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Tape/Side
1/1
Time
1:45
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Circumstances Surrounding This Interview : Warren Green's call to Ben Minkoff, logistical problems in interviewing Max Leopold, Leopold's age, possibility of Leopold having relatives who know Minkoff.
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Tape/Side
1/1
Time
2:50
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Biographical Information : Date of birth, date of arrival in America, place of birth, synagogue in Milwaukee on 30th Street, religious affiliation in San Diego.
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Tape/Side
1/1
Time
3:40
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Life In San Diego, : The rabbis ML knows in San Diego, activity with Jewish Center in San Diego, date of arrival in California, reasons for moving out, Wisconsin Jewish farmers living in SD, the Garber boys.
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Tape/Side
1/1
Time
4:50
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About The Garber Boys In Wisconsin Rapids : Frank Garber and the Lubovitcher rabbi, (1920's?) Frank Garber's generosity, his son, Vernon, and his business in Wisconsin Rapids, Alvin Garber, shechet and chazzan at the Arpin agricultural settlement in Wood County, Wisconsin, ML as Arpin's justice of the peace, 1918-1952.
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Tape/Side
1/1
Time
6:10
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More About Tenure As Justice Of The Peace, : Election, correspondence course in law
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Tape/Side
1/1
Time
6:40
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Settling In Arpin, : Arrival in Milwaukee in 1904, purchasing land at Arpin, reasons for going into farming, previous interest in farming in the Old Country near Baku, cousin, a carpenter, and his introduction of ML to hard physical work, rarity of this among Jews at the time.
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Tape/Side
1/1
Time
8:40
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Getting Started At Arpin : ML's advantages in comparison with other Jewish farmers, help of the county agent, technical advances ML used, number of Jewish families, reasons (given in Yiddish) for departure of Jewish families, general lack of knowledge about farming among Jewish agricultural settlers, financial support from Jewish Agricultural Society--Baron de Hirsch Fund and A.W. Rich, Milwaukee businessman, size of the settlement, expenses.
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Tape/Side
1/1
Time
12:10
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Problems With The Arpin Settlement, : The problems of virgin land, lack of knowledge of agricultural techniques, proper use of tools, more on settlement chronology, working in Milwaukee in the winter, Arpin in the summer, digression on cemetery in San Diego.
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Tape/Side
1/1
Time
15:05
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Farming Full-Time At Arpin, : Moving to Arpin full-time after World War I, clearing land of stumps, high quality of the land, why Jews became good farmers, the significance of being first on the land, listening to the County agent, private smallholding, not communal farming.
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Tape/Side
1/1
Time
18:10
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More On Chronology--Revised : About ML's second wife and the death of his first wife, more about dates of residence at Arpin and in San Diego, careers and location of children.
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Tape/Side
1/1
Time
20:15
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Correspondence Course In Law, : Length of study, reasons for not taking bar examination, difficulties with the Latin alphabet, pronunciation, Rumanian and English pronunciation of legal terms, election as justice of the peace and surrounding circumstances, more on Arpin chronology.
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Tape/Side
1/1
Time
24:50
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Progressive Party Politics : Extent of ML's involvement with the Progressive Party on county-wide and state-wide basis, state conventions, acquaintance with Solomon Levitan, Jews in the Progressive Party, ML's candidacy for state senate seat and Jewish opposition to this, ML's defeat and antisemitism (1930's)--”We've got enough Jews running the country already”--ML's thick skin, the self-financed campaign, ML's anti-prohibitionism and his relatively good electoral results, the Laird family and Republican politics, anecdote on politics and free beer in a tavern.
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Tape/Side
1/1
Time
30:10
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On Leopold's First Wife : The city girl agrees to live on the farm, and how she came to like the farm, her background, more on ownership of farms at Arpin.
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Tape/Side
1/1
Time
31:10
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Community Life In Arpin, : Helping each other, the shul (synagogue), Jewish carpenters, collapse of the shul during a snowstorm, Jewish observance at the shul, Jewish charities in Milwaukee and initial financing of the shul, going to shul in Wisconsin Rapids after collapse of building in Arpin, the fate of the sefer torah, Madison Hillel, circumstances surrounding donation of sefer torah to B'nai B'rith in Madison.
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Tape/Side
1/1
Time
36:10
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Leopold's Children : Dates and places of birth, anecdote about lantern and chronological spacing of boy and girl children, Lawrence Weinstein and his father.
