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Marvin Weintraub

Number: CA JMABC A.1971.001-20.05-31
Name: Marvin Weintraub
Interviewer: Charna Plottel
Date: November 22nd, 2005
Place: [Vancouver, BC]
Project: The Jewish Historical Society of British Columbia Oral History Project

Summary:
Tape 1, Side 1:
00:00: Buzzing sounds.
00:03 Charna Plottel begins to speak and ask Marvin Weintraub his English and Hebrew names.
00:46: Weintraub names his only brother Jerry, and his four nieces and nephews. Both sides of Weintraub’s family came from Rodam, Poland.
2:27: Weintraub recalls how he and his brother watched their great grandmother’s funeral procession from their balcony.
3:10: Weintraub speaks of his grandfather who went to Rabbinical school but had to leave partway through in order to support his large number of brothers and sisters after the death of their father. Weintraub’s maternal grandfather was a Hasid while his wife, Reba ran her family’s wrought iron manufacturing business.
7:46: Plottel inquires about Weintraub’s parents. His father owned a tanning factory in Rodam and was an excellent Torah reader.
11:25: Weintraub recalls how his father was worried about the growing anti-Semitism in Poland and decided to begin sending all of his siblings and mother to Canada and the United States in 1920. He took his wife and children, the last to leave, in 1930 to Toronto.
12:29: Weintraub recounts how his father told him that on the day of Weintraub’s birth, the whole town danced and sang, but he later learned that he had been born on Simchat Torah. Weintraub’s mother was four years older than her husband. She had studied nursing and midwifery in Warsaw. He recalls that his mother never became accustomed to living in Canada. She had grown up in a higher social status than she had in Canada and it was a difficult adjustment. He complains about his mother’s cooking.
16:25: Before they moved to Canada, Weintraub’s father had sold his tanning factory but the Bank of Canada made bad investments with his money and they lost a great deal of it. Several years later, his father opened a grocery store and the whole family worked in it.
17:56: Weintraub recounts his father’s telling of how he and Weintraub’s mother met at a dinner party.
18:26: Weintraub gives detail of his parents’ parenting style. They had influence on his choice of wife and lifestyle.
20:16: Weinraub recalls the Rodamer Mutual Benefit Society, a group of immigrants who had all originated in Rodam, Poland and come to Canada. There were other similar groups from other places in Eastern Europe. This was called a landsmanschaften. He also speaks of a small, old Orthodox synagogue in Toronto’s university district that still existed at the time of the interview.
24:12: Plottel praises Weintraub for being so involved at Beth Israel synagogue.
24:38: Weintraub recalls his education beginning with elementary as well as recounting his memories at Harbord Collegiate. He also went to religious school which his father supplemented by also teaching him and his brother about Judaism.
28:33: End of Tape 1, Side 1.
Tape 1, Side 2:
00:00: Plottel asks Weintraub about the languages he speaks. Weintraub spoke English, Yiddish and some French. He also mentions how he and his brother had a Black piano teacher who entered them in piano competitions.
1:42: Plottel asks Weintraub to recount some memories from his school years. He speaks again of Harbord Collegiate and his love the learning Latin and Greek. He eventually switched and enrolled in biology courses. He speaks of a Mr. Smith, who was the teacher who encouraged him to pursue a PhD in biology. Weintraub and Smith continued their friendship until Smith’s death.
5:25: Plottel asks Weintraub about his teenage years. Weintraub recounts how he worked in his father’s grocery and in a tobacco wholesale company. Weintraub and his brother decided to sell sandwiches and other refreshments at a young men’s club which they did not realize until much later was brothel.
9:05: End of Tape 1, Side 2 and end of interview.

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