Rediscovering Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles
A group of undergraduate students at UCLA, as part of the Winter 2017 "Jews in Los Angeles: Representation, Memory, and History in the Digital Age" service learning course, were asked to address these questions as part of a collaborative, community-based project with the Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles. Half of the students worked on uncovering, transcribing, and researching of of the oral history interviews that are part of the Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles Oral History Project Collection, found at Cal State Northridge's Urban Archives Collection. These rarely seen oral histories were conducted from 1979 through 1981 and feature in-depth interviews with Holocaust survivors, Russian immigrants, and other Jewish migrants that used and benefited from Jewish Family Service. The other half of the students conducted interview with current clients of the Jewish Family Service Freda Mohr Center on Fairfax Avenue.