUGARMAN: We can't keep up any more. It's around a dozen. 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You don't want to go to Smoke Rise.\" Maybe they'll buy the house there. He's going to be on the staff at Egleston. He's a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=3630.0,3660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"pediatric surgeon with a specialty in oncology, Mark Stovroth. He'll be there July first.\n\nKARP: See if you can talk him into being a mohel.\n\nSUGARMAN: Who knows? Lovely. The family, the wife's family, is very close with Irwin Lowenstein, and they were the ones that told them, [not to go to] Smoke Rise. Maybe they'll go there. He wanted a swim and tennis club, and you can't get that in Morningside. I mean, they have tennis courts everywhere. Emory has got them. I told his wife Emory ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=3660.0,3690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"has an incredible tennis complex.\n\nKARP: Sure. As a faculty member, we absolutely do.\n\nSUGARMAN: Yeah, it's wonderful. When I was there . . . my gosh, it's incredible.\n\nKARP: Well, we've been an hour and fifteen minutes. You've got a lot to do.\n\nSUGARMAN: All right. You feel okay? If you need another time . . .\n\nKARP: Let's stop here.\n\nSUGARMAN: I'm fine for now. I think we better stop now.\n\nKARP: I'm going to review this.\n\nSUGARMAN: All right. And if you need another slot, fine.\n\nKARP: And if you feel there are other things that we haven't covered [let me know].\n\nSUGARMAN: All right. We'll both reflect ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=3690.0,3720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"is what you're saying.\n\nKARP: It's been a very good spontaneous . . .\n\nSUGARMAN: You're wonderful at just letting it flow.\n\nKARP: . . . flow of ideas.\n\nSUGARMAN: I appreciate it.\n\nKARP: Last night I went to Rabbi Epstein's ninetieth birthday.\n\nSUGARMAN: Oh, yes. I wrote him a letter.\n\nKARP: I had the honor of representing the past presidents.\n\nSUGARMAN: Oh, what a nice event. I bet it was packed, and what a lovely event.\n\nKARP: Sure was.\n\nSUGARMAN: Was it at the synagogue?\n\nKARP: It was at the synagogue. Went very well, it was in extremely good taste.\nWent quickly.\n\nSUGARMAN: Good, good. Are he and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=3720.0,3750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Reva okay now? I know they both had their . . .\n\nKARP: They're okay. She has a lot of pain from arthritis, and he is doing all right. He is having a few problems. He has problems walking now.\n\nSUGARMAN: Probably one of the last services he did is when he came to my\n[indistinct] service. Snooky called him.\n\nKARP: That was fairly recent?\n\nSUGARMAN: Yeah, it was fairly recently.\n\nKARP: Remarkable man.\n\nSUGARMAN: Yeah, incredible man. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=3750.0,3780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That picture of him with the Arab head dress is the most priceless thing I've ever seen in my life.\n\nKARP: It's marvelous.\n\nSUGARMAN: I mean, it's just . . .\n\nKARP: Do you write easily?\n\nSUGARMAN: No.\n\nKARP: I don't either. And I was just reflecting that to took me . . .\n\nSUGARMAN: Very tough.\n\nKARP: They limited me to two minutes. It took me about ten days to put it together.\n\nSUGARMAN: Well, but you see, anybody can write, but good writing. I mean, this is the second full editing of this book that I've done, and just chopping it,\ncompressing it, and compressing it.\n\nKARP: Who's going to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=3780.0,3810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"be your publisher?\n\nSUGARMAN: Hopefully, if they accept it, it may be co-published. But the publisher that I'm working with specifically is Hebrew Union College Press in Cincinnati. There's some talk about -David wants it co-published with a non-Jewish press, because he feels it will be of interest to the non-Jewish community to see what's going on and to be exposed to echelons of others. David Hartman is one, you probably met David Hartman. Have you met David out of Jerusalem? He runs the Hartman Institute?\n\nKARP: Oh yes, sure.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=3810.0,3840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SUGARMAN: He's chapter one. Chapter three is Kaplan, Mordecai Kaplan, the\nReconstructionist Movement, and my second chapter is the only non-Jewish\nchapter. It deals with process theology, which is a relatively modern theology\nthat grows out of the work of Alfred North Whitehead who is the founder of Process Philosophy. And then the fifth chapter is my mishegoss where I propose a new covenant ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=3840.0,3870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"from the Reform perspective.\n\nKARP: By the way, I'm going back to Israel this summer.\n\nSUGARMAN: Great.\n\nKARP: But, I'm going over, leaving May 17th, with a group of theology students.\n\nSUGARMAN: From Emory?\n\nKARP: Well, there are two groups going over. The group I'm going with are Columbia Theological Seminary, Union Theological Seminary.\n\nSUGARMAN: How Exciting! That's neat.\n\nKARP: They've been going over since 1980 with the Tilla Foundation in Decatur.\n\nSUGARMAN: Now this is not the group that Max Miller takes out?\n\nKARP: Yeah. Max Miller's going to lead one ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=3870.0,3900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I'm in another group.