Transcript
Index
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:00:20 - Background Information
00:02:35 - Local Prohibition
00:04:24 - Coming to Madison
00:06:29 - European Origins and Life
00:11:51 - Leaving Europe
00:13:40 - Arrival in the United States
00:15:31 - Madison Religious Life
00:17:04 - Madison Congregation
00:20:26 - Reformed Congregation
00:21:25 - Madison Immigration Patterns
00:23:04 - Establishing a Congregation
00:24:43 - Moving Population
00:27:12 - Jews in Surrounding Communities
00:27:38 - Madison's Attraction
00:28:53 - Formation of Jewish Organizations
00:31:59 - Madison's First Congregation
00:32:11 - Business in Madison
00:32:38 - Madison Jews
00:33:14 - Madison Politics
00:35:15 - Jewish Lady's Society
00:37:47 - Madison Convention
00:38:11 - Madison B'nai B'rith
00:40:47 - Saul's Wife
00:41:45 - Congregation Member
00:42:58 - Community Affairs
00:47:18 - Zionist Organization
00:50:42 - Israel
00:51:03 - Shifting Population
00:52:24 - Madison's Conservative Congregation
00:53:38 - Department of Hebrew Studies
00:54:38 - Conclusion
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Partial Transcript: Saul arrived in New York, where he had cousins. He went to New Haven, where he worked as a peddler. He moved to St. Paul because his brother had a friend there. He was offered a job as a teacher in a small Jewish community, but he did not take the job. He eventually got a job in a cigar factory and moved to Chicago. After working as a cigar maker in Chicago, he came to Madison, Wisconsin.