Jewish Businesses in Western North Carolina

Jewish Businesses in Western North Carolina Oral History Collection [OH-JBWNC] "Patton Avenue, looking east from Haywood Street," [ball1272] Ewart M. Ball Photographic Collection. D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville.
Title	Jewish Businesses in Western North Carolina Oral History Collection
Creator	Sharon Fahrer and Jan Schochet [from the non-profit History @ Hand]
Identifier	http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/oralhistory/JBWNC/default_jewish_businesses.htm
Subject Keyword	Asheville businesses ; Downtown Asheville ; Hyman Dave ; Esther Ruth Fox ; Betty Pollock Golden ; Stan Golden ; Miriam Kell - Fields Men's Store ; Ginger Grand Lerner ; Milton Lurey ; Trudy Packard ; Marilyn Blomberg Patton ; George Roberts ; Rabbi Robinson ; Leon Rocamora ; Frank Rosen ; Arthur Sandman ; Mary Schochet - The Bootery , Star Bootery, A Dancer's Place ; Bobbie Siegal ; Eva Rae Lipinsky Solomon ; Phyllis Sultan - Gallumbeck's ; Alan Thorp - Doray's Millinary ; Dennis and Robert Winner - Winner's Department Store; Dorothy and Joanne Zageir - The Man Store ; Zageir family ; Schandler's ; Pollock's Shoes ; Dave Steel ; Vogue Furrier ; Vanderbilt Shirt Factory ; The Gem Store ; Harry Blomberg ; Asheville Showcase ; Cancellation Shoes ; Bon Marche ; Star Store ;
Subject LCSH	Jews -- North Carolina -- Asheville -- History Jews -- North Carolina -- Asheville -- Identity Business enterprises -- North Carolina -- Asheville Metropolitan Area Asheville (N.C.) -- History
Description	Jewish Businesses in Western North Carolina was a project derived from the ingenuity of the organization History @ Hand, whose research into the history of Jewish families in western North Carolina has enriched the cultural awareness of Jewish life across the region and a deeper understanding into the history of Asheville. The collection includes interviews with various Jewish business owners, former business owners, and their families who owned or still own businesses in downtown Asheville. A significant portion of the collection was compiled by History @ Hand for an outdoor exhibit in downtown Asheville entitled "The Family Store: A History of Jewish Businesses in Downtown Asheville, 1880-1990." The following information is taken from the brochure of the exhibit: "The Family Store: A History of Jewish Businesses in Downtown Asheville, 1880-1990 is a twelve-station exhibit located at sites around downtown where former Jewish businesses used to thrive. It showcases a time when all downtowns were destinations of purpose, providing the items necessary for daily life, from groceries to clothing to restaurants. During the majority of this period, downtown Asheville was the shopping hub of Western North Carolina. The Family Store acknowledges 110 years of undocumented history by revealing the presence, the abundance (more than 400) and the importance of downtown Asheville's Jewish businesses. These merchants laid the groundwork, both physical and commercial, for downtown Asheville, to be the arts and tourism destination it is today." The collection includes: Twenty-two interviews, available in DVD or VHS format, and their transcripts.
Publisher	D. H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville, NC, 28804
Contributor	City Seeds, Inc.
Date digital	2006-11-01
Type	Sound ; Text
Format	One 15"L x 10"H x 7"D manuscript box containing twenty-two folders, each containing a DVD copy of the original interview, along with its transcript in digital form. Original DVDs were returned to History @ Hand, while the digital copies remain with Special Collections.
Source	OH-JBWNC
Language	English
Relation	Leo Finkelstein oral history in Voices of Asheville Oral History Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNCA ; Hyman Dave oral history in Voices of Asheville Oral History Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNCA ; Leo Finkelstein Papers 1903-1998 - Digital copies of personal photographs and microfilm copies of Leo Finkelstein's scrapbooks and manuscripts at Appalachian State University, W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection Archives, Boone, NC. ; Sol Schulman Collection, a small collection of material related to Jewish businesses in the western part of the state. Includes material on Sol Schulman, a businessman in Waynesville, NC. ; The Ada and Lou Pollock Collection contains rich material on many of the individuals and businesses mentioned in the Beth-Ha-Tephila collection and also contains supplementary material related to the Congregation Beth-Ha-Tephila ; "Jewish Roots in the Carolinas: A Pattern of American Philo-Semitism," Charlotte, N.C.: The Charlotte Israelite, 1955, in the D. Hiden Ramsey Collection printed material - various publications (M80.5.2.6), D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNCA ; Louis Blomberg Family Papers, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNCA ; Schandler Family Papers, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNCA ; Schochet Family Papers, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNCA ; Choosing to Remember - From the Shoah to the Mountains, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNCA and the Center for Diversity Education ; Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, UNC Chapel Hill ; American Jewish Historical Society ;
Coverage Temporal	1880-2005
Coverage Spatial	Asheville, NC ; Sylva, NC ; Western North Carolina
Rights	Some interviews are RESTRICTED and have no written release form. See table below. For the rest: No restrictions. 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 authors of certain items in the collection, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Acquisition	Donor number 183 ; Date of acquisition: 2005-08
Interview Date	2003-2005
Processed By	Special Collections staff ; Jamie Patterson 2006-10
Last Update	2012-05-09

