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Int8rv:loHees Dr. and Mrs~urry Blanch~----------~-
Intervio~er Bonnie Kantor
Dato(s) or interview July 11, 1977 Sottin,g (:place or intorvj_m?r, poop1e present .P :L.m9r0ssions)
The interview was conducted in the livingroom of the ?Blanchard
home at 250 Hibiscus Drive. The session was interupted twic~
by phone calls and once by a break .for dessert. ?Throughout, only
the Blanchard'~ and myself were present. The intervi~ws would
have been even more productive if each h~d been spoken wi~h . s~parately. Intermittantly Mrs. Blanchard stop~ed_her hu~band
from offering personal.relfections on both a family matter and
9n certain people ~n the Jewish community. Despite this, in
general; they both re~ained rather candid throughout ?.
Background o:r intervie>:?ree
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Mrs. Blanchard was born in Bridgeport Ct. in the 1920s and grew up in Hudson,tNew York, .a community which inci1uded 160 Jew~sh
families. Her immigrant parents considered themselves orthodox.
She considers ~erself a committed Jew, especially in a moral sense.
She has taught at Temple Brith Kodesh for the last 17 years ~nd is active in the Federation, their woman's committe~ and the UJA.
Dr. Blanchard was born in N.Y.C. in 1918 and was raised? in.Poukj,psee. As a young adult ?he: rebelled against hisparent's orthodoxy and
leaned toward reform Judiasm. He became an optomitrist in 1942 and? took over~ practice in?Rochester in 1945~ He too is extfemely? ? Intervie1>1 abstract active in the Jewish cornmu!1~ty in Rochester.
A most interesting area of the interviews centers around their
son Eric's becoming a tradi tion9_t.1 _ ___ qrthodox Jew. Peripherally, many of the other subjects raised plugged into this focal point.
They discuss tljeir reactions to his d~c~~fuon and hTM it effected
their lives, his life, and their relationship with him; ~n addtion,
their perceptions of the mo~al commi~tmerit of -Jews ve~sus the
ritualistic committment are? of. interest as are their impneseions
of the Reform community and the. ?changes wlb.i.ch have. been? taking
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Intervie-:-r index ( corre sponcling to tape nu..mbers, sides ?of tape, . and
cassett recorder nu,_:ib$~."'s)
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X Social history
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-X co:.E~u:nity.- rel2. tions
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