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Interview with F. Schaeffer by S. Speisman July 11, 1980

F. Schaeffer: The Jews of the North felt themselves a community quite apart from the south.

S. Speisman: Right.

F. Schaeffer: They do not even recognize?

S. Speisman: That's right

F. Schaeffer: They considered themselves as a community. They did look at themselves as a community maybe because of the joint cemetery. They really existed as a totally self-sufficient community in every way. The rabbis were their shochtim also. They really were totally independent during the twenties, thirties, and even the forties. In the fifties, I know my mother-in-law used to get her meat shipped from either Winnipeg or the south. But, for many years they were just a group unto themselves.