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Show ./ ,) Betsy Bamberger Lesser 1-27-83 p.17 2 L: 1/L>b o4 ..r~e r/;tr- jiM,/ .1.~/~ A....u-~~ or- lf.ri, yo~AJ l-eA-~~~ 1 ~; • BL: Hearingabout it. Hearing about it. And, of course, with what went with the Librarian ... ~ Ae~~.. ~~ I had been tuking Utah Holiday Magazine and following some of what's been going on in the community. And of course, I am not a great appreciator of Senator Garn or Senator Hatch. I'm somewhat .?f ~--I'm quite a liberal Democrat. And I worked very hard for Anthony · i€ \(~r'c/"1. Belensou. And I have a friend who's a legislative assistant who works for Dick BoY,~if of . Missouri. And I really feel very strongly aboutthe whole ;,~ .... '(!' principles of ~ involved and I am certainly anything but a -- L A staunch concervative republican. BL Yes. And I really have not much use for Mr. Reagan and etc. and I was a very anti-Nixon frornthe very beginning, and so forth and so on. And so. I couldn't L go horne one of my best friends here is the head of fofp./cl~ ~ rv'm:.. Common Cause in Utah, ~- LEt me ask a couple more questions that deal with the Jewish community. had interesting reactions from some people on the issue of Zionism. I've Urn . the 30s once again. The 40s even. Before the existence of the state. What was the attitudes of the people you knew about Zionism. BL We didn't discuss it too much. You know , it was so remote. Again. It was I was Jewish because! knew my grandparents were Jewish and I felt it was important to be part of that tradition. But as far as what they were doing, and Israel, it didn't mean that much to me. L Palestine . BL Palestine in those days . That's right. I really, you know , didn't pay much attention in what was going on. Now, my ex-husband, I understand, was an early J!ionifvery much interested in Zionism. But I never really paid much atte'ntion to it. And I renlly didn't hear very much about it. L The attitudes of your parents would have been. BL Well, again , my mother and fu. ther by tlH~ time I w<ls very conscious of any of tt, were just avoiding the whole Jewish issue to a great extent. Although they were talking about the fact that they certainly were not going tosend us to Israel when L You mean, send you as children to go there. BL Yes, or they weren't going to send anyof us. We're Americans! and We -as I said, my parents were defintely divorcing themselves or separating themselves from any Jewish connection. L Would it be fair to say that other German Jews, or some of the other German Jews shared that opinion. BL I wou~d think so. I would have thought so. But I really didn't know. Because again, I had very few direct Jewish friends. Oh, Howard Marcus wasa good friend I I J. n • |