\n\nSUGARMAN: You've got to watch Max. We're not too sure about him.\n\nKARP: I am sure about him . . . No, he's quite good. Also, some definite opinions with regards to Israel that could stand some modification, to say the least. Well, as I mentioned, I and I'm sure you will be, and everybody else, particularly pleased with the interview from before.\n\nSUGARMAN: Sure.\n\nKARP: But they just wanted a little more of the early aspect of your life. I think we spent very significant ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=3900.0,3930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"time on the transition period and everything there.\n\nSUGARMAN: Jewish and non-Jewish? Like Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts?\n\nKARP: Absolutely. Jewish clubs, non-Jewish clubs, exactly.\n\nSUGARMAN: I think the first thing club-wise that I can remember was the Cub\nScouts, and that was over at Smillie School, and we did not have a pack there.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=3930.0,3960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The scouts, we went over to that church, I think it's Druid Hills Baptist. It's the one that's on the corner of North Highland and Ponce de Leon. Before we got our own troop, our own little pack. Was it Druid Hills? It may not be Druid Hills Baptist.\n\nKARP: It's Druid Hills Baptist, and that was then the famous minister, I've\nforgotten his name.\n\nSUGARMAN: Yeah. But we know right where [I'm talking about].\n\nKARP: By the Majestic.\n\nSUGARMAN: That's right. You got it. Yeah, just down the street. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=3960.0,3990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What makes me particularly have extra fond memories of that is that my daddy's involvement in the founding of the troop, he was what they call the institutional representative. And that meant a lot to him. He was the one that represented Smillie School. He was the liaison between Smillie and the Cub Scouts of America, the Boy Scouts, whatever, the sponsoring organization. I remember the pack number was Pack 35. And I'm laughing because I'm thinking, that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=3990.0,4020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"may have been the first time . . . Now, it happens every now and then, [but that may have been the first time] my picture was in the paper, but somehow me and a young man . . . his name may have been Dan Daly. I can see him now. He was kind of short and chubby, a little non-Jewish kid. And they had a new Boy Scout calendar that came out. And somehow, we were picked, each of us to hold one end of the calendar, to hold it up with one hand, and doing the Cub Scout salute with our other hand. And I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4020.0,4050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"also remember, there's a friend of mine from my grammar school days whose name is Mike Gruber; he married Lillian Landers, [he was] a red-headed boy.\n\nKARP: Yes.\n\nSUGARMAN: And we were in a Cub Scout play together. And we got into this brawl. It was in a fight over gold. I remember I had to wake up . . . I can see it now, the stage of the old Smillie School. This was before I went to Morningside. And I got up and I said in my best drawl that I could do, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4050.0,4080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Thar's gold in them thar\nhills!\" And then later we got into the brawl, and I think I had to shoot him or\nsomething. And he fell down and died, you know. And we still, whenever we see\none another, we kid one another about that. Then from there, I went to the Boy\nScouts, to Troop 73, that was the Shearith Israel troop over on University. We\nmet in a little scout hut there. And David Geffen and I, who was later to become\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4080.0,4110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rabbi David Geffen, together we served as patrol leaders for a Cub Scout pack. We would get on our bicycles and go over to Joel Piasik's house, Lloyd Middleson's house, where their pack was meeting. And we were the scout representatives to help this little Cub Scout pack. And, of course, David probably knew that he was going to be a rabbi. I had no idea then that I was going to become . . .\n\nKARP: What else ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4110.0,4140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"could you be. Either that or a doctor.\n\nSUGARMAN: Right.\n\nKARP: Or maybe a lawyer.\n\nSUGARMAN: Or a dentist. The family was always pushing me towards dentistry, but I didn't have that inclination. Then I remember being at Grady, and I was a\nmember of AZA [Aleph Zadik Aleph] 134. Served as Social Chairman. I remember organizing some kind of thing where we dunked for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4140.0,4170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"apples. I remember making sure that the water was good and cold so people would really holler when they put in to get their apples. In fact, that AZA thing, because the late Allen Salzman was our advisor. I subsequently found out, I didn't even know this or I had forgotten, [but] I found out from his widow that he was the one. I think we talked about that time, a little sermonette I gave at Shearith Israel on BBYO [B'nai B'rith Youth Organization] Shabbat. But he ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4170.0,4200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was the one that must have suggested my name along with David Geffen to give the two little co sermonettes. So, that AZA connection was very, very important, not only socially but for what kind of planted the seed, I think, for my later [career].