Sylvia Weinstein on S FL Jewish Culture

Partial Transcript: Sylvia introduces herself as Al Weinstein’s wife. She gives some background into Al’s involvement in the Workmen’s Circle.

Keywords: Workmen’s Circle

Subjects: Sylvia Weinstein

Partial Transcript: Sylvia talks about the couple’s move to S Florida, Delray Beach. She found Delray Beach and the whole of Florida to be a Jewish wasteland until they joined the Workmen’s Circle. For the people who had a yearning for the Yiddish language, the music, and the literature the Cultural Foundation was formed in 1980 by Irving (?) and later taken over by Charlie Infeld.

Keywords: 1980.; Cultural Foundation; Delray Beach; Jewish wasteland; Workmen’s Circle; Yiddish language; literature; music; yearning; S. Florida

Subjects: South Florida

Partial Transcript: Sylvia discusses the Yiddish entertainment that was brought into South Florida by the Cultural Foundation. There was theater from New York, Canada, and Long Island. They brought in Cantors who sang Yiddish music. They had male and female singers and Klezmer bands. Lecturers came to speak on all aspics of Yiddish life.

Keywords: Cantors; Klezmer bands; Yiddish music; Yiddish entertainment

Subjects: Entertainment

Partial Transcript: Sylvia talks about after the Foundation folded and what is being done to carry on Yiddish Culture. Temples in the area have taken up what was started. The Klezmer bands are still coming in; there are Yiddish entertainers and Yiddish lecturers. In condominiums all over South Florida, there is still Yiddish entertainment. In Sylvia’s Condo, they had Bruce Adler perform. She mentions Avi Hoffman appearing at some of the condos along with Freddie Roman and Dudu Fisher.

Keywords: Avi Hoffman; Dudu Fisher.; Freddie Roman; Bruce Adler

Subjects: Carrying on the Yiddish culture

Partial Transcript: Sylvia talks about the other ways the Workmen’s Circle gets involved in the community. The Workmen’s Circle supports a geriatric center and nursing home in New York and Philadelphia. The Workmen’s Circle also makes sure people have a burial place that is affordable and works to make sure people have insurance they can afford.

Keywords: burial place; geriatric center; nursing home; Workmen’s Circle

Partial Transcript: Sylvia says how she hopes Yiddish will have a permanent place in South Florida. It is a beautiful language. Sylvia does not read Hebrew very well but she understands it. She has read Sholem Aleichem’s stories in English but when someone read them to her in Yiddish she noticed there was a world of difference.

Keywords: Sholem Aleichem; Hebrew

Subjects: Keeping Yiddish alive

Partial Transcript: Sylvia explains why she feels it is important that Yiddish culture continue. The music is beautiful; the poetry and the theater are also beautiful. There are the social and fraternal benefits of the organization. Sylvia sees how at the Workmen Circle meetings the members care for each other, they are concerned about one another. There are many organizations that the Workmen’s Circle supports. The Workmen’s Circle is a very caring organization and a very caring religion. Sylvia is very proud to be part of it.

Keywords: social and fraternal benefits,

Subjects: important that Yiddish culture continue.