| Title |
Louis Zucker,Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Hynda Rudd and Ralph DeRose, September 1 & 4, and October 24, 1972, January 25, 1973 and June 1, 1977 |
| Alternative Title |
Louis Zucker |
| Creator |
Zucker, Louis C., 1895-1982 |
| Contributor |
DeRose, Ralph; Rudd, Hynda |
| Date |
1972-09-01; 1972-09-04; 1972-10-24; 1973-01-25 |
| Date Digital |
4/29/2016 |
| Spatial Coverage |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Access Rights |
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| Subject |
Zucker, Louis C., 1895-1982--Interviews; University of Utah--Faculty--Biography; Jews--Utah--Interviews; Schiller, Herbert M.--Biography |
| Description |
Transcript (184 pages) of an interview by Hynda Rudd and Ralph DeRose with Louis C. Zucker on September 1 and 4 and October 24, 1972, and January 25, 1973. From tapes H-10, H-17, H-18, H-20, H-21, and H-32 in the Jewish Oral History Project |
| Abstract |
Mr. Zucker (b. 1895) discusses the emigration of his parents from Poland, their life in Philadelphia, and political leanings. He recalls his education in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, his move to Salt Lake City to join the English faculty at the University of Utah, and life in the Jewish community. Also included are stories of various Jewish families, his experiences teaching Sunday school, the Maimonides, Jewish students and faculty at the University in the 1930s and 1940s, Jewish politics and culture, and the life of Judge Herbert Schiller. |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
174 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| 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/s6gj1qmh |
| Topic |
Jews--Interviews; University of Utah |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Setname |
uum_johp |
| ID |
919979 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6gj1qmh |
| Title |
Page 46 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_johp |
| ID |
919843 |
| OCR Text |
Show LOUIS ZUCKER #1 knew about Zionism. In fact, they were Zionists. When a great Zionist like Shmaria Levine came to Philadelphia, they talked to me about Shmaria Levine. If anybody talked to me that way, then I wanted to go and not miss anything. I went, and Shmaria Levine spoke in Hebrew. He was a great Hebrew orator. He was saturated with Jewish learning, and his style was a very allusive style. The more you brought of Jewish learning to his speech, the more you got out of it, the more you enjoyed it, and the more brilliant it was. RD: He spoke in Hebrew, not in Yiddish? LZ: Hebrew, Hebrew. RD: No person knowing Yiddish can understand Hebrew? LZ: No. Yiddish is a Germanic language, and Hebrew is not. I got a little here and there, but my friend Myra Jaffa, he got every bit of it. He smiled and tears ran from his eyes. He got all the nuances, and he was the organ Shmaria Levine played on. Then came Nahum Sakalof, a great Zionist thinker and sage, came to Philadelphia. The father of one of my friends called me up and said, "Wouldn't you like to come and be an usher? we need ushers." So I went up. Sakalof took pride in his linguistic attainments, so he spoke in English. I could follow him, and I was awestruck, of course. Nahum Sakalof! I had been reading about him in the Yiddish pa- 40 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6gj1qmh/919843 |
