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Jews--North Carolina--Asheville--History
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In Nineteen Five
I became alive
and what I found
around this town
Was joy and tears
for 50 years.
Origins
In 1799, my great-great grandfather was a chicken farmer in the town of Pushalot, in the
state of Lithuania, in the Soviet Union.
It was a hard life in the town of Pushalot. The winters were nine months long and
unendurably cold. The summers were hot and rainy. There were occasional pogroms or Russian
Cossaks rampaging through the streets terrorizing the countryside, gypsies stealing everything in
sight, including sometimes even children, and always there was the threat of Siberia.
My ancestors, like most Jews, were very poor, hard working and suffering. My greatgreat grandfather bought eggs from all the chicken farmers, packed them carefully on a wagon,
covered them with straw to keep them cool and fresh and rode many miles to Kovna, Vilna and
Riga to sell the eggs at the big city markets.
In 1825, my great grandfather served as a rabbi in Pushalot.
In 1872, my grandfather opened a kretchma in Pushalot. A kretchma is a Russian inn
somewhat like out modern motels, only they didn’t have swimming pools or air conditioning. It
was a place travelers could stop for food or drink or spend the night.
One day a Bolshevik on horseback stopped at the Inn and drank a lot of vodka. He got
fresh with my grandmother, who I understand was a good looking girl in those days. My father, a
teenage boy, picked up a piece of stove wood, hit him on the head and knocked him out. That
was an awful crime in Russia for a Jewish boy. My grandfather made a temporary settlement
with the Russian and gave him 50 rubles.
My father thought that they may send him to jail or Siberia, so he stole his way across the
border into Germany. He didn’t like Germany, so he left Germany and made his way to South
Africa.
He went to work as a house painter in Johannesburg. He became ill from the lead
poisoning in the paint. There were no United Way or Federate Jewish Charities down there, but
someone took pity on him and nursed him back to health. He sold cigarettes and sandwiches at a
stock exchange and he finally opened a resturant.
�In 1898, right before the English-Boer War, my father sold his resturant for gold coins,
got a money belt, and went down to Cape Town. He had a cousin in Australia and a brother in
Jacksonville, Florida. By a flip of a coin he came over to Jacksonville, Florida.
In Jacksonville, Florida, he went to night school to learn to read and write English.
In 1900, he became ill and the doctor in Jacksonville told him the only place to go to get
cured would be the mountains. He came up to Asheville, and Doctor Smith told him he would
die of anything except what they sent him to Asheville for, so that he might as well go back to
Jacksonville. He like Asheville so much he decided to stay here.
In 1903, he opened a pawn shop at 23 South Main Street (now Biltmore Avenue). He
married Fanny Sherman from Newport News, Virginia, and made their home in an apartment on
Ashland Avenue.
In 1905, my father became a citizen of the United States.
Among the organizations he joined were the Asheville Board of Trade (now The
Asheville Chamber of Commerce), the Fraternal Order of Eagles, Suez Temple of the Oramatic
Order of Khorosson, Lodge #1401 BPO, Elks, Mt. Herman Masonic Lodge, Scottish Rite
Masonic Lodge, Oasis Temple of Shriners, Congregation Bikur Cholim (now Beth Isreal), and
Congregation Betha-Ha-Tephila.
So, the Twentieth Century began with:
1.
The pawnbroker named Finkelstein.
2.
S.H. Friedman, who operated a furniture store. He came to Asheville from
Maryland, where he peddled tinware. His son, Nat Friedman, later operated the
Susquehana Antique Co.
3.
A Jewish lawyer by the name of Goldstein.
4.
A Jewish plumber by the name of A.J. Huvard. He married E.C. Goldberg’s
sister. E.C. Goldberg ran a news stand next to the Imperial aTheater on Patton
Avenue for years.
5.
A Jewish dentist by the name of I. Mitchell Mann.
6.
Harry Blomberg’s father who came to Asheville in 1887. He operated the Racket
Store on Biltmore Avenue for many years.
7.
The Palais Royal Department Store operated by Morris Meyers for 40 years. He
was a charter member of Congregation Beth-Ha-Tephila and he came to Asheville
in 1887.
8.
The Bon Marche Department Store operated by Solomon Lipinsky.
9.
A Jewish postman who delivered mail by the name of Barney Seigle. I was
particularly interested in Barney because he had a sister by the name of Ester, who
was in my class in high school — a beautiful and affectionate student.
10.
An industrialist named Seigfred Sternberg.
11.
Dan Michalove, who worked at the first movie houses in town and finally
advanced to Vice-President of Paramount Pictures and was put in charge of all
�12.
13.
14.
their theaters in Australia.
Lou Pollock, who operate a shoe store at the corner of South Main and Eagle
Streets. He once ran a shoe sale for $.98 a pair.
Leo Cadison, who came here for his health, operated a ladies clothing store on
Pack Square, finally moved to Washington, D.C., and became an attorney by act
of Congress. He was a speech writer for the Attorrney General of the United
States.
An orthodox Rabbi by the name of Londow.
It was in 1883 Jews were arriving to become pioneers in the Asheville community. Some
came to make a better livelihood and for opportunity. Morris Myers served as Exalted Ruler of
the Old Elks Lodge #608. The moderate climate and mountain air attracted others to Asheville, a
growing medical haven for the sufferers of chronic respiratory diseases.
