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[Q=Len]
Q. Daddy was a Hebrew teacher in Omaha. Then he moved to Council Bluffs.
A. Well, and he became a Hebrew teacher there.
Q. [inaudible]
A. Sure. They came around night before Charlotte was born. He had a hard time afterwards. He would go back and forth you know. He came...a couple of people, Mr. Hoffman from Council Bluffs. You remember him? He came with somebody else.
Q. And they offered him the job.
A. They came to ask him to come for a job. He made one little mistake. He was going away from Omaha anyway. And he had some kind of misunderstanding with them, so he said he was leaving. He didn't want to stay. So they came over. So then he thought that they know that he's going away, so they came to ask him to come, but they didn't even know, so they would have offered him $200, but as it is they offered him He took $175 cause he didn't know what they were going to offer him, but they very soon raised him. They were so tickled to have him, you know. He remember maybe.
Q. You know, I remember Rosenbaum. Weren't there Rosenbaums in the Council Bluffs? Well, anyway, I met this major when I was in the army, Major Rosenbaum. I met him in a bus station, and he said he was from Council Bluffs. I said, "Oh, you know, I'm from there too." And it turned out he was one of Daddy's students. And, oh, he was just full of praises about Daddy and he said “He was the only one who ever taught me anything.” And, you know, Council Bluffs had a good school system. Despite that, I know Daddy used to teach them grammar. Yes, good English. It was part of learning Hebrew. You see, while he was teaching them Hebrew grammar, he would teach them English grammar too.
A. [inaudible]
Q. Yeah, he did that. You know, he'd tell us what a noun was and what a verb was and how they came together. He taught us a lot. So, now, why did we leave Council Bluffs and go to Omaha?
A. They offered him a better job.
Q. He started selling insurance. But I thought...
A. No, he sold insurance only in the afternoon. I mean, in the summertime he sold...in the morning but...in the winter time the kids went to school he sold it...so he sold insurance on the side.
Q. Yeah, he told me something that they wanted to cut his salary when the depression started.
A. No, they didn't want to cut his salary. They wanted another teacher cause they had so many many kids, so he says, "What, you want to have another teacher"? They want to cut his salary. He says, "What do you want to cut my salary for? If you think there are too many children, it's a sign...it's a sign that that...you know...so he says...I think he quit because of that. Yes, he quit. So they got two teachers, a husband and wife, and it didn't work out at all. It was a bad time. It was a depression. But Daddy says, “Because it’s a depression, do I have to starve?” Well, something like that. But he didn't say it that way. Not his fault. |
