Reminiscences of Ilene Sameth : oral history, 2001-2003.

Biographical Note

Synagogue Administrator.

Scope and Contents

Born New Rochelle, N.Y.; education: B.A. University of Rochester, School of Music, M.A. University of Michigan; career: executive director of West End Synagogue; 9/11: comfort offered to neighborhood schoolchildren, media coverage; post-9/11: emotional response, interfaith memorial service; volunteering at the World Trade Center Site [WTC], providing supplies, increasing security at synagogue and Hebrew School, fear, impact on family, changes in political ideology.

Subjects

• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Rappaport, Naomi, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Sameth, Ilene--Interviews.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Personal narratives.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

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