Congregation Beth-ha-Tephila
It was on August 23, 1891, twenty-seven men met in Lyceum Hall and adopted a
constitution for Congregation Beth-Ha-Temphila. Among the charter members were the
Blomberg, Lipinsky, and Zagier families. It is noted that the dues were $10 a year, payable in
advance. Lyceum Hall was the first home of the Congregation. It was rented from a fraternal
order for $75 a year.
Congregation Bikur Cholim
Rabbi Londow became the rabbi for Congregation Bikur Cholim whose articles of
incorporation were filed in the Court Clerk’s office in February 1899. The incorporators were
J.B. Schwartzberg, A. Blomberg, Sam Feinstein, S.H. Michalove, A. Shenbaum, M. Zuglier, and
R.B. Zagier.
Since the community could not pay Rabbi Londow a decent wage, he operated a Jewish
grocery store on the side. He was a kindly old gentleman with a big beard, wore his hat around
the grocery store at all times except when a lady called him on the telephone. He would remove
the hat during the conversation and put it back on his head after the phone call.
I remember a big barrel of herring in the center of the store. Plain herring were 5 cents
each and milk herring ten cents.
A newly married lady in the Congregation once called Rabbi Londow and complained
that a duck she bought from him was old and too tough to eat. Rabbi Londow asked what she
expected him to do --- look down the duck’s mouth and count its teeth!
The first religious services of Bikur Cholim I remember attending was on the second
floor of a building at the corner of Patton Avenue and Church Street. It was early in the life of
Bikur Cholim that the congregation split up due to a big argument. Half of the members formed
another congregation and called it Anshei Hashuron. They rented a second floor of an apartment
house at the corner of Central Avenue and Woodfin Street. However, through the efforts of the
impartial moderates, a compromise was reached and a permanent division averted.
�Nevertheless, the apartment was kept for a religious school. It was here I received my
first Hebrew lesson. Rabbi Fox was teaching us the four questions to ask at our Passover meal.
At this time my father would attend all the board meetings of Bikur Cholim. He would
come home upset and nervous. Dr. Smith suggested he not attend any more Synagogue meetings
due to his high blood pressure.
Rabbi Fox was active on the 9th and 10th degrees of Scottish Rite Masonry. After his
death I assumed his parts in these degrees and I am still on the degree teams.
Hebrew School
In 1911, erection of a house of worship was started on South Liberty Street for
Congregation Bikur Cholin. Although it wasn’t completed until 1916, the Hebrew School
moved there in 1912. Hebrew classes were scheduled every Saturday through the winter. The
only heat we had was from a large coal stove in the center of the sanctuary. The stove was
prepared for a fire to be lit on Saturday morning before the Hebrew class met. Since the Rabbi
wouldn’t light a fire on the Sabbath he arranged for a neighborhood boy to come in and light it.
He would place a dime under a prayer book and after the boy had lit the fire he would tell the boy
to get the dime
75 to 100 years ago in Asheville. Now about that time there were two synagoges in Asheville.
My family belongs to the orthodox. from under the prayer book.
The orthodox had strict rules for obeying the sabbath which began Friday at sundown and ended
Saturday night. So if you owned an automobile you put it in your garage Friday evening and took it out
Saturday night after sundown. You walked to religious services at the synagogue on the sabbath. To
obey the sabbath correctly you were not allowed to operate a business, spend money, smoke, strike a
match, work, cook and many other activities were forbidden. Remember this was about 100 years ago.
You weren’t supposed to tear paper. Now if you had a bathroom with paper on a roll, you tore
the paper off for Friday in case it may be needed for the sabbath.
The same rule applies to outhouses with old Sears Roebuck catalogues.
As far as I know none of these rules are observed today.
When I was 11 years old I attended Hebrew school conducted by the rabbi on Saturday morning
in the edifice of the synagogue. The sanctuary contained nothing but pews and a coal stove for heat. The
basement was used for storage and rest rooms. In the winter time the rabbi fixed the stove for a fire
Friday so that it could be lit Saturday morning to produce heat for the Hebrew class.
Since the rabbi shouldn’t light a fire or spend money on the sabbath, he arranged for a boy in the
neighborhood to light the fire Saturday morning. He placed a dime under a prayer book Friday and told
the boy where to get a dime after lighting the fire on Saturday.
One real cold morning the boy didn’t show up to light the fire. We were attending Hebrew class
�in sweaters, coats and overcoats and it was awful cold. I asked to be excused and coming up from the
basement I reported to the rabbi that the plumbing must have frozen as there was water leaking in several
places. The rabbi rushed downstairs to investigate the troubles and the Hebrew class rushed out of the
synagogue not to return until warm weather.
For your information, there was no water leaking.
Even in those days educational institutions had trouble with rebelling students. The boy
that was to light the fire didn’t show up. It was very cold that day. I asked to be excused and
went downstairs. When I came back I reported to Rabbi Redunsky that the pipes had froze and
broke. The Rabbi went to see about it. I advised the class that there were no broken pipes and
suggested that we leave the building --- which we did --- not to return until warm weather.
The member of Bikur Cholim who owned an automobile would put them up Friday
afternoon to observe the Sabbath and wouldn’t take them out until Saturday after sun down.
Most of the members lived within walking distance of the Synagogue.
The building of the Synagogue was completed in 1916 and the day before the eve of
Rosh-Hashonah a fire completely destroyed the building. Mrs. Rosenfeld had a Jewish Boarding
House next door and she cried and complained that she had just cleaned her house for Yontiff
and smoke had dirtied the place up. The Masonic Temple was offered to us to use for the High
Holy Day Services and we accepted.
