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Samuel talks about government responses to the pandemic on both a local and national level.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 4: \u003c/strong\u003e  Samuel breaks down how the pandemic has underscored the country's polarization and inequality, and points out society's dependency on essential workers. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSummary of Full Interview\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn this interview, which took place on April 13, 2020, Samuel Heilman discussed his Jewish heritage and family history post-World War II; his research interests and career as a Queens College professor; New Rochelle, New York as his hometown and center of his Orthodox Jewish community. The majority of the interview relates Heilman’s lived experience in the epicenter of the first major American outbreak of novel coronavirus COVID-19, as he is a longtime member of the synagogue that was one of the first traced locations of a “superspreader event.” He relates, chronologically, the events right before the outbreak and its aftermath; his experiences watching friends and neighbors become infected with the virus; his and his wife’s own adaptations to life and grandparenting under quarantine; celebrating Passover virtually and the emotional reaction to a community dispersed during what should have been a time of unity.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eSamuel Heilman was born May 26, 1946, in West Germany and immigrated to the United States in 1950 with his family, where they settled in Brookline, Massachusetts. He attended Brandeis University, the New School for Social Research, and earned his PhD in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. Heilman has been a professor of sociology at Queens College, CUNY, since 1973, and excepting visiting fellowships has spent his entire career at CUNY. He holds the Harold Proshansky Chair in Jewish Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center and is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology, is the editor of the journal Contemporary Jewry, has written 11 books, and received the Marshall Sklare Memorial Award from the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry for “a lifetime of scholarship.”\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source"]},"value":{"en":["Interview conducted as part of the Queens Memory COVID-19 Project."]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}},{"label":{"en":["Coverage"]},"value":{"en":["1950-2020, bulk 2020 (temporal)","New Rochelle, NY; Queens College, Queens, NY (spatial)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2020-04-13 (created)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Samuel Heilman (Interviewee)","Obden Mondesir (Interviewer)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCC BY-NC-SA Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Type"]},"value":{"en":["Audio"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["http://digitalarchives.queenslibrary.org/search/browse/43491"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 1:\u003c/strong\u003e \u0026nbsp;Samuel Heilman talks about his Orthodox Jewish community in New Rochelle and the arrival of COVID-19, specifically as a member of the synagogue that was one of the first traced locations of a \"superspreader event.\"\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 2: \u0026nbsp;\u003c/strong\u003eSamuel talks about his daily routines and how they've been impacted by COVID-19.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 3:\u0026nbsp;\u003c/strong\u003e The pandemic made Samuel more aware about his age and put into question all that he had taken for granted. Samuel talks about government responses to the pandemic on both a local and national level.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 4:\u0026nbsp;\u003c/strong\u003e\u0026nbsp; Samuel breaks down how the pandemic has underscored the country's polarization and inequality, and points out society's dependency on essential workers.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSummary of Full Interview\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn this interview, which took place on April 13, 2020, Samuel Heilman discussed his Jewish heritage and family history post-World War II; his research interests and career as a Queens College professor; New Rochelle, New York as his hometown and center of his Orthodox Jewish community. The majority of the interview relates Heilman\u0026rsquo;s lived experience in the epicenter of the first major American outbreak of novel coronavirus COVID-19, as he is a longtime\u0026nbsp;member of the synagogue that was one of the first traced locations of a \u0026ldquo;superspreader event.\u0026rdquo; He relates, chronologically, the events right before the outbreak and its aftermath; his experiences watching friends and neighbors become infected with the virus; his and his wife\u0026rsquo;s own adaptations to life and grandparenting under quarantine; celebrating Passover virtually and the emotional reaction to a community dispersed during what should have been a time of unity.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eSamuel Heilman was born May 26, 1946, in West Germany and immigrated to the United States in 1950 with his family, where they settled in Brookline, Massachusetts. 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