| Title |
Esther Kline, Interviews with Jews in Utah, Accn 998 |
| Alternative Title |
Accn 998, Interviews with Jews in Utah, Esther Kline |
| Description |
Transcript (69 pages) of interviews by Lorraine Ferra with Esther Kline for the Interviews with Jews in Utah Oral History Project. |
| Creator |
Kline, Esther, 1906- |
| Contributor |
Ferra, Lorraine; Oral History Institute |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1982; 1983; 1984; 1985; 1986; 1987; 1988 |
| Date Digital |
2015-07-06 |
| Access Rights |
I acknowledge and agree that all information I obtain as a result of accessing any oral history provided by the University of Utah's Marriott Library shall be used only for historical or scholarly or academic research purposes, and not for commercial purposes. I understand that any other use of the materials is not authorized by the University of Utah and may exceed the scope of permission granted to the University of Utah by the interviewer or interviewee. I may request permission for other uses, in writing to Special Collections at the Marriott Library, which the University of Utah may choose grant, in its sole discretion. I agree to defend, indemnify and hold the University of Utah and its Marriott Library harmless for and against any actions or claims that relate to my improper use of materials provided by the University of Utah. |
| Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5780993 |
| Subject |
Jews, American--Utah--Interviews; Kline, Esther, 1906- --Interviews; Peddling; Jews--Social life and customs; Bamberger Railroad Company; Kosher food |
| Abstract |
Lorraine Ferra conducted two interviews with Esther Kline (b. 1906), who talks about growing up in Salt Lake city, including her memories of Pioneer Day, local businesses, Kaplan (the local kosher butcher), the Bamberger Railroad, and her father's work as a junk peddler. She also talks about some of the early distinctions between the congregations B'nai Israel, Monefiore, and Shaary Tzedick. The transcript for this interview may not be complete. 69 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
69 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Is Part of |
Interviews with Jews in Utah collection, 1982-1988, http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv70657/; Aileen H. Clyde 20th Century Women's Legacy Archive |
| Scanning Technician |
Niko Amaya; Halima Noor |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6tx5954 |
| Topic |
Jews, American; Jews--Social life and customs; Peddling; Bamberger Railroad Company; Kosher food |
| Setname |
uum_iju |
| ID |
903795 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tx5954 |
| Title |
Page 12 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_iju |
| ID |
903736 |
| OCR Text |
Show Esther Klein 1st Int. Side 1, p 11 understand Jewish and I know my mother wanted me to be friends with this Jewish girl that was my age and so I tried to be friends with her. And so I was over to her place visiting and this girl was talking to her mother about me and she was talking Yiddish. And so I excused myself and I carne home and I told my mother, I said, "Don't they realize that I can understand Jewish, even though I don't speak it." And so there again my mother went to my rescue and I don't think they were really saying anything bad about me but they were talking about me. So my mother says, "What do you expect, being raised in a Jewish family and not understanding Yiddish?" And why they were really surprised that I knew what they were talking about. But my first trip with my sister when we went back to New York to my cousin's wedding, they thought that it was real strange that we didn't speak Yiddish. But we can understand it. But it is kind of strange that we didn't. You know we didn't really live next door to Jewish people but we weren't too far away where Jewish people lived. My mother had friends that she'd take me to visit and when my nephew was living with us, he was just about ten years younger than me so he was just like our young brother. LOR Which nephew was that? EK That was WAlter. LOR Oh, Walter. EK He lived with us but he was, oh, he wasn't even two years old. About a year and a half, maybe, thereabouts. There was one elderly lady that my mother would go visit every week, just as regular as clockwork and she was a widow lady and she didn't live too far from where we lived at that time and there wasn't a thing to look |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tx5954/903736 |