The Cemetary
In those days Asheville was a place thar offered a cure for Tuberculosis. Many
sanatoriums were located in the hills around town. A Jewish man died in one of the sanatoriums
and had no money or family. No cemetery in town would bury him unless someone paid $100
for the grave. It was then that nine Jewish men formed the “West Asheville Hebrew Cemetery
Association Inc”. My father was the first president. In their Bi-Laws it was stated that anyone of
Jewish Faith could be buried there. The price of a grave was $100 and if there was no one to pay
it there would be no charge. The cemetery changed it’s name some years later to “Mt. Sinai
Cemetery” and sometime after to “The Lou Pollock Memorial Park”. After father died, Lou
Pollock became president. After his death, I was the vice-president and assumed the duties of the
president. I conferred with David Adler and set up a meeting between the directors of the
cemetery and members of Beth Israel. The ownership of the cemetery was transferred to Beth
Israel.
The following names of the nine founders can be seen on a plaque at the entrance to the
cemetery bearing the date 1916:
Sam Feinstein
Isaac Michalove
Lou Pollock
�S.W. Silverman
Sender Argentar
Rabbi Elias Fox
Dave Schundler
Barney Pearlman
Harry Finkelstein
Benevolent Societies
Around this time my father felt that some home-made chicken soup would help the
Jewish patients in the sanatoriums. A number of Jewish women set up a kitchen and once a
week hot chicken soup was made available tot he Jewish patients and to others who requested it.
Rabbi Fox acquired business interests in Asheville and served as part-time Rabbi. He
was associated with a local butcher who made Kosher meat available. He would go by the
homes of members and kill the chickens.
In 1917, some of us young Jewish boys decided that we ought to have Y.M.H.A. or a
Community Center in Asheville. Rabbi Fox met with us and suggested that we form a Y.M.H.A.
He said a community center was for the community only, but a bigger and better organization
would be a Y.M.H.A. because it extended from coast to coast. He told us a story about when he
first came to this country and wanted to see the Brooklyn Bridge. He found a man who could
talk Yiddish and after looking at the bridge he asked why they built the bridge with a lot of little
cables instead of one big cable. The man explained to him that if one or two cables broke it
would not harm the bridge, but if there was one big cable and it broke the bridge would fall in.
Mr. Sternberg and Mr. Leavitt
Seventy-five years ago there was no United Way in Asheville. There were many local charitable
organizations sponsored by churches, synagoges, houses of worship, also the YMCA, the Salvation
Army, the Elks Lodge and the Jewish Ladies Aid Society. Lion Joe Sternberg’s father was active in
civic, religious, fraternal organizations in Asheville. At that time he was collecting donations for the
“Ladies Aid Society” of Asheville. He went to see Mr. Leavitt who operated a ladies ready to wear store
on South Main St. near Pack Square. He wouldn’t donate more than $5 and this didn’t please Mr.
Sternberg.
Mr. Sternberg was the owner of the building Mr. Leavitt operated his store in. He found Mr.
Leavitt violated the terms of his lease because he subletted a portion of the store for a shoe department.
Mr. Sternberg told Mr. Leavitt that he would have to give the Ladies Aid Society a suitable donation or
vacate the building his store was in because he had violated the terms of the lease. They selected three
�men to determine what amount Mr. Leavitt should give the Ladies Aid Society. It was agreed that the
amount they decided on would be satisfactory to Mr. Sternberg and Mr. Leavitt.
Mr. Sternberg selected a man to represent himself. Also Mr. Leavitt picked out the second man.
They needed a man to represent both of them and they finally selected my father. The committee decided
that Mr. Leavitt should donate $500 to the Ladies Aid Society.
Rabbi Fox said that therefore us boys should be little cables and hold up the Y.M.H.A. we were
going to form.
After the fire that destroyed Birur Cholim Synagogue on South Liberty Street the second
floor of the Sondley Building on Broadway was rented for the use of the congregation. A
member of the congregation, a young man, forgot he had made a date with a waitress in the
Langren Hotel and attended the meeting of the congregation. The lady waited in front of the
Masonic Temple with a gun and took a shot at him after the meeting when was leaving the
building. She missed. After going to Hebrew School in the building we would stop and examine
the hole the bullet made in the front wall of the building.
In 1911, I started school at Montford Avenue Grammar School.
In 1918, I went to U.N.C. for 2 days, and had to come home to run the paawnshop.
In the February 1922 graduating class in Asheville High School, there were 5 boys and 14
girls. Therefore, each boy was expected to take 3 girls to the Senior Class Dance of February
1922. Things were better when we had a dance for the entire year. There were three Jewish girls
in the total 1922 class — Madeline Blomberg, Eva Sternberg, and Ester Seigle.
I was the only student to take an automobile to school in 1922. It was a Paige make with
a “bathtub black” model. I was the business manager of the “Hill Billy”, the school monthly
magazine. I was given any study hall period off that I wanted to collect for ads that appeared in
the magazine, so I would take my auto and a girl to help me from the study hall. After collecting
for one ad we would ride over to the Charlotte Street Drug Store and participate in Ice Cream
Sodas for the balance of the study hall period.
Around this time Mr. Sternberg had a large junk yard and warehouse on Depot Street. He
bought and sold hundreds of cow hides. On all his advertisements he carried the slogan “We buy
anything and sell everything”. A circus came to town and didn’t have enough money to leave.