\n\nKARP: Allen wasn't that much older than you.\n\nSUGARMAN: No, no, no. He was some older, but he was old enough.\n\nKARP: Who were some of the leaders? Both in the Scout troop and elsewhere?\n\nSUGARMAN: Yes, thanks, because they were so important. Because I remember Joe Zimmerman, alav ha-shalom, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4200.0,4230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was our scout master. And right alongside of him was Josiah Benator. And I remember for years, we'd go downtown years after scouts, and Mr. Zimmerman would always . . . remember, he ran Mr. Z's? Zimmerman's clothing?\n\nKARP: Sure.\n\nSUGARMAN: And under his desk was our scout troop, with myself, Howard Berman, and David Geffen, Harvey Charvin, Marvin Feinberg. A lot of my old cronies, you know, that we grew up with. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4230.0,4260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But the person I remember most clearly from AZA days was Allen Salzman and Joe Zimmerman and Josiah Benator from the scouting days.\n\nKARP: Did you sense Allen Salzman's assertive wit, I'm sure he had it even as a\nchild because as an adult . . .\n\nSUGARMAN: It was wonderful, yeah. Wonderful, absolutely wonderful. And that\nsmile of his.\n\nKARP: Yeah.\n\nSUGARMAN: And his dad, of course, was active in the Temple when I came back here ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4260.0,4290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"as a rabbi. Remember, his dad used to sell briefcases or something because every week he'd bring me a different briefcase sample at Shabbat and hand it to me! I had blue ones, green ones, red ones. Those file folders.\n\nKARP: Yes.\n\nSUGARMAN: And also at Grady, I was the Red Cross Homeroom Representative for the Red Cross. I guess little inklings of service were going way back then. And ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4290.0,4320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I wanted a letter very badly, I guess like every high school want-to-be jock would want. I didn't exactly have the physique of a football player because if I turned sideways, you couldn't see me. There was once a girl, who shall remain nameless, who was a year behind me that I asked out. She turned me down, and I got back through the grapevine that I was too skinny. And that was like this knife in my gut, and I went to the baseball coach who happened to have been my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4320.0,4350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"math teacher, John Haldeman, and we're still friends. We still keep in contact. And he told me to drink two milks, eat cashew nuts at night, and peanut butter sandwiches to try to stock up. I should only have that problem now, too thin.\n\nKARP: Yeah.\n\nSUGARMAN: But I wanted that letter. So, I went out for basketball, for ninth grade basketball. And little did I know then, that they were way ahead of their time as far as knowing what to do, but all we would do was run around the gym every afternoon. And I said, I want to play basketball. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4350.0,4380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Of course, I didn't have enough sense to know then they were getting us in shape and building up our thing. So, I said, \"This is not my thing.\" And I was working some of the afternoons, too, and it was kind of hard. But then I decided to go out for cheerleading. I figured, if nothing else, I could get a letter for cheerleading. But quite frankly, one session of \"Sis, boom, ra ra\" did me in and that was not my thing, either, so I said, forget the letter. Maybe I could have gone in the chess club there, but I didn't know [how to play]. I'm still trying to master the game of chess. So, that was about it. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4380.0,4410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"never got the letter or anything at Grady, but I loved being at Grady. It was like being at a Jewish high school then.\n\nKARP: Yeah.\n\nSUGARMAN: They stayed open on the High Holy days but nobody did anything because the school was seventy-five percent [Jewish]. I don't know what [percentage] it [really] was, but they couldn't function when we weren't there. Then from there I joined, when I went to Emory, second quarter I pledged AEPi and was a member for two years. And, frankly, working ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4410.0,4440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at Emory and going to school just . . . they would fine me for not showing up at the afternoon softball games. And I said, \"I can't take this because I can't pay a fine. If I'm going to work, I can't be at the softball game.\" So, after a couple of years, I got out. I started dating a girl then, I dated a little over two years, and so I just deactivated from the [fraternity]. I'm still an alumni of their Epsilon chapter ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4440.0,4470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at Emory.\n\nKARP: And you're getting the news of what's happened to the chapter?\n\nSUGARMAN: Yes. I mean, I get the line, the AEPi line, but I hadn't really kept up with the chapter.\n\nKARP: A tragedy. It happened to TEP are now having almost the same thing with AEPi.