Hi Megan, So happy to have you on our team! Welcome, and I hope you have a great time.
Kathy B. On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 1:40 PM Megan Shulman <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Elliot, > > Thank you for such a warm welcome! > > Yes, Medina is fairly close to Union City! Unfortunately, due to declining > membership due to an aging population, the Union City synagogue closed a > few years ago. The remaining members joined our synagogue B’nai Israel, > located in Jackson, which has had a presence there for over 150 years. The > building features indescribably beautiful stained glass that glows in the > night and is now on the Historical Register. > While I have never heard the term “Jew Store,” Jews in this area were > often owners of upscale department stores. In Jackson, Kisber’s, owned by > the Kisber family, was known for its high class items and exemplary > customer service. In the 1950s, Kisber’s became the first store to > integrate racially in terms of both staffing and customers. Anyone who > opposed this decision would be met by Mr. Kisber himself and he would > politely, yet firmly, state his stance on his hopes for a fully integrated > society in Jackson. While Kisber’s was eventually replaced with larger > department stores like Macy’s, Jackson is still blessed to have several > independent Jewishly owned retail stores like Robert’s Jewelers. > I’m excited to be volunteering with the AJL! > > Megan > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 2:52 PM Elliot H. Gertel <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello, Megan, >> >> Welcome! Great to have you join AJL in such an active role. >> >> If I'm not mistaken Medina is not far from Union City, which makes me >> think of Stella Suberman, O"h (1922-2017), a presenter at the 1999 AJL >> Annual Conference in Boca Raton where she spoke about her fascinating, >> slightly fictionalized memoir (mostly changing names) with the somewhat >> troubling title--at least to this Northerner!--*The Jew Store* (Chapel >> Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1998) about growing up Jewish >> in a rural Northwestern Tennessee town with a population of 5,318 in the >> 1920s when her family settled there. Stella made it clear that many small >> Southern towns had dry goods stores that were called "Jew stores" back >> then. It's a great depiction of her experiences being raised in the only >> Jewish family in a small Southern town. >> >> Thanks for pitching in with *AJL Reviews!* >> >> Hope to "see" you at AJL Digital Conference in two weeks and future >> in-person conferences. >> >> Best regards, >> Elliot >> >> ================================================ >> Elliot H. Gertel *עלע־הערש גערטל / אליהו־צבי גרטל* >> AJL-ALA Liaison >> Member, ALA EMIERT Jewish Information Committee, 2020-22 >> Chair, 2020 AJL Fanny Goldstein Merit Award Committee >> Irving M. Hermelin Curator Emeritus of Judaica >> The University of Michigan >> Ann Arbor, Michigan >> [email protected] >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 1:30 PM Sally Stieglitz via Hasafran < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Dear Safranim, >>> >>> Please join me in welcoming Megan Shulman to our AJL News and Reviews >>> team! Megan is one of our new co-editors for children's/teen's reviews. >>> >>> Here is Megan's "hello" to you all: >>> >>> My name is Megan Shulman, and I am, after many years of being involved >>> with our synagogue’s leadership team and community, newly Jew-by-Choice. I >>> am a transplant to the Deep South by way of New York, and enjoy learning >>> about the diverse historical Jewish experience in our rural city in West >>> Tennessee. I have fifteen years of experience as a school librarian, but >>> have also worked as both a public and academic librarian. I have a passion >>> for diverse, quality Jewish children’s and young adult literature. I am >>> recently disabled, and make my home in the tiny town of Medina, Tennessee >>> with my five year old son Calvin and my husband Andrew. 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