They applied to Mr. Sternberg who was president of the Southern State Bank on Depot Street for
a loan of $200. Mr. Sternberg made the loan and took the elephant as collateral. He complained
he was losing money on account of the elephant eating so much, but was helped out when Mr.
Buseck, who owned Middlemont Gardens bout the manure from him.
On Sundays in 1925, the Jewish crowd of teenagers and somewhat older boys and girls
would gather at the home of the Sternbergs on Victoria Road. The Sternbergs had four children:
Eva, Joe, Johanna, and Rose. One of the older girls in the crowd was named Jennie. One day I
asked her how she managed to be so popular among the boys, and her answer was, “Well, I’m
not so pretty, but I’m catchie”.
�I dated Eva and one night I called at the house to take her out and her father yelled to us
from the second floor of the house “Don’t you go me no road houses”, and Eva replied “What’s
the matter papa --- you afraid we are going to find you there!”
One night Mr. Sternberg invited some of his men friends over to his home to participate
in a small limit poker game. Sone one tipped off the police that a game was going on. The home
was raided and Mr. Sternberg gave the names of the players as Mr. Aleph, Mr. Baze, Mr.
Gimmel, Mr. Dolad, Mr. Hay, Mr. Vove, Mr. Zion, and Mr. Hess. The Asheville Citizen carried
a story that an attorney appeared in police court for Mr. Aleph, Mr. Baze, Mr. Vove, Mr. Zion,
and Mr. Hess and paid their fines. Very few people knew that their names were the first eight
letters of the Hebrew Alphabet.
It was in 1933, after Franklin Roosevelt was elected president of the United States, that
the Volstead Act was repealed and it became legal to sell beer with an alcoholic content on
October 1st. I was president of a mens social club, and it became my duty to get beer to serve to
the members. This was a difficult job as none was available from distributors around Asheville.
1933 was the year of the Great Depression and Rabbi Goodcowitz bought a second hand truck
from Harry Blomberg and was doing some hauling on the side to supplement his income from
Bikur - Cholim. Rabbi Goodcowitz said he would go to Baltimore and get us a load of beer as he
personally knew the owner of the Valley Forge Beer co. There. I gave him six hundred dollars of
the clubs money and he left on a Monday to be back on Thursday. He didn’t show up, but came
in the following Monday. The delay was due to the truck breaking down on the trip. Of course I
was somewhat concerned but the club had a truck load of Valley Forge Beer available.
Leo Cadison saw me and advised that he had talked to the United States Senator Robert
R. Reynolds, and the members were starting a campaign to sell the beer before October lst.
Captain Fred Jones of the Asheville Police Department, and a member of the house
committee said he would not recommend selling it before the legal date.
At the club that week, I noted about 150 members were present instead of the usual 40.
Under “good and welfare” Senator Reynolds, a great oriator, spoke in favor of selling the beer
and said that we were all brothers in a non-profit and charitable organization, and it would be
legal to sell it. Others spoke in favor of selling the beer were Judge Philip Cocke, State Senator,
A. Hall Johnson Superior Court Judge, Dan Hill, Postmaster, Marcus Erwin U.S.Attorney, Zeb
Mettles Superior Court Judge, Charles McRae local attorney, and Leo Cadison. Leo Cadison
made a motion that we advise the House Manager to put the beer on ice so that we could drink it
after the meting. I advised Mr. Cadison that I could not accept a motion of an illegal nature but
under Robert’s Rules of Palamentry procedure he could appeal from my decision. He appeared
and I advised the question be voted don would be “Shall the decision of the chair stand” and
there would be no discussion. The vote was unanimous against my decision (which suited me)
and I instructed the secretary to take everything out of the minutes pertaining to beer, also to
advise the house manager to put the beer on ice so we could have it after the meeting. He said
that it was to late to advise him because the beer had been on ice for the past two hours.
�In the 1930's William Dudley Pelly operated the “Silver Shirts”, a Nazi like organization
in a building across the street from the Jewish Community Center on Charlotte Street. He
published the Liberation Weekly, anti-semetic literature with a circulation of eight thousand.
In a parade, I was playing th esaxaphone with the Asheville Shrine Club Marching Band,
and William Rosenfelt was carrying the American Flag. Pelly in his “Liberation Weekly”
published a story that we were disgraced by a Jew with a big nose carrying the American Flag.
Pelly was arrested by the Buncombe County Sheriffs Department in 1941 for selling unregistered
stock. He was found guilty through the efforts of Julius Levitch, a young Jewish lawyer by the
name of Alvin Kurtus, and a local attorney named R.R. Williams.
On July 25, 1923, the Emporium Department Store owned by Jack Blomberg at the
corner of Pack Square and South Main Street was destroyed by a major fire. It was feared that
the entire block of Eagle Street would be destroyed. Many of the Jewish merchants who operated
clothing stores in the block brought their insurance polices and books to the pawnshop across the
street and requested that we put them in our safes which were two of the largest moveable safes
in town. These two safes are now located at 21 Broadway
While my sisters Rosa and Hilda and I were still children and our parents were out of
twon for health reasons, Doctor Schanddler’s father Dave Schandler, would invite us over to his
house for meals, especially on Passover and other religious holy days.
About this time when our house at 213 Broadway was being built, I was sliding down a
sloping board and got a big splinter in my rear end. My father couldn’t get it out so he took me
to Dr. Mann, the dentist, and he got it out --- no charge.
