Levy, Delores Shaikun

Date:
1991-10-30
Length:
50 minutes
Interviewer:
Bronner, Betty
Transcription available:
no
Series:
Louisville's Jewish Community
Series ID:
1991_129
Interview Number(s):
1991_129_19
Summary:
Delores Levy discusses her father, Edward Shaikun, who was from Trokai in Russia. (Trokai was a resort, about 30 miiles from Vilna.) Her mother's family, Alec and Esther Lerner, were from White Russia; her mother was Eugenia Sophie Lerner Shaikun. Her siblings: Dian, Lester Shaikun, Elizabeth Weinberg, Delores, Sandy Zelony, Arnold Shaikun. She discusses the Depression, moving back to Greenburg, with Adath Jeshurun, University of Kentucky, the Jewish Community Center, and family, Udel Barry and Sheila Suebold, Michael Gerald, Sue Daniels, Jacob Edward, and Ira Richard.
Topic(s):
Jews--Kentucky--Louisville, Shaikun, Edward, Congregation Adath Jeshurun (Louisville, Ky.), Jewish Community Center (Louisville, Ky.), Depressions--1929--Kentucky