Jews--Kentucky--Louisville

= Audio Available Online
1047
The Reverend Tachau discusses his family history. Most of the material concerns Louisville, Kentucky, and the Tachau, Levy, Brandeis, Wehle, and Dembitz families. The interview contains some second-hand information, but most of the material discussed falls within the memory of the Rev. Tachau.
1160
Tachau discusses his grandparents; his parents Charles Tachau and Jean Brandeis Tachau; his father's insurance business, E.S. Tachau and Sons; the Depression of the 1930s in Louisville; his father's relationship with United States Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis; and the efforts of Brandeis and Tachau to assemble a World War I history collection at the University of Louisville. Tachau also discusses his childhood, education at Oberlin College, civic and business interests, Red Cross Hospital, and the civil rights movement in Louisville.
245
Rose Jaffe Tarbis was born in 1919, in Jewish Hospital. Her father, Harry Jaffe, was an optometrist, and founder of Eliahu Academy. Her parents were married in 1913; her mother was Fanny Monfried. Her grandfather, Louis Monfried, was a Russian government bookkeeper who went to South Africa to make money to move the family. They came to the United States because a sister wrote of the wonders of U.S. They came from Riga, Warsaw, Kovna Guberniya. A cousin, Simon Sogoloff, was Solicitor General under Eisenhower. She remembers Frehling's; Florence Morgulan; Eli Jaffe; Dr. and Mrs. Brownstein; Rea Brownstein Benovitz; Goldsmith's; Naomi Scheider Roth; Baer family, Yoffe's; B'nai Yacov Synagogue; Young Men's Hebrew Association; "Meet-A-Body" Club; Ruthie Fay Linker; Birdie Nae Kaplin; Betty Ades, Founder Young Judean Organ. Father, Harry Jaffe, started Hadassah. She married Raymond Tarbis in 1938. Related to Ades, Grossman's, Baer, Berman's.
1039
1493
Jewish Community Center/Temple Adath Israel
246
Weisberg was born in 1942 to Charles and Marion Weisberg, who were both born in Louisville. His grandparents were Clara Hyman, Alec and Rebecca Bierman, Sam Weisberg and Mil. Earliest recollections are of Barret Avenue. He also recalls Resnick AZA (Aleph Zadik Aleph) - father, advisor; Young Men's Hebrew Association; schooling (at Fern Creek High there were only eight Jewish people); Hebrew School; Jewish Community Center, which was an integral part in life of his time.
1012
The narrator discusses the Anshei Sfard congregation, the Jewish neighborhood around Seventh Street, the Kosher Home, and Hadassah.
1175
Weiss discusses her family and life in Louisville, Kentucky, and Mobile, Alabama. Recollections include growing up in Mobile; marrying and moving to Louisville; Jewish refugees during the 1930s and Russian Jewish refugees during the 1970s; changing Jewish neighborhoods in Louisville; her husband's involvement in the Kentucky Heart Association; and the donation of his rare book collection to the Health Sciences Library at the University of Louisville.
1050
1494
In a family history program for the Jewish community center, Tobie Wittenbaum and her daughter Mutzie Friedman share their family history and experiences of the Jewish community in Louisville, Kentucky. Tobie was born in 1904 and grew up in a Jewish community in Louisville, where they were known as the Market Streeters, the Preston Streeters, the 7th Streeters, and the wealthy were called the Second and First Streeters. She recalls the YMHA, a central meeting place for the Jewish community, where they held weddings, basketball games, and knitting classes. During the first world war, they knitted items for Navy and Army men and hosted Jewish soldiers from Fort Knox. Tobie also shares her family history, her parents were Isaac and Millie Sugarman, and her father immigrated from Vilna at the age of 19. Mutzie adds that her grandmother, Millie Marx Sugarman, was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and they are proud to have five generations born in the United States on her maternal grandmother's side.