Oral history interview with George Chaplin, 1995.

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Oral history interview with George Chaplin, 1995.

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George Chaplin recounts his and his parents' history in the United States. His father Morris Tschaplinsky (1888-1971), came from Poland, ca. 1906, and worked in the Boston, Massachusetts, area before settling in Columbia, South Carolina, at the suggestion of his childhood friend Max Citron. Chaplin's mother, Netty Bojarski (later Brown) (1891-1971), emigrated from Lithuania to the New York area, met her future husband in the Boston area and joined him in Columbia, where they were married and where the interviewee was born. There are details of Jewish life in Columbia and Greenville, mentions of the Mazo and other families, the shoe wholesaling business of George Chaplin and his brother Charlie in Columbia; the difference between Reform and Orthodox circles; the Jewish education of Chaplin and his future wife Esta Solomon, their marriage in Charleston, antisemitism encountered by Chaplin as a cadet at Clemson College, 1934, and Chaplin's various newspaper editorial positions around the country. Chaplin, who eventually became president of the American Society of Newspaper Publishers, muses on the nature of the relationship of a European-born father and American-born son.

Sound recording : 1 sound cassette.Transcript : 23 p. ; 28 cm.

College of Charleston, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library

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