A Shtetl Grew in Bessemer - Southern Jewish Historical Society

44 SOUTHERN JEWISH HISTORY
142 Lefkovits interview.
143 “Levi Becker,” The Bessemer News, January 11, 1967, 6.
144 Ibid.
145
The Bessemer Weekly, May 18, 1901, 79.
146 Jerry Cherner audiotape.
147 “Frank Sachs is man of year,” The Jewish Monitor, February 1974, 17.
148 Sokol interview; Cohn interview; and Lefkovits interview.
149 Sokol interview.
150 Lefkovits interview.
151 Albert (Buddy) Sokol telephone interview conducted by Terry Barr, June 27, 1999.
152 David Singer, ed., American Jewish Year Book 99 (New York, 1998), 174.
153 Kathy Kemp, “Torme Twins: ‘Mel got talent,’” The Birmingham News, December 24,
1998, 1B.
154 Nat Wittenstein telephone interview conducted by Terry Barr, July 4, 1997.
155 Alvin Barr interview.
156 Sokol interview.
157 Bercu letter