Lilly De Jaen oral history interviews and papers, 1950-2002

Scope and Content: Maimon family history (including photos), 1974; Seattle Jewish Youth Council directory, 1953; letter regarding shipping livestock to Issrael from the U.S. (xerox copy), 1956.

Scope and Content: Training manual for officers and Board members of Junior Hadassah.

Scope and Content: Lilly DeJaen, born into a Sephardic family in Seattle, recalls her life in the central district. She speaks of her family background and explains the character of the neighborhood.

There are detailed descriptions of her elementary school, high school, cliques and coffee klatches, the library and its community functions, and Bikur Holim Synagogue. She recalls her own home and her kitchen, which is carefully described. We hear about neighborhood shops, Seligs lines, Fuxon's dry goods stores, Rhodes department store, Mr. Albert Adatto, the tailor, Weed's pharmacy, Lulu Chinn, the hemstitch lady, and every aspect of her life in the community.

Lilly stresses the idea of community and speaks of her poignant memories of Japanese evictions during WWII, and ends with the changes after that war.

Scope and Content: 1st annual report, and self study of the Jewish Community Center, 1956; Five Progress Reports of the Seattle Sephardic Heritage Committee, 1988-1990; 1st Newsletter of the Seattle Sephardic Brotherhood; List of Sephardic pioneers buried in the Seattle Sephardic Brotherhood's old cemetery; Annual Banquet booklet for Congregation Bikur Cholim-Machzikay Hadath, 1992

Scope and Content: Two oral history interviews conducted by Jane Avner and Meta Buttnick on March 22 and April 6, 1995. De Jaen discusses her family history and her memories of living in a Sephardic neighborhood in the Central district including specific families and businesses as well as holiday celebrations and customs.