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101. Interview of Lewis Yablonsky

Topic:
Community History
Science, Medicine, and Technology
Length:
2 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
This series of interviews looks back on Synanon, the first self-help residential community for drug rehabilitation in the United States, which was founded in Venice, California in 1959 and continued through the early 1990s. In the interviews the former residents speak from their own experience in...
Biographical Note:
Psychotherapist and California State University, Northridge professor of criminology and sociology. Associated with Synanon drug rehabilitation program.

102. Interview of Zev Yaroslavsky

Topic:
Community History
Length:
10 min.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
In 1980, the late Eugene Fingerhut, a congregant at the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center (PJTC) and a professor of American history at California State University, Los Angeles began interviewing elderly congregants with a focus on the history of the Pasadena Jewish community prior to World War I...
Biographical Note:
Congregant of the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center. Los Angeles City council person and member of the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors.