The Way We Were in the 1990's

During the 1990’s, members of the Knoxville Jewish community helped resettle 81 Russian immigrants, helping them with housing, language, employment, acculturation, and more.  Pictured above are a welcome dinner from November of 1994 and two photos of English language instruction.

Left to right:  Ilya Budik, Bella Budik, Alla Vaynshteyn, David Vaynshteyn, Russian Resettlement Coordinator Judy Megibow, Maria Shusterman, Boris Budik, David Feldman

Above: ESL teacher Trudy Dreyer, Nelly Ostrovskaya, Sveta Tabibova

 
Above: Yelena Golburt, ESL teacher Claudia Fribourg, Simon Badalov, Marina Marchuk

Maria Shusterman, Alla Vaynshteyn,, Yelena Golburt, Simon Badalov, Claudia Fribourg, Marina Marchuk, Trudy Dreyer, and Nelly Ostrovskaya continue to live in Knoxville.

Send your photos (identifying who, when, what, where) of “The Way We Were” to archives@jewishknoxville.org or contact the archivist at (865) 690-6343.