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Jenny Verano and Abe Vilensky, Clip 3: Changing ethnic communities in Woodside

Collection: Queens Memory Project Collection at Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives: Abe Vilensky and Jenny Verano
Date: Time Period: 1946 - 2011; 2011-08-01; Interview recorded: August 1 2011 Material: Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Hindenburg. Dimension: Total running time: 0:00:52
Creator: Abe Vilensky and Jenny Verano interviewed by Kyoko Aoki Identifier: aql:20610 vilensky_verano_clip3

Description: Mr. Vilensky and Ms. Verano describe the changes that have occurred in terms of the ethnicity and nationality in Woodside. There are few Jewish and Irish residents, while the number of residents who are Muslim, Indian, Dominican, and Mexican have grown. Now there is only one Jewish center, and he feels that rebuilding the Jewish center on 41st Street is a waste of time.

Collection : aql:20455; aql:20684

Creator : Abe Vilensky and Jenny Verano interviewed by Kyoko Aoki

Date : Time Period: 1946 - 2011; 2011-08-01; Interview recorded: August 1 2011

Summary/Description : Mr. Vilensky and Ms. Verano describe the changes that have occurred in terms of the ethnicity and nationality in Woodside. There are few Jewish and Irish residents, while the number of residents who are Muslim, Indian, Dominican, and Mexican have grown. Now there is only one Jewish center, and he feels that rebuilding the Jewish center on 41st Street is a waste of time.

Subject : Communities; Neighborhoods; Synagogues

Rights : This recording is the property of Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives. Please contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.

Coverage : Locations discussed: Woodside, Queens, NY Woodside (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Hindenburg.; Total running time: 0:00:52

Identifier : aql:20610 vilensky_verano_clip3

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This recording is the property of Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives. Please contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.


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