Interview
This interview was part of a research study on the history of the Jewish community of Superior. Mr. Lurye was chosen to participate in this project because of his own long history and involvement in the community.
He was able to provide a wealth of information and impressions of the early community.
Abstract to the Interview
The tapes for this interview have two tracks: a voice track containing the discussion and a time track containing time announcements at intervals of approximately five seconds. The abstract lists, in order of discussion, the topics covered on each tape, and indicates the time-marking at which point the beginning of the particular discussion appears.
Thus, the researcher by using a tape recorder's fast forward button may find expeditiously and listen to discrete segments without listening to all of the taped discussion. For instance, the user who wishes to listen to the topic on “Why Family Came to Superior” should locate the place on the second track of tape one, side one, where the voice announces the 02:15 time-marking (the voice says at this point, “two minutes, fifteen seconds”), and at this point switch to the first track to hear the discussion. The discussion on “Why Family Came to Superior” continues until approximately 04:40 at which point discussion of the next topic (“Lurye's Education”) begins.
Notice that in most cases sentences beneath each headline explain more about the contents of the topic. For example the sentences underneath “Why Family Came to Superior” give further details on what appears on the tape between 02:15 and 04:40.
The abstract is designed to provide only a brief outline of the content of the tapes and cannot serve as a substitute for listening to them. However the abstract will help the researcher easily locate distinct topics and discussions among the many minutes of the commentary.
