Interview with Susan Isaacs, April 30, 2019

Project: Jewish Kentucky Oral History Project

Interview Summary

Susan Isaacs was born and grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has familial ties on her father’s side to Louisville, Kentucky where he was born and grew up, and where her family ran a pawnshop business, but her father became an engineer. She grew up in the Reform tradition and was not bat mitzvahed. She branched off into transcendental meditation before returning to Judaism. She got her B.A. in British and American literature from the University of Iowa in 1977 and a Ph.D. in folklore and ethnography from the University of Pennsylvania. She now lives in Barbourville, Kentucky with her husband, Hugo Freund.

Interview Accession

2019oh1406_jk0115

Interviewee Name

Susan Isaacs

Interviewer Name

Beth Goldstein

Interview Date

2019-04-30

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Isaacs, Susan Interview by Beth Goldstein. 30 Apr. 2019. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Isaacs, S. (2019, April 30). Interview by B. Goldstein. Jewish Kentucky Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

Isaacs, Susan, interview by Beth Goldstein. April 30, 2019, Jewish Kentucky Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.





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