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Interview of Eddie Duke by Marlene Gamble July, 2003

And the Jewish community in Kirkland Lake, as it started in its early days, in its early formation, was modeled after what their little synagogues were like back in Russia and they certainly did not want prayer books that were both English and Hebrew, not at first. They were all in Hebrew. Then gradually they began to add on books that were in both languages, you know, and there was an index. And then if you had a rabbi that could speak English he could tell you what page you were on in English, you know, or whatever. So those things came later, but at first they didn't.