Esther Landa, Interviews with Jews in Utah, Accn 998

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Esther Landa 3.16 p.l6 West High School is now. But my uncle Joe went to the new East High School. Of course, then you've got to remembe~, he's thirteen· years younger. L you guys moved up in the community fairly quickly. EL Yeah. Well evidently. We moved from 8th south to 6th East to So. Temple and 13th East to Yale Avenue. we~e same . L You were on the/street w1th the governor at that time. EL YEah.' L So it must have been fairly nice ... EL Oh, it was. It's still a very nice area. L What was the sense of being a Jew in Utah at that time. EL I think we felt it mostly at the holidays. Although I went to Sunday School, I toldyou that. But certainly the holidays were very important. I toldyou, I remember helping my grandmother get the passover dishes up. L Now, this is when you were on Yale. You'd come down and stay with your grandparents. EL No but we would go there for all the meals. And the men used to come L EL home f~em for lunch, ye~-kHew, in those days. They'd come heme for lunch during Pesach. So I remember that. And then I remember on Rosh Hashanah Ha~fteHa, we always had to wait until my grandfather got home from the synagogue. And the same thing on Yom Kippur. To break the fast, although I told you, he stayed at the New House Hotel. but then when the sun went v~trSI down, he would come home and we'd have a big fast there andi remember Rye de~~y- herring and ~y bread and schnapps. And I remember helping make the horseradish for gefilte fish for 'J?assover. And --tha tused to be a week, a pretty solid week of cooking. You know, because some meals would be dairy meals for lunch and then we'd be there for dinner. WHo would do most of the cooking. Oh, my .grandmother But she would lave semeebe somebody to help her with the dishes, you know, there would be a girl to help withthe dishes.