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Judy Tiell discusses her family history and the early influences on her Jewish identity. She talks about her education and career as a social worker. She talks about how she came to Louisville to work for the Jewish Social Service Agency (now called…

Judy Saxe discusses her family history. She discusses her and her family's relationship to Judaism. Both her father and her grandfather were rabbis. Judy Saxe examines her family customs of keeping kosher and Shabbat practices.

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Kate Shapira Latts is one of the only women in a high executive position at her family’s business, Heaven Hill Distilleries, Inc. She was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1971. From an early age, Latts remembers feeling very proud of and interested in…

Larry Kass talks about his childhood in Connecticut. He describes his career as an advertising and marketing executive in New York before moving to Kentucky to work for Heaven Hill Distillery in 1998. He also discusses his family history, including…

Weissbach explains how he was born in pre-state Palestine in 1947. His father was born in Alexandria, Egypt and his mother in Norfolk, Virginia. They met in Tel Aviv, Israel in the 1930s. They immigrated to the United States in 1952 and settled down…

Leon Cooper was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1927 and came to Lexington with his wife, Harriet, and two of his three children during the mid-twentieth century (the third was born in Lexington). He came to Lexington after serving in the Navy on two…

Louis Waterman describes his childhood in Louisville, including his parents and siblings, his education, and his Judaism both in his social life and religious practices. He talks about his college experiences, law school, and his career as a lawyer.…

Madeline Abramson was raised as a Catholic in Louisville, Kentucky. In this interview, she explains her family’s involvement in the Catholic church and her dissatisfied feelings with religion before discovering Judaism. Abramson offers a unique…

Mark Bronner discusses in detail his family genealogy, from his ancestors in Russia who immigrated to the U.S. and settled in Louisville, to later members of his family who held prominent positions in Louisville. He talks about his own childhood in…

Mark Switow, born in 1958 in Louisville, Kentucky, grew up in a family of Jewish entrepreneurs and Jewish community leaders. Switow’s grandfather and great-uncles started M. Switow & Sons, an entertainment business throughout Southern Indiana and…