Edythe Jackier
Interviewed by Susie Citrin
November 12, 2003
Max M. Fisher Federation Building, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Edythe Jackier
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Edythe Jackier
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Abstract
In this interview, Edythe Jackier talks about her early childhood. She mentions being the baby, and although her father passed when she was very young, she always felt surrounded by love. She was brought up in a household where her older brothers and her mother were heavily involved in the Jewish community and this influenced her as she grew up.
From here, Mrs. Jackier speaks about her college days at University of Michigan and meeting her husband, Joe Jackier. She mentions being discouraged from being a woman going law school even though that is what she wanted to do. She talks about her start of becoming involved with the Jewish community in Detroit when her husband was offered a job working for Judge Henry Butzel. Mrs. Jackier goes into her involvement with the Women’s Division, as well as her work with the Jewish Family Services getting a Volunteer Committee together.
Next, Mrs. Jackier talks about the changing role in women, and how it relates to her as president of the Jewish Family Services and of the Women’s Division of Federation. She talks at length about her mother. Then, she talks about her trips to Israel, as well as other European trips. The interview ends with Mrs. Jackier talking about her thoughts on the future of the Jewish community.
History of Narrator
Edythe Jackier was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. After graduating from high school at the age of 15, she attended the University of Michigan, where she met her husband, Joseph Jackier. She graduated with a teaching degree and then went on the New York University for her master’s degree.
After marrying, the Jackiers moved to Detroit and Edythe began volunteering in the Jewish community, with Federation’s Women’s Division, Hadassah, the National Council of Jewish Women and the Jewish National Fund.
Jackier served as president of Jewish Family Service and the Federation’s Women’s Division. Other leadership positions she held were with Sinai Hospital and the Holocaust Memorial Center.
Jackier was the recipient of the Federation’s Fred M. Butzel Memorial Award and the Jerusalem of Gold Award from the Metro Detroit State of Israel Bonds Women’s Division. She was also a supporter of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.
Jackier died on June 16, 2013 at the age of 95.
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Credit as: Leonard N. Simons Jewish Community Archives. Edythe Jackier Oral History Interview, November 12, 2003.