Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral History Interview with Beryle Stern Jaffe
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- Title:
- Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral History Interview with Beryle Stern Jaffe
- Date:
- 2015
- Interviewee:
- Jaffe, Beryle Stern, 1945-
- Description:
- Beryle Stern Jaffe, born in 1945, talks about growing up in Columbia, South Carolina. She is the eldest daughter of Sarah Kramer and Henry Stern. After Henry was discharged from the military, the Sterns settled in Henry’s home city of Columbia, where he joined his father, Gabe Stern, in his dry goods business, at that time located in nearby Lexington. Beryle recalls segregation and how prejudice against African Americans manifested in public, as well as in her own home with regard to their hired help. The interviewee married Pierre Jaffe in 1967. Pierre, a native of Paris, France, immigrated as a child to the United States with his mother, who had married an American soldier. Pierre and Beryle raised two children, Jason and Erin, in Columbia. Interviewer Lilly Stern Filler’s parents, Ben and Jadzia Stern, were Holocaust survivors who settled in Columbia after World War II. Beryle and Lilly describe the degree to which Lilly’s parents, particularly her father, adjusted to life in a new country.
- Collection Title:
- Jewish Heritage Collection Oral Histories
- Contributing Institution:
- College of Charleston Libraries
- Media Type:
- Oral Histories
- Preferred Citation:
- Beryle Stern Jaffe, audio interview by Lilly Stern Filler, 4 November 2015, Mss 1035-460, Special Collections, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, USA.
- Topical Subject:
- Jews--South Carolina--Columbia--Interviews, Jewish merchants--South Carolina--Columbia--History, Race discrimination--South Carolina--Columbia--History, Jews--South Carolina--Columbia--Social life and customs, and Jews--Cultural assimilation--South Carolina--History
- Geographic Subject:
- South Carolina
- S.C. County:
- Richland County (S.C.)
- Language:
- English
- Shelving Locator:
- Mss 1035-460
- Date Digital:
- 2018-03-07
- Digitization Specifications:
- Mp3 derivative audio created with Audacity software. Archival masters are wav files.
- Internet Media Type:
- audio/mpeg
- Copyright Status Statement:
- Copyright © College of Charleston Libraries.
- Access Statement:
- All rights reserved.
- Access Information:
- For more information contact Special Collections, Addlestone Library, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424.
- Admin ID:
- 220842
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