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University of Kentucky Launches
the Jewish Heritage Fund for Excel-
lence (JHFE) Jewish Kentucky Oral
History Project

By Janice W. Fernheimer and Beth L. Goldstein

The project we have undertaken in compiling an oral
history archive of Kentucky Jews has provided the op-
portunity for me to take the knowledge I have learned
in the classroom and research the interviewees" histo—
ries in order to better define and understand the Jew-
ish Kentuckian identity. This project has allowed me
to better understand my personal Jewish identity and
how it is affected by my Kentuckian identity. Jews have
had a profound influence on the history of the state of
Kentuckyfrom the earliest Jewish settlers peddling
throughout the state, to their role in the birth of the
bourbon industry, all the way to the roles influential
Jews in Kentucky play today. Jacob Ward, J HFE Un—
dergraduate Scholar

To preserve and promote Kentucky’s important Jewish
identity and heritage, the Jewish Studies Program at the
University of Kentucky has embarked on a three-year
project to collect, preserve, and make accessible oral
histories from individuals across the Commonwealth’s
Jewish communities. This project aims to make visible the
diverse traditions of Jewish identity that have been created
in Kentucky synagogues, businesses, and institutions, and
also to promote the idea that Kentucky’s Jewish culture
and contributions continue to thrive today. With gener—
ous support from the Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence
(JHFE), the project team plans to collect a minimum of 55
oral histories from across the Commonwealth.

Led by co-Project Instructors Janice W. Fernheimer and
Beth L. Goldstein, the team of researchers includes six
undergraduate scholars and several community research—
ers (including Janice Crane and Arwen Donahue in Lex—
ington). With assistance from the University of Kentucky
Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, the team is using
cutting edge technology -- the Oral History Metadata
Synchronizer (OHMS) -- to make the interviews publicly
accessible online. Each interview recorded will be digital-
ly archived with an electronic index that enables the video
and audio content to be easily searched by anyone who
has Internet access. Each interview will also be linked to
related photographic and document archives.

Another exciting aspect are the UK (continued on page 2)

President’s Message
By Michael J. Grossman

Nearly three years ago, as I be—
gan my tenure as President of the
. Jewish Federation of the Blue—
grass, I spoke of the importance
, of service and giving back to the
community so that we could con-
tinue to enrich our Jewish com-
munity for ourselves and future
generations.

At that time, I also paid tribute to JFB’s exceptional staff
members, who provide programs and activities of the
highest quality. This is in no small part thanks to the
leadership provided by our beloved Executive Director for
the past 7 years, Judy Wortman. We all read last month,
with mixed emotion I’m sure, of Judy’s decision to retire
this summer and move to suburban Philadelphia to be near
her family. It has been Lexington’s greatjoy to have Judy
in our midst for as long as we have. Judy’s experience
working in various medium and large Jewish community
organizations helped us find creative ways to accomplish
more with less. She helped us to think big, dream large,
and push hard. (continued on page 3)

 

CAMPAIGN NEWS: For Women Only
By Judy B. Wortman

Pleasejoin us for an evening of good friends, good food,
good wine, and an incredible speaker. The Federation’s
annual women’s evening out will be held on Tuesday,
March 22 at 5:30 pm at Ohavay Zion Synagogue. Do you
love designer shoes? Our speaker is Jane Weitzman,

the Executive Vice President of Stuart Weitzman and the
founding Vice President of Stuart Weitzman Retail. Jane
spearheaded philanthropy for the company by generat-
ing funds to support breast and ovarian cancer research
and awareness. Her efforts were brought to life through
innovative charity events such as the Stuart Weitzman
Celebrity Breast Cancer Auction. She serves on the Board
and Executive Committees of the Greenwich UJA and the
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and
the Board of 70Faces Media. She is on the Trust Board of
Boston Children’s Hospital and the Board of the Green-
wich JCC. Jane and her husband Stuart have two daugh—
ters and a granddaughter.

