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Okay. It's December 22nd. This is the second tape, um, with Vera Oginski. I'm Janice Rosenberg in Des Moines, Iowa. And we were just talking about Shabbat and Hanukkah. What do you do for Hanukkah? Did you learn?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=8.2,25.32"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eVera Aginsky:\u003c/strong\u003e So we just went last this Wednesday to the community candle lighting and had dinner there. And we just light candles, and we have already the candles they are prepared for, for tonight. So just only this or presents to the children, which I haven't. Oh no, I bought them. Yeah, I haven't bought for my sister but I'll do tonight. So just and today I'll have this latkes. But I didn't do them. My latkes taste differently. And it was by the way. It's not. It was always considered in Belorussia. It's a Belarusian dish, like potato pancakes or something. It's called. And we did them many times in Russia, but we never knew that it's a Jewish dish.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=26.04,67.59"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJanice Rosenberg:\u003c/strong\u003e What were they called in Russia like? Potato","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=69.95,72.19"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eVera Aginsky:\u003c/strong\u003e pancakes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=72.19,73.07"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJanice Rosenberg:\u003c/strong\u003e But not latkes? No. That's okay. Um. Tell me a little bit just about the Jewish community celebration of Hanukkah, even though I know all about it. Would you tell.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=73.11,87.99"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eVera Aginsky:\u003c/strong\u003e Like, what we had this year? So we had a community candle lighting, and we had it have it every year, and it's outside of the synagogue. And we had television there. I haven't seen on the news, but it's usually shown like one minute or something or less. So and the prayers were sung there. And then there were the children from the Des Moines Jewish Academy, and they were singing some songs, Jewish songs, uh, dedicated to Hanukkah, just beautiful songs. And before, while people were coming, before the ceremony started, They had some Jewish music loudly played, which was kind of good. And then those who wanted, they went to the to the synagogue, and there was a big dinner with salad and tuna salad and latkes and some other things. And then there were a lot of activities for children, which were kind of organized by the Jewish Family Services, but more grown up kids like Luba, like 13, 14, 15 years of age. They were helping to organize those activities, mostly for the smaller children. So they were doing different things. They were doing menorahs, they were making pictures on faces, and they were doing different crafts and decorating cookies and doing pictures. So it was a lot of there was a lot of fun for the children. And but I would say my impression and I always have this impression every year that not enough people come.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=88.19,189.06"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJanice Rosenberg:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, really? And we're so excited to have.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=189.78,192.02"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eVera Aginsky:\u003c/strong\u003e At least.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=192.3,192.74"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJanice Rosenberg:\u003c/strong\u003e 100 people come.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=192.9,194.22"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eVera Aginsky:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. But still, if you know that there were 400, but at the dinner there were like 200 and something. But still, if having 4000 or 3000 Jews. Three. But still we could have more people.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=194.46,210.46"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJanice Rosenberg:\u003c/strong\u003e 3000 Jews in Des Moines and 10% are came from Russia recently.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=210.5,217.94"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eVera Aginsky:\u003c/strong\u003e Recently. But most all of them, most of them have some ancestors from Russia.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=217.98,222.54"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJanice Rosenberg:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. Most everyone has some roots.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=222.58,225.1"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eVera Aginsky:\u003c/strong\u003e Roots? Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=225.58,226.38"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJanice Rosenberg:\u003c/strong\u003e Um. What does your family do for fun?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=226.86,231.18"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eVera Aginsky:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, it's no fun because I'm still. I'm studying and working so much. So, like, yesterday, I was just completely exhausted, and we went to the restaurant for dinner because it was the last day of exams. So I still need to go to work today, too. But I, I took a class this semester to a French class, which is counted for my education, and I need to get only an A to be counted. So I worked hard and I handed the last paper and I just finished her exam. So we went to dinner to Cheddar's. Oh, sometimes, I don't know. I try to do something with my girls, like, because they don't see me much. So if they want to go shopping, they go shopping without taking my husband. So this is kind of fun too, because after you work a lot, you can go shopping or sometimes, um, very seldom, but sometimes we go with Luba to the swimming pool and Drake or, I don't know, my family watches TV a lot. I don't, I never do.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=232.7,291.61"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJanice Rosenberg:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell me about your daughters.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=292.77,294.57"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eVera Aginsky:\u003c/strong\u003e So the older one is Nadia. She is in the third year of Drake, and she. She works today. She passed all the exams yesterday, the last exams. And she started full time job for the break. Just next day. Today she worked.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=295.21,309.37"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJanice Rosenberg:\u003c/strong\u003e She.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=309.65,309.81"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eVera Aginsky:\u003c/strong\u003e She's working. She has, uh, she's working as a programmer and Iowa Division of banking. So she works according to her education, but she works full time only during breaks. She found the job before summer break this year, and they liked her. And they keep the job for her. So she works maybe once one day per week during the school year, but she will work during the winter break and she's going to work there in summer during the summer break. So she learned everything she needs to do there, and they like her and they keep it for her.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=310.0,341.64"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJanice Rosenberg:\u003c/strong\u003e Does she play a musical instrument? 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All the professors are overloaded, and as soon as she doesn't, her level is good enough for the university. She has 12 years of musical. She studied music for 12 years, so she plays really professionally. And she could have minor or major in music, but as soon as it's not her minor or major, they don't have space for her. So we don't know. Only the first week of classes they will tell whether she can take a music class. This is vague with financial difficulties. So yeah, and she's majoring in computer and math, and her minor is in Spanish.