Oral history interview with Helen Rucker and B. Wallace Rucker, Feb. 10, 1980.

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Oral history interview with Helen Rucker and B. Wallace Rucker, Feb. 10, 1980.

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Wallace Rucker talks about his maternal grandparents, David Kauffman and Hulda Harris Kauffman, and how they came from Berlin to Seattle. He claims that his mother was the first Jewish child born in Seattle. He explains that his father was Methodist-Episcopal and died when Wallace Rucker was a baby. Rucker feels that his father would have agreed with the Jewish education he received. He talks about the temples on Boylston Avenue and at Morris's Hall. He also discusses his World War I service and his career as a salesman. Helen Borenstein Rucker describes her education in Seattle and at finishing school in Washington, D.C. She describes accompanying her mother to work in the Settlement House, which was her mother's main interest. She discusses the two books she authored, "Cargo of Brides" and "Wolf Tree." She also describes her father's work for the Shelter House during World War I. Both she and her husband discuss the Temple de Hirsch congregation and its members.

Sound recordings: 3 sound cassettes : analog, mono.

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Jewish Archives (University of Washington)

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Mirel, James L., 1947-

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Rabbi and musician, Seattle. Born in 1947 on Long Island, New York, where he also grew up, Mirel attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and then Hebrew Union College. He returned to Seattle in 1974 as assistant rabbi of Temple De Hirsch. In 1985 he became rabbi of Temple B'nai Torah. From the description of Oral history interview with James L. Mirel, Dec. 2, 1999. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 51092731 ...

Temple de Hirsch (Seattle, Wash.)

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Rucker, Helen

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Helen Rucker is an author from Seattle, Washington. Her husband, Wallace Rucker, is a Seattle area salesman. From the description of Oral history interview with Helen Rucker and B. Wallace Rucker, Feb. 10, 1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 50597408 Author, Seattle, Washington. From the description of Oral history interview with Helen Rucker, July 17, 1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 50626318 ...

Rucker, B. Wallace

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Salesman, Seattle, Washington. From the description of Oral history interview with B. Wallace Rucker, Oct. 19, 1981, and June 30, 1982. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 50626685 ...

Settlement House (Seattle, Wash.)

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Buttnick, Meta Bloom, 1913-

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Leader and activist in the Seattle (Washingon) Jewish community. From the description of Oral history interview with Meta Bloom Buttnick, Dec. 10, 1984. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 50490692 ...