Gale, Annette

Date:
1990-10-23
Length:
30 minutes
Interviewer:
Lipetz, Zera
Transcription available:
no
Series:
Louisville's Jewish Community
Series ID:
1991_129
Interview Number(s):
1991_129_10
Summary:
Annette Gale's parents were Jenny and Aaron Vine, her grandmother was Blema Vine. They were all from Poland and immigrated to New York and then to Louisville in 1922. She tells of her youth and the Walnut to Magnolia and Brook Street areas. Her parents had a grocery store. Associated families: Eva Yussman, Herman Cohen, Freda Gurwitch, Minnie Cohen, Rose Tarbis. Discusses Jewish merchants, the American Grocery Co., the University of Louisville, Girls High School, transportation, Adath Jeshurun, Talmud Torah, going to Keat's Theatre at 5th and Walnut, radio, Young Men's Hebrew Association, World War II, and the 1937 flood.
Topic(s):
Jews--Kentucky--Louisville, Young Men's Hebrew Association (Louisville, Ky.), Congregation Adath Jeshurun (Louisville, Ky.), Floods--Kentucky--Louisville, Jewish religious schools--Kentucky--Louisville