The couvert for the evening is $18. If (continued on page 3)

 

   

(UK Jewish Kentucky Oral History Project. continued from [2.1)
undergraduates working on the project. These JHFE
Scholars come from within and outside of Kentucky;
all are minoring in Jewish Studies. They research
background information about the historical contexts
of the interviewees, assist with interviewing and use
the OHMS technology to index the interviews and
link in archival materials. As they engage these oral
histories, their eyes are opening to Kentucky’s Jewish
culture and to their own connections to that heritage.
Jan and Beth, meanwhile, are learning how to teach
undergraduates to conduct oral history research and
plan to turn that learning into a new undergraduate
course at UK on researching Kentucky Jewish history
and identity.

The project goal is to have Jewish life in the Com-
monwealth broadly represented in this publicly acces-
sible digital oral history archive. At least 50% of the
people interviewed will come from greater Lexington
and Louisville because of these areas’ larger Jewish
populations. We also plan to interview people from the
historic and current communities throughout the Com-
monwealth, including Ashland, Owensboro, Paducah,
Hopkinsville, Sadieville, and other locales. These oral
histories will include people associated with Jewish
Hospital in Louisville, the bourbon and horse indus—
tries, Jewish community organizations (synagogues,
Federation, Hadassah, and more), and higher educa-
tion, as well as businesses large and small. The work
builds upon the well—developed research of Arwen
Donahue in This is Home Now: Kentucky’s Holocaust
Survivors Speak (Kentucky Remembered: An Oral
History Series 2009), Lee Shai Weisbach’s The Syna-
gogues of Kentucky: Architecture and History (1995),
and Rosie Moosnick’s Arab and Jewish Women in
Kentucky: Stories of Accommodation and Audacity

(2012).

Since August, the team has collected fourteen oral
histories, mostly from University of Kentucky Jew-
ish student life participants. This initial special focus
on the history of Jewish Student life at UK, which
reaches back more than 80 years with the formation of
Hillel in 1938 and the Alpha Iota chapter of the Jewish
fraternity Zeta Beta Tau (ZBT) in 1942, contributed

to UK’s current celebration of its sesquicentennial an-
niversary.

Key individuals from Louisville are also already in
the collection -— like Prof. Lee Shai Weissbach, histo-
rian of Jewish Kentucky synagogues, and Larry Kass,
director of corporate communications at Heaven Hill
Distillery, the largest independent spirits distillery
that is family owned and operated. It is none other
than the Jewish Shapira family who founded, own and
operate it. Additionally, we’ve been working to iden-

identify individuals outside of metropolitan Lexington
and Louisville. These include people whose earlier
lives were in small towns and rural areas of Ken-
tucky. For example, Sam Halpern was born outside
of Georgetown Kentucky, and lived in Burlington in
northern Kentucky where his father made his living
as a sharecropper. Although Halpern was also a UK
alum, the main focus of his interview details his expe-
riences as a Jewish tobacco sharecropper.

Community organizations are important partners in
this effort. In Lexington, these have included the
Jewish Federation of the Bluegrass, Temple Adath
Israel and Ohavay Zion Synagogue, all of which have
provided assistance in accessing important archival
material and identifying potential interviewees. In
Louisville, to date, these include the Jewish Commu-
nity of Louisville and Temple Adath Israel, as well as
University of Louisville Special Collections. These
organizations have shared significant collections of ex-
tant oral histories that have not yet been made search—
able -- ninety or so at U of L Special Collections, at
least a one hundred at Temple Adath Israel (Louis-
ville), as well as another collection that exists with
Jewish Career and Family Services. The JHFE Oral
History Project will help to build upon and advance
this already rich historical record and make it more ac-
cessible to a wide public.

With the help of UK Digital Archivist Sarah Dorping-
haus, UK Special Collections is newly embarking on
an effort to collect and catalogue for public access
archival materials (documents, photos, etc.) related to
Jewish life in Kentucky. So far, Temple Adath Israel
Lexington, the Jewish Federation of the Bluegrass and
one private collection have agreed to partner with UK
to share their documents.

The sustainable legacy of this project comes in four
parts. First, this project establishes the JHFE Jewish
Kentucky Oral History Collection at the University of
Kentucky as the most expansive Jewish oral history
collection in the Commonwealth with capacity for
extensive, sustainable growth. Second, digital access
to the collection will stimulate and generate awareness
of Jewish presence and identity in Kentucky. Third,
the project creates a generation-to-generation working
model for community members and students to pre-
serve and nourish Kentucky Jewish identity. Fourth,
we aim to embed this model into the University of
Kentucky curriculum through the proposal and devel-
opment of a new undergraduate course on Kentucky
Jewish history and identity.