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Tape/Side
1/1
Time
37:15
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Leopold's Jewish Education In Rumania, : Learning aleph-beth from mother before she died, cheder, the only son, prowess in davening (chanted prayer), ancestors, more on L. Weinstein's relatives in Wisconsin.
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Tape/Side
1/1
Time
41:10
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More About The Early Days In The United States, : Date of arrival, reasons for initially settling in Milwaukee, dates of residence (again).
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Tape/Side
1/1
Time
42:35
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ML's Work As Director Of Arpin Farm Co-Op, : Management of four feed warehouses, duration of job, circumstances surrounding ML's first election as co-op manager, lack of prejudice against Jews in the co-ops, lack of practical alternatives to the co-ops. : The last approximately thirty seconds of this side of the tape are virtually inaudible.
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Tape/Side
1/2
Time
0:40
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Question on the co-ops (unanswered) : Tape identification is noted on tape erroneously as Tape 2, Side 1.
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Tape/Side
1/2
Time
0:50
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Rauschenbusch Family, Leopold, and unemployment compensation, : Text of letter from Elizabeth Brandeis Rauschenbusch commemorating ML's contribution to the realization of a program of workmen's compensation in the state, the nation, role of Harold Groves.
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Tape/Side
1/2
Time
3:10
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More on Co-op : ML's duties, area covered by the co-op, on buying feed and proceeds from the co-op.
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Tape/Side
1/2
Time
4:40
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To What Extent Was The Arpin Experiment Specifically Jewish?, : Number of Jewish farmers, name of settlement, Arpin farmers and the Arpin Jewish Farmers, Jewish farmers as co-op members, Jews as founders of the co-ops, mistake in seeing Arpin as exclusively Jewish settlement, lack of Jewish girls and the breaking up of the Arpin settlement.
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Tape/Side
1/2
Time
7:05
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Discussion Of Picture Concerning Leopold's Work On Wisconsin's Unemployment Compensation Law, : Prominent politicians and academicians in Wisconsin Progressive politics on committee for drafting pioneer unemployment compensation law of 1932, references to press reports from 1930's, the Rauschenbusch family, the first unemployment compensation payment, ML's role as farm representative on unemployment compensation committee.
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Tape/Side
1/2
Time
12:25
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Perception Of Jewish Identity Among The Settlers At Arpin, : Subsidiary role of Jewishness in the settlement.
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Tape/Side
1/2
Time
12:50
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More On Unemployment Compensation As Regards Farmers : Connection between falling employment and falling farm prices and farm welfare, salutary effect of urban unemployment compensation on farm life, difficulties in convincing the legislature that it should take a risk, how benefits are distributed between social groups, Robert La Follette, general lack of political activity among Jewish farmers at Arpin.
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Tape/Side
1/2
Time
16:45
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Reasons For Other Jewish Families Settling In Arpin, : Unemployment, World War I and rising farm prices, lack of Jewish boys for Jewish girls in Arpin.
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Tape/Side
1/2
Time
18:15
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Why Leopold Did Not Leave Arpin Until 1952 : Leopold's sons and daughters and marriage to non-Jews, ML's reaction, number of children married to non-Jews, local boys, the right to do whatever one wants, the daughter who married a Jewish boy, marrying a good man, being tied down to the land, German non-Jews killed by Hitler and good relations with non-Jews, lack of Jewish education in later years, the rigors of being a lone Jew in Wisconsin.
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Tape/Side
1/2
Time
26:20
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Zionism : Lack of interest in the early Arpin community, ML's personal interest.(Interlude with Mrs. Leopold). Kibbutzim, Arpin agriculture, and visit to Israel, “a good farmer is a good farmer all over the world,” co-ops in Israel, guided tours through Israel, the old part of Jerusalem, date of visit to Israel.
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Tape/Side
1/2
Time
32:10
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Retirement In San Diego, : Cemetery director's position, former Arpin neighbors in San Diego and ML's relations with them, his last visit to Arpin, contacts with Wisconsin, minimal contact with descendants of Arpin's Jewish farmers.
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Tape/Side
1/2
Time
35:40
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The Farm Bureau, : Length of ML's involvement, overlapping memberships of co-ops and Wisconsin Farm Bureau, relative success of Illinois Farm Bureau compared with Wisconsin's, reasons for Wisconsin Farm Bureau's weakening by the Progressive movement, reactionaries in the Farm Bureau and a Jewish farmer, inconsistencies being in both Progressive Party and Wisconsin Farm Bureau, difference in character between National Farm Bureau Federation and Wisconsin Farm Bureau.
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