Oral history interview with Meta Bloom Buttnick, Dec. 10, 1984.

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Oral history interview with Meta Bloom Buttnick, Dec. 10, 1984.

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Meta Buttnick tells of her early life in Fairbanks, Alaska, and schooling abroad in Ireland and Paris. She gives accounts of her parents' efforts to maintain their Judaism and instill it in their children, and includes reminiscences of Fairbanks life in the 1920s and 1930s. She also gives details of her family background, including her parents' immigration and business ventures. She describes her introduction to the Buttnick family, her marriage to Harry Buttnick in Seattle in 1939, and Buttnick family businesses. Also, she discusses her own family's decision to live in West Seattle and their observances of holidays and the Sabbath. After being widowed in 1960, she was both a single mother and a businesswoman. In 1967 she married Jacob Kaplan, who died in 1974. Buttnick also gives detailed accounts of her work in the Jewish community. She became active in the Bikur Cholim synagogue after her first marriage: she describes doing an oral history for the synagogue's 50th anniversary and helping to re-establish the Sunday school. She also discusses in detail the organization and members of the Aviva Chapter of Mizrachi, the Zionist Council of Seattle, the Jewish Archives, and many other boards. She relates the history of the Seattle Hebrew Day School, in which she was involved since the project's inception. The interview also includes miscellaneous stories about Fairbanks and Meta Buttnick's father, Robert L. Bloom.

Sound recordings: 4 sound cassettes : analog, mono.Transcript: 78 leaves.

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