Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Jennie Shimel Ackerman
Date:
1997
Interviewer:
Rosengarten, Dale, 1948-;Grossman, Michael Samuel
Interviewee:
Ackerman, Jennie Shimel, 1923-2003
Description:
Jennie Shimel Ackerman, born in 1923 in Charleston, South Carolina, grew up with a strong sense of Jewish identity in a family where religious observance was limited to the holidays. She discusses her father and daughter’s law careers, and mentions her husband’s involvement in the collection of money for arms to send to Haganah, the Jewish paramilitary defense force in Palestine.