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Description:: In this interview, Earl Schwartz (1953 - ) discusses his family background from Europe to settlement on Minneapolis's North Side and their practice of Judaism in the United States, with particular respect to his own experience. The interview transitions to a focus on his career as a Talmud Torah teacher and college professor. The conversation mo...
Creator:: Schwartz, Earl, (1953 - )
Contributor:: Norman, Jeff (Interviewer)
Created:: 2012-06-20
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Last Updated:: 2020-02-06

Description:: In this interview, Edith Milavitz gives an account of her early life as a Jewish Minnesotan. She was born in 1907 in St. Paul of Russian immigrant parents. Milavitz speaks about how her father was a junk peddler and how her mother and family sold chickens from the front yard of their St. Paul home on the West Side. The majority of this interview...
Creator:: Milavitz, Edith, 1907-?
Contributor:: Aronson, Judy (Interviewer)
Created:: 1978-03-01
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Last Updated:: 2020-02-06

Description:: Contents: Discusses University of Minnesota Library acquisitions policies and practices, with particular reference to recent aquisitions for special collections
Creator:: University of Minnesota. Radio Station KUOM
Contributor:: Stanford, Edward Barrett; Booth, Audrey June
Created:: 1962
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
Last Updated:: 2022-12-01

Description:: Ejay Jack is a white trans male who grew up in Pennsylvania. At the time of this interview, Jack was working for Hennepin County. In this oral history Jack speaks at length about how his identity has changed through time. Jack also reflects up on his time in the Peace Corps, his passing privilege as a white man in a relationship with a woman, da...
Creator:: Jack, Ejay
Contributor:: Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:: 2015-09-15
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2017-11-20

Description:: EJ Olson is a white gender-queer person from Empire, Michigan. At the time of this interview, Olson was working as the Clinical Operations Director at Family Tree Clinic. In this oral history they talk about growing up in a small town, language about identity, their experiences with performance art, and working at Family Tree Clinic. They also t...
Creator:: Olson, EJ
Contributor:: Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:: 2016-12-16
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2018-09-24

Description:: Eli Clare is a genderqueer disability advocate, writer and poet. In this oral history, Clare discusses how language gets re-claimed, taken up, or not; tensions in lesbian community around trans masculinity; passing; and the contradictions he felt medically transitioning and while simultaneously resisting pathologizing his body as needing a "cure...
Creator:: Clare, Eli
Contributor:: Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:: 2016-03-01
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2017-11-20

Description:: In this interview, Elissa Heilicher talks about how she grew up on the North Side of Minneapolis. She goes into detail about her father's many entrepreneurial professions. She attended the University of Minnesota for a short time, and she attended a technical college for medical training. She goes into detail about her children and grandchildren...
Creator:: Heilicher, Elissa
Contributor:: Norman, Jeff (Interviewer)
Created:: 2011-07-16
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Last Updated:: 2017-11-16