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The Partridge Street Oral History Project
by Maimonides Students in the TNT Program

Sample Questions to choose from for Video Interview:

  1. Can you share some memories of Tiferet Israel, the Partridge Street Synagogue?
  2. Please name some of your mentors and role-models, growing up Jewishly in Albany. What do you remember most about them?
  3. What was your first job? How did you get that job? What job did you end up doing for most of your career?
  4. How was Jewish Albany different than what it is now? How is it the same?
  5. Name some of the shops and markets where your family shopped for things, back then.
  6. Any interesting anecdote, memorable stories, or amusing details, you can share with us?
  7. Any photos or memorabilia that you can show us? (We can scan/photo them for use in our presentation).
  8. Where is your family originally from?
  9. What were your dreams/expectations while growing up?
  10. Which neighborhood did you live in? What was most memorable about the house, apartment, or neighborhood?
  11. What effects did newer technologies have on your life, your business?
  12. What did your parents do for work?

 

 
 
 
 
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