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 The Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence Scholarship
aims to encourage and support Jewish Studies on the
University of Kentucky campus. Students selected

to become JHFE scholars will declare and commit to
completing a minor in Jewish Studies in a maximum
of four years. They will also attend and participate
regularly in Jewish Studies programming on campus.
As part of the JHFE scholar experience, they will be
expected to participate in an original scholarly re-
search project under the guidance of a Jewish Studies
faculty mentor. This experience will include work
helping to build, index, and make accessible the grow—
ing Kentucky Jewish Heritage Oral History repository.
Any undergraduate who will pursue a Jewish Studies
minor is eligible to apply. If awarded, the scholarship
provides $4000 per year of study for up to four years
of scholarship support.

If you have any questions about the application please
contact Beth Goldstein or Janice Fernheimer.

Eligible students must have a minimum 3.0 GPA,

25+ ACT composite score or 1 130 M+CR SAT. They
must be declared as a Jewish Studies minor (or declare
one upon receipt of the award). Continued support re—
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remaining in good academic standing and maintaining
a 3.0 GPA in Jewish Studies courses.

Deadline for completing the application is March 27,
2016. The application can be accessed online here.

 

 

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Tuesday l March 22 l 5:30 pm l 0Z8

Guest Sneaker, Jane WBitzman, author and Executive
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Wine and light dinner served Ceuvert $18 and a minimum gift of
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( President ’3 Message, C(mtinuedfmm p. 1)

Judy brought warmth and wholeness to our commu—
nity. These are qualities that serve a small Jewish
community such as ours well. We know that she did
not look at her position so much as ajob as she did a
passion, and a calling. As Confucius said over 2500
years ago, “If you choose ajob you love, you will
never have to work a day in your life.” I’m not sure
Judy ever worked a day in her life.

People listen and follow Judy, not because they have
to, but because she is intelligent, compassionate, and
knowledgeable about Jewish matters. Her community
is drawn to her and trusts her. Although Lexington’s
Jewish community is small, it is still diverse, made up
of Jews identifying as secular, humanist, Reconstruc—
tionist, Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and Chabad.
Jews in Lexington are also diverse in the way we live
out our Jewish lives. Judy has tried to bridge those
differences, find commonalities and celebrate them.
She has done a remarkable job.

Judy has celebrated joy and heartbreak during her

7 years in Lexington. As her Lexington family, we
have shared both the good times and sad times with
her. We are fortunate that she has led and nurtured a
dedicated group of individuals at the Federation that
will help JFB carry on without skipping a beat. This
is a legacy that Judy has left for us and future genera—
tions. In Judy’s farewell to the community, she spoke
of the community study which the Presidents’ Coun—
sel initiated last year. She expressed her hope that
participants would use the report, which results from
the study, as means to ensure our sustainability as a
creative, dynamic and supportive community. I can’t
think of a better gift for Lexington to give to Judy as a
thank you for her service to our community.

 

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Ask A Rabbi: Rabbi Shlomo Litvin
Why would you go to Israel?

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in Jerusalem overlooking the
» beauty ofthe capital ofIs-
rael and, perhaps, the Jewish
' , people. As I was leaving Lex-
’ ington to go on this trip I was
asked: “why would you go to
Israel with yourfamily? What
is the purpose of your trip? "

 

For me personally the answers are manifold. In addi-
tion to having family spread across Israel, I had been
asked to speak in several schools and yeshivot. I also
have a beautifid new daughter who has never been to
her homeland. I don’t really need much urging to visit
the Land of the patriarchs and matriarchs, the land
of David and Dayan, and the land of our past and the
future. The question however, stuck with me. Why do
three billion people a year visit a country the size of
New Jersey? Why do people from all backgrounds,
locale, religions and cultures, make their way to Eretz
Y israel ?