\n\nSUGARMAN: I know. When we were there, we won the academic trophy.\n\nKARP: Always, always.\n\nSUGARMAN: It was incredible. But I had a lot of friends in TEP, too. The past\npresident of the Temple, Larry Pike, was a TEP and I would go back and forth\nbetween the two houses.\n\nKARP: Did you have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4470.0,4500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"any propensity at all for speaking in high school?\n\nSUGARMAN: Very interesting question. You could not graduate from Grady High School without delivering, on your own, a ten-minute talk. That was your senior talk.\n\nKARP: Is that right?\n\nSUGARMAN: And if you were lucky, you had Miss Ann Ray for your teacher, because nobody could hold a candle to her as far as preparing you for college.\n\nKARP: R-A-Y?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4500.0,4530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SUGARMAN: R-A-Y. Although it might have been R-E-Y. She's worth another\ninterview in itself. She was a great teacher. You ask anybody that went to Grady\nwhen I did if they knew Ann Ray. And she was tough. But in the meantime, we had to do this talk. And I knew my topic, what I wanted to talk about, but I hadn't\nprepared it. You were supposed to prepare it, and I didn't have a single note or\nanything yet. I hadn't done it, but I knew what I wanted to do. At least, I knew\nmy subject, let's put it that way. You had free range to talk about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4530.0,4560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"anything you\nwanted to talk. And the second day, she called on me. And I said, \"This is the\nend of me. I will never graduate Grady High School. She's going to throw me out\nof the class and fail me.\" I was shaking from the tip of my toes to the top of\nmy head. And it was a cloudy day, very much like today. As I got up to the\nlectern that was set up, she said, \"I want you to turn the lights on. It's a little dark in here.\" And somehow, Herb, in that flipping of the light switch, I was able to regain my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4560.0,4590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"composure. And it was supposed to be a serious talk about, and I'll give you a little bit of the contents in a minute, about how I almost got fired at Thompson Burnley. That was an important job to me because I was working there my senior year every day after school and on the weekends. But as I started to tell the story, the class started to laugh and giggle. So, I kind of changed the tone of it and really got into it. And by the time I was finished, the class was on the floor, she was on the floor, and I sat down at my seat and I figured I had done ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4590.0,4620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"all right. And she got up in front of the class. Here I, now, who had not prepared for the thing, she said . . . and this is the way she talked: [in a stodgy, nearly-British accent] \"Now, class, that' s the way a talk should be prepared. I know Alvin must have put hours and hours and hours of preparation into that talk.\" What happened was it was my second year at Thompson Burnley, and they had this big sale in the basement of the shoe store, which ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4620.0,4650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"is where I sold shoes.\n\nKARP: On Peachtree.\n\nSUGARMAN: On Peachtree, 201 Peachtree Street. A dollar a pair. And some of the shoes back then were selling for forty and fifty dollars, which was unheard of. That would be God knows, $500, $600 for shoes today, or more. And so, it was so busy that they had to have the police at the door in order to let so many people in. If you can believe that, it's true. I'm not making that up. They actually had police that they could only take because of crowd control. I came in at six\no'clock in the morning. And at the end of the day, I ended up ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4650.0,4680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"making fifty bucks, which in the 1950's for a high school kid for one day was okay. But I was paid on five percent commission, plus the overtime for stocking the store and staying late that night. The stock number was 01 fifty double 0, one dollar sale, one pair for one dollar, that meant I made a nickel. And I said, this is ridiculous. I could write five in the quantity 01 fifty double 0 and at least make a quarter each time. So, I pulled up one of those stools that you sit on when you sell shoes. And I stood on the top ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4680.0,4710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of it, and I said, \"Five pair or more! Anybody got five pair or more!\" And I'm writing up five, seven pair and eight pair, you know. Everything was going great until this little lady comes up and tugs at my sleeve and says, \"Excuse me, sonny, but I've only got four pair. Will you write these up?\" I looked down at her, which was my big mistake, and I said, \"I'm sorry, lady, I have to have at least five pair.\" And about three minutes later, I felt ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4710.0,4740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"this hand on my shoulder and it was Colonel Thompson. He just recently died, Oscar Thompson, Thompson [indistinct].\n\nKARP: Yes.