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

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LOUIS ZUCKER #2 not have to say, "Isn't that beautiful?" No. Because the kids already have tears running from their eyes. I do not have to tell them, "It is beautiful." So I wrote a letter to President Glick of the seminary [JTSA] . I told him, 11 I have been going to Temple many, many years. I find this is a serious weakness in the service. Evidently, you do not teach your students to read literature." I mean, "To think of the liturgy as literature. To think of the Bible as literature, and then to read it to the congregation." "Since you do all the reading, to teach the rabbis how to read it, then read it as literature." Then perhaps I intimated that I was available. Of course, I think I might have done a darn good job because I knew what it was 1 ike. I knew why it was needed. I knew what to stress. I never heard, never got an answer, which I think was very improper of President Glick. HR: Was this Nelson Glick? LZ: Nelson Glick. If he did not answer me, somebody in the office should have answered me: "President Glick is now walking on all fours in the Negev looking for remains of ancient civilization, so he can't answer you." All right, I would have understand that, but I got no answer at all from anybody. Our present rabbi is doing a better job in that respect. I told him when he talked with me when he first came what I thought was good, not so good, about 71