Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Robert M. Zalkin
Date:
1995
Interviewer:
Rosengarten, Dale, 1948-
Interviewee:
Zalkin, Robert M., 1925-2006
Description:
Robert M. Zalkin grew up in Charleston during the Great Depression, a grandson of Lithuanian immigrant Robert (Glick) Zalkin, who opened Zalkin’s Kosher Meat and Poultry Market on King Street. Robert served in the army during World War II, earned an engineering degree from the University of South Carolina, and married Harriet Rivkin, whose father ran a delicatessen in Columbia.