\n\nSUGARMAN: And this vein in his neck was going out about a quarter of an inch at a time, and he was red in the face and he was shaking his fist. Mr. Davis was my immediate supervisor, and Barney said, \"If it hadn't been for Mr. Davis, not\nonly would I have thrown you out, I wouldn't have thrown you out the front door,\nbut I would have thrown you out the back door. But he told me to be merciful on\nyou.\" That was my story. But I think ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4740.0,4770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that was kind of my baptism by fire.\n\nKARP: Right.\n\nSUGARMAN: And ever since, even before, I guess I was always kind of the class clown. I know I was. We were always cutting up and laughing, so I've always liked to make people laugh, and kind of be in the spotlight. It hasn't bothered me, whether it was my confirmation speech in the tenth grade. Somehow, it hasn't bothered me to get up. I think a lot of it is that man right to your . . . I don't that picture was up here, Uncle Sam. Remember, my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4770.0,4800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Uncle Sam Sugarman. I know we talked about him. But he always told me, \"Just whatever you do when you meet somebody, just grab, give them a firm handshake, and look them right in the eye, and you can't go wrong.\" And I think the same thing is true whether it's one person or it's eight hundred people, if you're just talking from your gut, which is what I've always tried to do. I'm not trying to impress people. I'm just trying to be myself. I think that goes way back to some early days.\n\nKARP: I didn't realize what an important question that was, then. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4800.0,4830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When I was at\nBoys High, every Monday morning in homeroom, you had either to debate or declaim.\n\nSUGARMAN: Incredible. That's very important.\n\nKARP: Yes.\n\nSUGARMAN: It learns you to stand on your own two feet and to think.\n\nKARP: At that time, was there active Temple Youth?\n\nSUGARMAN: Oh, thanks! Slight detail there. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4830.0,4860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes, but it was the Youth Group. We had a thing called Temple Teens.\n\nKARP: Uh-huh.\n\nSUGARMAN: I'm glad you brought that back up. Temple Teens. I had a good time with that. I would go to as many of the things that I could. And also, I\nremember, I think now I may know the real reason why I became a rabbi. We had a Hanukkah play. I must have been maybe fourth, fifth grade. Maybe ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4860.0,4890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sixth grade, somewhere in there. And I got a part in the play. Wait until you hear the part. It was back in what was then Friendship Hall, which was the old assembly hall. And I had to wear my daddy's bathrobe. That was my costume. And I think I had three lines in the play.\n\nKARP: How old were you?\n\nSUGARMAN: I'm guessing somewhere between eight and ten. And my lines were as follows: They were all identical, all it was, \"Yes, my Lord.\" And I think I\nbecame a rabbi for my vengeance. To come back, and if that's all they would limit me to say, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4890.0,4920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"now they have to . . . her name was Mrs. Hilda Stegall. She has\nsince passed away, rest her soul. She was the choir director or drama director.\n\nKARP: Stegall?\n\nSUGARMAN: S-T-E-G-A-L-L. She passed away probably at least a decade [ago]. She was a great little lady, and she was always so tickled when I came back as a rabbi because she'd say, \"He was one of my boys.\" And I would say, \"How come you only gave me three lines?\" But that was very important. The Temple, you know, those Temple Teens, being in religious school, and the friendships ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4920.0,4950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that I formed there. Particularly my best friend was from Temple, John Bader. You know the artist? You know John Bader?\n\nKARP: Yes.\n\nSUGARMAN: I just heard from him the other day. In fact, as we walk out, we'll\nwalk out together. Have you seen his painting in the lobby that he did of the Temple?\n\nKARP: No.\n\nSUGARMAN: I'll show it to you on the way out. Herb Ringle commissioned it and John did it, and Herb had it given to the Temple. It's a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4950.0,4980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"painting of a facade of\nthe Temple.\n\nKARP: Interesting.\n\nSUGARMAN: So, those Temple connections were also very important. There weren't that many Temple kids at Grady. Most of them went to North Fulton and Northside.\n\nKARP: Yeah.\n\nSUGARMAN: But there was John Bader, Stuart Myers and I and a couple of others, and Bonnie Harris.\n\nKARP: The Grady area was primarily Conservative and Shearith Israel.\n\nSUGARMAN: Yeah, that's right. In fact, I remember most of my buddies would hop in the Hebrew bus every afternoon and going right down to get their Hebrew\nlessons. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=4980.0,5010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I also remember coming here from Grady for confirmation, because at\nthat time we came mid-week, both for classes and for confirmation practice and rehearsal.\n\nKARP: It was a rich Jewish youth, then? Very formative?\n\nSUGARMAN: Right. I mean, things Jewish to me were very, very important. I love to dance. And we would come sometimes from Temple to . . . it was a form of American Bandstand. John Bader and I would go to that teenage dance show. