Oral history interview with Vladimir Plotkin, Feb. 14, 1987.

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Oral history interview with Vladimir Plotkin, Feb. 14, 1987.

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Plotkin describes his family's emigration from Leningrad via Vienna and Rome to Seattle. He tells about his family's advancement from a tiny apartment supplied by the Jewish Family Service to a large house in Mountlake Terrace. He discusses his feelings about the lack of academic assistance for himself, about his daughters' public school education, and about the attitude of Russian Jewish families whose children attend Jewish schools. He describes his personal struggle to define himself as both an atheist and a Jew. Plotkin also talks about his brother's positive experience with the Tacoma Jewish community. He discusses the different immigration issues surrounding Jewish immigrants from urban areas of Russia and those from the Balkan regions. He describes the reception Russian Jews received from Chabad. The interview concludes with Plotkin explaining a contemporary (1987) Russian Jewish demonstration at the Seattle Goodwill Games Committee meeting.

Sound recordings: 2 sound cassettes : analog, mono.Transcript: 47 leaves.

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Jewish Archives (University of Washington)

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Plotkin, Vladimir

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Russian Jewish immigrant to Seattle, Washington. From the description of Oral history interview with Vladimir Plotkin, Feb. 14, 1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 50627971 ...

Rosenbaum, Mildred

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Jewish community activists, Seattle. Mildred and Harold moved to Seattle in 1953 and became active in the Herzl Congregation and later fostered the establishment of other Seattle congregations. Intellectually active, they were influenced in New York by Jewish reconstruction. Mildred was active in Hadassah in promoting Jewish education and also gave public book reviews, often on Jewish subjects, for various organizations From the description of Mildred and Harold Rosenbaum papers, 192...