Eugene Hertz, Interviews with Jews in Utah, Accn 998

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~ er tz ( p ~ 10 ; cut ve r , r arA1Y . ":Ts . "! "'='ut t hey could be lawye r s . ""r. T.:! ~·· r. ~ . ~ r. t! ,. i'.r. X ,. !'.r. -:r .J Mr. K ~" r. rr ~ r. K r.:r. K Mr. B Mr .. K h , sure but a f tP. r thP 1qth centu r y . Tha t' s why ' \,C' 1 ' 'I I"' -Ie be a11e R ~1r.s .:~i:a or s a les l ady . It was a big t h ing t o be a Aales l ad y. ThanK you fo r exDl a i n t ng t~at , tha t hel ns to understand. At one step I Nanted to bec ome a banker, you know • To w or ~ in a ban~? mo wo r ~ in a ba nK. Contrary to the belief of so many pe9ple the banks never were, never r,..rill, and are not controlled by Jews. There are very, very few Jev.rtsh banks. So, there were very few jobs open you're saying. Very few. It was very rare if you could find somebody who had a uosition in R uost offic~ or telephone co~pany or anything li~e t bat. ~aybe a ~ ong 100 you'd find 1. Peoule in this country are verv conscious of last names. They t ~ ink they know every Jew by their last name. Were people in Ge~any conscious of names li~e t~at? Certainly, because a big majority of people had na~es na~ed after cities, towns, you ~ow. Or after states or after ••• and most of the time EL or ER was added. Was Hertz a recognizably Jewish name in Ger~any? I Knew of only 1 ~ertz that was not Jewish, but I came fro~ a small town. I knew of another Hertz in another town that was not supposed to be Jewish, but maybe generations ~ ~ he was Jewisl-J. (To Mrs. H) ~hat was your maiden name? Mrs. B Buche1n. Mr. K Was that a recognizably Jewish name?