In 1936, the movements in founding a Jewish Community Center and to organize
Federated Jewish Charities in Asheville was started by Julius Levitch through B’Nai B’Rith. In
1947 a testimonial dinner was held for his outstanding service to the Jewish Community.
In 1944, Sergeant Joe, the mess sergeant in my outfit in the 13th Air Force located in the
South Pacific during World War II, received a shipment of canned corn. Instead of using it for
chow, he built a still in a fox hole and made corn whiskey out of it. Joe ran a road house in
Greenville, South Carolina before the war and in a neighborly spirit he invited me to drink what I
wanted of the corn whiskey and he helped me trade watch bands for coca-cola syrup and ice
cream from a Navy C.B. outfit located near by.
After the war, he operated his road house in Greenville again. He came to see me and
advised that they had arrested his partner for hauling whiskey in Buncombe County and wanted
to know if I could help him. I told him that I knew the Chief of Police and Sheriff Brown and I
would be glad to see what the situation was. He told me they couldn’t help as it was the Federal
Authorities that arrested his partner. . Thinking of how to get him a light sentence I asked Joe if
his partner was in the armed forces and he said that they had turned him down because he has a
heart murmur. I told Joe to send him to Dr. Feldman and I’d get the report from him as to his
heart murmur. Dr. Feldman told me he had a heart murmur and as Federal Physician he would
�advise Judge Warlick about in Federal court. At the trial Joe’s prtner went Scott Free. Later he
came to see me with a roll of hundred dollar bills and wanted to pay me for getting him off. I
refused the money and told him that Joe had helped me out during the war an d what I did was a
favor to Joe. Later he brought me six fifths of Scotch for a present, which I kept.
While overseas besides having corn whiskey made by Joe and medical alcohol diluted
50% by water and flavored with burnt sugar, we were able to buy bonded whiskey from the
flying personnel who didn’t drink their ration. Price was $60 per fifth. They were looking for
souvenirs so I wrote Nat Friedman to send me a Japanese hare-kari knife from his antique store.
He sent me a similar one. It was a circular shape Turkish knife with Turkish letters on it. My
cost was $4. It looked like a Hare-Kari knife. I gave it to Sergeant Joe and asked him to see if he
could trade for a Fifth of bonded whiskey. He reported later that he got two fifths for it.
I had the honor of serving as president of Beth-Ha-Temphila in 1948 and 1949 during the
building and financing of the new temple at Liberty and Broad Streets.
I was Master of Ceremonies for th e50th Anniversary Banquet program of Beth-HaTehphila in 1941.
I also presided at the 75th Anniversary Banquet in 1966.
I have put in my application to preside at the 100th in 1991.
Unless we are Indians, our ancestors came from Foreign Lands. I am thankful they did
what they did so that I could have the privilege of growing up in a city like Asheville, enjoy this
great country of ours---a land of religious freedom and opportunity.
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in the 1997
GreenTree Ridge, Summit, Mountain CARE
Talent Show
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Talent Show Certificate of Award to Leo Finkelstein
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1997
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Leo Finkelstein was awarded the title of "Most Memorable" in 1997 at a talent show in Green Tree Ridge.
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certificate
Leo Finkelstein
Most Memorable
talent show
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'Sancti~nonious
Seven'Socko
Leo Finkelstein wasn't feeling up
to par after he sold his pawn shop on
Pack Square about three years ago. He
consulted his doctor. Leon Feldman
told him now that he was retired, he
needed a hobby.
Leo decided to resume the piano
lessons he had dropped when he
graduated from high school in 1923. He
asked Fritz Albertson who plays dinner
music at the Great Smokies Hilton to
give him lessons. ·
Pretty soon the two of them were
accompanying fellow members of the
Asheville Lions Club when they sang
"The Lions' Song" and "America" at
meetings. One by one, other Lions
decided to "help them out" until they
became a real band and got invitations
to play for other groups.
The band called itself "The Unholy
Six," partly because a Catholic priest,
Father Ralph Neagle, had joined the
ranks and played the drums wearing
his clerical collar.
The "Sanctimonious Seven"
became the "exhuberant
eight" Wednesday. Band
members are (L-R): Father
Ralph Neagle, Lt. Charles
Long, Ben Skillman (seated),
F. Jack Cole, David Albert·
son, L e o Finkelstein, Fritz
Albertson and D. Blackwell.
(Staff Photo by Ewart
Ball)
As Leo tells it, "First we got invited to play at Father Neagle's church
and then at my synagogue, but they
wouldn't put our name on the
program."
By {his time, the "Unholy Six" had
become seven and had a lot of invitations to play at churches. So the
band decided the name "Sanctimonious Seven" would be more
appropriate.
Nancy
Brower
Playing A Polka
The band has performed for
political doings at the Governor's
Western Residence, for several
Asheville civic clubs, most Lions Clubs
in this area and, members claim, for a
fashion show sponsored jointly by Lillie
Rubin and Bell's Traditionals.
The "Sanctimonious Seven" band
had eight members romping through
"The Beer Barrel Polka" at this
week's Lions' luncheon at the S & W
Carousel. Leo was thumping on the
piano and Fritz was giving that special
lilt to a polka that only an accordionist
can.
Jack Cole had forgotten hi!! cares
as a city councilman and president of
Carolina Federal Savings and Loan
Association and was sawing away on
his granddaddy's fiddle.
