University of North Carolina at Asheville
D. Hiden Ramsey Library
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Oral History Register
for

Carolyn Rosenthal, 1923-

OH-VOA R67 Ca

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Voices of Asheville Oral History Collection
D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNCA

Title

Creator

Sylvia Robin for Voices of Asheville Oral History Collection

Subject

LCSH:
Rosenthal, Carolyn, 1923-
Asheville (N.C.) -- History
Dance -- Instruction and Study -- North Carolina -- Asheville
Jews -- North Carolina -- Asheville

Subject

Keyword: Center for Creative Retirement ; YWCA ; Jewish Community Center ; UNCA ; Givens Estates ; Eliada Home ; Wall Street Dance Works ; Dancers of the Third Age ; Civil Rights Movement

Description

Abstract: Rosenthal discusses her attraction to Asheville, and her involvement with the Center for Creative Retirement, the YWCA, the Jewish Community Center, and the College for Seniors.  She discusses creative movement, writing groups, dance performances, and encouraging others to value their dreams.  She talks about the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King and the McCarthy hearings.  She discusses her marriage to a Jew who escaped from Nazi Germany, and describes the mystical aspects of Judaism.

Publisher

D. H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville, NC, 28804

Contributor

Date

Electronic Record Issued: 2002-06-03

Type

Sound ; Text ; Image

Format

Physical Description: 3-page abstract ; 1 90-minute audiocassette and 1 copy, newspaper articles

Identifier

Source

OH-VOA R67 Ca

Language

English

Relation

References: VOA Imogene (Cissie) Stevens Oral History

Coverage

Acquisition

Donor number: 146 ;  Date of acquisition: 1998

Processed By

Sylvia Robin, Ruth Beard and staff

Interview Date

Interview Location

Biography

List of names

Side 1:

[1/20]  Previous residences, desire to live in the "country," Blue Ridge Parkway, choosing Asheville (1988). [Husband, John Rosenthal]

[1/60]  Leaving dance company, MD.

[1/117]  Children in San Francisco and MD now.

[1/123]  Love affair with mountains.

[1/132]  Mystique about Asheville.  "Center of light," healing place.

[1/158]  Ley Lines, sacred places.

[1/170] Move from Manhattan to Washington 1956, a move to "the South."

[1/196] Prejudice, religious prejudice.

[1/212] Natives who have come back to this area.

[1/227]  Resentment against northerners.

[1/242]  Making own place, "a community of those I work with."

[1/265] 1st year, no activities in community.

[1/286]  Offered services to Center for Creative Retirement for off-campus humanities program. [Ron Manheimer, Director, Center for Creative Retirement, Highland Farms, Deerfield, Pack Library, Weaverville Library]

[1/296]  Class in creative movement. [YWCA]

[1/301] Classes at JCC. [Jewish Community Center]

[1/310]  College for seniors classes. [UNCA]

[1/317] Writing groups (improvisation). [Givens Estate, Eliada Home]

[1/323]  Dance performances. [Wall Street Dance Works]

[1/360]  Improvisation, inventing, encouraging others.

[1/390]  Valuing one's dreams.

[1/401]  "Spirit," attitude, choice.

[1/443] 1980, sense of "choice."

[1/447] Studied for ministry, Unitarian church.

[1/457] To Pendle Hill, Quaker Center, "sense of self."

[1/478]  "the sacred self."

[1/488]  The Vietnam War.

[1/493]  The Civil Rights Movement.

[1/497]  Martin Luther King assassination. [Martin Luther King]

[1/506]  "Being a Jew, but not a Jew."

[1/517]  Married a Jew who escaped from Nazi Germany.

[1/529]  Went to McCarthy hearings on honeymoon in Washington. [Senator Joseph McCarthy]

[1/538]  Tempted to "pass," yet determined to stand with the Jews.

[1/545]  The mystical aspects of Judaism.

[1/583]  Interest in world's religions.

[1/586]  Personal translations.

Side 2:

[2/40]  "Bringing what I've distilled from the past" in improvising.

[2/79]  From dance troupe; first intergenerational group. [Dancers of the Third Age]

[2/111]  Affirming what is "native."

[2/124]  "Creative" movement; to compose, to make.

[2/166]  Some people's standards for creativity too high.

[2/172]  What is real?

[2/180]  People come in hope.

[2/192]  The gift of creating an atmosphere of welcoming and inviting feelings, thoughts and images.

[2/217]  "My being was not welcomed when I was young."

[2/263]  "I was better at honoring others than myself."

[2/271]  Volunteering - "not for nothing."

[2/294]  Children's librarian - Columbia University. [Columbia University]

[2/312]  Husband did not like her going back to work.

[2/325]  Looking to the future in the U.S.

[2/367]  Two lines from the Rosh Hashanah services, "The Gates of Repentance."

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