Darryl Bloom -15-August-2005- To Life! A Celebration of Vermont Jewish Women

About this film

Ann Zinn Buffum and Sandra Stillman Gartner, project directors, interviewed Darryl Bloom on August 15, 2005 in Montpelier, Vermont as part of DAVARâs oral history project. Darryl was born in Chicago in 1946 and grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania, where she spent Saturday mornings helping her mother arrange flowers in the nearby Presbyterian church. She attended Antioch College in Ohio and graduated from Connecticut College with a degree in elementary education in 1970. After meeting and marrying her husband, Barney, the couple lived on a Kibbutz in Israel. Darryl was moved by the antiquity of Jerusalem and the power of the Wailing Wall. After the young couple moved to Hawaii, Darryl began studying Judaism with a rabbi. Realizing a Jewish home life was important to her husband, Darryl decided to convert. For over 20 years she has been a member of the Jewish community in central Vermont. Darryl volunteered in the religious school of Beth Jacob synagogue where her daughters, Hannah and Deborah celebrated their bat-mitzvahs. Her early experiences during the Civil Rights Movement led to her commitment to social justice. As a school counselor she has worked to promote tolerance and…

Directors & creators

DAVAR: The Vermont Jewish Women's History Project

Subjects

Vermont; Jewish women; converts; education; cultural exchange; social services

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