Bernie Rose, Interviews with Jews in Utah, Accn 998

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Rose (1/17/83) page 3 Mr. K Mr. R Mr. K Mr. R we talk back and forth and go visiting cousins, the widows of my blood cousins. You see, they've been 1n the family so long that sometimes you'd have to stop to think who was the relative, you see. Now we're going to Washington in February, and one of the women who is my cousin's widow by 11 years is coming to Washing­ton with her present husband, whom I have previously met, so that we can get together in Washington because I told her we didn't have the time to get to New York. And then there are two other cousins that are my cousins coming down to Washington because I'll be there. So, you see, it's a very, very good relationship, very sweet relationship. It sounds it. There was no strangeness in going from one fa~ily to the other. The area where you asked my about religious influence, probably the area where I had the biggest difficulty was . I went to one house where they were ultra-Orthodox. I spent most of my time there, most of the years that I lived with people. It was the aunt that I went to from the time that my grandmother died to the time that I finished high school. She'd also had me when I was a kid, and they were an ultra-Orthodox fa~ily. And then on the other hand I went to a relative that •• What did they expect of you when you were in their home? I had to go to c1ed~~. I had to go to shu/, I had to dauvin every morning after I was barmitzvahed. It was not only I that had to do it, they had three sons as well and my uncle, and so we'd stand up there ••• I remember looking out a window- I'd spend most my time day dreaming because I mean you don't have to dauvin out loud, but