So as I traveled I asked eight of my fellow tourists, pil-
grims, and visitors what their reasons were. Their an-
swers were as diverse and beautiful as Israel herself

Inga Berman- Copenhagen, Denmark

“My family lived in Denmark for 150 years before the
Shoah. My family and I were lucky to be smuggled
out to Sweden. We returned here but my brother
refused to live in fear ever again. I am going to see
him and his children. To me Israel means family, both
blood family, and spiritual family.”

Eric Christesen- Stockholm, Sweden

“Israel is the history of the world. Every nation desired
it, fought for it and killed for it. It is the place of man’s
birth and the cradle of our civilization. As a student of
history, Israel is a required trip. Israel is a time ma-
chine that can take you back as far as you would like
to go.

Machmoud Alinah- Bayda, Libya

“Israel is freedom. I grew up and lived in a culture
that made me hate myself for the feelings I had. When
these feelings matured I was banished from my fam-
ily and threatened in the streets. I ran away to Europe,
living in Spain and France, but had never been home
till I had come to Tel Aviv. I came here a month ago
and have applied for citizenship. Israel is acceptance
and love.”

Louis (Levi) Koppel- Pittsburgh, PA
“I grew up in America, not particularly religious. My

family visited synagogue on the High Holidays, but
that is where our Jewish life ended. I came to Israel
on Birthright this summer and extended after my tour.
Israel is my heritage and inheritance that I never knew
I had.”

Rabbi Marc Kline- New Jersey (formerly Lexing-
ton, KY)

“1 came to Israel with a group of rabbis and pastors.
The trip is designed to promote unity and dialogue.
Israel is the land of our shared culture. We have more
similarities and more to learn from one another than
that which separates us.”

Dr. Rudolf Strauss- Munich, Germany

“My feelings towards Israel and her people are strong.
What happened not too long ago in my country forever
shows that the Jews need a strong homeland. I plan to
visit the museum (Yad VaShem) while I am here and
celebrate all the Jews have accomplished here in such
a short time.”

Mark Wilson- Los Angeles, CA

“I provide capital for tech start-ups all across US and
Europe. So for me Israel is a treasure trove. Israel is
the most innovative country on earth. The advance-
ments made here, even in just the last five years, are
tremendous. Israel is becoming a major player in the
global economy, and I only see that growing in the
coming years.”

Father William Burke- Omaha, NE

Israel is the land of godliness. Any religious person
would gain from a trip to this land. I lead a trip twice a
year, to educate my church and to strengthen our con—
nection with Israel.

As for me, my answer reflects many of the people I
met. I could never limit myself to one reason.

Israel is a place of family and history, of freedom,
acceptance, and love. It is the Holyland, a place of
unity and spirituality, and a place of innovation and
the future. There and many more good reasons to visit
Eretz Yisroel. I encourage you to find yours.

 

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 ASK J FS: Advance Medical Directive/
Living Wills
By Mimi Kaufman

It can be such a depressing
topic to talk about the “what
if’s” that could happen as

a result of a severe cogni-
tive disease or accident that
leaves one incapacitated.
This article is targeted to
families dealing with Al-
zheimer’s disease; however,
advance care directives are
helpful for everyone to con-
,, sider. So often, an adult
child will enter the picture after a crisis with his or
her parent, only to realize that not only has dementia
set in, but it is worse than they thought, and there is
no instruction book. Writing advance medical direc-
tives can, and should be thought of as an instruction
book that you write now on behalf of your older self,
for later, in case it’s needed. Through this tool, one
can maintain the quality of life that one would want
should one fall victim to a severe cognitive disease
like Alzheimer’s. Having advance medical directives
takes the guesswork away for caregivers about how
one wants to be cared for in the event one is unable

to communicate one’s wishes. This can take a big
burden off caregivers as they can quickly become so
involved with the daily care-giving needs and care—
coordination crises. It can help to prevent arguments
between family members. The more instruction you
can give, no matter how silly some of the requests
may sound, the better (within reason of course). For
example, a father in his late seventies has said to his
children, “no matter what kind of shape I’m in, I want
my bowl of double—fudge ice cream during the eve—
ning news everyday.” Now dad is 85 years-old and has
had a major cognitive decline and severe heart disease.
He is now living in a personal care facility, but thank—
fully, he has already communicated his wishes and the
adult children all understand and respect them. Hope—
fully it can be arranged that he gets his ice cream even
though it’s not really that healthy.

