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1. Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Ira Kaye and Ruth Barnett Kaye

Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Ira Kaye and Ruth Barnett Kaye
Date:
6/15/1996
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New Yorker Ira Kaye and his wife, Ruth Barnett Kaye, of Sumter, South Carolina, discuss Ira’s work as a defense attorney in Japan’s war crimes trials, the reluctance of Sumter’s Jews to speak out against segregation, and Ira’s experience with racism in South Carolina and representation of a tri-racial isolate group called the Turks. They also recall their experiences living in Nepal and India while Ira served in the Peace Corps.