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Title: Blanche Jaffa and Ben Jaffa Jr. oral history interview, 1990 April 22
Creator: Jaffa, Blanche Goodman, 1903-2000
Date Created: 1990-04-22
Subjects--Topical: Jews--Social life and customs, Judaism--Customs and practices, Jewish way of life, Antisemitism, Jews--Persecutions, Discrimination in housing
Description: Blanche Jaffa and her son, Ben Jaffa, Jr., discuss their experiences as members of Charlotte's Jewish community beginning in the 1920s. Ms. Jaffa recalls the early religious services for Reform Jews in Charlotte prior to the founding of Temple Bet...

Title: Gladys Lavitan oral history interview 1, 1990 April 22
Creator: Lavitan, Gladys, 1916-2014
Date Created: 1990-04-22
Subjects--Topical: Judaism--Customs and practices, Jews--Social life and customs, Jewish way of life, Seder, Jewish religious education of young people, Antisemitism
Description: A longtime resident of Charlotte, North Carolina, Gladys Lavitan discusses the Jewish experience in the 1930s and 1940s as well as changes to the Charlotte Jewish community during and after World War II. She describes the challenges that life in C...

Title: Jeri Gertzman oral history interview, 1990 April 22
Creator: Gertzman, Jeri Pressman, 1934-
Date Created: 1990-04-22
Subjects--Topical: Jews, Judaism--Customs and practices, Jewish way of life, Jews--Political activity
Description: Charlotte, North Carolina native Jeri Gertzman discusses her life as a member of Charlotte's Jewish community. Recalling the community as small and close-knit, Ms. Gertzman reminisces about her childhood religious education at Temple Israel during...

Title: Jeri Gertzman oral history interview, 1990 April 22
Creator: Gertzman, Jeri Pressman, 1934-
Date Created: 1990-04-22
Subjects--Topical: Jews, Judaism--Customs and practices, Jewish way of life, Jews--Political activity, Jews--Education, Antisemitism, Fasts and feasts--Judaism, Passover--Customs and practices, Zionism
Description: Charlotte, North Carolina native Jeri Gertzman discusses her life as a member of Charlotte's Jewish community. Recalling the community as small and close-knit, Ms. Gertzman reminisces about her childhood religious education at Temple Israel during...

Title: Minnie Sutker oral history interview, 1990 April 22
Creator: Sutker, Minnie S. (Minnie Silverstein), 1905-1995
Date Created: 1990-04-22
Subjects--Topical: Judaism--Customs and practices, Jewish way of life, Passover--Customs and practices, Religious tolerance, Zionism, Antisemitism
Description: Charlotte, North Carolina native Minnie Silverstein Sutker discusses her experiences as a member of the Jewish community in the city. She talks about her father's earliest days in Charlotte in the late nineteenth century and discusses her parents'...