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=5010.0,5040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I remember once Aunt Rose who's in the . . . did you know Aunt Rose?\n\nKARP: Oh, yes.\n\nSUGARMAN: They lived in Columbus and retired. He was Director of the Columbus Jewish Community Center. I came in, and I happen to be picked as the mystery teenager. And that meant that you took this huge Pepsi Cola bottle top and stood behind it while they told different things. You went to Grady High School, your favorite class was this and that. And people were supposed to guess who you were. Aunt Rose didn't understand. She happened to flip on, and she sees this ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=5040.0,5070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"kid up there. She said, \"Why were you standing there behind the . . . why were you so shy?\" Oh, and then, wait a minute! You're bringing out things I haven't thought of in years. This one is really . . . this is embarrassing. I'm not sure I want to go through with this one. You may remember this, and then again you may not. When television first came out, they had a local show on Channel 2 called The Brock Amateur Hour. It was for kids. You could come up and do your little shtick. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=5070.0,5100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"must have been in the eighth grade then.\n\nKARP: Brock Candy, was it?\n\nSUGARMAN: Brock Candy was his name. And the way you won was, the next week, whoever got the most votes. People would send in Brock candy bar wrappers, they were the winner. So, I came out there and believe it or not, my act was magic. I did a magic act. And my name, believe it or not, I put on those Groucho Marx . . . I can't believe I did this, Herb! Those Groucho Marx glasses, you know, with the schnoz . . .\n\nKARP: Yes.\n\nSUGARMAN: And one of those ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=5100.0,5130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"little hats with the propeller on the top and a\nJapanese parasol. And that was my [outfit]. I walked out as Professor Nosy, the\nMagician. The first thing I did was knocked over my main prop to show you that\nit wasn't really a cylinder, that it had a trick thing, and I blew it! In the meantime, I went out and brought Brock candy bars from all my friends, made them eat them, then I took and voted for myself as much as I could! But I still didn't get the prize. See, already then, it took a little chutzpah for an eighth grade ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=5130.0,5160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"kid to get up there even though I schmoed on it and ruined my act. For whatever reason, I've always gotten a kick out of that.\n\nKARP: There is a degree of acting in all forms of ministry.\n\nSUGARMAN: Yes.\n\nKARP: Medicine as well as from the pulpit.\n\nSUGARMAN: Right. And particularly being enthusiastic about what you do.\n\nKARP: Yes.\n\nSUGARMAN: When you told that story about walking down the stairs. You better\nhave something say and you better say it with fire in your belly.\n\nKARP: Yes.\n\nSUGARMAN: I would add, though, that would be common, and you ought to say it with fire in your belly.\n\nKARP: And you better ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=5160.0,5190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"know what you're saying. You can't transmit it if you don't\nknow it yourself.\n\nSUGARMAN: Yeah. You know, my cousin Ros Alterman's sister?\n\nKARP: Oh, yeah, sure.\n\nSUGARMAN: I was with Bruce . . . I was with my cousin Bruce last night, and I\nthink she sent him a card once or they were talking about it. And the card said,\n\"If you're going to say something, and it's wrong, at least say it loudly!\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=5190.0,5220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/transcript/29124/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And you know, Ros [indistinct].\n\nKARP: What I used to teach in medicine to the students. If you . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=5220.0,5250.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/annotation_set/525","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/annotation_set/525/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBoys’ High School was founded in 1924 and is now known as Henry W. Grady High School. It is part of the Atlanta Public School System. It has had many notable alumni, including S. Truett Cathy, the founder of Chick-fil-A. It is located in Midtown Atlanta.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/annotation_set/525/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a neighborhood of Atlanta. Throughout the years it declined, but it is now an historic district and is enjoying resurgence.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/annotation_set/525/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe concept of the variety store originated with the ‘five and ten,’ ‘five and dime,’ ‘nickel and ten-cent store’ or ‘dime store,’ a store offering a wide assortment of inexpensive items for personal and household use. The originators of the concept were the Woolworth Bros. in the late 1800’s.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/43763/file/116821/annotation_set/525/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eSidney J. Marcus (1928-1983) was a native Atlantan and a prominent politician. 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