Benovitz, Hertzle
Interviewer:
Chumbley, Kenneth
Transcription available:
no
Series:
Louisville's Jewish Community
Interview Number(s):
__726
Summary:
Benovitz discusses her grandparents, Lithuanian immigrants, and her grandfather's work as a peddler; her father's dry goods business and the family's life in Carrollton, Mississippi, where they lived for twenty years before returning to Louisville in 1923; her husband's business in New Albany, which operated from 1941 until 1966; the Depression of the 1930s, World War II, and recent changes in the local Jewish community.
Topic(s):
Jews--Kentucky--Louisville, Depressions--1929--Kentucky--Louisville, World War, 1939-1945, Jewish businesspeople, Businessmen, Jews--Indiana--New Albany, Jews--Mississippi--Carrollton
