| 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 99 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_johp |
| ID |
919896 |
| OCR Text |
Show LOUIS ZUCKER #3 assault, friendly, on the leadership of the Mormon church, (Now this is inside stuff!), if he could gain the support of the Mormon church for Jewish statehood in Palestine, (They were not talking about partition. They were talking about all of Palestine to be the Jewish state.), this would give the cause a great push forward. So Abe was here with his wife Essal, who was the daughter of a very distinguished Yiddish writer, Auset Dimoff, D-i-m-o-f-f, who was an important playwright and a short-story writer back in the 1920s and before that. Abe hoped that he and Essal would be able to influence President George Albert Smith that this would be a great gain for the cause. So they met us. We became good friends, and we have been good friends to this day. So, in 1945 or 1946 (It might be more like 1945.), Janet Kohn could not get into any women's college, or any other kind of college in the East, where she would like to go. Uncle Abe said, "Salt Lake City is a nice place and probably the University of Utah is not as yet filled up. We have good friends there, Louis and Ethel Zucker, and Louis is a professor. He might have influence and get you in." It worked, and she was admitted to the University of Utah. She came out with her mother, of course. This girl had never been away from home. She was 93 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6gj1qmh/919896 |
