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Interview No. 958, Esther Rollansky
Interview No. 958, Esther Rollansky
Combined Interviews
Her mother was born in the colonies and her father, Samuel, was born in Poland. Samuel was a journalist for Jewish papers, a theater critic, a scholar, and the head of the Kultur Congress. He initiated love of Jewish culture and traditions- as well as socialism-into his children. They didn't only speak Yiddish at home, they lived Yiddish culture. She attended state (public) and Yiddish laic schools and became a teacher in various Jewish schools.A s a young girl she practically lived in the Yiddish theater. She met famous people in Yiddish culture from abroad, who visited her parent's house. …
Interview With Arthur Makadon, Marjorie A. George, Arthur Makadon, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Interview With Arthur Makadon, Marjorie A. George, Arthur Makadon, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Legal Oral History Project
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Arthur Makadon (L '68) was a major figure in the Philadelphia bar and in Philadelphia politics. Most of his legal career was spent at Ballard Spahr, where he served as chair from 2002 to 2011. The Arthur Makadon Appellate Advocacy Program at the Law School was established in his honor by Ballard Spahr. He died in 2013.
Interview No. 956, Sara Salon
Interview No. 956, Sara Salon
Combined Interviews
Her parents met in Smyrna and her father sent for her mother after he got to Posadas. They married in Paraguay because the Argentine officials didn't want to officiate over the marriage of a minor. Her mother was illiterate, yet she knew how to handle business affairs and was a musician. They participated in the small Turkish community. They moved to Corrientes and her mother's large family joined her there. The Turkish community in Corrientes was large. Her mother, with her friends, held singing and dancing sessions on Sundays to raise money to build the synagogue, which became the Asociación …
Interview No. 953, Anita Lang
Interview No. 953, Anita Lang
Combined Interviews
Born 1918, Lang came to Argentina with her parents from Russia when she was five years old. Her parents and grandparents also were in the theater.Although her dad didn't want her to be an actress, she became one anyway. She enjoyed a happy adolescence studying and going to the Hebraica and Macabi. She started in film when a film personality saw her on the beach and asked her to come for a tryout. She acted in 8 films, one of them about a prostitute ("una mujer"). Then she got married and had two children. When she separated from her husband,s …
Interview No. 960, Bertha P. De Braslavsky
Interview No. 960, Bertha P. De Braslavsky
Combined Interviews
Born 1913 in small town in Entre Rios, Argentina. Her parents had lived in the colonies. They were not very interested in their daughter's education, but because they moved to Buenos Aires, she was able to go beyond the 3rd grade. She finished normal school and then studied physics at the Profesorado for secondary school teachers. Here, and at the university later, she experienced persecution because of her student activism and interest in Marxism. As a result of her expulsion from her studies in 1936, she joined the Communist Youth. Eventually she earned a degree in Pedagogy from the Universidad …
The First Manure-Pitch, Mort Mather
The First Manure-Pitch, Mort Mather
Maine Song and Story Sampler
The Common Ground Country Fair (CGCF or “the Fair”) is Maine’s signature celebration of rural living, organic food and agriculture, and local enterprise.
Interview No. 952, Luna And Salomón Mayo
Interview No. 952, Luna And Salomón Mayo
Combined Interviews
Luna de Mayo is 98 years old and her son Salomón, a retired doctor, is in his 70s. She met her future husband in her uncle's home and her aunt said she would marry him. He was 20 and she was 17, when they arrived to Argentina. They headed straight to Posadas (by train), where he had sisters. Posadas was very poor then, and their lives were very difficult. They lived in a one room wooden house with a well and no running water. Household tasks and raising 7 children on her husband's initially meager earnings, selling in the street …
Maine Folklife, Vol. 6, Iss. 2, Maine Folklife Center
Maine Folklife, Vol. 6, Iss. 2, Maine Folklife Center
Maine Folklife Center Newsletter
We recently completed the NEH sponsored preservation of endangered tape recordings. Over the course of the two-year grant period we built and equipped a first-class sound lab and copied over 600 hours of audio tape-recorded material to high quality preservation master reels — over 250 hours of which were also copied to public-access CD-Rs. We also expanded and standardized our finding aides for these accessions, which are among the oldest and most valuable in our collection. Now that we have the equipment and necessary procedures in place, we will continue the preservation program as part of our regular work load. …
Ua3/4/8/6 Harriett Downing Oral History, Harriett Downing, Sue Lynn Mcdaniel
Ua3/4/8/6 Harriett Downing Oral History, Harriett Downing, Sue Lynn Mcdaniel
WKU Archives Records
Harriet Downing interviewed by Sue Lynn McDaniel regarding student life during World War II and her experiences as wife of WKU's fourth president, Dero Downing.