 

An Advance Medical Directive has two
components:

A Health Care Power of Attorney —This person will
be in charge of decisions regarding your health and
well-being when you can no longer manage.

A Living Will — Documents the types of treatment or
procedures you want in the event you become termi—
nally ill and treatment would serve only to prolong the
dying process.

Setting up an Advance Medical Directive involves
thinking deeply about the things in your life that are
most meaningful to you and determining your willing-
ness for medical interventions. Talk to your physician
if you have questions regarding medical procedures.
You need to choose someone you trust to be in charge.
Talk to the person you choose as your health care
power of attorney about your feelings and wishes.

Ask them if they have questions. The Advance Medi-
cal Directive needs to be signed and notarized. Typi—
cally, people do this with their attorneys. To locate

an elder law attorney who can draft the directives visit
wwwNAELAorQ.

JFS: At Your Service is a monthly column covering a wide
range of issues. If you have a problem or a concern that
you would like addressed in this Shalom column, please
send them either by mail to Jewish Family Services at 1050
Chinoe Road Suite 112, or by email to ifs@iewishlcxing-
tonorg’. You can also always call with your confidential
questions at (859) 269-8244.

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Jewish Pets

By Hanna B. Smith

In January one of our cats died. Mister Grey, so—
named after his sleek silver-gray fur, was a sweet-
natured, playful companion whose antics amused and
occasionally irritated us.

Originally, Mister Grey had belonged to a neighbor,
but when a large dog moved into that household, Grey
decided to relocate. The dog was a friendly soul, and
he and Mister Grey could have gotten along. But
Grey preferred to share house and yard with two,

and eventually three, other cats. Another of our cats,
called Many, became his best buddy with whom he
played and shared naps.

Of all our cats, Mister Grey demanded the most at—
tention. He followed my husband and me around the
house. Wherever one of us stood or sat, there was
Grey, one elegant little paw raised and his expression
hopeful. He never quite outgrew his kitten behavior.
Until the last few months of his life he would chase
his tail and he would push us with his nose or paw to
make us pet him.

He was very gentle, though, and I developed a feline
patty—cake game with him which he loved. Never
once did he scratch me, not even by accident.

Had Grey been human, he would have been diagnosed
with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. He was
endlessly and aimlessly active, even at times when the
other cats held their siestas. Then he would collapse
into a deep sleep. Fortunately, he responded well to

a feline version of time—out and limit setting. Grey
never pouted, and he only cold-shouldered us for a bit
whenever we came back from a journey.

If this sounds human, remember that cats are mam-
mals too. Even if cats’ brains are considerably less
complex than human brains, cats are capable of feel-
ings, thoughts and of learning. How else would have
cats, dogs, and other domestic animals adjusted to
living with humans?

Jewish law, Halakha, teaches us to treat all animals
humanely, in the best sense of the word. This teaching
is expressed in the principle of tza’ar ba’alei hayyim,
not causing suffering to living creatures. Any human
action that causes an animal to suffer needlessly is not
permissible. In Modern Hebrew tza’ar ba’alei hayyim
is translated as prevention of cruelty to animals.

This concern extends also to animals in the wild. The
rabbis abhorred hunting for pleasure. Animals who
presented a potential danger to humans were to be
avoided. Only as a last resort were they to be killed.

The rabbis permitted animals to be slaughtered for
food as long as the slaughtering was done with the

 

least physical and mental suffering to the animal.
There are prohibitions against slaughtering young
animals in front of their mothers and against removing
eggs from a bird’s nest while the mother bird is pres-
ent.

Halakha concerning animals covers a wide field

and many situations. This article will only address
household pets. Edward M. Friedman, in his article
on animals in “The Observant Life, The Wisdom of
Conservative Judaism for Contemporary Jews” (pub-
lished by the Rabbinical Assembly, New York), states
that keeping animals as pets, purely for the enjoyment
of its owners, is a fairly modern invention. The rab—
bis of antiquity considered pet animals an indulgence
of wealthy gentiles and concentrated their efforts on
domesticated working animals.

