Oral history interview with Sylvia Dworetzky Grunes

Oral history interview with Sylvia Dworetzky Grunes

Grunes, Sylvia Dworetzky

12/3/22

Sylvia Dworetzky Grunes grew up in the tight knit Jewish community in Madison's Greenbush neighborhood, with her Yiddish-speaking Russian immigrant parents. Sylvia lived with her family in several residences in the Greenbush neighborhood beginning with her birth in 1926 until her marriage in 1946. The family home at 31 S. Mills St. was demolished as part of the 1960s era Triangle Urban Renewal Project which displaced many residents from the Greenbush neighborhood. The site of the former family home was later used to build the new Neighborhood House, still in operation today. Sylvia shares her recollections of Longfellow elementary school, and the Jewish butchers, grocery stores and synagogues clustered along Mound St. She also describes her time at the Freida Weinstein Workmen’s Circle, on N. Mills St. The “Arbiter Ring” as the Workmen’s Circle organization was called in Yiddish, provided mutual aid for the Jewish community, as well as secular instruction for children in Yiddish c

Madison (Wis.)

Religious communities

Ethnic neighborhoods

Jewish community centers--Wisconsin

Yiddish theater

Urban renewal

Recollection Wisconsin

sound

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