Sagerman, Annette Simon
Interviewer:
Abramson, Bettye
Transcription available:
no
Series:
Louisville's Jewish Community
Interview Number(s):
1991_129_30
Summary:
Annette Sagerman remembers her father Jacob Simon who was born in Latvia came to the United States to escape the Czar's army. He ran a secondhand store on Federal Street. Her mother was born and reared in St. Louis. Sagerman was born in 1924. She remembers her schooling; Orthodoxy and Adath Jeshurun; Goldstein's; Persky's; Fisher's Drug Store; Lerner's Restaurant (which was Kosher); movie prices (the Strand on Chestnut, Loew's and the Rialto); the 1937 flood; religious customs and rituals; picnics in Summers Park and Sennings Park; Charely Simon Deli; and Feitelson Deli. She discusses her marriage in 1953, and her husband's family. She discusses the Young Men's Hebrew Association, and Morris Simon starting the YMHA Orchestra.
Topic(s):
Jews--Kentucky--Louisville, Congregation Adath Jeshurun (Louisville, Ky.), Floods--Kentucky--Louisville, Young Men's Hebrew Association (Louisville, Ky.)