Interviewee	Associated Business	Date of interview	Source	Folder Items	Restrictions
List of Names
Dave, Hyman	Dave Steel 76 Roberts St.	2004-05-10	OH-JBWNC .D38 H9	DVD	none
Dorb, Betty		2012-02-10	OH-JBWNC .D67 B4	DVD audio cassette	none
Fox, Ruth Schandler	Schandler's	2005-06-07	OH-JBWNC .F69 R8	DVD TRANSCRIPT	none
Gaynes, Ruth		2013-06-13	OH-JBWNC .G39 R8	DVD	none
Golden, Betty Pollock	Pollock's Shoes	2005-06-21	OH-JBWNC .G65 B4	DVD TRANSCRIPT	none
Golden, Stan	Clothing Manufacturing	2005-06-21	OH-JBWNC .G65 S7	TRANSCRIPT	none
Gross, David	Gross Cafe	No interview	M2010.02.01	Images, documents	none
Jacobson, Albert			OH-JBWNC .J33 A4	DVD cassette	none
Kell, Miriam	Fields Men's Store	2005-04-05	OH-JBWNC .K45 M5	DVD TRANSCRIPT	none
Lerner, Ginger Grand	Vogue Furrier	2005-06-23	OH-JBWNC .L47 G5	DVD TRANSCRIPT	none
Lurey, Milton	Vanderbilt Shirt Factory (also discusses The Man Store)	2003-08-06	OH-JBWNC .L87 M5	DVD VHS video cassette TAPE LOG	none
Mamlin, Harry and Mary Lee	The Bootery, Penney's	2005-07-24	OH-JBWNC .M36 H3	DVD TRANSCRIPT	none
Packard, Trudy Schwarzberg	The Gem Store	2005-07-24	OH-JBWNC .P33 T7	DVD TRANSCRIPT	none
Patton, Marilyn Blomberg	(Harry Blomberg - Grove Park Gallery, Harry's Cadillacs)	2004-02-23	OH-JBWNC .P38 M3	DVD TRANSCRIPT	none
Roberts, George	Delivery	2005-06-15	OH-JBWNC .R63 G4	DVD TRANSCRIPT	none
Robinson, Rabbi Michael Aaron	Dr. Robinson, Daniel Robinson on the Square [Pack Square]	2003-07-17	OH-JBWNC .R63 M5	DVD VHS video cassette	none
Rocamora, Leon	Asheville Showcase	2004-08-09	OH-JBWNC .R63 L4	TRANSCRIPT	none
Rosen, Frank	Cancellation Shoes	2005-07-24	OH-JBWNC .R67 F7	2 DVDs	none
Sandman, Arthur	The Leader	2005-04-12	OH-JBWNC .S36 A7	TRANSCRIPT	none
Schochet, Jan	The Bootery, Bon Marche			DVD	none
Schochet, Mary	A Dancer's Place, The Bootery, Star Bootery	2005-06-29	OH-JBWNC .S36 M3	DVD TRANSCRIPT	none
Siegal, Bobbi	Bon Marche	2005-06-20	OH-JBWNC .S54 B6	TRANSCRIPT	none
Solomon, Eva Rae Lipinsky	Bon Marche	2005-06-20	OH-JBWNC .S65 E9	DVD TRANSCRIPT	none
Sultan, Phyllis	Gallumbeck's	2005-04-05	OH-JBWNC .S85 Ph5	DVD TRANSCRIPT	none
Thorp, Alan	Doray's Millinary (also discusses Star Store)	2005-06-12	OH-JBWNC .Th67 A4	DVD .WAV file disc TRANSCRIPT	none
Winner, Dennis and Robert	Winner's Department Store	2005-02-05	OH-JBWNC .W56 D4 ; OH-JBWNC .W56 R6	2 DVDs .WAV file disc TRANSCRIPT	none
Zageir, Dorothy and Joanne	The Man Store	2004-08-10	OH-JBWNC .Z34 D6 ; OH-JBWNC .Z34 J6	TRANSCRIPT	none

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Jewish Businesses in Western North Carolina Oral History Collection [OH-JBWNC] "Patton Avenue, looking east from Haywood Street," [ball1272] Ewart M. Ball Photographic Collection. D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville.

Jewish Businesses in Western North Carolina
Oral History Collection
[OH-JBWNC]

"Patton Avenue, looking east from Haywood Street," [ball1272] Ewart M. Ball Photographic Collection.
D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville.