Summary:
In a family history program for the Jewish community center, Tobie Wittenbaum and her daughter Mutzie Friedman share their family history and experiences of the Jewish community in Louisville, Kentucky. Tobie was born in 1904 and grew up in a Jewish community in Louisville, where they were known as the Market Streeters, the Preston Streeters, the 7th Streeters, and the wealthy were called the Second and First Streeters. She recalls the YMHA, a central meeting place for the Jewish community, where they held weddings, basketball games, and knitting classes. During the first world war, they knitted items for Navy and Army men and hosted Jewish soldiers from Fort Knox. Tobie also shares her family history, her parents were Isaac and Millie Sugarman, and her father immigrated from Vilna at the age of 19. Mutzie adds that her grandmother, Millie Marx Sugarman, was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and they are proud to have five generations born in the United States on her maternal grandmother's side.
