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Description:: Interview conducted as part of the Nahum Kipnis Project.
Creator:: Waisman, Elka
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Last Updated:: 2020-05-11

Description:: Elle Hearns, founder of the Marsha P Johnson Institute and co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network, was assigned Black at birth. At the time of this interview Hearns was organizing in Ohio. In this oral history she speaks about the serial murders of Black trans women in Ohio alongside her experiences with law enforcement which led he...
Creator:: Hearns, Elle
Contributor:: Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:: 2017-02-07
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2018-09-24

Description:: In this interview, Ellen Roitenberg (1938 - ) discusses her Jewish family and their background on the North Side of Minneapolis. She discusses how difficult it was to get jobs, even as a trained professional, if you were Jewish. She talks of her father being a physician and the impact of the founding of Mount Sinai Hospital in Minneapolis. The d...
Creator:: Roitenberg, Ellen, (1938 - )
Contributor:: Norman, Jeff (Interviewer)
Created:: 2012-06-12
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Last Updated:: 2017-11-16

Description:: Ellie Krug is a white trans woman from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In this oral history interview, she discusses her childhood, family, and relationships, her memoirs and experiences of transition, her thoughts on trans representation and visibility and representation, and her work in legal services. Specifically, Krug discusses coming of age "before St...
Creator:: Krug, Ellie
Contributor:: Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:: 2015-12-15
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2018-09-24

Description:: In this interview, Elliot Kaplan gives an account of his life as a Jewish Minnesotan and legal practitioner. He gives a narrative of his life, which includes the circumstances of his birth to grocers on the East Side of St. Paul, growing up in Highland Park, attending Randolph Heights and Central High School, being president of Hillel while atte...
Creator:: Kaplan, Elliot, 1936-?
Contributor:: Rubenstein, Helen (Interviewer)
Created:: 2009-08-11
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Last Updated:: 2020-02-06

Description:: In this interview, Elliott Royce talks about how his father was the first Jewish pharmacist in Minnesota. His family belonged to Beth El. Elliott explains how his family lived during the depression, and how they recovered from it. During this time, they moved from the North side to the South side of Minneapolis. They joined Adath Jeshurun when t...
Creator:: Royce, Elliott
Contributor:: Norman, Jeff (Interviewer)
Created:: 2012-06-18
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Last Updated:: 2017-11-16

Description:: Elliot Winter is a Korean male who grew up in Georgia but also spent time in Ohio, California, and New Jersey. In this interview, Winter talks at length about participating in online trans communities and chat rooms such as Laura's Playground and Youtube. He also talks about his family relationships, recovery, race in the South, and encounters w...
Creator:: Winter, Elliot
Contributor:: Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:: 2016-06-08
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2018-09-24

Description:: Emerson Steiner Hayward is a white, Ashkenazi Jewish, trans-masc, and nonbinary individual based in St. Paul, Minnesota. In this oral history interview with Macalester College student Sarah Garrett-Engele, Hayward discusses their upbringing and early experiences of gender, their process of transition and coming to understand themself as a trans ...
Creator:: Steiner Hayward, Emerson (interviewee)
Contributor:: Garrett-Engele, Sarah (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (project manager)
Created:: 2021-11-22
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2022-03-15

Creator:: Kogan, Emilia; Shumilovsky, Sima
Contributor:: Schloff, Linda (interviewer)
Created:: 1991-11-14
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Last Updated:: 2017-11-20

Description:: Emily Walters shares stories of her life as a restaurant manager and citizen during the COVID-19 pandemic in Duluth, Minnesota. She describes her media consumption habits, mostly CNN and Fox News apps. She discusses the issue of wearing fabric masks and some of the challenges for restaurant patrons or others who have health issues that make wear...
Creator:: Walters, Emily
Contributor:: Wright, Brooke
Created:: 2020-08-02
Contributed By:: Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Last Updated:: 2020-10-30