A new online library, launched last week, allows Pitt students and members of the public to listen to audio from more than 500 interviews with Jewish people from the Pittsburgh area and throughout the United States.
The online library, sponsored by the Pittsburgh Section of the National Council of Jewish Women and Pitt’s Archives Service Center, showcases the stories of people who immigrated to the United States from Eastern Europe. The interviews cover a wide range of topics, including carpentry, community service, the Holocaust and Hillman Library.
“There’s a very extensive guide to this project,” Rush Miller, Hillman librarian and director of the University Library System, said. “You can search by keywords, or if you’re interested in politics you can go in and search by those topics.”
“You can actually go straight into the material that you’re interested in,” he said.
Notable interviewees include former actor and Pitt graduate Richard Rauh, Holocaust survivor Steven Fenves and Pittsburgh’s first Jewish chief of police Mayer DeRoy.
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