Detail View: Winnipeg Jewish Renewal Oral History Collection: Interview with Lionel Steiman, 25 November 2014

Collection Name: 
Winnipeg Jewish Renewal Oral History Collection
Title: 
Interview with Lionel Steiman, 25 November 2014
Creator: 
Lewis, Justin Jaron, 1961-
Subject: 
Jewish renewal
Subject: 
Schachter-Shalomi, Zalman, 1924-2014
Description: 
Audio interview of Lionel Steiman, born 1941, by Dr. Justin Jaron Lewis at the interviewee's home in Winnipeg. Note: Interviewee had little contact with Rabbi Schachter; this interview is mostly about background on the Winnipeg community, Jewish and non-Jewish. 00:00 Interview begins with an introduction of the interviewer and interviewee, as well as location information; 01:00 Lionel clarifies that he had a Christian upbringing but had friends who were Jewish and had connections with the Hillel house. He explains his recollections are from indirect contact with Zalman. He states Zalman was always smiling and a big man; 03:08 Lionel tells stories of going over to Rabbi Schachter’s house and his friend’s brother asking Zalman to read over something he wrote and how unhappy Zalman was with it; 04:51 Justin asks Lionel to look through his year books and remember people he grew up with in Winnipeg; 20:00 Lionel tells a story about a time he left church and kids were fighting with each other. A Ukrainian woman tells the boys that “Jews don’t fight!” He continues to talk about the views of the Jewish community in Winnipeg; 24:09 Lionel tells an antisemitic story about the time his mother took a trip to Israel and wrote a letter to the principal of a Luthern school in the community about the horrors of the Holocaust. The man wrote back and said “what the communists did was worse.” Lionel and his mother were taken aback by the comment; 29:22 Justin asks if Lionel thought of himself of at least half Jewish while he was in university; 37:26 Justin thanks Lionel for his interview.
Contributor: 
Steiman, Lionel
Date: 
2014-09-10
Type: 
Sound
Identifier: 
WinnipegLionelSteiman_25Nov2014.mp3
Identifier ARK: 
https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/4t8w0d28p3kd
Source: 
Rabbi Zalman Schachter's Years in Winnipeg
Language: 
English
Coverage: 
Winnipeg
Rights: 
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