Van Faasen, Paul Oral History Interview: Retired Faculty And Administrators Of Hope College, Melissa Labarge
Van Faasen, Paul Oral History Interview: Retired Faculty And Administrators Of Hope College, Melissa Labarge
Retired Faculty and Administrators of Hope College
No abstract provided.
Interview No. 954, Maria Eisser
Interview No. 954, Maria Eisser
Combined Interviews
She was born in Vienna in 1922. Her father was an Austrian industrialist and her mother a Hungarian pharmacist- the first woman to graduate with this specialty in Hungary. They lived in Vienna until she was 16, when the Nazis took over and they left for Hungary. At her mother's prompting, they left Hungary in1942 for Argentina; the trip had been planned for two years and was extremely dangerous. They took the last ship that sailed the Atlantic for South America. They were supposed to go to Brazil but wound up in Argentina instead, their stay in this country facilitated …
Van Putten, James D Oral History Interview: Retired Faculty And Administrators Of Hope College, Melissa Labarge
Van Putten, James D Oral History Interview: Retired Faculty And Administrators Of Hope College, Melissa Labarge
Retired Faculty and Administrators of Hope College
No abstract provided.
Interview No. 955, Eugenia Sacerdote
Interview No. 955, Eugenia Sacerdote
Combined Interviews
Born in Turin in 1910. Very antifascist-saw Peronism as reply to fascism. Father died when she was about 10 years old so, was brought up by mother. Women couldn't study at that time, so she attended the Liceo Femenino, which didn't feed into the university, and then stayed home for a year. She and her cousin, who would go on to win a Nobel Prize, and who was brought up in an even more restricted fashion, studied for one year to be able to pass certain courses to get into the university. She experienced much prejudice in medical school, but …
Vandervelde, Rick Oral History Interview: Retired Faculty And Administrators Of Hope College, Melissa Labarge
Vandervelde, Rick Oral History Interview: Retired Faculty And Administrators Of Hope College, Melissa Labarge
Retired Faculty and Administrators of Hope College
No abstract provided.
Muiderman, Anthony Oral History Interview: Retired Faculty And Administrators Of Hope College, Melissa Labarge
Muiderman, Anthony Oral History Interview: Retired Faculty And Administrators Of Hope College, Melissa Labarge
Retired Faculty and Administrators of Hope College
No abstract provided.
Interview No. 959, Ruth De Sommer
Interview No. 959, Ruth De Sommer
Combined Interviews
Sommer left Germany at the beginning of the Third Reich, for Holland; she saw how bad the antisiemitism was. She left when she was 16, and she lived in Holland with a family, working as a nursemaid (niñera). Then she came alone to Buenos Aires in 1936; her parents arrived later. When she arrived, since she was alone (without parent's written consent) and only 20 years old, she wasn't allowed to leave the port until her aunt arrived to vouch for her. She lived with her uncle and aunt in Belgraro until her parents arrived.Her parents rented an apartment in …
Jellema, Mary Oral History Interview: Retired Faculty And Administrators Of Hope College, Melissa Labarge
Jellema, Mary Oral History Interview: Retired Faculty And Administrators Of Hope College, Melissa Labarge
Retired Faculty and Administrators of Hope College
No abstract provided.