Lt. Charles H. Long of the Highway
.Patrol was scrubbing on the
washboard. When the P,Olka realiy got
rollicking, the commander of Troop G
gave a few clangs on the cowbell and a
blast on his police whistle.
Father Neagle, chaplain at the
Veteran's Hospital, was beating the
drum and cymbals with brushes and
wearing a beatific smile on his face.
Not Second Fiddle
Ben Skillman of the Blue CrossBlue Shield office here was playing
"co-violin." "I don't play second fiddle
to any Democrat," he said, as he plied
his bow in competition with Jack Cole.
Cole admits he can't read music and
adds, " Ben can."
Robert F. Moore, counselor for
N.C. Services for the Blind, and the
band's "banjo plunker" was out-oftown, so D. Blackwell was sitting in for
him.
David Albertson, son of Fritz and a
professional musician like his dad, was
filling in the gaps with some good
guitar playing. Dave usually plays the
. bass, but he didn't want to lug the big
instrument around in the snow.
After the barrel had been rolled
out, the band played some oldies like
" When You Wore a Tulip" and "Yes,
Sir, That's My Baby." Then .it swung
from "Sweet Georgia Brown" to "Bad,
Bad Leroy Brown" with Fritz doing
things on the piano accordion that
made you think there was a horn in
there somewhere.
The "Sanctimonious Seven," which
claims a repertory of 72 tunes, does its
only practicing a t Lion' s Club
luncheons. When it was announced that
Cole was going to sing a 1925 ditty
"discovered in an old piano bench," the
Lions groaned collectively.
Undaunted, Cole belted out "The
Asheville Blues; I wish that I was
there, a'standin' on Pack Square. I've
got those Asheville, North Carolina
blue ooo ooo ooos."
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fiddle
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Leon Feldman
music
Nancy Brower
piano
polka
Sanctimonious Seven
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Retired Pawtib~oker
Enjoying Slow;;""~~~e
.
..
By PAUL G. CLARK
People in need of cash brought
Staff Writer
in suits, coats, books, cameras and
It's been 10 years since Leo all kin_ds of musical instruments to
Finkelstein retiied as the busy loan serve as collateral. Finkelstein
broker at Finkelstein's, Inc., the would hold the items until the ownwell-known pawnshop on Pack ers returned for them or, if they
Square, but he's still keeping busy.
didn't, until they were sold.
·· Clyde Osborne, a reporter for
Not that the 78-year-old has
pressing business anymore, he said, The Asheville .Citizen, interviewed
but with his house at Beaver Lake him in 1980. Finkelstein recalled a
to look after and his piano playing minister who hocked his Bible durfor the singing group, the Sancti- ing the Depression. The preacher
·rnonious Seven, he manages to fill arrived at the shop each Saturday
LEO FI_ KELSTEIN
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_his days.
to claim it for Sunday's service, and
then would return it on Monday.
· The store closed for the Jewish
1 ,. __ •• ."You can find things to do if
' -~- you look for .them,~' he said recent· Finkelstein began working .in . ~p!Jdays Rosh Hashana ·and .Yom
t·· -~· lv,·:.'< I
little cooking and.some .th~)itore when he .was 6 years9Id. . f.(iPP,~f;. arid F!n,k,elstein said·'·B.as·•,: iepair~· wtn~ h()1lse::!i::.. . .~ .··· . .. . o:·~,.~:r .wanted to' g<LouL and sen .· :s~Wcoritinues .the tradition. fjlli{el;,
·
· ·· No yardwork,thpugh. "1 super- _ newspa~rsi'but Dad:lold .me,:'you ':~t.¢iil.saidheasked-himwhy.> ~~;-,/;.:
that,"he chuck]e'd. ·
come · ii( here and J'U·::~y(;"
i:f ;~::\'L_ ''You gotfiobo(iy~of my re.~gion
The Sanctimonious·· Seven, so job,' " he said. .He took 'OVer the here," Fifikelstein'Said. .•.::;,::c; : - - ._.·_
, - named because of the religious di- store when his father died in•l933~·"• .· .-·_ Bassett replied,-"I'm:not'··
goiJ}g
._ _
, versity among the group of Lions
His father, Harry f'inkelstein; ·_,to ch:'mg~my luck."
_ ·_: ''c-r· ..
-•-"'·Club musicians;· performs occa~ was born in Russia, then moved to
· ·
_,,_ 'c ~ · ·- ··
.
.. 1 . ·-·sionally, and that keeps his toes
Germany in 1890 and later to South -.
' ' : '"'>~tapping.
· , .
: · _ . .. . Africa. Near the turn of the cenj· ,..;
. Once an avid hunter and fish, tury, he came to theUnitedSta.t~~~t
. erman, he no ·longer fishes-in Bea-. locating in Jacksonville, Fla: "i ;;,,. ' 1 •'> :~
~ Lake .. He said he prefers ''the · .-.._ A doctor, diagnosing tuberculoO "':]
er
.
•
·
-" ~path ,of least resistance" :-:-fishing
sis; suggested he moye to A~he.v.ille..-.'
in commercial pol'lds.
· : because of its clean aic. - ' ··
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TV and read the newspapers,'' h~ frrst pawnshop•at-23 Biltmore Ave>• __ }
said. _ _ _ _
·
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:.
· ' ·• · Th~t's 'qiiite a change from the a"-.ctrY goods shop and hardware _. ;~
way .things .used to be: Before he store next door.
