Summary:
A Boston native, Gertrude Karp Feldbaum moved to New Albany and then to Louisville in 1909. Her family was from Grodna, Russia. She married in Boston in 1908. She and her husband were Louisville grocery owners until 1924. She remembers Jewish life and geographical distribution; Jewish merchants; synagogues; cemetery; Herman Straus Department store; the Depression years; the Young Men's Hebrew Association and Blanche Mitchell; dances; building the Jewish Community Center; the "Snack Bar"; swim teams; beauty contests; center clubs; Jerry Abramson; AZA (Aleph Zadik Aleph) Conventions.
Topic(s):
Jews--Kentucky--Louisville, Businesspeople, Jewish businesspeople, Depressions--1929--Kentucky, Young Men's Hebrew Association (Louisville, Ky.), Jewish Community Center (Louisville, Ky.), Aleph Zadik Aleph
