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Interview with June Factor, folklorist and writer [sound recording] / interviewer, Gwenda Davey
Bib ID 882157
Format AudioAudio [sound recording]
Author
Factor, June, 1936-
 
Access Conditions Written permission required for research, personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee. 
Description 2001-2002 
14 digital audio tapes (908 min.) 
Summary

Factor speaks of her Jewish family arriving in Australia from Poland at the age of 2 fleeing Nazi Germany; how her mother arrived on Black Friday, 1939 amidst devastating bushfires; her family background; Max Factor, the cosmetics manufacturer; settling Carlton, Vic. ; Australian culture of the 1930s; her first memories of Australia; Jewish social life in Victoria including the Peretz School, which taught Yiddish; the difficulties of learning Hebrew; her foster sister, Jacqueline; her attendance at a selective university high school from 1951-1954; how she began writing at school; receiving a government scholarship; her increasing political activism and joining the Kadimah Youth Group from which she learnt many folk songs; her studies in English and History.

Notes

Recorded on Feb. 26, 2001 in Melbourne, Vic.

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Index/Finding Aid Note Timed summary available (12 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 363 leaves) 
Subjects Factor, June, - 1936- - Interviews.  |  Folklorists - Australia - Interviews.  |  Jews - Victoria - Carlton - Social life and customs.  |  Jewish refugees - Victoria - Melbourne - History, - 1929-1939.  |  Women authors - Australia - Interviews.  |  Victoria - Emigration and immigration - History, - 1929-1939.
Occupation Authors.  |  Folklorists.
Other authors/contributors Davey, Gwenda, 1932-

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