- Title:
- Tacoma Judaism: One Hundred Years
- Date Created:
- 1992
- Description:
- The interviews with three members of Tacoma's Jewish community, Richard Rosenthal, Steph Farber, and Ruth Hurst, to some degree all touch upon the exodus of businesses (many of them Jewish-owned) from the downtown Tacoma business district. In two interview segments, Rabbi Rosenthal discusses early Jewish settlement in Tacoma, the 1960 merger of existing Conservative and Reform congregations to form Temple Beth El, and adds some details about his early life and training. Farber recounts his beliefs about misguided urban renewal practices of the 1960s and 1970s and reminisces about the many businesses that once flourished in downtown Tacoma. The transcript of the interview with Hurst appears to provide only an excerpt; she discusses her family business, Feist & Bachrach, as well as other downtown Tacoma stores operating prior to 1965.
- Subjects:
- Farber, Steph--Interviews Hurst, Lucille--Interviews Rosenthal, Richard, 1924-1999--Interviews LeRoy Jewelers (Tacoma, Wash.) Temple Beth El (Tacoma, Wash.) Central business districts--Washington (State)--Tacoma Jewelers--Washington (State)--Tacoma--Interviews Jews--Washington (State)--Tacoma--Interviews Jews--Washington (State)--Tacoma--History Rabbis--Washington (State)--Tacoma--Interviews Single mothers--Washington (State)--Tacoma--Interviews Stores, Retail--Washington (State)--Tacoma--History Women sculptors--Washington (State)--Tacoma--Interviews Tacoma (Wash.)--Commerce--History
- Location:
- United States--Washington (State)--Tacoma
- Source:
- University of Washington Tacoma Community History Project
- Source Identifier:
- chp1992-05
- Type:
- text
- Format:
- cpd
- :
- http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/?language=en