-·
'
sold his sto~k in the shopto present
-. , In 1933 he moved to Pac]5
owner H.G. "June'' Bassettin1973, Square and changed the operation's .
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Leo Finkelstein Papers
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Retired Pawnbroker Enjoying Slower Pace, November 15, 1983
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1983-11-15
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English
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107_cd1_07_leocli
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A newspaper clipping about Leo Finkelstein's life after he retired and a brief overview of his career as a pawnbroker.
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Finkelstein, Leo, 1905-1998
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1983
Asheville
Bible
Depression
Harry Finkelstein
Leo Finkelstein
retired
Sanctimonious Seven
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Freemasons--North Carolina--Asheville
Finkelstein, Leo, 1905-1998--Family--Photographs
Jews--North Carolina--Asheviile--Photographs
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Leo Finkelstein Papers
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Photocopies of Leo Finkelstein's Scrapbooks
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English
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107_03_05_Scrapbooks_02_Photocopies_M
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Finkelstein, Leo, 1905-1998
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132 pages
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Asheville (N.C.)
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Leo Finkelstein
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"Mrs. Bein," (Leo Finkelstein's mother-in-law)
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1954-1960
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English
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Information about Sylvia Finkelstein's mother, Rose A. Bein, and her death in 1960. Includes letter correspondence between Leo Finkelstein and friends, records regarding the inheritance, and Rose Bein's admittance to the River Garden Hebrew Home for the Aged.
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Finkelstein, Leo, 1905-1998--Family
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1960
Berliner Monument Company
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Carola
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Leo Finkelstein
letter
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Sylvia Finkelstein
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LEO FINKELSTEIN'S ASHEVILLE and
THE POOR MAN'S BANK
BY Leo Finkelstein
Patricia Beaver, Editor
Kathryn L. Staley, Associate Editor
published by The Center for Appalachian Studies
Appalachian State University
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Order form for "Asheville and the Poor Man's Bank"
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English
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107_01_26_Advertisement_Asheville_PoorMansBank_M
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An order form for buying Leo's books: Asheville and the Poor Man's Bank.
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Finkelstein, Leo, 1905-1998
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Asheville (N.C.)
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Leo Finkelstein
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DECLARATION OF A
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I, Leo Finkelstein, being of sound mind and realizing that
death is as much a real ity as birth, growth , maturity and old age,
do hereby declare and request that if the situation should ari s e
in which it is determined that my condition is terminal and incurable , it is my desire that my life not be prolonged by extraordinary means. I do not iea r death itself as much as the indigniti e.1
of deterioration , dependence and hopeless pain .
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that medication be mercifully administered to me to a lleviate s uffering even though this may hasten the momem: of death .
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withhold OL discontinue extraordinary means .
This the \t~\ day of April, 1986.
Leo Finkelstein
WITNESS
I hereby state that Leo Finkelstein (the "Declarant") , being
of sound mind, signed the ab ove declaration in my presence, tha t I
am not related within the third degree to the Declarant by blood
or marriage and tha t I do not know or have a reasonable expectation that I would be entitled to any portion of the estate of the
Declarant under any existing ,.,ill or codicil of the Decla rant or
as an heir under any Intestate Succession Act if the Declarant
died on this date without a will. I also state that I am not the
Declarant ' s attending physician or an employee of the Declarant's
a ttending physician, or an employee of a health facility, nursing
how~ or group-care home in which the De~larant is a patient or res ident . I further state that I do not now have any claim against
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County, North Carolina, hereby certify that Leo Finkelstein, the
Declarant , appeared before me and swore to me and to the witnesses
in my presence that the declaration to which this Certificate is
attached is his Declaration oi a Desire for a Natural Death , and
that he willir.gly and voluntarily made and executed it as his free
act and deed ~or the purpose therein expressed. I furtheL certify
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wit nesses , appeared before me and swore that they witnessed Leo
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him to be of sound mind; and also swore that at the time they witnessed the declaration (i) they were not related within the third
degree to the Decl arant or to the Declarant ' s spouse, and ( ii)
they did not know or have a reasonable expectation that they would
be entitled to any portion of the estate of the Declarant upon the
Declar ant's death under any then existing Will or Codicil thereto
of the Dec l arant or under any Intestate Succession Act extant at
that time , and (iii) they were not a physician attending the Declarant or an employee of any such attending physician or of a
h eal t h facility , nursing home or group- care home in which the
Declarant was a patient or resident, nnd (iv) they did not have a
claim against the Declarant . I further certify that I am satisfied as to the gP.nuineness and due execution of the declaration to
which this certificate is attached .
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DECLARATION OF A DESIRE FOR A NATURAl. DEATH
I , Sylvia B. Finkelstein, being of sound mind and realizing
that death is as much a reality as birth , growth, maturity and old
age, do hereby declare and request that if the situation s hould
arise in which it is determined that my condition is terminal and
incurable ,
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life not be prolonged by
extraordinary means. L do not fear death itself as much as the
indignities of deterioration , dependence and hopeless pain .
I,
therefore, ask that medication be mercifully administered to me to
alleviate suffering even though this may hasten the moment of
death .
I am aware and understand that t his
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physician to withhold or discontinue extraordinary means .
This the )~4h day of April, 1986.
