Acknowledgements
Gail Eisenberg and Susan Clemens-Bruder thank everyone who contributed to making this project successful: funders; interview subjects; Muhlenberg College staff, students, and departments; Allentown community members; and Fred Eisenberg.
Funders
The following funders helped support the work of this project financially:
Deanne and Arnold Kaplan Family Foundation
Mellon Community Grant
Tama Fogelman and Maxine Klein
Ellen and Irwin Schneider
Lenny Abrams
Marlene and Arnan Finkelstein
Ronnie and Milt Sheftel
Marilyn and Nate Braunstein
Interview subjects
The following people generously shared their time and their stories:
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Irwin Schneider |
Ellen Schneider |
Leonard Bloch |
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Beverly Bloch |
Lenny Abrams |
Maxine Klein |
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Tama Fogelman |
Marty Krasnov |
Nate Braunstein |
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Marilyn Braunstein |
Esther Halperin |
Mort Miller |
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Judy Miller |
Stan Miller |
Mark Stutz |
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Marty Spiro |
Marshall Silverstein |
Ronnie Sheftel |
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Milt Sheftel |
Bruce Sheftel |
Harris Malkovsky |
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Marc Malkovsky |
Arnold Delin |
Dolores Delin |
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Mark Fogelman |
Arnan Finkelstein |
Marlene Finkelstein |
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Robert Levine |
Murray Platt |
Seth Katzman |
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Kathy Katzman |
Larry Hirsch |
Jim Hartzel |
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Bunny Filler |
Bernie Filler |
Roz Mishkin |
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Al Mishkin |
Ruth Meislin |
Mike MIller |
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Janet Senderowitz Loengard |
Narrator of the curated video presentations
Posie Lewis '20
Muhlenberg College staff, students, and departments
The following Muhlenberg staff members, students, and administrative departments contributed to making this project a success:
Trexler Library
- Susan Falciani Maldonado -- Special Collections & Archives Librarian
- Sarah Pelczynski-Kunda '21 -- transcript editor and index creator
Media Services
- Jeff Yorgey
- Sean Miller
Advancement Department
- William McGlinn
ABEF Administrative Assistant
- Justine Frantz
Provost’s Office
Muhlenberg students
- Video editors
- Jesse Reilly '20
- Alisa Ruchman '19
- Melissa Denholtz '16
- Research assistants
- Maya Moran '17
- Giulia Santoro '16
- Rose Joffe '21
- Transcribers
- Many ABEF and History Department work-study students through the years
- Mark Goldstein, past Executive Director of Jewish Federation of Lehigh Valley
- Ivan Schonfeld and Rance Block-- compiled original list of Textile and Needle-trade local family owners.
Special Thanks to Fred Eisenberg for transcription editing, technology troubleshooting, and overall support.