Today, machines do work formerly done by ani-
mals, and attitudes about keeping animals as pets has
changed considerably. In addition, research has given
us a better understanding of our own as well as of
animals’ psyches.

Our economic system fractures families and communi-
ties. Pet animals provide companionship for lonely
people. Their visits help raise the spirits of patients

in nursing homes and hospitals. Some parents use
pets to teach their children how to care for and assume
responsibility for another creature and to observe and
to emotionally adjust to the life—cycle, from birth to
death. Touching a friendly animal has a calming ef—
fect. The further our lives are removed from nature,
the more we pursue it.

Many animals today are working animals, though

the nature of their work has changed. For example,
seeing-eye dogs assist the blind. Some dog breeds are
trained to work with police, custom officials, and the

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 military. Horses, and sometimes donkeys, are used in
therapy work with physically and emotionally-chal—
lenged children.

In these situations, the lines between working animal
and pet are frequently blurred. Seeing—eye dogs are,
by the nature of their work, companions of one person
and members of a household. Quite often, police of—
ficers and others will adopt the dogs with whom they
have worked, after the dogs retire.

The principle of causing no suffering to living crea-
tures also applies to today’s family pets and working
animals. The animals must be properly cared for, and
the prospective pet owner has to be sure that s/he can
meet the animal’s needs. Edward M. Friedman espe—
cially mentions exotic animals, some of which may be
on the endangered species list. Can a prospective pet
owner really provide the nutrition and environment in
which these animals thrive? How often are these pets
abandoned because they become unmanageable as
they mature?

Causing no suffering means patronizing only ethical
pet breeders and avoiding so-called puppy or kitten
mills where pets are bred without regard to their health
and safety. Adopting pets from animal shelters is a
way of helping animals.

While keeping their pets safe, owners also have an
obligation to prevent their pets from causing injury or
damage to people and property.

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increasingly frail, though he still ate and sought our

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company. Finally he became very weak and disorient-
ed. A visit to the veterinarian confirmed that Grey’s
kidneys had ceased functioning, a common ailment in
old cats. The next phase, according to the vet, would
be severe pain and eventually death. The vet recom—
mended “putting Mr. Grey to sleep”, as the phrase
goes, in order to spare him suffering.

Halakha permits euthanizing an animal who is termi-
nally ill and in constant pain, to spare the animal fur-
ther suffering. Judaism forbids cremation of people,
but there is no prohibition against cremating animal
remains. When spring comes, Grey’s ashes will be
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Wittenberg Matzoh

Introduction by Susan Cabin

I did not know much about the family of my grand-
mother Anna Goldberg (nee Wittenberg) while I was

a child growing up in Los Angeles. My grandmother
was born and grew up in Chicago, lived a couple

of decades in Akron, Ohio, and moved to Southern
California with my grandfather Morris Goldberg in the
40s. I knew that her parents, Abraham and Sarah Wit-
tenberg, immigrated from Poland and that they were
observant Jews. I knew that Abraham owned a matzoh
factory, Wittenberg Matzoh, that Manischewitz even-
tually put out of business when Manischewitz modern-
ized and Wittenberg Matzoh did not.

Yet when I fortuitously came across this article, “Un—
der Every Stone” by Jim Craig, I learned that Abra-
ham had two brothers, Isaac and Levy, who co—owned
the business with my great—grandfather. I learned that
the family had had a falling out when two of the broth-
ers sued the third for libel. I’d never known any of
this. I also found out that I have Wittenberg cousins I
never knew existed. When Randall and I were visiting
Chicago last December, we met my four lovely Wit-
tenberg descendants for the first of what I hope will

be many visits. None of them had heard of Abraham
Wittenberg, I’d never heard of Levy, and none us had
heard of Isaac.

Included in “Under Every Stone” is a photo of Witten-
berg Matzoh. The young woman standing to the right
is Anna Wittenberg; the other woman is her niece,
Mildred. This photo is featured in several books about
Jewish Chicago.

 

Under Every Stone

A member of The Association of Graveyard Rabbits~
As I say in my Fin