Sylvia
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WITNESS
I hereby state that Sylvia B. Finkelstein (the "Declarant " ),
being of sound mind , signed the abo,•e declaration in my presence ,
that I am not related within the third degree to the Declarant by
blocd or marriage and that I do not know or have a reasonable expectation that I would be entitled to any portion of the estate of
the Declarant under any P.Xisting will or codicil of the Declarant
or as an heir under any Intestate Succession Act if the Declarant
died on this date without a will. I also state that I am not the
Declarant ' s attending physician or an employee of the Declarant's
attending physician , or an employee of a health facility, nursing
homt or group - care home in which the Declarant is a putient or res ident . I further state that I do not now have any claim against
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, a Notary Public of Buncombe
County , North Carolina , hereby certify that Sylvia B. Finkelstein,
the Declarant, appeared before me and swore to me and to the witnesses in my presence that the declarati ~n to which this Certificate is attached is he·r Declaration of a Desire for a Natural
Death, and that she willingly and voluntarily made and executed it
as her free act and deed for the purpose therein expressed.
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me and swore that they witnessed Sylvia B. Finkelstein , Declarant,
sign the attached declaration , believing her to be of sound mind ;
and also swore that at the time they witnessed the declaration (i)
they were not related within the third degree to the Declarant or
to t h e Declarant 1 s spouse, and (ii) they did hvt know or have a
reasonable expectation that they would be entitled to any portion
of the estate of the Declarant upon the Declarant 1 s death under
any then existing Wil l or Codicil thereto of the Declarant or
under any I n testate Succession Act extant at that time , and (iii)
they were not a physician attending the Declarant or an employee
of any such attending physician or of a health facility , nur s ing
home or group-care home in which the Dec l arant was a patient or
resident , and (iv) they did not have a claim against the
Declarant.
I further certify that I am satisfied as to the
genuineness and due execution of the declaration to which this
certificate is attached .
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I, Leo Finkelstein, being of sound mind and realizing that
death is as much a reality as birth, growth, maturity and old age,
do hereby declare and request that if the s ituation should arise
in which it is determined that my condition is t erminal and incurable, it is my desire that my life not be prolonged by extraordinary means. 1 do not fear death itself as much as the indignitit.:s
of deterioration, dependence and hopeless pain .
I, therefore, ask
that medication be mercifully administered to me to alleviate suffering even though this may hasten the moment of death.
I
am
aware and understand that this writing authorizes a physician to
withhold or discontinue extraordinary means.
This the \t-A-\ day of April, 1986.
Leo Finkelstein
WITNESS
I hereby state that Leo Finkelstein (the "Declarant"), being
of sound mind, signed the above declaration in my presence, that I
am not related within the third degree to th~ Declarant by blood
or marriage and that I do not know or have a reasonable expectation that I would be entitled to any portion of the estate of the
Declarant under any exi3ting will or codicil of the Declarant or
as an heir under any Intestate Succession Act if the Declarant
died on this date without a will. I also state that I am not the
Declarant ' s attending physician or an employee of the Declarant's
attending physician, or an employee of a health facility , nursing
home or group-care home in which the D~clarant is a patient or resident. I further state that I do not now have any claim agains t
the Declarant .
Witness:
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County, North Carolina, hereby certify that Leo Finkelstein, the
Declarant, appeared before me and swore to me and to the witnesses
in my presence that the declaration to which this Certificate is
attached is his Declaration of a Desire for a Natural Death, and
that he willingly and volunta~ily made and executed it as his free
act and deed for the purpose therein expreGsed. I further certify
that
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wit nesses, appeared before me and swore that they witnessed Leo
Finkelstein, Declarant, sign the attached declaration, believing
him to be of sound mind; and also swore that at the time they witnessed the declaration (i) they were not related within the third
degree to the Declarant or to the Declarant's spouse , and (ii)
they did not know or have a reasonable expectation that they would
be entitled to any portion of the estate of the Declarant upon the
Declarant's death under any then existing w;11 or Codicil thereto
of the Declarant or under any Intestate Succession Act extant at
that time, and (iii) they were not a physician attending the Declarant or an employee of any s uch attending physician or of a
health facility, nursing home or group-care home in which the
Peclarant was a patient or resident, and (iv) they did not have a
claim against the Declarant. I further certify that I am satisfied as to the genuineness and due execution of the declaration to
which this cer tificate is attached.
This the \C. • ( day of April, 1986.
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Notary Pub lie
My Commission Expires:
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Leo Finkelstein Papers
Description
An account of the resource
This collection contains materials relating to Leo Finkelstein, resident of Asheville, North Carolina, the Asheville Lions Club, and the Beth Ha-Tephila Cemetery in Asheville. It contains computer discs, notes, scrapbooks, book drafts, correspondence, photographs, programs, fliers, and other materials related Leo Finkelstein, his wife Sylvia, and the Lions Club, Elks Club, and Jewish Community in Asheville, North Carolina.
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Finkelstein, Leo, 1905-1998
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Leo Finkelstein's Declaration of a Desire for a Natural Death, 1986
Date
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1986
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English
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107_01_13_LeoFinkelstein_DeclarationForNaturalDeath_M
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Leo and Sylvia Finkelstein's declaration for a natural death instead of life extending by extraordinary means.
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Living wills--North Carolina--Asheville
Finkelstein, Leo, 1905-1998
Finkelstein, Sylvia Bein, 1906-1977
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PDF
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<a title="AC.107 Leo Finkelstein Papers" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/192" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> AC.107 Leo Finkelstein Papers </a>
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Leo Finkelstein
natural death
Sylvia Finkelstein