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Show Joel Shaprio 5/26/82 tp 1 pg 10 Now, when I say it comes on two levels , that did not ~ean that people weren't active in -- on the floor plan of social action. They were --the Jewish people . But , it meant that as an individual, one tried to show, I think, in those days, that he was a part of the whole, worked very hard at it . Just as we saw after 'v/WII, a.s we had the German immigrants come to this communtiy -- German or wherever they were from-- Western European people ••• really tried very hard to learn baseball, learn the social form. What's with baseball? Baseball's a way of •• what •. showing you understand the American rhythm. In fact, baseball was then, too ••• I~ y mother, during those 20 ' s .•• my mother was a very well educated woman. She had obtained a masters degree from the University of Denver . About 1915 or '16, she had a masters degree when most girls weren't even going to school. But , I suspect that reflected also the western ••• 1 What was the degree in? JS Education . English and education. The women were moving faster in the west, of course, than they were in the east. The marriage of my mother and father, when I look back, was a strange mixture. He being really a European emotionally based person with a yeshiva bocher education, my mother being, from at least one side of the family, German, and very modern, well educated woman. I've often said she was born 60 or 62 years too soon. Had my mother lived in this era, she would have been a , with no doubt, a crusading feminist. But, she was then in her own little way. But, my mother, at that same time, was working for Neighborhood House , and other public agencies in the city. She did like to work with the newly arrived Americans. She, like other women, got into the social services side: various forms of relief societies, and aid society stake, both in the Jewish community and in the non-Jewish community. So, here you have my mother out as a public person, working in the community, and my father representing that business, like if you want to survive in business, don't get messed up in politics. I think that was the -- if you make the jump from the barroom embarrassment to the business behavior, what you'd understand (it) to be, that if you want to survive in business, you need friends from all aspects. Don't align yourself with this party or that, |
