Amy, Jordan, Lilly, Je, Kariana, Juliette and I visited the Breman Museum on Friday April 14: here is our recap.
Everyone is encouraged to visit when you are able; plan to spend a couple of hours. Emory dental school dean was anti-semitic and failed Jewish students. 65% of students who failed were Jewish (went on to be successful elsewhere). They did not know they were part of a pattern. Wagner. 1961. Asking applicants if caucasian, African American or Jewish. Who prompted the resarch? Ask Gary Hauk, historian, college historian. Ethan A's family immigrated from Poland to Atlanta. Engineering Co. Had holocaust artifacts from their home they donated. Theater named after grandmother. Grandmother survived Holocaust. Survived by being saved by her non-Jewish nanny. Hid under her bed with her sister for two years. Photos, silverware, other artifacts. Paula Arbiser. Wrote a book about her experiences. Small Holocaust survivor community in Atlanta. watched dental school apology 10,000 in 19?? 20,000 in 1980? 120,000 Jewish Atlantans today 40 synagogues in metro Atlanta Rich's 18C: sephardic Jews came to Savannah one of them was a doctor Atlanta was called Marthasville. Frontier town. RR tracks about to be built. 1845 first Jews came to Atlanta. 2 Jewish merchants from Decatur Jacob Haas and Henry Levi 1845 set up shot, had been peddlars
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"Colonial Roots of Southern Jewish Cuisine"
"Jews negotiated between adopting the ways of their Gentile neighbors and maintaining their Judaism, and the distinctive world of the low country separated their experience from that of other Jewish southerners." p. 32 Jewish women in Savannah- the classic southern stereotype//pride vs. warm Jewish mother stereotype |
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