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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Robert Zalkin and Harriett Rivkin Zalkin]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Jewish cooking, Jews--South Carolina--Columbia--Interviews, Jews--South Carolina--Charleston--Interviews, Jews--South Carolina--Columbia--Social life and customs, Kosher food industry--South Carolina--Charleston--History]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Robert Zalkin, born in 1925 in Charleston, South Carolina, describes growing up in the St. Philip Street neighborhood and talks about his family‚Äôs King Street business, where he helped out as a child. Zalkin‚Äôs Market, a kosher butcher shop, was opened by Robert‚Äôs grandfather, who had emigrated from Lithuania around 1898. Robert‚Äôs father, Joseph, who married Anna Cohen of New York, kept the market open until the late 1940s, when he sold the business to New Yorkers Alex and Lila Lash. Robert provides details about the layout and operation of the shop and the tasks his father assigned him. He notes that non-Jews, as well as Jews, were a regular part of their retail customer base. Zalkin‚Äôs also sold non-kosher meat wholesale to the local Swift and Armour packaging plants. Robert married Harriett Rivkin of Columbia, South Carolina, in 1949. Harriett states that her parents, Katie and Caba Rivkin, operated ‚Äúone of the first Jewish delis in the South." She describes Columbia‚Äôs Jewish community as close-knit and remembers that her parents welcomed into their home many of the Jewish soldiers stationed at Fort Jackson during World War II. The Rivkins belonged to House of Peace, where Harriett‚Äôs grandfathers, Ruben Roth and Jacob Rivkin, were among the charter members of the Orthodox shul. Because the synagogue did not offer formal religious instruction, the Rivkins sent Harriett to Sunday school at Tree of Life, the Reform congregation in Columbia. Robert and Harriett describe the dishes their mothers served when they were growing up and their food habits in the years since. Five years after marrying, the Zalkins moved to Greensboro, North Carolina, and raised their three children there.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[South Carolina Digital Library]]></dcterms:source>
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