Samuel Bernstein, Interviews with Jews in Utah, Accn 998

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Sam Bernstein j uly 1 p. 7 J So you remember it mus t h a ve been n e mot i ona l and exciting thing a s a c hild, to see the s ynagogue going up tha t your family was s o involved with. Well. it wasn't so muc h tha t as it wa s that the whole thing would continue and exist. J How did youfeel when a llo f a sudden it stopped existing. {{hat do you remember a bo ut that? I was a l ittle older then. W Probably couldn't have cared less. I didn't -- I guess it didn't bother me too much. Because I remember hearing stories from some of the Jewish fellows who were perhaps a little older than I and they went to the Hebrew school at Montefoire. And they told a story [he laughs why they didn't get along with the Melamed .- and they would lock him in the coal shed. W Were there any Gusses involved. ~0. J So it sounded like Moneefoire was having more fun so you couldn;t wait to get over there-- Well, they were older than some of them thati'm talking about .. Certainly older than myself and so I would/R~Se been able to have grown with them. But you know, I And parties in fue s ynagogue today and watch these bar mitzvah services. that they have, you know, afterwards. I remember wheni was bar mitzvah, my folks would have a little party after services. And that was it. And I'd be given presents consisting of maybe a tallus, a ring, fountain pen. J so when Sh. Tz. finally ended, how did that decision come about. Was there a m meeting and people got t ogether and decided ... I just don't recall the mechanics. W You were not involved like you were when the new temple started here. J Thebuilding still exists now, right? So what is it used for now? Well, it was sold to the --one of the veteran's organizations. And I guess it's still up. W The bldg. is still there. J So when it was sold, did they give the money then to Montefoire. Oh, sure. Or maybe they gave ------------------- W Some one kept the money for the cemetery . The Cemetery Fund. They had their own cemetery. In fact it's still there. J Now, is thatwhere your parents are, intat cemetery? No, my parents were buried in the Montefoire Cemetery. But her parents are buried in the Sh. Tz. W [can't get it all .• something abut father buried in Montefoire, moteher in Tzd.] J So the mney was W r.nn ' t " " n rP me h11t: r ,_ · nk- -I 've heard so ma ny o( the~e thi_n g_s . But I _think that '.s-