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=343.64,416.08"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJanice Rosenberg:\u003c/strong\u003e Um. Does she have friends here? She go to movies or. She's just kind of. Quiet","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=417.28,425.2"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eVera Aginsky:\u003c/strong\u003e that part of her life? Yes, but I'm trying to involve her in all the activities that I have with the Russian club, though this year I don't have many, but, um. And my students treat her very well. 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But she finished the sixth grades in Jewish Academy. So. And uh, so she's socially she's doing very well. She has a lot of friends and she takes music classes. She has basketball, dancing and art classes and art center and Hebrew school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=450.87,476.07"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJanice Rosenberg:\u003c/strong\u003e What languages does she speak?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=476.35,478.47"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eVera Aginsky:\u003c/strong\u003e We speak only Russian at home. And this year I started a little bit at least once a week, meeting with her and my niece Masha, her age, just to kind of restore Russian because she speaks well, but she almost doesn't read. She reads, but It slowly and at the level of six year old child.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=478.67,500.46"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJanice Rosenberg:\u003c/strong\u003e So I'm going to add something else again that it just made me think of it. We have been approached at Jewish Family Services. Um, I'm president Jewish Family Services by some members of the Russian community that we provide some classes or some space to hold some classes for the Russian children. I keep using the word Russian for lack of better word. We call new Americans, but they want to have classes in Russian literature, Russian history, Russian language because many are afraid their children will lose it. And you're in a better position to teach your own children than most of the other families. 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So we never just. Sometimes she will insert an English word if she doesn't find a Russian. But it's 100% Russian.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=556.74,566.49"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJanice Rosenberg:\u003c/strong\u003e Um. When Rabin was assassinated, what did you do that day? And how did you feel?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=567.93,575.73"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eVera Aginsky:\u003c/strong\u003e So I we all felt bad because kind of this is I'm thinking like, this is not the way of solving problems or conflicts or whatever disagreement with anybody's policy. So kind of it sounded either as a threat to peace or maybe on the other hand, it can bring all the people, peace loving people together and maybe even strengthen the position of his supporters. I'm not sure. 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Did you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=608.37,611.17"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eVera Aginsky:\u003c/strong\u003e Know?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=612.53,613.01"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJanice Rosenberg:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay, it doesn't matter. Some people did, some didn't. And I was just curious. Um. What did you do during the flood?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=613.25,621.37"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eVera Aginsky:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, I was I was in Vermont studying.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=622.29,625.45"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJanice Rosenberg:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, okay. So you don't have any stories either? Some people do. Um, my last question is, are the people that came from Russia to the Jewish community in Iowa? Are they getting involved in the Jewish community, or do you think they're getting involved to the extent that Jewish community would like them to?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=625.61,648.17"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eVera Aginsky:\u003c/strong\u003e Maybe not to that extent. And it depends on the people. Like, I think like for my family, I think as soon as you came here because you were discriminated in Russia, so now you have the possibility now do what you kind of was were deprived of. So you can you have the freedom of practicing Judaism. So practice it. But not everybody thinks so. And it's kind of a transition is kind of difficult for some people because they we were all brought up as is. And so it's sometimes it's difficult to, make this change, to make this movement and or some of them may be preoccupied with their just survival problems or finding jobs or anything like this. So it seems to me maybe not enough, but it still depends on the personality. There are a lot of Americans who American Jews who are not participating. So there are people who are always participating, people who are sometimes and people who are never participating. So I think that the same things are happening within the Russian community as within the Native Americans. Like, not understand what I mean. So there are different people. Some are active, some are not. But but still, like at least you know that the Jewish Family Services are doing everything possible to get them involved. But then there there's it's their own decision whether to to do it or not.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=648.45,736.68"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJanice Rosenberg:\u003c/strong\u003e And a lot of the families are intermarried that come. We were talking about this before we started. Not all families are like Vera and Gennady's family, where they're both Jewish and persecuted and came for a better life. Um, some of them were intermarried and came for economic opportunity. And the their Jewish ties were what was their ticket out of Russia for some people? 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One thing on our, um, we have a fundraising campaign in Des Moines called the all in one campaign that, um, goes to the Jewish Federation, which pays the Bureau of Jewish Education, which educates our children and the adults beyond what the synagogues do. It goes for Jewish family Services, which does many things include resettle Russians. It does Jewish community relations, uh, when there's hate crimes or just community relations and education to the community to be done and, uh, some, Families give each year to that, and we have been less than successful on getting some of our Russian families to contribute. Um, what we think that they could. 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Or maybe some of them don't think it a priority Already, and they could spend big amounts of money on having vacation or going somewhere or. I don't know, so maybe they don't understand so much the importance of this. Yes, maybe this should be explained more, I don't know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975#t=819.98,883.82"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163694/file/297975/transcript/87303/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJanice Rosenberg:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, and I don't I don't know if they realize that the money that came to help settle some of them here came from these donations from families. I don't know if they just think sometimes of the Jewish Federation as a a government that just gets money from somewhere and just don't think about it, don't think that hard. And that's. This comment is more for our historical side just to help people understand what it's like now. Thank you. I think we're all done. 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