Switow, Harry
Interviewer:
Chumbley, Kenneth
Transcription available:
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Series:
Louisville's Jewish community
Interview Number(s):
__661
__662
Summary:
Switow discusses his father, a Russian immigrant who owned movie theaters in Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia; his father's work in Louisville's Adath Jeshurun congregation; his childhood and education in Louisville at Cochran Elementary School, the Louisville Hebrew School, and Louisville Male High School; service in the United States Navy during World War I; engineering education at the University of Kentucky; Louisville during the 1937 flood; work with World War II bond drives; and views on the creation of Israel following the war. Switow concludes by discussing Jewish assimilation and changes in the local Jewish community.
Topic(s):
Jews--Kentucky--Louisville, Immigrants, Congregation Adath Jeshurun (Louisville, Ky.), Louisville Hebrew School, Jewish religious schools--Kentucky--Louisville, World War, 1914-1918, Assimilation (Sociology)