Tanis, Elliot A Oral History Interview: Retired Faculty And Administrators Of Hope College, Melissa Labarge
Tanis, Elliot A Oral History Interview: Retired Faculty And Administrators Of Hope College, Melissa Labarge
Retired Faculty and Administrators of Hope College
No abstract provided.
Ritsema, Robert Oral History Interview: Retired Faculty And Administrators Of Hope College, Melissa Labarge
Ritsema, Robert Oral History Interview: Retired Faculty And Administrators Of Hope College, Melissa Labarge
Retired Faculty and Administrators of Hope College
No abstract provided.
Nicodemus, Nancy Oral History Interview: Retired Faculty And Administrators Of Hope College, Melissa Labarge
Nicodemus, Nancy Oral History Interview: Retired Faculty And Administrators Of Hope College, Melissa Labarge
Retired Faculty and Administrators of Hope College
No abstract provided.
Wilson, John Oral History Interview: Retired Faculty And Administrators Of Hope College, Melissa Labarge
Wilson, John Oral History Interview: Retired Faculty And Administrators Of Hope College, Melissa Labarge
Retired Faculty and Administrators of Hope College
No abstract provided.
Motiff, Judy Oral History Interview: Retired Faculty And Administrators Of Hope College, Melissa Labarge
Motiff, Judy Oral History Interview: Retired Faculty And Administrators Of Hope College, Melissa Labarge
Retired Faculty and Administrators of Hope College
No abstract provided.
Interview No. 957, Simone Barbouth
Interview No. 957, Simone Barbouth
Combined Interviews
She was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1942. Her father had been born in Turkey, but he moved to Italy and went to Egypt to escape the racial laws. Her mother's family was also from Turkey, but she was born in Egypt. In Alexandria her family lived a very cosmopolitan life, speaking French among themselves and hardly learning Arabic. Her great-grandmother's generation of women could not read or write, although the men generally went to the university. In 1947 they moved to Italy, and in 1953 to Argentina. Some members of her father's family were living in Buenos Aires. For …
Vander Kallen, Sophia Oral History Interview: Class Projects, Gretchen Bouwer
Vander Kallen, Sophia Oral History Interview: Class Projects, Gretchen Bouwer
Class Projects
No abstract provided.
Interview No. 951, Mina Fridman
Interview No. 951, Mina Fridman
Combined Interviews
Parents from the Ukraine. She was born in Argentina in 1922. Lived much of her life in Rosarió. Though her father was of a good economic position, she imbibed communism from her Yiddish teacher. The Spanish Civil War also awoke her desire for social change. She entered the Communist party in 1940. She had been active in the Comisión de Ayuda a la Unión Soviética y Países Aliados and previously in Organización Popular contra el Racismo y Antisemitismo. She was also involved in solidarity work for political prisoners including her own husband.She her self was jailed twice. Her other activities …
Bannink, Jacob Oral History Interview: Class Projects, Chris Lowe
Bannink, Jacob Oral History Interview: Class Projects, Chris Lowe
Class Projects
No abstract provided.
Barabas, Zolly Oral History Interview: Class Projects, Zolly Barabas
Barabas, Zolly Oral History Interview: Class Projects, Zolly Barabas
Class Projects
No abstract provided.
Lamb, Teresa Oral History Interview: Class Projects, Carrie Scott
Lamb, Teresa Oral History Interview: Class Projects, Carrie Scott
Class Projects
No abstract provided.
Dykhouse, Rient And Helen Oral History Interview: Class Projects, Tim Soper
Dykhouse, Rient And Helen Oral History Interview: Class Projects, Tim Soper
Class Projects
No abstract provided.
De Haan, Sander Oral History Interview: Class Projects, James Lamb
De Haan, Sander Oral History Interview: Class Projects, James Lamb
Class Projects
No abstract provided.