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Nathan Rothstein - 22-Jul-2007 - Katrina's Jewish Voices
About this film
Nathan Rothstein, interviewed on July 22, 2007 , was born in Boston in 1984. When Nathan was one a half, his family moved to the Sde-Boker kibbutz in Israel for a year while his father researched Arab Jews and their migration to Israel. The family then settled back in the Boston area. Judaism was a strong component in Nathan’s childhood. He attended the Rashi School and later attended Hebrew school and was Bar Mitzvah-ed at Temple Emunah in Lexington, MA. From an early age his parents taught him to connect Judaism and social justice. He remembered volunteering at homeless shelters and food banks as a young boy. He graduated with an honors degree in History from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 2006. During college, he spent time organizing Alternative Spring Break Programs to New York City and Atlanta, volunteering for different political campaigns, and teaching in the Cambridge, MA summer schools. During his senior year, he spent his spring break doing disaster relief work in Gulfport, MS, which first exposed him to the devastation of the Gulf Coast. Inspired by the determination of people in the area to rebuild their homes, Nathan decided to become an Americorps volunte…
Directors & creators
Jewish Women's Archive
Subjects
Jewish Women's Archive; Institute of Southern Jewish Life; Oral History; Rosalind Hinton; Hurricane Katrina, 2005; Hurricane Katrina, 2005 Social aspects; Disaster relief; Politics & government; Massachusetts; Social justice; University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Phoenix of New Orleans; Young Urban Rebuilding Professionals; Tulane/Gravier Neighborhood
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