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University of
North Carolina at Asheville Register of Manuscript Schandler Family CollectionM2004.05.1 |
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"Schandler Family" Schandler Family Collection, Jewish Life in Western North Carolina Collection, UNCA Special Collections |
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| Title | Schandler Family Collection |
| Identifier | http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/mss/schandler/schandler.htm |
| Creator | Schandler family [Jack and Debbie Longren Schandler] |
| Alt. creator | Linda Newman [Aaron Schandler's daughter] |
| Alt. creator | Jan Schochet ; Sharon Fahrer |
| Subject |
Keyword : Jews ; Sol Schulman ; merchants ; business ; Jewish business ; economics ; Asheville, NC ; Buncombe County , NC ; Jewish humor ; religion ; oral history ; Jewish life ; Jewish cultural history ; western North Carolina ; postcards ; delicatessen ; grocery ; Joseph Schandler ; Aaron Schandler ; Jack Schandler ; Debbie Longren Schandler ; |
| Subject | LCSH : Jews -- North Carolina -- Asheville, N.C. -- Sources Schandler, Aaron Schandler, David Schandler, Sarah Schandler, Aaron, -- Family Merchant -- North Carolina -- Asheville -- Sources Beth Israel (Asheville, N.C.) -- Sources |
| Description |
A collection of material related to the lives of members of the Schandler family of North Carolina. |
| Publisher | Special Collections, D.H. Ramsey Library, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804 |
| Contributor | History @ Hand Partnership [independent historians consulting firm] |
| Date | Creation: 2004-07-29 |
| Type | Text ; photographs ; collections |
| Format | digital photographs ; postcards ; newspaper clippings ; 1 small manuscript box |
| Source | D. H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, Manuscript Collections ; M2004.5.1 |
| Language | English. |
| Relation | Choosing to Remember: From the Shoah to the Mountains ; Leo Finkelstein Papers ; Samuel Robinson Papers (1891-1973) ; Beth-Ha-Tephila Congregation (Asheville, NC) 1891-1976) ; Sol Schulman Collection ; "Jewish Roots in the Carolinas: A Pattern of American Philo-Semitism," by Harry L. Golden , Charlotte, M.C.: The Charlotte Israelite, 1955, copy in in the D.Hiden Ramsey Collection, Folio #4, Correspondence, 1955 (miscellaneous). ; Schochet Family Papers ; "A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life," Documenting the American South, UNC Chapel Hill, http://www.lib.unc.edu/apop/index.html ; Sol Schulman ; Description of the Hebrew Publishing Company and the history of the cards produced by this company and others: http://yiddishbookcenter.org/pdf/pt/42/pt42_holidaycheer.pdf ; The Family Store Project: A History of Jewish Businesses, 1880-1990, a 12-panel exhibit displayed in a variety of locations in downtown Asheville in the fall of 2006 by History @ Hand. |
| Coverage | 1850- present |
| Rights |
Any display, publication, or public use must credit the D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville. Copyright retained by the creators of certain items in the collection, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law. Copyright: Retained by the authors of certain items in the collection, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law. Restrictions on some items in collection: Permission to publish must be obtained from "History @ Hand Partnership," contact : 828 253-0982. Contact Special Collections for additional information (828 251-6645). |
| Donor | Donor |
| Acquisition | 2004-06-04 |
| Citation | Preferred citation: , "Schandler Family Collection," Special Collections, D.H. Ramsey Library, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804 |
| Processed by | Special Collections staff, 2004 |
| Last update | 2004-07-29 |
| Biographical Information |
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
David Schandler came to Asheville from New York city in 1906 and opened a cigar store and a handkerchief factory that became the Oak Street Cash Store. The Cigar Store stood where the annex to the First Baptist Church is located today and the upper floor of the building was also the home of the early Schandlers. Mrs. David Schandler was born Sarah Salem, daughter of Fannie F. and David Salem in Mitau, Kurland, Latvia in 1890. [She] came to the U.S. in 1905 where she married David S. Schandler in 1910 in Chicago, Ill.. [She has been] A resident of Asheville since 1912. 1 Daughter: Ester Ruth Schandler Fox, Asheville 5 Sons Aaron Schandler, Asheville, NC Joseph Schandler, Asheville, NC Jack Schandler, Scranton, PA Seymour Schandler, Sherman Oaks, CA Herbert Schandler, US Army Lt. Col. Mrs. Schandler has been a member of the Congregation Beth Israel since 1912 and the Sisterhood. She is also a member of Hadassah, Council of Jewish Women, Cheerio Club. Mr. Aaron Schandler was the son of the late David and Sarah Salem Schandler and was born in Buncombe County in 1913, the oldest of five sons. He graduated from Asheville-Biltmore College and later served for a time as the Alumni Association Vice-President. On the urging of his father, he visited his fifth cousin in New York following graduation and there fell in love and married his distant cousin Shirley "Lee" Senner. He remained in New York where he worked in the textile industry. A veteran of WWII, Schandler retired a lieutenant colonel after 27 years in active and reserve duty. He was on the board of directors of Beth Israel Synagogue and was a member of Chevro Kadisha. As a member of the Mid-City Merchants Association, Schandler began his business career at the Oak Street Cash Store in 1947 when his father called him home from New York to run the business founded by his father in 1906. He nurtured the business into the "Pickle Barrel" a fancy grocery and delicatessen at 50 Broadway, Asheville in 1963. His delicatessen stocked ingredients for foreign dishes, and gourmet foods from around the world. He was a member of the board of directors of Mutual Distributing Co., was past president of the Gold Nugget Investment Club and was past president of the Western North Carolina Chapter Reserve Officer Association. He died October 17, 1981 while on a Caribbean cruise on the SS. Norway to celebrate his 40th wedding anniversary. An Aaron M. Schandler Memorial Scholarship was established at UNCA in his honor by the Alumni Association and awards were made annually to local residents majoring in business management at the university. [See Asheville Citizen-Times, Sun., Oct. 18, 1981.] |
| Context | CONTEXT
Jewish merchants were in Asheville very early in the twentieth century as evidenced by the Schandler family of David and Sarah Salem Schandler who had a business in the city by 1906. Many individuals recalled the business run by Aaron Schandler their son, called the "Pickle Barrel". One remembrance was recorded in the Asheville Citizen on Thursday 22, 1981 of Margaret W. Willett, Waynesville who said of Schandler's shop. "...As an out-of-town shopper it was always a pleasure to go into the Pickle Barrel -- a shop filled with many unusual items and delicious food. However, I found my purchases ranked quite secondary to the good feelings I carried away with me after receiving unfailing courtesy and sincere and friendly attention to my needs both from him and from all of this employees ... I found myself postponing purchasing items readily available in the large sterile malls and bigger stores preferring to experience these kindnesses which are almost totally absent in the larger establishments...when pros and cons of yet another of these impersonal conglomerates are being considered for downtown Asheville, I hope its residents will remember, among other things, the intangible and valuable merits of the many small shops with their unique flavor, and their warmth and appreciation of your business...Mr. Schandler's ... epitomized the best of these traditions of dedication to these virtues ..." |
